food and warmth

chocolate + cashmere
right here in Taos in a shop at the end of Bent Street.

Golightly Cashmere makes beautiful products in pure Mongolian cashmere. Although I often work with cashmere yarn (when I can afford to buy it) and can knit most of the products they sell, instant gratification compels strongly.

Golightly's products are made locally on old fashioned knitting machines.

They've added hand made chocolates to the mix. Oh my! Raspberry green chile dark...

 hazelnut praline dark...

I'm feeling faint now...hats...more...

Okay, better now, the spell is over. Oh, did I tell you that they sell balls of leftover cashmere yarn...?

and now for the other reality
In the background on this sunny Sunday morning,  I hear the weather news. Another storm is expected to hit the east coast by mid week. An army of volunteers in New Jersey are gathering dirty laundry from people who have worn the same clothes they had on when the storm hit.  With no electricity or washing machines and dryers (many without homes at all) they are unable to do anything about it. Laundry has been the least of their problems so a volunteer group has formed and are gathering worn and muddy clothing, washing and returning it. An everyday occurrence is suddenly a blessing.

a river that goes singing
past the bedrooms of the suburbs,
and the river is silver, cement, or wind
in the lying daybreak of new York.
The mountains exist, I know that.
     Federico Garcia Lorca ("New York")