there is Peace at the Asylum this evening.  At this Rez,  the Sovereign State of Goats,  the Sovereign State of Tay, Tazmeena and Chinche,  the Sovereign State of grace.  Peace.   Only WIND.  but Peace Rules.

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The leak was at the connection of the Meter.  a cause for great Celebration for me.  

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done.

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How Beauty Full.   

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but then,  a while later i turned on a faucet and NO WATER.  ACK.  i went out with my trusty crescent wrench but NO ROOM to use it…the configuration inside the space had changed.  Call Rick back…NO WATER and he says if he doesn't show  up within 45 min call him.  So, i wait and then hear them out there and there is

Water

Water

I need to write about Water sometime.  But for now,  there is Water.  Everything is quiet.  Everything is PeaceFULL.  There is WIND,  but somehow it's just very much OK,  the WIND when balanced with other things.  

And all day,  i was filled with thoughts and feelings about Wendy and her Children.  Every morning, almost,  i wake to look through these pages

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a book Wendy made in anticipation of Jude's Feather Cloth

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the first page is from Wendy.  To Jude and to all the Listeners and Makers

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there are images like these

 

and there are words,  all the rest of the book,  words of the Children,  like these:

"the back of the cloth tells me about the maker.  I hold on to the threads that end in knots first.  Then i turn the cloth to see what the maker decided to make.  It's like the back of their imagination.  It's like the back of my heart.  I just gotta turn it around and make my own life walkable"

"When i work on my fear of talking,  I always use to go for the cloths that would quiet me.  Now i go for the cloths that say:   C'mon let's get it out,  saying what you want is a good thing…I am good.  But not a things.  It's what i am working on in my sessions.  Fear stops me.  The cloths begin me."

"I have no eyesight.  So What?  I see every cloth here.  I think the makers know I am blind when they make their sewing.  They make cloth so anyone can see things, through their eyeballs or through their hands."

"Thank you maker  people of cloths.  You are my friends.  You are my tribe.  Everyone gets mad at me and  tells me I should get  out of my shell.  The cloth people and feather makers must love shells.  Because now i love being in my shell.  I come out when   i want to and stay in when i want to.  I imagine all the cloth people are shells all over the world, and we go back and forth together, in our shells, out of our shells."

It's about REAL.  It's about an Incredible Space that Wendy has created for the Children.  It's about the Children who KNOW EXACTLY how to USE that space who have the Courage and Brilliance to move within it and make it come Alive.  and so it is too,  about me,  about Us.  who all were children and hold that child self inside us still.

Soon,  Jude will give the Magic Feather Cloth over.   What will go from there????

if you are interested in this book of a Thousand Thank You's,  i think  if you email Wendy at  wendygolden@ rogers.com  she can tell you.  As i said.  i begin most of my days with the book.  Children.  All the children speaking in the book,  so soon to become adults,  so soon to find a Place in this world.  

 

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 it's done for now.  Enough.

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tazmeena rarely goes to the futon couch.  But here she is today.  Interesting.

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Peace.

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15 responses to “Peace”

  1. Jill Avatar
    Jill

    Grace I love this protector cloth! Did you notice the eyes on the pillow next to Tazmeena? WOW.

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  2. grace Avatar

    i didn’t. not in this way, i didn’t. not in any Context, i didn’t
    THANK YOU FOR THIS, Jill

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    WATER
    Without water -No living things!
    “I imagine all the cloth people are shells all over the world,and
    we go back and forth together, in our shells, out of our shells.”
    We are useful to those children.
    We are useful to each other.
    We are useful to love.

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  4. Mo Crow Avatar

    such a beautiful peace

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  5. yvette Avatar

    hoi Grace, i was so lucky to get one of Wendy’s book and the sound of the childrens voices echo in my head…..
    You and Tay
    i recognised immediatedly in handeye
    love is all

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  6. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Ah Tazmeena in her soft, peaceful pillowy protective nest. Wendy’s children feeling so much, working through so much. The book, a gift to the cloth makers and the gift perhaps not so much from seeing their individual cloths in print but from reading what their cloths mean to the children, words that thread from their hearts back to the makers…the child who said,”the back of the cloth tells me about the maker. I hold on to the threads that end in knots first. Then i turn the cloth to see what the maker decided to make. It’s like the back of their imagination. It’s like the back of my heart. I just gotta turn it around and make my own life walkable”
    Cloth clearing and helping to form a path to the future.

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  7. grace Avatar

    Useful…to the children, to each other, to love.
    Use FULL. Useful.
    it’s True, isn’t it.

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  8. grace Avatar

    full, breathing, alive Peace
    saying…. grace, feel this and Remember.

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  9. grace Avatar

    i cannot say how much there is in the book, the
    way the photographs speak of the WORK the children do
    to go so deeply into the Experience of Life…
    i wish We could All go to Wendy’s space just once…all
    Together, so we could feel it Together
    it is a Beauty FULL image, this, that i want to hold on to

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  10. grace Avatar

    yes. it’s the Whole of it, all Together with the children
    still and moving, with Sam there and Valerianna,
    Wendy bearing witness, holding it all

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  11. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Wendy…..Seems that she inherited much of her mother’s artistic sense. Beautiful that she would put together such an artful book ofFthanks. I have not commented but have been trying to keep up. My brother is here visiting…..Will be able to catch up next week.

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  12. Martine Bos Avatar

    This book……..is always here with me. Knowing these cloth is helping children has helped me very much this last year.
    I’ve send bees over the ocean and hear and feel them and the music. Its magical…….and still goes on! And your cloth……i love it, it looks at me!

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  13. grace Avatar

    you are missed here, but your brother….yes.
    look forward to you being back

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  14. grace Avatar

    Martine…to see that we are in Wendy’s space together fills me
    with great happiness…the bees, the bees, they are inside
    music
    LOVE,

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  15. grace Avatar

    not sure what the Internet gave….i think Wendy Golden~Levitt is
    not the Wendy that inherited her mother’s artistic sense….
    But she HAS taken to her a HUGE sense of humanity….
    This Wendy is the Jungian Therepist in Toronto??????
    interested in what you found that would speak of a mother…

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