This is part one of our first two-parter podcast.

We just ran out of time to cover the things we wanted to cover.

We talked about Fate’s stunning emergence as a natural therapy dog, Maria’s joining in the Tiny Pricks Project (not mine), and we decided to do Panic Attacks as a separate podcast, to be published Tuesday.

We both have a lot to say about Panic Attacks, and we just ran out of time, as often happens in our podcasts. We’ll post the second conversation tomorrow. We hope this will help us and you.

Fate taught me last week once more that dogs can always surprise us.  Maria thought I harbored some grudges about Fate, which the therapy work has dissipated. Interesting. So was Maria’s involvement in this unusual and highly political art project.

(Our podcasts here.)

Last year,  when President Trump, said of himself: “I am a very stable genius,” British Columbia Artist Diana Weymar stitched the quote into a piece of her grandmother’s abandoned needlework from the 1960s. She posted the work on Instagram and got an immediate and overwhelming response.

Friends and fiber artists asked if she could host workshops so others could join the project. So she set out to make an artistic record of the best and most revealing quotes of the  Trump Presidency. The project has become one of the largest textile protests ever, with 700 Tiny Pricks and participants all over the globe.

Maria joined up immediately, stitching one of the President’s quotes about touching women: “I sorta get away with things like that.” She embroidered it on some vintage hankies and sent if off to the Tiny Pricks Project. Weymar wrote back to say she had received it and that it would be part of the tapestry.

We talked about this on the podcast, and this as well as our discovery that Fate’s work is people, not sheep.

Part 2 will focus on our living with Panic Attacks,  it is an emotional subject for us. We talk about what they are like,  what we have learned about how we deal with them. They are something we share, for better or worse. You can listen to our podcasts here.