i found these two shreds on the floor….they had been layered together, but had separated and twisted. a butterfly!, i thought….and remembered the little fragment/wisp star Jude showed us in Sun Moon Stars. so it was really just the butterfly i wanted to make, but it was pretty much just threads all coming loose so needed a place to be sewn to. am not sure what my point is here, yet. maybe i don't have one. but just wanted to remember this moment, how it happened.
more context! and this is a lovely little flutterby!
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it looks really fluttery on the red…which looks really good on the blue.
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What a splendid little dancin’ butterfly! The story of the moth and the butterfly…sounds like a children’s book! Ha! All of the conversations and thoughts about why and theme and symbol and shape and color…and context too…they are all wonderful and necessary and good deep ponderings…
But sometimes it is so nice to have a little butterfly just come happily along…and to embrace that little being and that moment and maybe not even stop to ask why, but instead to hold that creature, that moment gently in your hands as the treasure that it is.
I love those moments, don’t you?!
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When ever I spot a butterfly in the garden, I am always surprised and grateful. Your butterfly flew to you to be memorialized in cloth. Serendipity, chance, whatever, it is a gift.
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I’ve been off line for about 8 days so trying to catch up, I tried to comment on one of your posts but had a hell of a time. Is it my AT&T server? Wind? So this is basically a “test” for me. thanks, Grace. Hope all is well.
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Helen…???hmmmm????….don’t know…about the problem
posting???? nothin going on here to indicate that.
i’ll be back later today. am cleaning house.
xoxoxo
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hey grace, back again after another couple days away. this little little butterfly is the coolest thing-how nothings become so SOMETHING. we had a heatwave here today 80degrees- i’m such a northwest girl. thought of you & thunder man & wished you wind & rain.
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love this butterfly. i amazed at the magic we are creating.
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i think there is room and goodness in all of it.
it’s just that right now i am very
interested
in seeing the cloths in many different ways.
i like that.
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yes.
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got BOTH
and
a totally elegant
RAINBOW
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love your butterfly and loved your toad on an earlier post .. And thank you for the nice words you wrote on my blog. I guess there is no denying that I am absolutely fascinated with the things that I see in my own back yard. Today in fact I found several things that I took photos of. One was a red spotted salamander .. pretty kewl looking .. and then tonight a teeny tiny white moth .. it was crawling on my skin when I was getting ready to get in the shower lol .. so i took a bizillion photos of it. I’ll post them all soon!!! 🙂 thanks for stopping over ..
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All small things need a space…
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your photographs of these creatures are the best i’ve
seen
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and actually Have one of one kind or another…
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This butterfly reminds me of your moon moth. It has a sense of aliveness to it. I think it is meaningful that you see creatures that fly in bits of cloth. Especially at this place in your life.
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it would, because the scraps so clearly presented themselves as
Moth and as Butterfly… both being Wings and Movement
they were just There. all i had to do was stitch them down.
and the last sentence….can you say more? it’s very interesting to
me….
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