Six months ago my garden stopped. Or so it seemed. Leaves turned brown and dropped off. Flowers vanished. Vines ceased producing fruit, withered, and crumbled. Newts, butterflies, moths, dragonflies; even the neighbour’s cat – disappeared. For five months or so I stood on the patio looking out over a brown, crumpled, lifeless trapezoid (our garden [...]
The “usefulness” of craft and spirituality is sometimes lost in the appreciation of the end product. We are so used to seeing icons in museums that we marvel at the technique, the creativity, and (in some cases) the survivability of the piece, but because of where it is situated (a museum) the practical, spiritual/devotional “use” [...]