i am beginning to really Re Honor my sense of intuition.   today it worked oh so well in my behalf.  it was cheese making day.  but…i had no sense of needing to begin the cabecou,  which is next on my Learn List.   it's complicated.  and i was feeling like i just didn't want to be complicated.  Good Thing.

 

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just as soon as i got going with washing things to be sterilized,….LOTS OF SINK AND WATER ACTIVITY,  there was a whoosh and the sink drain pipes came loose.  WHA and EEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   What does one DO?  well…go out, get a cement brick and a couple varying pieces of 2×4 and ….prop it in place.  which is fine, for small doings, but Not for Big Cheese Doings.  so…ok.  and i instead made Paneer.  which i love and can use a Lot of.  but, it didn't come out exactly how i wanted it either.  i need to learn and understand how the industrial hotplate works and now i know more.  so…it's not as light as i like it.  not light enough to take to Peggy, my quality assurance person,  but for me..it will be fine.  sauteed till carmelized in olive oil and tamari, it is excellent.  and i love it that it's just Raw Milk.  no pasturizing.  YES!

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and look.  a visitor.  first here, but then

 

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and the most beautiful part of this is…look at the strip of cloth at the far right…….

 

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this is what had…Showed UP….early this morning.   out of the Blue.   was on top of one of the baskets.  i would say i haven't seen it in quite a while.  but there it was.  it's some supposedly 100% cotton.  a bolt end that once,  some years ago now, when i was at Walmart getting muslin,  was on the $1 a yard table…

reading the printing on the cardboard bolt, it said made in China.  and at the time, i know i stood there a long time.  i knew that this was not Fair Trade.  I knew that it took advantage of so much/many.  but i for some reason really loved it.  it has a magical quality to me.  and i thought about whoever designed it…the repetition over and over of the diamond and dot…what they might have been thinking and i thought ok…maybe for that Person.  maybe ok? or not.  but i bought it.  And today i see it as perfect for my sense of Grass leaves….how they carry the Whole of the Life of Grass within them…that diamond and dot…..and i tore some.  as small as i could, narrow,  and then wound those strips around a stick and stuck it in the walnut juice

 

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YES.  they portray the magic of the Grasses.  yes.  and looking….what about the stem with the seeds?  do i put that here?,  or just leave it with these two leaf blades?  and i look and see that the whole image could be out of balance…that the right and left sides are different enough…but  ….IS IT?  somehow, it's not.  somehow it's just OK.  or is it?   the right, to the viewer, the left for the Cloth, is with the Openness, with the folds of the harem cloth extending ….this is the part of Potential for the Next,  waiting for seeding of the Just Going.  

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26 responses to “220…nice number. 4.”

  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Harem cloth with its extended folds like earth sediment that piles up on banks after a river swell, color and form creating an arroyo. In looking further at the whole of the cloth, the folds have a movement to them that echoes the kantha stitching.

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  2. patricia Avatar

    i love this post–with the flavor and scent of fresh cheese–the plumbing solution–the amazing river cloth–but most of all the ideas this brings up around balance and potential. i waffle around a lot on balance and my waffling is clearly irrelevant. but potentiality. YES. that’s a huge one. the unknown which embraces every thing. even balance. and it’s not a future condition, is it? it exists right now. potential. possibility. right now.

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  3. jude Avatar

    my sink looks a bit like that, pipes propped. and a bucket to catch a leak or two. very old pipes here.
    maybe you might use that. the diamond and the dot. develop that.

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  4. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. diamond/dot
    develop
    develop the diamond and the dot……..

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  5. handstories Avatar

    oh, your grasses! branching and reaching out from the river, connected, yet with their own story. your diamond dot fabric is comforting.

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  6. beth Avatar

    I love your thoughtfulness. Standing in the store weighing the want and the rightness of it. The true cost of it.

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  7. grace Avatar
    grace

    it’s the only cloth i’ve bought in …. well, i can’t
    even remember how long. but, really, i’m glad i have
    it. and i think of yes, the true cost to all that were
    involved in the original idea of it on to the making of
    it in some factory….
    it began as a pale green, then the black and white of the
    diamond dot. has been put in tea dye and something else,
    i don’t remember. but there’s a lot of the original too.
    funny….a simple very small repetitive pattern but it
    connects to something in me…is familiar to something
    IN me…something “imprinted” long long ago

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  8. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    I love the line drawing on the first image. At first I thought it was stitch… My eyes aren’t so good now … Then later it disappeared… So I guess you are doing something like it with cloth? But I did love the crip cleanness of it in comparison to the softness of the rest of the piece. Tis is developing into a beautiful piece grace…

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  9. Mo Crow Avatar

    I’m with Nance loving the drawing with the seed heads, the diamond eyed cloth reminds me of a favourite ornamental grass Miscanthus sinensus Zebrinus… the stitching of the seed heads would create a sense of holding the energy momentarily

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  10. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    I’m re reading today, having looked late last night…and the comments, they take it deeper. It’s deep in it’s simplicity, and that complex. Mindfulness many layered in the pictures and text. So many details to notice. Your writing has the quality of ‘right now’ in it. And I love your last lines suggesting things that attract us are imprints blooming.

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  11. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Isn’t the diamond a tipped square after all–and the dot, a circle? The circle in the square implies human beings place in the universe pf things. I think of the iconic image by Michelangelo!

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  12. Judith of N. California Avatar
    Judith of N. California

    Mo Crow…I, too, responded originally in a way like you and Nance but the more I think about Grace, herself……I began to see a different piece of work…a forest of grasses…tall, tall, tall….and way down at the bottom, oh so very tiny, weaving in and out on the earth with bare feet…all of us dancing…weaving in and out…with Jude leading us in laughter…little gypsy fairies. Don’t know where this came from…but so it goes…

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  13. saskia Avatar

    this is such an excellent post, starting with the cheese making intent, tripped up by piping probs, but hey you came to your own rescue and improvised (as you do, I do often think Life really is improvisation) and then the beautiful display of cloth and visitors, and the kantha, so so very much Just So, and your thought connections throughout it all, I had a great time here….

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    i am more and more liking leaving those folds at the
    edges…the harem cloth…they are like the inner movement
    that we mostly don’t see, but if we look at the edges
    of things, we can. and yes…here, you are right, like
    the sand, sediment. i hadn’t thought of it in that way,
    but yes. thank you for seeing this.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    like the Knowing
    that’s inside everything…the “blueprint”
    even after long absence

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  16. julie Avatar
    julie

    The diamond/dot cloth reminds me of my father’s boxer shorts, which along with his hankies were how my mother taught me Ironing 101. So I mean that with lots of fondness and yes, like someone above said, a sense of being comforted.

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    no. it’s NOT a future condition. it is Now.
    and i like that about it.

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes…crisp in comparison to soft, yes.
    but it’s not this story. and soooooo

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  19. grace Avatar
    grace

    ohhhhh, i don’t know….the energy isn’t There Yet,
    it’s remembered in the cells of things

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  20. grace Avatar
    grace

    am thinking a lot of that…imprints…..

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  21. grace Avatar
    grace

    no. a diamond is a diamond.

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  22. grace Avatar
    grace

    glad you liked the Cricket

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  23. grace Avatar
    grace

    we only had white underwear at our house. Everyone.
    just white. and no hankies.
    it’s from somewhere else.
    and YOU ARE BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    oh, woohoo!

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  24. grace Avatar
    grace

    wherever it came from, it is truly beautiful…
    xoxo

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  25. Mo Crow Avatar

    the energy is in the act of stitching, don’t you think?

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  26. mimmin Avatar
    mimmin

    i like that material a lot; the little diamonds have a special quality which makes your eyes hover longer on them and i would have struggled with your same issue, mosttimes i can resist but sometimes not…

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