One of my favorite shopping haunts are museum gift shops; in particular, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Several years back I purchased a tote bag designed with this William Morris print. I carried it for a while until my daughter kidnapped it to use as a book bag in college. Her affinity for textiles and the intricate weaving and dying technique developed by Morris was right in line with her studies at the Glasgow School … Read More
“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. . .”
In his poem Mending Walls, Robert Frost queried the necessity of separating individual purpose. Why not crossover? Surely there is virtue in sharing each other’s space? This is not easy, states his neighbor, or so he was taught by his father’s generation. “Good … Read More
