i had started out intending to document a dream here and it was lengthy and half way through i got a phone call about what's wrong with the car and by the time that was over,  i had no energy left to finish documenting the dream, LONG, but…will just write the one moment at the end and it will help me remember it all….

the house (recurrent) (which is many stories tall) was just falling apart, like whole parts of it, just collapsing and i'm thinking….i can NEVER fix this….and there are all kinds of dried leaves and twigs in the kitchen, like piled and wind swept on the counters …just everywhere…and i don't know what to do next and Suddenly, i look out the window and there is this long line, standing shoulder to shoulder, of African women…strong, healthy, robust women in beautiful cloth clothing and they are standing shoulder to shoulder and wearing  woven kind of conical hats, all the same kind and the STATEMENT was…:

Each person [could] [should]…i don't know which word it was and that's the important part….

Each person could/should be responsible for the roof over their own head.

so…ok.  and i had to be gone again today but when i got home i thought i'd take a 15 min nap and did and woke to look at the shelves at the end of the bed

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mostly i was looking at that one RED piece which is the cloth i will make something with for my Son's first and only child that is coming in September.    It, as is everything else on this shelf, is from the Thrift Shop.  it's a mens shirt.  almost all the cloth here is clothing.  ALL is from the thrift shop.  and it became a larger thought of how to overdye or otherwise change these fabrics so i actually USE them?????  otherwise,  What Is The Purpose Of Keeping Them???????

and i came out to wander around aimlessly and in that wandering saw a piece of fabric from Deb Lacativa that really, it was like seeing for the First Time and i pinned it to the Onion Skin Curtain and it is 

Stunning

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this window is the hardest to photograph.  standing here, looking at it it is amazing.  but trying to get the camera to show that is impossible….but…here, a little

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and just looking at these helps me.  i am in some kind of limbo and i know that if i begin a cloth, it will break.  that thing about like being in a Fever and when it breaks, things happen.  so…like that.  Waiting for the Fever to break but i have to start a different cloth and i am thinking about how when i wake up in the morning lately,  i lay there.  Still.  and THINK

THIS IS A VERY SINGULAR DAY.  What will this day

HOLD??????

 

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14 responses to “57 …a partially aborted post”

  1. Minka Avatar

    This is a very singular morning….when I wake I have some thought….more like a feeling that I cannot articulate and maybe that’s the feeling….this is a very singular day…

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  2. Nancy Avatar

    Photo (second from the bottom) I see a dark face (profile) bottom right and an embryonic alien looking being (head off to left, torso slanting down toward profile face).
    This window cloth is gorgeous and I look forward to the red 🙂

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  3. deb Avatar

    thank for the reminder. I have been blank about dyeing new cloth – there’s no shortage of raw materials at hand. There was a glimmer of a notion about dye-painting whole cloths..LARGE whole cloths. You’ve brightened the glimmer to a vision.
    I think the dream must be moon inspired. I dreamed my seaside (rented) house began a slow tilt and split toward the ocean. No one would believe me until the tiles on the floor in the kitchen raised up like the scales on an angry lizard. I could see the ocean and horizon through the front door and out the back. By then I was afraid to go back inside to retrieve things and couldn’t remember what things were worth the risk and was untroubled by it.

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  4. jude Avatar

    i like the bottom photo.
    what is the point of keeping so much has certainly been on my mind.

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  5. patricia Avatar

    there was some sort of lunar eclipse on the 25th. i missed it somehow–missed seeing it anyway. wondering about that and your dream, and home, and the support of the feminine. also wondering why i’m off into another round of dyeing fabrics with flowers, avocados, cans, etc when i still have tons of scraps lying around from last year. but i can’t seem to help myself. the ongoing intrigue of it all. and yes, your onion cloth is so lovely and deb’s piece–solar activity of another kind. sun spots? beautiful

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  6. patricia Avatar

    and some thing else. i too have a recurrent dream about a place. a house/home/building. it has changed and gotten bigger over the years and i’m always discovering new rooms in in. i love the place. even though it’s become pretty convoluted over the years, getting from here to there, from one room to the other. maze like in some ways. i’m hearing other women dreaming about place that looks like house/home. wondering if this is a female dream theme? just wondering

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    Minka…then, you know.
    once i thought to actually Say it, that feeling, in the
    most concise way i could think of, that’s what i have.
    ~this is a very singular day~
    not a Saturday or a Monday, or a day in the last week of
    April, or or or
    but…a very singular day. the only day of it’s kind, really. and somehow that has shifted things once again…
    getting me closer to how i’d like to
    be
    Thank You for your words

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  8. Cynthia Avatar
    Cynthia

    ..the eclipse was the second shortest of this century..the truly shortest will be in 2080 something..isn’t that strange and wonderful..we could not see it in north america…coming back from being away and so far off grid and being overwhelmed with all that has been created..it is almot overwhelming..
    oh grace i love your woman and the lizard and the goat..having been surrounded by new goats has been amazing.i will email you a picture of meadow with the new lucy in the sky…and i cannot not mention the joy of 10 piglets…an ice storm last week and i wished for white in my hands..but all my stitching has been on promised ..now finished quilts oh such a wonderful feeling ..quilts of many pieces…but now i can try again here
    back here for awhile..then back to vermont on wednesday.. and dreaming of houses as well..woke my husband at 5 am this morning saying oh but we painted the wrong house..and in my dream we had…made a room wonderful with a luminous white..but it wasn’t ours we were in a different place it was draped in so many pieces of cloth..
    anyway hello and have a good singular day..cynthia

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    the red has prints of fish.
    my son is a fly fisherman. and a chef.
    torn between the sweetness of the eating and catch and
    release. he looks forward to having a partner in that.
    he fishes the HIGH MOUNTAIN streams in Colorado

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    i love your dream. and how outside and inside become
    confused, or, maybe not. maybe it’s how it should be????
    LOVE to you Deb…your Cloth is so so beyond so important
    to me

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes…but so hard sometimes to understand what to DO.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    i LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. this comment

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    i had just such a house. Exactly such a house. but i
    haven’t dreamed that house in a while.
    i dream now this other house that is several stories high,
    more like a warehouse. it’s HUGE and mostly no even goes
    to the parts that are collapsing in, imploding. and
    they used to be so much about where the children could
    sleep. but now…it’s changed…more of how people are
    together…people who don’t necessarily share the same
    way of being, but are still in the presence of one another

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    Cynthia…Whelmed. we are Whelmed.
    almost
    Over
    whelmed, but not quite. just whelmed.
    the pic of Meadow and Lucy in the Sky is so loving.
    i really hope that sometime your world allows you to
    make a blog. we can all benefit from this. so much.
    and houses.
    Place.
    how significant that IS.
    I AM SO HAPPY THAT YOU WERE ABLE TO COME BY….Love!

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