I have sent or handed out this year's holiday cards, so I can finally share the poem I had printed on the front of these folded cards.

A beautifully poignant poem by Margaret Atwoord:

We hear nothing these days
from the ones in power

Why talk when you are a shoulder
or a vault

Why talk when you are
helmeted with numbers

Fists have many forms;
a fist knows what it can do

without the nuisance of speaking:
it grabs and smashes.

From the inside or under
words gush like toothpaste.

Language, the fist
proclaims by squeezing,
is for the weak only.

https://vitaulium.nl/blog/2024/2024-12-19-holiday-cards/

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Some of this year's holiday cards will show a part of this beautiful tatreez tree (Shajara / شجرة) ornament from Hebron.

Tirazain is an amazing archive & library of tatreez patterns.

Have a look, follow a pattern and keep tatreez alive 🇵🇸

https://tirazain.com/archive/p/lily-f5j49-2ydlp-jkdr3-s6aez?rq=tree

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Eleven christmas balls and ten little birds left to embroider, and I'm finally happy to have found the patterns I'll use most this year :crossstitch_grl:

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Working on this year's holiday card embroidery: I am still undecided on which design I'll choose, or I might go for mix of these.

In recent years I have also added a poem to the cards, which is an excellent excuse to purchase Margaret Atwood's latest poetry collection :neocat_book: :crossstitch_grl:

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