it's the beginning of day four of the flower essense from Acey.  it is called Joyous Warrior..did i already say that?    i need to think more before i write more about that, but it, i most sincerely believe, has created an opening in a certain level of my beingness that had been closed down.   and…this was nothing that Acey had been aware of when she made the gesture of offering this essense.     it was nothing i really was fully aware of when i accepted and began.   i should correct that.  i was aware of this, but was willing to just agree to live that way…a kind of just letting it go, of surrender.  and so now that is much in the mix, those concepts of letting go, surrender.   but it's jumping way ahead to go there now.    Now, there is this kind of thing going on:

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i never organize my thoughts or words any more before sitting down here and just beginning to write whatever just happens to appear on the screen.  i think maybe once in going on two years i have deleted.  it just comes.  there is a central thought and then free association as i wander through the day, but when i finally do sit down to type,  what gets said gets said.    that happened in SEW the other day when i posted a pic of what i'm doing and at some point,  these words came out:

"just looking, beginning to see some kind of map backwards    that can place me in the present, ready for what's next".    

since writing those words, i have been more and more respectful of the truth of them and the truth telling of the way they simply   Appeared.   part of this, i think is the work of the Flowers but part is also the work of the cloth.  the pieces of cloth.  and in the instance of the cloth and cloth pieces,  from watching them on the wall,  from moving them,  from putting pieces next to, near other pieces.

so…What If  this large cloth DOES turn out to be some kind of            cape.     some kind of stitched cloth that i might wrap around me at certain times????    i really don't know yet.  i won't know until Magic Diaries begins or maybe even goes along, continuing along for a while.    but i do know that i am very absorbed by these pieces on the wall.    this morning,  when i sat down to begin watching them for the first time today,  i immediately saw that i wanted to rearrange certain ones.  and i did that.   and they immediately began imagespeaking about an order of progression of things and Why that order might be, What that order might represent, and what usefullness it might have for a Cape of What's Next.

so, we'll see.  everything might change, i am really aware of that.  but my guess is, at this moment that the rearrangement seen here will remain pretty much or completely as it is in the pic.  and to add now:    the lizard cloth that Jude made, and sent me, now at the top of this order represents to me not just this particular cloth, not just a representation of Beasts Workshop, not at all a gift from Jude,  but it represents ALL of what Spirit Cloth means to me,  the "finding" of it,  the receiving teaching from Jude,  the inter-relatedness that has occured with the women in this cloth community,  and finally and most WonderFull of all,  the finding of a way to express things that i have been driven to express for my entire life. 

ok.  am going to print this.  will read it later. 

 

 

 

 

 

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39 responses to “the remedy of flowers and how consciousness sometimes does not speak english”

  1. judy keathley Avatar

    huge smile.
    huge appreciation.

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  2. Drucilla Pettibone Avatar

    i admire your bravery in putting your words out there as they come, and learning from them. they are beautiful and inspired. i want to stop deleting and second-guessing my words, and my life.

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  3. handstories Avatar

    this word “warrior” keeps showing up lately. your words reminded me of Michelle in NYC’s comment on my “wonder woman” post about “peaceful warriors…the treasures of patience and simplicity… in action and thought…returning to the essence of being…living in harmony with the way things are. (Adapted from a poem by Lao-tzu)”. i think of this cloth journey/work that jude is taking us on as learning to be with the cloth, of being with the cloth, of finding the spirit of the cloth, or is it finding our own spirits within the cloth. hmmm…

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  4. Vicky Avatar

    i have written and deleted too…sometimes it was just the need to say it out loud for myself, so i didn’t need to keep it, i could now move on. after 2 years of caring for my mom whose health just got worser and worser as the dementia got deeper into her head, and finally the death of the body who used to be my mom, i found myself left with a big hole. i didn’t want to fill it with grandchildren and pretend all was well….i wanted to create, throw cloth in the hole and mix it all up. i still want to weave a tree, but i have to wait until the cloth leads the way.
    i have been following jude for quite awhile now, but the time to play her way wasn’t my way yet, i was still on a different path. til now. i am looking forward to this long magic class…and i can finally stop to watch my grandchildren play…and am able to let them play with cloth with me.

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  5. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    Dru…second guessing…well…sometimes that needs to happen for a span of time, but when we feel it’s done, then …..
    doesn’t feel at all brave to me. i just talk about
    what is rising up in the day…i think We all have so much more in common than not…what “belongs” to one, is familiar to an other
    i also am thinking you are young, like Cindy. so, it’s good to honor one’s developmental time in life. time is now for me to cut to the chase

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  6. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    warrior. yes. not a instinctively favorite word to me,
    but i softened a lot on it because of a magnificant
    buddhist teacher Chogyam Trungpa…Shambala buddism…
    his teachings: the Sacred Path of the Warrior. this has been a constant and enduring guide to me in buddhism.
    i think it’s all of that..” learning to be with the cloth, of being with the cloth, of finding the spirit of the cloth, or is it finding our own spirits within the cloth”
    all of this. you say it very well.
    love,

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  7. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    Vicky…this is uhh, really something, that you have
    understood, first, then written here…
    “i didn’t want to fill it with grandchildren and pretend..”
    ” her way wasn’t my way yet”
    i am looking so, SO, forward to working next to you in
    Magic…and i love. love. love, so much you saying that
    you can finally watch them play.
    this has significance to me as i look to future when i
    will give up my single existence and move back in to
    community with my “daughters”, the little boy.
    thank you very much for this….

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  8. handstories Avatar

    grace-i’m 48! is that young?!? i feel more medium. xox

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  9. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    Cindy…yes. it is young.
    according to Grace Forrest’s Unscientific Scale of the
    Developmental Stages of Women According to Observance of
    Natural History.
    BUT. it is when we begin to get
    inklings.
    critical, to follow the urge of the inklings. otherwise,
    time excellerates, sucks us in, to a tunnel like thing
    making things harder by the time you reach “beginning to be
    old”.
    so, in my scheme of things, you are the beginning of
    medium. still young. on the brink, tho. Medium is
    short.
    make hay while the Sun shines
    or
    as John Wayne said ” you’re burnin daylight”

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  10. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    Reply2
    i read somewhere…i wish i would have written this down…
    but i didn’t (i was young)
    that in some native peoples…meaning indian…meaning
    here, i think probably navajo or apache
    probably navajo
    you study, if you feel called to be a “singer”
    you study until you are past 50’s sometime
    till you are past the childrearing/lover oriented as primary
    until you can be your own person and that is my interpretation of what i read, be your OWN person
    THEN
    you can sing. then, you can perform the songs of the
    People for the ceremonies. before then, you are too
    young…too many conflicting responsibilites.
    this is also mentioned by C.Casteneda in all the Don Juan
    stuff.
    although it’s uhhh, thoughts, i think, in my own experience, it might be true?

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  11. handstories Avatar

    so glad to hear i’m younger than i thought, not just in behavior. every once in a while the panic breathing of running out of time comes, usually when i think of big long term plans, or waiting for the visions(these may be inklings?) & revelations to settle.
    well, tell john i’m stitching as fast as i can (i do love john wayne (one of the few good memories of hanging w/dad).
    and thanks for hanging out with, inspiring & befriending this medium-on-the-brinkster.

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  12. handstories Avatar

    reply two too
    this makes sense. and this is the often present conflict inside. i had my boys late, on purpose, but wasn’t ready for this inner need that is brewing inside- the need for more self & space, which is probably coming at the right time for my body & personal growth. but there is not enough space for all of it. you’ve said good words about all of this before. i’m going to go look for them & breathe some more. my life is good, there just isn’t enough of it some days. and yes, different days will come. ooo

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  13. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    Cindy…there are variable factors. my daughter, jenny,
    had Alyssia at age 16. her son, age 18.
    Prologue is Prologue. we have lovers, we make children.
    Lovers and Children require fulfilling responsibility.
    we cannot jump over that. i tried. doesn’t work.
    or…in my own experience, i say that. you need to finish
    what you begin.
    BUT and it is a very big BUT
    you keep your finger tip on the pulse
    the pulse of your own singular self
    you check it now and then
    be aware of it.
    everyone’s life obligation/life learning differs
    women are amazing creatures, i think.
    are incredibly flexible
    i have great faith in you. and i am no dummy.
    so……..just
    as my old neighbor Mamie (who was named after Mamie
    Eisenhauer) used to say…
    “just scratch your ass and get happy”.
    but keep your finger on the pulse

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  14. handstories Avatar

    ha!
    not a dummy for sure!
    i will hold my finger firmly on the pulse & scratch madly with the other hand!
    we women are great multi-taskers.
    sweet dreams.

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  15. Drucilla Pettibone Avatar

    i’m 42, 43 in a few weeks. not feeling young any more, but very much on a brink of sorts.

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  16. Nancy Avatar

    Hahahahaha!

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  17. Nancy Avatar

    Oh Dru- I’ve got 10 years on ya and I am trying so hard not to feel old!

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  18. Nancy Avatar

    Yes Vicky, some holes need to wait to be filled, need to be filled by just the right thing..or will never be fully filled again. You will be left with a dimple of missing.
    And I too like the words you say about playing her way…different path…
    I have been following along with Jude’s blog for so long that I can’t recall exactly when I began reading,or posting comments. It is all a blur. But I feel like I am further along on the path now and maybe even at a fork in the road. Others, like you Grace are thigh high in the muck of that path on a very rainy day!!!
    And yet we travel together. Amazing.

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  19. Nancy Avatar

    Grace- I confess I delete and edit and create for as much as saying what I need/want to say, I am a writer and this too is art for me! The part I would like to do is feel sure enough to say Anything without second guessing if it is a wise choice to do so. But, one day I hope to do just that!
    For now I am loving the creation and sharing aspects of this blogging world. Someone recently (here on your blog I think) commented about a different sense of freedom in the comments section of another’s blog than in the posts of your own blog. I guess I am saying that this feels true for me … at this point. But, isn’t it wonderful to have so many ways and places to express yourself?! And so many friends to chat with!

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  20. Acey Avatar

    do you or anyone you have been close to pay attention to work of Jeannine Parvati? Sometimes known as JP Baker? I always think of her, connected to you, but am not sure why …
    am on the brink of 54 but am not sure I could evaluate or description much about my processing and synthesization skills. Normally, as long as plants and/or trees are making flowers, i can’t follow linear time tracks too well because i am in that other place hearing their stories. Past 10 years or so I’ve been judging myself and how well i am living according to my belief tenets based on what crops prosper in the garden, what essences i prepare and how many different people eat at my table one way or another. It is easier than how I was educated, how I was deprogrammed from the prison that education can be. How I learned about people – sometimes, occasionally, learning about myself. I’d often heard 50 to 55 were “the selfish years”. Older women told me: If you don’t spend them running all over not caring who thinks you’re crazy, you’ll be learning all about yourself sick in bed. People kept advising me to blow everything on a convertible (whose ending mid-life is this, anyway? SCREW the convertible! It ain’t here. It ain’t no never arriving, either.)
    Well in the first three of those years to mid-50 i have been both sick in bed and running around. constantly redefining path of service and when all else fails getting lost in library books or one of the gardens …
    Both have been true. I can gauge myself better in terms of where I am on the maternal wheel than with any kind of timeline achievements. And that includes spirit and subtle forms of development. this is what comes of spending so much time sitting perfectly still with frogs …

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  21. nance Avatar

    i’ve been away from the window for a bit… and this is a most important conversation . i had my wild exploring years early…in my 40s… i had my children early which permitted that. but it was oh so important as i had skipped some early in adolescence. i sometimes feel that my timeline doesn’t match others but have learned to accept that. life will give you what you need to grow…or maybe its from the universe. i am in a period of looking back again since my little sis died… i think it will take quite a while. and i have learned from previous gifts of death that this is a fertile time and i couple it with an older age…i have a lot to look back upon…. and understand in a new way. its the spiral. and the hole it has created can either suck you in or you can fill it your self. and it is a battle too as you slip in and forge your way out. back and forth until its filled and you can wal over it on to the next.

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  22. Nancy Avatar

    Well said nance! I try not to get sucked in. But there are times…

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  23. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    jeannine Parvati…maybe because i think we would have very much liked one another…and yes. her book, Hygieia,
    has been in many homes i know…i had it long ago. i
    think, with a daughter and granddaughter, i should have it again. i also loved Ina May Gaskin and at one time was going to set out to the Farm and study midwiffery there.
    i just watched the video..Safe Motherhood Quilt. jeez.
    we are getting
    o l d
    Spending So Much Time Sitting Perfectly Still With Frogs
    THIS, is a good good life. no matter what the age.
    and i was rethinking my verbalized Opinions above and
    who knows…i am only speaking from my own experience…
    there are millions of experiences
    and there is that sense of shock, seeing Ina May (and so
    i guess i would experience the same if i were her looking
    at me)….but numerical age, that linear thing, its
    deceptive.
    and i guess it’s a lot of what we are DOING or not doing
    at any given period of time…
    i think i learned more in those 50’s years than in the
    previous, or maybe it all just started to become distilled?
    well…such good company you keep…those frogs

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  24. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    maybe you can create a Brink Cloth

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  25. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    why? …”trying so hard…..”???? we can’t possibly
    be who we are if we don’t live….like days and months
    and years…

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  26. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    and learn from…it is extremely interesting and
    informative, how we all respond to things, how we express who we are, who we want others to know us to be

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  27. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    our particular timelines..

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  28. handstories Avatar

    i just heard about this quilt project a few weeks ago from someone who’s been to the farm & started looking into seeing if there was a way to help out with it.
    you have me looking forward to the 50’s. i like your “distilled” idea. i often feel like i’m just soaking it all in, for the day when there is time- brewing.

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  29. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    HOW GREAT!…tell more anytime there is more to tell.
    …about your friends connection, about the Farm.
    they are very into Permaculture in a really great way now
    marinating. i think we marinate. some recipes take
    more, some less.

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  30. Nancy Avatar

    Yes and who we feel safe to be in certain environments. This place feels safe and I thank you for that!

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  31. handstories Avatar

    it was another baseball mom, the season finished yesterday…but i’ll see if i can find out more. and my email to ina mae bounced back, i guess it’s snail mail time.

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  32. Drucilla Pettibone Avatar

    maybe we can be not old but not young either? just in-between. i kind of like that actually.

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  33. Drucilla Pettibone Avatar

    yes! although today what is in my mind is more of a PTSD cloth. really needing to deal with some old stuff to move forward. i’ll probably second-guess this plan though.

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  34. Nancy Avatar

    Point taken! 🙂 And will ponder this some more!

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  35. Nancy Avatar

    Yes that would be nice!

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  36. Acey Avatar

    Hey i don’t know if you will see this. if they send them on posts as old as this. But i am still reading your old blog. i am looking at connections to the future in the now. okay.
    so i saw here we discussed JP in the way far past and you did recall Hygeia as well. She would have been SUPER interested in your family and how it has grown and evolved. seems like there would be a similar vibe. LOTS of talking. super cosmic talking and maybe not needing to finish sentences which would lead to lots of laughing.
    yeah. that would have been a five star meet-up for sure.

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  37. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes….here i am, back here, with you….
    how amazing to me that you found this, how interesting
    to me in this moment, 2019 that i have lost
    so much about using words…where’d it Go? and why?
    Should i go looking for it?
    Love and Love

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