We Are the World

[purejuice]

The Intelligent Craftafarian, Kate Davies, has received hundreds of cards and gifts from blog fans all over the world since her stroke. She has written most movingly of this. She has set up an archive to photograph every bit of it, and this, too, is most moving, lots of wonderful femme art and artists and energy. There is only a hint of the entire miniature nativity scene, knitted by nuns especially for Kate, complete with teeny woolly baby Jesus in a teeny woolly manger -- and of the many other gifts from knitters all over the world.

Most touching, the futurity of the seeds -- for blue spruce trees, for snap peas -- that many people sent. Though the gifts represent a powerful concatenating female energy, the three gifts from men are so tender and thoughtful -- a real horn long-handled shoe horn, a bracelet of beads made of what looks like significant British rocks she might have seen during her treks in the highlands, a Miles Davis CD.

Beautiful cards by women artists, among them Emily Birningham, and the unsurpassable Inge Look who, though a national heroine of Finland, is totally unknown to me. She has a postage stamp of her famous grannies, and a book, too. Called Paljain jaloin mummojen puutarhassa -- barefoot in the grannies' garden.


Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers

They're called the anarchist grannies by their many fans in Finland and I just know it's Miles Davis they got on the Victrola.

Comments

[unemployia.livejournal.com]

anarchist grannies! thanx for making my cup of morning tea :)

[purejuice.livejournal.com]

aren't they fine?

[tuscendi.livejournal.com]

I love those grannies! Google finds plenty of such images, but I can't find much of any information her and the postcards she designed don't seem to be sold anywhere.

[purejuice.livejournal.com]

my experience was the same. we'll keep looking tho and give each other a heads up if found. aren't they wonderful? did you find the flickr set?

[tuscendi.livejournal.com]

Deal! Yep, saw the Flick set. :-)