Kristen's crocheting a sock in the lesbian pride flag colors
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Out of my mother’s hands, my hands make a better Earth

This craft that is saving me came straight from my mom’s hands.

This was my mom’s birthday card. I took this picture knowing you probably wouldn’t see it in some form until at least Mother’s Day. I called my mom today in lieu of mailing another card.

I am a second-generation sewist and for years I couldn’t see how that could merge with my desire to live in a fast-paced city.

And yes, somehow, I always felt I was good enough for DC and politics and not New York and fashion.

I’m glad we live now in an internet and world that allows for both, but sadly only for certain people.

We cannot go on allowing some of the world to thrive and to do so on the backs of others.

WE ONLY HAVE ONE EARTH!!!!

You can’t bomb and drill and starve folks on one side of it and think that that doesn’t affect part of the other!!!!

But if you’ve been here for a while, you know that’s what I stand for. 

And through this craft from my mother’s hands, I will create generational abundance for myself and everyone.

Meanwhile this week I got some crocheting done on the bus…

Wider angle of Kristen crocheting on the bus that shows another new project from this week, her Kristfinity scarf that matches her other sweater.

…and at the ballpark

Kristen's crochet on her lap covered in an ankara print skirt and looking down at the seats at Nationals Park

…and  I made a new necklace that I plan to wear as a reminder to heal the EARTH and end all warmongering empires and genocides.

Kristen looking at the camera in her new necklace which is a lace-like square ruffled on a wire hoop. She's wearing red and black for Sudan and Palestine and the greater Pan-AFrican cause

Until next time, maybe tomorrow’s live stream at 11 am Eastern?

Kristen