Category: Willows, Memories from Back Home
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Judy’s Booklet about Our Va Amaro
With days that often feel blurred, where memories can easily fade, connections to those we love matter, as do stirring up memories to help us define and keep alive our stories. When I was home my cousin Judy brought over…
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My Nephew Sam Part 2
Mud dyeing is a technique that is said to be at least 1300 years old. Today it is most famously practiced on Amami Island in Japan. I became interested in this technique when I was just reading and watching videos…
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My Nephew Sam Following His Passion Part 1
My aunt Corey asked me to do a two part blog posts about myself. As she admires my work and has been collecting fabrics and buttons for me. You see I am a clothes designer- Well let me give you…
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The Small Town
Behind my Mother’s home are rice fields, canals, a walnut orchard, blackberry bushes, sheep, dirt roads, the Buttes, the Sacramento Valley, and years of seeding, toil, and life lived. I flew kites in these fields, rode motorcycles, fell, learned to…
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Ten Years Ago is Still the Same Today
Feet up against the dashboard, my brother drives, a trailblazing with dust grows behind us. A song rattles along with the shovels and beer cans in the back of the truck, Road signs with faded memories attached to them, one by…
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My Mother
L O V E ❤️ Saying goodbye is harder and harder. And I fear it will always be so.