The Wisdom of Age and Experience

Pizza Party Time!

And now . . . 

embroidery taken to

a whole new level!

Happy Spring Equinox!

Today is the Spring Equinox

in the northern hemisphere.

In pagan circles it is a day to honour

the Goddess of Spring known as

Ostara or Eostre (from whose name

the word "Easter" comes).

Her sacred animal

is the rabbit or hare.

And hey! 2023 is

the Year of the Rabbit too!

May your joys multiply

like bunnies in Spring!

Let the Shenanigans Begin!

So Irish Heritage Day has rolled around once again,

and that means only one thing to

a mixed Irish descendant such as myself.

Fun, green beer, and mockery!

And Now, An Important Message From

Her Royal Highness the Cat:

"Don't forget that Saint Patrick is not the only saint

whose feast day is March 17. It is also the feast day of

Saint Gertrude of Nivelles,

the patron saint of cats and the people who love them."

Thursday Art Date With Rain -- "Grayscale"

Rain's art prompt today correlates to how I've done art for most of my life -- drawing in graphite pencil. Without art instruction or supplies when I was young, it's what was accessible and available to me back in those days. So I'm very familiar with searching out and trying to replicate the visual nuances of grayscale.

I still enjoy drawing in graphite and continue to find it a rewarding challenge. Here's some new drawings from a recent course I took called "Birds and Flowers in Graphite." My favourite is the hawk.

[Art and photos of art © Debra She Who Seeks 2023; first image is from the internet]

Feeling Stabby Today?

 lit-beyond-measure

i'd make a caesar joke but someone's already taken a stab at it 22 times before

Update: Twitter HQ - March 15th, 2023 CE --

An Environmentally Sustainable Wardrobe

Sheesh, guess where I just bought new jeans -- d'oh!

Speaking of clothes, a recent report from a Berlin sustainability think-tank, the Hot or Cool Institute, calculates how many items of clothing the average person in a four-season G20 country such as ours really needs to fall within what the institute calls a "fair consumption space." This is defined as "a space where consumption levels stay below environmentally unsustainable levels yet above sufficiency levels that allow individuals to fulfil their basic needs." (See the news item found here).

The environmentally sustainable wardrobe number is 85 items in total. Clothing categories include coats and shoes, but not underwear and accessories.

Out of idle curiosity, I undertook a scientific investigation into my own closets and chests of drawers. This is the resulting data:

Coats: 5

Tops: 40

Pants, Shorts: 16

Sleepwear: 8

Athletic Wear: 3

Shoes: 10 pairs

Grand Total: 82 items

Phew! Just in under the wire!

And the kicker is that I don't even wear 30 of those items at all or only on a rare basis. For example, 5 pairs of shoes fall into this category. Most of these unused or rarely used items are kept "just in case I need them again some day," such as a few work-related dress pants, tops and shoes or my swimwear items. None of those items have been worn in the last 5 years or longer.

If those rarely worn items are removed from the calculation, my "actually worn" wardrobe total falls to 52 items. 

So either I'm some kind of

Environmental Superstar

or I'm walking around like a

Cheapskate

Fashion-Challenged

Ragamuffin

Hmm, I don't think I'll ask people to cast their votes on that particular issue.