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  • Teacher appears

    What a challenging few days it’s been, watching the news, hearing the yelling match across the divide of people who see different things in the videos of the shooting of an American citizen by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. In the middle of all that, I stumbled on a New York Times interview with…

  • New year, new materials

    First, some history: My obsession with embroidery goes back to 2018 or so, when I first saw the Chinese court textiles exhibit at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. The museum, in Eugene OR, has an extensive display of Chinese art that’s worth a visit or six. The garments, intricately “painted” with fine silk threads,…

  • The old Colossus

    The United Sates is a mythic place. It’s never quite existed as billed. It elevates freedom, yet its earliest economy was based on slave labor. It fought against genocide in Europe, yet tried mightily to destroy the continent’s first peoples. It welcomed immigrants, yet across many decades and for different reasons persecuted the Chinese and…