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good for now.  Grass leaves stitched down.  Now for the seed stems and …..and….Lizard.  OK.  

I made another pie with the rest of the crust dough from last week.  Perfect again.  And now, stuffed peppers are in the oven.  Cooking food.  Food.  Food from Plants.  Plants.  And as i arranged and re arranged the grasses then stitched,  i thought about what i am trying to SEE with this cloth.  AUGUST is a space,  a time, repeating,   year after year.  We name this time August.  I wonder what other cultures call this time,  when it is a moment of All of It….growth/the beginning of decay…….it is such an intense time to me,  since a child,  that it is as if it is a BEING.  Maybe the only space in the roll of a Year that seems this way to me.   The She of August holds all that has come before and all that might come of that.  August is Everything.

 

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6 responses to “SUNday”

  1. Karen Avatar
    Karen

    Beautiful interpretation, Grace. the grass looks as though it contains her, like a basket. holding bounty. holding August.not wanting to et her go. Stuffed peppers and pie~ oh my!!!! What better way than to celebrate this bountiful month!

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  2. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    She is peeking through, there but not. “All of It”…I do not think I have ever thought of August this way before. But it is just that, everything. As a child and much of my adult life too, August was the end of summer and the beginning of the school year, but I don’t think I ever realized it quite like this!

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    She’s beUtiFULL…can’t wait to see where the lizard decides to be. Yes ’tis the season…cooking the fruits of and feeling the coexisting end and beginning slide…such a fullness of time. This seems an appropriate accompaniment http://youtu.be/GRxofEmo3HA

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  4. jude Avatar
    jude

    in a way each moment is everything. what seems like august to me wasn’t that this year. still august was everything.

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  5. beth Avatar
    beth

    After such a mild summer, August is going out in the intense steamy heat that is usual summer here. And my late start garden is erupting in tomatoes. I pick and eat the cherry tomatoes standing in the garden. The juice is warm.
    I really like this cloth. When you first started it, I thought a female version of the green man. But it is so much more than that, as a female cloth, an August cloth would need to be…

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  6. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    the ripening

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