sitting outside looking at a new leaf springing from the Elderberry.  so new.  so green.  and debating whether or not to let go of one of my last remaining jobs.  the impetus for this being the thing with the sciatic nerve, but as some have suggested and i agree, this is physical metaphor for other challenges. 

and the phone rang.  it was Wendy Golden-Levitt.  she had just seen some little girls that had been brought to her in hopes of working on their grief of family members that had been lost in the tragedy of Japan.  but what they chose to work with was this Window Hanger that i'd sent. 

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this was in October, last year.  at the time, i was very unsure about it.  it is in a way, very plain.  but it was what i "needed" to send. 

and today, what transpired really does not have words.  on that end or on mine.  what this cloth "held" was some way to work with the non-verbal sense these children were struggling with about  nuclear disaster.    this is all i know.  it is all Wendy can tell.  but i was told this much and for me it is beyond enough to piece together any small pieces of faith, of the Whatever of endurance for Continuing.  i have no real words for this, no real shape.  but the spirit of the Sign is clear.

 

 

 

 

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27 responses to “Signs again”

  1. deanna7trees Avatar

    the signs are always there. we sometimes are not open enough to see them. how wonderful.

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  2. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    i don’t know what to say. have no words? just that
    uhhh, i am sitting here wide eyed, wide hearted, wide
    wondering.

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  3. Linda Avatar

    i sometimes think the threads that hold us all together are so tight. we have no idea what matters and how we are all connected. i think reading our blogs and seeing these connections are more than just a stitching community. we were brought together .. it is that simple.

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  4. Shishi Avatar

    wow….what a touching story!

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  5. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    “wide hearted”…yes and that is what was put into every stitch of Window Hanger: a cloth that does more than words can ever convey in terms of helping to heal children by respecting their fears and giving them something to hold onto as they move beyond their worries. You are a cloth curandera.

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  6. KaiteM. Avatar

    just be with that feeling…k.

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  7. Jill Avatar

    attunement 🙂

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  8. helen Avatar

    Grace, I am big into seeing and reding the signs as we travel through this earth life and yes, a wonderful sign!!Like Jude said , Perfect.

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  9. Acey Avatar

    a beautiful lesson to re-learn or re-consider whenever that serves common experience: our individual place and purpose as well as intuitive wisdom.

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  10. handstories Avatar

    building…mending…healing…gifts.

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  11. Herm Avatar
    Herm

    how wonderful they chose your cloth, it has your love!

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  12. Deb G Avatar

    A good direction…

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  13. Lisa Avatar

    This is the way that your beautiful heart reaches into every part of the earth. Your work, your caring, your love reaches across the continent, over the ocean and probably encircles the world!

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  14. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    yes. it is that simple. and i am looking forward to
    how it all will bloom.

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  15. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    …i was …. well…you see, two days later, i still have no words.

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  16. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    i love how much you love me. and i love you back

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  17. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    this needs close attention

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  18. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    i never would have imagined

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  19. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    then we will read signs together

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  20. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    our individual place…
    i feel myself to be really out in the middle of nowhere.
    to find something of me/my imagination, merging in this way is nothing i ever imagined

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  21. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    mending if we can…or maybe, mending How we can…learning
    that…what can mend….

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  22. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    again, i would have never imagined, ever.

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  23. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    yes and you know directions

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  24. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    Lisa…oh how happy i am to see your words here…means
    a lot to me.
    THANK YOU so much so so much for reading this and
    commenting.
    that silk thread is going to begin it’s work within the next few days. it is healing.

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  25. Acey Avatar

    yeah it’s beyond imagination. something sacred – bigger than any one person or even a group. an opportunity to remain humble and amazed not quite like any other.

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