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not sure where i am

i had to go back and reread the last post to see where i was…it seems a very long time ago.    and i am remembering all the times and years when Everything had to stay in my head because there was no still space to take it out and just be with it.   so, this is a good exercise.

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Julian.  my granddaughter's son.  and so, my Great Grandson.   he will become 3 at the end of October.  we worked on Counting with bamboo and glass beads inbetween cleaning out a goat pen.

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a recurring figure.  this from the Magic Diaries cloth. 

i was going to just make Eyes for a while.  but now,  this too.  but for now it just will happen in my head. 

 

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42 responses to “not sure where i am”

  1. jude Avatar
    jude

    the characters in one’s story, they are very imporatnt

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  2. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    This figure is dear to me…

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  3. saskia Avatar
    saskia

    he looks very serious, or no, he’s focused
    I like the look of her

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  4. Eva Ucgatwork Avatar
    Eva Ucgatwork

    My good thoughts are with you…I admire you. The way you manage all these different tasks…
    Take care,
    eva

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  5. elizabeth fortes Avatar
    elizabeth fortes

    Dear Grace! Your Great Grandson is a beautiful child…..he is playing with
    interesting pieces which remind me of Fig Newtons….hummm….( gonna get some soon! )
    In the cloth….I love how “she” looks: Regal, solitary and distant. Anima.
    The winged “presence” over her head has so much grace! Missed you lately, imagining
    how busy you must be…. Sending love. E

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  6. Margo Avatar
    Margo

    What a handsome young man! I’d say you are right where you are supposed to be, wonderful things are occurring now and more will be revealed in your cloth because of it. This figure looks queenly to me.

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  7. peggy Avatar
    peggy

    handsome young great grandson and a beautiful butterfly…

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Margo..in the way that we All are queenly. which we are.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    there is a connection, isn’t there

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    there is really no choice. things present. we can
    say yes
    or
    we can say no.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i like the look of her too. a lot. she’s
    talking

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i’m glad you said this

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    am really looking at this. how they are our own selves
    sometimes represented as a small boy or a wing
    and then, of course, we, are FOR the wing and the small
    boy.
    i have always found it somehow surprisingly beautiful
    how in the birth announcements in our oh so very LOCAL
    newspaper, the ones for the Navajo Nation, Alamo reservation, up beyond the first mountain, it says…
    so and so, born FOR the so and so clan. not born to,
    but, born For.
    what does that MEAN?????

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    e…they DO look like fig newtons…i need to get some too!
    and her, well, i’m listening.
    not so much busy as just so much presenting in so many
    ways…trying to see it all, to take it as given with
    great attention. it’s coming fast.

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  15. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Oh my, how every thing and every one is so connected…and born FOR means one belongs…and I’m happy to see that wonderful woman again, and J figuring the universe out one stick and marble at a time!

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  16. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    So…there he is. Eyes down-turned in deep focus, dimples for knuckles, creamy new skin…soft to see, and a head full of curls…he is a treasure (but you know that). It is nice to meet him here. Beautiful.
    And her…her…she floats, she glows. I still love her face, her expression. She holds a lot in that face. Beautiful.

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  17. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    he and she are beautiful.

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  18. jude Avatar
    jude

    gifts

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  19. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    Grace, your sharings have become very dear to me even though I’ve only commented once or twice. This happened yesterday. I prepared a long and rather rambling comment, pressed the “post” button–and the message totally disappeared. The same thing happened a few months ago. Let’s see what happens this time (while I ponder the disappearance of the others).
    I love the earthy feeling of your cloth and the image of your FOR grounded to the warm earth. Thank you.

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  20. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    Yay!

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  21. Susan C Avatar
    Susan C

    His little hands and his focus – so sweet.
    and I love that little lizard at her feet.
    She won’t blow over in the breeze.

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  22. dee Avatar
    dee

    How adorable Julian is!! and it is great to SEE him. (I have a nephew Julian, BTW)… I have noticed since taking more pictures and blogging, that the process really does help mark time… or memory. I’ve decided that this is partly because I’m a visual person and the business of review keeps things somewhere…
    To me, the notion of being BORN FOR suggests destiny and mission… that we each have something we are supposed to contribute… James Hillman’s notion of the daemon… he uses the acorn as analogy… it’s all there in the seed, waiting to unfold.

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  23. elizabeth fortes Avatar
    elizabeth fortes

    Grace: this comment of yours re:bringing a child or a wing alive through cloth…. is what makes the possibility of textile therapy such a fascinating possibility…Your insight emerges from the practice of the heart…. e.

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    e…don’t go away. thoughts, feelings, perceptions are
    coming hard and fast.

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  25. ali Avatar
    ali

    Julian is a cherub–he’s so at peace building his own little world, as are you, in your way, and a bigger world.

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  26. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. he is very Centered.
    it’s interesting. everyone in this family, this side of
    the family was….wiry. we were wiry children.
    Julian is built like a pillar. where did That! come from,
    we wonder.

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  27. jenni-lynn Avatar
    jenni-lynn

    Thanks so much for sharing yourself so deeply. I’m able to pay more attention to our cloth mates now and this is one of the places I enjoy checking on. I’m not sure how you managed to fit in three generations already.
    He is a wonder!

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  28. Robyn Ayaz Avatar
    Robyn Ayaz

    Oh Grace he is so beautiful, Julian, engrossed in discovery! “She” looks fabulous to me in the sense of mystery and knowledge, beauty and grace, but with a touch of butterfly floating or taking flight. I love her, she is wonder full.

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  29. Hoola Tallulah Avatar
    Hoola Tallulah

    ah, Julian is such a peach, such a wonderful age (his, maybe yours too… I’m not there yet).

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  30. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    and one stick at a time…, me too

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  31. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    new skin, old skin
    he was looking at a tomato on the counter, it was
    a little weathered on the bottom, looked, came over,
    looked at my arm and said…like you, Old Nana?

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  32. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    they are related in my world

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  33. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    patricia, do you have typepad? that happens sometimes to me too and it will happen often for a few days and then not for a while. but what i’ve discovered is that when it is going to disappear me, i can know because the little Post box is not outlined in blue. so i got used to checking first before beginning to comment.
    Anyway, i’m GLAD you persevered, thank you a lot for that…
    i hope you continue to visit

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  34. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes!

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  35. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. lizards at the feet. important.

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  36. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. i think it is mission.

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  37. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    3 generations…well, daughter did the ONE thing i told
    her NOT to DO. she got pregnant at 16. we got an early
    start on the generation thing.

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  38. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    thanks, Robyn, i love her too.

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  39. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yeah, both are wonderful ages. this month will be
    remembered forever by both of us. and both of us will
    also be glad to have our regular lives again at the end
    of it.

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  40. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Out of the mouths of babes!

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  41. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    My dear friend used always said that she was pregnant “of” so&so. Not ‘with’, but ‘of’. This was so curious to me.

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  42. yvette Avatar
    yvette

    love

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