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The day began like this

 

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and then, on the computer desk.  Still Life.  I looked a long time.

And then, i went to Jude's and went off on a Small Journey carried by her quiet and focused voice.  

I replayed and listened again.  I wondered if i had in fact gone over to Jude's home,  showed up in person,  would the exchange be Better?   Or could it be true that what is so of value to me in this Small Journeys post might have gotten Lost in the added dimension?   and then i thought,  is it even necessary though, to even make the Comparison?    No.  But to really look, See,  truly what it IS,  the REALness of online being.

in a conversation with Patricia the other day,  she said this,  and i'm taking it out of context but it was so important:

"the amazing cyber experience…it's almost as if cyberspace has put a face to the mystery of life….to the underlying energies and movement that are true"                                                                                 Patricia Spangler

and the words she wrote were perfect and they were a KEY to understanding Something i at present only sense.   So i continue to think.  What if there were no Spirit Cloth,  no blogs i've come to know, no new ones i as yet have found but am sure are there.  ????   And i thought how just this week i had gone to Scotland with Julie,  to see incredible Art with Mo in Australia,  to walk the rivers in the waterworld of the Netherlands with Saskia,  to wander the streets and Great Doings of New Your City with Michelle,  to look at a wonderFull compost Work in the Texas Hill Country with Liz.    I travel.   More than i ever could have imagined.  And i stay here,  HouseKeeping.  

And all of us,  if we were to spend a day In Person,  how would we spend it?  Would it be in the quiet focused way of a blog post,  or would it be different?  How Long would it take,  in Person to arrive at quiet focus?????

These things are very interesting to me right now.  Very important to me and where i'm At.

 

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i hope it's visible when we double click to enlarge on the blog post.  Won't know till it's posted,  but i finished the preparation for the Big Buck Move.  I ran fencing behind the horse trailer,  attached to the present Chamber of Horrors that the Buck pen has become this week …across and over to the North pen i have been working on.  Attached with baling wire both sides.  It's wobbly but i think just that it's There will work.  They don't question fencing.  And then you can see a roll of fencing infront of the Horse Trailer on the right,  which we used when capturing Buckwheat last year.  That gets attached to the wall of the Albatros.   And i wrote a note to Alberto  asking if his two ranch workers could come and help me make this transfer.  My phone number.  I decided that what i want most is that it goes smooth and quick.  No comotion,  no mistakes that could take hours to resolve.  Ranch/Farm work is what they Know like they know their own names,  animals they know.  They are from Mexico and so have great honor in doing things Well.  Dropped off the note at his house because he was off hauling alfalfa.  They said he would call tomorrow.  OK.

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going past the table,  i stopped and pulled this out of the little copper pot.  WOW.  i have no idea how i did this.  it's still wet, dripping.  i like to let them drip.

 

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Tay is learning to spell her name.  She made T for Tay all by herself.

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On the way home from Alberto's,  there was a Cottonwood branch in the road.   Loaded it into the truck and stood in the truck bed when home, to fling it over the fence.  A brief period of crunchy Ecstasy.

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last but very much NOT least,  Toot Toot from the Fed X lady and This.  That i found out about when reading a small reply on John Hopper's blog from someone named Barbara Judge in Oregon.  She mentioned it to him and i looked and 

Here it is.  Once again,  this cyberworld.  The author of this book lives in Silver City,  about 3 hours south of here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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25 responses to “the Next thought”

  1. Liz Avatar

    I have become very fond of virtual travel … and of the wonderful people I might never have met had I gone in person (introvert that I am … and deaf to boot, even with hearing aids)
    What is even cooler tho, is that there are pieces of your cloth on continents around the globe … now that is awesome!
    And dare I hope that might find a cloth like yours in my copper pot when we return from gallivanting? Only time will tell.

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    O!…such a MORE THING…”deaf, even with hearing aids”…OH!, this is
    such an important piece to this kaleidascope image that is falling into place…
    O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    We will All find cloths of a many kind in our pots if we keep at it. As with
    Marti. Sometimes it’s just not so much. But it doesn’t stop her from bundling again. And gallivanting…YOU GO and come home to tell the stories. Knowing we are waiting will give you the intention to TELL.

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  3. Dana Avatar

    Patricia has articulated something important about what is happening in the world. Geographical barriers are falling and the underlying connections between us all are becoming tangible. I don’t know what will result from this, but I feel its power. Your point about the cyber experience being more than just a substitute for physical proximity is a good one too….one I will be thinking about.
    Good luck with the buck transfer. I’m glad you will have help.

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  4. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    A world opens from the click of a mouse, the clicking of keyboard keys and we travel far and wide all the time sitting in place. grace I so love how you describe your travels, it is the same for me in this cyber place. It is also true that I have traveled and lived in many places during the past 12 years.
    Patricia’s words are perfect, “cyberspace has put a face to the mysteries of life.” Is it real, people ask? these relationships formed in the vapor of a computer monitor? YES and when the time is right, the vapor disappears and the flesh materializes as it was for you and me all those years ago. We met through our writing and we came to know each other through our words. When we met in the flesh, I think we were not at all surprised to find that we were our words. This may be rare or it may be something that happens often because the threads that draw us to read certain blogs and open ourselves to sharing begin with the thread of recognition that leads to connection. When you think about it, this planetary weaving seems absolutely natural to me.

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  5. Valerianna Avatar

    Love your musings about blog-journeying and quiet presence. I do think if we all got together, well, just a few at a time, there would be a very different kind of interaction at first, that there would be lots of here’s this, here’s that, blah blah and an overview of a day or process, well, it would need to be a focused, intentional question/discussion. Could happen, but everyday visiting, my thoughts are we would sink into that kind of exchange. Good things to ponder, though, all this.

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  6. ² Avatar
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    o yes …. this virtual travel means a lot to me
    the travel in your land , in your heart , in your spirit
    in a part of your live
    by this way i haven’t find this in my own language
    kind of…. but not in this … to the point
    the questions ….. the answers … they feed me
    even while i’m handicap in the understandig some words
    of the englisch language ( but i’m learn each day more )
    i use translation on the p c , they are not so good , but help
    also the dictionairy
    but some i understand between the line
    they touch my heart and soul
    the feeling of the youmeus in the world support my world my life
    when there is less support in the place where i life
    so thank you all, even those i give no reaction on there blogs
    it is in some way to hard work to translation my toughts
    yes good things to ponder , tough all this
    thank you even for al the beautiful art

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  7. debbie.weaver Avatar

    Yes I agree this virtual world has added so much to my life, learning of new places, discovering cloth, stitching and dyeing with you all, sharing success and failures and most of all finding so many beautiful people through the ether. Beautiful colour in that cloth.

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  8. julie Avatar
    julie

    I met my husband in cyberspace…after many months we talked on the phone and then met oh so tentatively. When we did, I felt like I didn’t really know the outside of this man (pre photo computers and b/w monitors) but I sure felt like I knew the inside of him. I feel the same about this blog world now, that I get to know you from inside, without all social conventions we use to circle nearer to someone.

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  9. beth Avatar

    There is something about the sitting with and uninterrupted “listening” in blog reading that most people can’t seem to manage in person. It gives such a depth without interruption. For example I was so taken by the dragonfly poster that I might have interrupted you right at that point and not heard some of the other richness here. And I am anxious to hear more about this book as you read.

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  10. Mo Crow Avatar

    connecting weaving with light

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  11. dee Avatar

    and just like groups of in-person people, there are ‘ins’ and ‘outs’

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  12. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    In some ways the internet connection is more accurate–time is an illusion–this blog traveling makes that fact visible. Whoosh and i am in your backyard thinking about goats though i just came back in from teeming City streets after time at the Rubin Museum with Tibetan and Chinese artifacts, and my boy neighbors just beyond the wall I face are yelling exuberantly at each other about something, and the radio here has some sounds too. But I am in New Mexico. Nice cloth that cooper pot produced, and love the Tay joke (who knows though, she might be able to spell. Remember the horse who tapped his hoof for the number requested. Animals can learn). i am fully here in the virtual and reading every word and thought. It’s nice.

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    it IS nice, isn’t it. It’s WAY, like WAY, like WAY nice, isn’t it.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    and with you saying these words, i am going to let it go for today. Go lay down in the bed and dream whatever craziness i dream. So, you release me then. Release me from this day. Thank You and i love you

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  15. jude Avatar

    well, hey grace, just stopped in for a moment, it’s been a crazy couple of days over at my place.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. being More than just a substitute. It is a thing in it’s own Rightful self…..not a substitute, but a connection. This is
    important. As i read the new book about how brains work…i think this even more. Neurologically, it makes great sense. I need to learn more and i will.

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    if it happens that way, face to face, then it is good. But
    not BETTER. Good in a way we are familiar with. But to learn a
    New way that i am thinking is equally as Natural

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    it is. it’s a good thing to ponder.

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    Maria…this is such a great example. Here we have also the
    different languages….that you so gracefully float through….
    and really, none of it matters, because you LIVE between the line.
    You KNOW that place between the lines because your heart is so open to it. Because you Want to live there.
    So you come and i love this, very much.

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    it is so much a Life link, all this. It keeps the Openness vital
    and Willing.

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar

    i forgot, but remember this. and is this beautiful? to know
    the INSIDE before the Out??????
    a oh so PERFECT example

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar

    this is a very important key. That in person, we key off one another often mid sentence…our minds grab a thought or image and seek ways to make personal sense of it….
    where this way, we have
    time

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar
  24. grace Forrest Avatar

    can you say more about this?

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  25. grace Forrest Avatar

    well and Hey back, so much Just Going going on, isn’t there.

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