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diagonal Wind, rain, keeping safe?, looking

the first real "winter weather".  wet miserable goats.  what can i DO?  now, dark dark dark and Wind.  that diagonal Wind that breaks fences sometimes.  so inbetween, i stitch.  finishing that Other Cloth that came just before Grieving and got set aside.  This one too will travel.   Can't wait till light to see how it looks, so this here, with the flash, so not quite true,  more defined than in the light of day

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very close to finished.

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??????? it's just there.  on the wall.  out of character.

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and this.  a Relief.  a Reprieve.  Just a piece of walnut dyed harem cloth.  really, to me, just as beautiful as anything could be.

 

 

 

 

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  1. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Oh Grace–what CAN you do for the goats? And the cloth waiting in dim light…yes the harem cloth is beautiful just like that. Such a distressing day here. I have been distraught and can’t quite shake it, but just now Cally Conan Davis published this poem at her amazing photography blog–and I find it comforting.
    Because I believe in the community of little children,
    Because I have suffered such little children to be slain;
    I have gazed upon the sunlight, dazed, bewildered,
    As a child is by nothing more than rain.
    Not until I can no longer climb,
    Until my life becomes the tallest tree,
    And every limb of it a limb of shame,
    Shall I look out in time, in time to see
    Again those who were so small they could but die,
    Who had only their vast innocence to give,
    That I may tell them, pointing down the sky,
    How beautiful it might have been to live.
    William Jay Smith
    So I’ll sleep now, thinking of the slanting rain and with prayers that it will break no fences. Enough’s been broken for one day.

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  2. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    good morning, Grace. visited your wall several times yesterday and now here this morning at diagonal wind. finding myself speech-less. nothing to say, nothing to add, no thing. just here, with you. nodding. and occasional soft murmur of “yes.”

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  3. jude Avatar
    jude

    spectacular grace… you and cloth have paired. like you and goats and you and your environment. you and the grief. and now the beauty in it. oh.

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  4. saskia Avatar
    saskia

    wow that pink piece in the middle, and yes to birds, lizards and walnut dye.
    and yes to goats too, how tough are they?

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  5. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    Thank you Michelle for acknowledging . The poem. And I found good words from Marianne Williamson and anne lamott. … And mr. Rogers. Look for the helpers. And I am looking.

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  6. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    Grace, the re d piece… It’s appropriate for all the raw feelings.

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  7. Jacky Avatar
    Jacky

    That second piece might be ‘out of character’, but I love it Grace. The colours give hope…of brighter, warmer, clearer times. I think it’s uplifting.
    And that diagonal, cutting wind…I love how you have shown it in cloth. That’s a strong image.
    Those goats are toughing out the winter too. It can be a hard and depressing time, but it’s just the season and it’s always followed by spring …new growth, light.
    Thinking of you.
    Jacky xox

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  8. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    Thinking about how seagulls will fly in the wind as I look at the top…and the bottom piece of fabric is a place to rest and that is good.

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  9. Carine Avatar
    Carine

    Hi Grace, on the first cloth (Other Cloth?) I seee a nice pair of feminine legs with red shoes. gorgeous. Is it not possible to built a little roof in a corner for the goats?

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  10. Carine Avatar
    Carine

    oops, I forgot to say your lizards are soooo delicate, so fragile, so real!

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  11. mimmin dove Avatar
    mimmin dove

    I saw these legs too! I imagined the wind finally allowing Dorothy to descend in her red shoes. 🙂

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  12. mimmin dove Avatar
    mimmin dove

    Oh Grace I just love this Other cloth. It has amazing depth and movement and an almost cinematic quality. Really Beautiful. x

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  13. Chris Linton Avatar
    Chris Linton

    I love love love the first one, Other Cloth – a real inspiration to me, such beauty! Such interest! Fascinating.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    no, fences here Held.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    look for helpers…i like that, nance.
    look for helpers

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    just here, nodding, occasional soft murmur is more than
    i could hope for

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Jude…you might guess that your words are received
    with huge importance
    and you know…i wonder in this moment if this is maybe
    the ONLY cloth Ever to be like this?
    maybe never again?

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    they should be tough enough. all but two were born here.
    two born in California. maybe the real question is how
    tough am I?

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    well…it’s really a mystery

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Jacky…that’s the interesting thing. the colors of
    the first cloth, the emptiness of some of the spaces, to
    me is warm, clear and uplifting. it’s the World i chose
    …not coming by this birth from it, but the world i
    recognized as one that makes sense.
    this red stuff…well, i don’t know. am looking at it
    out of the corner of my eye
    MUCH love to you

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. a place to rest.

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Carine…i have built the buck goats a little hut, yes.
    but Wind and the weather it will bring switches one
    side to the other. and you can’t close that little hut
    too much or they are uncomfortable. and all the tarps
    i have covered it with, eventually, they tear off with
    their Buck~ly business. Maybe there are just too many
    Buck Goats?
    i work at it and day before yesterday i put bales of
    bedding straw in there. they liked it. in the morning
    i could see where they had layed there. Who, i don’t
    know. again, i need to go out there with a flashlight
    in the dark and look. i hesitate to do that because it
    unnerves them and they are unable to think well in the
    dark. ah, sigh.
    the does, the 13 does are all good. they have more than
    they need, really, in the moment, with no really little
    ones. they are fine. it’s those bucks.
    and it’s when the forcast says possibility of freezing rain.

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    they are kin to me

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    how great! …almost cinematic…this is the first time
    in a couple days i laughed. cinematic…..
    thank you SO much for that

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  25. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Chris…i hope we just all inspire one another on going…
    THANK YOU for your words…..they inspire me to keep
    going………

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  26. jude Avatar
    jude

    would it matter?

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  27. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes

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  28. jude Avatar
    jude

    then probably it will happen again.

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  29. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    because it has become the only Language i trust

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  30. mimmin dove Avatar
    mimmin dove

    Very happy to make you laugh in light of cold wet bucks and worse, although I am serious, I see magic going on in this cloth!

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  31. saskia Avatar
    saskia

    I’m guessing you’re pretty tough…
    and the bucks, my mother keeps telling me in humans the males are the weaker of the two sexes, maybe it works that way for goats too, they are more Active and therefore perhaps more Vulnerable, bigger risk-takers…
    anyways, good luck to you all out there, I’m sure everything will turn out all right

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  32. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    two days have passed and I’m leaving for the country tomorrow–but I’m wondering if the rain froze? Here the past two days rain and some sleety rain, but it’s warming up again. I even saw a street container with blooming pink roses! Ah. weather weathers us all.

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  33. grace Avatar
    grace

    no. the rain didn’t freeze. today is supposed to be
    SUNny and beautiful and i intend to spend the day out
    there continuing with the patchwork “manger”. So far,
    So good.
    have a really wonderful Visit and we will wait here
    (in electricland) for your Return…Love to you…

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  34. nadia Avatar
    nadia

    Grace, marvelous piece, the Other Cloth. It looks like an Italian Renaissance mural with a giant hand/arm reaching down from the heavens. Spectacular!
    best, nadia

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  35. roz Avatar
    roz

    Other Cloth is so full of space and sound for me.
    Love the movement in the creatures. the balance of the finely stitched lizards with the solid and dark crow / raven forms ..they are all alive.
    And the face rising up from the earth . Very powerful.mouth poised to speak? what does she say ?
    very beautiful.

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  36. yvette Avatar
    yvette

    kissssss

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  37. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    grace, i keep coming back here, for this post & the grieving cloth & don’t know what to say- about how you capture movement, how joy and weeping come to mind, and i still don’t know how to say it all, but i’m here, over and over, looking.

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  38. grace Avatar
    grace

    cindy…i have to go to work but just read your comment
    and sat looking at your words and thought…
    well…Yes. yes. somethings are just possible to
    put into words. or, are changed by words. and that
    is exactly what i love about the cloth making. it
    presents a picture, an image. that can be “read” in
    many different ways and that’s the beauty of story
    cloth. IT tells the story without words.
    so…to your words….Of Course! and yes…..
    so much love to you…your dinosaur Post just is so so
    touching……….i can’t imagine the depth of your
    feelings in these days….

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  39. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    i can’t imagine them either. what w/the bb gun incident at blue’s school recently, & the shopping mall in OR (the one our families shop at), & one of the dino sewers- a little boy who’s dad was killed in crossfire, driving home last year…it is all…too much. x

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