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watching things about the Dalai Lama's 80th birthday,  listening to him,  as i have done for so long,

i hear him say things,  and then a breath,  and then…..Therefore,  and he goes on.

Everything,  it seems,  is associated by   …. Therefore …..

Causation.    

This …..seems to be,  because of the causation of…..this.   Therefore.   I love very much,  how he says things and then says

Therefore

and goes on

 

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this is something i care about a lot lately.   These tortillas from the Food Co Op in Albuquerque which come from the Food Co Op in Taos.  These tortillas are to die for.  Thin,  crisp beautyFully in a pan with olive oil and butter.  I cannot 

WAIT

till morning when i make a quesadilla of squash, onion and cilantro,  cheese.  4 days now and i am looking forward to tomorro morning again.  Same thing.  oh, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

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I dreamed last night about making a 

figure

might be called a doll

might be called a fiber figure

i dreamed it.  And i was excited this morning about that.  As the day went,  the early excitement dwindled to Thinking.

Why?

Why.

Do I REALLY want to do this?   I know how,  have done it in the past.  WHY does this arise now?  Does it really

want to be done?

or,  What?

So…thinking.  Watching.  Thinking more.  Watching more.  What IS it that is moving into the

works of it all

 

 

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14 responses to “therefore”

  1. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    The tortillas … flour? This looks so good and I totally get how you could anticipate the same deliciousness day after day.
    I will watch as this figure falls from your hands (as Mo would say) … quite sure it will be like nothing before

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  2. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    is this dream of the cloth woman an honouring for the crone years?

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    I love his “Therefore” too…..and him. A friend sent my friend this and she sent it to me, “Therefore’ because of the “Why” of your cloth woman thought, I’m sending it to you:
    “It is the stubbornness with which we refuse to let what’s growing underneath come through that pains us. It is the fear that nothing is growing underneath that feeds our despair. It is the moment that we cease growing in any direction that is truly deadly.…Imagine if trees never shed their leaves, or if waves never turned over, or if clouds dumped their rain and disappeared. I say this to remind myself as much as you: Little deaths prevent big deaths. What matters most is waiting its turn, underneath all that is expending itself to prepare the way.”
    Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakenin

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  4. Dana Avatar
    Dana

    Thanks Michelle…great quote.

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  5. Dana Avatar
    Dana

    Grace, you are so sensitive to your inner inspiration….I’m sure this dream will re-form and speak to you clearly when the time is right.

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  6. jude Avatar
    jude

    why not?

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  7. dee Avatar
    dee

    yeah, why not? it seems like the cloths you have been making for awhile now are more ‘yours’ than the ones before (do I make this up?) — so maybe there is the wish to return to an old way of working to see what newness you bring to it.

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  8. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Combining old and new…..much like when the old and young come together anything and everything become possible. Why and when did you stop making the dolls. Looking forward as always to your artistic journey…..thank you as always for sharing.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    they are flour. But the thing about them that makes them so
    different is how thin they are. When you fry the casadilla
    in olive oil (and butter), they are so crisp and layers
    separate, in crisp flakiness

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    don’t know

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    always stuff growing here, waiting it’s turn

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    both. why/whynot
    truth is, i don’t have a lot of empty hours.

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    maybe you make it Up? i’m not sure which cloths you are
    referring to. The only one that i would say is Mine is
    that one the other day that i said i’d finish for alyssia.
    All the rest could be anyone’s, if they wanted them.
    this particular figure that’s in my mind is not like the
    old ones. they had armatures. Had carved faces.
    this one is a more primitive cloth figure with Raggedy Ann
    like limbs. It could sit on the futon with me. Or go outside
    and sit on a rock. But then it would fall off because it
    would be floppy.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    I stopped making them between 2000 and 2005. Stopped because
    my life at that time with the person i was married to did not
    allow for any creative thought. It was not a good time. It was
    survival.
    Then after his death, i would once in a while work with them
    again but i really needed Context for them. Needed or maybe
    just wanted them to have a world to Be in. There was a while when
    i worked to make them “dioramas”, but that was too complex
    to accomodate shipping.
    THEN i lucked upon Spirit Cloth….i could make them on/with cloth!!!!! I was ecstatic and learning the clothmaking was beyond anything i could have ever imagined.
    so, what’s going on now, i just don’t know.

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