the reference to having become too Literal…   I went back in the pics in Picasa looking for two things and gave up yesterday but tried again today and found them.

001f

this was the Daughter Quilt….back in the Weaving Jude (Hill…Spirit Cloth) taught in 2011.  I hung it to the beam that holds up the ceiling from the house to the ROOM.  I actually wove it and invisible basted it standing on the ladder.    009f

what i was actually looking for was

007f

this.  Which was in the center of it all.    How spontaneously it happened…as a total surprise,  rising from the Patch Work Beasts.  Jude again.

001f

and then this one.    Again,  spontaneous and Wild.  still from 2011.

so looking for these,  i watched 5 years flashing by  in photographs.

IMG_2185f

 

IMG_2186f

this second one here has a little more sense of the dimensional quality i want to keep here.  So the color is not exactly true.  I wanted to look at the Terraine…how to keep that quality somehow with the stitching.  But also,  looking back i find self looking at how i have come to be uhhhh,  committed to the EarthScape over time and less to personal internal image.  I'd like to combine these.  But i think to do that i need to go back to Beginner's Mind.  First just looking but then seeing if i can WORK in that place again.  I don't know if it's possible.  I'd like to find out.

And this applies all around,  this thinking about Beginner's Mind…it applies to this blog,  it applies to how i perceive my life in general.  Spring is coming and it's time to begin again.  I'd like to begin many things Again.  So i'm Looking.

 

 

Posted in

13 responses to “beginner’s mind”

  1. Dana Avatar

    Beginning again…Beginners Mind….looking outward to the Earth’s variations and permutations rather than being so caught in the landscape of the self. Realizing that WE ARE NOT SEPARATE. Opening to the whispers and vapors of our world, finding that we are already marked by what they tell us. This is what I hear you saying. Have I got it or do you mean something else?

    Like

  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    you have it. we are already marked. but too, how do we
    uhhh, describe that mark?
    how do we let it speak as a kind of personal language that is also
    the language of our tribe, our familiars? So we can “talk”
    by our individual languages…as in how i understand your language
    of the Table.

    Like

  3. judykeathley@cox.net Avatar
    judykeathley@cox.net

    oh my.
    how well i remember the ladder piece.
    it kinda made my heart leap ….
    at how time passes..
    my sense is that you can find that beginners mind…
    ha!
    that you live most of your life in beginners mind.
    it reminds me ….
    to remember
    beginners mind …
    xo

    Like

  4. Mo Crow Avatar

    listening to what the cloth has to say

    Like

  5. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Oh how very lucky…blessed….excited…I could call it anything but in truth it is EVERYTHING!! I am right here ..right now at the beginning. I searched and I found…first Jude so brilliant…then Grace so amazing…and then all of you. GRATEFUL….I am!!!

    Like

  6. beth Avatar

    Oh yes. There is sort of a surrendering to something there… joy?

    Like

  7. Mo Crow Avatar

    and this today by Luci Tapahonso from over at Terri Windling’s blog
    http://www.terriwindling.com/blog/2015/02/gate.html
    “…
    3
    When you were born and took your first breath, different colors
    and different kinds of wind entered through your fingertips
    and the whorl on top of your head. Within us, as we breathe,
    are the light breezes that cool a summer afternoon,
    within us the tumbling winds that precede rain,
    within us sheets of hard-thundering rain,
    within us dust-filled layers of wind that sweep in from the mountains,
    within us gentle night flutters that lull us to sleep.
    To see this, blow on your hand now.
    Each sound we make evokes the power of these winds
    and we are, at once, gentle and powerful.”

    Like

  8. dee Avatar

    Not quite sure what you mean about not wanting to be so literal or wanting to look outward more… I wonder if there isn’t perhaps a tug — or better, a dance — between that which is literal and that which is symbolic — for looking to the outer landscape invokes a kind of literalism, or at least, attention to material and physical details… Speaking for myself, the more I see the physical, the more it offers itself up as meaning. It does not make rational sense.
    I read this today: “The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention…. The reward for paying attention is always healing.” (Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way)

    Like

  9. grace Avatar

    time does pass, doesn’t it. i think. yes. how it has passed and all that has and does go under the bridge

    Like

  10. grace Avatar

    reading this, thinking

    Like

  11. grace Avatar

    we are all just Here

    Like

  12. grace Avatar

    a surrendering

    Like

Leave a comment