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Post by Jeanne on Sept 23, 2011 5:50:18 GMT -8
SEAMS LIKE PEACE
MAKE A MENDS
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Post by Nancy on Sept 23, 2011 8:56:48 GMT -8
Thanks Brian. See ya at 5 - early -with 2 coats in which to sew the linings and a ceramic piece. Thanks Anni. Can't wait to see the signs. Yoko's Imagine Peace Website has my message because they won't allow me to re-post as a "duplicate" but they haven't posted yet so I guess they're still "moderating." Anyway, lke I said, it's on two Facebook pages of hers. I've got a co-worker that should be there late. Thanks Roberta & Jeanne. Happy Equinox!
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Post by Nancy on Sept 23, 2011 8:58:59 GMT -8
SEAMS LIKE PEACE MAKE A MENDS You're a genius!  |
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Post by Roberta on Sept 23, 2011 13:01:50 GMT -8
Never one to be left out, I'll come early with the table.
While moving stuff around the painting here, I came across a perfect small mending job, and a larger, perhaps ridiculous, reconstruction project.
Putting the table, glues, signs, flowers, mending, etc. all together "sew" as not to forget anything.
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Post by anni on Sept 24, 2011 18:06:12 GMT -8
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Post by Brian on Sept 24, 2011 23:38:55 GMT -8
It was Nancy who came up with the idea of Montrose Peace Vigil's tributes to John and Yoko's Amsterdam and Montreal Bed-Ins on their 40th anniversaries in 2009. This summer, she was inspired by a quotation from Yoko, "Mend an object. As you mend, you mend something inside your soul as well. You mend something in the world as well." We had articles that needed to be fixed, and we already had a place to gather weekly. So she initiated the first War Is Over Mending Circle on Sept. 23, the autumnal equinox. Another genius demonstration, thanks to Nancy. The circle received a lot of quizzical looks from pedestrians, but many stopped to ask what we were doing and what it meant. Roberta stocked her folding table with an impressive array of glues for any passersby who might have need of them, but most of the mending involved regulars working needles and threads: - Nancy and Linda repaired holes in the linings of Nancy's beautiful long coats.
- Roberta transplanted a good collar from a wrecked shirt to her corduroy shirt, to which she pinned a peace symbol to display to the passing cars while she sewed.
- Jeanne fashioned a new collar for her flannel shirt, using materials from an old sewing basket she was given by her late former grandmother in law, then patched a hole with a piece of the old collar.
- Anni fixed the loose hem of our bedsheet.
- Sigrid hemmed the cuffs of Tony's new linen pants, bought despite being an inch too long.
- And Christina, a first time Montrose Peace Vigil visitor, mended the split seam in the bottom of her cotton carrybag bearing the logo of the South Central Farmers.
You are welcome to join us at the second War Is Over Mending Circle next Friday, Sept. 30, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the corner of Ocean View Boulevard and Honolulu Avenue in Montrose, California. |
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Post by Nancy on Sept 27, 2011 8:09:43 GMT -8
"Mend an object. As you mend, you mend something inside your soul as well. You mend something in the world as well." Yoko Ono Montrose Peace Vigil Participants will host an Equinox War is Over Mending Circle Friday. 9/23, 5:30-7:00pm, at the corner of Honolulu & Ocean View, Montrose, CA. Join us as we mend to demonstrate: War is Over If You Mend War is SEW Over Read more: montrosepeacevigil.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=talk&action=display&thread=198&page=1#ixzz1YPrWLYq2I Posted this on Yoko's Facebook Wall & Mine. THIS POST IS NOW ON YOKO'S IMAGINE PEACE WEBSITE. I SENT BRIAN'S POST MEND IN POST WITH THE PIX & THAT WILL PROBABLY BE UP SOON TOO!!! I posted Brian's on two of Yoko's Facebook pages & my own. Can't wait to end "National Sewing Month" (September per JoAnne's Fabrics) with this Friday's Mend In. Thanks for all the words of Love, Love, Love, Nancy |
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Post by Brian on Sept 27, 2011 23:05:28 GMT -8
THIS POST IS NOW ON YOKO'S IMAGINE PEACE WEBSITE. I SENT BRIAN'S POST MEND IN POST WITH THE PIX & THAT WILL PROBABLY BE UP SOON TOO!!! I posted Brian's on two of Yoko's Facebook pages & my own. Thank you, Nancy! Anni posted my promotional blurb for next Friday's event with a link to this page on her Facebook Wall too, and it's gotten a lot of attention. As for Yoko's website, I looked really hard all over Imagine Peace, but could not find anything about the Mending Circle. I even did a search on "Montrose," which produced one result -- the story about our Bed-In tribute two years ago. Please post that link, or the next one if they run it. (Just highlight the URL in your browser, then copy and paste it here.) Meanwhile, our cat Bernard has copied my report and two of the photos above for his post on another ProBoards forum, Next Exit, established in 2004 by impertinent fans of Tim and Neil Finn: nextexit.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=Care&thread=1335&page=343#127402So what are you guys bringing to the corner this Friday to mend? |
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Post by anni on Sept 28, 2011 9:41:21 GMT -8
Well, I just discovered the crotch of my good green bermuda shorts needs mending  , along with the corners of another sheet. |
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Post by Roberta on Sept 28, 2011 10:42:49 GMT -8
Per Brian: "Please post that link, or the next one if they run it." imaginepeace.com/archives/13767Nancy's posting is the last comment to Yoko's letter, so you have to scroll way down. I might wear hats if I could pull them off like Yoko does! |
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, along with the corners of another sheet.