even though today was a work away day,   the sense of Round prevailed.    When i got back,  there wasn't a LINE,  but just a nap and then more roundness.

 

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things like this.  3 views of Tay's digging of something,  she does nothing with the digging,  just digs it.  There are several of these around but this one is in the House yard.  So in keeping with a Round Feeling,  i filled it in.  Some.   Not totally.  Thinking to leave a depression to plant something in next spring.  But the point was/is  that instead of just seeing it and walking by,  i stopped.  Stopped and took some moments to change it.   

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another example…the walkway that is made of flat pices of slate and sandstone…

sometime earlier in this circle of season i'd pulled weeds and thrown them there,  thinking to gather them up and put them in the burn pile.  This is just a short distance from the porch steps and Dear Chinche has liked peeing on them.  Not far go go and somehow a good place she thinks.  So i have walked over this flat piled peed on weeds for the whole summer now.   Everytime thinking, Move It,

but i didn't.

Today i did.  Rain and soon some snow will wash the dirt off the stone and it will be a walkway again. These are such small things,  but there are MANY of them…just small things that have gone noticed but undone.  I have only done things Required for Real Going.  I have gathered up dog shit.  I have given Water to all.  I have raked out the Albatros that is the Doe Goats Sleeping Place.  I have kept fencing strong.   I guess that's it.  But none of these small things that are small Housekeepings,  that are small round things.  And the pleasure and satisfaction of doing just those two things is just Fine.

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I see that even though there has been more Water From the Sky this year than Before,  we are moving fast into the Winter months.  Things are dry and letting go.  Not what i would have expected.  So i am watching this.  Wondering.

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I had the thought to put Maria's cloth on the wall like this.  NOT in pocket form but as it was when it arrived from her.  

This is how it is for me with plant dyed cloth.  It being impossible to use it as i would other cloth…the marks of the plants and their company being just So Much in and of themselves.  So i had thought to make it a pocket which would allow the images of the cloth itself BE.  Not be obscured by stuff.   And then too,  i always am thinking about what is good or not about Cloth making,  as in UseFull…a pocket might be usefull?  Where just something of Beauty might not be considered so?

 

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i LOVE those black marks.  Just LOVE them and they  are Usefull to me.   They feed me.

So since Tina wanted this LizardMoon,  i will let her decide.  How does she want it?…as a Pocket??? or Like this.

 

 

 

 

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20 responses to “Round rolls slow”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    such a well rounded day, Tay helping make holes for new plants, time for the extra bits that need attention in the garden & good thoughts re not interfering with the integrity of the marks in plant dyed cloth (have been wrestling about exactly that all weekend & you got it!) I love the Lizard Moon both as a long cloth & a pouch… maybe there’s a way it can be both with some strings (or perhaps buttons) tied to a pouch shaped lining…

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  2. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Just finished watching Auroville EcoVillage–thought of you.
    1. https://youtu.be/C1h6Pg2Rbgo
    2.https://youtu.be/XWToDMn01c0
    I should have been asleep….but…..well, I went out for the first time in many many sick days to a Zen sitting even though I was late. I went because a voice said go no matter what time…surprised by the whole community present and one of the monks birthday celebration. It took forever to walk home oh, so slowly…noticing everything, being grateful.
    I think it would make a lovely purse with the beautiful cloth folded so back and front are the whole thing showing. It is beautiful as is too

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  3. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Yes I do like the idea of the pocket with …yes that AMAZING piece of gifts from nature beautified cloth showing itself on both sides. And dear Grace I know just what you mean when you say it’s all the little things that need doing….oh I know just what you are talking about. Sending Happy BLESSINGS!!

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  4. .cynthia Avatar
    .cynthia

    oh it was actually long ago that song..1969 i think..because of the memories that come up along side it..neil young.it seemed as if it was everywhere and it got into your head..that kind of song…
    How the hours will bend
    through the time that you spend
    till you turn to your eyes,
    And you see your best friend
    looking over the end
    and you turn to see why,
    And he looks in your eyes and he cries.
    ..we walked on the moon that year and woodstock happened and nixon was the president and the stonewall riots happened..and i was in berkeley finishing up school while the man i married later that year was driving the al can highway..not yet paved on a motorcycle..round and round indeed..
    the black marks are beautiful.. that the cloth is in your hands ..so right..that it feeds you….and by extension so many of us..that seems like useful beauty right there
    gentle day grace

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  5. .cynthia Avatar
    .cynthia

    oh..take care ..hope you may rest well and feel better ..gentle day to you

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  6. debbie.weaver Avatar

    I have trouble with my planted dyed and rusted cloths, what to do, they have so much integrity in themselves but gradually they reveal what they need over time.
    I love where you have placed the lizard, it seems so right.

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  7. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    The final decision is always and should always be up to the artist. Wherever this cloth takes you Grace will be just fine with me.

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  8. handstories Avatar

    YOU seem so rounded these days, so full.
    This is a cloth to love, how plant dyed cloths become a whole world in themselves is an amazing thing.

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  9. Martine Bos Avatar

    This is such an interesting conversation about things that need be done and the integrity of plant dyed cloth,
    I really love that different minds all over the planet are thinking about the same things………. the stories in cloth……..
    Hopefully i can take that with me in my dreams…….

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  10. Chris Loverseed Avatar

    Great pictures by the way

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  11. grace Avatar

    there probably IS a way, but that would complicate it and it
    so MUCH speaks of Simplicity., of Plain ness.

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  12. grace Avatar

    that noticing everything and being grateful…
    it’s excruciating, really

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  13. grace Avatar

    it’s the little things, the things that can be ignored, but
    not disappeared
    how they call in small voices
    and how GOOD, G O O D it feels to attend to them…
    Housekeeping.

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  14. grace Avatar

    you are writing like you do again and i EAT it and am nourished,
    by how you write when you are feeling like your Self and are just letting it Come
    Out
    and then continue to come Out
    I LOVE YOU, Cynthia

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  15. grace Avatar

    and you give love to them with found objects, which is different
    than stitching INTO them
    i cannot stitch into them…cover even the most subtle of mark

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  16. grace Avatar

    we are back to where we began. and how it is that it is always
    the case it seems, that the original instinct is the one….

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  17. grace Avatar

    am looking for round.
    looking for how to let Round be
    and yes. Maria’s cloth…just so so elegant

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  18. grace Avatar

    isn’t that SOMETHING?????…how we are thinking about how plants
    mark cloth???? It is just amazing. Just Grand.

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  19. grace Avatar

    Hey Chris Lseed….Hey, thank you and they say more than
    words, yes?

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  20. Mo Crow Avatar

    (((Grace))) circling how your words go straight as an arrow to the heart of the matter

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