Harnett-Hargrove

+ who didn't feel that impulse to run out heater skelter when the button-eye sewing was introduced in Neil Gaiman's Coraline? 

i was thinking, that’s why a parent knows how to push their youngsters buttons ... because they sewed them on!

In the studio there is a batch of antique jet glass buttons in a small grass basket. i have not really meant to assemble a collection, for each button was acquired for a specific duty. Then, the excitement of seeing the perfect button faded + was replaced w/ dread memories of small defenseless glass broken carelessly before its time.

What i learned today:
Never throw a sweater down a ladder with jet buttons.
Never put a garment w/ jet buttons with dryer.
Never swing a bag of jet button around + around.
For a little button never (tried to) hurt anyone.

Wasn’t it Sam Levenson who something about making sure to press the up button, 

if you die in an elevator?

Now i will mash the publish button (too soon); it's next to the placebo-panic button.

Budai’s button. Popular folklore maintains that rubbing his belly brings good luck. 

But you already knew that.