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something about something ~ or, Why part 2

this is just a Saturday night thing.  just thoughts.  but a continuation in clarification for self, really of the Why post. 

nance asked a question, or, posed a thought and then disappeared.  the Plus and downside of email.

but what i did immediately in response was to take this pic from the frame it shares with a pic of my daughter at age 3 that lives on the glass shelf of this computer desk along with the Dalai lama and Chenrezig.

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how does this apply here?  not sure yet.     but i have had a love affair with cloth, with what cloth IS for longer than i was aware of.     this pic is from an issue of National Geographic of a girl in Darfur.  maybe, what?, maybe 7 or 8 years ago?  could be more.   has been right here, in my life everyday ever since.  part of it is her.   the story was about young girls raped and escaped.  finding refuge.  i see it everytime i look at it in the same way as i saw it the first time.  look at her dress.  how she sits.  look at the place of refuge, this chair.  her eyes.  how her body is ready to spring…away, if need be.

cloth.

 

 

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12 responses to “something about something ~ or, Why part 2”

  1. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    Beautiful yellow/brown tones… INTENSE eyes and urge to flee. Amazing, these things we keep around forever….

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  2. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Such unrest there (to me). Amazing how things impact us and stay with us…each our own unique experience. This is a powerful picture.

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  3. margaret johnson Avatar
    margaret johnson

    I wonder how that little girl is today? Such a moving picture.

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  4. jude Avatar
    jude

    i can only look, all my words stay inside, and i know you better.

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  5. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    Ok grace… I am back now. I remember when you said that you felt it was a betrayal… I had gotten to your blog much later than when you wrote it. I wanted to take you to the future and wrap you up in your finished cloth and show you how your perseverance and dedication also included questioning… And how you always came back to it with new love… Over and over as it was such a long process. I I wanted to ask you while
    you were cocooned in your cloth if you could feel how your life and your cloth were intertwined and tell you that you were wrapped in your talisman of who you were up to the moment you finished it… That now you could take it and move into your future your new birth would be ready for you while the essence of you in your cloth would always be there for comfort when you needed it. That the one moment of questioning was only part of the process of becoming who you are.
    XOXO

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  6. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    she has become like family to me

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  7. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    yes. it is. photojournalism.

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  8. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    my guess is that she is maybe 9 in this photograph? so
    say it was 8 years ago…she would be 17 now? things
    have stayed hard in Sudan.
    there have been many moments when i wondered if i could
    contact Natl Geo, contact the photographer, find her.
    see if she might want to come here.

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  9. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    this is good.

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  10. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    “peseverance and dedication also included questioning”
    questioning being part of the process.
    yes.
    today has been a good day for understanding these things.
    those big x s and o x back to you….

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  11. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    This was a beautiful comment Nance.

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  12. Sally jo Avatar
    Sally jo

    your picture shows that our CIVILization has much to learn and so far to go befor we call ourselves civil.
    like valerianna, i love the colors and yes, cloth is the common thread.

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