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The Weaver:

delights in colour and texture

and laces the weft of experience into the warp of the given.

Patterns emerge

as beauty is given away for warmth and pleasure.

The Gardener:

planting with anticipation and enlivening the soil,

is surprised every season

by the profligate beauty of bud, branch and blossom

innocent of reason.

The Teacher:

drawing out ideas of imaginary futures,

weaving word and image

into the dew-fresh wonder of knowing.

Sixty years of weft-weave

celebrate patterns of firmly threaded purpose

knobbed by serendipity.

Futures still to weave

may yet surprise us with unanticipated beauties

in unexpected Springs.