This is a wonderful tapestry and truly a wonderful essay for Sunday morning reading. I too was raised Catholic and found it shaping my socialism and radical unionism. Thank you Tabitha!
The account of mass cooks in the sit down strike kind of reminds me of the feeding of the 5,000. Jesus feeding 5,000 people with two loaves and three fishes is presented as a miracle of sharing. I think, contemplating it in the light of the Flint sit-down strike it’s an act of radical solidarity where the miracle is worker power.
This is really a wonderful, wonder-ful post, words and tapestry, and the tapestry that your words and your visuals create together. And your observations lead me to a focus on the intersection of creative work (ideally, all labor) and spirituality, an offering of one's contemplation and body work in support of that, to whatever it is that is larger than the individual, a belief in the value of what we do for the community, the need to Sit Down and think about those connections and start to wonder why that perspective has been so thoroughly erased from our lives, and how do we bring it back in an age of collective madness and genocide.
Thank you for the inspiration and the Protestant insight -- I laughed, but it's too true.
my catholic mother is a needlepointer and I think she’ll love this piece, I especially loved the paragraph about the it intensive labour being part of the creative process
I was drawn to your "Sitdown" as soon as I saw it, but reading this made it even more captivating. You've expressed so much of what makes the work so important, relevant, and meaningful.
What a beautiful and wonderful piece. I think I will just sit down and read it slowly again.
This is a wonderful tapestry and truly a wonderful essay for Sunday morning reading. I too was raised Catholic and found it shaping my socialism and radical unionism. Thank you Tabitha!
The account of mass cooks in the sit down strike kind of reminds me of the feeding of the 5,000. Jesus feeding 5,000 people with two loaves and three fishes is presented as a miracle of sharing. I think, contemplating it in the light of the Flint sit-down strike it’s an act of radical solidarity where the miracle is worker power.
This is really a wonderful, wonder-ful post, words and tapestry, and the tapestry that your words and your visuals create together. And your observations lead me to a focus on the intersection of creative work (ideally, all labor) and spirituality, an offering of one's contemplation and body work in support of that, to whatever it is that is larger than the individual, a belief in the value of what we do for the community, the need to Sit Down and think about those connections and start to wonder why that perspective has been so thoroughly erased from our lives, and how do we bring it back in an age of collective madness and genocide.
Thank you for the inspiration and the Protestant insight -- I laughed, but it's too true.
my catholic mother is a needlepointer and I think she’ll love this piece, I especially loved the paragraph about the it intensive labour being part of the creative process
amazing tapestry, i love it, i would like to see all the little details one day
loved this, i cried
I was drawn to your "Sitdown" as soon as I saw it, but reading this made it even more captivating. You've expressed so much of what makes the work so important, relevant, and meaningful.
Beautifully expressed
Love it.