and when the days are so small,   dark so long in the beginings,  so dark so soon at the endings,  i look for comfort

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and it is found in the scraps.  This is one of my most loved pieces.  Silk Noile, so soft of Hand and dyed with the Eggplant  way back when Glennis Dolce gave the online class in dyeing.  I can't even remember the name of the dye we used…Color Hue?,  something like that but this piece,  oh,  it is so so satisfying.

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so i comfort  mySelf with standing and Looking.   I think about how i am grateful that i have these things.  How well they comfort me.  yes.

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and This has been moved from the blueish backing to this kind of grey lavendar back.  Which ties into the moon event up in the right hand corner and also softens the Whole.  I am thinking so much about this Cloth.  How "the dominant "She" has such meaning to me and also had meaning of the Taliban and Joni Mitchel.   What to end up Thinking?   But it's a Strong Cloth and Wants to Be, so i just go. IMG_1463f

at NO store in town were there my awaited Butterfly Calendars.  So this coming year we have Flowers.   And i wonder why Butterflies are no IN this year?   Not the Dollar General,  Family Dollar or Walmart.    This year the grocery store doesn't have Any calendars at all.  

So Flowers.  ok.   This cover photo is Glorious.  Printed in China.  And i think about the people there who work in the calendar company,  who package them…inserting the sturdy piece of cardboard,  apply the shrink wrap.  I wish i could tell them how important their calendar is to me all the year round.  How almost every day i look and mark it with my pen.

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8 responses to “how Mondays and Tuesdays belong to the World and so do I”

  1. yvette Avatar

    how rich we are Grace!

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  2. grace Avatar

    We ARE, yvette, are you feeling this too? i am hoping, because
    i know that it is true. we are RICH.
    LOVE,

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  3. Dana Avatar

    Was it Earthues? The dye source? The silk noil is lovely.
    Also, your calendar makes me think of the sunflower in the yard…powerfully reaching until the frost caught her.

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  4. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Warms me to see the display of cloth pieces, tumbling out of baskets, arranged, hung on a sample wall, vibrant colors, these are such treasures. In the deep quiet and dark of winter, having cloths to look at, touch, wonder about, pin, move around, stitch, fires the imagination giving warmth and life to creativity.
    The sunflower calendar, lights up your home,as if to announce by its color, the coming of the light. Calendars are like being given a gift, open each page, think about each month, what went on the year before, what to look forward to in the new year. For many years, I had herbal, nature scene calendars, even an Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta calendar but this year, the pull of my heart’s landscape was strong, (Ireland) so I have a marvelous Celtic Mandala Calendar, Earth Mysteries and Mythology by the Welch artist, Jen Delyth. Turning to my birth month of September, the Mandala is alive with my favorite color of every possible combination of green coupled with rust and brown, earth tones of autumn. The September Mandala is the Triskele, in Celtic lore, an ancient three legged spiral pattern and is called the Dance of Life; I sat looking at this month in awe because of the colors, my colors and because of the title because dance plays a huge part in my life.

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  5. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    Marti, I had one of Jen Delyth’s calendars a few years back. . .I loved it

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  6. Liz Avatar

    I love how you have laid these scraps out … am positively inspired (which may even translate into action, who knows?)

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  7. yvette Avatar

    Marti, can you give me your email or blogadress?
    you gave me such great comments !
    so i see you but here…

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  8. grace Avatar

    Dana, no. i went to look. it’s Colorhue. Dharma Trading sells
    it. It’s incredibly easy to use. but also i have never been
    able to find anything about what it is MADE of…. which
    makes me uneasy.
    Yes. This will be the year of Sunflowers out there. I’m going
    to put them Everywhere. LOTS of them. AND, more importantly,
    plant them in a TIMELY MANNER.

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