maybe it will just stay this way?,  kind of hovering  of some sort.  just on the edge of things.  like this first small cloth since Magic Diaries and Boro…i am invisible basting.  it has lost pieces and been turned sideways.  today one of the Moon/Suns of Deb Lacative arrived but otherwise, nothing has come into view.  but there is a strong sense that it Will

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was lying in the dirt in Jamie's yard.  it's a 6ft plain off white cotton quiltish thing.  someone gave it to her.  she did'nt like it because it wasn't WHITE white.  the exact reason i DID like it.  all over it, even after a super duper wash at the laundromat, there are all these little black stars…they are the handiwork of mold it seem.  so they are a reverse dark night universe.  i like it a lot.  it's stiff.  it will be perfect in all ways for winter window coverings in the ROOM when i need to keep the cold out.

and then,  i am still very much reading Lierre Keith's  the Vegetarian Myth  ….   food, justice and sustainability.  i wish she had chosen a different title…it's not really about how we personally choose to eat things,  but rather how we USE the planet rather than be in wise partnership with it and all living things…. but i am beyond grateful to her for writing what she has written.  there are words here that could have come from my heart, from my understand of how things are.  really, it's the first time EVER that what i think in my own private moments have appeared on a page, or in the mouth of another person.  i have felt so alone with this thinking.  now i don't.  and it is incredibly energizing.

so,  rising from that,  i have also been thinking of the Great Grandson Julian sometimes known as SunnyDay/DarkNight by his request.  i spoke to him on the phone yesterday…it was his mom's 23rd birthday.  but he and i talked about him coming here for some days.  i told him that i was thinking maybe we could build a little World.  out where the toads are.  and we could build it how we want it.  make ponds and stick bridges,  stick houses.  and we could make flags to hang down from the sky over these.  he liked this.  as much as being able to come and see "his" goats who he misses a lot.  So, in the middle of everything today, i cleared the tree well under the Apricot Tree and set these things, just to see how it might go

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so far, there is a butterfly..turtle..Raven..horse with bird..goat..lizard..dinosaur being..and a castle.  I will just look at these for some days.  i think,  wait now until he's here.  he can decide about more.  we can go down the road to Polvadera Trading.  a place BRIMMING with stuff…where i got two of my copper pots.  She has a store full of antiques and oddities.  we can look there fore more inhabitants of our World. 

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and i moved over two of the chairs, the small table.  i trimmed off the low low branches of the tree so that we can sit there when his Nana, my daughter, comes.  we can eat there,  looking down upon our World.  it's cool and shady.  if we keep it wet, the toads will come every night.  maybe that bat, too if we're lucky.

and back to about Magic, the young girl goat.  i don't know enough yet to say much.  i thought i would, but it's still in the making.  But what she CHOSE was partnership.  in talking with daughter Jenny and in telling her my own observations about the goats,  i became clearer about how they vary so in their Interest in relationship with human beings.  Some not at all.  Some a LOT.  and then there's Magic.  who is deciding, being a thoughtful goat.  and what is happening is that SHE is defining how it all can go.  What I do is to respond to Her.   but it's not far enough along yet to say a lot about.  So, As It Goes.

 

 

 

 

 

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17 responses to “still prologue”

  1. Valerianna Avatar

    I love the beginnings of your WORLD! Wonderful thing to do…. I do it all over the place in a kind of altar way… but I think its essentially the same thing, whether inviting the Divine to enter the house one builds for it, or the little people, or the toads or bats. And the book sounds intriguing. Just from the few words you write, I imagine I might feel as you do.

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  2. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    It’s past 9PM in New York City, and I just posted something…but here, I am thoroughly in your wonderful world, and so grateful for it, for the way it takes me out of mine, for the touching intimacy of your connection to Julian, to the cloths, to the toads and bats, and to the goats. How I would love to join you at that earth shrine, and observe the universe that evolves there.

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  3. Nancy Avatar

    I think this new world will be wonderful, such a special thing for the two of you to do together. SunnyDay/DarkNight sounds like a magic boy, from what you say…what HE says, for his age. Warm cloth…warm earth…a new world in the shade of the tree…and a new opposite sky quilt…life looks good 🙂

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  4. Mo Crow Avatar

    love seeing the beginnings of the “World” & thanks, your Windthread provides a fine place to warm the bones for a bit in the restlessness of the cyber sea!

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  5. Mo'a Avatar

    You are a wonderful grandmother…SunnyDay/DarkNightwill be excited when he sees what you have done for him, he is a very lucky little boy.
    Thank you for the birthday greeting. I am so impressed that you knew it was my birthday today…you have a good memory.

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  6. dee Avatar

    I love coming here. There is almost too much to respond to in this one. The world-making, the goat-waiting, the quilt rescuing… the referenced book, that sounds worth tracking down a copy of. I am stitching the ocean into place and watching ‘The Verdict’, waiting for it to rain. My first indigo vat is getting dipped into, as of the 2nd or so. Sending you this little news and lots of good thoughts!!

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    the divine moves, yes? into and through and all around. and IS the toads/bats/children/crazy old Nanas. it was
    the first thing i checked this morning on the way out to the goats and someone/thing had been there, looking. things were just a little askew, moved around. i look very forward to working this with him. especially hanging things from the tree.
    the book, she does not mince words.

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    you would like it. it would like you.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    he is a very outspoken, direct thinking person.
    many surprising things from him at only almost 3. i look forward to this because it’s the way i can tell him about what i love without a lot of words. and i think it will “matter”.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    those are reassuring words………xo

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    GREATgrandmother!…
    i’d put your birthday on my calendar

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i am honored by your “little news”…and am always glad
    when you come by…

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  13. Deb G Avatar

    Oh that book… Yes, I don’t know that the title is quite right. It’s about so much more than being vegetarian. I wouldn’t even say that it helps me understand vegetarians better. It reinforces my desire to live locally even more, it reassures me and scares me at the same time, and it makes me question a few beliefs I’ve had/I have.
    There is magic in your world Grace…

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  14. saskia Avatar

    oh this post….it’s almost too much to take in; how I love the brave new world you have started for your great grand son, I imagine he will love being here and spending time with you….time shared with loved ones, it is just the best; and you mentioned a bat, well we have bats living in close proximity: they live under the wooden cladding of the upstairs part of our house, in fact they’d moved in before we had 16 years ago. So they literally sleep next to us; we see them flying outside the east-facing window in the evenings catching insects, a lovely sight!
    I’ll try and take/post some more pics of how/where we live. And I’m very interested in this book you’re reading, especially as it echoes your thoughts…
    Summerheat has finally arrived and I’m sat in my studio this peaceful tuesday evening catching up on blog-land, not yet needing extra light, very sparsely dressed after a day in the AC-cold of the office. hurray for bare arms and legs!

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  15. nance Avatar

    julian is one lucky boy! and you are even luckier to have him in your life. your world is wonderful and reminds me of the fairy house i had for rosie. when she left, i made my own.

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  16. jude Avatar

    it’s a sand tray

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    tikkun olam
    mending the world

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