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a third moment of pausing

more of that invisible stitching on daughter cloth

outside to chunk up the potatoe patch some, beginning to work in the compost/manure

looking over my shoulder at the scraps of stuff that i pin to the wall and two wanted to be together.  then, they wanted a third.  ok.      the Moth is just a scrap corner of a blouse that has been floating from place to place for  about a year, got pinned to the wall maybe a  month ago.  but i've always seen it as a Moth.  soon as it's moon drys,  i'll stitch them together, see what that feels like

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i want to make a        lot         of small   Butterfly and Moth pieces i'm thinking                  and then some variations of   First Bird   that black bird that shows up in my cloths.   not crow or raven, but the bird that signals the coming of the Sun in the morning…when all is dark still.  i don't know who this bird is.  speaks one single note  with long pauses inbetween

 

 

 

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16 responses to “a third moment of pausing”

  1. jude hill Avatar
    jude hill

    imagine all these small pieces tied to a fallen tree.

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  2. manya maratou Avatar
    manya maratou

    Ihave

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  3. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    YOU’RE BACK!!!!! i’d just gone a little while ago this morning to
    see if you were back yet….wanting to hear all about your tenting
    days!!!

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  4. manya maratou Avatar
    manya maratou

    Grace, so much has appeared here since I left-I’m digesting slowly and marvelling, and watching
    and things are shifting and changing over here too
    and I’m searching for a moment to pause and breathe
    hey
    hug hug hug

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  5. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    yes…pause. breathe. repeat and continue pause~breathe
    and ohhhh yes,
    hey
    and triple hug back
    your words about the Great Giving and Receiving of Stories
    are so very fine
    am going back to read them again now.
    they help me Know that it is such a big big planet so
    full of Life and i should remember that every single
    breath of my own
    oh eeeeeEEEEEE

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  6. Herm Avatar
    Herm

    love your new piece – a Moth! and the coloring too!!!

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  7. Susan Avatar
    Susan

    Oh grace! I saw it as a moth before I read the words. Beautiful.

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  8. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    you and jude both have such gorgeous elemental pieces up today. i like your words about cloths that want to be together-that cloths have a relationship with each other.

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  9. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    cindy…i so much want to surrender to this
    to let it be what it wants to be
    and i know you understand that, Know that, because it’s in you too
    and i “think” peacefulness to you all the time, because you are
    in the midst of things that want to be together with you at your
    time in life. do not be daunted. it’s all unfolding
    xoxo

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  10. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    grace, my eyes are welling…thank you.
    during this last busy week, not using the computer much, i missed you…you have become a touchstone. hope that’s not too much.
    i do love my life, there’s just too much & not enough all at once. but it is just a piece of my time…i’m getting better at remembering that.

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  11. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    no, cindy. not too much. you are a touchstone for me. we are
    that for one another, if we are lucky enough.
    i remember being where you are in my own life and i just want
    you to hold on, to not get discouraged. time will come. it’s ok.

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  12. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    ok. oxo

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  13. Penny B Avatar
    Penny B

    And a butterfly seems so delicate yet it’s strength is mighty.

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  14. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    i have tied things to this tree it’s entire lifetime

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  15. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    this is a real experiment. somewhere here there will be
    a very bright and unlikely “color”…..where???????????

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  16. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    good!!!!then…it’s not just me….thank you!!!

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