work Away.  to Alz. B's.  she is busy today.  busy fingering her pants hem.  busy trying to take her shirt off over her head.  her socks were flung on the floor.  i put them back on.  then, talking to her nurse, watched her remove them and fling.  ok.  off.

to Old Cowboy's.  to take him a pecan pie and whip cream.  his old dog, Rosie, has taken up peeing in the extra room.  he is Beside Himself.   i remind him that we all, at some point, pee inappropriately.  to just give her a few days.  maybe it was the Snow?  to not need to make any irreconcilable decisions for a little while.  This is Hard.  he is very stressed.

to Laundromat.

to Grocery.  bags bags bags.  all the stuff of the Thanksgiving i grew up with,  fed my kids.  SIGH.

 

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o o   sideways.  i'll fix it in a minute.  but…i'd used the turkey roaster for dyeing.  and it has a clink of rust here and there.  and India has gotten me paranoid.  so…a new one.  this may be the Only time it is ever used for a turkey.

 

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afternoon SUN

 

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and when i was finally, really, home….What If  i use the integrated applique that Jude taught us?  with the copper thread?  

 

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and this morning, cleaning the Table which will become a Thanksgiving Table soon, cleaning it of all the cloth and thread…these very, and i mean VERY small fragments of cloth…like Very,  i pressed them together and was about to put them aside,  in the Past, i would have thrown them away…so small….BUT

look.  look how they create an image of the Butterfly People!  so..maybe.  maybe there in that corner of the godthing altar cloth????maybe

 

 

 

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22 responses to “271”

  1. Linda Avatar

    busy day..
    enjoy every minute of it.
    i love the stitching around the sun.

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  2. grace Avatar
    grace

    it’s just the thread. pressed against the cloth. no
    stitching yet. and maybe not at all. just looking right
    now.
    i noticed today that i have become Easier with these kind
    of days. not move Fast. but move slower in them. the
    Time it Takes doesn’t differ much. but the Sense of it
    does. it’s softer, dreamier. it’s good and better.

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  3. Tracy Leppold Avatar

    It’s good when you can take things easier.
    I like the thread too. It makes it look like movement. Plus it just looks nice. It’s beautiful in the golden light. Afternoon light is so lovely this time of year.
    I’m remembering. Spirit is everywhere in simple things. People expect an exalted state but it’s very ordinary and right under our noses. That’s why it’s so hard to see. I think women sense this more than men.

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  4. Mo Crow Avatar

    this cloth flies so beautifully, you’ve got it !

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  5. Nanette Avatar

    ….butterfly people….exhale

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  6. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Ah, that last photo, La Mariposa came to call…

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  7. patricia Avatar

    oh, Rosie. and yesterday my daughter’s dog unloaded buckets of pee all over their mattress. why would she do that i wondered? not sure i want to know.
    would you tell us more about integrated applique–is that when the thread is anchored with a series of what i’ll call whip stitches? especially like the frayed furry left hand part of the thread. so soft and dreamy. and how it provides a more specific corridor–someone else said that i think– for the birds. more focused i think.

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  8. Judith of N. California Avatar
    Judith of N. California

    Ohhh…that afternoon light..amazing how it brought out even more patterning on the cloth. That light makes me want to curl up like a cat in it and take a little nap.

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  9. maria Avatar
    maria

    do you see wath light do ….. even when it is for a moment ….
    bud you/we have seen it and know it’s there … for ever and ever ..it is in the thread now … and shall always reflect it .

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  10. maria Avatar
    maria

    in the heart

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    why is that?, i wonder…the difference between women
    and men…do men get their sense of spirit from the
    women in their lives?, who, if they are lucky, sence it
    directly???????????????

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    flies…yes…i like that

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s already Saturday, Nov 30
    and i have been watching that for days now

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    am excited for that

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    i’m going to ask Jude to repeat her words about integrated
    applique. my use of it is a little different than her
    words…so they are important. this is now 11/30 and i’ll
    ask her in Diaries when i’m done here

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    Light has been everywhere and everything to me lately

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    maria…i hope/want it to be in the thread now, always.
    to hold the moments…

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes, i understand…yes.

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  19. Tracy Leppold Avatar

    This is something I remember from a long time ago. The men were talking and talking about it. They were trying to understand it with their brains and with words. For me it was the wind, or the way the plants grow. Babies. It seems like if you talk about it you move away from it. Of course I’m probably being a complete sexist..

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  20. grace Avatar
    grace

    well…sexist?…well…there is reason for everything, yes?
    but you are right that in general there is a difference.
    i think women have less Fear.
    it’s a Big Thought. but it’s why, after years and years
    of hooking up with men, that really, now, i prefer
    my own company. they compliment us in many ways. but
    also there is huge compromise. i wish i had understood
    that and accepted that a long time ago.

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  21. grace Avatar
    grace

    i did understand that. but i didn’t accept it.

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  22. Tracy Leppold Avatar

    It’s such a big thought I need to let it sit for awhile. Fear, it comes and goes, everyone has it sometimes. I don’t know what kind you mean. Compromise. It depends on what you’re expected to give up, and whether you want to. I’m glad you’re happy on your own. Independence is such a good thing.

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