Michelle sent me a link to the 40th Annual Juried Fiber Artists of San Antonio Exhibit that i think was on Deanna's facebook page.   I looked at the many still shots of the Exhibit,  the people attending,  the fiber art displayed.  I tried to imagine my most recent Cloth,  Earth Dreaming,  hanging somewhere there among them.  There was a total disconnect.  The cloth was like a dot on the wall.

Then today,  there was this,  hanging on the gate

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4 publications…Gallery Guide books for Santa Fe.  LOTS of ART inside.

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so i knew it was from my down and across the road neighbor who was married to a Native woman, had kids with her,  she and their daughters now have WORK in permanent collections of the Smithsonian…traditional dress and beading.   The Gallery Guides are a year or so old,  but it doesn't matter.  It's ART.  Santa Fe Art.   

and then at Deb G's blog,  beecreative.typepad.com,  her post of  yesterday entitled    local   with things about a book of Vicki Robin's  and a great Ted Talk,  and then  Deb said  "I read it and think, This is a community i belong to".

There was  constant Wind today.  Not GREAT Wind,  just incessant Wind and it was somewhat overcast and well,  for me, cold.  But i spent time with the Goats,  looking at their individual faces,  how their faces are all different,  one to another.   Saskia had sent me a link to some beautiful photographs of Goats.  Goats.   Goats are my community, i am thinking.  Goats.

 

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13 responses to “back in Limbo again”

  1. Deb G Avatar

    A community of goats is a wonderful thing. I think of endurance.

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  2. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Serendipity–chance–it is the magic of living I think…how wonderful those books out of the blue, and the way your thoughts are turning. Limbo? “ORIGIN late Middle English : from the medieval Latin phrase in limbo, from limbus ‘hem, border, limbo.” Hmmm. Are you on the border? In the hem? Or ” in abeyance, unattended to, unfinished; suspended, deferred, postponed, put off, pending, on ice, in cold storage; unresolved, undetermined, up in the air, uncertain; informal on the back burner, on hold, treading water, in the balance.
    Yes, you are an integral part of the community of goats and goat caretakers, of cloth and mark makers, and of the elders too. You may be at the moment any of the above states as well.
    I will miss looking in here REALLY…but, I’ll be back. Meanwhile big thanks to you and yours for being…just ‘being’

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  3. Dana Avatar

    Yes, following Michelle, I think something is knocking on your door.

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  4. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    As an ex-Catholic, my nostrils flared at the word limbo. Since dance is one of my passions, I’ll use the dance meaning of limbo for my response. Dancing under a pole, lower and lower, requires strength, balance and flexibility. All of these I’ve seen you have grace and all of these serve us well in the dance of life…

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    yes Marti
    serve us well in the dance of life
    every goat has his individual fase
    every one have his invidual dance of life to
    together we make a never ending circle

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  6. Mo Crow Avatar

    ah visiting those low slung red earth adobe buildings mixed in with the deep rich blue of the turquoise from the Santa Fe area is a long time dream… my brother Mike sent a cat shaped piece of turquoise that he found in Santa Fe 10 years ago, it was like carving a piece of the sky, you live in such a deep magic part of the world Grace!

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  7. Liz Avatar

    San Antonio? Why, that’s practically my back yard … imagine, kindred spirits an hour’s drive away … the next step in the journey just waits to be taken

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  8. grace Avatar

    Goats are old communities with deep relation. something to learn
    from Goats

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  9. grace Avatar

    me. i am knocking at my own door

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  10. grace Avatar

    i don’t have an x catholic definition, or one of dance…more of
    what Michelle gave. I don’t “like the word”, but it is a
    meaningful one sometimes…and especially because it makes me
    feel uneasy

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  11. grace Avatar

    we do., the circle, but sometimes our dance is clumsy, awkward

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  12. grace Avatar

    it would be interesting to me if you find Kin there

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