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” Showing up……….and Staying present” Acey

"Showing up….acknowledging the moment as it is rather than preoccupation, denial, or avoidance related to whatever we might prefer the moment to be….and Staying present."    Acey

the most perfectly perfect choice of and then arrangement of words.  perfect.  yes.  in the most absolute sense.  yes.004
and the gift of what is for me, a completely perfect morning.  already 80 at 8am, some wind.  the kind of wind that makes sound.

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and still looking.   at color.   at my seemingly undeniable love for these same dark kinds of colors.  thinking if that is an ok thing??? or should i expand this lifelong propensity.  i don't know.

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and what do we have here, i'm wondering………. 

 
 

 

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33 responses to “” Showing up……….and Staying present” Acey”

  1. deanna7trees Avatar
    deanna7trees

    i wish my eyelashes were that long.

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  2. Vicky Avatar
    Vicky

    the eye of a bird??? we have sun today…so far, but not the temps. this northwest weather has been grumpy this spring.

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  3. jude hill Avatar
    jude hill

    looks like a rooster.

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  4. Peggy Avatar
    Peggy

    a fire spirit — or a fiery third eye.
    Grace, I lovelovelove your colors on this cloth. I hope you keep going with them.

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  5. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    Yes, my thoughts exactly, looks like a rooster…

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  6. Linda Avatar
    Linda

    i agree with the rooster.
    i also struggle to try to put different colors in my cloths and clothes. i redid my closet yesterday and in a moment of anal compulsive behavior I put them in color order. i should take a picture but you would see i own black and khaki and little else. some lime green and orange. boring.
    i am still thinking about what i will do in diaries and it always comes to blue.. indigo as a favorite. still don’t know. i see the off whites and want those too.
    so i am weaving and trying to not think of it.
    btw.. the warp is not blue.
    will put a picture on my blog

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  7. Acey Avatar
    Acey

    I think it’s quite a bit more than simply “okay” to work with whatever color range best embodies one’s personal understanding of this non-verbal language. I perceive what you’re wondering about is much more about the (ongoing, ever-refining) establishment of a working palette rather than lingering in an established comfort zone. Seems to me that taking the time to ponder that establishment’s refinement goes a long way to successful expression of whatever themes are most compelling to any given individual. I definitely see the rooster now that others have mentioned it but, before that, I thought it was more of a dragon or mythical dream creature coming to life (the vivid colors, I thought, were kind of like metaphorical flames) after a long sleep & intensive dreaming.

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  8. nance Avatar
    nance

    it would take a bit of extra stitching for me to be convinced that it really is a rooster. i am wondering if you have stitched the eye or is it drawn on to be stitched. couldn’t really tell from the enlargement. i see a reflection of some sort in the eye itself and maybe that the colors radiating out have something to do with what your eye is seeing. it was “comfortable” for me before the rooster was mentioned. i could see it as your vision…. and i do not think you are envisioning a rooster some how… unless??? its someone from your past???? somehow i was looking at it as the future though. is this making any sense at all? well, i believe in your vision of things. i believe you are able to see and that the meaning will come through…esp with the flower essence of acey’s… its amazing what is happening with you and your vision of things since this treatment.

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  9. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    I did not see rooster at all. I saw an aura of Native American Celebration!
    As for your colors…I think it is ok to be pulled in by the same colors. Maybe that is another way to make your mark, your signature, another way to be Grace.
    But if you are questioning it…maybe a growth of some sort is taking place.
    I still like the cloth, but miss the eye! 🙂
    And the light, bright blue seems so startling, a bit out of sync with the earthy New Mexico colors happening there. I guess something about Me is that I seek balance. It doesn’t have to be there and it most certainly isn’t always there in life…but visually I like it! HA! Maybe that blue means something to you…something new, or different or personally growing…or…

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  10. deanna7trees Avatar
    deanna7trees

    on a more serious note, maybe it represents the ‘mind’s eye’ (i’m back to that again) instead of what is visually right in front of you.

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  11. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    did you curl your eyelashes…with that
    contraption?
    yes. what is sensed.

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  12. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    oh yes. i tried living in Oregon. nope. SUN.

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  13. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    it is NOT a rooster.

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  14. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    don’t think i can help it

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  15. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    NO

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  16. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    will go look

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  17. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    i love all colors.
    some colors and combinations and degrees there of
    i think speak particularly about certain things that i
    am always involved with.

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  18. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    the bright turquoise will be perfect in very small mosaic.
    and really, how every thing is perfect, in very small mosaic. and thanks, for NOT seeing a rooster.

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  19. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    do you think?
    no. no rooster. it is about Sun Love. i will post
    another one tomorrow. maybe it will be less roosterish.
    the eye was stitched. just “free needle”. i think i
    might draw it on with pencil next time. did a lot of
    stray stitching to achieve this much…wasn’t necessary,
    really.
    these eyes aren’t really mine, just eyes. just things
    that see…witness. just eyes.

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  20. deanna7trees Avatar
    deanna7trees

    yes. i did. i went through some months without eyelashes at all on my left eye because the dr. cut them off when he did eye surgery. i wouldn’t let him do the second surgery unless he promised he wouldn’t cut them off. i never appreciated my eyelashes until i didn’t have them.

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  21. nance Avatar
    nance

    could be me…us… witnessing you!

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  22. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    Laughing…think this is a good example of we all see what we will. I won’t say what it looked like to me. 🙂
    This post is really making me think about how light affects color…

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  23. Margaret Johnson Avatar
    Margaret Johnson

    your sample wall is looking lively. as in life you need the dark to balance the light. your colour combinations look good to me. and oh, i dooo see a rooster! see ya. ox

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  24. jude hill Avatar
    jude hill

    my new cloth, the sister cloth to magic , which is only a sketch in my minds eye…has an eye in the middle. at least i started thinking about it that way. i am wanting to say that if the colored shards continue here, it could be the center of a spin. this eye.

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  25. Penny B Avatar
    Penny B

    A perfect way to go through life…being in the moment.
    A perfect development both on the wall and in your hand.

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  26. lynda howells Avatar
    lynda howells

    l love the sound of the heat and wind…send some ro UK will youxx Love your eye..lynda

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  27. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Yes…I have thought of your bright-light blueness and thought that I DO like the light it brings in…a very small mosaic…yes.

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  28. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    yes, could be

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  29. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    it does, doesn’t it

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  30. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    one more mark in the rooster column…

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  31. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    hmmm. center of a spin. hmmmm.
    Magic’s sister. i love those two words……

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  32. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    yes…and something that i’ve been working on for a long long time. it’s the buddhist thing but
    these words in particular…maybe because they say
    something about that it’s mere
    preference for kinds of moments…
    i don’t know. but i like it.
    being present and staying there….no matter what the
    moment holds.

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  33. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    lynda…i did. i went out and said
    “To Lynda!!!!!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~”

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