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144….i Got it……

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suddenly,  i understood.   because of having drawn,  with graphite,  lizards so many many times before, i could not make that transition to cloth.  because of having Seen them, so many many times For Real,  for real as in a photograph,  i could not make the transition.

the person changed her mind and i DID go to work today, but i rushed home….i am so engrossed with this cloth…rushed home and have worked on it for some hours until suddenly i understood what i was doing and why it wasn't working.  

so…this is good.  i will leave her now while i work on the stones and the grasses, on that personal moon,  on the Universal Moon that watches over All of Us… 

this has been just GREAT and great and wonderful and i know so much more now than when i began.

BIG storm just behind the Rim.  off computer.

 

it's not here yet.  i want to make Mango Chutney.  Pray that they ripen

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29 responses to “144….i Got it……”

  1. jude Avatar
    jude

    yes

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  2. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Mmmm…mango chutney!
    I love the way your whip tail lizard is camouflaged by the ground.
    Hope the storm is cooling and healing.

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    love the aha moment, it’s such a wild Full Moon, Ahroooo!

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  4. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    The way the light glows on the fruit is so beautiful and other worldly… It could be a composition sitting on the sideboard in one of vermeers paintings… I have always loved still lifes . You really do have a rich life. Just the way you see things and then present them to us. Thank you.
    And this will be a beautiful piece when it is finished… Is it sold?

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  5. KaiteM. Avatar
    KaiteM.

    grace dear i saw this and thought you might get a chuckle out of it. Not goats but close, and in Tasmania where i lived for many years.
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-23/couple-told-to-move-dozens-of-pigs-out-of-their-house/4838398

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  6. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    i want to meet this woman.

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  7. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    and that observation towards the end… that you know so much more now than when you began…that in itself, to me, is worth every thing.

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  8. KaiteM. Avatar
    KaiteM.

    Umm, don’t think you really do patricia.

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  9. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    In yesterday’s comments, you expressed your surprise that anyone would want to know the backstory of you. Gee whiz, girl. So I am using that as an opening to oh so tentatively raise my hand and say that I really want to know how you wound up in Polvadera with goats. I get the big picture of your Journey but I have read your blog all the way from the beginning and your present life seems to involve california, a ttrailer, a daughter and lord knows what else. But I cant piece it all together, avid mystery reader though I am. And even though my husband calls me Gladys Kravitz, Grace has given me permission to ask aloud!

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  10. Susan C Avatar
    Susan C

    Oh I spend some time thinking about that transition too, paper and pencil to cloth. Your translation is always beautiful. I love your lizards and your eye for light, grace. The fullness and shadow of the mangoes is beautiful. Happy chutney.

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  11. stickyfingers Avatar
    stickyfingers

    …. or you could not wait and make green mango chutney too!

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  12. lindamorris Avatar
    lindamorris

    yes ! you got it ! this is one of my favourites yet grace.
    for me its the perfect balance of abstract and real. perfect.
    i too would love to hear the tale of how you got to be involved here with all these goat spirits ..animal husbandry..its a tough gig though full of love and reward as well.

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  13. beth Avatar
    beth

    Love this–the I got it moment. And I’m looking at that print cloth again. The stem mirrors the graceful twist of a lizard’s body.

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  14. gaile Avatar
    gaile

    oh grace, what i read here, your life is amazingly wonderful. you facinate me with your kindness and your good heart. i love to see the process of your wonderful creations. such rich thoughts, and beautiful images. thank you for sharing yourself with us.

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  15. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    rereading your words Grace I am learning a lot from your approach in how to keep the stitched line lively!

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    i think

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    they always are this Moonsoon season…they release
    so much Energy….and whatever Rain they give, we are
    deeply grateful

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    a very Excellent Moon

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  19. grace Avatar
    grace

    i couldn’t miss with these mangos…they are just so
    welll, mango~ie
    No, it’s not asked for and neither is the last one.
    Thinking what to do with them now. of course, this one’s
    got a way to go yet. but i have no urge or need to keep
    them…

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  20. grace Avatar
    grace

    oh…THANK YOU for sending this…for just what it IS but
    also for something else it means to me…how we just are
    PRESENTED with things in life and they take hold and we
    get all enthusiastic and Just GO with it all…i really
    liked this woman a lot. i’d like to send her a note in
    the mail, can you figure out how to do that????????????
    xoxoxoxoxo

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  21. grace Avatar
    grace

    i do. but i am thinking a lot about that…what would
    it change?

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  22. grace Avatar
    grace

    as you can see…the momentum has begun…
    again…i LIKE questions and will also rely on you to
    ask more as i go along….ok???

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  23. grace Avatar
    grace

    i take that as a true compliment from You.., Your work….

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  24. grace Avatar
    grace

    STICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HEY!!!!! hello here!!!!!!
    turned out ok. but i did read a LOT of recipes for the
    green and watched one really GREAT UTUBE where they
    just kept tasting by sticking their fingers in and then
    once dumping some on the palm of their hand and licking
    it off….
    LOVE to you

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  25. grace Avatar
    grace

    here we go……………….

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  26. grace Avatar
    grace

    maybe that’s why i was so determined to put it here…
    somehow unconsciously connecting them????

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  27. grace Avatar
    grace

    gaile…as they used to say…..takes one to know one…
    so i mirror it back to You,
    love,

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  28. grace Avatar
    grace

    just having been in the What Ifing Forum and your thread line…it’s really interesting…to make it wild is one
    thing and to hold a gesture is another
    someday i’ll learn to do both

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  29. KaiteM. Avatar
    KaiteM.

    grace i can only find her name and town, but that will find her, it’s only a small town.
    Vicki Jackson (long hair pig breeder), St Marys, Tasmania 7215, Australia.

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