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17 responses to “later in the day, and later still”
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just a thought – if you turn upside down the big cloth, then the crow will be (on top) in the light-blue squares and there will be more light coming behind it, so you don’t lose it!
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herm…i have begun to be aware of this. kind of a
discrepancy
how i seem to always put light below and dark at the top??????
wondering.
what IS it, about how i
see
perceive?
the “ground” being above?
interesting.
looking at that.
am thinking tho, at this point, this poor dear cloth has been
changed so much so far
it might implode
with further experimentation?
or not…?
hmmmmmm
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grace, i know your thinking – myself got so frustrated with the “mountain cloth” that i put it away and continue with my jacket weavings, since that takes a lot more time to do and i want to have it put together by May because we go to Minnesota for June-July & August and want to take it with me to finish the stitching, etc.
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Hi Grace…Raven is just gorgeous. I love how you can draw something and stitch it just as if it were a drawing.
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“ground being above…” this land, over the years has moved into your blood stream, has flowed deep within you and so you draw from this deep love.
In an earlier blog post you spoke of wanting to create window hangers. Maybe, you might make a few of Polvadera to take with you, tangible land memories: the lizards, the nooks and crannies, the toads, the wind rippling the dirt, curved willow branch/root from which you hung your heart, all to be created with your hands, with cloth dyed in the New Mexican sun, in jars, in the new copper pot. Cloth memories to match what is in your heart for you have the most amazing gift in breathing life into your cloths.LikeLike
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Hmm…maybe you are just seeing the night sky arrive, above a body of water reflecting that last bit of light… I am always intrigued by where you place things. As for this, just love the top photo.
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Maybe the dark is simply the unknown. Which keeps appearing here and there to make us realize there’s MORE. I love the light in the top one. And I love Raven, the black bird is sacred to me, too. I have to be content and love the crows here in the city, but I see Raven occasionally, too. Always with a message. Somehow, the dark in your piece and Raven are related.
I always get a little gift from you when I come here, Grace. Thank you.LikeLike
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wow! Minnesota! that’s where my brother and mother are.
she is 95 i think? is now living with him in his home.
Bemidji area. how cool that you have connections to
minnesota!LikeLike
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penny…i did stitch it Only. no drawing. i tried to
follow a drawing done first and it wouldn’t work…was
clumsey. so i just stitched. it’s easier for me.LikeLike
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Marti, Don’t know where you came from, or how you know Grace, But I have said it before and I just want to reapeat, You have a wonderful way with words. I thoroughly enjoy all your comments. I see, like myself, no blog. So I won’t push, but you have the talent to have one, for sure.
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marti…i don’t know how it will all go. what to take,
what to leave. in a certain way, it would be so much
easier to have no time to decide. to just need to GO.
but i will have a lot of time to be with the leaving.
am thinking back a lot lately to when i left the Ann
Arbor Michigan house, that “other life”. trying to
remember clearly all my thoughts then. should give some
good information for this time. oh sigh.LikeLike
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thanks for looking, deb, for keeping track of me….
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peggy…thank you. i am always so glad when you come.
the crows are many around here and i love them for
their playfullness, they do incredible feats of flight
in the wind currents that wind down from the mountains.
sometimes i will just pull over on the side of the road
to watch. and twice a year they have pow=wows. Hundreds
gathering to exchange information, it seems. love crows.
Ravens, well….such serious beings…and not at all
frequently seen. they tend to stay to themselves or to
the mesas. but now and then, the circle above, can see
them looking down. it is always a good sign to me.LikeLike
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helen, Marti and Nance who is out of town now, are
women i met during the time of belonging to Story Circle
Network…a national women’s writing organization. We
have not participated in that for years now, but
became Sisters during that time.
Marti is a brilliant writer and further, an organized
mind which i value so….she remembers the most amazing
things. She has also become very committed to Eco dyeing, with vegetation around her home. i wish she would have
a blog too. alas, she doesn’t want to.LikeLike
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Can’t believe it, we go every year to Bemidji during our stay in Fertile, MN where we have a little “doll house” so tiny but great to spend the summers, my husband was born there and has a lot of relatives still there –this city is about 60 miles west of Bemidji on Hwy #2,
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Thanks Helen for your kind words and I must say that I “listen” when I see your words; you have a direct way of writing that is very clear. I’m originally from California but in 2002, my husband and I sold our business and our home and moved to Maui. Funny thing about moving to a place where you have vacationed for many years; after a while you realize that you are on an island and island fever sets in, especially for my husband. So we moved to the opposite of a tropical island, the snowy Cascade mountains of Washington and a little tourist town called Leavenworth. Subconsciously I have been on an expedition, a promise made to my immigrant father who came to this country from Spain. He said, “America is a great country, go and find it for yourself.” We have lived in Texas as well and on our way to Virginia, stopped in Tennessee, and fell in love with the land. Soon, we will make a final move as we now have grandchildren and would like to move closer to them.
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more wow! my brother’s home is actually in Debs, which
is just beyond Pinewood. he’s lived there for hmmmm,
i don’t know 35 years? my mom lived in a senior apt in
Bemidji until about 3 yrs ago when they brought her out
to the farm. we are all originally from michigan. i’ve
never lived in minnesota. went 6 years ago for my mom’s
90th birthday. drove, me and two of the dogs. in my
ancient little honda Minnow. what an event that was!
isn’t it amazing though, how truly the threads weave
everywhere and every way ~LikeLike
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