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140 regaining some balance

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the color isn't right.  but i can't make it right at this time of day.  so….just this for now.  and 
Left to My Own Devices,  i stitched and did Goat stuff.  HOW so very very GOOD this feels.
This Lizard cloth…it's becomeing a cloth with a kind of name…again, the first time, really, that a cloth has a kind of name……            it's name is   Imagining Our Own Personal moon
There is that Moon that is so far out there, that watches and cares for us in it's reliableness, in calling the movement of Tides,  in keeping that balance of Time and Nights and Days and the things with which we order a "calendar".   There's That Moon.  but then, working on this cloth, i somehow though of the sense of a personal moon,  a moon that hovers over this small place here, that is attached to the land here, to the things that live here which i guess would include me.  a smaller moon.  a personal moon.  that i could reach out and hold in the palm of my hand if i dared.
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  1. roz Avatar
    roz

    that personal moon has some power, it drew my eye to it immediately…. the intricate tracery on the warm cloth within speaks quite differently from all around. it has a different song.

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. it is a close moon. it has it’s humming song
    that sings of stuff close to the ground here

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  3. Laura R Avatar
    Laura R

    The moon is always beautiful to me, especially a full one. On fabric it seems magical. And there are two? One you? Nice. I like what I think is your whiptail. My initial reaction was ‘eeew’, but I figured you must be seeing something I’m not seeing. So, I searched for images of NM whiptail, and they really are interesting, and pretty in a way, though I wouldn’t want one in my house, or running across my foot! Glad you had time for stitching.

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  4. grace Avatar
    grace

    the lizards…
    back in my other life they were salamanders. i have always
    loved them, salamanders/lizards. have always been so
    relieved and Welcomed when i see them anywhere. and it’s
    funny…when daughter and i were looking at where to end
    up in Northern California, one of the first things i did
    was look for what kind of lizards were there.
    then i looked at demographics.
    what kind of Diversity was there.
    these two things.

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  5. wendy Avatar
    wendy

    You make your place so thick with significance. You honour so much of your life/place in your cloth, in your words, in your day-to-day life. It’s beautiful. Thank you Grace!

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  6. wendy Avatar
    wendy

    Oh, and this work is beautiful- the tin can (?)
    vibration lines… The moon here tonight, just a few minutes ago, was so bright I could find the misplaced lock for the door to my shed. I found myself thinking ‘thank you, moon’…. HA!

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  7. grace Avatar
    grace

    the Place is so Thick…love that word…thick…
    this Place is so Thick, it makes me. it creates my going.
    Wendy…THANK YOU SO MUCH for supporting this endeavor..with
    your words that act as strong supports to the life that just
    goes here……so IMPORTANT for me, love

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  8. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    Oh, I was searching for balance last night myself. Feel better about that today and it seems you do too.
    I like to think that the moon is a uniting, in-discriminatory light that shines on us all. When I think that I am seeing he same moon that you do, It makes me feel connected.

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  9. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    ah a moon you can hold in your hand… if you dare… and you do! you have not only held it you are stitching into it!

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  10. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    there is just all so much in these last few posts of yours. i could/should/will spend time and more time digesting…understanding…integrating. right now i just have a sense of what is at play here. just a sense of it. and right now it’s more than i can get my mind around. but as i say that–“mind”–i realize i will NEVER get it with my MIND. this is heart and soul material. and it’s calling for the need to dive deeper–into and below the heart. to the place where pearls are created from grit. thank you, dear Grace.

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  11. Laura R Avatar
    Laura R

    When I was a kid we used to play with salamanders (on the same ranch as the goats), but they were where expected-in the creek. I never saw a wild lizard until we moved to N. Cal., and they can be anywhere. I just wish they didn’t dart!!

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  12. Laura R Avatar
    Laura R

    Yes, Wendy!

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  13. beth Avatar
    beth

    A personal moon. Oh this is good. I keep watching those can lines above the personal moon. They remind me of something… I Ching? Or something…

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    love that…a Wild Lizard. for a lizard, darting means
    staying alive…
    salamanders. newts. ahhhh and eeeeeeeee. LOVE the
    feel of them in the palm of my hand. its been a long long
    time.
    i Want ranch stories…tell Us…..

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    there is something so loving about Moon Light, when it
    illuminates our world like this…
    yes, Saying thank you. yes.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    OUR Moon

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    soon

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    love to you, p

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    they kind of are I Ching lines, aren’t they…
    interesting. i gave all my I Ching books to the
    library or i’d see what hexagram we might have here

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  20. Saskia Van Herwaarden Avatar
    Saskia Van Herwaarden

    dare

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