when i was hauling wood to split or bringing in the big pieces,  i don't know,  but have a sore wrist today.  sometimes i am preoccupied and ignore what i know and pick up very heavy pieces with just my right hand,  lift them, swing them up.  I've done this before.  Am out of Arnica.  Maybe tomorrow.

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and just now,  i see that i Must be preoccupied,  because i was just about to say how many Goats i DID get done when i realized there are 8 Goats…that i had divided that one scrap in two,  the Los Dados,  for Deb Lacativa,  but then that made 8 Goats and Seven is the number…

So i have snipped off that last dark brown one.  Ah well,  Tomorrow.  And i stitched the first of the Crows…the furthest away…up in the right corner.  Was good to begin the Crows.

 

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Spent Time looking at the Transmigration.  Thinking about Transmigration,  thinking about a Soul, leaving this plane to go to where ever it is that things ReForm,  ReConstitute, Reincarnate.  What are the ways i can think of this?  What DOES an individual human soul "take" from the life it has lived and left?   I've never really thought about this before.   Impressions, maybe,  like sounds,  certain qualities of light,  movement?  Color?  Shapes?  Feelings?  Experiences?,  and i think, yes, imprints of Experiences.   What might that be like?  Vague or sharp?,  Vague, i'm thinking…  just imprints,  not sharp image.  Not specific memory of people, for instance,  but the smell and sense of an infant,  the feeling of how Goats "shove" and move against your legs that would say Herd.  For me, for sure some kind of feeling of Wind as it moves on this planet,  Wind having always felt like Life itself?  Or none of the above.  Other things entirely?

I really LIKE the thought of thinking about this.  And thinking about this in terms of making a Cloth of the thoughts.  I like it a LOT.

 

 

 

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17 responses to “careless”

  1. Liz Avatar

    Just now realized that you turned the moon … with the result that I now see visages that weren’t apparent before. Interesting ..
    Sorry about your wrist … did something similar to mine last week when I was loading mulch. Bah …

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  2. grace Avatar

    a good eye you have….yes. I did turn the moon cloth, again
    from Deb Lacativa. I couldn’t decide which but have settled with
    this.
    it’ll be ok. it’s kind of the back of my hand…those tendons.
    The Arnica will fix it. Have great GREAT faith in Arnica. And i
    love that the little funky local Grocery Store has it. People around
    here are great believers in homeopathics and herbal remedies. I love that a lot. When we used to have an actual drug store in town, before Walmart showed up, there was a woman who worked there who was consulted all the time for homeopathic and herbal medicines for Everything. I went to her when i thought i had pneumonia (which i probably did) and she prescribed for me. I miss her.

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    This is great speculation and you’ve got me thinking about impressions too. But while I finish thinking I want to say that Olive oil rubbed in helps until you have your Arnica…also that cold helps. I’ll be back when i finish thinking.

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  4. grace Avatar

    I will look forward to any thoughts you might have…this is a whole new
    Angle of thinking for me, and i really really Like it
    Olive oil…hmmmm ok, but cold…eeeee, cold, eeeee

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  5. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    you could warm it up first. holding a match under a spoonful of the oil.

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  6. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    This is as far as I got….and it involves two sites (hope you don’t mind)…Soul–individual soul–I don’t know.
    I REALLY don’t know if we take anything when we leave the body, but I do know we leave impressions behind in all the places we have traversed, and with all the people who have ever known us.
    http://www.wisdom-books.com/ProductExtract.asp?PID=11033
    and my Zen friends at a recent retreat….maybe not about soul migration but definitely about the art of living (something you already know a lot about)
    http://youtu.be/803tGYqjJ2k
    Meanwhile I LOVE the crow and the little goat beings and the thoughts.

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  7. patriciaspangler47@gmail.com Avatar

    reconstitute. that jumps out at so LOUDLY. the reconstitution of a soul. from freeze-dried powder to cosmic soup, adding its own little/big flavor to the pot. so i’m wondering now, what is the flavor of my soul? yours? ours? this morning i’m inclined to think garlic.
    oh, and Grace. this is my all-time favorite cloth. this seven goats seven crows. simply love it for being and for beauty.

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  8. Dana Avatar

    I love the paragraph about transmigration. I never thought about that stuff either, but I am now. The light shines so strongly on our lives here and now that it is hard to even imagine the unseen parts of being….they feel like flitting shadows…but how compelling they are, once awareness finds them.
    The goats and crows look like fragments of energy.

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  9. Mo Crow Avatar

    the energy of compost

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  10. saskia Avatar

    that is a nice thought: leaving only impressions, my personal goal in life is to die with no more (rather less) than a suitcase full of possessions, that is if I’m old and have decluttered in Time – although I do realise I will never know when that day might be upon me
    and yes, thie cloth with those tiny goatscraps and the beginnings of crows is mightily Fine!

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  11. jude Avatar

    the goats look like cave drawings

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  12. grace Avatar

    i hadn’t thought of that, but they do, don’t they.
    I was wanting to find the most simple thing that could equal
    Goat in the eye/mind. so i can put them in other Cloths…
    and not have it be complicated.
    if they were bigger, there would only be 3 scraps.
    Patchwork Beasts.

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  13. grace Avatar

    it’s almost completely fine today (Sat.)

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  14. grace Avatar

    i always love it a lot when you put links here…
    and i guess i am thinking about the transmigration questions because i like it. I like wondering. What may have ripened, what may have
    been fulfilled, what is still Open, what do i cling to. These are very Useful wonderings for me and really…fun to work with in Cloth.

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  15. grace Avatar

    am Very happy that you love it…
    ahh, Flavor…i would be Tamari

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  16. grace Avatar

    i’ve thought a lot about it, but never in this “light” way, a
    way that is image, color, sense. I suppose this might not be
    at all how it goes, but it’s giving me a Lot of pleasure right
    now and in the end, may provide some useful clues
    and yes…this too…thinking of us All in terms of fragment
    energy beings

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  17. grace Avatar

    the most fruitful of all

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