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"Imaginative work...is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.... But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering, human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in."
-Virginia Woolf,'A Room of One's Own'
 "A word of warning is, however, necessary to the public, if ever they should take to employing artists in this way. It is no use to hope that artists will do just what they are told. A general idea of colour, of whether the room is to look light or dark, grave or gay, and so forth, may be imposed, but in the actual details the artist must be free to use his (her, PML) own invention. He can only do what he sees, not what someone else has seen. It is a grave defect in the artist, distinguishing him from the more serviceable and subservient machine- but I fear it is ineradicable."
-Roger Fry, "The Artist as Decorator," Colour, 1937
The Mission of the Graphic Artists Guild
The Graphic Artists Guild promotes and protects the economic interests of its members. It is committed to improving conditions for all creators of graphic art and raising standards for the entire industry.
The Guild is a union that embraces creators of graphic art, at all levels of skill and expertise, who create works of graphic art intended for presentation as originals or reproductions.
"Gradually I realized that the remnant meadows, thicketed roadsides, and extensive woods of this regrowing area are a mask of naturalness that, once one is trained to recognize the species, drops away to reveal an appalling blankness. Not only have Mrs. Dana's tapestries of orchids, irises, lilies and gentians faded to obscurity, but the entire succession that ought to follow them is pitifully threadbare. Biodiversity remains only in scattered preserves: elsewhere, what has grown back over the fields of our forefathers is merely a fraction of the species that can, and once did, grow here"
-Sara Stein,'Noah's Garden'
The Thrum's End Bird List:
Canada Goose, Great Blue Heron, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Rough-legged Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Turkey Vulture, Barred Owl, Saw-whet Owl, Mourning Dove, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Pileated Woodpecker, Common Flicker, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Eastern Kingbird, Eastern Phoebe, Tree Swallow, American Crow, Blue Jay, Black-capped Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, White-breasted Nuthatch, Red-breasted Nuthatch, House Wren, Carolina Wren, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Brown Thrasher, Gray Catbird, Northern Mockingbird, Eastern Bluebird, American Robin, Wood Thrush, Warbler Thrush, Cedar Waxwing, Black-and-white Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, American Redstart, Prairie Warbler, Palm Warbler, Blue-winged Warbler, Hooded Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Red-winged Blackbird, Brown-headed Cowbird, Common Grackle, European Starling, "Baltimore" Oriole, House Sparrow, Northern Junco, Snow Bunting, Northern Cardinal, Common Redpoll, House Finch, Purple Finch, Evening Grosbeak, Blue Grosbeak, American Goldfinch, Pine Siskin, Indigo Bunting, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Rufous-sided Towhee, White-throated Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, Field Sparrow, American Tree Sparrow, Fox Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Blue Grosbeak, Bobwhite, Kildeer......
and one long-lamented Rooster(R.I.P. Sparky)
Lately, I've been knitting and enjoying Monday Pot-luck Knit Nights & Tuesday Soup Knit Nights at the
Woodstock Wool Company in Woodstock, NY.
My favorite needlepoint stitches: "Mosaic" and "Naughts and Crosses"
" ...Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew, especially as they are never more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Marble Faun"
"I don't much like my daughter sewing. She is silent and she- why not write down the word that frightens me- she is thinking."
-Colette
"One should have nothing in one's home that one does not believe to be beautiful or know to be useful"
-William Morris
"Pax intrantibus, Salus exeuntibus, Benedicto habitantibus"
"Peace to all who enter, Health to all who leave, and Blessings on all who abide"
I found these words in a Quaker meeting house in Rye, England, that had been converted into a lovely B&B.
They now are inscribed on the lintel of the entrance to Thrum's End.
(For those who are looking for a translation of the T.E.A.S. motto:
Stranger Things Have Happened)
Four years of High School Latin finally pay off!
 "Thank God for tea!
What would the world do without tea?
How did it exist?
I'm glad I was not born before tea!"
--Alexander Pope
"Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."
- -Henry Fielding
My favorite tea:1/2 Decaf Earl Grey & 1/2 Decaf Darjeeling
The Classic Conundrum: Cup or Mug?
Mug
If Fascism ever comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag.
Huey Long
The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defence against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers
from abroad.
-James Madison, 4th US president (1751-1836)
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brillant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
-Marianne Williamson (often attributed to Nelson Mandela)
"Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. Fear that masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemming as reckless, insignificant or futile, the small, daily, acts of courage which help to preserve self-respect and inherent human dignity."
-Aung San Su Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
I am an iNTj on the Keirsey Character Sorter
What are you?
Hey!My original site was produced on a dinky, second-hand MacIIci, and I was pretty darn happy with it. I've moved on (and up) since then but as they say: "It is a poor craftsman who blames her tools."
Vocatus atque non vocatus Deus aderit. (Bidden or not bidden God is here) -Goethe
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