July is...

Bon Soir!

Month of July: full: not much quilting (but a meeting), lots of writing, teaching a Creative Writing class, in-town family, and...and...and.

First, an image of "Self as Bomb, Zelda Bomb," another miniature self portrait in the vein of the fruit/etc. I've been doing.

It's about 14" x 20", from commercial cottons and a kids' shirt, fused and machine-appliqued, and machine pieced. It's subtly about world domination/violence.

Then, a couple photos from Fourth of July fireworks with Mom, Sue H. and family.

I love the parallelism/contrast between both man-made lights in first photo, and the ironies of the beauty happening above and the nonchalance of some spectators in the second photo.

Here's a photo of my now-finished Creative Writing class (MW evening, 6-9:55, at William Carey):

I told them we look like the Twelve Disciples of Literature.

Some writing:

writing poems in class

students scared of getting it wrong

heavy sighs, then silence

classroom

clock ticks

what have you learned today?

watching meteors

after the rain

their moist lips

And that's it for now....

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