Texas Is Funny. This One Time A Guy(in His Truck) Yelled At Me(outside)(in Summer) For Wearing A Cowboy

Motivational things to send in the group chat

I couldn't have said it better myself.

{Words by José Olivarez from Citizen Illegal /@fatimaamerbilal , from even flesh eaters don't want me.}

Vincent van Gogh. Evening Landscape, Nuenen, 1885.

Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.

- Sade Andria Zabala, Coffee and Cigarettes

I bought a quarterly needlepoint magazine from 1991 today for $1 at an op shop, and there’s a four page spread about a woman who completely faithfully remakes samplers from the 1600s and the part that blows me away is that she was keeping women in history alive.

The original sampler maker was a teenaged girl called Loara she’s the only one known of seven siblings in that family. She was born approximately 1632 and had passed before her father had in 1656 which they know because it was mentioned in his will.

So in the 1630-40s a girl made a sampler, in 1991 a woman had put in years of research before recreating the sampler as Loara had 350 years earlier , and I’m reading about it in 2024.

Embroidery keeps women alive in history, and it’s part of why I love samplers so much.

Here’s a quote from samplers that I think about often:

Happy New Year!

Here's a rabbit to start off 2023.

Wildest Dreams

Watercolor on Black Cotton Paper

2024, 44"x 30"

Lavender

"but there is something that happens when you are told you are too much. you begin to ask everyone, "how small would you like me?""

LOOK INTO MY EYES AND TELL ME THIS ISNT SPOCK CODED I DARE YOU