Hi, I’m Tapestry, a happily divorced, gay crone living in Southwestern Connecticut with my Umbrella Cockatoo, Barney. I have a second home at the stable nearby with my 7 year-old Arabian Gelding, Ghost. You can see us at www.dappledghost.com.
I make ends meet by working as an Administrative Assistant (read Secretary) nearby. One advantage to my job is that it alternates between being very busy and very S.L..O...W.... That’s when I can write and keep my creative juices flowing.
As a diabetic and a breast cancer survivor, I realize that both diseases have made me even more aware of my mortality and the fragile place we hold in the world. This was brought home recently when my sweet boy got a twinkle in his eye and decided he was a rodeo horse and bucked me off, cracking a rib. As I lay in the dirt, trying desperately to catch my breath, he looked at me as if to say, "Hay mom, whatcha doin’ down there?"
My two adult children live in New England and we love to communicate via e-mail. They were a bit upset about my "spill." But I told them that when one has a horse, falling off is "in the contract." I have several other essays almost ready to come on-line, and a novel "in the works." I am grateful to my "sister," Jehana for hosting my essays here.
Some people have asked about my name - Tapestry. I will explain: Each of us is part of the Web of Life. That interconnected weaving that knits people and species together into the ecological web of the world. My overall pattern reflects my personal Worldview, attitudes, opinions, beliefs and choices. As a person, special animal, accident or other influence comes into my life; they color and change my attitudes and my way of viewing the world. They subtly change my pattern of the web. When their influence leaves my life, my tapestry retains some of their color and pattern and is forever changed. Thus, my life is the result of my own personal colors and patterns as well as other influences and people which have filled my life - for better or for worse. Each of us represents the tapestry of our particular portion the web of life.
Old Blood,
Maid, Mother and Crone -- Tapestry's journey through surgical menopause.
Why
I Am Wiccan, how Tapestry came home to her path in Wicca. In two parts.
(If you want to go directly to the second part, here it is,
although the first part is advised first for coherency.)
View of Toledo,
a past life experience during the time of the Inquisition, pieces of which she's
remembered and assembled through her current life.
The Plack, a short story set in the distant future.
