Open Doors
Karol Kusmaul I love what one of our members (Mikiko Takase) recently wrote about making the decision to go through a doorway, not knowing all the ramifications, and doing it anyway. She was referring to joining this group, Cloth in Common. We are nearly finished with four years together, and
So many options
When the prompt of Doors, portals and openings was presented there were so many options to look at from my travels to Canada and the USA back in 2019. This is the final prompt for this Cloth in Common Round and I have based all but the first work on
Down a Corridor
Doors, openings and portals is a really interesting prompt for Cloth in Common. We all travel through a multitude of these everyday. My mind immediately thought of the hallway in Anton Gaudi’s Casa Battlo in Barcelona. This remains one of my favourite buildings of all time and passing through this
A Door to the Future
Mikiko Takase When you have the opportunity to open a door and do something new, what do you do? Do you enter right away? Do you think carefully about it first? Do you think carefully and decide not to do it? If I hadn’t decided to jump in right away
Doors, Openings, and Portals
The final prompt for Cloth in Common’s round 2 is Doors, Openings, and Portals. If that’s not broad enough, I don’t know what is. These terms can take you from a means of access, to the 1960’s band The Doors, to video games of the 21st century. I hope everyone
Things fall apart
Shame is such a destructive thing, especially for young people and children, who may carry childhood shame into adulthood where it affects their lives, undermining their sense of self and their ability to succeed in relationships, in their work, in their self worth. This was a painful theme for me
Singled Out
This is a very personal piece for me although I hope it can stand in for many personal experiences people have. I am 6 feet 0.5 inches tall (or 184 cm), and that is fairly tall for a woman. From when I was a teenager, I stood out, whether I
Shame
Doerte-Ina Liebing Shame is an extremely social emotion because it reflects the rules and values of the society. Shame is a therefore very human feeling. Maybe you can say it is the strongest emotion of the world. I have dealt with the subject in a different context before. In fact, I
Shame 2017-2021
As I said in my previous post, I consider myself a proud, patriotic citizen of the United States of America, however I can also see that not everything the US does is worthy of being proud of. In fact, I’m ashamed of many of the policy stances my government has