Word & Wool

06/03/2026

Healing happens in the creative spaces. Connection resides there too.

05/31/2026

“One of my deepest joys and privileges as a therapist is the opportunity I have to spend multiple days with a client at our cabin in the woods, The Sanctuary. We cry and we laugh and healing comes to the deep places we dare not show in “ordinary time”. I believe this sacred space we call home, this piece of land, aids in the healing. When an intensive ends, I’ve started inviting clients to join me at my “altar in the wild” to mark this point in their healing, in their becoming. Something I often remind clients of is that healing is not a straight line. Healing is a spiral, and so is our becoming, our evolution as souls here on this Mother Earth. I add rocks and items found in nature to my spiral at significant moments in my own journey and I invite clients to add their own as well. Our spiraling, our growth, always impacts one another. We do not heal or grow without impacting those around us. This morning I had the honor of sitting here at this beautiful altar in the wild God provided us with and celebrating with a client as she placed her stone of remembrance within the spiral.

“All healing work is sacred and we do not heal alone. We need one another. ❤️ I’m so grateful for clients that show such courage and trust me to hold their hand while we venture into the hardest places.

“I take off my shoes because I know I stand on the holiest of ground. My heart is filled with gratitude and wonder.”

— Jan Johnson Owen

05/28/2026

It’s been a doozie of a week+ and yer girl is thankful to have herself a sit-n-spin for a bit.

That is, if I can get Princess Purrs’alot out of my spinning chair. Who can blame her though? It really is the most inviting place. 🥰

05/24/2026

via Women Who Run With the Moon

05/19/2026

Tomorrow is a BIG DAY for me: I start grad school toward licensure in clinical mental health counseling.

Eeek! 💗

05/19/2026

My first blog post is live! Join me on the journey?? :)

04/29/2026

.... and the new blog is LIVE! 🙂

www.purlandponder.com

12/31/2024

New Year
new direction

Lauren, knitting on a train, somewhere in England… With a passion for squishy wool, half Creative and half Adventure-Seeker …Native Tennessean (now Floridian), Lauren has always been an artist, but it wasn’t until she was in her early 20s that she stumbled across a group of knitters at the loc...

10/18/2024

On Fridays we knit (tiny sweaters) by the sea. 🌊

09/24/2024

This extraordinary survivor is a child’s sock that dates from the 3rd to 4th centuries CE. It was fished out of a landfill during an excavation in the city of Antinooupolis in Egypt about 1913.
Using multispectral imaging it has been determined that seven hues of wool yarn were used, employing three natural dye materials, madder for red, woad for blue and weld for yellow. The dyes were subsequently mixed to create different colors like green orange and purple. In some cases, fibers of different colors were spun together; in others, individual yarns went through multiple dye baths.
The use of multispectral imaging allows the examination to be non-invasive and also enables the researcher to see colors and details invisible to the naked eye. For example, dye colors that had faded out are still visible using this technology.

Collection of the British Museum.