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Spiral Notebook

Jo Paoletti

Essays, stories, poetry and art from a 70-something beginner. Because ya gotta start sometime.

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The environmental impact of textile products

I posted a rant about “bamboo” textiles in a fiber group on Facebook last week and it got more views in a day than my sad little Substack gets in a month. Not only that, but they wanted more information about the environmental impact of tex...

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This is a letter, not a blog

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Dear Substack, 

I have been told that Substack is not for blogs. 
Substack, I hear, is for short stories, journalism, personal essays, and p...
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Challenging times #poem

Small pink butterfly: “O tempora!”

Challenging Times

I am a butterfly in a spring snowstorm

I am a cherry tree blooming in a tornado

delicate, beautiful, gone

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“This far away...western country”

This article was submitted to the Unitarian Universalist History and Heritage Society journal six years ago and never published. I’d rather it not get as lost as Emily’s stpry was.

I met Mrs. E.J. Cogswell in 2016. I was spending nearly a...

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Sashiko

Go ahead and patch that hole.
Artistic mending can't hide the torn places, though
Bright stitches will make them pretty.
The broken threads have not healed.
Mending is not forgetting.
But go ahead, my dear, and patch it anyway.

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  • Jo Paoletti

    Retired, writing and knitting. I maintain 2 Substacks. Spiral Notebook is a core sample of life since 1964, with a growing stack of poetry, art, and other writing. Gender Mystique is a mix of my current and older work on dress and gender.

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