I love how things become.  transform.  morph.  right before our eyes,  if we're looking.  if not,  it happens anyway and at some point down the road,  we notice.  or not…..

My visit with Rene is still having it's effect.    I'm thinking she is like a mordant? …  < interesting thought >   and,  she is very much a mirror.

I  can't tell it all here,  just some,  which makes these days now open out into the Next.  which i've said the Diaries Cloth is….the cloth of Next.  and without explanation or qualification, I can Tell this:  from an almost incidental moment in our two day conversation:

Our lives feel to us as if having been seperate "movies".  Segmented.  that we were certain selves in each, transforming, morphing (there's that word again) as the "episode" required.  and now, each of us is in the "next".  We are at different points in a human life time~line.  I think she's probably twenty some years younger than i, so has many more episodes to go?  and I imagine fewer for my self, or even that this is my final form?

and THEN,  some events and brief conversations,  co~incidental,  in the subsequent days,  about entirely seperate things, have Presented a really great realization:  That all those episodes, those movies, those periods of time and life are

Complete.

in and of themselves.         That i need not "refer" to any of them to inform each day as it comes now.  it can all be NEW in a certain way.  ~!!!!!!~

a few weeks ago i found this blouse at the Thrift Shop

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i really love it.  it "talks" to me.  and i think about the upcoming Contemporary Boro class of Jude's.   clothing.  personal adornment.     Personal Adornment.  and  i am realizing something.  that i really have less an urge to adorn my self than see how cloth adorns my space.  Said a different way,  to just SEE  cloth.  as  an Equal almost "life form" that i share space WITH?

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here, the curtain wears the blouse.

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and now, the futon.

This post might not make a lot of sense, but remember, this blog is primarily a Cloth Journal.  where i document the story of my growing relationship with cloth.  So,  it's ok.

 

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17 responses to “on the edge of Next”

  1. Valerianna Avatar

    I just wrote a really LONG comment.. and POOF, it went away. So, just to say. Yes, its definitely OK.
    Love the thoughts about cloth adorning space. (I said a lot more, but…)

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  2. jude Avatar

    i think we are adorned by what we choose to wrap ourselves in. we cannot avoid being wrapped in space and what is in it. the things we keep close enough to touch, they are most important. i understand. i don’t have closets anymore. or too many piles. i think too, rethink actually clothing. simplified to just a wrapping cloth. on or off.

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  3. deb Avatar

    that blouse is so perfect..I would have bought it in a heartbeat no matter the size..

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  4. nemo-ignorat Avatar

    fading on the outside and still colourful on the inside … isn’t that a bit like we all age?
    beautiful blouse

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  5. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    yes. on or off.
    but then, when i went to take B breakfast yesterday,
    i wore a jacket shirt that i’ve had for YEARS, from
    Thrift Shop, that i have NEVER worn. but i found it.
    and wore it. i’ll have to take a pic of it. and, my
    traveling jacket…the Flax one…everytime i go to the
    laundromat i throw it in…to soften it and that EyE
    i stitched to the inside pocket. getting it ready for
    the Boro class. so, yes. thinking. and also, once
    the WARM comes back, things change. will be an interesting
    Spring.

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  6. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    yes. sort of. but in another way, not. and i’m not sure about
    the other way, yet.
    and yes…such a blouse.
    what is the word for blouse in german?

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  7. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    yup. and 10cent Tuesday, too.
    i have thought to cut it up.
    or, make it into a pillow.
    but am thinking most now, just let the house wear it.
    AND, maybe i WILL wear it?

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  8. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    I have a trick–I copy paste my comment before hitting post (just in case)–I sometimes get the problem here and at Jude’s so came up with that method. Usually I get accepted the second time around.

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  9. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    this is embarassing. i have yet to learn to
    copy/paste.

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  10. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Home with sniffles, sneezels and cotten stuffed brains. I am just getting to my favorite blogs now–and this one’s a doozey Grace–a true EEEEeeee post. The conversation presents a film like view (the camera enters and slowly pans all around) the home draped and dressed in couch coats, chair wear, window wardrobes, with tables multi-toned in scarfs, utensils wearing gloves and floors bedecked with shoes galore! In the animate version they all dance.

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  11. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    well…sneezels and cotton brain WORK for your imagination!
    no…i think it will be just one blouse. but then, you
    never know.
    love, and feel better,

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  12. KaiteM. Avatar

    makes sense to me, and i’m liking the chintz cushion on the futon.

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  13. nemo-ignorat Avatar

    blouse is ‘Bluse’ in German. Same root, French ‘blouse’. ‘Shirt’ is different and slightly more interesting. ‘Shirt’ in German is ‘Hemd’ which comes from westgermanic ‘hamithia’ and this means ‘cover, shroud’. ‘Blouse’ comes from the crusaders and has its origin in the loose shirt they wore under the chain shirts. Which in itself comes from ‘Pelusium’, an egyptian town where they allegedly discovered this kind of loose shirt. Personally, I like the ‘cover’-aspect of shirt or ‘Hemd’ better. I cover myself, I shroud myself in my clothes. They give me cover, they protect me. Not only from the elements :O)
    The English ‘shirt’ btw comes from Proto Germanic ‘skurtjon’ ‘a short garment, an apron’. The English word ‘short’ is related to ‘shirt’
    (Never ask a linguist with a soft spot for etymology for a word g)

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  14. Doris Avatar
    Doris

    Once I had a skirt in a quiet similar fabric and I threw it away ( with a lot of other things – selfmade things ) in these some weeks in my life years ago when I thought that will help me to clear up my life. I know you give away easily and perhaps it would be good for me too. But I cannot feel it, I only feel regret. Your blouse remembers me..
    The curtain is well decorated with this blouse

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  15. ali Avatar

    Grace, you make so much sense to me. Second hand (and third, fourth…) clothes/cloths sometimes have so much spirit — they simply call to us in unexpected ways, yes?

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  16. lynda howells Avatar

    Hello..nice to have you backx love the blouse and your hesating your thoughtsxlynda

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