and this email photograph just now from Cynthia
and i'm thinking of the word Numinous. Numinous….in communion with the holy other
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25 responses to “Morning takes me OutSide, Cloth pulls me back In, Plants call me OutSide, Cloth pulls me back. In~Out i feel it in my feet”
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in and out what a good pattern your feet must be making….i am home to discover that summer seems to have skipped over spring..my heart still so full of this weekend..the retreat/conference on saturday…through vermont community garden network..people so concentrated on children at risk…summertime hunger projects…seeing small community gardens ..not just teaching gardening and a love of the earth..but working so hard to simply provide good food, healthy fresh food that children can/will eat, garens over which they can take take ownership, my car is loaded with starts..this afternoon we begin again in the school garden..
and then sunday with my niece.. and her amazing group of herbalists..meeting under a crabtree ..exploring a creek bed…delighting over discoveries, exchanging plants…knowing a new friend needs stinging nettles and here they are freely offered…talking sweetgrass..the halo around the sun coming in the middle of the afternoon and staying for a long long time…..women’s voices…rising appalachia..and then their own as they offer up to the woods..the plant mandala we had constructed while asking…
it was such weekend of contrasts and growth..small roots for me in a new place..not close but not too far for the grown ups..and as for the children they are right here and so ready…
it is overwhelming the rice seedlings are so much bigger soon the dividing of the paddies, i think another cow is coming here, and i am pulling apart the disintegrating retaining wall and happily watch my new comfrey take root, the beginnings of my hedgerow leafed out while i was gone ..i realize how much i miss the scents of mint and lemon balm as i work outside….it is almost overwhelming the enormity of it all…but what a nice enormity to try to be a part of…..ok my feet back to the outside..cynthiaLikeLike
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oh my, the cloth is getting better and better, making me happy
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this new cloth is so full of the warmth & liveliness of Summer as we start hunkering down for winter here in the Land Down Under
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and your birds going every which way, too!
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Well, you know me and the word holy don’t get on well, but the cloth is swell.
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well, you know what they say…
what we don’t get on well with can bit us in the ass.
and you know too, that when these things happen with
cloth, i am just FULL of happiness that you taught me.
everything on this cloth you taught me.LikeLike
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well i don’t know, and well, grace, the biggest part of the cloth is the story and that comes from you.
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if there is no language, the story remains locked in. Mute.
there needs to be a language, Cloth making is Language.
Wendy’s kids say that.LikeLike
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comfrey, rooting
stinging nettles in a creek shelter
new cow
a halo around Sun
children learning to FEED THEMSELVES by their own hand
THANK YOULikeLike
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i might not be able to let it go
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as always, this cannot possibly be….but it IS.
the thought cools me in this late afternoon heat.
i lift my hair up to let the Owen fan evaporate the sweat
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just like in the Sky, yes?
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There is something deeply built into us that needs story itself. That story is a source of nurture that we cannot become really true human beings for ourselves and for each other without story. And to find ways in which to tell it, to share it, to create it, to encourage younger people to create their own story.” Vincent Harding
And I so know the pull of in and out…LikeLike
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Loverly story developing and the work on this cloth is inspiring. I’ll be away from blogland for a few days while Techserve transfers information from this old computer to a slightly newer computer a friend is gifting ‘lucky’ me. If all goes well, I’ll be back Friday maybe and meanwhile I’m locking these stitches and the stunning aurora in my minds eye to hold me to your happiness.
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there’s a sense of hope here, the world that exists out of sight, under our feet, happening in spite of the doings on the surface. but in this case, the “doings on the surface” are equally full of promise. love the direction this cloth took/is taking, and the wonder of the world it reveals.
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Story, language, how we translate language into story through cloth is as unique as the land we all live on. I said a while back on windthread that technique leaves me cold, that it is story that connects with me when I look at cloth. Well wasn’t that the height of ego speaking because something has just clicked with the conversation here between Jude and grace. grace said, “if there is no language, the story remains locked.” Ways of stitching are language.
As grace can tell you, my cloths are simple cloths, I let the colors and the markings that I get from the land, tell the story and every cloth that I have made can be filed simply under the category of Place. But this Earth has many stories and they need to be told in deeper ways than I tell and so language that enriches, represents a point of view is important and on cloth, those come from ways of stitching…so each of us, from the most basic level to the beauty of multiple layers of stitching, tell our truths, speak our stories and that is all to the good.
Barry Lopez has a wonderful quote that I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned here before whenever we speak of story but it fits so well here with what I have been trying to say:
“We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them as much as we need to share food. We also require for our health, the presence of good companions. One of the most extraordinary things about land is that it knows this and it compels language from some of us so that as a community we may converse about this or that place and speak of the need.”LikeLike
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Even mute is a language. Perhaps whatever we come to accept, respect has a voice.
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Yes Grace, cloth pulls. And it is a language that I can understand without looking it up in the dictionary. Fine!
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so much to know about Story, it’s Place in Everything
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Will wait for you. i hope it goes well and EASY
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it feels very very very good to stitch
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all that you say here…so much yes, except that there
are different “languages”…and your language, the language
of your cloths is very strong. a language that also
enriches and is it’s own unique voiceLikeLike
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no dictionary for Cloth.
am happy to see you here, Doris…..LOVE,LikeLike
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just went to leave you a message and your comment box
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blank
clean as a whistle.
there is a sense of Waiting to that. so. Waiting.
48 hours. ok. a Mac, tho…eeeeLikeLike
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i would like to say, that technique can be very much part of the story or even a long story in itself, the story of going and discovering how things might work, it really holds so much if you look at it that way.
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