The autumn weather has continued to be so very mild. It is just beginning to get more seasonably chilly now in December. I knit some friends hats and scarves and have wondered when they will need to use them. I’m sure I’ll be eating my words soon.
My student and I completed our clinical work last weekend. I think that putting up a sustained resistance to the decisions that were made will not work. Instead I suggested that not all learning has to be mediated by a program so if my student wants to discuss issues, cases, techniques, etc with me, this can be done outside the confines of school and work.
As a parting gift, the student brought me a large bouquet of flowers. “Um, what do I do now,” I queried. “There are no vases around.” The roses had their own water supply and I was not up for thinking outside the box (vase) so I laid the flowers on a file cabinet and ignored them. They came alive at home in water and are even lovely one week later. In turn, I gave my student a little zippered bag which I had sewn for her.
I have been having fun making fabric bags with interesting linings and metal industrial zippers. I made my own template for the bag size but it’s just a generality. All the bags come out being different shapes and sizes, and are often unequal on each of their sides. They have nothing in common with manufactured items and that’s why it was funny when my co-worker CC said that my bags looked like Vera Bradley items. She started calling me Vera Gold.
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