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a day.  actually sticking the tiles on.  before that, finish painting.  Painting the little wall, by the morning chair, in front to the side of the Wood Stove.  of no consequence in this season.  or……???

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there is Wind today.  Good Wind.  Strong but Good.  i tried to catch the movement of it in these pics, but no…each leaf is caught…still…

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there are many Mallows.  mostly pink.  some orange.  outside the fence, a White one.

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i like to smoke cigarettes.  i roll my own.

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on that small wall, by the Morning Chair, near the Wood Stove, that i painted today 

now hangs this.  just two layers…a damask, dyed with something out There, i don't remember, and under that some tea dye harem cloth.  the damask has some sort of monogram in the center but backwards, you can't decipher.  i started to kantha it.

What if i did this, kantha this, instead of smoking cigarettes?  What would that be

like?

 

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  1. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    Quite smitten with the little fox-like creature sticking out of your box of letters, next to the tobacco can. He and Saskia’s tree are demanding a lot of attention in that pic.
    Can kantha be a substitute for smoking I wonder? Why not?
    Tomorrow will be 100… a third of the way through, mostly. How ’bout that?

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  2. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Oh those grassed, the undead tree, and all those wonderful mallow are lush in their way…lush and verdant despite the heat. What grows just likes where it is. That new cloth looks like a diagram of sorts, or a star chart. Nice to have a new canvas up. Love that.
    I wish American Spirit made the ultra light tobacco for tins. I used to roll my own. Perhaps kantha work could be a substitute for tobacco. If they’re both grounding devices, it would make sense, and of course, if you simply decide that kantha is a no smoking event. I know certain activities obliterate the urge for me, but they are more physically full bodied actions for the most part, like yoga, walking, gardening. heavy house cleaning, singing or chanting with others too. Also, when I visit others, I go outside to smoke, so that cuts it down naturally.

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  3. jude Avatar
    jude

    a healthier substitute you could make it work.

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  4. Cynthia Avatar
    Cynthia

    such a quiet sense of happiness seeing a new cloth up on your wall…and your images bring warmth and light into a damp gray morning…it is so impossibly different…such a huge diverse country ….but we do both have mallows growing..
    you are the third very strong woman i have run across recently with a tin of american spirit..the other two have fairly intense and different amounts of tobacco in their llves..and use it pretty differently…i have no idea of how this what if would work ..would it change the amount of kantha very greatly…the more kantha the very much better…huge personal prejudice here..i will always come down on the side of more kantha..
    the bull calf became a steer yesterday..three more days and the world here will shift agin, north….but for just this minute, this cup of coffee, i am content here, enjoying your far away garden…may this day bring you many small similar spaces xox much cynthia

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  5. yvette Avatar
    yvette

    do you want to stop?
    i miss it so much but my substitude was patching my felt leftovers and made a 3by3 cloth
    but still mis it

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  6. kat Avatar
    kat

    I see nostrils, a mouth, and an ear? in this latest cloth. Perhaps a dog’s face, with short, terrier like ear? I will love to see what speaks to you and how it Becomes.
    The mallow is beautiful – your place looks so lush. I suspect it may not last for long. Stay as comfortable as you can. If it’s 90 here, it’s over 100 there? Oy.

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  7. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    it’s about intent don’t you think? paying attention to what you are doing right now in this moment, if you want to smoke then smoke with intent & enjoy it, if you want to stitch then stitch with intent and enjoy it, it’s not about substitutes it’s about being aware of what you are doing…

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  8. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    nag nag nag nothin’ worse than advice from a reformed smoker, I still love the smell of tobacco and in my dreams I still smoke!

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    the fox creature is a creation of Eva. sent to live
    with the Goats… a Goat Fox. isn’t he just Something?
    and nothing, really, can be a substitute for cigarettes.
    they are quite Amazing, really. but i am ready.
    and yes. 1/3 through.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    nope. not just no smoking events, but no smoking. am
    very interested in it.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it’s a way. thing is, there is no substitute. just
    go. just going. i like that.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    you give me something strong with these words. you tell
    me what someone does with just a cup of coffee, how
    there is contentment….this is Very Very Good.
    and love to this Ajax boy.

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i do. i want to know what that person i would be is like.
    How does she live her day?
    it’s very different. i want to know that.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    no…not even 100 yet. close. but not yet. i think
    Monday. my only concern is the kidding Goat. but i
    watch them and they have accomodated this year. Last
    year, they had just arrived back from California where it
    was some cooler and more humid. they worked at following
    shade. This time, not. they just Are and i watch them.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes and no. Awareness, tho, YES.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i wonder if i will? or will i just be DONE with it???
    and no one ever smokes in my dreams. that’s interesting.
    hmmmm…..
    but maybe they will, now.
    i am just so curious about what it will be LIKE without
    that thing of cigarettes factored in. really Curious.

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