it's not Eve yet, but close.  these last moments of the day go fast.  there is light and then, seemingly suddenly, there is not. 

New Year's Eve,  December 31, 2011.  and from the week's thinking,  yes.  keeping the book of small things.  finding and dyeing string.  and, beside continuing with the Diaries cloth….my Noragi.

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Work Jacket.  my beloved Hoodie.  i have had half the zipper removed for a year (according to my calendar)  i had ordered and received a new metal heavy duty zipper.  sat there.  while i kept  wearing the hoodie with a saftey pin to keep closed.  i should have had that in the pic.  ah well…  so this morning i removed the other half of the broken zipper and

STITCHED IN THE NEW ZIPPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  oh, ta DA!  the sound it makes is just Great!

and i will Begin.  this will become THE morning ritual.  boro~ing my noragi.  that's all i know so far.

and still tonight is the thing i have done for many years.  the transfer of the calendars.

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i'd been hoping for another Butterfly one, but not.  Flowers instead.  Dollar Store.  you take what they have.  and i love them for their oddness.  made in China calendars, so we have pansies in January.  well, so do all of you in Australia, so i will think of it that way.

after i eat whatever amazing thing i have cooked myself i sit.  and go through each month.  reading what i had  written in the last year, transferring to the new calendar things that might have "significance" to the future.  and also, on the top, in the space around the Month, there are things from years before that for whatever reason, i feel like i need to keep in mind.  Birth Days are outlined in Blue Hilighter.  and then, it's done.  New Year's Eve.  if there's time left, i just sit there and think about it all.  if not, i go to bed.   This is my very most totally FAVORITE day.

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45 responses to “SUN drifts toward the western rim of the earth”

  1. Sandy Avatar

    I bought my day planner today, altho I havent transfered info yet. I have been cleaning out the “craft” cabinet- I had my hands( and my head) involved in too many things and I am scaling back BIG time.
    I bet you must be thrilled to have that zipper in. Your favorite hoodie lives on. I wish you much health and happiness in 2012. You have been one of my highlights of 2011. THANK YOU! XOXO

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  2. Deb G Avatar

    Just came in from tucking the chickens in for the night. Light enough that I can see what I am doing, but dark enough they’ve gone to roost. Today was a good day for mending…your hoodie is wonderful.

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  3. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    as have you, Sandy. i have loved you beginning and
    energy and look forward to however that continues…
    xoxoxo

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  4. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    am almost gone to roost myself those chicken girls are
    relations of mine for sure…
    and the hoodie. yes. it’s a strong good being. the
    boro ing will dance on it.

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  5. Serena Avatar
    Serena

    i like today too. my mom does that with her calenders. i like it. it’s already very very dark here and i am completely worn from the drive we made yesterday….almost six hours. i am ready for a long winters nap 🙂 happy new year my very beautiful friend.
    raising arms up, shaking hair out
    2012!!

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  6. Nancy Avatar

    Grace, My sister also has this calendar ritual. I seem to have written less and less in mine over the years…maybe in my free Hallmark datebook – I use that a lot. Oh well, not important. I’m glad your hoodie is good to go for another year 🙂 I have felt good spending this last year (or most of it) with you here. I am honored.
    Peace be with you in 2012

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  7. deb Avatar

    Its never too late to start a new tradition..I will shop for a day book tomorrow. Pen and paper are holding new significance for me. What better place to make note, mark time and remember than a calendar. Thanks again Grace. Your name says so much.

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  8. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    Serena…YES!!! that will be in the morning, and YES!!!!
    raising arms up, shaking hair out…dancing IN the day…

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  9. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    my hoodie will be forever. it is a Noragi, or, WILL be.
    i too am honored. We will be Peace in 2012, yes?

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  10. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    oh deb…THANK YOU
    it’s an amazing thing, the calendar. you look back
    and see yourself in days…things that seemed the end of
    the world or the beginning of it are noted as such.
    and there it all IS, trotting along in such an
    orderly fashion
    just love and Everything to you

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  11. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    just finished the
    Transfer
    and funny…i “brought forward” very little this time.
    for the first time. wonder what That Means?????

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  12. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    actually, that second Reply was to you, not myself, or?
    both of us, i guess………

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  13. Valerianna Avatar

    I did an “unofficial” calendar ritual the other day. My new datebook started on December 26th or so, so I switched over a little early. And I made a HUGE change from the We’Moon Calendar that I have been using for about ten years, to a new one called “Earth Pathways” (I think!) produced in the UK with artists from there. So I feel its quite a transition for me, really, its a big thing. A book I look at almost every day.
    Don’t think I could deal with pansies for my January photo, how northern hemisphere-centric am I!

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  14. Vicky Avatar

    i have a calendar thing too, but i just ordered new pens, so the 2012 calendar has post it flags….{big smile}…my biggest thing is not changing the month until the first of that month. don’t wanna tempt fate.
    i like the idea of being highlighted in blue, thank you grace!!!!!

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  15. KaiteM. Avatar

    i’ve got Mum a butterflies calendar for this year, we haven’t put it up yet tho. must do so today.

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  16. Christi Avatar

    I have the very same calendar ritual, Grace, but I am not steadfast about the transfer day…sometimes it is two weeks into the new year. I haven’t even purchased my 2012 yet, so who knows…maybe three weeks :>] The very Best of Wishes your way as well.

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  17. Jeannie Avatar
    Jeannie

    The calendar ritual occurs here as well. Reflecting on what has been and what may be, time seems to stop for the moment as I do this every year. The calendar is of nature, by an English artist. Your hoodie made me smile. I have one very similar. The zipper has been replaced and it too should be boro’d. It is my go out in the garden and see what there is to see. My dig in the dirt, fill the feeders, plant new seeds jacket. My wish for you in this New Year is to embrace your talents. You create such beauty and you are such an inspiration. Be well and enjoy this quiet time. Hugs.

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  18. Doris Avatar
    Doris

    Since two years I started to make every day or nearly every day a short note what I have done. That gives me a complete new feeling for time. I just started the new calender.
    I just have to add to the other comments: I´m so glad to have found you with your creativity and your way to see life. It is an enrichment for me. Thank you a lot for being you and a happy happy new year.

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  19. Patty M Avatar

    Your calendar transfer is one I do along with phone/email book transfer. Your creative life is so rich, I’m inspired.

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  20. jude Avatar

    up early, not hungover, what day. a zipper is a wonderful symbol for something, the way it connects in such an amazing pattern of interlocking. it is so easily done and undone. i like the sound it makes going either way.

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  21. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    these transitions have real meaning i think.
    and pansies…well, there they ARE! bright faces on
    my wall this morning.

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  22. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    yes…the blue highliter….

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  23. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    yes. it was the BEST one yet…butterflies….

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  24. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    yes. i am steadfast with that. often, it seems, the first
    weeks of January are important.

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  25. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    Jeannie…the hoodieNoragi… this life here is SO labor
    intensive. and it is the best. soft. very strong, thick.
    i thank you for the Wish you give me and will think of it a
    lot. i will miss you very much in Diaries so hope you
    will come by here when you can to keep in ~touch~

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  26. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    Doris…it’s a very plain life, really. i can’t believe
    my Luck at finding Us All to share such small things with
    and know they have meaning to others too. so
    THANK YOU for being YOU and coming into my days with
    your very Fine self…..

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  27. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    Patty…as above to Doris. it’s nothing much, really.
    Thank You! for validating that simpleness…

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  28. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    yes. it’s a heavy duty zipper. like on my snowsuit
    when i was a kid, or the zipper on a tent.

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  29. Susan C Avatar

    I just love what you have shared on this post, Grace. Much love to you in this new year.
    I look forward to boro-ing with you. I have a few things I have set aside to patch and strengthen.
    Happy New Year!!

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  30. Wendy Avatar

    Happy new year to you Grace; like you, these days the 31st and the 1st are my favorites. Somebody told me once that what happens on these days will characterize your year-imagine that. So- here I am to say thank you for all the ways you reach out to support others in their creative work, and how you nurture my imagination with your own inspired creative life. Thank you Grace.

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  31. Suzanna Avatar

    Here’s to a new year, and peace in it, let’s hope. Thank you Grace for all your wonderful thoughts and words!

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  32. Nancy Avatar

    My sister and I found MANY of my mom’s old calendars. I found the 1959 one with my birth-day marked. That was something 🙂

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  33. helen salo Avatar
    helen salo

    Grace,Here’s to new beginnings or continuing fond rituals.
    New Year’s day is definately for new beginnings, but almost becoming a sad omen for me. My father in law, Ted, passed this a.m. and my mother ‘s funeral was on New year’s 14 years ago and my sister’s husband died on New year’s 24 years ago. I’m trying to look at death as a positive passing especially for my father in law who was very tired! 30 days shy of 93 years on this earth and was still working up until two years ago. An incredible Man! So I hope it signafies new beginnings of great things for me and my husband.
    Look forward to stitching and chatting with you and everyone in the New Year! Love and Peace to you and yours, helen

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  34. Penny B Avatar

    And may you do so many of your favourite things each and every day that follows.

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  35. manya Avatar
    manya

    Grace, have a happy one then. love in oodles, a cauldron to fall into!

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  36. KaiteM. Avatar

    and thankyou very very much for taking the time to put blackmarks on paper plus a print. you are very precious. see my latest blog post, arrivals and departures.

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  37. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    patch and strengthen…good words, aren’t they. i look
    forward to seeing what they are…??????

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  38. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    well, if that is true, it will be a very good and
    satisfying year. i am going to hope it’s true.
    i am supported in my Life by Everyone, really. xoxo

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  39. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    and Back to All of Us… here we Go…..

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  40. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    Helen…this is a major event, i know your life has been
    very intertwined with his. i will think of you in these
    days as you get used to him being gone and look forward
    to Diaries days with you. much love to you,

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  41. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    crossing fingers……..

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  42. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    what a great thought…love in oodles
    a cauldron of oodles
    and for you i wish peace and a year of fulfillment…
    love to you, Manya….

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  43. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    ok…here i come …….

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  44. Irene Avatar
    Irene

    Dear Grace,
    just dropped by for a New Year’s visit, such warm and sturdy happenings here… so grateful for the bold spirit connection you initiated last year. wishing you magical and abundant blessings in 2012.

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  45. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    well, some bold spirit and some just comotion. but
    GLAD you came by….hope you will come again…
    soon it will be time for the ripening to give seed…

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