Ruth Temple of the Ru Temple Design Studio
Redwood City, California

For I am of that tribe of folks who do Stuff, said the artist bookbinder cook dancer ethnologist fiddler gardener hairstyle-ignorant jacks-playing lesbian mother, nodding over pea-pods, questing romantically, sewing, tie-dyeing (shibori, PLEASE) silks, underwriting microloans, vesting, weaving youth-aged zeitgeist. most simply? I love. and I want to walk around the whole garden with the two-legged carrot.