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| Blog Tags: | art, knitting, spinning, homeschooling, Zen, yarn |
A blog about art, knitting, spinning, raising children, Zen Buddhism, progressive politics and more. | |
on Sep 5, 2016
My Fair Isle - and what a fair isle it has been! - is moving its home base to my artist website: www.robynlove.com. You will still find the unsurpassed content on art and life that you have come to expect. I will leave this page up and ac...
on Aug 26, 2016
Feels like I just arrived but, in fact, it is almost time to leave. My love affair with Newfoundland has had some rocky moments (is that why they call it The Rock?). 14 years and counting. I think of my time here in three parts: creating T...
on Aug 16, 2016
She is saying somethingand it is very powerfulbut it is not in any languagethat you or I can understand.And if we could understandwe might go crazy.She is talking about every single thing that has ever happened.It is so impossible to hearthat you hav...
on Aug 13, 2016
Detail from Mother/Daughter, 2016. Embroidery thread and hair on cotton, 14" x 18"From a recent application:My artwork is about experience, both public and private, for both myself and the viewer/participant. Obviously there is my own exp...
on Aug 8, 2016
Sir TKV Desikachar passed away yesterday after a long illness. He was the teacher of my teachers and it is testament to the strength of his teaching that I feel like I knew him too. Their stories about "Sir," as his students called him, r...
on Aug 4, 2016
Been reading a book titled, A Beautiful Question by Frank Wilczek this summer. His beautiful question is, quite simply, what is beauty? Or perhaps, is the universe inherently beautiful? A Nobel-prize winner in quantum physics, he has been...
on Aug 1, 2016
Before I left New York, my Zen teacher casually suggested (is it ever casual?) that I start a sitting group here in Newfoundland. As I began to make inquiries about potential spaces to do such a thing, I found myself agreeing (eagerly, mind you...
