Earlier this year I took a beginning drop spindle class. It was great fun! I’m still spinning, a little her and a little there. I have tried a couple different spindles, top whorl, bottom whorl, supported. So far I like the top whorl the best. My top whorl spindle is a beginner’s one and on …
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Spin Class
In this short clip (about 2 minutes), Satish Kumar speaks passionately about the amazing technology that is the human hand and how digital technology is not serving us, but we are instead serving it, so that we have no time to rest, dance, celebrate, or create beauty with out hands. https://youtu.be/bXyMTMEMeX8 I love how the …
Apprenticeship of the Hands
Apprenticeship of the hands. Isn’t that a lovely phrase? It comes from a moving article, Literacy of the Fingers by Beth Tilston published in Dark Mountain. Tilston is making sourdough bread, a new skill for her, and one she was astonished to discover she was bad at. How hard could it be to make bread? …
