V's Version

I'm in this weird in between place of over working and not working very much at all. Well - maybe the "not very much work at all" is what most people do normally. I'm not sure.

Today the Team Go-Go house was a-buzz with subjects and predicates. We used (and feel free to see the irony) both a 1958 edition of Paul Bunyan stories and a poem "straight" off the presses and in today's mail of Lex's poetry about being a gender super hero. This is one of the many things that I love about home schooling. Flexibility.

A friend called me a "house wife" the other day. It was akin to calling me a whore. Yeah - so - OK - there are grains of truth but it hardly paints the entire picture, right? I did laundry today. I shopped for groceries and took the dogs for a walk and bought bird seed. I made all the meals and took care of Pk's poison oak rash and taught a little English. I attended to correspondence and caught up on feminist news.



It is just bizarre to be out of the studio or not working on the website. I had this free time today when I pet the dog and I watched a bird in the garden for at least 2 minutes. I watched Pk's gymnastics routines and witnessed the moment by moment of a fort being built in the living room. The other day I actually called a couple of friends. For. No. Reason.

If creating and finding myself in the creative process were not so vital to me - I could really really get used to being a house wife. Until I needed more money.



Luckily - I do have a few commissions on the boards. It's only a temporary break. I could be working on Heather MacAllister's quilt but I just could not bring myself to deal with the grief of Lex and her friends' attack and Heather's death in the same week. So. Here I am.

But - hey - speaking of Lex. Here is her latest bulletin (she is still down playing though because her fracture is causing migraines and muscle seizures but I am just being picky):

Just thought I would give you all an update considering I have been absent from the computer for some time...

I want to say thank you to everyone who has written and responded to our traumatic event. I realized after I wrote the blog entry that I really had downplayed the event and the significance a great deal. I don't know why - perhaps I just wanted everyone to stay calm but truth be told this has been a very hard time.

I want to say thank you for all of the beautiful e-mails i have received, for all of the love and caring, for all of the thoughts and prayers... please know you have been heard and are appreciated beyond what I can say with words.

We are all healing and staying close together doing what we can to provide the support that we need for one another.

My bruises are healing and so is my fracture. I think my heart just needs to catch up. Thank you for everyone who really checked me and made me understand that it was ok to need help, ok to be hurt, ok to not be ok, and to know that I have a beautiful family of friends that are gonna support me....

thank you a thousand times...

Lex.