“The Weaver of Grass” blog archive

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A kind commenter told me that after the death of blogger Pat, her son archived her blog, The Weaver of Grass, at the above live link.*

I thought of Pat when I was reading Home Fires, about the rural Women’s Institute in World War II Britain. Hers was very much their “put a smile on a your face” philosophy that my Auntie Vi practiced too. 

The word that is repeated over and over again in the book about the WI is “cheerful”.

That has its limitations (and it’s a limitation of the book that it buys that that surface cheer was the whole story), but in hard times when one has limited options, it can be extremely helpful. 

I’ve been dialing it up to deal with the limited mobility and pain of having an injured knee. 

I was walking five blocks home from the bus the other day, and it was a cold cold beautifully bright day after a snowfall, and my knee hurt, so I thought,

 I’ll just try walking very, very slowly – – like the mindfulness practice that Thich Nhat Hanh recommends. 

It took me almost half an hour, but it didn’t hurt! and I was able to enter into the pleasure of being outside. 

I’ve missed being able to walk around the lake—but I can savor a walk to the bus. 

It’s good to SLOW DOWN! And breathe…

* I note the archive has some limitations too—comments aren’t saved, links aren’t active, and you need to navigate backwards through the blog’s sidebar archive (“older posts” arrows don’t work).