This week I finished several pairs of hands. I stitched and stuffed this one’s legs and sewed some decorative stripes down them. She blinked her eyes and whispered something in my ear just as I was attaching her final hoof. The moment they come alive never ceases to stun me, thrill me. How bits of clay and cloth transform from some intention I only held in my mind’s eye (a wavering and shadowy imagined thing), into a real and solid manifestation of an idea. I am always WOWed by this alchemy.