~ selected other live and learn experiences, practices, and labours, in the meantime  ~ 1) raising daughters, granddaughters, and several other people, including myself.  ~ 2) giving acapella singing, traditional fiddle, and banjo concerts and learnings with bruce greene, locally and nationally; returning and returning the bodymind's innate and natural voices of drawing, making, and singing to all and anyone within reach from/in whom these elemental common sense capacities have been co-opted/suppressed/thieved.  ~ 3) voraciously reading, writing, and reviewing nonfiction, fiction, and poetry.  ~ 4) handsewing clothing and quilts.  ~ 5) maintaining abiding and mutually sustaining life~companionships.  ~ 6) trying to live small, modestly, and slow as can be, in an immodest and immoderate whirled.  ~ 7) remaining considerately solitary with a deep accordion bewitchment. ~