mid morning, i realized that today is WEDNESDAY!….not Thursday…..oh,  YAY and HooRay!

since i always work away on Monday and Tuesday,  Wednesday has a certain feel.  And since i didn't work at the usual Tuesday because Allan had been gone for over a month and everything was fine, i was home instead.  But it still Felt like Wednesday because i got to stay HOME.    So i was given a FREE day!

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i spent some time,  a chunk of time,  stitching very pale blue thread beads in the eyelet part of this.  Which gave me a lot of opportunity to think about it,  think about how i think.  Is very interesting to me because it never was a question about maybe putting it into the little shop on this blog.  I couldn't imagine anyone else but me thinking much of it.  It is not an "easy" cloth.   If we might remember,  it's about those grubs of the Green Fruit Beetles in the compost,  how i was learning and understanding how So Many Things can participate in an ecosystem,  even those that at first might feel challenging.  It is very tied to the Harrod Buhner book  Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm that i am STILL reading….

it's not a Pretty cloth.  

But there was no question that i want to include it in  the ones i take with me.  No question.  So, That says something, doesn't it.

 

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And this is typical of the Other Sides.  The sides that i choose not to Hide.   Having given thought to how this may feel Unfinished.  What would THAt mean to me?   and i thought no…would feel, to me, Hidden.    How stories are what they  are in the Telling,  but how often so much back and forth, so much not knowing anything is involved in the finally getting to the Story….with all it's important details…..

So, ok.

Tomorrow that is Really Thursday,  i can make the Word Paper and i can make the Names of them and put their dollar numbers.  That will probably take all day,  or much of it.  That leaves Friday for sweeping out the truck,  going to the Laundromat to wash a pair of levis,  receive the month's half ton bale of alfalfa.  Breathe.  

This is exciting.

 

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22 responses to “a WONDERFULL mistake!!!!!”

  1. Julie Avatar

    It IS exciting.Be sure to take lots of pix and copious mental notes so you can take us there too. I am in texas meeting up with yet more progeny. I am in your time zone. Sigh

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  2. Dana Avatar

    The gift of time is so delicious. I will be in the shadow crowd that stands with you in Magdelena, cheering.

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  3. yvette Avatar

    Grace i hope you understand……..
    or actually receive the vibes
    love

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  4. jude Avatar

    ti lose track of time sort of reveals what it really is, i love that.
    I always always think social events. The get much scarier than they actually end up to be. in my mind.

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  5. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    “not an easy cloth”. . .I know what you mean. . . .it is a beautiful cloth though. . .a complete cloth even with the ‘unfinished’ element. . . .it is very real, Grace. . .it accepts everything which is beautiful in my book. . . ‘holding ground here for you this weekend. . . . .

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  6. Liz Avatar

    A whole day! This is 24 times better than the extra hour when we go from daylight to standard time in the fall.
    Still, perhaps you were also anticipating Magdalena … looking forward to it like a kid waiting for Christmas morning. What fun!

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  7. Liz Avatar

    And need I even say how much I love seeing the B-side?

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  8. Bev Avatar

    time is time, such a gift, sometimes you can feel stretches of it. I like how it feels.
    I need to say how I love the way this display of work makes me feel, it’s so earthy, holding so many sweet emotions, almost understated but mesmerizing, so beautiful. I just want to gaze and absorb and keep looking at it.
    I can’t imagine how good it would feel in person. Watch their faces Grace and you will see how intrigued people will be.
    Maybe have some cards on hand with your website and email so they may read about your goats and your cloth works. I’m not good at computer stuff but I’ve made them by hand for shows.
    love

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  9. Stephanie Avatar
    Stephanie

    Oh Grace, I love what Dana said about being “in the shadow crowd that stands with you in Magdelena, cheering.” Me, too! Your love and life shine though these beautiful cloths.

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  10. Stephanie Avatar
    Stephanie

    I meant “through” these beautiful cloths!

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  11. Mo Crow Avatar

    Last year when I made the 7 talismans & 1 amulet for the xmas show Julie of Threading the Dog asked in a comment what each one invoked, that got me thinking hard to make a reply & really helped me get the artists statement together for each one.

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  12. Mo Crow Avatar

    would love to read your story of the butterfly woman which is a powerful thread that runs through your work

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  13. grace Avatar

    maybe some day you will be in my Actual Zone…yes?
    those green Janet Chairs…..

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  14. grace Avatar

    i was in the shower this morning …. when sometimes Stuff
    COMES to me
    and i had a Visual of this
    of you and Us All…there, in Magdelena…how amazing We would be!
    All of Us. How just so amazing We would BE

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  15. grace Avatar

    yvette..i do. I Receive.
    Great and Always and Forever Love Back

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  16. grace Avatar

    i love them and i don’t. Both. But i love them more than i don’t.
    I am really looking FORWARD to this

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  17. grace Avatar

    wish you were here

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  18. grace Avatar

    looking Forward. yup. very much so.

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  19. grace Avatar

    i always do handwritten stuff and i will.
    AND EVERYONE…go look at Bev’s BEE Queen on her blog…just
    click her name

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  20. grace Avatar

    yup…through, got it
    I will envision you THERE

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  21. grace Avatar

    since i will BE there, i won’t go to far with a “statement”…it
    won’t be necessary. I will have my mouth, my Self.

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  22. grace Avatar

    yes. the Butterfly.

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