The garden is beginning to look lush, the tomatoes have been planted, and we will enjoy a salad with our own lettuce this evening. This year I am trying a new tomato, Berkeley Tie Dye Pink, as well as old favorites, Hungarian Heart, Amish Paste, Big Boy, Better Boy and Pink Hybrid. Updates to come. Next week I will be sending Mind Map: Everywhere, All the Time to the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins, CO for the 42nd Annual New Legacies Exhibit. I have had work in this exhibit many times over the years and am delighted to be selected again in 2026.
My new series, Openhearted, continues to progress. Here is a sneak peek, in progress, of my latest piece. This work has been inspired by the people of Chicago and Minneapolis who came together to stand with their neighbors and their communities. I am slowly pulling it into focus, a stitch at a time.
Reading List:
Here is what I have been reading lately. House of Day, House of Night, by Olga Tocarczuk; Whale Fall, by Elizabeth O’Connor; The English Understand Wool, by Helen DeWitt and Tortoise’s Tale, by Kendra Coulter— all in print, and The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans and 6:40 to Montreal, by Eva Jurczyk on audio. I read my audiobooks on my phone, using Libby.
We are living in tumultuous times, but there will be tomatoes someday in August.