Ra's Spiral Path

Welcome to Ra’s Spiral Path

The Website of Sarah J Batchelder

Writer < Weaver > Storyteller

Woven Bits
Woven raven over a mountainside
A small portion from “Ancestors Calling” (2025)

Writer, Weaver, and Storyteller

Weaving words and wisdom

Intuitive Tapestry Weaver

I can keep big pictures and stories in mind, while refining details.

Lifelong Learner

As a mother of a tween, educational specialist, and former children’s librarian, I strive to make learning fun.

Copy Editor and Writer

Words matter. And how they are presented matters as well.

Solution Oriented DIY’er

I practice by doing and experimenting and accept failure as a part of the learning process.

Maker of Quirky Items

I find joy in the strange and weird. Do you too? I now have a POD store.

Brewer, Gardener, Hiker

I reclaim ancient knowledge, spaces, and ways to connect with previously hidden ancestral paths.

Writer

I have written in many types of formats – academic, informational, and fictional. I once wrote a rhyming play about the summer reading program where I worked and performed it with a coworker and puppets to an elementary school. The kids loved it.

My portfolio can be found here.

Weaver

I primarily weave tapestries and baskets made from discarded wires and often use repurposed items and upcycled textiles in my work. I am also learning how to use other types of looms – rigid heddle, inkle, and a Swedish counterbalance floor loom.

Moon Views

  • Woven in 2023 in Jamesport, NY
  • My first completed circular weaving
  • Selected for a group exhibition in 2025
A three panel (connected) weaving of a mountain landscape and waterfall by fiber artist, Sarah Batchelder

Ancestors Calling

  • An experimental pulled warp tapestry
  • My weaving almost always include repurposed materials.
  • I honor my planet and her life forms in the materials I choose to work with.
A pulled warp tapestry of a Sonoran mountain kingsnake woven by Sarah Batchelder

Sylvia Snake

  • A pulled warp tapestry woven in three parts – head, middle, and tail.
  • Sylvia is a Sonoran Mountain Kingsnake.
  • Her retractable tongue is made from cable wire.

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  • On Failure

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    So I’ve been thinking a lot about failure lately. About how it builds resilience and how good it is for human growth. And how most adults try to avoid it like the plague. I’ve read articles oriented toward business leaders, listened to people who have worked at Stanford’s d school, and have tried to embrace…

  • Even As

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    Life throws challenge after challenge I am continuing to make progress. I don’t plan to finish it today, but I do plan to make some more progress. We’ll see what actually happens. Sometimes my plans don’t work out….

  • Sunday Victories

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    Today I am feeling good that Kamala Harris is our next Vice President. It makes me really, really happy. She is a strong woman and I truly believe that our country needs strong women in leadership right now. Strong backs, soft fronts, wild hearts. (I’ve been listening to many of Brené Brown’s podcasts lately.) I’m…

  • The Stupidity Paradigm

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    As predicted By me The Tucson Unified School District Once again Ditched their plans For hybrid learning Days before the start. I am glad that they changed Their plans. What I don’t understand Is why they insist on Pursuing this course of action In obviously unsafe times.

  • Coyote Time

    Coyote Time

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    My brain has been restless. I’ve been up. I’ve been down. I thought my brother had Covid. I found out he doesn’t. I was looking forward to Halloween. Then my son got sick. His fever was gone yesterday and his appetite seems normal today and we’re still going to the doctor later today.

  • Brief History Lessons

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    In the car Trying to explain to my son How this country was founded. Christopher Columbus, Disease, slavery Puritans – the religious nuts Too crazy to stay in England. Blankets infected with smallpox Given as gifts of death. And guns, guns, guns. I hate driving.

  • Untitled

    Untitled

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    The myth, or sacred truth, of AmericaIs that it is the home of the freeAnd the land of the brave.The reality is that it is a capitalist countryAnd $ is king, the monarch, or emperor,Influenced by fear in this land of the brave. We all live lies every dayBecause Capitalism does not sit well with…

  • Where is it?

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    Trying to find a path in the dark Stumbling and bumbling And oh so frustrated I have forgotten how to let My feet find the way

  • Update on the Update

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    So the fun blog post I just tried to post earlier had problems. Yay for technical errors! It looked like everything was fine in the preview. And the video I loaded was less than 1 minute long. So what went wrong? I’ll try again later when I’m feeling better.

  • Snake Update and Silliness

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    I started a new weaving project. It’s another tapestry. When I began, I thought I was going to working on a sun, but it quickly morphed into something else.

A portion of "a map of dragons" by fiber artist, Sarah Batchelder