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so…finished.  Maybe i'll do more stitching…just double split back stitch…on what is here now,  but probably not.  She might wear these pants once or twice.  Will out grow them by Thanksgiving.  and I'm not much into stuff that will be kept forever.  This is their only child.  So not a hand me down.  Just a ….well….a gesture.   Just a gesture.  Kind of in place of words,  from this Grandma.

 

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and i worked some at basting randomly the loose pieces just so i can take to the Laundromat.

And absorbing the meaning of Change,  the meaning of Just Going from Jude's  Post today,  i think about all that has come to me in the last few years.  How much i have found in Relationship with cloth…she refers to this as Sympathy….but i don't use that word.  I would say Relationship.  How much i have come into Relationship with cloth, thread, string.   Dye.  There's a lot to think about.

and since the new Way will be silent,  i think about how much i have loved the comments in the segments.  How they have meant almost as much to me as the Posts.  Many Eyes.  Many Hearts.  and this is something i think i might miss a lot.  I think so.

 

So….that's it for today.  Sonny the truck is back home and running like a mustang.  SUN is drying the land, moment to moment.  Tomorrow a new half ton bale of Alfalfa comes.  Life goes on.

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  1. Judith in N. CA Avatar
    Judith in N. CA

    Oh, Sonny…welcome Home. Momma Grace and Sister Tay are now ready to rock ‘n roll their way to The Canyons….yeaaaa ! If I close my eyes and concentrate, I can almost smell that alfalfa..yum.
    P.S. We got 24 hours of rain and almost an inch..thank you..will help with smaller fires. Our Piercy Volunteer Fire Dept., 4 men and 2 women, are tired folks.

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  2. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    BETTER than words is this gesture–MUCH better. The way will be silent? Are you stopping the blog? Hope not.

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  3. Dana Avatar
    Dana

    I have loved the comments on Jude’s blogs too, so I am a little bummed, but willing to, as you all say…Just Go on into the future. We’ll see how it is. The fishing pants are a beautiful gesture to your granddaughter…. so full of love. I’m glad things are drying out.

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  4. Cynthia Avatar
    Cynthia

    when i was little..really little i had some overalls with a lovingly embroidered little bird and tree on them…i can remember sitting cross-legged rubbing my finger and thumb over them and feeling .happy..i loved them, and i felt loved..even though there were no words in my head saying that,..that is the feeling that was there..,the bird was made for me..and ..well how strange to think how long ago..and i can still see them so clearly…such a gift you send, grace..
    this has been such a strange summer ..and i cannot even explain how important visiting the forum of the weaving class has meant to me..the interaction was such an addition to the joy of the class itself…so strange to realize how much of my world..a very real world to me exists here on a screen..i was quiet there..not for lack of thought..just being there was another kind of gift…so much change here..so much quiet in my life..it is a pleasure that i will miss..but oh so glad that i was there..and so very grateful that you are here…gentle day grace

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  5. Patricia Avatar
    Patricia

    i’m just not sure what you’re saying here…or maybe i’m just not wanting to hear what i think you’re saying. elaborate please.
    and check this out
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9z4-u5Wvo8

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  6. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Coming here the next day, Sunday, the International Day of Peace, I look at the tile of this post: “not much, but some” and to me the Some is the whole of it:
    Outside hanging on my pear tree, my garden flags, made with strips of dyed cloth from gleanings mostly here from New Mexico,wave in the breeze. These strips of cloth hold Intention, hold Love of the land, and yes I will say Hope for the future of the planet. Hope is a huge word and also a treacly kind of word. Some of you don’t use it, don’t care for it, smacks of a Hallmark rhyme but without it, what do we have? So I hold onto it through the anger and sadness of what is going on in the world today and believe me, some days it is very, very hard to do. I stitch tatters, placing them in a tree, letting the wind circulate in and around, uplifting a thread or two sending it out into the world, sending what is not seen.
    And in this place, windthread, where we have come together, using our words, opening ourselves, sharing what matters to each of us, Some becomes ALL because it’s what we women of cloth do and it all matters; this is how we stand and face and do it over and over again…

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  7. Patricia Avatar
    Patricia

    oh Marti. you’ve captured the ALL of it.

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  8. Dana Avatar
    Dana

    Beautifully said, Marti. Amen.

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  9. debbie.weaver Avatar
    debbie.weaver

    Wonderful words Marti and Grace, I will miss the back and forth even though I didn’t contibute much I read and thought and appreciated. Yes it will be strange, the silence.
    To Marti, I guess you will know about India Flint”s flags.

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  10. Stephanie Avatar
    Stephanie

    Dear Grace,
    I have not commented before – and thought about doing it so often – but I must tell you that your posts have meant so much to me for the last 2 years. Your love of cloth, the goats, and so much more. Your honest sharing of a good life, a life lived simply and full of awe and wonder at what life offers. That has spilled over in to my life. Your photos of beautiful New Mexico and its colors. Your life so full of color. I have especially loved reading about dear Tay as her story has unfolded, and Chinche and Tazmeena. I love the very fine faces of the goats and am so touched by what you have done to give them a good life. I hope that I have misunderstood and you will continue sharing here but if not, I thank you with all my heart and will always think of you as dear Grace.
    With love, Stephanie

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  11. jude Avatar
    jude

    just to see.

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  12. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    thank you Marti for saying the soundless words that live in my heart

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  13. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    (((Grace & everyone))) was feeling all sort of odd and a bit bereft here in the small hours of this morning with my first coffee and then I came here and read all these good words, we are all “just going” as Jude says, the circle holds.
    are you going to repair that rag rug or fully reweave it?

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  14. ² Avatar
    ²

    repair is good
    gives respect … continue to exist
    i have read it … understand it
    now JUST Breathe
    feel the heart beat

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  15. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    I too will miss the comments as we take Small Journeys … we’ll just have to keep in touch this way

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i think a lot of you…with these Fires. Hoping you are out of
    Harms Way.
    a fire Dept: 4 men 2 women
    that’s Commitment at it’s finest

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    no…referring to Jude’s experiment

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    well…more Rain. But not the deluge, times of SUN inbetween.
    But i am looking for a different Way to experience it all. It IS
    WHAT IT IS AND SHALL BE…how do i roll with the punches as
    Talking Heads say

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  19. Judith in N. CA Avatar
    Judith in N. CA

    They are amazing..their ages range from 24 to 52. Larry is very proud to support them as a Fire Commissioner. They went to the Academy (as unpaid volunteers) for 13 straight weekends for their initial training. All over the country there are folks like this…it is a Fine thing, indeed.
    We’ve had lots of little to medium fires and one big one that was about 12 miles south so we were very fortunate. Hoping this new rain coming in tomorrow night makes it’s way eastward to some very bad fires.

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes…those Volunteers….our local department is also
    volunteer.
    I think of you often, this season
    love…

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    and really, reading this 3 days after you wrote it, i am
    thinking this evening that it’s all a pleasure. A pleasure
    to Have and then a pleasure to have Had. and a pleasure of
    what is Now. It’s a peaceful evening. Things are just OK.

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    we are already past this…it’s Wednesday now….and this stands
    as an example of how things go, yes?
    love, Love this link

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i love the way you “tend” your Pear Tree cloths….mend/add to/mend
    Some becomes All. i am thinking of this. Some becomes All.

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    debbie.weaver….we will find how to work with the silence

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  25. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    and Stephanie!….i have wanted to get back to this here….
    I thank YOU for your words as you know that i wonder now and then about what seems to me to be the Not Much of this blog…i am
    so used to it and for me, it’s a kind of simple not much that totally fills the days as they move.
    I am so GLAD that you gave some words and hope that you feel
    Oh SO Welcome anytime you might have the urge again…it has
    great and good meaning to me. Thank You, so much and Love,

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  26. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    and we will

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  27. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it all holds in it’s way i’m thinking….
    Repair. and learn from the repairing. I want to use a lot of
    the Thrift cloth that i’d collected before i had a sense of what i
    wanted to use in the Story Cloths. It’s here and just Here. This
    will be perfect use.

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  28. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Yes. we need to do that. But still, for me, it is a loss.
    No way around it. a loss.

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