Easy.  Some "times",  it's easy.   Continuous,  but slow.    I think about Salzberg's choice of words:

May you live with ease.    Today i lived with ease.

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i stitched the Crow.

 

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at one point,  it was probably exactly right.  But i took it just a barest fraction further and went too far.   So…now…..we'll see.  I might need to begin again.  Need to back off.   See again.

 

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and i moved to this one.  Which i am surprised to find that i really WANT to take to the Art thing in Magdalena.  and as i worked on it it became clear to me what i really am looking for with participating there.   This is probably the most…uhhh,  raw,  or rough cloth i've made.  The combination of fragments are uneasy.  Them with the inked eyes, too.   But it's a Strong Story.  Every bit of it has meaning that Tells it's story.  So i will work to finish it and take it.   What i understood is that i want to use this Event in Magdalena to watch people's responses to these Cloths.  To talk with them,  get a feeling who they are and then see if i can get them to tell me what they are seeing.   This will INFORM the making as it goes.  I am not looking at all for general "acceptance".  Am looking for Response.  So i will take even this one that is "hard" and learn from it.

 

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Salt Cedar beginning to bloom.  Soon there will be billions of BEEs

 

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This year the most Ever "fruit" on the Three Leaf Sumac.   Bountyfull.

 

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at the Raft

 

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11 responses to “How time can move through a “day”.”

  1. .cynthia Avatar
    .cynthia

    i am skirting cautiously around the last ice chunks on the walk..the last snow at the end of the driveway surely will melt today..it was at my waist on friday and now it is down to my knees…breathtaken by the salt cedar buds..my sumac are sticks..they do not even look viable even though i know it is just the northeast being on a different stretch of this elastic time…it is not quite easy here yet..but it smells like spring even if it is still 29 ..the day promises high high temperatures..and then the world will change ..seemingly in an instant
    oh those haunting eyes..i remember her as you made her..and the different reactions she evoked..it will be so interesting to see the reactions..well to hear about them..i so honor the chances you take..the large and the small and then of course immediately want to change that..because it is simply the way you live your life..and you know how much i honor that and delight in sharing from such a different time zone but such a similar mind set..
    i need to get ready for physical therapy..and i love the ridiculousness of how thrilling it is to simply be able to take a real shower all by myself..you stride into a world of people and art and i walk almost unaided into the shower..and it all makes me curious and happy to wonder what will happen next
    gentle day grace

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  2. jude Avatar

    learning is probably the best reason to do anything.

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  3. patriciaspangler47@gmail.com Avatar

    these cloths. the power of each. i’m stunned but not surprised. it’s been a while now since i took one on –started one or even considered starting. but i remember their journeys. the digging into the reason that calls each one to the surface. it is no small feat. and i just wanted to say i honor you so for, again (as i’ve said it before) your steadfastness.

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  4. beth Avatar

    I would love to be able to watch people look at your cloths.

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  5. Mo Crow Avatar

    the crow looks “right” from here Aarrkk! Aaarrkkkk! Aaaarrrrrkkkkkk!

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  6. grace Avatar

    high high temperatures being 40’s….! ……oh, Blessings on Vermont
    love the words to gether…thrilling and ridiculousness….walking almost unaided into the shower
    and
    Striding???? could it possibly be called Striding????? oh, eeeee
    anything at all like Striding?????
    i guess my spirit strides, but do I, ? I love the thought.
    Tomorrow i will see if i can stride.
    gentle day BACK…

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  7. grace Avatar

    and really…it’s ALL learning, yes?

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  8. grace Avatar

    i love that you think of this word, steadfastness for me. I just
    love that you give me this word

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  9. grace Avatar

    We would have a wonder FULL day, watching.

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  10. grace Avatar

    then i won’t be too hard on it….ok…..you would know, of ALL
    people…..
    but there is still just this oh so oh so small tweak

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  11. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    before I forget i want to share this blogspot thanks to Robyn Gordon:
    http://calmthings.blogspot.com/2015/04/prescription-for-calm.html
    Things have got quite colorful and plentiful in your world like all of a sudden…though of course not sudden just suddenly seen. Lovely ideas about going to listen and learn, to be open for show and tell. i envy you the adventure.

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