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i don’t know what to call this….

 
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i am
almost tongue tied.
how does someone celebrate their birth day when it finally does come?
arranging small pieces of cloth over and over and over until she finally
pours herself a cup of wine and begins to say thank you.
i want to THANK YOU ALL for the very real and great importance you have taken in
my life this year. your interest, encouragement and very real Beingness for me.
i think i have said this before, but it merits repeating…when i talk about
this blog, about your blogs, about the whole Spirit Cloth world, people comment
that it is as if i actually "know" you all, as in have met, face to face….
i feel we have. we have met cloth to cloth/heart to heart and it is very REAL.

so, here i am. i have realized in these last days, giving it all a lot of
attention, that i had indeed internalized some thought forms about what it means
to reach 65 years. how i had internalized something about what that might mean
i guess according to my american culture. that you get to uhhhh, maybe slow down?
you get to begin to ummm, tone down and get golden? hmmmm. as i said before,
fine tune?
well…
i have always been what you might say is "my own person". this has been both
positive and in certain ways, not so much, but it seems as if stuff is just wanting
to keep on coming.
it's been a year now, since i found Spirit Cloth. a year my birthday. i look
forward to continuing, the deepening, strengthening of all of it and i thank
you, all my cloth sisters, and most, i thank you
Jude.

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23 responses to “i don’t know what to call this….”

  1. Gracie Avatar
    Gracie

    BAH! I missed the celebration! Happy belated Birthday Grace, Im going to study your new prayer cloth…

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  2. suzanna Avatar
    suzanna

    Grace, happy birthday and I love your thoughts about clotheslines…one of the very first pictures I took with my very first camera was of our summer clothesline and the billowing shirts and sheets. It is a bit(understatement) wrenching to change locations, but I think after a time youll grow to like CA. I forgot that Chico is near Oroville, where Ive been and liked a lot. Ill try dredging through my memories and see if something helpful come up.

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  3. twhIch aye Avatar
    twhIch aye

    ohhh so beautiful… the wind. everything caught in the wind. you have been such a big part of my life these past months… its strange, i feel sad that you are leaving NM. i got tears. i still felt that one day i would see you there. well everything will be as it should be and :wishes: that you are good wherever you land. thank you from the bottom of my heart for your friendship and encouragement miss grace. hope you had a great day :)…much much much Love!!!

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  4. Terri Avatar
    Terri

    Hi grace, its terri. I sent you an email greeeting earlier, but I was reading your comments here just now and decided to join in the toast. So I have poured a glass of wine and heres to you! Was actually going to pick up the phone and call, but found I dont have a number amongst the info Lilly gave me. You should have mine, so if you feel like it tonight, give me a ring. Ill be up for another couple of hours here yet. Love and Cheers!

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  5. deb g Avatar
    deb g

    Your welcome!Chico…I called my mom to ask, it seemed to me that someone in my family had lived there (My cousins wifes grandmother as it happens). My mom (who was born and raised on the coast of Northern California-both my parents were) says hot and dry in the summer and cold in the winter. And rattlesnakes. And a college town (party) and certainly agricultural. You probably knew all that already. Not some place she would choose…but then she lives in the Pacific Northwest, green and gray and gray and green. No rattlesnakes.

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  6. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    Debi from PNW…Yes!heres to Us.this First Bird. well…i am notreally sure exactly which bird heis. he is somewhere else now..itscold and he evidently spends coldmornings elsewhere…but once itbegins to become warm again, inFebruary, maybe?,there….in the darkest darkbefore any hint of lightthere will be OneSinglenote….and then quietand then again, that one single note.will write more about all that isin this cloth, that thick honeymorning…flowing over into moonbut, that is First Bird. my guessis that it is MockingBird ORThresherbut it is too dark to see. havetried for years.But, when that sound wakes me fromdreams,i am assured that dawn is not longaway

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  7. Debi From the Pacific Northwest Avatar
    Debi From the Pacific Northwest

    Happiest birthday Grace! We are new cloth-heart friends, and Im so glad to have you and your wise words and heart in my life!! I just sat down with a glass of wine myself to catch up my RSS feeds. So, heres a toast to you, my friend! May we have many more cloths and stitches together this next year! OH! And I love this new cloth… especially the JOYful bird. I can hear him singing!;~) Debi xo

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  8. Greasyming Avatar
    Greasyming

    …happy birthday Grace…thanks for sharing your windfalls, breeses and stormy winds…i really enjoy reading your blog…cheers! did you hear the clinking of the glasses? take care

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  9. kaite Avatar
    kaite

    i see a face, the whole piece is one face. and yes i love our blog community too, dont quite know what id do without it. k.

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  10. nandas Avatar
    nandas

    happy birthday my dear grace… i am happy that this is the piece that came on your birthday… it is windstrewn… like in look what the wind blew in! it has that wild energy that the wind does. the balance is quite good the composition balanced… what a great gift you have given yourself and us… love..n

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  11. cristina Avatar
    cristina

    speaking of words of wisdom, when you get a chancefly over to my place. take a look atthe dolls i made. let me know what you think.

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  12. helen Avatar
    helen

    I forgot I wanted to say, remember when we used to put a blanket over the clothesline and make a tent? or was that just me in the U.P.?? A clotheline can be apart of a home, sitting in the tent stitching doll clothes . .. remember it well.

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  13. Serena Avatar
    Serena

    well happy celebration. and i have enjoyed your blog, your thoughts, and your gift of self. thank you for being there grace. much love to you on all the days to come, not just the ones we celebrate on.

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  14. jude Avatar
    jude

    i really get a sense of wind here. things attached or caught and subject to wind.

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  15. deanna7trees Avatar
    deanna7trees

    i guess its ok to comment now????love it. that bird is marvelous and the threads are like 3 figures dancing across the cloth.to continue the talk about clotheslines, when i was a child we lived on the 3rd floor of a 3 story house. my father rigged up a clothesline from the kitchen window to a billboard that was on the facing boulevard. what i remember most is the shirts and pants dancing on the line when they froze from a sudden drop in temperature. it still makes me smile. sorry this was so long.

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  16. Storycloth Avatar
    Storycloth

    Lovely Grace. I feel the same. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Gilly

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  17. Kathy Avatar
    Kathy

    Grace, I am late today in reading. Happy Birthday! I am later still in writing, though I am here regularly. It seems there may be a new segment of your clothesline linking you to yet another space. I have hung many clotheslines over the years – as have you. I never feel quite right in a place without one. It always feels as if there is a gap there – a missed stitch perhaps. Youre stitching a mighty big Spirit Cloth.

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  18. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    and Marti…maybeLaTierra…mi…not so much andthis has become such a perfect andbeautiful lesson in this thing ofattachment…my buddhist work….the land, la tierra, gave herselfso wholeheartedly to me and igave back in kind…we made thissisterhood of living, yes. butLife continues to ask things ofus, it seems. now for Jennysland. or La Tierra to whom she will belong. Her turn now.that old Shaker song, Turn Turn.thank you for your endurance withme…

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  19. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Call this piece Mi Tierra: When I look and magnify this piece, it has a power to it that reaches into the soul: Mi Tierra- my land; the elements of New Mexico, the wind, the land, the things that grow both naturally and by your tender hand. On this first day of December, the day after your 65th birthday, the thing I want to say to you querida grace is that your house may change, the land will change, the wind so strong a presence here will shift. What is constant is the wisdom, caring, attentiveness, devotion and knowing that you will bring with you because like my beloved turtles, we carry home within us.

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  20. Manya Maratou Avatar
    Manya Maratou

    hey..hugs.lots of them And thanks.

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  21. Penny Berens Avatar
    Penny Berens

    Hey birthday girl, its great to know you! The windswept bird is so full of life. Loving it.

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  22. Karen Turner Avatar
    Karen Turner

    It was my beloved aunties birthday today too, so Im thinking of her, and at the same time Im glad that yours is the same day. Have a happy one.

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  23. Jacky Avatar
    Jacky

    We are all so lucky to have come together through Jude and her Spirit Cloth.Happy Birthday sweet lady and I love your birthday cloth.Jacky xox

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