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What The Hands Remember
This week, on the podcast my thoughts have been resting on something beautifully ordinary. Hands. Not simply what they do, but what they remember. As I continue stitching pieces together for my legacy quilt, I find myself slowing down enough to notice the countless hands that came before mine. Hands that mended clothing rather than replacing it. Hands that stitched blankets to keep families warm. Hands that prepared meals, tended children, worked long hours, and quietly carri

Lisa Raie
Jun 102 min read


The Threads of Resilience, Sacrifice, Perseverance and Quiet Courage…
There has been something quietly stirring within me as I work on my legacy quilt and other creative projects lately and that is a deeper connection to the life of my 3 x great grandmother Mary, and to what it meant for her to live “on strength.” The phrase itself feels like more than history to me now. It feels like inheritance. As I stitch fabric together, I find myself thinking about the structure of Mary’s life and the daily duty, the utter responsibility and constant dem

Lisa Raie
May 292 min read


My Vision Is Extraordinary Clear Now…
My vision is extraordinarily clear now. Studio Kre’at is becoming more than an art studio, more than a writing practice, and more than a lineage project. It is becoming an archive of emotional survival. A place where the lives of real women are not flattened into dates and records, but restored as fully human: mothers, sisters, carers, migrants, protectors, wounded women, builders of refuge, women who endured, women who quietly changed the lives of others. And what makes this

Lisa Raie
May 132 min read
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