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Finished…First Dream.    And I like that it can be a story of the Earth herself dreaming  Us all into continued Being,  or it can be us dreaming Earth dreams.  How, really, it is both no matter how we are able to perceive it.   so, Finished and the first of a series i am hoping.  I'll put it in the Shop if i can remember how.  It's been a while.

But earlier today i wanted to see something

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What If i did something like this??????  Earth Dreaming is  9×13.   The other is a little larger, well, i guess you can see that.  What if they were in the center of a Larger Dream?  What if they were like one moment,  the story of that one moment within a larger dream?  What might that Ground,  that force field of Dream than look like?   What might be there?????   

I like this thought.

LATER AN ADDENDUM

because of the mail from Cynthia that told of snow falling on her internet connection and how much that meant to me,  to receive this image from her of her Place on this Planet,  

i'll add what is Here…i just fed the Goats their last food for today which is side oat gramma and they don't love it.  They want the Other grass hay with some weeds mingled in,  but this is what Bill loaded into the truck and so what there is to Eat and they are not enthusiastic but still,  it's FOOD and i say i am sorry, but it is nutrition and they mill a bit but then begin eating and my neighbor Margies son has left his radio in his pickup playing LOUD, driver door open and he is in the house, but the MUSIC is outside and it's that kind of Soft Rap,  i really don't know what it's called but it's the Romantic kind, like the rhythm of making love and as i am feeding the Goats,  there is a single small mustard yellow moth flitting along from Somewhere to Somwhere and the door of the house is open because it was Warm today but now is becoming a little cold as Sun reaches the Rim and Tay whizzes in and out in her Grand Finale of the day,  she likes it when there is no door, screen or regular so she doesn't have to slow her bullet like entry to the house,  can come full force, not skip a beat and i will close the door soon and tack down the blanket on the Way Back door,  push in the blanket at the bottom,   but not yet.  And color is draining as light leaves,  things becoming brown and grey with lines of dark, black maybe,  but it doesn't have to BE black to READ black and it's

done again.

one more day.  done.  finished.  added to the string of days….that bead like string of days that are a Life

 

 

 

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16 responses to “Earth Dreaming 1”

  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    String of days, Earth Dreaming expanded to a larger framework: I think of how rugs are displayed in some stores, hung on racks that move, swing back and forth. I see cloth panels easily moved, telling a story front and back, ,telling of moments in a day or more like in a season where one can move from a dream state to a focus that delineates what is seen, felt, known, experienced, as changes come from weather, from the land, from within ourselves as we adjust to cyclical planetary moves…

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  2. julie Avatar

    this is one of your finest, I especially love the small, colorful scraps going on the vines. I think I’ve been seeing more color in your work these days.
    Its hovering just below freezing these days and I just finished a Scotch. (Learned that in Scotland this year). It is like warm coals inside of me. G’nite.

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  3. debbie.weaver Avatar

    Beautiful piece, I don’t think you need your gateways opening, your perception is already amazing.

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  4. jude Avatar

    this cloth is less cluttered and the alignment is stronger. i like it.

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  5. grace Avatar

    happy you like it…
    and less cluttered…i’ll think about that because i am
    always thinking i need More Clutter in general

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  6. grace Avatar

    i love this comment, Marti….”hung on racks that move”
    swing back and forth
    cloth panels easily moved…
    Love this thinking a lot
    THANK YOU !

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  7. grace Avatar

    the small scraps have captured my sense of how to
    portray moments
    ooo…Scotch….wow. That’s a Woman’s drink….

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  8. grace Avatar

    thank you debbie…i have a LOOOOOONG way to go.
    Am beginning the book all over again at this point…when i
    took too long a break from it

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  9. Liz Avatar

    Your prose reads like poetry … love that

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  10. grace Avatar

    sometimes that feels good, to begin with a word or two and
    then Just Go…letting each next word come without thought,
    but just coming fast…and you don’t even know really what
    you have written till the next morning….

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  11. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    You have the most wonderful ability to say so much with just a few snippets of cloth and a few stitches, even when you kantha a cloth; that to me is one of the most profound gifts that you bring to cloth.

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  12. Mo Crow Avatar

    I read this yesterday
    “… The weight of a dream is not in proportion to it’s size. Some dreams are made of fog, some of lace, some of lead. Some dreams seem to be made out of less than the usual debris of the psyche than bolts of lightning sent from outside.”
    from p 182 of ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’ by Rebecca Solnit a beautiful & brave book that I will need to read over and over…
    love the space the larger cloth makes around these 2 latest works

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  13. Dana Avatar

    The kantha stitching adds just the right touch. I love how the purply tones of the background cloth bring out the blues, and accentuate the warm tones in both of the smaller dreams. A series sounds like a fine idea.

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  14. Deb G Avatar

    what you added is beautiful… that moment of your day.

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  15. grace Avatar

    it’s just what it is. almost Nothing, but Something, because it
    Was what it IS. Like for you.

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  16. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Today you were flying.

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