so…day 61…was it only yesterday?, yes.    as i came in from the Goats to post,  lo and behold, Nothing on the Magic Screen and an odd little ticking sound.  A reason why it's good that things go wrong now and then….i felt no panic at all.  that was evidently expended a couple weeks ago when the whole thing died.   so…staring and thinking,  i determined it was the Monitor.  

but….the evening and then this morning until i went into town at around 11 a for a new one,  this time passing,  almost felt like an altered state.  almost like some kind of Time Lapse of a sort…like Lapsing back to the years before the blog, even before the computer.  i was flooded with memories from those times, how it was.  how I was.  and this was probably enhanced by the fact that it was the first night of leaving the door open all night…of Night coming Inside the house,  and Morning slowly trading places with Night.   So many sounds.  So many sensations of Life and Movement out there.  i stayed up late sitting on the back porch and got up in the night and went out.  Woke early this morning,  listened.  watched SO much.   I wrote two letters.  and i STARED at this.

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maybe what, 6 wilted Iris blooms?  hot tap water and a piece of muslin.  O eeeeeeeee, look.  Meera……

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and then…looking at the Altar Cloth of the Singular day,  i turned and saw the orange scrap on the table…the Deb Lacativa scrap….  How perfect.  and how those scraps seem to crawl out of their hidden places in the two scrap baskets and almost sit there, waiting to be noticed.  so…ok.  and THEN,

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i looked over to see a piece again, Deb Lacativa, of all these like little moons, but most not round, but many on a piece …as if she'd been experimenting with discharge??  and thought….What If one could be a face….and like i do, when i want to understand a facial expression or position of the head,  i felt my own face with my fingers…asking self what my face was like last night as i was outside, as i was dreaming????  then just got the pen.  and i thought this might be IT, but no.  

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so.  Here we are.  i wish i could think of a way to say how HAPPY i feel in this moment……

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30 responses to “Day 61 lost but Day 62 found already!!!!”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    oh this new cloth is just so full of the peaceful wonderment & I did miss your being here in the cyber sea for day 61!

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  2. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Lapis lazuli or an undersea grotto in Greece…you have dyed such an absolutely exquisite spellbinding piece of muslin with your spent Iris blooms: Sheer magic and I want to wrap it around my body and pretend that I am an ancient oracle…

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  3. Valerianna Avatar

    She is a very sweet moon-dreamer…

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  4. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    I am so glad you are back. I was worried.

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  5. grace Forrest Avatar

    the only reason i wouldn’t post in a 24 hr period is
    because of the computer. ever. i committed to every day,
    ONE year. for better/for worse in sickness/in health
    smile

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  6. deb Avatar

    I am so happy those finger moons found their way into your hands at the right moment….and the box is just full of rising magic, like wonder dough.

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    mo…yes…peaceful wonderment. yes and yes and yes.

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    Marti…Albuquerque is FULL of huge and wide array of
    Iris. there are places where the blooms are as big as
    softballs. you will miss it this year…but next……
    and wait till you see what happened in the copper pot…..
    the color of your “homeland”

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    the hours were like that…just exactly like that…
    i can’t believe i could catch that expression

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    deb….i was and AM just so taken by how it all went.
    it was just so incredibly perfect…i’ll send you a pic
    of that whole piece email. who could have guessed??????
    and GLAD about the box. it’s been slimmer pickings in
    the last months, but that good old Thrift Shop ……
    YOUR WORK is just so SpiritFilled for me…to match it
    up, a fragment of it, with the stuff i plant dye here
    is so exhilarating to me.
    GIANT LOVE

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  11. Elizabeth Avatar

    Just starting shutting the windows and doors at night, all the insect songs silenced, waking up to frost furring the ground.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    then, you and i have the whole circle between us.
    i like that.
    i like that a Lot.
    love,

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  13. kat Avatar

    I love moons – I was so disappointed that the most recent Pink Full Moon was swathed in clouds before I went to bed. I did get pictures of it the next night. This holds all sorts of beautiful secrets in it – looking forward to seeing the next stitches ~
    And here in SF, the winds are working their way into gales, and the cold has grabbed hold . . .

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  14. Minka Avatar

    Love the evolution of these pieces. The orange cloth is so tender…and the face and figure too.

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  15. yvette Avatar

    how happy?
    it shows!
    ( sorry for the wordvereffication on my blog but so much spam….)

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  16. patricia Avatar

    the fullness of the white circle. the intersection of lines through it. speaking another sort of language to me. about holding, i think. how one thing–the circle, can hold many things. and now it’s May. and the goats are ripening.

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  17. jude Avatar

    she floats

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  18. Dee Avatar

    jump shift is what I hear in my head looking at these. a jump shift in the cloths. I really love the double ring of stitching around the first, and the face in the second is endearing.
    as to technology, it is astonishing what a dart in the ass it becomes when not running smoothly, and how often there is something, not necessarily catastrophic, but glitchy and requiring effort to resolve.
    anyway, the sense of the day without and the night without technology was so, so lovely that it makes me wonder if we all oughtn’t to be taking structured breaks… like juice fasts, or something.
    and one more thing? HuRRAH to the little scraps that jump out!! Whenever a Deb Lacativa scrap emerges from one of my little nesty-heaps, it is like finding a piece of gold.

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    i just keep feeling that all this computer stuff is not
    forever at all…that it’s going to have a lifespan.
    it just makes me first, sad, that i can’t comment on your
    blog and then second, that something that should take a
    reasonable amount of time, like looking at what you have posted and thinking/feeling that and then commenting something uhhhh, usefull, or to the point, when that takes
    FOREVER to get done and often i just give up….
    THAT’S not nice. Oh Well.
    it will be interesting to go back through the year of
    days and have a sense of what it really is.
    and yes…Deb’s little amazements just are so completely perfect for what needs to be there. and really, it’s something how they MOVE…they really really MOVE.
    love,

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    here in the Valley…cool too and a day that was not
    WARM. Spring. cannot decide to stay or
    Not

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. so tender. this cloth teaches me.

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar

    no sorry.
    i am always so blessed by you’re coming here….
    love,

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar

    they are. Ripening. and i did the math. dear
    dyslexic me..
    and really. June 12th. at 145 days. 145~155. so
    give or take. but longer than i’d thought. good. because
    i need to Get Real.

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar

    she is also tethered by her Intention

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  25. jude Avatar

    oh grace, such a true and brave acknowledgement

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  26. grace Forrest Avatar

    tethered
    a
    kind of
    light word but so really strong

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  27. margaret johnson Avatar
    margaret johnson

    Grace, I am so touched by this sweet soft lttle figure AND the beautiful Moon. Such beautiful textures. A special piece. oxox

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  28. beth Avatar

    I’m coming back to see the iris cloth and holding my breath. Will it stay such a rich color? I want to do this so badly. Hardly know where to begin…

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  29. grace Forrest Avatar

    margaret…i was so surprised by the figure…
    just surprised
    i love her

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  30. grace Forrest Avatar

    beth…i don’t know about staying…it’s still on the line.
    SUN here is mercy less. so…we’ll see.
    all you do is pick off wilted iris blooms. set them in
    cloth. roll up. put in a bowl, in this case, or a
    pot and add hot tap water. that’s All this was.
    flowers are amazing.
    xoxoxo

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