The Fragile Industries Manifesto
- HammersWhy the hammer logo? "Hammers" was my maternal grandmother's maiden name, and I like the matrilineal symbolism. My great-grandfather was a blacksmith, so there's that family history as well. I consider myself ready to undertake the Fragile Industry of rebuilding my life with that hammer. Rebuilding the Insconsolable Secret “that hurts so much that you take your revenge on it by calling it names like Nostalgia and Romanticism and Adolescence.” (C.S. Lewis.) In taking up this blog I raise the powerful tool of language, of exchanged ideas, of humor. I am readying other devices from my toolbox, rusty, disused. The hammer is an ironic symbol of freedom and new life, of encouragement to me. Take it up if you dare.
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One-Line Bio
Certifiable but harmless to most.
Biography
Not "just the facts ma'am." right here, right now. We've barely met. Have a seat, take off your hat, what's your hurry. I will reveal all, in my own time, at my own pace, as I see fit. Just call me Scheherezade at Bakersfield by the Sea.
Interests
Fiction and non (gruesome plague accounts and history for preference), cooking, entertaining, writing, crafting, scrapbooking, collages, assemblages, shrine and altarpiece construction, opera, pilates, poetry, cats, hiking, tidepooling, dancing alone on the sand
