Rebecca

@wordyanchorite

Teacher/coach, English language arts with L2 students in the tropics. Talk to me about: Linguistics, Jesus, fiber arts, justice. Learning: Drawing, photography. CN: Michigan football

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Rebecca@wordyanchorite· 26d

There we go. Less of a gaping maw now. Not my best mending work, but the roughness of this beast has now become part of his charm

The same suitcase with the flap stitched down on the sides using a very uneven parachute stitch

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· 26d

Found a first use for those acrylic markers: zhuzhing up my suitcase, which is well past its use by date and has a broken zipper on the front flap

Eyes and a nose are painted on the suitcase so that the open flap looks like an open mouth

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· 29d

Nighttime sketch du jour: Mango.

Watercolor drawing of a whole mango and a piece of mango with the flesh sliced into cubes. There is a dribble of juice on the counter.

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· Jul 13

Night sketch du jour: a portrait of disappointment.

Watercolor and ink drawing of a small boy reaching for a red balloon which is flying away

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· Jul 10

Couldn't sleep last night so I got up to draw what I remembered of how the water looked off Saona. Definitely better than my last attempt at the ocean.

Watercolor of blue-green waves washing up on a beach

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· Jul 3

A vendor wearing a stack of wide-brimmed hats and carrying hats and bags walks down a street in front of a tourist gift shop

Photo of a beach scene. A group of tourists lines up to load onto a small boat. Other groups swim in the water. A boy prepares to catch an American football.

A pier with a large colorful sign reading Bayahibe

Photo of the shore of Isla Saona taken from the sea. A people walk on a white sand beach. Behind the beach, the island is covered with dense palm trees.

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· Jul 3

A few shots from Isla Saona 📸

Black and white photo on a man with dark sin working near the railing on the top deck of a sailboat

A huge shell with a perfect circular spiral at its center

A vendor's open box of turquoise pendants sits on the white sand

A stand of palm trees curves out into the sea

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· Jun 30

Calling this finished.

The pencil drawing now has a black watercolor background.

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· Jun 17

I was going through my Drive, collecting all the materials I created for this class to hand off to its new teacher (🥲), and I found this poem I wrote as a model: the story of the three little pigs from the perspective of the straw. Apparently I was having some Feelings about teaching that day 😭

Straw

is not born for building, any more
than pigs for cogitation. Still,
surely, even through failure, they will work
the recipe out.

The first huff was
enough. The puff
was overkill. The wolf
didn’t have to
blow so hard,

the straw considered, scattered
over the frost-flaked earth, but it did
put a shiver in the pigs.

They learned;
oh, they learned! but at the cost
of all this waste: the straw, the sticks,
even, in the end, the wolf
died in teaching.

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· Jun 15

A cobblestone street added in the background of the previous pencil drawing

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· Jun 8

WIP update

Sketch from the previous post, now with realistically shaded hand and feet. The clothing remains unshaded and the background is plain.

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· Jun 1

Tonight's sketch in progress: a portrait of faith.

Light pencil sketch. A hand in the foreground reaches towards the hem of the robe of a sandaled man walking away.

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· May 30

Happy Caturday from Patches (and her favorite licky mat, the bonus background dog)

A tricolor cat with a pink nose looks up into the camera. She has long white whiskers.

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· May 26

*sniff* My professors would be so proud 🥲

Top results: Cornelius Van Til (100) and Carl FH Henry (100)

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· May 24

I was just quick enough to catch this lizard friend in the planter this morning.

A small brown anole on the edge of a planter, with mother of thousands buds in the background

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· May 23

How it started/ How it's going, Learn to Draw edition: Currently working on drawing faces. Feeling good that this one only took me about twenty minutes. Some things are becoming more automatic.

Before: A variety of cartoonish heads in pencil

Now: A realistically shaded head of a man

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· May 17

My phone is trying to protect me

Still image from the video in the original post, with text saying "An error occurred"

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· May 10

3 1/2 stars for being thematically incoherent. It wants to be a meditation on love and loss so badly but just can't quite hold that together with being, you know, a murder mystery comedy. A perfectly fine way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

Photo of a credits title screen for The Sheep Detectives, subtitled in Spanish

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· May 4

This feels like a classic non-statement. No earthly person did anything wrong. Nothing bad happened. Nothing bad is happening and everything is still fine.

STATEMENT FROM THE ELDERS OF IMMANUEL CHURCH
In spring of 2024, the Immanuel Elders were made aware that Pastor Sam Allberry engaged in an
inappropriate relationship with an adult man in 2022. This relationship concluded prior to Sam being
called as a pastor at Immanuel in 2023. Being made aware, the Elders immediately began a thorough
investigation. After considering the information available at that time and the posture of Sam and the
other party, the Elders ruled that though Sam’s conduct was unwise, it did not rise to the level of
disqualification. However, in January of 2026, the Elders received new information about this
relationship that had not been disclosed previously. This initiated a reopening of the investigation, the
findings of which led the Elders to conclude that, while the relationship did not go as far as it could
have, Sam’s conduct constituted a serious breach of trust and a failure to walk in a manner worthy of
the gospel. The Elders are unanimous in their decision that Sam is currently disqualified from gospel
ministry. Sam agrees with this decision and has resigned from Immanuel Church.
Throughout this process, Sam has been repentant, humble, and cooperative with the Elders and
outside counsel. The Elders continue to care for Sam as a brother in Christ and Member of Immanuel.
We will continue to support Sam and the other party with counseling, and we are determined in so far
as we are able to “restore him in a spirit of gentleness” to full fellowship in the church (Galatians 6:1).

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· May 2

now googling occupational diseases, this is going to take over my brain :) like these are just one organ

List occupational lung diseases, hypersensitivity pneumonitis includes farmer's lung, bird breeder's lung, cheese worker's lung, malt worker's lung, paprika splitter's lung, and chemical worker's lung

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· Apr 23

Today's drawing is inspired by true events.

Pencil drawing of an open jar of queso in front of an open bag of round nachos.

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· Apr 16

ENTHRALLED, I tell you

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· Apr 16

The cat has discovered television and is utterly enthralled

A cat sitting on the floor, watching TV projected on a wall

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· Apr 12

Apropros of nothing whatsoever, I drew some grapes, because I needed to just draw something, and a bunch of little spheres sounded relaxing. Please enjoy responsibly.

A watercolor of a bunch of purple grapes.

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· Apr 5

#VisibleMending accomplished. The corner of the sheet got clawed because Princess, bless her, preferred the mattress to the scratch pad. The speed weave loom helped this along quite a bit.

Three darned patched in lighter blue on a cornflower blue bedsheet, folded.

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· Mar 31

The showtime for my 6:00 theater ticket was moved to 6:40. Then while I was eating an unplanned dinner, they moved it to 7:00. I may not get home until midnight at this rate. Anyway, this gives me time to share that on my walk here, I saw this man carrying an enormous duck. Welcome to the DR!

Pencil sketch of a man in a ball cap carrying a duck tail-first over his shoulder.

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· Feb 25

Rest easy, sweet Princess. 🌈💔

A tricolor kitten perches over the top of a chair

The cat, now full grown, looks up at the camera with big green eyes

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· Feb 14

Mission Have More Fun update:

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· Feb 3

Also I personally drew this one to demonstrate why I ban anything but the boring 2D pie charts in their reports

A hand drawn 3D pie chart with slices of different heights, labeled with the percentages they represent, to demonstrate how disproportionate everything looks even when the graph is "accurate"

Rebecca@wordyanchorite· Feb 1

This is who runs this account (okay not actually, but when I was younger I was a dead ringer)