With all the noise, the inconsiderate timing of sending rockets on surprising times ,, i still manage to embroider on my work. As well as knitting, and i even sneak up at times that seem safe, to start and warp my loom , for the work i intended to start, just when the war started. Of course, one watches news [ on every possible channel] listens to the radio. My favorite program this day is the silent radio. It is a radio that is on without a sound and like a guardian angel comes alive only when there is an alarm. Than it wails and sings and tells all it is time to enter the most safe places. Many people owe their lives to this. One thing, one notes is that one sort of looses a bit the feeling of time, Esp about days,,, If you aren`t a working person, and since children are still on Holiday, But Most Normal activities aren`t happening , you loose count. Normally in our street we have twice a day a line of cars going to work in the morning , and going home in the afternoon, now we have only a few cars. Thus i decided to make myself a schedule of kind, where my various needle crafts /arts play an important role, After getting up, watching news, i roll my beddings [ i sleep on the floor on folded winter blankets], and i go and work a bit on my warp, than i embroider for an hour ,, [ if i am not disturbed by a rocket] of course my embroidery i just take down with me and work on,,,no matter what. Than i knit a bit. Embrodery of course has an aded benefit, every time i hear a rocket fall i add 5 stiches ... hoping they will prick EVIL away ,,, yes yes i know it doesn` t work this way ,, but it is a nice feeling,,,, NO Terrorist will stop me from doing my stiching ,,, It is of course a bit symbolic that i work on my art Feelings about terror.. another branch,the blowing up people in resturants and busses. In former years i taught needlecrafts , to young women of all groups in Israel, At the end of the year all came together in one week of working together and meeting,,,, This courses go on every year.
I embroider pieces in my art , hoping to stich and patch and elaborate the harm people did , and before we patched it all , some foreign ideaology wants to destroy it all , to undo and burn , every nice piece of peace we make together. mirjam