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  • New books

    Consumed with enthusiasm and a little uncertainty about my Etsy store. I sold my first book, “The Search for Peace,” today to one of my blog readers – thank you so much! The uncertainty comes partly from not being very secure about my art, not having the training or face-to-face contacts with many other book…

  • http://slowturnstudio.etsy.com There are a lot of things that I need to learn about selling on Etsy, and I figure that I’ll never learn until I try. For sales that do not need to be shipped, please contact me at slow.turn.studio at gmail.com T’ank you veddy much.

  • A wonderful weekend is coming to a close. I cooked fresh green corn shucks with soda ash to make paper with Susanne in her well-equiped paper studio next weekend. I hung out over there for a couple of hours and saw their new vegetable and herb garden. The fabulous ZhaK came by with an awesome…

  • The Five Mindfulness Trainings, Part Two

    I didn’t want this comment by David Conway under this post to go unnoticed, because it is beautiful and helpful, too. August 9th, 2009 at 6:24 pm Thay has implied in a talk that these revised trainings were produced by the fourfold Sangha. You may be interested to know that this is not the case.…

  • Saturday morning coffee pot post

    With chocolate milk added! I had hoped to post photos of my newest books today, but I had also hoped that I could transfer the photos on my memory card from my printer to my computer. If it’s possible, I can’t figure it out. So I’ll have to borrow a camera again to transfer the…

  • I spent $40 at the Greensboro Farmers’ Curb Market this morning. This is what I got: 11 HUGE fragrant freestone peaches: a couple for eating, the rest will be sliced and put in the food dehydrator. About 6 delicious little pears, plus the one she gave me as a taste sample. 2 big sweet onions…

  • What a day! The Art Oasis was fun, the weather was perfect, and it was just the right amount of time. Nice crowd. I hope that Green Hill will do this again! (And I sold two books, woo hoo!) Since I’m a good kind of tired, I’ll elaborate tomorrow. I have photos of books to…

  • I stayed home again today and finally got a jolt of energy after Susanne called about tomorrow’s Art Oasis. I have several books that are nearly to the finishing line so I think that I’ll be able to finish them up tonight and take photos with a borrowed camera tomorrow. I know that congestion had…

  • Summer bug – slept all last night and most of today. I’m not happy about the waste of time. We’re having still another thunderstorm right now. The weather forecast looks great for Friday night’s Art Oasis, though. I should have about 10 books for sale and I’m considering putting out a few baskets and a…

  • Went to Cat’s going-away party at the Taste of Thai, where she gave away more of her personal possessions. She brought them in bags and tubs and drew names out of a bowl and decided what to give each person. She gave me a sweater (amazingly, it might just fit, so it probably wasn’t hers!)…