Comments for A Fiber Life

Comment on Episode 5: A Change of the Seasons: Saying Goodbye by Susan

Susan — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 23:12:12 +0000

Congratulations on the transition to another state of being. I’ve enjoyed listening to the transition you made from California to Washington and all the learning, joys and sorrows that encompassed. Welcome to the unfolding of the next season of your life. Maybe it be filled with sweetness, kindness, and joyful moments of love.

Comment on Episode 6: The Journey is the Reward by Lisa Mitchell

Lisa Mitchell — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:53:10 +0000

In reply to Ingrid Johnson. So wonderful to read this. Thank you Ingrid!

Comment on Episode 6: The Journey is the Reward by Ingrid Johnson

Ingrid Johnson — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 05:56:23 +0000

I thoroughly enjoyed your podcast. Since becoming a handspinner more than 20 years ago, I can no longer knit with commercial yarn (something I did since a young girl). My only regret is that I didn’t know about spinning wheels until I saw one at a friend’s home in my 20’s. It was nearly 30 years later before my husband brought me an old secondhand Ashford traditional from a 2nd hand auction that I came into my own and have never looked back. I live in the city so have no sheep but dream about owning a small property with fibre animals. I’ve always made textiles with my hands, but there is something extraordinary about a freshly (or not even fresh) raw wool fleece. I too just love it, as you describe.

Thank you for doing what you do.

Comment on Episode 4: Where it all goes when we are gone by Patricia

Patricia — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 11:13:58 +0000

Thank you! Just a Big Thank you for all this thinking!

Comment on Untangling Loose Ends by Valerie Gleeson

Valerie Gleeson — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 03:49:38 +0000

You write so beautifully that I can see what you are saying

Comment on Episode 5: RIP Milo: Love Doesn’t Die by Margaret Ast

Margaret Ast — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 22:57:42 +0000

Thank you Lisa. I lost my dog companion about this time last year. I never knew my heart could hurt so much. I could not stop crying. I knew then the pain was part of the love that existed between us. The strength of the pain was equivalent to the love that we had felt. And I too thought, I cannot do this again. I cannot love to this extent only to have my heart broken again. And I have been very slow to acquire another dog, even though I daily look at pictures of dogs and find such joy in them. After he died, I found a picture of a similar looking dog, grinning, running full speed through a field, so very happy to have all his bodily functions back. His restoration comforts me, and I believe in it. That’s the image I carry in my head.

Comment on Episode 1: Why “fake it til you make it” doesn’t work by Kara O’Brien

Kara O’Brien — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 15:40:06 +0000

I just rescued a couple of guanaco crosses and highly enjoyed this!

Comment on Carrying precious bundles of life by Beth

Beth — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 17:14:37 +0000

You’ve embodied my feelings so perfectly, Lisa. We have our first grandchild to shower love upon, Rosie, daughter of our daughter Lily and her husband Chris. Rosie is now 14 months, and every time she reaches up to me, her Oma, and I bend down to swoop her up for a cuddle, I feel like a goddess, just that feeling you wrote about. Reading a book to our sleepy Rosie is a treat, and it seems like I’m looking down a long line of mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers, each with a sweet-smelling baby in their lap, reading a book and asking the baby for help turning the pages.

Thank you, Lisa, for a beautifully written story,
Beth

Comment on The Rawness of Shearing Time by Beth

Beth — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 18:25:51 +0000

What an amazing and touching comparison: shearing and releasing an animal friend of its fleece – with – memories of departed loved ones. ‘Scuse me, I need a tissue!
Beth

Comment on Episode 7: Farming in the face of inevitable grief and loss by Judith Anne Curcio

Judith Anne Curcio — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 13:35:20 +0000

Thank you Lisa for sharing this story with us. It reminds me we are not alone as we deal with loving…and losing…so many cats and dogs, due to our involvement in the rescue community. I posted it on my Facebook page to share with others.
I worked with one of our people who lost her “heart dog” last year. I gathered pictures she had posted on her Facebook page ( which was actually Saruts FB page) and illustrated a small booklet “Saruts Most Memorable Memoirs”. It helped us all manage the grief of her loss. I will send you a copy.
Love, Judith