and it has held.

a lot of times, i get these flashes, floods of understanding, of some new sense of equilibrium

and then,  they fade.   they most often DO return, but it takes time.  This time, tho, it is remaining and remaining steady.  again, i am gratefull to Irene for finding the exact words, the exact arrangement that created this. 

so, i am weaving things together.  selves,  doings.  everyday i split more wood and stack it.  there is a good rhythm to that.  last week, as i had mentioned, i made a Friend.  Tawanna.  she came.  we spent the afternoon.  some outside, talking about the land, the plant people.  some in the house and then, most on the porch.  sitting.  i gave her the top step.  and we just talked.  as Margaret said, in the last post, there were many familiarities/similarities.  it is enough for now.  i have sailed it out into the Universe.  letting it drift now.  what wants to happen will.

the Diaries Cloth:  i basted on a piece of raw silk noile to the back.  i wanted to feel the needle going through both pieces.  one wasn't right. 

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then, as posted in SEW, some details, finally

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somewhere, i think in a comment, i said something about learning about being literal and more free, abstract………..well, today i struggled with that.   the first of the little lizards.  and it took pretty much all day,  in between the wood work and then, making    donuts   of all things, but, really was the Center of the day……..i think i was NOT successful.  but i'll give it some time.

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i should have had a contest or something so see if anyone could guess what this is….but i'm not much for that, so i'll just tell you.  it's my lizards here.  the ones with the blue tails, bellys and throats.  but it kinda caught me up in detail and it looks maybe more like a long tailed mammal? well, i'll look again in the morning. 

and then, i stitched down some on one of the outer rim butterflies…that i am hoping will draw everything IN.  this was as i'd envisioned it

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it's SunDay night.  i am thinking about Jude being incomunicado (sp) for some days.  what would that be like, i am asking self….if i were just on my own.

 

 

 

 

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17 responses to ““circle of regeneration begins as darkness ripens” Irene Rapaport”

  1. Nancy Avatar

    Ahhh…it would feel very different to be ‘on my own’ as I have become so comfortable hearing the voices of everyone here. And Jude is with people, just not us! Ha!
    I think the little lizard is wonderful. I could really tell after zooming in, it’s face is so stern and lizard like and it’s front right foot is holding on so tight!!! So cute. I like your version of the tail too, kind of wiggling off to who knows where! I like the butterfly too, such pretty colors 🙂

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  2. Suzanna Avatar

    I like his tail too…it’s as if he’s dropped in from outer space and is holding on very seriously to the edge of the cloth cause he likes it here…also what a difference the backing makes…a settling in…

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  3. margaret johnson Avatar
    margaret johnson

    your lizard looks so bright and alert, just as a lizard should look. and his spirit shows through. beautiful. ox

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  4. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    grace, from the beginning as I saw the cloths that constitute your magic diary, the color, the piecing, I knew that this was your life story in New Mexico. They call New Mexico the land of enchantment, here we see why: To me, this is a powerful memory cloth, I even wrote a comment on your blog to the effect that when you finally leave, you will introduce this cloth to your new land. It is fitting, that it comes under the title of Magic Diary Cloth; that’s what a diary is:, it contains our lifeline, what has been, what is now, what is yet to come, maybe hoped for, maybe accepted as what is yet to realized… To me, the emotion, the story that comes through from the fiber, the colors, the creation of sunflower, lizards, butterflies, maybe a little spade foot toad in one corner, what comes from needle and thread, from your hands which are threaded to your heart is the story of a woman, in love with her land, creating in real and symbolic art, the wonder, beauty and love of place This is a powerful, deeply profound and loving cloth. One whose magic lies not in the abstract but in the reality of knowing a place from dirt to feather grass to tree limb to all of the sacred inhabitants of place, including the woman herself.

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  5. Yvonne Avatar
    Yvonne

    I love your thread lizard – so intent and there – and I see two question marks in its tail.

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  6. Valerianna Avatar

    I saw a lizard…. and I love the wind blowing strands of hair across the cloth-woman;s face. Wind-blown-threads. I hope this comment lives beyond my writing it! I’m going to stay and WILL it to take root here, we’ll see….

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  7. Linda Avatar

    i laughed when i saw the lizard. he is wonderful.. marti is so right about this being a cloth of new mexico. i certainly see that. you could never make the same cloth here in seattle. i also love that you backed it with silk. i think there must be at least two layers and when i put the silk in my kimono it made it feel more substantial.
    still catching up after two days of work.
    what if we were alone.. would we still produce what we do? i am sure we have a foundation but i would miss all this. i miss jude’s daily thoughts. maybe we would take up more of a conversation on our own blogs. i am not a daily blogger. maybe i will be when i retire.
    things to think about.

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  8. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    today is Wednesday and i’m still looking at the stitches
    of that little lizard……

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  9. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    yes…the noile was the right decision.

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  10. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    hmmmmm.

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  11. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    yes, in a way it is a memory cloth but it also is an
    Everywhere cloth, or it’s where i think it might be going,
    holding the things that i love that are Everywhere?
    when talking with Tawanna, we had in common that everywhere
    we have lived, we planted, we admired, we loved what ever
    land there was. it would good to tell stories of that,
    both her and me.
    and when jenny was looking a lot at real estate ads for
    places there, she tried to send me pics of what
    grasses
    were growing

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  12. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    you WILL take root….those almost invisible oh so thin
    explorer filaments have been sent out for some time.
    I LOVE watching it RISE UP……….
    love,

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  13. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    the lizards always make me smile when they just appear and
    stop to look up at me. they are the epitomy of “Just Going” they are always busy and always of such good cheer.
    “when i retire”………………. ~
    i know i would still make cloth. there is no turning
    back now. but not having her blog, the classes, there is
    a huge blank spot. i thought about that a lot today…
    it helped me remember how disinterested i was in the
    internet before Spirit Cloth. interesting.

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  14. Nancy Avatar

    Ahhh…that is because it is sooo cute!

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  15. Nancy Avatar

    Beautifully said Marti…
    yes…love of place…

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  16. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Yes, everywhere cloth, a good way to talk of this cloth for it is a story that is on-going: Since I have been to your land, for me, this cloth is a memory cloth because of what I saw, felt and experienced. Equally, the things we love in one place, we will find in another; may be in a slightly different form, a different variety but the memory from another place, comes forth strongly. I have found this to be so true from living on an island, in the mountains and now in the South. The land gives such treasures, if we know where to look and more importantly, to see. To know this, as you and Tawanna do, is a precious gift.

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  17. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    yes…your many Places. i always think of this, how
    you have loved and still DO love each. this has helped
    me look at this period of time in a good way. i am
    very grateful to you for this.
    love,

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