i had imagined posting a lot more here.   But is not to be.  Instead,  had a long conversation by phone with GRANDdaughter.  Long.  and Deep.   So….that is the Gift of this Solstice day,  to me.  To me, as a singular small being on a large and FULL planet and it's just as it needed to be.  So, ok.  ok.

 

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everything that needs,  like NEEDS to be present here, is.  Much left to be done, but they are things that simply hold it in place.  Hold IT in Place.  but the Players are here.    And it's Good.  and it

will HOLD me,  Us,  will Hold us.  ok.

My wish to All for a deep and strong Solstice Day/Night.   Love,

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and the cloth of the Flag….this is all i have left in the world.  I will truly grieve whenever it's gone.  It was once an old WWII vintage kimono,  one of several,  that i got at that oh so Grand place,  Ragstock in Minneapolis.   Many bodys of the fiber figures were made with this.  All were either Coyote,  Crow or Raven.    It's almost impossible to photograph the color true,  i  have never had another piece or scrap of cloth this color,  which is a Mars Violet,  one of my most used and loved colors of the oil paints that i colored the faces of the figures with.   Some of the circles are a very pale greyblue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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19 responses to “S O L S T I C E the year 2014”

  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    At the root of the flag base, the salt cedar branch, I see your signature diamond shaped little piece of cloth. I like to think of it as a seed, settling itself, ready to embed and bring forth life. Studying the rippling flag, I look closer and notice the round little shapes, polka dots and if so, then it makes perfect sense that you saw a marvelous polka dotted Whip Tail. It makes sense because this flag in the middle of nowhere called it forth to say that in the middle of nowhere, where life is lived close to the bone, look at the riches that present themselves…

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    i love this scrap so much…am NOT a polka dot person…
    but this…it has such a ummmm, subtle Wildness to it
    and also …. oddly …. humor. Pinkola~Estes would like
    this fabric. as i said below, with the added pic, it has always meant Coyote Crow Raven to me. Trickster. really, some kind of Loving disrespect. and a kind of serious playfulness. I need that humor now. and as i write this, it occurs to me that the cloth of the flag might change now and then, as need changes. i think this might be true.

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  3. beth Avatar

    That you treasure this cloth so much and still use it says so much to me. I need to do more of that. Here we go into the shorter days. Slowly, slowly, but a minute here and there shorter. And Mo into her longer days.

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  4. grace Avatar

    and you know, always for me there would be the FEELINGS about
    this fact…the first moment of the shortening, but this time
    i am determined to see/feel it in a deeper way…i guess with
    not so much ME in the center…not so much what it means to me,
    but more how this Place here experiences it…
    i could put more effort into explaining what i mean, but
    maybe this is enough. for now, anyway. and what else i DO
    know is that time is moving very very quickly

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  5. beth Avatar

    I just struggled a bit myself with trying to put this into words. Then I come back here and you are saying almost the same thing… What a web we weave…

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  6. grace Avatar

    you said it very beautifully, tho.
    we are sensitive to the same things.

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  7. Mo Crow Avatar

    I always like the Sacred Clown aspect of the Trickster/Hermes archetype, to quote;
    “Hermes is the god of the hinge … the mottled figure in the half light… who amazes and unmazes…” Lewis Hyde “Trickster makes this World: Mischief, Myth & Art”

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  8. Mo Crow Avatar

    this morning at 4:44 am, just past the midpoint of the year, the balance tips, the world seems just a wee bit warmer, “leaning into the light”.
    “How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.”
    – Barry Lopez, “Arctic Dreams” from over at Terri Windling’s Myth & Moor
    http://windling.typepad.com/blog/2014/06/fire-and-light.html

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  9. Martine Avatar

    Deep and long conversations are good…….especially with grandchildren and the cloth………
    you need to make the flags smaller so it’ll take you a long while!

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  10. Els Avatar

    Love your solstice eye-sun

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    a life lived in the midst of paradox

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    everything is FAST and everything takes a long while

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  14. handstories Avatar

    I am even more grateful for the butterfly bit of your cloth & you that you shared for “core”.

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