Summer Moon of the First Harvests
When I picked up our rug from American Rug Laundry, the guy said he couldn’t believe 
how much dirt he got out of it. I told him, but I’m not sure it registered, that our dogs really, really like this rug. All of them. And they come in and lie down on it. Roll on it. Transfer the sand from the Great Anoka Sand Plain to it, deep in its fiber. As he now knows. Not many folks let dogs on their multiple thousands of dollars oriental rugs, I imagine.
(this rug. with favorite dog objects. the one to the far right is a stuffed squirrel. a big hit.)
On the same trip I took a baby quilt in to Margaret Levin. She’s due sometime in the next couple of weeks. Says a lot about our society that she’s in her last term of pregnancy and still running the Northstar Chapter of the Sierra Club. Kate makes lots of baby quilts. This one used cloth made from our neighbor’s mother’s stash. When she died, it fell to Pam who gave it to Kate. This particular cloth was from the 1930’s.
We talked about politics, of course. That was my entré to the Sierra Club and what I did with them for 5 years or so. I asked her if she has the same sense I do that a cultural shift has begun on global warming. A positive one. She said yes, but she also said the movement thought one was happening in the 1970’s, too. Still, you add in a Democratic President and Senate, plus the changing demographics of the U.S. population and there could be real grounds for optimism. Whether such a shift would happen soon enough to matter? Hard to tell.
Stopped by the Northern Clay Center as well. It’s only a block from the Sierra Club. There are a lot of able potters represented there. I’m in the market for another tea pot since I plan to return to brewing tea from tea leaves rather than tea bags when I start Loki’s Children. A reward for finishing the third revision. Didn’t find anything. I plan to look on Sunday at a large pottery show, but if I don’t find anything I’ll head up to St. John’s and Richard Bresnahan. I’ve wanted one of his teapots for some time.
