Spinning

May 24 I continue to spin for you. I've spun 3-4 yards of thread already although it's somewhat rough. I've wound it around one of the wild rose canes I use for training branches. I struggled to be patient as I did it and was pretty irritable at times but it's progressing. Here's the spindle with the first thread formed on it that I spun yesterday.

May 26 And here we can see a bit more thread. This is a fair number of spans! Some of it is pretty awful looking thread though. I probably spun about one today. I got to taking off the price sticker; it was really inexpensive about $5.50! I could have made it myself though as it is very simple. I may make a lighter one so as to be able to spin the thread finer.

May 27 I spun a few feet anyway. It wasn't much but it's a bit more! I tried some of the cotton that comes in vitamin jars. It spins really well, but it falls apart and thus probably isn't a good choice.

May 28 I spun a couple more spans, perhaps a bit more. It turns that the cotton I was trying to work with last night might work but I'd have to wet my fingers while spinning to help hold the fibers together. It also helps to have a spindle that sits on the ground to keep it from pulling the fibers out. I've learned from a spinning book that Nettles were also used by Native Americans as fiber for spinning and that there are probably many plants growing here that could be used as fiber.

June 9 I've spun 2 more spans for you gentle one. Here is yarrow just arriving in bloom to sustain us as we continue on through the time when it is hard to see. Our faith in each other will move mountains later. In a way, these are days of great power for us because the sacrifice is greater and our combined ability to help will be increased as a result( but you understand this already I think!) It will be an icon to sustain us. I will try to introduce new things here to you first, or when we

June 10 I've devotedly spun 2 more spans for you swift gentle one and for our commitment to a shared destiny. I've gotten some books of Native American art and spirituality. The art book is mostly pictures and so there isn't so much for us to read together though. I haven't yet had time to find Sarangerel's book Chosen by the Spirits for us to read together. As time goes on I'll put this page on our info site so it will always be easy for you to get to.

June 11 In firm trusting devotion I've spun two more spans for us beautiful patient one, and all the vast skies we will look upon together in our effort of the heart. The Tibetan language book should be coming in the mail any day now!

June 12 I've spun two more spans for us beautiful patient one in firm commitment to us and our effort of the heart together. It's been 20 days already! I thought I'd look up the website on the written language http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/9594/tibet.html so we can start learning the written if you would like.

June 14 . I could probably just say Tashi for Hi! I didn't spell Tashi Deleh right yesterday so today I've made up for it with the original Tibetan script. I've spun four more spans for you gentle one and for our weaving our shared destiny.

June 16 After buying more fiber, in trusting devotion I hold up two more spans I have spun for you swift beautiful one and our commitment to a shared destiny. ( It would help if I had the picture for this wouldn't it? I haven't gotten the time to take it yet! I need to create something that was once called a niddy-noddy. It is a frame that is used to wind the thread in loops and both helps to store and to measure it.)

June 17 In quiet trusting undeceived devotion I have spun two more spans for you swift beautiful gentle one so you needn't worry! And if you doubt at all, you've but to read the poem of June 8! All patiently waits.

June 18 I've devotedly spun two more spans for you swift patient one and for our commitment to a shared destiny. I still haven't been able to spend the time to get some Native American writings for us to read together although you probably could recommend some!

June 19 I've spun two more spans for you beautiful patient enduring one and for our commitment to a shared destiny. It turns out my sister Kathy may have some Native American writings we can read together. I'll check over the weekend.

June 20 I've spun two more spans for you swift beautiful one in quiet trusting devotion as I will every day so you needn't worry! We have been seeing together for 234 days now, even longer really, but at least 8 months and 10 days. These are the hardest ones of course! But our prayer flag has been flying for 194 days and I spin every day as I have for the last 28 days quietly waiting. In all this time we two have grown with the flow of our intent the strong foundation for our shared destiny together as strong as any that can be created between two souls. In any case, there's little time for worry. There is much to be done even now ( I'm sure you have much to do too!)

(please click on the icon to listen along with me. I'm a bit hoarse and it's really quiet, please continue to be patient along with me. I figured the only way for me rise up to the beginning of this was to read it with you!)It's a big so it takes a few minutes. Not the easiest thing to listen along with, but it's a start! It might have been better to read Native American writings together first but since I haven't found them yet we'll start with this. It occurred to me this morning that although I say that I'm creating something for you, at this point we are actually creating it together with our shared heart and mind. And it's going rather well!

June 24 I've spun a couple more spans for you gentle one for our prayer flags and our shared destiny together. I'm not sure how many spans we have, but it's quite a lot! I started work on our lotus blossoms today getting the blocks squared up so I can pencil in the drawings on them. Bit by bit our effort of the heart grows!

June 26 In quiet trusting devotion in our firm commitment I've spun two more spans for you beautiful patient one. I've worked on the lotus blossums a bit. They can be thought of as symbols of you and I rising up in purity and reverent freedom as we quietly create our shared vision and destiny together. We are of course two as one but strong in ourselves too!

June 28 I continue to spin and have created four more spans for you gentle one and for our commitment to a shared destiny. I still haven't had the time to find some Native American writings for you and I to read together. We may end up researching them together at this rate. You needn't be worried , all patiently waits and bit by bit our independent effort of the heart grows. It's been 242 days, just a bit over 8 months ( 8 months and 18 days!) since we began seeing together gentle one and our faith and trust in each other is strong. Our prayer flag has been flying for 202 days, 7 months and 6 days!

June 29 I've spun six more spans for you slight gentle beautiful one in quiet commitment to the destiny we will share. Let's read Tibetan aloud together for a little while if you would like.

June 30 I've devotedly spun two more spans for your loom gentle one as we weave our shared destiny together. We're up to Chapter 3 in the language book but let's pause for now ( I still need to review those prononciation rules a few times to understand them!) I'll probably be able to start carving our lotus blossums soon! I know, I said that last week. I'm sure you understand though. It's that time of year!

July 2 In trusting devotion I've spun two more spans for you gentle one resting in our firm commitment to each other as we weave our shared destiny. I took the lotus flower carving blocks out of the clamps. The wood pieces I attached are holding strong and are ready to hold up the blocks in the vise for carving. Bit by bit our effort grows each day!

July 3 I've devotedly spun two more spans for you gentle beautiful one! I'm going to transfer the thread to the multiflora rose cane tomorrow as the spindle is getting quite heavy. The studio needs some tidying up right now; while I like to think of it as a creative blast it's amazing how quickly chaos restores it's reign in here.

July 4 I've spun two more spans for us gentle beautiful patient one in quiet commitent to our shared destiny together and our effort of the heart. My fingers are bit clumsy after all the work in the Grove but they are used to spinning now!

July 5 I continue to spin for you gentle one and for the destiny that we are weaving together in our effort of the heart. I've created four more spans for your loom! I haven't gotten yet to putting the thread on the multiflora rose cane. Let's read some more from the Tibetan language book if you would like. My voice is a bit hoarse from being outside with all that grass pollen and I stumble a bit but I know you will understand. It might be good to skip between chapter 3 and later chapters which give common phrases because this grammar is tough going when you are just starting to learn the language.

July 6 I continue to spin for you gentle beautiful one and have created six more spans for your loom. Our prayer flag continues to fly as it has for 210 days now and we've been seeing together for 250 days! Let's read a bit more from the Tibetan language book if you would like. This is from chapter four and describes Tibetan greetings.

July 7 In quiet trusting patience I devotedly spin two more spans for you gentle one resting in our quiet firm commitment to each other in our effort of the heart. I hope you liked the poem. You may notice I called medlar tree your medlar tree. We two share medlar and what it represents as well of course! I've noticed my math is off on time passing so I fixed the days a bit.Perhaps you noticed this already. In any case, that warm and bright future day is getting closer!

July 8 In quiet patience I devotedly spin two more spans for you gentle beautiful one. I need to do more research on Tibetan Geography. I'm thinking it might be good to share some of the readings I find rather than just read from books. It's tough to get to everything though as I'm sure you understand. I haven't forgotten that I promised to share with you some drawings either and all those pictures of California. At this rate you'll be helping me to put them on the website!

July 9 In quiet trusting patience I devotedly spin two more spans for you gentle beautiful one. These are the days of great power for us as you and I, two as one continue on through the time when it is hard to see. Our commitment to each other and our sacrifice will help us later and our small quiet effort of the heart grows a little each day! Let's read a little from the Tibetan language book tomorrow if you would like.I want to read poetry and of the day but with these files being as big as they are I've been just sticking to working on our future work together for now.

July 10 In quiet devotion in our firm commitment to each other and our shared destiny, I've spun two more spans for us gentle beautiful one! I've worked a bit more on our lotus blossoms, our symbols of we two souls firmly ourselves, yet seeing as one with one shared heart and mind. As it turns out I still have to tinker with the recording software and it's getting late. I thought instead we could listen to our spinning song together.

July 11 In quiet trusting patience I devotedly spin two more spans for you gentle beautiful one in firm commitment to you and I and our real and lasting effort of the heart. There are many spans now for your loom!

July 12 I devotedly spin four more spans for you gentle beautiful one as we continue on as always. Our commitment to each other is a great source of strength and hope to me as our effort of the heart grows bit by bit each day. It's been 113 days since you and I came to the Spring gentle beautiful one! Which should help inspire us as we continue on to the second section of chapter 3 reading of Tibetan grammar.

July 14 In firm commitment to you and I and our effort of the heart I devotedly spin two more spans for you gentle determined bright one. A hurai! ( that's how it's actually spelled in Buryat as it turns out). I carved a bit more on our lotus blossoms and will study a bit more from the Tibetan language book.

July 15 I devotedly spin two more spans for you beautiful gentle one in firm commitment. Do not be concerned; all patiently waits. A hurai! I managed to carve a bit more on our lotus blossoms in spite of the auto troubles. I discovered some mistakes from last Friday and fixed them. Well, you can help me with these things in the future!

July 16 I devotedly spin 2 more spans in commitment to our shared destiny gentle beautiful one as we firmly continue on. I've done a bit more on carving on our lotus blossoms. Each day our gentle effort of the heart quietly grows. With the auto troubles I haven't been able to look at the language book yesterday and today but I'm going to try to study more over the weekend.

July 18 In full commitment I continue to spin for you gentle beautiful one two more spans as we quietly wait for the day when we can begin our great endeavor together. In the meantime I work through things in the Grove, in the studio and on the website as best I can as our small personal universal effort of the heart firmly continues.

July 19 In quiet devotion to our firm commitment to a shared destiny with each other I spin four more spans for you slight gentle beautiful one. I've carved a little more on the lotus blossoms. Let's read a bit more aloud from the Tibetan language book if you would like.

July 21 In quiet devotion in our firm commitment to each other and our weaving of a shared destiny, I've spun two more spans for us gentle beautiful patient one! I hope you liked the poem. I was trying to portray our optimism and patient endurance and of course bring you that amazing picture I took over the weekend. I've done a bit more on our lotus blossoms and am starting to, in a simple way, figure out how to stylize them into wood. It's coming along rather well!

July 22 In patient devotion gentle beautiful one I have spun two more spans for your loom and our shared destiny. My auto still isn't fixed so I'm going to be stuck driving Mom's car still. But at least the phone line works! I noticed that the Dalai Lama indicates the color yellow is used to indicate monastacism. This isn't our meaning for yellow of course! In Tibet too, yellow also has another meaning and represents one of the elements ( I can't remember which at the moment). I'm playing Spirit Wind right now and thinking of the events of the last couple of days. The seeming difficulties I working against now (and you with me of course since we are two as one!) simply reinforced that regardless of hardships that face us you and I will always be enough to persist and prevail. With the usual spiritual help of course! We can read a bit more from the Tibetan language book if you would like. Let's skip to chapter 5 to learn some common Tibetan words.

July 23 I've spun two more spans for you gentle beautiful one in quiet commitment to our shared destiny. It's been two months already since I began spinning for you. We've gotten much work done in that time since we've started learning Tibetan together, created some music and gotten quite far sculpting the lotus blossoms. I think I've spun at least 160 spans of thread for your loom and probably even more! I wrapped some of it around a ruler and discovered that, at the thickness I'm spinning it, it comes to about 32 threads to the inch. A span for me is about 2 feet eight inches so I figure we have enough for at least eight prayer flags already. So, in these days when it is hard to see and despite the difficulties in our path our effort of the heart grows steadily!

July 24 I've spun two more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one in full commitment to you and to our small quiet gentle effort of the heart. I haven't been able to work on our lotus blossoms tonight but I did take a photograph of them which I will bring to you soon so you can see how they are coming along! My auto is still needing work so I continue to drive Mom's car.

Ugh! Anyway, you needn't worry about anything as all patiently waits for you. We can read more from the Tibetan language book over the weekend. Hopefully you are able to download the files. I'll try to write which pages I'm reading so even if you can't you will know what section it is I'm on.

July 25 I've spun two more spans for your loom and our commitment to a shared destiny gentle beautiful one! Our lotus blooms will look stunning when we've finished gilding them! This has been another tough week but one of great power for us.

July 26 I've spun four more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one, she who makes my effort real! Our prayer flag has been flying for 230 days now, a bit over eight months. We've been seeing together for nine months (270 days) slight gentle one and our effort grows in quiet strength even through the hard weeks like this one.

July 27 In firm devoted commitment through the quiet time I've spun six more spans for you gentle beautiful one and for our weaving a shared destiny. Let's read more from the Tibetan Language book if you would like. This is from chapter three and goes from the top of page 25 with the irregular verbs to the top of page 27.

July 28 I've spun two more spans for you gentle beautiful one in firm devoted commitment to you and our effort of the heart. We continue through this quiet time apart of course, however long it may be and with lots of things to do our quiet rest will go quickly! I notice I made another mistake on the date of the Sunday poem of a couple of weeks back. Just a template error. We continue on gentle one, despite my stumblings so you needn't be concerned!

July 29 Two more spans have I devotedly spun for your loom gentle beautiful one in firm commitment to our shared destiny . Our effort of the heart is coming along well and we are solidly into our second year of course! I need to study the Tibetan more carefully before reading much more ( perhaps you are learning this more quickly than I!) but its going rather well as we continue through this quiet patient time apart. I haven't found the book Secrets of the Soil so I'm going to buy a copy soon so we can read it together along with the dowsing book I mentioned. I think you will like these as they are both very much about spiritual attunement with the natural world to create sustenance and harmony. I've taken a picture (so you can see how much thread we have!) which I will bring to us soon.

July 30 I've devotedly spun two more spans for your loom determined beautiful one as we weave our shared destiny in firm commitment to each other. We quietly continue through this quiet patient time apart and I will share experiences here as much as I can in the meantime. I realize it has been a long time since I was able to do one of those picture rounds for you ; I haven't been able to since the trip to California back in April! I would have liked this for many of the poems I wrote for you since gentle one but the time has moved so swiftly! At this rate, you will be helping me to illustrate them ( and swiftly fixing those little mistakes I invaribly make and if you would like, adding your own poems)!

July 31 Two more spans have I spun for your loom slight gentle beautiful one in firm commitment to our shared destiny and our effort of the heart! Gentle and Determined we will remain we, beautiful one through this quiet patient time apart and ever after.

August 1 I've devotedly spun two more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one in firm commitment to our shared future together. The last two weeks have been tough but ones of great power for us of course. I remain firmly myself as I know you remain firmly yourself. Every day is another day closer to our warm and bright future day. Of course, we are making lots of progress in the meanwhile!

August 2 In firm commitment to you and our shared destiny together I've spun four more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one! I haven't worked on our lotus blossoms today but I got a lot done on them yesterday! I'll show you the additions to a Windhorse project here so you can look at them with me before I put them on the site.

With all the website work I haven't had the time yet to study much Tibetan. I've created another spinning song for you from another of our poems though which I will bring to us when I've gotten it ready. It's been four months and thirteen days since our coming to the Spring gentle one and our prayer flag flies through this stormy patient time apart as it has for 238 days now!

August 4 In quiet devotion I've spun two more spans for you gentle beautiful one in firm commitment to our shared destiny together. You'll notice that the files are now going on our infosite! I've tried to keep the files smaller and easier to download . The 24 kbyte/sec file is about as small as I can make them before they start to sound like a transmission from a comlink and if I make them between two and three minutes they generally are under a megabyte if I use the .mp3 format ( I figured you might know about this nuts and bolts stuff but thought I'd mention it anyway. You may know of ways to improve this!) Let's read a bit more if you would like. This is chapter three again with the postpositions on p. 27 beginning with "for" and going to the section on the formation of questions.

August 5 In firm commitment to you and our effort of the heart I've devotedly spun two more spans for you gentle beautiful one! It's been a month already since I began carving so I thought you would like to see how our lotus blossoms are rising up. A hurai!

August 6 I've devotedly spun two more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one in quiet commitment to our shared destiny together. I thought you might like to see how we two are coming along. There's still a lot of carving but at least you can see how things are going. So even on these quiet patient days apart our effort is growing a little each day!

August 7 In strong firm commitment I've devotedly spun two more spans for you gentle beautiful one! I'm going to start putting the pictures of the carving into the pages over the weekend and show it to you from here. I got in late from the Grove so I wasn't able to do as much in the studio as I wanted to but things are going well gentle patient one!

August 8 In firm undeceived commitment to you gentle beautiful patient one I've spun two more spans. I've carved a bit more on our lotus blossoms. I'm going to study some more tonight from our Tibetan language book. Even in these quiet patient days when we must abide apart our effort grows a little each day. All patiently waits, so you needn't be concerned gentle one!

August 9 I've devotedly spun four more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one in firm commitment to you and our shared destiny together! Let's read a bit more from chapter three if you would like. It's goes from just after the question "do you have tea" up to the section on Yes or No answers.

August 10 In quiet devotion I've spun six more spans for you gentle patient beautiful one in firm commitment to you and our effort of the heart. I'm still working on the prayer flag page so I'm not quite ready to show you it yet.

August 12 In firm commitment to you I've devotedly spun two more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one and our effort of the heart together. Our lotus blossoms are coming along really well; they are getting the graceful flow I was trying to give them. As it turned out I didn't get any studying done in our Tibetan language book yesterday. I'm going to study more later in the week or over the weekend. Every day our effort grows as we, two as one, continue through this quiet patient time apart.

August 13 In firm commitment to you slight gentle beautiful swift one I've devotedly spun two more spans for your loom! I carved a bit more on our lotus blossoms and am going to study a bit more from our Tibetan language book. I wanted to record the night sounds for you because they are really awesome right now but the recording software was giving me problems as it often does. It's still another of our good luck days though!

August 15 In firm commitment to you gentle patient beautiful one and our shared destiny I've spun two more spans for your loom. I've carved a bit more on our lotus blossoms and brought us an icon that I wanted to create yesterday. When you would like you can click on it and we'll go straight to the first page of our infosite to remind you of our future together that we two alone chose beautiful one!

August 16 I've devotedly spun four more spans for your loom in firm commitment to you gentle beautiful one. I continue to make progress on our lotus blossoms and I will work on the prayer flag pages tonight. The sound recording software is now working well again and I've done some work with it with good success. Each day our effort grows and our warm and bright future day is now almost another week closer!

August 17 In firm commitment I've devotedly spun six more spans for your loom and our shared destiny gentle beautiful one. I've brought us the spinning song I promised! I've used the mp3 format which doesn't sound quite as good as the .wav format but it's small enough for you to be able to download it.

August 18 In firm commitment to you gentle beautiful one I've spun two more spans for your loom as we create our shared destiny together. I've done a bit more on our lotus blossoms. I hope you like the pages. I may get to add a bit more to them for you to look at before I put them up but I'm a bit computer weary now after yesterday's long stint!

August 19 I've devotedly spun two more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one as we quietly continue in full commitment through this patient time apart. I've added yet another picture of the lotus blossoms to the pages for you to look at if you would like. I'll put the pages up tomorrow. I'm studying a bit of Tibetan each day. Each day our effort of the heart grows!

August 20 In firm commitment to you gentle beautiful swift patient one I've spun two more spans for your loom and our shared destiny . A hurai! It was a much brighter day today. I put our prayer flag pages up as soon as I got home. The link is now http://www.alanloreficeandcompany.org/id408.htm , just the way this publishing utility does things! I've put our yarrow icon here even though it's a bit late to read from our Tibetan language book. We can read from it later in the week.

August 21 I've devotedly spun two more spans for your loom gentle beautiful patient one in firm commitment to you and our shared future together. I looked up the ordering information for the gilding today. I carved a bit more on our lotus blossoms of course and I'm going to study more from our Tibetan language book tonight. Each day our effort grows!

August 22 In firm commitment to you gentle beautiful swift patient one I've devotedly spun two more spans for your loom and our shared future together. Another month has passed since we two came to the Spring and our warm and bright future day is another week closer. A hurai!

August 23 I've devotedly spun four more spans for your loom gentle determined beautiful one in firm commitment to you and our shared future together. I managed to do a little bit on our lotus blossoms and the work on the outside of the studio is going well. Each day our effort of the heart grows!

August 24 In firm commitment to you I've spun six more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one and our shared future together. I've gotten a lot more done on the studio although it's taking time for me to figure things out. We can read from our Tibetan language book later as soon as I've gotten the recording software fixed. We've been seeing 299 days together, almost 10 months,and our prayer flag has been flying for 259 days now! Actually the recording software is working again! Let's read the first part of chapter six if you would like on useful phrases.

August 25 I've spun two more spans for your loom gentle beautiful swift patient one in firm commitment to you and our effort of the heart. I didn't have a chance to work on our lotus blossoms with all the work on the studio. I figure it is better to spend more time outside now while it isn't raining! The yarrow is still blooming on the hill ( I didn't want to keep cutting flowers from it though) and all patiently waits so you needn't be concerned as we continue through this patient time apart. Our Windhorse Project is going on to it's second year already gentle beautiful one!

August 26 In firm commitment to you I've devotedly spun two more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one and our shared future together. Work on the studio is coming along slowly but surely . You may have noticed I added to the Through My Eyes pages on the infosite. I'll try to keep them current so that when the website has technical difficulties, I'll be able to bring you the day's page quickly on our infosite.Each day our effort of the heart grows!

August 27 I've devotedly spun two more spans for your loom in firm commitment to you gentle beautiful one and our future together. I did a a small bit on our lotus blossoms. I'm using sandpaper to help me sculpt since I don't have all the gouge curvatures I need to get the shapes I'm trying to create. I didn't get to study from our Tibetan language book as I planned to but did read up some on the latest events in Tibet. Our effort grows each day even on these tough days apart and we will persist and prevail slight gentle beautiful one!

August 28 In firm commitment to you gentle beautiful one and our future together I've devotedly spun two more spans for your loom and did a small bit on our lotus blossoms. Hopefully this weekend I'll be able to study a bit more from our Tibetan language book. Our warm and bright future day is almost another week closer!

August 29 I've devotedly spun two more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one in firm commitment to you and our effort of the heart. With all the work on the studio and in the Grove I haven't had a chance to work on our lotus blossoms today but our effort is growing steadily every day!

August 30 In firm commitment to you and our shared future I've spun four more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one. There's a lot more room in the studio now. Our effort of the heart is growing a bit more every day!

September 1 In firm commitment to you and our shared future I've devotedly spun spun two more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one! I just realized it's been three months and nine days since I began spinning for you! Our lotus blossoms are well on their way to being completed and there's plenty of room for your loom now! There's more to be done on the outside of the studio of course and I'd like to paint the inside but things are coming along. I've done a bit of studying from our Tibetan language book. Let's read for a short while from chapter six again if you would like. This begins with the miscellaneous phrases.

September 2 I've spun two more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one in firm commitment to you and our shared future. I've worked a bit more on our lotus blossoms and am carving at the centers a bit more. Each day our effort of the heart grows gentle one!

September 3 A hurai! In firm commitment to you and our shared future I've spun two more spans for your loom gentle beautiful swift patient one! I've done a bit more work on our lotus blossoms. Here's another spinning song we've created which I've saved to bring to us! I have a bit of a cold when I'm singing this but the melody is there. It would be better if we two sang it together I think!

September 4 With strong hope and devotion,I've spun two more spans in firm commitment to you and our future slight gentle beautiful patient one! I've worked some more on our lotus blossoms. Each day our real and lasting effort grows as we continue firmly on to our warm and bright future day!

September 5 In firm commitment to you and our shared destiny I've spun two more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one! Our lotus blossoms are coming along rather well now and they look very elegant! I need to study our Tibetan language book over the weekend as I have been slacking a bit again this week. Once we two are practicing with each other it will be easier of course!

September 6 I've spun four more spans for your loom in firm commitment to you and our shared future gentle beautiful one! I've done a bit more on our lotus blossoms and they are coming along well. It will soon be time to begin working on the map of Tibet! Each day our effort of the heart grows!

September 7 In firm commitment to you and our destiny together I've spun six more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one! I continue on our lotus blossoms. The centers are done so it is mostly smoothing work I'm doing now. I guess it would be better to call the map of Tibet the land of Tibet instead as it sounds more interesting! With all the work on the studio I didn't get a chance to study from our Tibetan language book this weekend but will soon. Our prayer flag has been flying for 273 days, just about 9 months now, beautiful one and our warm and bright future day is one more week closer!

September 8 I've spun two more spans for your loom gentle patient swift beautiful one in firm commitment to you and our destiny together. I've done a bit more work on our lotus blossoms and they are coming along well!

September 9 Ah hurai! In firm commitment to you and our future together gentle determined beautiful one I have devotedly spun two more spans for your loom! As you can see the yarrow is blooming on the hill; you needn't be concerned for all patiently waits. I worked on our lotus blossoms a bit and hopefully will study a bit from our Tibetan language book tonight. Each day our effort grows slight gentle one as we, firmly ourselves, patiently continue on to our warm and bright future day. The time is going by quickly with everything that has to be done. Things are going well!

September10 I've spun two more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one in firm commitment to you and our destiny together. There are a lot of spans now! I did managed to study for a little while from our Tibetan language book. I've worked a bit on our lotus blossoms and will show them to you soon! I would have liked to order our gilding materials yesterday but they are expensive so I am saving up for them some more! I've put our icon here as I thought you might like it to remind us of our own destiny that we two alone have firmly chosen. Gentle yet determined we will persist and prevail!

September 11 In firm commitment to you and our future together I've devotedly spun two more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one and worked on our lotus blossoms. In the quiet patient time apart our real and lasting effort grows!

beautiful one. Our prayer flag has been flying now for 278 days and we've been seeing together for at least 318 days now , somewhat longer of course as you know. Each day our quiet gentle effort grows as we two continue as one. Our warm and bright future day is almost another week closer!

September 13 In firm commitment to you and our shared destiny together I've devotedly spun four more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one. The studio is coming along really well and will be in really good shape in a few weeks! Each day our effort grows!

September 14 I've spun six more spans for your loom in firm commitment to you and our future together gentle beautiful one. We must have about 300 spans by now which is 800 feet of thread! I've done a bit more studying from our Tibetan language book and worked some more on our lotus blossoms. Each day our quiet gentle effort grows!

September 15 In firm commitment to you and our future together I've spun two more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one! I've done a bit more on our lotus blossoms and studied from our Tibetan language book. Our quiet gentle effort grows each day!

September 16 A hurai! I've spun two more spans for your loom in firm commitment to you and our future together gentle determined beautiful one. I've studied a bit more from our Tibetan language book and worked some more on our lotus blossoms. I'm working carefully now with the sanding and they are looking rather beautiful! Two as one, we've been working on another spinning song although it will be awhile yet before it is ready. As I sit here wearing the braided bracelet I feel great hope! Things are going well as we, firmly ourselves, patiently continue on to our warm and bright future day!

September 17 In firm commitment to you gentle beautiful patient one and our future together I've spun two more spans for your loom. I quietly struggle to be patient as you gentle beautiful one! Anyway, I've worked a bit more on our lotus blossoms. I suppose beautiful isn't quite the description that mine should have; I've made mine a bit more rumpled which sort of fits! I'm eager to bring you this surprise! Please click on our icon if you would like! Each day our effort of the heart grows and our warm and bright future day comes another day closer!

September 18 A hurai! I've spun two more spans for your loom gentle beautiful patient determined bright one in firm commitment to you and our future together. Our studio is coming along well; I'll soon be able to finish the work on the

September 19 In firm commitment to you gentle beautiful one and our future together I've spun two more spans for your loom. Each day our effort grows and our warm and bright future day is almost another week closer!

September 20 I've spun four more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one in firm commitment to you and our future together. Our studio is coming along well and I'll soon be able to work on the inside and begin our work on the Land of Tibet! If you would like to see how the outside of our studio is coming along please click on our icon !

September 21 Ah hurai! In firm commitment to you and our destiny together I've spun six more spans for your loom slight gentle beautiful one! I've done a bit more on our lotus blossoms of course. I haven't ordered the gilding materials yet but have saved up some more! Our prayer flag rose to the wind 287 days ago and we've been seeing together for at least 327 days now. Another month has passed since we two came to the Spring. We've gotten a lot of things done in that time!

September 22 I've spun two more spans for you gentle patient beautiful one in firm commitment to you and our future together; each day our effort grows! I've worked a bit more on our lotus blossoms and I'm going to study some more from our Tibetan language book tonight.

September 23 In firm commitment to you gentle beautiful patient one and our future together I've spun two more spans for your loom. I've worked a bit more on our lotus blossoms of course. The first part of the melody for the spinning song we, two as one, have been working on is about completed. It's our song about Tibet. The second part that begins "Two immortal souls" I will leave unfinished for now because we two can sing this together as we work in the studio. Things continue to go well as we two, firmly ourselves, patiently continue on to our warm and bright future day! Each day our effort grows!

September 24 I've spun two more spans for your loom in firm undeceived commitment to you and our future together slight gentle determined beautiful one! You needn't be concerned for yarrow blooms on the hill, Medlar quietly stands and all patiently waits. As of yesterday,four months have passed since I began spinning for you slight gentle one! I've put in our icon with the link to the studio even though I haven't added any pictures yet just to encourage us.

September 26 I've spun two more spans for your loom in firm commitment to you and our future together gentle beautiful one. Our lotus blossoms are almost ready for gilding and with the outside of our studio almost completed, I'll soon be able to continue work on the land of Tibet; I'm going to try to bring us our spinning song soon although I've had a bit of a cold so I may not be able to yet! Our effort grows each day especially on these patient days that are days of great power for us!

September 27 In firm commitment to you and our destiny together I've spun four more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one. With the outside of the studio almost finished, I'll soon have a picture of the outside of the studio to bring to us! Each day our effort grows!

September 29 In firm commitment to you and our destiny together I've spun two more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one. When the outside dries up a bit I can complete the outside of our studio and begin work on the land of Tibet! I'll have a picture to bring to us soon but I wanted to have everything completed first. Hopefully I'll soon have enough money to get our gilding supplies soon. I'm beginning to get a better sense of the Tibetan language as I study from our book. Our prayer flag has been flying for another eight days, 295 days now and we've been seeing together for at least 335 days! Each day our effort grows as we continue through the quiet patient time.

September 30 I've devotedly spun two more spans for your loom in firm commitment to you and our future together gentle beautiful one.The outside of the studio has gone quite well! Our lotus blossoms sit on the windowsill and look sensational! I've put our icon leading to the first page our infosite here to encourage us; each day our effort grows as we continue on.

October 1 In firm commitment to you and our future together I've spun two more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one! Each day our effort grows as we two, firmly ourselves, quietly work and wait.

October 2 I've spun two more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one in firm commitment to you and our future together. There are plenty of spans now! I'm going to begin our work on the land of Tibet this weekend hopefully. Actually we've begun researching it a bit already of course. There are the five provinces, Ngari,U, Tsang, Amdo and Kham and we know a bit about each one. I'm going to start putting together the list of gilding materials this weekend if there's time. Each day our effort grows!

October 3 In strong firm commitment to you I've spun two more spans for your loom gentle beautiful patient determined bright one! Be not concerned, all patiently waits although I'm struggling a bit!

October 4 I've spun four more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one in firm commitment to you and our future together. I didn't work on what I expected to today but still each day our effort grows. Our warm and bright future day is almost another week closer!

October 5 In firm commitment to you gentle beautiful patient one I've spun six more spans for your loom and our destiny together. I haven't gotten much done yet on the land of Tibet but we've made a lot of progress this weekend! I actually worked a bit on our spinning song and will bring it to us soon. It is, as I mentioned, only the beginning because we two will complete it singing together

as we work! I should be able to get to the ordering of the gilding supplies this week. Work in the Grove is increasing but is going well. Each day our effort grows and our warm and bright future day is another week closer!

October 6 I've spun two more spans for your loom in firm commitment to you and our future together slight gentle patient determined beautiful one who makes my effort real! Here's the beginning of our spinning song. I've just gotten over that cold so it's a bit shaky but you get the idea! It's in .mp3 format which as usual doesn't get all of the vocal quality but at least it won't take a few hours to download.

October 7 In firm commitment to you and our destiny together gentle beautiful one I've spun two more spans for your loom. I hope you like our new spinning song! It came to us in the usual quiet Buryat shamanic sort of way. Each day our effort grows as we two, firmly ourselves, continue through the quiet patient time apart. I've added the link to the first page of our infosite to encourage us. Soon I will have a picture of the outside of the studio to bring to us!

October 8 I've spun two more spans for your loom in firm commitment to you and our future together gentle beautiful one. Each day our effort grows as we, two as one, continue firmly ourselves through the quiet patient time apart. Be not concerned gentle one. You have but to read the poem of June 8 to know that all patiently waits. I'm going to study from our Tibetan language book tonight and check over the gilding materials list over the next few days that I've been working on. Our prayer flag rose to the wind almost 10 months ago gentle one , 304 days ago! We've been seeing together for at least 344 days; in a few more weeks it will be a year!

October 9 In firm commitment to you and our future together I've spun two more spans for your loom slight gentle beautiful patient one. Each day our effort grows as we patiently continue on to our warm and bright future day; our faith and trust in each other is as strong as ever!

October 10 I've spun two more spans for your loom in firm commitment to you and our future together slight gentle beautiful patient one! I ordered our gilding materials. They should be arriving in a few weeks. I'm going to study a bit more from our Tibetan language book tonight and try to work a bit on the land of Tibet over the weekend which you and I are continuing . Each day our effort grows! Please click on our icon to if you would like to see how the outside of our studio looks! Two as one we've gotten a lot done as we patiently wait to begin our great endeavor together.

October 12 I've spun six more spans for you gentle beautiful one in firm commitment to you and our future together. Hopefully, I'll be able to work on the land of Tibet tomorrow. Our warm and bright future day is another week closer!

October 14 I've devotedly spun two more spans for your loom in firm commitment to you and our destiny together gentle beautiful one. Be not concerned gentle one, even during the days when it is hard to see our effort grows!

October 15 In firm commitment to you and our destiny togther I've spun two more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one. I've put the link to the first page of our infosite to encourage us as we continue through the time when it is hard to see.

October 16 I've spun two more spans for your loom in firm commitment to you and our destiny together gentle beautiful one! I managed to do more research on the land of Tibet, saw lots of amazing photos, and ordered a book for us that describes the landscape and travelling in Tibet. I'm going to study a bit more from our Tibetan language book tonight and get a bit more rest. Each day our effort grows as we, two as one, patiently continue, firmly ourselves, through the time when it is hard to see.

October 17 In firm commitment to you and our future together I've spun two more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one! Each day our effort grows as we two and our song continue through the time when it is hard to see. I've put our icon here as well to encourage us; gentle yet determined, we will persist and prevail!

October 18 I've spun four more spans for your loom in firm commitment to you and our destiny together gentle beautiful one! Each day our effort grows as we continue; two as one, we're getting a lot done!

October 19 In firm commitment to you and our future together I've spun six more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one! After this tough week of patience, our warm and bright future day is another whole week closer as our prayer flag flies in the wind for the 315 th day. We've been seeing together for at least 355 days, actually counting the trip to California it's been at least a year!

October 20 I've spun two more spans for your loom and our destiny together gentle beautiful patient determined bright one. Each day our effort grows as we, two as one, continue firmly ourselves through the patient time!

October 21 I've spun two more spans for your loom in firm commitment to you and our future together gentle patient beautiful one. Our work in the Grove is going well and the gold for our lotus blossoms looks wonderful! Each day our effort grows as we,two as one, patiently work and wait.

October 22 In firm commitment to you and our destiny together I've spun two more spans for your loom gentle patient beautiful one. I'm putting our gilding materials through an energetic purification as gold picks up a lot of energy from it's surroundings. Our lotus blossoms still look as amazing as ever and our work on a land of Tibet is going well as we two as one continue working through the quiet patient time!

October 23 A hurai! I've spun two more spans for your loom in firm commitment to you and our future together slight gentle determined bright one. It's been six months since I began spinning for you and our melody is as strong as ever as we two continue as one through the quiet patient time!

October 24 In firm commitment to you and our destiny together I've spun two more spans for your loom gentle beautiful one.Our work on a land of Tibet is going well. Our book on travelling in Tibet is full of stories and descriptions which are quite fascinating! I'm slowly making progress reading from our Tibetan language book. Each day our effort grows as we, two as one, continue firmly ourselves on to our warm and bright future day which is now almost another whole week closer! Our faith and trust in each other is as strong as ever beautiful one. It's been just a bit over eight months since we two came to the Spring!