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this is the way the day began.

watching the fire.  staring.  at some point, looking down and seeing a small scrap.  they are here and there, around the house on the floor.  picked it up and looking at it, noticed the cuff of the beloved hoodie that i was going to Boro mend for the workshop but then got lost in the Daughter cloth.

glanced over and there was a small bit of thread on a needle.  not the right color.  not the right scrap.  but i stitched it on in a messy unlovely way.  there.  and when i DO get around to Boro mending the cuff in a proper way, i will leave this scrap with wrong thread under neath the more beauty Full mend.  i will remember, always that moment.  remember that it is under the rest.

and then i spent pretty much the rest of the day doing split back stitch around the Sun Rays.  there are 2 and one third rays left to do.  in the morning.  then, i will wash the central piece, hang it on the clothes line to dry and finger press all the edges, those decorative things, then take the Whole Thing down from the doorway and stitch them together…or, begin to.  Everything takes longer than i think it will.

and then, i thought about Cindy's Grandma Rosie's Soft Sheet just now.  this reminding me of a woman named Catherine Florida who taught me how to meditate for the first time.  she was also psychic and did readings.  i went to her because of my crazyness with my own daughter who was at the time 15 years old.  this daughter being the same one with the goats now, who i have been known to say "walks on water".   then, she did not and neither did i.  but Catherine, after taking a bit of my hair and placing it in her prayer book, went deeply into her self and looked.  without my having said anything at all about why i'd come, she said  " it's a bonfire.  very very hot.  it will not ever burn out of control.  let it burn.  someday, it will become beautiful embers."

 

 

 

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15 responses to “seemingly random stuff…waiting for the thread to show itself”

  1. Wendy Avatar

    This is such a beautiful read; I like to be reminded that things happen in “messy unlovely way”s.

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  2. Wendy Avatar

    sorry- trying to be too brief. I also think the patch is perfect and beautiful.

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  3. jude hill Avatar

    this patching embodies it all i think. the way it is now as a result of acting on the way it was before by being in the moment, and then considering what might happen later… by looking back and letting it be.

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  4. Linda Avatar

    i guess jude said it all. i love the patch. i love that it is SO boro. your story is also wonderful. we have had a problems with our kids and pray for a solution or a seer to tell us what to do. you went to the right one.

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  5. handstories Avatar

    this patch is a lovely thing. it’s a story now, with more layers to come. rosie would have given you a silent smile wiith a raised eyebrow.

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  6. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    i am becoming very fond of this patch

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  7. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    as i worked on the Daughter cloth this morning, that
    patch was at my wrist. when i finished a line and had
    thread left on the needle, i added that to the patch.
    and as it goes, the magic continued…something entirely
    different has begun there..a new cloth in that space.
    what will it want now????

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  8. Wendy Avatar

    and that is such great news- the whole discipline of ‘what was right there’ just took my breath away; and those words “messy and unlovely ways”. Thanks Grace.

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  9. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    Linda…i did. but i had to wait for such a loooong time
    and the daughter did too. we had to wait for each other
    to finally arrive at that crossroad where suddenly, it
    began to be ok. then it began to be more. and now it
    is becoming what it is. more than we ever would have
    guessed.

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  10. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    well…i take that as a deep compliment and validation.
    especially the raised eyebrow. that would be like when
    my beloved friend Marge would refer to me as
    “a piece of work”. i felt smug.

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  11. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    Wendy..yes. and yes.
    and as i think and do, do and see, i also need to
    acknowledge how good it is to have company in the
    process. it would occur and would be seen if it were
    only me, yes. but to tell of it, to have Others say
    “yes…i see too, i “know” what you are showing, saying…”
    this is a rare and beautiful thing.
    thank YOU, Wendy….xoxo

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  12. Deb G Avatar

    Of the season…

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  13. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    yes…is it a leaf?
    or is it
    an eye
    or is it just
    a shape?

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  14. Deb G Avatar

    Not “just” a shape. I saw a leaf first, but it could be an eye, it could be a bug. What I am sure of is that there are more seasons than the four we traditionally think of.

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  15. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    ahhhh. ahhh, yes. Yes. and this changes as it goes.
    Yes.

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