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Suddenly, i am thinking,

How do i make a Cloth of This…of this Shift of things?  What would it Look like?  Would it include the Goats?  or, is the Shift in me.  in my understanding of Just Going?  

What would this Cloth be like????????????????????????

……………………………..~………………………….and the i realize.

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the date on this pic is 4/22.  and in THIS MOMENT this cloth, this Cloth, is just to the right of me.

on the Curtain.  and i haven't looked, like Looked, like really Seen that, until this moment, 10:26pm,  June 22.  2013.   

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32 responses to “114 part 2”

  1. margaret johnson Avatar
    margaret johnson

    Hello Grace, how are you doin’? I REALLY REALLY LOVE this beautiful cloth. So good to see it again. THE stance on each figure is perfection. And YES this cloth is VERY you. Glad that you have reconnected with it. Seeya Marg, ox

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  2. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Well you know I am all about signs and portents: 4/22 – 6/22: if you sketched it, thought it out, planned it to the last detail, you would not come up with a cloth more conveying the heart of the story of what’s going on than the one above. Sometimes the spirit of a cloth, it’s story, is a loud shout. Other times, the cloth waits, quietly, knowingly, for the moment of connection as has happened now with this cloth: This woman is so filled with the whole of this place. The way the little goat leans into her, the way the blue-tailed lizard wraps itself up her gown as if cuddling her. Can you use a word like cuddle when speaking of a lizard? Well here you can because of how you love your lizards grace. Here then, is the heart of what goes on in this place of good land, feather grasses, toads, plant people, birds and so much more…

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  3. Sandy Avatar
    Sandy

    This is my fave… I love it so. It tells your story. How many more mama goats are w/ babies? You are a super woman, just so you know. I have so much wonder and amazement with all that you do. ❤

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  4. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    can you separate the shift in you from the shift in the goats? just wondering. it all seems so connected.

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  5. grace Avatar
    grace

    no. you’re right. it’s all a huge Kaliedoscope

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  6. grace Avatar
    grace

    o Sandy…no…i am learning to just go. work in process.
    no more mamas. just 2. just enough to get the milking
    down.
    love,

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  7. Cynthia Avatar
    Cynthia

    the shift of things…isn’t it amazing how many forms it can take..sometimes hitting you in an instant,,strong, sometimes harsh, irrevocable…and other times it is so gradual, so soft with movements so small that you do not even realize you are not just entangled but embedded ..quite firmly ..ready or not..
    when the path before you has shifted.. and when you have shifted… i know for me the time where i can stop and .pause … or stop and catch my breath are valuable to me..and that is what speaks to me in the spirit of this cloth…it is not static…it is strong..full of life and relationship..but it is emotion and connection captured
    it has been sort of an amazing morning..the day after a huge moon…a moon to be dance under i kept thinking last night..but travel is hard these days and i was undeniably happy not to dance but to sit and hold hands and smile at this man i love until he went to sleep..and i fel asleep right there sitting up and woke all creaky and came to check in on my laptop..and so there i am heart stopped with other peoples stories…saskia’s little bird cloth and patricia’s crone story…
    and then here things pop up in different order, different days..it is strange one moment there is nothing ..or rather no new post and then suddely, magically there is and i was so happy to find you here.
    .i had wondered what happened to this cloth..i thought about it /her a lot ..and oh you would have loved where..two of the little goats were bought and need to be bottle fed and it is amazing to sit in the back of the little goat house..and with the sustainable agriculture being practiced it moves of course to wherever the goats are being pastured…and i was thinkng about this piece holding this small goat looking over new raspberry bushes and a new orchard ..over birch trees recently cut down..and so i discovered a whole new vista..down a valley to the mountains and i was surrounded by the sound of bullfrogs and bleats and was trying to imagine what your new goats would be like..and how many..this was obviously several weeks ago..
    and now she is back and i am far away from the goats and am sort of moving back into the self i need to be here…the reality of illness never leaves..but here it is accompanied by a different kind of responsibilty…i know this will move to vermont with me..but there is still respite there and i appreciate each day ..
    your cloth gives body/reality to my thoughs..it gives texture..oh and you know the mary oliver poem about the geese..
    “Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
    the world offers itself to your imagination,
    calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting–
    over and over announcing your place
    in the family of things.”
    i keep double clicking on her enjoing the details, admiring the work, loving the whole..what a wonderful guardian of Just Going have a good and peace filled day of Just Being grace…what a lovely start to my day you have given me once again xox much cynthia

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  8. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    in this big shift that we are all experiencing, we are both blessed and wise to have such a focus as you journal about here. some we choose and some find us as with the cloth and the goats. and they are the way we plant our feet and let the shift work through us. all of your cloths embody the power of movement. love to you.

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  9. KAMFreeman Avatar
    KAMFreeman

    Grace…how just going is for me a shift..to put that trained and life experienced planner in a place of trust to flow with the wind of each day…embrace what comes alive, into view, opening a window on the potential and what lies ahead. The pieces that fall into this new process of just going is much like the woman in this piece…one who waits for the time to be right for the next stitch, the next addition, the next, the shift, so much delicious going when the organic process is allowed to be the path taken with stitch, with cloth, with gardens, with life..such delight allows for the challenges to be opportunities and with this there is the reality of peace…yes by each piece of organic traveling life’s road there is peace and there is the knowing that always the wind can shift the sails and another path will appear.
    Super moon sky last night was savored and saved…camera living with my daughter for a few days as she photos and sells more and more of that which I had saved.. and today those savings are bringing on the wind new energy..and freedom for me in space…flowing with the breezes of the life we live…a lovely place to now be..many thanks for making footprints that I can follow to learn more and see things that have eluded me often…the wind blows, the breezes bring new life.

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  10. grace Avatar
    grace

    Hey, Jan. are you one of Jude’s cloth people?????
    i like very much your words…Thank you and love back

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  11. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    the graciousness

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    knowing the wind can shift the sails, but sailing on…
    Love….

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  13. grace Avatar
    grace

    that’s a beauty Full word, isn’t it.
    graciousness.
    ~graciousness~

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  14. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    yes Grace, I just joined Jude’s latest incarnation of diaries. yet you know, we’ve all been working together for a very long time. (smiles)

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  15. grace Avatar
    grace

    ~smiles~ back

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  16. Cynthia Avatar
    Cynthia

    hello again..i don’t know how i missed 114 part i but i did…the goats will be good with the move…with the movement..you are right about the shade houses…tak ecare of yourself extra much if you are building in th heat..oh i know you know this…just thinking of all the time/energy moving the goats take .if you add in making shade…it is a lot…and wishing you well..cynthia

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  17. Saskia Van Herwaarden Avatar
    Saskia Van Herwaarden

    goatwoman

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  18. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    No one could say it better marti. This captures all my feelings about this piece. It has been my favorite piece of all the beautiful cloths you have sewn grace. This self portrait is so much like the dolls you used to make. But so much more because it is the essence of you esp. With the megmungdun cloud on your head as an aura .

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  19. grace Avatar
    grace

    Nance…so good of you to feel it is a self portrait…
    but really, i feel Her to be a kind of Energy to aspire
    to. there is a detachment that i am Far From.
    so…this figure, yes, like the dolls, is an archetypal
    energy. an Energy that belongs to All of Us. that belongs to the World far larger.
    Today is a prime example and it’s not over yet. we are
    in the thick of it, the Goats and i. but while i am
    struggling with it, this Figure tells me that my illusion
    of everything Nice is an Illusion. Things are not always
    at all Nice. the Goats enact this for me. Things are
    Complex…for Their own good reason. and i am to Learn
    This. the Megamendung again, is the Storm. Wind. the
    Primal Force which has no opinion of good/bad easy/hard.
    It goes about its way, much as do the Goats.
    sometimes i wish i had all the Jung books still. it’s all
    there. but i don’t. and i cannot quote correctly anything at all. but i did absorb all of it. it’s in my
    body as i Try today.
    xoxo

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  20. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    Then she is an icon for you. The spirit of your higher self. And megamendung. Will I ever get that right!?

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  21. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes.., if icon is the same as archetype. and also,
    she is not Personal. she belongs to All of All Time.
    ok…let’s see.
    the Figure is , or represents to me, the Feminine Energy
    as it relates to the cosmology of the Land. She represents
    to me some kind of detached ORDER, that looks upon everything as of Worth. oh, i am so bereft of words these days…i
    can’t go any further.
    But she “talks” about Just Going. she doesn’t say Where.
    she doesn’t ask my Why. she is disinterested really, in
    Outcome. she simply is a Being of the immediate moment and one of the things i continue to “believe in” is that
    All of Us has a sense, a Felt Sense of the Moment, this
    single one moment Now. and if we respond from that
    Moment, we are uhhh,doing good. and we all know. has something to do with a felt sense of contraction or
    expansion. I know you know this.

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  22. Dee Avatar
    Dee

    I love your archetypal figure — and that she defies words. Not Capricorn or Saturn (even with goats), not Earth Mother (even with critters all about her)… but as you say, a figure who embodies ‘detached order’, who sees ‘everything as of worth’… You write that she is not interested in outcomes, but rather in BEING… the Felt Sense of the Moment. If I had to come up with one word for her it might be “Witness”.
    This seems to be getting at You as Creator, in that earlier conversation about telling a story or not. Or in wanting a piece to say something or not. Rather, the creator here is a Witness, more interested in being than in outcomes (narratives?)

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  23. Dee Avatar
    Dee

    P.S. I happened to find a copy of a Messud novel at a book sale a few weeks back and read it this week: “The Emperor’s Children”. I am a fan, now. Will have to read the one you talked about this summer.

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  24. kat Avatar
    kat

    Read this a few minutes ago, and somehow, it seems to speak to all of . . . This :
    “There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done.
    One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow.
    So, today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.”
    Dalai Lama
    I love your sharing of what it is to live, Grace ~

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  25. grace Avatar
    grace

    YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  26. grace Avatar
    grace

    and again, YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    this is xactly TRUE.
    mostly live. mostly live. mostly live.
    xoxoxoxoxo

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  27. grace Avatar
    grace

    this morning i will move Her back to the Wall in the
    Room.

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  28. grace Avatar
    grace

    what else would i do that would be more important?
    i ask self….
    Things will fall into place, things will Quiet. and
    we will become used to the New and it will no longer
    be New

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  29. grace Avatar
    grace

    it’s still dark, but Light is coming soon. i woke very
    early to make coffee and have a cup, to Listen.
    just crickets.
    and all your words here…and Mary O’s…”the world
    offers itself to your imagination”
    This morning i am just again RE~Amazed by how it all
    can go, does go. and how to Just Go…shoulder to
    shoulder with It All?

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  30. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    Dee, I like this… The creator here is a witness, more interested in being than in outcomes…

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  31. nadia Avatar
    nadia

    Hi, Grace. The advantage of coming late is that I can read everybody’s comments. Your blog always has such interesting conversations. This pieces is so lovely and gentle–the idea of shifts works well.
    best, nadia

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  32. grace Avatar
    grace

    nadia..i am honored that you come.

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