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    Cross-stitching

    March 12, 2007

    I claim I love doing it, although I’ve only ever finished one.

    My favorite design was purchased from Pleasant Hill, a living museum of the old Shaker village in Kentucky. It really was incredibly beautiful there. The Shakers resembled the Amish, except that they believed in strict celibacy. The public buildings had two doors in the front, one for each sex. Needless to say, the beautiful preservations are now Shakerless.

    Also unlike the Amish, they kept up with technology, which would be interesting to witness if they hadn’t died out a century ago.

    Of course, I was extremely interested, as I am with any lifestyle which differs radically from my own, especially one that’s a couple hundred years old. Everything was simple and plain and wonderful, which I still somewhat envy, as I sit here in front of my MacBook, next to my Nikon D50, watching Law and Order: SVU on digital cable and drinking juice with artificial something or other.

    But anyway, I have a hard time finding patterns, as they’re all of cats and dragons and Jesus. And as much as I would love completing a giant, cloth rendition of majestic eagles preparing to take their perch high above the valley, I prefer to imagine myself as an old-school colonist with nothing better to do than a modern girl who’s bored and extremely tacky.

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