Hi Billy,
I got a birthday present and I'm thrilled! I was a bit confused to begin with because the package came all undone and broken up and there was a bubble wrap envelope within (didn't check whether it was some of that new bubble wrap which does not snap, wtf is up with that?) and a letter from the post office apologizing but the package came undone and they did the best they could.
I dug down into a corner of the bubble wrap envelope and finally found, deep in the corner, this sweet little cylinder that smelled of cedar. I was a bit concerned that those turbaned guys had come for their lapis eye and imagined a brave postal worker fighting them off with their mace sprayer or maybe their package slicer. Then I had to find out what game knucklebones is - luckily Konstantine was visiting, today is his birthday - and now I know though Iโd never heard of the human version.
And I did wonder about the beeswax, but I assume that was applied to the silk and I am so touched that you risked such a physical toll in trying to produce the silk though you might have asked me first and I could have saved you some effort in that regard, though honestly, I had no idea mulberry leaves had anything to do with it.
Meanwhile it's bedtime and thank you so much. If I remember correctly I choose a direction for yes and no and let the pendulum do its thing, its own version of channeling, right?
Sleep tight, big love to you, Nina