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308 a day of feeling very softly happy for no particular reason that i know

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i will think about doing something for close to forever but not do it.  Then, suddenly, i am doing it.  very early….emptying all the baskets, nine of them,  one by one and going through Every piece of Cloth in them.   Creating a certain kind of order.

 

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almost nothing at all was removed.  just a couple small things.  the rest just rearranged and most important, TOUCHED.  Considered.  Known and Remembered.  

 

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and as things made their way to the surface, i found self putting scraps on the table…just following Urge,  and this is what there was.  i like it.

 

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this was just a rather plain piece of wrinkled cloth but had a hole cut into it.  i threaded through this thready scrap…i like it again.  something with Dimensional going on lately.

 

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and i saw that i have very little black and white left.   i like it a lot, particularly on those border edges….like it in small ripped strips.

So, i am sending out a Wondering if anyone has extra of such a cloth.  it would need to be cotton.

most likely a commercial print, which is fine, but a very SMALL to teeny design…like a paisley kind of thing?  Black and White only.  i have a LOT of white silk gauze i can trade…from Dharma Trading.  i have no idea why i thought i might use it, but i won't.  it would be great to dye.

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and i took a 10 minute nap and was gifted by one of the Wonderful and Rare 

Narrator Dreams.

Waking,  the Question hovered:  To Whom do you Belong?

i didn't know what to think.  and kept rewording it to :  To What do you Belong?     But that wasn't what was "said".  What was said was  To WHOM do you Belong?

i have no idea.  no idea what to think.  but i cannot deny the words of a Narrator Dream.  and so, as i go about this evening i mutter,  To Whom do I Belong??????????????????????????

no clue as yet

 

 

 

 

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29 responses to “308 a day of feeling very softly happy for no particular reason that i know”

  1. Dana Avatar
    Dana

    Wow. This is definitely a day of Being Spoken To for you. You handled and remembered your fabric and it has spoken back, and now a dream question to ponder. You must be very open now.

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  2. KAMFreeman Avatar
    KAMFreeman

    Grace, I will put a little package of black and white in the mail the first of next week…no need to send an exchange gift, my resources are overflowing with cloth. I will choose a few small image prints, all will be 100% cotton…my delight to be able to share from the collected stash.
    Your process of organizing the baskets was the catalyst for some great bits of fabric…particularly like #’s 1 and 3…look forward to watching them evolve as the story speaks to you.

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  3. grace Avatar
    grace

    and maybe that’s another way to say Very Softly Happy
    ….”very open”….
    i Feel
    very open
    i really have no way to describe it in the moment, but
    it feels different. it feels
    soft.
    i love your table on your blog

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  4. grace Avatar
    grace

    it’s an interesting surprise combination and looks to me like a
    Being…?????
    i know how you have a stash…so i thank you very much. but i DO
    have that silk gauze
    and i will never use it…..
    thank you and big love….

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  5. jude Avatar
    jude

    black and white. ok.

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  6. grace Avatar
    grace

    got gauze.
    and this scrap is from you.

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  7. grace Avatar
    grace

    got gauze…..
    this scrap is from you

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  8. margaret johnson Avatar
    margaret johnson

    To whom do You belong? Yourself I would think. Your room full of baskets and cloth looks yummy. Cats always manage to find a sunny spot don’t they! I would be happy to send you some black and white cloth Grace. I do have a piece of silk gauze already, so no need to send any
    . My work space is covered in all sorts at the moment too. I’m really hoping that I will be able to make stuff this year. My new 8 week old kitten Tom is wreaking havoc at the moment, he is into everything. Happy New Year Grace. Marg, ox

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  9. margaret johnson Avatar
    margaret johnson

    OH, I LOVE your coffee table ox

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  10. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    Narrator Dream… hmmm… like that name for that. I have narrator wanders in daydream a lot. I learn a lot from them.

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  11. grace Avatar
    grace

    only if it is EXCESS for you….
    i have such a STRONG FEELING that this year is going to
    bring SURPRISE in a very surprising way.
    and bless you for having an 8 wk old little Tom….
    i watch my Tazmeena becoming lazy in her years…preferring
    to just prick her ears to mouse sounds then sleep and
    dream in a scrap basket….
    Happy New Year to YOU, Margaret. i look forward to
    what comes to you in your Making.
    love,

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    the table…made by Alz B’s divorced husband, father of
    her so good son Bill who i work for. there is a family
    joke that i was his wife in some lifetime. all that he
    made…chairs/end tables/ that wood piece you see in the room, all that he made and no one had room for has ended
    up here over the years. his name was Lee. his son calls
    my Place here the Leeseum.

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  13. grace Avatar
    grace

    rare for me. but mean BIG SIGNIFICANCE.

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  14. deb Avatar
    deb

    I have just the things….flying tomorrow.

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  15. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    Your home is so beautiful….honey colored.

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    i love you.

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  17. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Love that Rumi poem about all the things he is not, and ending with, “I belong to the Beloved.”

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    it is and it isn’t. i always look at the pics i post.
    i always try to make them True.
    it’s interesting.
    the Friend who spent New Year’s Eve here didn’t come here
    for the four years she lived with her man. didn’t ever
    bring him here.
    i live in a really ify neighborHOOD. typically New Mexico
    Hood.
    and it wasn’t somewhere where she could bring him.
    i live in a very old trailer. it’s Shelter. my Stuff
    is dry and fine here. I am dry and fine here. it’s
    Luxury….in many of the world’s sense.
    i think it’s Beauty FULL.
    i used to have a dream as a child and then on into early
    adulthood. Of a huge seemingly never ending line of people, shoulder to shoulder, spanning the planet. each of us was required to stand in the center of that forever circle of people and were asked by each, who stood shoulder to shoulder….How have you lived?
    the person in the center moved along…answering the question over and over. to each one we passed. over and over.
    i don’t have that dream anymore. but if i did, i guess i
    could say…i lived as best i knew how. Changing it as i
    went along.
    i live as best i know how. yes. i do. and to me, too,
    it’s honey colored.

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  19. jude Avatar
    jude

    i know.

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  20. saskia Avatar
    saskia

    it just so happens a friend gave me a bag with coloured scraps, also a few black-and-white, so I’ll be tearing them up and send you a few

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  21. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    beautiful post. the feeling of “flow” comes through so clearly. being in the flow of things. open to what arises. loving and accepting what is. briefly my thoughts kick in, contemplating “arriving at flow.” is it the result of how “we be” or is it something that just happens. i think it might be a bit of both with a lot of magic thrown in as well. and like so many things, it’s probably not something that can be pursued with an agenda. but still, important to recognize and honor. i’m holding intentions today of “flow.” being in the moment. honoring what is. this post reminds me to do so…so thank you.

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  22. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    some B&W-ness will be winging it’s way to you tomorrow arvo my friend!

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  23. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    and I’m with Margaret on the big question of “to whom do you belong? yourself Grace, shining your light from your space and place on this 3rd rock from the sun and all the heart and art that moves out from there through your hands!

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i would thank you…but if it’s a few….maybe it would
    be good to keep them. i can see you using black and white
    in your cloths…..

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  25. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    right now, it happens. in these moments. i am trying
    to feel it well so i remember

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  26. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    thank you Mo…thank you

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  27. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    today all day, it was that i belong to the Consciousness
    of the Earth
    and to understand this Consciousness as a Whom,
    not a what

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  28. Dana Webb Avatar
    Dana Webb

    Thinking of you Very Softly happy makes me happy too.

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  29. grace Avatar
    grace

    i have held it,….the softness….held it.
    Things are GOOD.

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