4th of July,  Independance Day is my Least Favorite Amerikan Holiday.   We cling.  cling to a very primitive form of celebration….making huge noise, cracks and crashes…clinging to this as the way  to express Freedom.  How odd.  

 

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made a little box loom in keeping with Considering Weave,  Jude Hill,  Spirit Cloth.  Remembering how soft they are,  these scrap weaves,  but also how they told me that i could make Anything at all i might ever NEED with just scraps…just shreds of old used cloth.  How Exhilarated i felt,  realizing this.  That there really could never be a worry.  Everything is at hand.  Hand can Make.  All is well and will be well as Hildegaard de Bingen said.   I like very much how the light comes through.

 

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out with dog Tay and notice movement which at first set an alarm.   Something similar to those Ants that bite me and make my body part swell to many times it's normal size,  but…this…different so i squat down and watch.  You will need to double click to see it,  this being.  Busy.  busy excavating it's home.  Sand grain by sand grain.  I don't have a clue what it is.  But it is diligently creating it's space….THIS, after the first of the Real Monsoon Storms last night.  Long,  the rain,  Long and Steady.  How it must come if things Wild are to survive.  Not fast and hard…..that runs off and is of little use in the Big Picture.  But last night was Big Picture rain.  More predicted for tonight.    Will soften things.  and soon,  if it continues,  the Spade Foot Toads will RISE UP and fulfill their covenant with this Earth.    am excited.   maybe soon, if all goes well.

 

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10 responses to “Quieting amidst the “celebration””

  1. beth Avatar

    You weave. Hard to see your creature. Could it be a stag beetle?

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  2. grace Avatar

    no. the size maybe of a small grain of rice. more like an Ant. but
    very much NOT an ant. a Being. so busy with the excavation of
    personal space. that piece of wood, that is the beam of it’s threshold, maybe a half an inch….
    Small
    but very sincere and serious, this work

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  3. ² Avatar
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    i like to do double click
    so it’s just or i can feel the earth at your part of the world
    at this moment i’m still awake verry early ( 4 o clock in the morning )
    it is verry warm here ( for me )and i like the fresh silent morning
    the light thats comming in
    sun set …. it will come later now it is cloudy
    there will come stormy rain
    weaving stitching
    to use old things for making somme new
    is like the light in a new day
    a new life ( live?)

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  4. patricia Avatar

    there is some sort of comforting rhythm here–the back and forth of the cloth, the on-going weave of season including heat and now monsoon–and the anticipation of spade foot toad. seems i can smell the damp earth and noticing how different it looks with moisture. a fine cloth you’ve shared. thank you.

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  5. Kathy dorfer Avatar
    Kathy dorfer

    The weaving of the cloth is most amazing thing I learned from jude . How it changes the fabric and makes it so
    Soft . Monsoons my favorite thing about New Mexico unless your in a sleeping bag camping ( :

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  6. handstories Avatar

    The softness shines through & off of your weaving.
    I was surprised at how many people were surprised at the news that we had no plans for the 4th.

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  7. grace Avatar

    yes. me too. 4 oclock in the morning, fresh. silent.
    yes. we are the same this way.

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  8. grace Avatar

    it’s an intense time here in New Mexico. So MUCH is
    dependant on Monsoon. so very much. you can see the
    imprint of the raindrops. how amazing.

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  9. grace Avatar

    isn’t it?????…the weaving of cloth????????????
    i cannot even Say how it meant so much, means so much.
    and sleeping bag…well…that’s one of the things i was
    left with from the Maniac. No sleeping bag. You just
    sleep on the dirt. Water runs off. just a damp feeling,
    not soggy. There were a few things. This is one.

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  10. grace Avatar

    no plans. how nice is that?…?….no plans.
    Time to make our own Holidays i think.

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