thinking how we look for answers about very Unknowable things….and really, believing that  any and all the Belief Systems, Religions, etc  are equal as a way

and this morning remembering something from Women Who Run With The Wolves   Clarissa Pinkola~Estes….in speaking of Wild Woman                                                                                                                              "She is the mind which thinks us, we are the thoughts that she thinks."

here is the whole passage:

"She is the Life/Death/Life force, she is the incubator.  She is intuition, she is far~seer, she is deep listener, she is loyal heart.  She encourages humans to remain multilingual;  fluent in the languages of dreams, passion, and poetry.  She whispers from night dreams, she leaves behind on the terrain of a woman's soul a coarse hair and muddy footprints.  These fill women with longing to find her, free her, and love her.

She is ideas, feelings, urges and memory.  She has been lost and half forgotten for a long, long time.  She is the source, the light, the night, the dark, and daybreak.  She is the smell of good mud and the back leg of the fox.  The birds which tell us secrets belong to her.  She is the voice that says, "This way, this way."

She is the one who thunders after injustice.  She is the one who turns like a great wheel.  She is the maker of cycles.  She is the one we leave home to look for.  She is the one we come home to.  She is the mucky root of all women.  She is the things that keep us going when we think we're done for.  She is the incubator of raw little ideas and deals.  She is the mind which thinks us, we are the thoughts that she thinks."

so..i begin the day which is sixteen more days till Solstice.

                                                           …………..Later in the day……………

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when i had the flu i drank tea instead of coffee.  and since then, the urge for coffee is just vanished.  so i have tried different teas.  this is my favorite morning tea…Taylors of Harrogate  Scottish  Breakfast Tea.  today i put all those bags in with some of the silk noile and ahhhh, o look at that color.

 

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i pinned the Magic Diaries Cloth back up and there was 

shock

that entire central background was a grey  l a v e n d a r  color….!!!  During the Monsoon it was on the back of the chair and got wet from a leak in the ceiling.  I'd hung it out to dry on the clothesline and forgot it for a few days….remembered and just brought it in late in a day and folded it back over the chair,  i guess without Attention.  and here it is.  not the color it was.

 

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this is a pic from when i was making it,  in June of 2012.  it was a kind of slate bluegrey.  and here's the point…i don't really remember how i got that color.  i'm thinking it was a piece of cloth that i was trying to get BLACK with the Color Hue Dyes?????  i think so, but am not at all sure.  

and now i know.  A lot of times it doesn't matter to me if something is color fast.  but here is an example where it matters a LOT.    i NEVER would have chosen to use a cloth of a greyish lavendar for this.  Never.  but now i have it.  and now i know.  because i have always assumed that if something loses it's original color, it would just become a more faded shade of that color. 

SURPRISE!

 

 

  

 

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24 responses to “279 we can choose the form, any or all. there is one that fits us like skin”

  1. Minka Avatar
    Minka

    Thank you for WWRWW. beautiful…

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  2. Mo Crow Avatar

    thank you (((Grace))) the sun is just coming up here & these are such good words to begin the day!

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  3. beth Avatar

    Oh yes, thank you. For me the god-thing would have to be the goddess-thing because then it all makes more sense to me. The mucky root… Love that.

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    it brings me to the way i hive to go to….
    here the night start … sleepwell and deep..

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  5. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Chicken soup is bubbling on the stove, wind is howling, fierce weather is coming, rain, snow and cold and inside, the inner fire is lit by again coming to the words grace has chosen from Women Who Run With the Wolves. And I’m thinking of the bubbling soup and the bubbling creative spark that comes to us, we women who move within our bones, seeking that which nourishes, that which feeds our spirit, that which births spirit and I find these words also from Estes:
    “The creative force flows over the terrain of our psyches looking for the natural hollows, the arroyos, the channels that exist in us. We become its tributaries, its basins, we are its pools, ponds, streams, and sanctuaries. The wild creative force flows into whatever beds we have for it, those we are born with as well as those we dig with our own hands. We don’t have to fill them, we only have to build them.”
    For me, the god/goddess thing has always been linked with the finding within myself first of spirit and then looking down, up and around at the natural world and finding a way to incorporate my inner and outer world into a belief system. Estes goes on to say,
    “For this reason, a woman’s creative ability is her most valuable asset, for it gives outwardly and it feeds her inwardly, at every level, psychic, spiritual, mental, emotive and economic.”

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  6. grace Avatar
    grace

    how many times can we open this book and find it all NEW?
    how beautyFull this is. i will remain with the questions
    i think forever. and forever go to Women Who Run and
    Buddhism for my Path. yes. i think this is True.
    Blessings for your soup.

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  7. grace Avatar
    grace

    her words become more beauty Full every time i go back to
    them

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  8. grace Avatar
    grace

    she is an amazing amazing amazing woman

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  9. grace Avatar
    grace

    for me, goddess is too sweet. and yes…a mucky root. yes.
    i know mucky root

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  10. grace Avatar
    grace

    i think of you sleeping, well and deep. Nice, this….

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  11. patricia Avatar

    Perfect. this is all so perfect. i would even say it’s beyond perfect–in THAT place. and so i was moved to open my own copy of WWRWW and read “It’s not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.” which speaks to me loud and clear. very instructive especially in light of my recent yet on-going angst over global defilement. and what i’m seeing is that i have not been tending the home fires with as much diligence as required. this is just wonderful. as i’m finishing this, a tiny spider is walking up the monitor, settling over Marti’s comment. what more affirmation could there be? much love.

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  12. Mo Crow Avatar

    Ha! best get those coloured pencils and some brush and ink and a bit of graphite & do some painting my friend!

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  13. Judith of N. CA Avatar
    Judith of N. CA

    What is the grey lavender fiber ?

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  14. Minka Avatar
    Minka

    If you used a berry or a bean that has anthocyanins in it, maybe the blue was masking a red/pink but now that the blue is gone, you are left with the unmasked red/pinks????? Just a question more than an answer. Any chance the colors will grow on you?

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  15. jenni lynn Avatar

    Thank you for sharing these wolf woman words. This book is so rich. And I love how we can work on cloths and they take on a life of their own. Now this one is transforming itself! Cool!

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  16. Tracy Leppold Avatar

    Thank you for reminding me. I don’t know when I stopped thinking about these things or why. I didn’t purposely reject it, life changed the subject. There’s a blank there in my life. Thanks for reminding me how I can fill it up.
    So strange about the color change. Maybe it will go on changing? It looks odd now, but it might be ok if you get used to it. Tracy

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  17. jan millington Avatar
    jan millington

    Recently I moved some of my mum’s stuff up into my loft, after bringing it from her emptied house when she died this summer. I have boxes of books up there; came across my copy of WWRWTW & smiled, but passed it by as I was searching out Doris Lessing’s ‘Golden Notebook’. After reading your post, I’m filled with a desire to re-visit it; I think I’ll be climbing up the ladder to the roof & bring that book back down. A yuletide treat! And Taylor’s of Harrogate, Grace; happy to report they’re a Yorkshire tea company! Nice to hear they’ve made such an impression in New Mexico! Happy tea drinking Grace. X

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    the spider…..
    the angst…it won’t go away, it’s how to Live with it

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    cotton. it’s a kind of cotton that i think Jude referred
    to as common household cotton. there’s a lot of this
    at the Thrift Shop here, in the form of curtains. so
    cotton.

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    it was white…or, really a neutral cotton. hmm.
    might be good to make dye notes…yes?????
    the colors will NEED to grow on me. this Diaries Cloth
    is…., well, it IS. i’m hoping it will fade further
    to just gray. i love gray….maybe will hang it out
    in the sun again this summer.

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar

    and what am i to learn from it?????, the cloth

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. i’m hoping it will continue drifting toward gray

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar

    the Golden Notebook…well oh yes, but WWRWTW, what good
    good winter reading
    and the TEA! yes!!!! it is just the absolute BEST and
    AND gives that beautiful color in dye. i wonder if the
    people at the tea company are aware of that???????

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