The Poetics of Squares
The Poetics of Squares
New class, new ancestors, new hope
Hello it is Monday. I will write to you but I feel quiet today.
Yesterday I wrote to you on Tax Day Eve with my most honest numbers of debt. I am wishing you well today as you may be sending the IRS your money, or deciding what to do with your refund. May your money be blessed in how it serves you and the collective.
Today I write to you from an early morning with June on the couch. She is usually one to sleep in but today we both needed to pee at 4:47am. I wanted to get some book writing done and come to this blank page so we stayed awake. Well actually she is asleep again under the quilt but I am still awake, tip tapping away at the keyboard trying to make sense of anything but nothing much comes to mind.
I do want to tell you about my new quilt class, it’s a lot like my old quilt class but new. It’s a lot like all my other classes about writing and creative practice, except we make a blanket in six hours. Sound impossible? It really isn’t and we’ll do it together.
The class is called The Poetics of Squares because nothing is as it seems. Everything can be rearranged. Everything is mutable and changing even when we don’t know it.
Class is April 27 and 28. That is a Saturday and a Sunday. 9-12 PST / 12-3 EST with a 15 min break, closed captions, and recorded to be yours forever.
We will do a little bit of writing, a little bit of poetic renaming of historical quilt blocks, a little bit of dreaming new futures for quilts, and a lot of sewing together in real time.
In A Quilt is Something Human we learn a lot and we talk a lot and share a lot and in this class we sew sew sew. It’s like co-working for quilt making. And I teach you to quilt. All in one. It’s going to be the best time.
In the poetry of it all I am thinking so much today about one of our newest ancestors, Faith Ringgold. One of my favorite artists, I’ve been lucky enough to see a few of her pieces in person and was always so deeply moved. Her quilts are something to behold, something to bask in. We have her to thank for showing us how to weave story in with the materials, how no parts are separate from the whole. Whether it was quilts, paintings of quilts, her style, her being in community, everything was the essence of the artist at work, the artist as first responder.
There is this perfect quiet as the sun comes up. When nothing has really come to life yet. This is my favorite time to be awake. To emerge as the sun does. I am really grateful for you dear reader. Not every newsletter has to have all the news, all the hope, all the batting in place.
P.S. Details about the six week Living the Artist’s Way book club are as follows :
LIVING THE ARTIST’S WAY BOOK CLUB
🌱 SIX WEEKS
🕸️ SIX EMAILS
📁 SIX ZOOMS
We begin reading the book Sunday May 5 and check in by threads every Friday and by zoom starting Sunday May 12 at 8amPST/11a EST followed by 5/19, 5/26, 6/2, 6/9, and 6/16 for 60 minutes
HOW TO JOIN :
📖 Buy a copy of Julia Cameron’s new book Living the Artist’s Way : An Intuitive Path to Greater Creativity or check with your local library
🐬 Become a paying subscriber of Monday Monday - this is how you’ll get the Friday emails and zoom links each week That’s it!!!
You’ll get an email Sunday May 5 welcoming you to the book study and then an email every Friday where we check in about our tasks and then we meet live on zoom every Sunday (these will be recorded)
No previous Artist Way experience necessary! ANY QUESTIONS? XO
⌇⋰ Website
⌇⋰ Email : info@codycookparrott.com
Hi Cody,
I feel the vibes of silence and enjoy it! Reminds me to the morning practice I had today, just observing my breathing for a while, uplifting, stretching and feel all my feelings.
It's good to be alive this moment of times. Even with all difficulties. And its amazing I can be with you in a artist book club. 10 years ago this wasn't happening, now its something relatively accessible 😊🎉❣
Hi Cody! The Notion link for the class is glitching. When I open it the page "blinks" and I can't read the content. :/