The Front Oasis.  Hopefully,  left to right looking North NorthEast.

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the raft is becoming a Mallow Garden

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one notch back to the left,  there is Abundance with the Native Olive.  Winter abundance for the Birds.

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my only laziness….unloaded the Goat pellets and did Not take the car back out….tomorrow.  Good enough.

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Lamb's Quarters…i graze as i work,  eating them raw

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ASPARAGUS!!!!  2 OF THE 7…up,  through the mulch….i wonder if i should clear the mulch away?  Maybe it's too much to penetrate?  but these did……???????   I had not looked at all this week with WIND and RAIN….

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so slowly changing

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oh,  and eeeeeeeeeee   AND,  stitched down and the total Joy of this…in this moment it is a  Protection Mask for Ordinary Cloth Women for cannibalism of Time,  both from inner and outer entities.   

am always thinking about the thing of Usefullness….Both Jude and Deb G talk of this and i always think….stuff i make is really,  NOT useFULL….but this would be.  It's fierce and i think will prove to be effective.

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i LOVED,  just beyond LOVED stitching these down…some scraps of Deb Lacativa,  a Thrift Shop skirt scrap,  a small piece of Liz's rust cloth as are the Eyes.    Just cannot say how satisfying it was,  the FEELING of it…just well…..

 

 

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32 responses to “perfect”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    asparagus grows more tenderly with deep mulch & deep water
    love this new cloth, it’s strong & wild with the good magic
    I use your x-roads cloth as a scrying cloth, to help me see what’s going on

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  2. Julie Avatar

    I love that feeling, like the stitching down on the cloth somehow stitches something together within. The mask is like you dreamed about the asparagus.
    I’ve been pulling the radishes and popping into my mouth as I work out there. How come I grow stuff like lettuce and kale that is all leaves but toss the leaves from the radishes onto the compost instead of the salad????? What if I lived on a desert island and only had radish plants for greens?
    I will let you know the answer after tomorrow’s salad and thanks for listening, my fingers just typed all this without my brain.

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  3. Liz Avatar

    I am beyond pleased to know that your Protection Mask for Ordinary Cloth Women forvthe cannibalism of Time is looking out from Texas eyes … (smiling)
    And the stitches around the eyes are wonderful … it’s almost as if they are charged with a current of energy

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  4. grace Avatar

    good then…will watch/wait, the asparagus…dear them….
    and yes. you do. you DO find the scrying cloth usefull…
    LOVE……..

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  5. grace Avatar

    the feeling was beyond Great and Good…was exhilarating…yes…
    like dreaming
    i would listen to you Forever and leave brains aside, just type
    with raw fingers
    May your salad be Love

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  6. grace Avatar

    yup…Texas eyes. and the snip clipped off, added to the
    thing on the right making it perfect…..
    a current of energy
    they NEED to be
    and they ARE

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  7. Tracy Avatar
    Tracy

    That’s a great cloth and I love the thought that goes with it. Those eyes will give that time business The Look.
    Your garden is doing so well. I love the abundance of bird food. That’s how garden’s should be.
    I was reading old posts about the add ons. Yes. I know exactly what that is. Sometimes I think all that auto pilot thought is brain function. Neurons keep firing and thoughts keep coming. Sometimes we can control fretting about things, but thinking doesn’t stop. It’s ok. You sound like you’re doing neat things with it.
    Thanks for still being there.

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  8. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Good Monday morning to the oasis and the everything growing, greening, changing, and being in and around your homestead. I’m going for a walk in the very quiet of just past dawn with the City mostly still asleep and then I’ll take a nap while the hustle and bustle of this place gets itself going. Asparagus! Brilliant. Cloth mask of protection! Brilliant. Mallow surrounded raft! Brilliant. And WHAT is that gorgeous bush…rosemary?

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  9. jude Avatar

    the eyes seem tired to me

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  10. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    I always feel that way. . .tired. . .thinking about protection. . .love the perfect green in this. . .maybe that color is all the protection we need

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  11. grace Avatar

    well that wasn’t what i had in mind, will have to
    see if there’s a way to correct that

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  12. Liz Avatar

    I just looked back here http://windthread.typepad.com/windthread/2015/05/re-membering-putting-back-together.html and was amazed at how true your cloth is to the original image. So I’m thinking, what eyes wouldn’t be a tad bit tired after protecting us cloth women from the cannibalism of Time?

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  13. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Nope, don’t see tired, see fierce, see a gaze that says time will not take from me…also see threads around eyes as time catcher, you know like dream catchers catch the negative, the bad dreams, well, these threads catch time and hold it until we can use it for our own needs…I think I’m moving beyond my grief finally to stand and face, fiercely!

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  14. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    I don’t think there’s anything to fix here. . .perhaps we can all take it as a reminder of what time and add-ons do to us. . .and to pace ourselves for what Marti refers to below. . .about grief and facing fiercely. . .love what everyone has shared here in owning this image for cloth women.

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  15. Dana Avatar

    Your yard looks so lush and green…evidence of the recent rains I’m sure. Yay asparagus!
    With the addition of the scrap feathers the mask immediately reminded me of a kachina. Spirit Mask.

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  16. Bev Avatar

    everything is useful whether to contain something or for sheer inspiration. love the mask, and scrying cloth ideas too. also how each person sees what they need in it. yeah love the feel and look of it all.

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  17. Bev Avatar

    oh and i meant to say i think the eyes look fierce, intense, and inquisitive from behind the mask.

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  18. Mo Crow Avatar

    “Protection Mask for Ordinary Cloth Women for cannibalism of Time, both from inner and outer entities”
    hmmm…. “Time” from Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwYX52BP2Sk
    always works for me…

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  19. jude Avatar

    yes i was thinking it is probably just me.

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  20. grace Avatar

    YES!…brain function…neurons that keep firing for no real reason…Brain FUNCTION…YES…this is exactly
    how it seems….
    and Yes…i am really Loving what i am doing with it…yes, it’s NEAT….it’s Fine and it’s FUNCTIONAL…TOOLS
    TOOLS to quiet the habitual thing that we have come to as a species…to quiet it and find a different Way
    I am always here.
    it’s the only Place i want to be
    LOVE to you…

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  21. grace Avatar

    i think you refer to the Giant Sage. Sage. is coming into its own this year

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  22. grace Avatar

    stuff belongs to All of Us

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  23. grace Avatar

    yes, but still, i hadn’t felt any tiredness…just well, the Just Goingness

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  24. grace Avatar

    i like this…hold time till we can use it
    i like this Very Much
    and you…your Grief….standing and facing….fierce and don’t forget soft

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  25. grace Avatar

    it’s May. Lush/Green. it will change.
    kind of yes, like a Kachina….spirit people

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  26. grace Avatar

    mmmmm…..good then. “everything is useful”. I believe this. But there is so much question floating. But…i
    believe this…

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  27. grace Avatar

    pink floyd
    maybe someday i will make a pink floyd cloth

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  28. Mo Crow Avatar

    Love this photo of the Dark Side of the Loom from a few years back
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/aldoaldoz/5633823568/

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  29. Judith in N. CA Avatar
    Judith in N. CA

    Ahhh…those eyes are tunnels..seeking truths, layered to provide protection for the seeker while moving through the “artificials” of time.

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  30. Deb G Avatar

    Cannibalism of time… love that idea. It holds such a story, a truth.

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  31. grace Avatar

    it’s true, isn’t it, that they are the “artificials”…i love
    so much that you say this

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  32. grace Avatar

    the eating
    eating of time

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