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still different (odd), but changing

so, i cleaned my own house today.   finally looking UP,  i was surprised by the cob webs.   surprised by how i don't notice them at all,  for months, i guess.

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just inside the door is this.  it's a Tshirt cut and put in the frame.  some of you might recognize the image.   i used to threaten my son that i would do the same to him.  then some years later he bought me this Tshirt when we were at the Flea Market in Albuquerque.  i wore all of it out except for this much and at that point, framed it.   today i vacuumed it.  dusted the frame.

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BEAUTY has arrived in the Pomegranate Pot

and then,  Julie,  from Jude's Spirit Diaries was determined.  She thought i needed this, from her trip to Dead Horse Bay in Brooklyn


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i said i thought just a print of it from her printer would be good.  but she said no…. and yesterday, She arrived. 

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i pinned Her on the West Window Just Looking Curtain…where things can be in all manner of light.  and Lo and Behold….what do i see here?  a Moth.

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and following Jude's changes,  i take this, at the end of this day,  this once spartan space.  but i smile.

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  1. deb Avatar
    deb

    wonderful space…and remember, the Spartans didn’t have much fun.

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  2. velma Avatar
    velma

    oh, you’re full of beans. sgrace, i’ve been quite sick and for the duration your length of tweed had comforted me on the couch, along with a cotton handwoven cloth from a friend. i’ve done a passel of shivering, but the warmth of that piece soothes. thanks.

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  3. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    I like the idea of framing a t-shirt… who knew!

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  4. Margo Avatar
    Margo

    I like that space, I could be quite at home in it.

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  5. Robyn Ayaz Avatar
    Robyn Ayaz

    Hey Grace, just beginning to speak and sort of hear again – terrible flu or something – so I am catching up, love the ‘moth’ and the small cloth suddenly bursting into life! We have had such hot weather here it is hard to believe in anywhere being cold and icy, terrible bushfires. Your little house looks so cosy. Love and hugs.

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  6. roz Avatar
    roz

    what a wonderful garment ..i love it pinned up there on the West Window Just Looking Curtain ..kind of an honouring of womanhood and testimony to endurance perhaps.keeping on working at what needs to be done…in this case holding body together. hmmmm ?

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  7. julie Avatar
    julie

    Ah, see. Grace I was right. I just knew she belonged in New Mexico…perhaps it is me that belongs there but she is currently free to travel.

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  8. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    your living space truly is heart space, isn’t it. i love to enlarge the pics and wander through your abode, touching things. thinking, hmmmm, Grace is here. and in my mind’s eye you do appear and we share some thing.

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  9. ali Avatar
    ali

    the winged moth–lovely on the looking curtain, as if to fly on out

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  10. mimmin dove Avatar
    mimmin dove

    love your moth and I see beauty all over this home

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    fun is relative

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  12. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    i am ignoring the old cobwebs that i do see & glare at. love that you framed that old tshirt. the moth flew into vision at first glance-what a great find.x

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    velma…when i got up this morning (in the Dark) to
    start the fire and the coffee water and stumble over
    here to push the button to start this machine and watch
    as the inbox lit up and i saw…Velma…which is a
    gift in itself…but then it said (i only get a partial
    comment in the inbox) oh, you’re full of beans. and
    i was stunned….oh…oh…eeee…what did i write?????*
    oh, NO!!!! oh and i clicked on it and i still am not
    sure how i am full of beans, or exactly how you are
    referencing this intuitive knowing, but anyway….am
    very Glad anything gives warmth.
    xoxo
    *i always post stuff at the end of the day without
    really thinking….just whatever comes out. and often
    i wake worrying about what i said.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i just loved it so much…that he gave me the shirt
    after a lot of wear and tear between us. couldn’t let it
    go. so i just glued it to the back of the painting that
    came in the frame. it’s been maybe hmmm…15 years now?
    give or take.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    this house is, for whatever reason, very photogenic.
    in it’s reality, pretty much a mess. but i am Fond of
    it. most of the time it shelters me.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i know of your fires…this is frightening. i hope for
    your safety.
    LOVE!

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    isn’t it SOMEThing!!!!…it seems to talk…like a very
    quiet sound

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    We do.
    i like that you wander and touch. this is good.

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it’s something. i watch.

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it’s loved. not a place for everyone, but works for me.

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i had to keep it as a treasure. so much water under
    Our bridge, that boy and i. and that he found it and
    gave it was such a gesture of forgiveness.
    when he comes to visit, he stops there as he comes
    in the door for a moment.
    Sons.
    and the moth bustiere or however it’s spelled….women.
    it’s almost all just too Grand.

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  22. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    You are really something, Grace… glued to the painting… gutsy!

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    well…at that point in time, there was nothing else to
    do…so, glue. like Elmer’s.
    and here we are today…looking at it and it is just as
    Fine in this moment as it was when he handed it to me
    that Saturday at the Flea Market. he was maybe 16 then.
    he’s 37 now?

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  24. yvette Avatar
    yvette

    sweetie…I’ll stop visiting for a while.
    Away to the sea
    there where is no internet
    but lots of wind
    pulling at hair from doggies and me
    cold from frost
    warm with stitches results
    hope to see all of you now and then at a internet cafe of some sort
    for now silence and wind
    the wind blows to who listens
    kiss the goats

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  25. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    Support and love. And I can see you in that space, stitching and thinking and I have cobwebs too. In fact, the other day I was washing the dishes and this spider zoomed down right in front of me, stopped, and then zoomed right back up. Guess that web will stay for awhile.

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  26. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    love taking a squizz round your space Grace! talking of cobwebs, I am letting the little black house spiders make a lace curtain in the kitchen window as it’s doing a fine job of catching flies and mosquitoes which look kinda like beaded decorations (without my glasses on)

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  27. elizabeth fortes Avatar
    elizabeth fortes

    What a lovely space: You are also a great photographer, Grace!
    I love all the signs of where your love of life is being lived! right there!
    and also that little red chair in the corner…
    Much love!
    e.

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  28. nadia Avatar
    nadia

    Hi, Grace,
    love your space
    and if anyone put
    my underwear on their window
    I would be mortified.
    That being said, the bustier is very lovely, a strange echo of the past as is the T-shirt in the frame.
    best, nadia

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  29. Chris Linton Avatar
    Chris Linton

    Yes I can see the moth, how lovely that Julie sent the whole thing to you.

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  30. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    you are always now in wind, dogs, goats for me. you are IN them…so here always.
    Love to you, yvette

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  31. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes…webs stay. ecosystems within ecosystems.

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  32. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    these are like swags, looping down. i don’t even think
    the spiders use them anymore. have moved on…???

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  33. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    clothes. do? they hold essence of bodies that have
    worn them??????

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  34. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    we will see where and how it goes. for now, i glance
    over, many times a day….looking.

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