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124 how things are so….layered

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so we are going to take a break from Goats for a while.  for time being, it's quiet.   and i have been wanting to spend some good hours just seeing how we fared in the extreme temps over the last weeks.  today it's 90 degrees and it feels balmy.    I have been watching the lizards.  SO MANY of them, seemingly more than ever before.   i'm thinking that it is because of the water near the Goats,  in the house gardens.   they flash past at all times of day but in early morning, ahead of my footsteps at least a dozen skitter.   and before i left for work this morning, i was thinking i want to make a lizard cloth,  so….here is the beginning of that.  

 

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22 responses to “124 how things are so….layered”

  1. jude Avatar
    jude

    So much so.

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  2. beth Avatar
    beth

    Looking at this cloth over 3 days of posts. This curving is so good.

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  3. grace Avatar
    grace

    i have to leave again…Old Cowboy day…
    my thoughts will remain in these curving layers

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  4. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes…so much so…
    it’s hard in this moment to take it all in

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  5. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    Layers and layers and layers….

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  6. kat Avatar
    kat

    Somehow uplifting, those curves ~

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  7. Dee Avatar
    Dee

    for me the quadrant-producing cross keeps a kind of order… lets the layering happen without overwhelm

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  8. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    Like peeling an onion… Trying to get to the core. Re layers we notice, the more important the core is , I think.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    and the layers here feel very good

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    dreamlike

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    maybe yes, maybe an urge to find a balance?

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    but my layers lately feel as if they want to layer UP?
    rather than Away?

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  13. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    have been thinking about you and the goats and the heat you’re enduring–my sister in Phoenix says it’s eeerie–and now lizards. when i first started reading your blog way back i don’t remember when, lizards were everywhere but i got in on the tail end of it. this cloth is going to be FUN to watch. love to you

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    get your sister out of Phoenix

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  15. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    This new cloth has a great start… I am so abstract minded that I can see this in a whole different way! But for sure it’s a great foundation. Still layering up? And 90, balmy? You are a lizard for real, my friend! It was cooler here today only 89 but I literally am sick from the heat. So many days of high temps and no fan or a/c.

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  16. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    tell me more. she actually lives in Apache Junction but has her chiro practice in phoenix.

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    just thinking about living where temps go over 110….
    for as much as i am ok here, i really can’t imagine that.
    but then, i also live with doors and windows open. you
    would have AC there and hunker down i suppose. and well,
    we Are Where We Are, yes?

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    this is a great comment…somehow said just the right
    way to give me a glimmer of how truly we see with our
    own eyes/filters/etc. i love the thought that with
    these 3 pieces, just there, you might go forward in such
    a different way….
    This is Great….
    Please get a fan, love….

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  19. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Yes Nance–a FAN and placed above a large bowl of cool water as the dancers I used to know living in small spaces in hot cities did to survive the heat of summer days…and wearing loose cloth, and taking salt tablets, and drinking lots of water with lemons for their medicinal power plus a little honey for it’s soothing qualities, and drawn curtains with windows open only at the top because heat rises, and sleeping close to the floor.
    While away, I’ve been stealing into my friends computer, though I couldn’t communicate, to follow you and Jude and a few others. and loving, really LOVING both the goat work and the cloth work, and your words in your true TRUE voice telling what wanted to be told. Our heat wave in Massachusetts, with sporadic storms was totally bearable because so much green abounds and helps us breathe, and because of the luxury of an above ground pool, and, yes, air conditioning indoors. The many cats spent most of their hours in feline repose of withdrawn energy. Cats, I think, have nine lives precisely because they know how to conserve like that. Now that I’m back, my energy saving A/C is on in the apartment, and most chores that involve outside are done early mornings or late in the day, just as I did up in MA. The church garden is insane with blossom and I won’t be doing anything out there till Friday. Here too, almost daily a bit of rain keeps it going. Your ‘balmy’ 90 made me laugh because I SO understand! That lean to you built to shelter the goats in 110 degrees had me gasping with admiration, and, as always, that special attention you are so adept at.

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  20. grace Avatar
    grace

    the lean to needs an addition, or a something close by.
    and i loved your pics of all your work Beautifying as
    Lady Bird used to say, bless her heart.
    Heat is one thing here, but in the city…oh, i can’t
    imagine….

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  21. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    Thank you both for the concern… I got a fan and I am ok now. We do manage the windows wear loose clothes drink plenty of water with lemons…. I think being older makes a difference in how one responds …. Not quite as tolerant as normal. But definitely ready for what comes my way now! Thanks again.

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  22. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    Happy that you see!

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