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The Tazmeena Tay thing seems to be resolved.   but just in case,  knock on wood.  Tazmeena spent her morning as usual.  There was a hiss or two but nothing remarkable.  

 

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new tonight.  I don't have a clue whose home this might be.   About 2".    Big.   Not a toad.  Under the tomato plant.

 

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cilantro making BeautyFULL seeds

 

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a Work Away day that was draining and sad…Old Cowboy day,  him thinking what to do with family photographs…his mother,  his daughter that was killed in a car accident at 17 yrs.   So, when back home,  my energy was depleted.   Stitched some small Microbes in the center.  A beginning.

 

 

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18 responses to “a Tuesday”

  1. grace Avatar
    grace

    and i am looking BACK to last year with mimmen…how amazing this is…she takes me back and then i am also Here, and how so it is
    Different……yet all the Feelings remain and alive and vibrant…
    Moving into this year’s Monsoon month…..need to get that corridor
    up and ready…..

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  2. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Everything heightened waiting for the needed rains, the air crackles with electricity and unease…rain so needed not only because of the ongoing drought but high fire danger all around. Diego fire in the Santa Fe Mtns, the Mtns near Jemez usually visible from my backyard, has now consumed over 3,000 acres, o% contained.
    Yesterday was one of those days, when everything was askew, probably leftover from day before with 100 degree heat. Getting up, going through my usual rituals didn’t center me, I am usually pretty even keeled but yesterday, felt a funk coming on. Then I remembered reading of grace’s joy at the weaving of her little cloth so I wondered if weaving would work some magic in my day. Off I went, digging for an old dyed cloth. Ripping it into long pieces did wonders for making me begin to feel better, the sound of the ripping cloth, the many, many shredded threads. Took it outside to let some wind dance into the cloth and also because until the heat comes usually starting around 9am, I like to be out in the back yard.
    Went to our grapevine arbor to pick up some fallen pieces of grapevine bark and soaked them in water to make them pliable. Snipped a long sprig from my rosemary plant as well as some long pieces of native grass, (fyi: I think the grass is Indian rice grass because of the many, tiny imbedded seeds that appear woven into the grass blades.) Noticed the long green stems of the Spanish broom plant, all of the yellow blossoms gone. Nearby towering over the fence, a chamisa bush on the trail behind my house so I snipped a branch. All of these materials were crudely woven into the cloth, looking like a long flattened birds’ nest from a deranged bird! No matter, the weaving of the plant materials, combined with some cloth strips, dyed with walnuts, tea, acorns, took on a rhythm of their own, lifting the beginning of a funk and turning it around just by the making of a little wonky, woven cloth. Ant that to me, is good magick !

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  3. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    home now with no intention of leaving for a good while. was able to read your posts while gone, but unable to comment. such a clutz with texting on a little phone. but just to tell you that it was important to check in daily. grounding. a tether.

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  4. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    asking for rain for your piece of the world. and loved this description of weaving like a deranged bird–wonky. and to reaffirm the connections–the threads that tie us together. i was thinking how we’re all on this web. and one pluck sends vibrations throughout. and we all feel it. and we are all together. it gives, if not hope, at least a sense of support.

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  5. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Beauty and grace–mystery and wonder–what could live in that hole?–wonderful. Lovely cloth in the making and the monsoons looming—here a hurricane is slated to curtail the fireworks frenzy. Good news.

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  6. KAMFreeman Avatar
    KAMFreeman

    good that T and Tasmania are beginning to weave a life together, in each their own way…your place seems to expand and contain whatever comes to be there…animal, vegetable…and minerals too…the monsoon season will surely bring the rains you are needing..the season of heat just beginning here…much delight in plants growing from seeds saved…one hugulkulture just the right home for 20 tomato plants and some summer squash on the “basket edges”…big hugulkulture nearly finished and 3/4 planted..only potatoes left to go in this week. High mountain cold climate gardening challenges and rewards…those two pieces weave together to make growing food for humans, bees, butterflies and birds pure short summer months delight.
    When I read of your time spent with Cowboy I always smile…and know that what you bring into his days is good, very good. Truly his fortune that you spend some time with him.
    Wondering what might live in that hole you found??? perhaps one day they will stroll out for your to have a look and take a photo.

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  7. beth Avatar
    beth

    Typed and lost it… But… it was about detachment and Stuff and the end of a life. I went through a lot of that with my mother and know how exhausting it can be. A considering of every object. So–detachment. Yes.
    Do you dry and grind the seeds of the cilantro? I’m not real fond of cilantro but I do like coriander.
    I’m liking this cloth–holding, but not too tightly, with spaces to move and breathe.

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  8. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    hmmm… I thought coriander and cilantro were the same thing, but looking at those seeds in Grace’s photo here it isn’t! Cilantro isn’t available here in Australia as far as I know, will google it now…

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  9. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    Aha, love this 21st C world, coriander and cilantro are different parts of the same plant, Coriandrum sativum. The leaves and stems are known as cilantro inthe US, the seeds are known as coriander, haven’t grown it in years!

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  10. beth Avatar
    beth

    It’s odd, but the flavors are quite different. When I grow it I wait for the seeds rather than use the leaves. The leaves are often added to things like salsa. If cilantro is overdone I think it has a slightly soapy taste. Don’t you love this world of instant fact checking. A library at your fingertips.

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  11. grace Avatar
    grace

    i love this so much, just SO MUCH, marti…each single word that gives me this Visual of you and your Doing…how it is when we let Cloth become true Partners in our lives…just love this so so very much…
    THANK YOU……bIG…………..

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    am so so glad you are Back. so glad. Take Time. let yourself settle back in…let it take you where it wants…
    LOVE to you

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  13. grace Avatar
    grace

    i will never see what lives in that hole. it’s a Night Being. it will never show itself to me

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    all this. it’s all weave. weave of days, weave of stuff.

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  15. grace Avatar
    grace

    it’s hard to watch, isn’t it. Even though we have all the Intellectual stuff, still…when it’s happening, hard.
    He has photographs. His parents. Grandparents. His daughter who died in a car crash at 17. There is no one, really, who they have meaning to except him

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  16. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    Oh, I love that top photo, it is like cloth. & your microbes- those tiny moments that add so much.

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    to me, the cilantro has a very Alive and Bright quality.
    i put it in a lot of things, could, for me, go in Anything at all.
    the seed, coriander, i use in Indian Recipies…like
    India
    and i just use them whole…they soften in the cooking. these are much more aromatic

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    the Beloved Microbes…they are so much a part of my
    Diorama now….making the soles of my feet bizzzz.

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