i see that Dog is a night person.  a Moon dog.  ok.    Good information.  Not that it will make it any easier,  but at least we know.     A little more understanding.   So.  ok.   We go from here.

 

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Saw the scab as wings.   Drew in the rest…Crow.  Now a crow on my hand.   This will help.

 

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many small things.   many.  and some,  a River.   There needed to be water for her.   and then,  a rim of trees.  There needed to be trees for her.  Ok.  and then what?   i look at this cloth differently.  Originally,  it was from me.   But now it is Her too,  the Granddaughter.  What needs to change,  to adjust,  from just me to her?   So, all day i think of this.   All day i put things,  take them away,  put them,  take them away,  though some stay.  but most are taken away.  

And then… the Black and White square.   the Black and White image that i have used so long now…way back into the fiber figure days the Black and White which to me means all that is Unknowable but somehow trying to be known.   How the Mystery presents to humankind,…it's Whole Self and trying to speak to us.    Some times like this,  sometimes like black and white stripes on a line

but here this,  and i ask Jude,  because for me it is so much her now,  i ask her and she says…ok.  So, ok.  Here we are on this night of July 12, 2o14.   a strong and Big black and white night.  ok.

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14 responses to “So”

  1. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    black and white. yes. today is my birthday. . .almost over now, here. and prompted by some of the astrological stuff I have been reading, I went back to January of this year. my journals. and found this:
    “it would be that way in any particular conversation going.
    that we take a neutral screen or filter. . . . . .the black and white of things. and it is as big as we need it to be depending on the subject and what we each bring to it. and then, we keep going until it has all of its colors. the full spectrum.” not the either/or mindset. rather a grid. . .a safe place to begin. as you say, “all that is Unknowable but somehow trying to be known.” through us and by us. how it has seemed here, to me, for what it’s worth.

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  2. yvette Avatar

    moondogs are rare and beautiful like your granddaughter
    little pieces of memorie, more and more
    love

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  3. jude Avatar

    this cloth has a real sense of home to me.

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  4. patricia Avatar

    all of the elements are present here–a wonderful offering to grand daughter. and the light yellowish thread, arising from the mountain’s base, as though from a fire–a beacon– rising up , protecting earth. the lovely shape it creates–and how it fingers out at the end, connecting itself to the b&w unknowable. all this for grand daughter. who will find strength from this.

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  5. grace Avatar

    “as big as we need it to be
    and we keep going….”
    this is a truly BEAUTY FULL image for It All and
    also very USEFULL….a perfect way to approach
    communication….
    i want to write your words down, pen on paper and sit
    with them.
    On Your birthday, YOU gave the gift….thank you.
    and it reminds me of how the birth announcements are
    worded for the Navajo peoples here in the local paper.
    how they say a child is “born FOR the …. Clan….
    not to, but FOR. There is work to do.
    HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

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  6. grace Avatar

    she loves dusk, and the night.
    love back, yvette…

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  7. grace Avatar

    i love so much that she asked for it. This will now
    be the second she has asked for.
    yes, that ragged scrap….it’s been waiting for
    a place to be….the threads that fly from it are
    very strong. Strength. yes. finding strength.
    Her birthday is the 21st.

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  8. Mo Crow Avatar

    Love the Granddaughter cloth in the making, the B&W makes strong magic & Tay’s a moon dog ! was only thinking that she may well be one in the middle of last week, there’s magic in the connections across the ether!

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  9. grace Avatar

    there’s Magic. Whatever that word means to all of us…
    Magic.
    how we use the word, magic, when it’s convenient and easy,
    how we don’t when it’s challenging and hard.
    Tay is a dog. But she is a Sincere dog. a totally
    Sincere dog.
    Maybe i have a lot to learn?

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  10. Mo Crow Avatar

    You are a very wise woman Grace and you know better than most of us that the magic is always right here right now in the spirit of place, in the call of a crow , in the amazing ability of a seed to germinate, in the half moon of a dog’s eye, it’s got nothing to do with easy or hard… the most profoundly felt bits of magic are when the world has thrown a radical curve ball and nothing has any meaning any more, those close to death moments, those free fall places with no home & no friends to turn to… it’s that glimpse of the wonder that helps so much and makes living worthwhile… or so I believe…

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  11. grace Avatar

    it doesn’t, does it. Have to do with
    Easy or Hard.
    Easy or Hard. no. it doesn’t.
    a radical curve ball, when nothing has meaning…because it hasn’t happened before, at least in quite this way, so it’s all NEW, isn’t it??????????????? with “nothing to turn to”.
    “with nothing to turn to”
    I keep wanting Something to Turn To….but…it’s what it is. Nothing to turn to except for the thing we call Magic. And it’s all a Free Fall place. And over and over we Free Fall and find our selves still falling but it’s really so BEAUTY FULL, this falling so full of HEART even when it’s not easy and is…………hard……..
    We Fall………so softly and Well.
    I love you, Mo

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  12. Mo Crow Avatar

    ah you made me cry… now, back to the stitching… in B&W… a crow eye necklace

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  13. grace Avatar

    yes. back to stitching. a crow eye necklace.
    Crows. Crows understand so well the Free Fall. They dance in Free Fall and spin and swirl and Free Fall. This is what Crows do. This is what Crows do.
    Crow. the word. Crow. the Being. i more and more
    look to Crows.

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