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feeling sentimental

February 25, 2011

this took forever to find and then to get on the blog.

i posted this before, on the other blog. it's four years ago, so all of us are a little worse for wear and tear. also, i'm not really this small and soft looking. maybe it's because i wanted to dress up for the occasion and so, wearing a dress. or, it could be that they just make me feel soft.

i also think i look very much like George Burns in this pic….maybe it's the eyelids. or, more likely the cigarette. well…probably both. anyway…this is the three of us. Alyssia on the left, me and Jenny. since i probably will be writing more about them in this next year, it will be easier to use their names. and it's good to have a face for them too.

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16 responses to “feeling sentimental”

Cristina Ortega

February 25, 2011

¡mucho gusto a todos!

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Herm

February 25, 2011

Great picture of the three of you, beautiful girls! like your dress with the suns very much.

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Linda

February 25, 2011

oh i love the family photo. love your blue eyes and the dress. glad you showed us so we can see the faces. seems like we might be on a journey together with all these blogs..

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grace Forrest Maestas

February 25, 2011

Gracias!!!! we are a variety, aren’t we. but something
inside all three of us is very very the same. looking
forward to finding out more and more about this as time goes on

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grace Forrest Maestas

February 25, 2011

herm…it was the last dress i had. now, just the denim.

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grace Forrest Maestas

February 25, 2011

linda…i think so. hope so. a looooong continuous
journey. i think it’s good to see faces. and in this
case, important because they will be pretty constant
players in the story as it goes along in these next
“chapters”.
i think tho that this pic of me is deceptive in a way.
i look squashy. soft.
i really think i look very different most of the time.
more edges….more something. i am alone most of the
time. it always kind of takes me by surprise to be in
the presence of a “group”…as in this day with family.

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Linda

February 25, 2011

i think we don’t look at ourselves and see what is really there. we look at parts of this or that and then to see the whole thing in a picture is disconcerting. i don’t think you look squashy or soft.. more strong than that.
let’s just keep working on our chapters and stay in touch..

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grace Forrest Maestas

February 25, 2011

ok

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manya

February 26, 2011

i always thought i was hard and edgy. when i was young and someone said that i am sweet i got angry. a lot of “no’s” went into keeping up that stone-feeling.
lately i’m exploring soft. at christmas i put a mattress over the futon (aged and quite hard, that futon)jude’s cloth that i bought surprised me with how soft it is..and delighted me. made a concious decision to try soft out
there is pleasure and comfort in soft and it is ok
but i do like an almond in my lokum…
and as before, when looking at this picture the feeling of affinity is strong
thinking of buying a lottery ticket and winning

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Patty M

February 26, 2011

This photo reminds me of little story…I tried and tried to make my
dogwood tree happy. It sat in the side yard but wasn’t healthy. Then, a gardener told me to plant a larger tree beside it and it would flourish. I planted a birch and they are very happy now. You seem to
be very happy with your sister trees.
George Burns-now that man was probably enlightened.

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Mo’a

February 26, 2011

This is a wonderful photo. Are they your daughters? How wonderful to see what you look like.
I am tall 5’8″ and not thin 😉 I always look small and soft next to my son…well he is tall 6’…but I don’t think it is the size, more the soft mother look.
One can be strong and edgy without looking hard…I can tell that you are a strong woman. About that cigarette!

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grace Forrest Maestas

February 26, 2011

yes…this was SO the soft mother look. they just
fill me UP!!!!…Jenny on the right of pic is my daughter.
Alyssia, on the left in pic is HER daughter, my granddaughter. Jenny had Alyssia when she was 17.
Jenny now almost 39 and Alyssia 22 with that little
Julian Ortiz babyman who is 13 months old.
the cigarette. i wish i knew about photoshop. i’d
disappear it. but then, it’s my shameful flaw.
now everyone knows and all the rest is good.
i guess what i meant about “hard”, was that i usually
am covered in dust, or weed stems or something…work
a LOT outside. am not much standing still. maybe THATs
it, am usually in motion. that day i was just very much
taking the whole scene in, like through my pores.
the three of us are the ones that are going to partner up
in some configuration on that goat ranch in the next
year or so. will be talking a lot about that.
xoxo

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judy keathley

February 26, 2011

these women are so beautiful–
i think its good to see faces too—i’m always hoping when i visit someones blog that there will be a picture–& i’m always delighted when there is —
we get to know so much of each other thru our words & our cloths —
just to have a sense of who that person is physically —the way we would if we were in an in-person workshop–
just another level of making it personal —
so thank you , grace , for these lovely faces–

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grace Forrest Maestas

February 26, 2011

thank you, judy. i think we all have “good” eyes.
Alyssia is of course our Bloom.

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grace Forrest Maestas

February 26, 2011

strong affinity. yes.
and
someone
always wins…?????
who knows. but i carry the thought constantly.

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grace Forrest Maestas

February 26, 2011

i love this Patty…will be a story that i will pass
along.
and we are like sisters in so many ways. it’s interesting.

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