What might this day be like,  if i were free of current obligations?????

Try it.   What might i feel like doing with this totally Available day??????

A mouse was on the counter again last night,  enjoying my saltine crackers through the wrapper.  Where to PUT them?,  so cleaning out the middle cupboard shelf.  Washing dishes i NEVER use, and stacking them,  two casserole dishes with lids, too,    nice, but i Never use them and  took them over to the across the road neighbor Margie to keep or give away.  Bread and crackers can go on that shelf.  Then suddenly,  i was cleaning,…vacuuming.  All kinds of things,  the shelves,  the books on the shelves, the inside window frames,  corners, behinds and unders.  The big pillows on the futon couch,  Tay's crate.

All the while going back and forth to the BeautyFull skirt almost cutting it multiple times but always Not and then rifling through some baskets….

WHAT IF????????????????????

Then,  thinking about the post on Spirit Cloth,  Jude being advised to protect her Art…..

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from one of the Workshops…maybe Cloth to Cloth…i went crazy in love with this little weave she did and she sent it to me.

 

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it became and remains my Altar Cloth…moved here just for this pic.

It is so so simple,  but though i have similar scraps and tho i have some even scraps From her,  i CANNOT,  REALLY CANNOT RECREATE THIS.  I tried.  to see exactly What IT is that makes it so Alive….and what i came to understand makes it so Alive is 

her hand.

 

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so i am looking for something,  i don't even remember what,  but it doesn't matter because this is Leisure

and i find this.   From just before i left Michigan.  The lizard said "Go".

 

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fooled with the pic because there was Leisure

 

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from the baskets,  these three

 

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a gift from some time back that i haven't seen for so long so it felt like a gift Again

 

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tweeked so you can see the SunBurst

 

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and out of no where i began to feel my Mind and my Brain holding hands and Imagining Something that i had never "seen"….maybe not a pouch thing at all because then everything would fall to the bottom,  but what about like a folder…these three attached to one another but separate?????  WHAT??????

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so thought to find some things that would go In this knapsack or whatever it is and try to imagine them In Side

 

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What If i don't NEED all that Space????

 

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?????????????????  

 

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and because it was a Leisure Day,  i let it all GO and just layed back on the futon couch and watched the Altar,  being amazed by having  such totally spontaneously NEW and FROM NOWHERE thoughts that very clearly Want to Become but i have no clue HOW yet????,  but it FEELS good.  There is a Feeling to it,  in my "head"….the Mind/Brain,  holding hands.

 

 

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22 responses to “Pretending leisure. then Leisure happened.”

  1. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    happy feet at the end of the day! your pictures are so. . .?. . .I don’t have the words. . .but you appreciate the world you make there Grace, and I can’t imagine you ever forgetting that. It is a habit. . .a practice. . .a meditation. you remind us all to look at our own world that way.

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  2. Dana Avatar

    I can feel everything speaking to you, each in its own way and time. I love the glimpse into the beginnings of something…holding hands.

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  4. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    How very nice to play and ‘what if’, to just let the mind and eye wander and then to lie back and let it all go…..a sand mandala day!

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  5. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    The folded cloths with your joys on top got me to thinking about how cloth has been used to bundle one’s possessions when taking to the road, the hobo knapsack; that thought led me to Tay and her favorite stick and that led me to thinking of how you could find a favorite stick, place your joys in whatever cloth(s) you loved and tie each corner of the cloth to the stick, the 4 directions; each time a corner was undone, a joy would be revealed…

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  6. Yvette Avatar

    Holding hands
    So important
    Felt them while away from THE www

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  7. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Such a heartfelt post …..welcoming me back….gosh reading your words…eyeing your photos…..YES!!! I am very happy to be back.

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  8. Martine Bos Avatar

    Cleaning the whole house you call leisure time?
    Well i’m really happy you ended up with your feet in the air thinking some good thoughts…………

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  9. LAB Avatar
    LAB

    Loved your creative post. Just thinking… about the mice eating your crackers. I take all of my crackers out of their plastic packets and put them in glass jars or casseroles with lids to keep all mice and varmints out. Haven’t had a mouse yet that could figure out how to take the lids off. Sorry you gave the casseroles with lids away when you have such a good use for them. Also, Mason jars with lids are my favorite mouse and insect thwarting device for crackers, grains, etc.
    A day of leisure is always a treasure, although yours sounds like you got more accomplished than most people in a day of work.
    And I LOVE your advice to just go with “what if?”

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  10. grace Avatar

    it IS
    a practice….and i work to KEEP it so

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  11. grace Avatar

    yes, soft, yes…the holding hands

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  12. grace Avatar

    Vonnegut/Billy Pilgrim

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  13. grace Avatar

    Jude’s What If….yes….to open to it

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  14. grace Avatar

    yes…what i was meaning with the image of the Fool in the
    Tarot deck
    but i don’t know here….i don’t know yet….waiting

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  15. grace Avatar

    Hey Yvette
    Holding Hands….

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  16. grace Avatar

    Tina…thank you for Coming Back….where ever you might have been

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  17. grace Avatar

    it is. Ordinarily, there is Little Time and i always give it to the Out Side and to Cloth Making
    but i love this space when it is Light and Floating, which means
    free of the layer of Dust
    so to feel there is Time Enough, i will always probably Clean the Space….like
    Clearing crystals

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  18. grace Avatar

    oh….Was just thinking of YOU! like thinking where you might BE?
    and how you haven’t been Here and was it something i said or did not say, do or did not do? Or are you just
    Gone
    but here you are and YES…jars with lids.
    But i really COULD have used that casserole dish, the retangle one, with the lid….never thought of it that way…..
    What If is from Jude

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  19. LAB Avatar
    LAB

    I am Here, just more of a quiet visitor who comes to enjoy the inspiration…so glad you shared your pretending leisure/leisure day and Jude’s What If.

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  20. grace Avatar

    I’m Glad. you have meaning to me. A Witness to it. She who
    Watches.

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  21. LAB Avatar
    LAB

    And you have meaning to me. You with your complex and amazingly creative, simple, industrious, animal (I just love the challenging, sweet Tay who has found a loving home) and people caring life.
    Life IS Good and I appreciate someone who appreciates that.
    My life is very different and very much the same.

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  22. grace Avatar

    so.
    Here we are.
    and yes. Our Lives are Good. We
    are Good
    and trying
    and there is
    MEANING.
    it’s the MEANING that i look for and take
    as sustenance We Feed each other
    Love,

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