it seemed so far away just the other day,  but i look at the calendar and count the boxes and it is now SOON.  SOON.  till we again tilt toward the Light.    How amazing.  Tilting away then suddenly tilting toward.  

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so after a period of silence,  we again have this.  Why, one might wonder?  There is Free Access all over this house for a mouse.  But maybe it's some kind of Creativity?  Instead of scampering around the corner,  the choice is to chew through the wall board.  Back to the Tin Mouse Live Trap.  This is tiring.  

I think of Andy Goldsworthy

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WIND, like the wind that came yesterday and through the night, rearranges things.  Chairs are overturned,    rakes, hoes and shovels knocked down,  large landscape pots over turned,  the clothesline askew (forgot to take pic)  and down low…Installations.  Small gatherings of things that when i squat down,  i feel as Stories.   Tell me,  i think.  

and i seem to have gotten something lodged in my right nostril when throwing the Goat feed over the gate last eve.   The beauty of the organism,  body,  has caused my nose to run constantly today, well, my right nostril.  Left one is    quietly normal.  The right however, a constant flow.  I can feel whatever it is…right "there,  above where the nose flairs in the nose…a something.  and i think what if it's a side oat grama seed?   eeeeeee   So there would be two scenarios…one that all that snot will soften it so i can blow or sneeze it out  OR  all that snot can moisten it so it will germinate and i will have a clump of Native Grass growing out of my nose????????????????

and i listened again twice to the On Being interview with Joy Laden.  Hearing again the two words:  Coherent World

i am fascinated with the still unpictured images that these two words suggest.  Coherent World.

Coherent World.

maybe that is what i am always trying to find with the cloth making….or Make,  with the cloth making?  a  Coherent World.

 

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19 responses to “six days till Solstice”

  1. Liz Avatar

    Thank you … I needed to laugh and you gave me a great opportunity
    And I love the wind assemblages

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  2. grace Avatar

    Aren’t they Beauty Full?, those spontaneous assemblages of such small and really insignificant nothings to form a FORM???? I squated LONG, looking and looking and SEEING them…………
    and well, we are laughing now. I am hoping by morning the nose is ready
    to CLEAR itself

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  3. grace Avatar

    and it’s just one more detail to remember…that when WIND is straight ligning, make a mask with a bandana
    it never occured to me to do this. But now, i will never forget

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  4. Nanette Avatar

    That will be a great story to stitch onto cloth……..Grace with Native Grass Growing from Nostril ha ha …. do you have a neti pot that would wash it out.

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  5. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    You have always loved the native grasses so to think that you are morphing into an “organic being”, becoming one of your cloths somehow just fits…!!! Seriously, do hope it releases itself this morning.

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  6. julie Avatar

    Those sre some Mighty Marks! At first, I thought they were alphabet letters. But now I see ancient letters.

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  7. Liz Avatar

    Your comment brought runes and petroglyphs to mind …

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  8. Mo Crow Avatar

    love the wind signs they look like asemic writing
    “True asemic writing occurs when the creator of the asemic piece cannot read their own asemic writing.”
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asemic_writing
    a fascinating concept that fits with my favourite quote
    ” In Madasgascar, large white “goat’s eye” beads can miraculously bring the wearer things that do not actually exist, and so are deemed particularly magical.”
    from page 101 of “Amulets : a world of secret powers, charms and magic” by Sheila Paine Thames & Hudson 2004
    & re that grass seed, the neti pot that Nanette suggested with a saline solution should help, I always regret moving mulch without a dust mask but the neti pot works well to move any irritants out of the nasal passages (if I don’t do it my face swells up for a week as I don’t have any lymph nodes left in my neck!)

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  9. Saskia Van Herwaarden Avatar

    haha, the image of grass growing out of your nose, excellent!
    the wind blown images are beautiful
    my mum eats the entire apple (well I do too these days) but as a child I did wonder if the seed could germinate in her belly and we’ld one day see a tree growing out of her ear

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  10. .cynthia Avatar
    .cynthia

    oh and watermelon seeds..i had such a great vision of watermelon vines..they would come decoratively, graciously out of my ears and then flow down my back like long green hair…and wait.. i love remembering this part..you would somehow get to sit on this who knows how..stable and beautiful watermelon throne..huge and round green on green stripes..solid green pillows….
    the windblown images look just as planned and arranged by magical winds as my watermelon throne did in my mind..and your vision is real…

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    interesting, isn’t it. How we might become what we “give our thinking to”

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. of twigs, goat poos

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    was interesting that today brought this current issue of National Geographic…about First Art

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    “bring the wearer things that do not actually exist”
    i could repeat those words a hundred times…
    i want That

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    Our Visions are Real, they ARE

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  16. Mo Crow Avatar

    isn’t that the best line ever? that’s the magic I’ve been chasing all my life…

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  17. Nanette Avatar

    My mother always said if I didn’t clean in my ears, potatoes would grow. Rather than bother me, it always intrigued me…how would they get there in my ears to start with, travel along from my stomach?

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  18. Saskia Van Herwaarden Avatar

    hahaha, that would be a bummer

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