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how the days are feeling Round

how they are beginning to feel like they have no edges,  but just this Roundness,  no corners,  not pointed but Round,  rolling into Night and then out again into Day

it takes Time to experience this.

Today,  this day,  rain off and on and overcast,  there being chill to things for the first time so i did things in keeping with that chill,  sealing windows,  closing down the swamp cooler.  Thinking about wool socks.  Rolling with Round Days

 

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Over at Spirit Cloth,  Jude is circling round and i spent time just being with the Magic Diaries Cloth,  just small parts of it that held my eyes,  my heart…asking self what it is about these particular parts that hold me now….how i might Go from or because of one of them

Just NOW!…like NOW! as i am here typing this,  the SUN breaks through in the end of this Day and is brilliant and the Goats explode out of their rain shelters…..

There is such Love to it all

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24 responses to “how the days are feeling Round”

  1. me-ml Avatar
    me-ml

    Roundness! I think we females have to embrace Roundness to survive! (and thrive)
    and something i’ve found interesting that seems connected to that..
    the men i’ve shared a link to the Fazey Ford above, have had no comment! I think whatever THAT is about is what i’m speaking of.. so much ‘Roundness’ !
    ..am feeling love here too! just for being able to be. X -ml

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  2. grace Avatar
    grace

    marylou…Thank YOU for commenting on Frazey Ford….you are the first to’
    do that and i Thank YOU for it so much and yes, it’s the Roundness, her
    roundness of Self and the roundness of the music and words going Round
    and i imagine her here, and i imagine them, her and them as my imaginary friends here we are round and we make round movements, round sound like
    the dryer in the laundromat goes round and how we are women with Thighs
    how they are like the Whiptail Lizards and even if there is a man in our
    lives, they need to learn Roundness, because Round Rules.
    i love you, mary lou. Thank You

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  3. Dana Avatar
    Dana

    What beautiful details are catching your eye! What satisfying roundnesses.

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  4. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes…roundness rolls and roundness rules

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  5. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    singin me and my Arrow

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  6. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Round and round—I LOVE roundness…and all the closeups of your work here are evidence of your own special archetype development over time. I still, and always will, marvel at your kantha work.
    did you see Judy’s archetypes? http://judys-journal.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-archetypes.html
    How wonderful that last image of the goats bursting out of their shelters.
    I’ve been so ill and I can only hope that the sun tomorrow will see me bursting out of my space and back into the world

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  7. jude Avatar
    jude

    and at just about the same time, the sun burst forth here.

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  8. .cynthia Avatar
    .cynthia

    Round and round and round we spin,
    To weave a wall to hem us in,
    It won’t be long.
    It won’t be long.
    How slow and slow and slow it goes,
    To mend the tear that always shows.
    It won’t be long.
    It won’t be long…
    .. this song .is what filled my head ..with your images….with your words..and then i clicked on frazey ford..again and again..how nice to begin this new week with new music in my head..many thank yous..gentle day grace

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  9. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Roundness is comfort and after all that has gone on, I think this settling into the space left now by having more time, is a time of slowly coming back to yourself. Your life has been a very filled appointment book, the diary of your days filled with the doing for others, now some of that has smoothed out so it makes sense that you would go to your Magic Diaries cloth and touch, feel, see, take in certain stages of it and think of the next pages…

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  10. Patricia Spangler Avatar
    Patricia Spangler

    love Love LOVE seeing your kantha stitching. embracing. comforting. and the color palette in these pics–with the sunlight–i’m swooning here.

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  11. beth Avatar
    beth

    What a visual feast in this magic cloth. The orb with the dark woven parts is just so incredibly beautiful. I can’t stop looking at it. Sun broke through here yesterday afternoon as well. So welcome.

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  12. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    Round is a flavor, too … a soft red wine or a fruity olive oil come to mind.
    I especially love the blue sunflower in the first photo …

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  13. Martine Bos Avatar
    Martine Bos

    Round rules………..
    thank you for that Grace, just what i needed………..

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  14. yvette Avatar
    yvette

    not the pointyvdicipline but the soft round caring curves
    yes

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  15. grace Avatar
    grace

    singing

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    i didn’t know you were ill…thought it was a cold, but ILL
    oh and eeeee
    i thought since you were not on Ms. that you were gone somewhere
    grand and would tell us
    but no
    you have been sick….
    oh and love to the sick you

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    it’s stunning…that SUN
    bursting forth

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    your song, i don’t know it….to mend the tear that always shows
    i don’t know this one but it has the magic of a spell….
    Frazey
    what a beauty FULL and oh so Fine Woman and though it might seem
    to be directed to a love gone wrong, in an interview with her someone commented that it is the Anthem for Calling it Quits…
    and it IS
    i am so far gone from it being to me about a love thing, but i watch it over and over because i love WOMEN. I love their resilience when they DECIDE. I love their greatness in their roundness and their fecund Beauty and their ability to make more human beings and only they can and how i love them for hoping they don’t make too many and the ones they DO make for whatever reason and how just so Beautiful Women ARE…how MAGIC it is to be a woman and her Roundness and her two friends who i imagine
    here as imaginal friends, moving with me even tho i am no longer round at all, but i can remember being Round and so so FULL of myself

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  19. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes.. Yes. going to the Magic Diaries Cloth. what it Was/Is.

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  20. grace Avatar
    grace

    the stitching here had a lot to do with the Cloth that was
    involved
    it was Used and Worn and soft

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  21. grace Avatar
    grace

    that woven piece….woven, like Jude taught

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  22. grace Avatar
    grace

    the flower, from a thrift shop men’s shirt

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  23. grace Avatar
    grace

    Round does Rule
    i am Glad it made sense to you, Glad
    and it does, Round, it does Rule

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  24. grace Avatar
    grace

    soft, round, caring, curving, circling back and in, yes, it
    is Goodness and Love

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