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finally had the courage to lift up the mirror.  didn't want to see that it had finally broken….but

IT DIDN"T!….that little piece on the bottom has always been there.  OH, Glad!…..Wind knocked it over some long time ago.  but it's fine.  it's in yet another little "room" here,   just to the left of the Raft.  on yet another rocking chair.  the Mirror Chair Room.

 

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too bright, this time of day,  but the Sage, to the Left of the Mirror Chair is green and fragrant.

 

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and again,  down at ground level,  this wonderful forest of dry grasses…..a path through to the Mirror Chair.  i am getting closer and closer to being able to say something about 

Permaculture.

 

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and Her.  before i worked away today i put some cloth in the pot with tea bags.  hung it to dry on return.   and so.   

but she doesn't need to be a whole Cloth….really, …..just Her.   How can i DO that??????

 

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like me, She looks better at a distance.

 

 

 

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  1. judykeathley@cox.net Avatar
    judykeathley@cox.net

    that distance thing is so not true.
    you are both more beautiful up close.

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  2. grace Avatar
    grace

    hmmmm…well, you know about vanity……

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  3. grace Avatar
    grace

    and maybe i can make her like a shadow puppet…with sticks

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  4. judykeathley@cox.net Avatar
    judykeathley@cox.net

    love it !

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  5. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    Ha! Love the at a distance line. At a store, when Moon was small & acting out…a stranger said to me, “aren’t children wonderful?” I said, “From a distance.” She moved away quickly. Ha.
    I feel & see such joy here at your place these days.

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  6. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. there is Joy, but it takes a certain kind of
    sentiment
    to interpret it as such

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  7. ² Avatar
    ²

    sentiment will hold on the past
    let the heart smile
    the memory
    turn it over to future
    and the heart smile again
    in love connection .
    beauty full mirror
    and you
    like perma …. FORREST

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  8. Judith of N. CA Avatar
    Judith of N. CA

    Delightful poem to Grace…

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  9. julie Avatar
    julie

    How about wrapping the cloth around some wire?
    I love the outdoor rooms, you have more of them than you do indoor rooms!!

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  10. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    love the shadows on the rt. arm of the chair–the shadows and the wood grain.

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  11. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    LOVE that you have a mirror outside: it is probably the single most wonderful thing to see reflected back all that lives in this place of yours, this home place that was brought to life with attention to the native plants, with love for the planting that was done by hand, by the kiss of Gaia, in the form of wind. How could you not be happy when you look around you and into this mirror. You have created a place of wonder rooted in practicality, nourishing you, the creatures who live in and amongst you and the goats. Living in harmony and that is so reflected here, mirror or not! I know that you will have words re permaculture coming. For me, you don’t have to say anything because you have shown us the definition, simply by how you live and what is here…

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  12. jude Avatar
    jude

    your clothwork cycles back to dolls in a way now….
    i used to have a mirror outside, maybe way back before you were visiting.
    http://spiritcloth.typepad.com/spirit_cloth/2008/10/quilting-in-pie.html

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  13. User107055 Avatar
    User107055

    it is so cold here today..the snow fell for 12 hours and while that seems normal when we are in vermont , it seems foreign here and definitely throw the outside world into chaos
    my chaos has been all inside, i am still working in the attic, thinking about patricia and the dolphins..picturing jude’s beasts..it all blends in my head and makes a nice counterpoint to the chill and the seemingly infinite number of piles and boxes
    when i came down earlier i realized how cold it was ok it is 9 outside and this is an old brick house….and opened the vents…and then became distracted by yet another something that has to be done ..and so when i came back up with my laptop to take a break in the room full of morning light and Shelter i had forgotten that the heat had been pouring into the room..and i was simply, wonderfully enveloped by warm warm air…and the fragrance of the south west..such an unexpected pleasure
    and then i found the shelter place of the grasses, the little rooms of yesterday and today..the memories and the vision s of your new cloth..so many small layers combining here or interconnecting…and Happy..so funny to read your remark about distance when i have spent so much time double clicking on her image, enjoying the intricate combinations that create her..i certainly have enjoyed her at very close range..
    m waiting..to see what will happen..you have written about dolls that you used to create..now you write shadow puppet..the waiting and imagining is quite wonderful..it is so interesting to listen to you work through these plans..i can imagine her on cloth in several ways and so was surprised and intrigued by the voice that you heard…
    and you grace..distance feels mainly geographical…the thoughts you share and the work you create makes distance an interesting concept..i am so happy for you to find your mirror intact and your image reflected back..right here over thousands of literal miles..whatever the kind of distance you choose …it is a good one..( cindy’s story about from a distance ..over such a space of time still has me smiling..i so like people who easily say things i find in my brain)..
    so i have elderberry bushes ordered from east hill tree farm..for the spring..it is the place where the owner has a 100 year permaculture plan started…well underway, actually..his mother’s place is above the girls house .. i am trying to figure out how and where to start the creation of my hedgerows..elderberry and plum thickets..in some directions…i have already moved up some raspberries and blueberries to start and on one end of the garden space ..i have willow shoots in the back of my refrigerator.
    .. .well obviously i cannot wait to hear your thoughts on permaculture..how they will come to life in your hands.when you are thinking about them with intention..to me it seems as if you live in a way that is a growing and integral part of my concept of the very word..i am suddenly so surrounded by people who are working so very hard to create a place built on this world view..it so echoes where i was or thought i was going 40 odd years ago and is so very different from this place where we ended up..finding these places again..in my real life , in my head..and of course right here is such a joful thing..difficult some days..but joyful..anyway ..it was so good to wake up and see “happy”
    .may this happiness continue through your day..it certainly touched mine xox much cynthia

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    mirrors outside are an interesting phenomenon
    thank you for this link. yes..before my visits…
    things in general seem to be circling back and inward, gathering
    then moving Outward again.
    this Being really created herSelf, i just had to notice
    her…and well then giving her the paper face…
    i want to be able to move her around the house…like
    curtain to curtain, the back of a chair…
    and maybe even take her OutSide….

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  15. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    your new cloth is resonating with those sticks and cloth of the living shrines of Uyghur China…

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  16. Dana Avatar
    Dana

    I love your face in the mirror, close or from a distance! The clarity of your image in the weathered frame among the grasses is almost startling. Your cloth creation is beginning to move out into three dimensions, taking on personality as she emerges.

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  17. Linda in Arizona Avatar
    Linda in Arizona

    ( No!, No! I recognize that phrase because I have said it myself) “…..better at a distance” No, Grace, you ARE Beauty Full just as you are and Close Up.
    xo from the Southwest.

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    i am a part
    of it all. yes. i am.

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  19. grace Avatar
    grace

    i DO!…but OutSide for me is just an extension of InSide
    so it works out.
    an armature…i could…but she’s a ClothBeing….

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  20. grace Avatar
    grace

    those chairs are really wonderful. made by Alz B’s
    divorced husband, her son Bill’s father. there’s lots
    of his wood here. i wish i had double days. i would
    oil the wood.

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  21. grace Avatar
    grace

    Marti…there is SO MUCH about the concept of Permaculture
    that i am learning, SEEING around me, that i missed,
    mis Understood. it is Glorious to learn.
    that mirror has been there more than 10 years. When you
    were here it was fallen forward and i hadn’t looked yet,
    thinking it was probably broken. you’ll see when you
    come.

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  22. grace Avatar
    grace

    isn’t it Wonder Full how all of our lives are counterpoint?
    i love that you say this.
    i love how things from 40 years ago are circling around,
    pulling us in lovingly and saying
    Re View………….
    just love this.
    and again, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORDS. i am SO happy when
    i see something from you…it finds it’s way into the
    things here and energizes them….LOVE….

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  23. grace Avatar
    grace

    sticks. somehow. and that book Lives to my right…
    i look at it Every day

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  24. grace Avatar
    grace

    i love the words…my face being almost startling within
    the rest. This is Important. it’s part so much of
    the thing of Permaculture….this combining of Self, Human
    energy, INTO it all, an ingredient, no more, no less.
    but to the rest, i imagine, yes, startling

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  25. grace Avatar
    grace

    LINDA IN ARIZONA….HEY! i am what i am. like Popeye.
    Thank you! and please be at home here.
    and tell of where You are….i love that….xo from the SW

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