Happy New Year to all of you (well, almost...)!

I hope everyone will have a grand 2011 with many tapestry adventures in the making.

Pat and I will be sharing with a group of six people at her studio in February, the first of what we hope will be many occasional sessions at either her or at my studio.  Our limit will most likely always be six while we are at our studios because of space considerations.  We'll post some comments following each session and hope those who take part will also post.

As we begin to share back and forth in this blog we can consider ways to do that to make it easy to read comments.  Of course, anyone can make a comment to a post and those will appear below the post itself.  But those of you who I've invited to be blog authors can also edit into a post that's been made, adding your own comments within the body of the post itself.  You can also make a new post, of course.

About editing into a post, my suggestion would be that each one who does so in the text of a post begin the comments with their name.  For instance, if I wanted to add a comment into a post, I could do it like this:

TOMMYE SAYS:
and then go on with saying whatever pearls of wisdom I was going to ramble on about...

then Pat might reply:

PAT SAYS:
Tommye's comments are interesting... and to add to that, I've found....

to which Terri might say:

TERRI SAYS:
Well, both of you have given some food for thought.  I've also found that ...

then I might reply...

TOMMYE SAYS:
Great idea, Terri!  And, Pat... can't wait to see what you're working on in person to see how the example works.

Do you think something like this might work to keep our thoughts flowing but to also know who said what and when?  Other suggestions are of course very welcomed!

So, to end this New Year's post (in advance of the New Year)... let me leave you with a pearl of wisdom from someone else:

Three Strands in the Braid

Reach out with your Mind 

And touch the edges of each thing

            as it exists

See

The configurations

            of form and color

Bend and shape Awareness

Reach out with your Hand

And sense the depth

            of the texture of Life

The nature of warp and woof

The weaving of one way of being

            with another

Celebrate the compelxity

            of Wholeness

Reach out with you Heart

And sense

            the essence of things

Hear the throb of the Life Beat

The Universal pulse

That paces the beat of your heart

            and mine

Reach out with Mind

            and Hand

                        and Heart

And see how it is 

            that Life is One

Undivided

            by the divisions of our perceptions

Reach out with Mind alone

            or Hand alone

                        or even with a lonely Heart

And see how it is

We limit ourselves

Celebrate the joining

            of the Three-Way Path

Mind

            and Hand

                        and Heart

Weave into a full perception

Join Wholeness

            and Dimension

                        and Diversity

Into a singularity of Vision

            Let it be so... 

Paula Underwood, from Three Strands in the Braid:  A Guide for Enablers of Learning