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and now she's smiling.

This cloth has helped me focus on things that have been elusive.   Things that are becoming clear, but i won't   "word"  them yet.   Will wait until it all seems in place.  I tend to repeat a lot,  both  with the pics and thoughts.  Trying to break that habit as much as i can and still keep the journaling  quality of this for myself.  

 

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Insects.  On the Three Leaf Sumac in the Way Back this morning.  I've seen these before i think 3 years ago.  They are squashy bodied with bristly hairs.  They stay in this mass.  I don't know what they turn into.

 

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The Feather Grass was exceptionally beautiful in the early SUNlight.   And as i was emptying the compost from the kitchen i turned and there she was.   That  BIG  Whiptail lizard i talked about a while ago.   I had disturbed her  from  the squash vines that are growing in the compost and she streaked toward the pile of branches that still haven't become the  hugelculture, or however we spell it,  i can't remember,  but she was almost there when she totally …… stopped and looked up at me.   They do that,  the Whiptails,  so the establishing eye contact was not unusual.  Still what IS unusual is her size.  She is VERY BIG.  The way most big Whiptail i could imagine.  and again,  because she remained still for so long,  i got to look well at her.  She is almost velvety looking,  striped,   but softly so and those beautiful ivory colored dots.   Her underside is a very pale aqua, her feet, chin.   If i'd had the camera with me,  i could have taken as many pics as i wanted.    She was wanting to be Known.  So tomorrow morning i'll go back again and see if she appears again.  She is a Strong Sign.  What made the woman in the Cloth smile.

 

 

 

 

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13 responses to “Understanding”

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    grace before i give reaction here i was looking at pics on google
    and wath i tought before i read it on one of the pics of the whiptail lizards
    ” Large whiptail lizards are amazing strong ”
    light go on …. burning
    oooo yes feather grass are light full
    like moving gold

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    Yes she’s smiling
    so did i
    she had her reason

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Mmmmmmm to the stitched vibrational energy! As for the bugs-looks like some sort of beetle and it’s clustering like ladybugs do…but don’t know what it is….Couldn’t really see the whip tail in the golden feather grass even when I double clicked, so looked it up (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico_whiptail)–they have only a brown picture but some more information…would love to see the turquoise belly!–there’s a video here(http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/New_Mexico/reptilewhiptaillizard.html)

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  4. Patricia Avatar

    this cloth just gets better and better. it’s like a weather map. a growth ring. a time capsule. and internal/external revelation of how it is. in NM. in August. storms. rain. sun. earth. hope. and you.
    and yes, i hope she’ll be there for you in the morning, to capture her image. to share.
    and i need to say one more thing. it never feels to me as though you’re a broken record repeating thought and image. “reframing things” is how i would express it. and i think that’s very important–to come at life from all sides and perspectives until finally, hopefully, it’s perceived in its totality.

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  5. Cynthia Avatar
    Cynthia

    so interesting to see patricia write about reframing..that is such a good image…i never feel as if i am reading a broken record..there’s an image for you…i feel kaleidoscopic…i find myself here so often..in both senses of the word..both present and reading your words..but also i find my self..my thoughts echoed..sometimes magnified..sometimes seen and felt suddenly with new eyes..as if with the twist of a phrase or another person’s comments i can find a new way of looking and seeing..and i find the ideas and feelings of you grace and this amazing world you create and inhabit
    in either case ..the words..the photographs ..and most always the cloth touches me i..stays with me ..i read in the early morning and all the day i have them to return to…and so my day begins ..and i am grateful .

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  6. suzanna Avatar

    Dear Grace, you never seem to be repeating yourself, and always offer different slants on things that I find so interesting. This cloth is a wonder. Very evocative of wide open spaces…on that subject I am on the train and have just passed by! Going east. I waved!

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  7. grace Avatar

    Suzanna…we sing so many Train Songs on Music Thursday and sing
    out Wooo WHoooo….and i felt a shift in the breeze…it was YOU
    it was your wave! OH…Eastward again….Have just the most BEST
    time….LOVE

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  8. grace Avatar

    she does. she has her reason. she does.

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  9. grace Avatar

    whiptail wasn’t in the grass. I didn’t have the camera when she appeared. grass is just the grass which i love too….

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  10. grace Avatar

    i had to go early for the Music Thursday…so maybe
    tomorrow? We’ll see. But some time. I know, some time.
    Reframing. i really so deeply appreciate your words about this because it’s constant…the reframing, subtle, but very important…xoxo

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  11. grace Avatar

    yes…it’s a small twist of the phrase…something in a
    comment…YES….this. Yes.

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  12. jude Avatar

    eeeeee the magic wrap…. i had to start calling it the just going stitch these past weeks because i am using it to bind the edge of Home and it just keeps going and going. it IS very strong.
    my whole body has been stung and chewed on and pierced and whatever . it is august indeed.

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    what was supposed to happen was that i would put the Seven Black and White Thread beads with the single African red blood bead as i sometimes do…the tassel then too and
    i started to do that at the bottom but when i got to 7 it just wanted to continue up and up and up because those Seven Black/Whites are to me the symbol of Cosmic order of the Universe, the All, the Unknowable and the red blood bead,
    how it can come to us appearing as some kind of magic, yes.
    and since what was being “looked” at in this cloth was
    exponentially so much more than easy things, they just kept going it seems.
    it’s just ITCHING. my right ankle is still all swollen and i find self being unable to keep from scratching. Jeez. and Probably any minute our two weeks or so of mosquitos will get born in all the secret wet places in both Oasis’….Well…i keep thinking … just a little while. a little while. Ordinarily it’s so itch free…..

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