and today would be one when i wouldn't post.  would just wait till ….. well….till a different day.  but here we are.  day 56.  ready or not, here we come.

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looking for what could be Grass,  these surfaced and got pinned this way.  i have been looking a lot at the Unforseen in the last few days.  i can feel it.  a new cloth is gestating.  that's all i know.

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how i am is….for Ever, i might think to do something.  but then all of a Sudden, i DO it.   as in,  i have been staring more and more at the wall to the right of the stove.  behind the stove is the collage.  but i didn't continue around.  What has it been, ???? two years ago????i think,  i pulled out the old stove that only sort of worked…and not the oven at all…and the pilots burned excessively.  i dragged in the little stove from the "airstream", which is an apartment sized Dixie…vintage…

which is much smaller.  the oven works.  Anyway, so, there is this SPACE and the icky right side wall is glaring if you choose to notice, which i really haven't, except lately.  it's glaring.   so i started finding National Geographics here and there.  Not too many.  I've been taking them up to the Old Folks Home as they come.  but here and there, are some and i leafed through, looking for pics i would use.   Lo and Behold, what i find self looking at in almost Every Single Article is the

cloth

and this is an example:  an article about children making soccer balls from all manner of materials.  i hope we can read the caption when it's posted………..

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and WIND won't go away.  yet another day.  we are going crazy.  so i just went out and kind of crawled around, squatting long long times, just looking.    at the transplanted Native Plum

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at stuff coming through the earth into this WINDSWEPT world here…noticing how the Hopi Black Sunflowers have purple stalks.  and how the generic sunflowers insist on wearing their shell hats like jude's onions, but in this case, maybe protection from WIND?…and i guess in her case, Rain .  You deal with what you have….

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and so…the grass is invisibly basted.  which means now…now is time to look at the Goat.  ok.  that's Next.

 

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21 responses to “56 days”

  1. lindamorris Avatar
    lindamorris

    hello grace. i am really liking what you have got going on on your wall, top photo, and look forward to seeing it progress.

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  2. saskia Avatar

    love how the cloth is evolving; how tall are your seedlings, amazing for us over here, winter was very long!
    I only started sowing yesterday, finally warm enough, today it’s raining which could be good for the tiny seeds; will see what has happened when we get back next Saturday, we’ll be in Turkey for a week with my family (14 in total) relaxing, I hope, reading walking sun bathing swimming in the sea……stitching perhaps.

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  3. mimmin dove Avatar
    mimmin dove

    thank you for sharing your burgeoning garden, spring has been so slow to arrive here and although the sun has been out it is still very cold. love the grass and lizard’s legs now and also the making-do philosophy from the magazine.

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  4. jude Avatar

    i’ve just planted those same sunflowers. they have strong stalks. and “rain” hats. the birds love them when they are young. maybe they are hiding. the grass has rooted her. the sick fox under my deck is gone, along with the soup.

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  5. grace Forrest Avatar

    both things are so good…that the soup is gone and also Fox.
    Refuge does not need to become Homesteading.
    Yes. Grass both feeds and Holds Place…

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  6. patricia Avatar

    oh–the black hopi’s took. took big time. how happy this makes you, you can’t imagine!

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  7. Dee Avatar

    when we were in Tucson I thought of you wondered how close? and let me say we did not bake and bake the way we hoped in fact the temp (66) was the same one day as in Boston all because of the WIND. How lovely to think my hair and neck cloth were swept by the same wind scouring your back yard, even if it’s making you a little crazy (I almost typed ‘grassy’).
    the long, long blades of grass keeping the long, long feel of the dunglady going. love!

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  8. Mo Crow Avatar

    love those long waving grasses!

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  9. Laura R Avatar
    Laura R

    Lovely lady.
    How long do your winds usually last?
    My life’s dream is to take off in a little Airstream. 🙂 I would love to join Sisters on the Fly. Really.
    Going to find out more about Hopi Sunflowers…

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  10. Martine Avatar

    the sunflowerseeds did not come up, guess my thought where not clean enough.
    But TCM docter helped me to cleaner thoughts that made me very happy. Whats life………all comes and goes to dust!
    XXXm

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  11. handstories Avatar

    i could use a makeshift ball right now…love the glow of the first photo w/the red…and how she is wrapped in grass.
    ps. gave notice today, the wind is brewing.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    Linda…HEY!…THANK YOU FOR COMING…
    and i have NO idea what’s going on here
    but it does
    go on…
    xoxo

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    i can only IMAGINE being in Turkey for a week…it is
    a dream
    so i will wait for you to come home and tell of it…
    it’s the only way i will know

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s something, that making do.
    and somehow similar to how it is here, these seeds.
    small things coming out of shells

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. they took. now we watch.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    this is good. you have named her. The Dung Lady.
    how far? well, far, but not that far. if the kid goes
    to school there, maybe you will even come here sometime and i will go through the initial angst about how i live but we will sit through that and it will be just FINE and
    we will “know” each other, from Other Things
    love back to you

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. those grasses. oh oh oh those grasses

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    Laura…i LIVED in that little airstream for about 5 years.
    i bought it in Oregon, lived in it there, then in Arizona, then here in New Mexico. it was a FINE home.
    Patricia sent the Hopi Sunflowers. they make
    DYE

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    no…birds probably ate them.
    I will tell these here about you. Tell them that Martine
    is watching with her camera, out her window.
    Tell them that they can grow for You too….
    and yes…it all comes and goes to dust but it’s that
    middle part that keeps us trying, Yes?, yes.
    LOVE LOVE LOVE, mARTINE…THANK YOU SO MUCH…MORE LOVE

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
    “gave notice today”
    Wind.
    yes.
    oh.
    o
    eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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  21. handstories Avatar

    expecting a storm on monday, battening down the hatches.

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