Bending Tree Arts » horned god http://www.bendingtreearts.com/blog notes on the art of living from scratch Sun, 23 May 2010 05:16:45 +0000 en hourly 1 Quiet November afternoon http://www.bendingtreearts.com/blog/2008/11/16/quiet-november-afternoon/ http://www.bendingtreearts.com/blog/2008/11/16/quiet-november-afternoon/#comments Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:08:21 +0000 Betsy http://www.bendingtreearts.com/blog/?p=470

Horned Green Man

The day is so still. Grey skies, the maple branches a bare lacework against the clouds. I’m making Cedar Spirits, building inventory for the Christmas fairs. Bob is out looking after our neighbor for a few hours, and I’m here alone with the sleeping cats.

I’ve been working in pure silence, not even turning the radio on. Hunched up crosslegged in the loft where I keep the overflowing baskets of shells and feathers and sticks and stones. Hearing my breath in and out, aware of being alive.
 

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 Six of my Cedar Spirits will be at

Art and Soul Gallery in Bothell, 817 238th St SE
Bothell, WA 98021
(425) 487-3777

I’m so pleased.  Susan, the gallery owner, saw my  Cedar Spirits on Etsy, and contacted me.

I had made Cedar Spirits a few years ago, and they had sold well — but starting up with them again this summer, it seemed as if maybe the social mood — the zeitgeist — had veered away from products that seemed like what hippies would make with sticks and feathers.

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