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these days.  they DO begin this way.   but by noon  at the latest are Warm,  Sun filled, Glorious days.   a few more.  till the end of this month.   and then,  the long haul.

 

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and this.  Now i have Everything anyone could possibly want.   walnuts from Michelle's Escape World,  and even MORE,  the box she sent them in.  a perfect box.  small.  brown.  perfectly square.  a very special box that i love almost as much as the walnuts.

 

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and looking at Mo's talismans,  i thought…why not ask?   so i did.   and i think it may happen.  i think that Roz may be able to make me two very very small earrings.   it's interesting and i am not going to spend any time wondering,  but some time Back,  i quit wearing  Things in Particular.  my whole thing was to wear NON things.   clothing, adornment of any kind.   but with the JudyMartin MorningHousedress,  something has shifted.  although i have many piercings in my ears, i have kept only very very small gold loops in the bottom ones.  they are just there.  like my ears are there.  day in, day out.  just there.  but i emailed Roz and asked her if it were a possibility that she might make two very very small rectangles.  one copper one silver.  and i sent her this very fast pic i made as i was thinking.  we'll see.  maybe yes.  i very much like the idea.

 

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and i began some of the cranes.  i had seen them exactly like this on the cloth from the beginning.  there will be more.

 

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27 responses to “258 holding so closely these beautiful days”

  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Don’t know what you intend to do with the crane cloth but I would mount it on a walking stick and take it to the Bosque for the Festival of the Cranes. As they soar in the sky, the wind would furl your cloth along and it would be simply magic!

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  2. grace Avatar
    grace

    i love this. i have no intention for the cloth other than to
    Make it. maybe i will. maybe i will take it, as you say.
    one week from tomorrow, you will be here. Here. we can look at it.
    think what to do.

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  3. linda Avatar

    oh, i want to see the cranes.. wanted to last year and now missing again this year.
    so let’s try for next year. it will be easier then.. no work.
    love the crane cloth. wonderful. have fun with marti. i will be there in spirit..

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  4. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Truly beautiful there in EVERT way Grace. I may be off awhile since after several days of sneezing I seem to have contracted a full blown sinus busting, chest crushing cold. I’m loving your fire. It’s cold here, not inspiring. Everything changes though. Good news will come again.

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  5. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    I am glad you are wanting those in your ears.

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  6. jude Avatar

    yes, it is like a flag

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  7. Deb G Avatar

    Your fire makes me feel warm too. I like imagining this cloth streaming along and that you might have special earrings.

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  8. patricia Avatar

    oh, the fire–i miss that heat. and this is so funny–all along i thought the cranes were those five shadowy figures across the cloth heading from right to left.

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  9. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Patricia, I had the same feeling when I first looked at the cloth markings and in fact, commented about them in one of grace’s earlier posts. Now that you are stitching cranes grace, these “crane” markings feel to me like ancestral birds illuminating the path and that makes this cloth doubly beautiful and meaningful to me.

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  10. patricia Avatar

    love your observation–“ancestral birds illuminating the path–”
    makes me want to be a crane

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  11. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    marti and patricia. . .yes. shadows of past migration. showing us how beautiful ‘shadow’ can be.

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  12. Judith of N. CA Avatar
    Judith of N. CA

    oh my, yes, what exquisite wording…strikes a very deep chord,does it not ? As Jan also adds, migration…something so many earthlings used to do..now we are called gypsies (sometimes only of the heart and mind). I would love to see the results of using “ancestral beings illuminating the path” as a theme on cloth.

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  13. grace Avatar
    grace

    you are always here in Spirit.
    and the birds always come. and they stay all winter.
    the Festival is just what it is because so many humans
    make the journey to celebrated the birds

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    well…i know now exactly what you feel like and it is
    NOT good.
    you had better go to Martine’s blog and make the
    Misery Soup

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  15. grace Avatar
    grace

    it’s so odd. i have kept the tiny gold loops only for
    so long. for a very little while i wore a pair i got
    from a woman up the Mountain. but they didnt’feel right.
    so..off.
    but…when i saw those small rectangles that Roz puts
    on her work, her personal symbols, i suddenly thought,
    YES!…
    someone said to me once that pierced ears and what you
    choose to put in the piercings are like a kind of acupuncture.
    ????
    i hope she can do it, wants to do it.
    i love her hand at metal

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    like a flag.

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    the earrings would be constant and permanent.

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes…they are too, but different kind

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  19. grace Avatar
    grace

    you see it

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  20. grace Avatar
    grace

    being a crane takes an incredible amount of Will

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  21. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. this is it.

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  22. grace Avatar
    grace

    beautiful words that bring beautiful images

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  23. Nancy Avatar

    Or two sticks, like a banner

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  24. Nancy Avatar

    Love the Roz request. The cloth is magnificent.

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  25. saskia Avatar

    oh how i LOVE this cloth

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  26. grace Forrest Avatar

    i do to. glad i had the “nerve”. i think they are
    in the works.

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  27. grace Forrest Avatar

    i love that you say you love it……

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