Comments on: mid-summer nights http://www.tseka.com/2008/06/19/mid-summer-nights/ one dance art poety myth by Ellen Hill Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:14:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Joe http://www.tseka.com/2008/06/19/mid-summer-nights/#comment-218 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:38:42 +0000 http://www.tseka.com/2008/06/19/mid-summer-nights/#comment-218 And linseed, from which linseed oil comes, is another link in the etymology of <i>lin.</i> :) And linseed, from which linseed oil comes, is another link in the etymology of lin. :)

]]> by: Ellen http://www.tseka.com/2008/06/19/mid-summer-nights/#comment-215 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:20:29 +0000 http://www.tseka.com/2008/06/19/mid-summer-nights/#comment-215 tow head = lintott lin (Flax) tott (tuft) tow head = lintott
lin (Flax) tott (tuft)

]]> by: Ellen http://www.tseka.com/2008/06/19/mid-summer-nights/#comment-214 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:12:06 +0000 http://www.tseka.com/2008/06/19/mid-summer-nights/#comment-214 Hey Diane. Great photos. I love the feel of silken flax in hanks ready to spin. Not that i was ever successful spinning it on my Ashford wheel. I never invested in proper spindle for flax. My flax made wonderful hair for some dolls tho.. Hey Diane. Great photos.

I love the feel of silken flax in hanks ready to spin. Not that i was ever successful spinning it on my Ashford wheel. I never invested in proper spindle for flax.

My flax made wonderful hair for some dolls tho..

]]> by: Ellen http://www.tseka.com/2008/06/19/mid-summer-nights/#comment-213 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:01:52 +0000 http://www.tseka.com/2008/06/19/mid-summer-nights/#comment-213 Lynda, there are so many superior remedies to flax cough syrup (an herbal) that i would not think of it. But these things are good to know. My ancestors left Scandinavia during and just after the last famine years. They settled the Pacific Northwest. Neith/ Diane a sister-friend who is also descended from those stalwart Scandinavian pioneers will attest to their ability to make do with what's at hand. Comparing notes with my friend Gunn from Stockholm we find very little differences in how we were raised - we are the survivors - And we make it part of our family culture to pass on all the how-to stuff. Lynda, there are so many superior remedies to flax cough syrup (an herbal) that i would not think of it. But these things are good to know. My ancestors left Scandinavia during and just after the last famine years. They settled the Pacific Northwest.

Neith/ Diane a sister-friend who is also descended from those stalwart Scandinavian pioneers will attest to their ability to make do with what’s at hand.

Comparing notes with my friend Gunn from Stockholm we find very little differences in how we were raised - we are the survivors - And we make it part of our family culture to pass on all the how-to stuff.

]]> by: Neith/diane http://www.tseka.com/2008/06/19/mid-summer-nights/#comment-212 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:52:28 +0000 http://www.tseka.com/2008/06/19/mid-summer-nights/#comment-212 oops! the link did not appear. try again http://www.woolgatherers.com/id107.htm oops! the link did not appear. try again

http://www.woolgatherers.com/id107.htm

]]> by: Neith/diane http://www.tseka.com/2008/06/19/mid-summer-nights/#comment-211 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:51:47 +0000 http://www.tseka.com/2008/06/19/mid-summer-nights/#comment-211 When flax is processed into a spinable fiber, the last stage is pulling the dried stalks through spiky teeth called "hackles" clamped to a table. This removes the coarser fibers and leaves the fine. The color of the fine flax fibers are very pale blonde . . . hence "flaxen" hair as tseka's is. Also called "tow heads" for those of us with white blonde hair as toddlers and children. Here's link showing some people processing flax into spinable fiber, brave souls! <a href="http://www.woolgatherers.com/id107.htmflax" rel="nofollow"> When flax is processed into a spinable fiber, the last stage is pulling the dried stalks through spiky teeth called “hackles” clamped to a table. This removes the coarser fibers and leaves the fine. The color of the fine flax fibers are very pale blonde . . . hence “flaxen” hair as tseka’s is. Also called “tow heads” for those of us with white blonde hair as toddlers and children.

Here’s link showing some people processing flax into spinable fiber, brave souls!

]]> by: Lynda http://www.tseka.com/2008/06/19/mid-summer-nights/#comment-210 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:50:40 +0000 http://www.tseka.com/2008/06/19/mid-summer-nights/#comment-210 Do you use any of your Grandmother's recipes in your Homeopathic healing? Do you use any of your Grandmother’s recipes in your Homeopathic healing?

]]> by: Ellen http://www.tseka.com/2008/06/19/mid-summer-nights/#comment-209 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:47:45 +0000 http://www.tseka.com/2008/06/19/mid-summer-nights/#comment-209 I sin Linda the embryo suggests a seed within protection, it is easy to find esoteric or mythic symbol of the seed held in our protective sub- consciousness waiting for the moment of enlightenment. At summer solstice the days grow shorter and we head toward the "inner" light of winter. Sept 21 the "light" goes underground and is held in feminine consciousness through the darkest days to be released at winter solstice. ~light into dark, dark into light. Linen the fabric was once currency in Sweden it was so highly valued. So much comes from Lin - Flax that sustained the people. My grandmother's recipe book is filled with uses for flax seed from furniture polish to the foundation of a cough syrup that works remakably well. I sin Linda the embryo suggests a seed within protection, it is easy to find esoteric or mythic symbol of the seed held in our protective sub- consciousness waiting for the moment of enlightenment. At summer solstice the days grow shorter and we head toward the “inner” light of winter. Sept 21 the “light” goes underground and is held in feminine consciousness through the darkest days to be released at winter solstice.

~light into dark, dark into light.

Linen the fabric was once currency in Sweden it was so highly valued. So much comes from Lin - Flax that sustained the people. My grandmother’s recipe book is filled with uses for flax seed from furniture polish to the foundation of a cough syrup that works remakably well.

]]> by: Lynda http://www.tseka.com/2008/06/19/mid-summer-nights/#comment-208 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:19:45 +0000 http://www.tseka.com/2008/06/19/mid-summer-nights/#comment-208 I'd never heard that before, and actually didn't consider it personally for myself. Linda in Spanish means pretty. I had no idea it might mean something in other languages. I especially like "what falls away reveals our future". I’d never heard that before, and actually didn’t consider it personally for myself. Linda in Spanish means pretty. I had no idea it might mean something in other languages.

I especially like “what falls away reveals our future”.

]]> by: Ellen http://www.tseka.com/2008/06/19/mid-summer-nights/#comment-207 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:05:21 +0000 http://www.tseka.com/2008/06/19/mid-summer-nights/#comment-207 And Happy Nameday to you Lynda, you get an extra slice of cake with your coffee by tradition. It's a wonderful nameday, one of the great feminine energies of the jule (wheel) And Happy Nameday to you Lynda, you get an extra slice of cake with your coffee by tradition.

It’s a wonderful nameday, one of the great feminine energies of the jule (wheel)

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