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From Deb Lacativa.    She said she couldn't cut them,  or,  didn't know how she might cut them,  and so Use them.  So she sent them to me.  I look.  How might i possibly Cut one?,  Use one?  

Deb is a Wizard.  Deb is what,  Deb is an intuitive dyer.  Her cloths are of the most magic and elegant forms in the Universe.  The Glow,  they Shine,  they Hummm of Deep things of the Planet.   And they are never the same.  Just as the Universe is evolving,  so too,  her Cloth.

 

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She dyes thread.  THIS.  This may just stay here.  On the altar.  

 

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This is how the wood box should look every evening.  It rarely does.  or,  so far,  it rarely does.  Maybe things are different now.  But Tay and i worked and here it is.  So, ok.

 

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and mid day,  i began with the Inktense Pencils.   In the "Black Book".   Not the greatest paper for what they are,  but good enough.   Looking at the "lead" or the bottom of the pencils which one might guess represents the color,  is useless.  It's not at all what shows up with use.   So i do this.  Will give me a sense of their colors,  tho it will be very different on cloth.  But the doing of it was extremely satisfying,  pleasurable,  joyfull,  happy

which leads to the real sense of the day and the word Semantics.

I used to so much love language.  When i imagined myself being able to be a Writer.  I loved words,  how words linked together to form Beauty.  I spent long times in a dreamland of language.  And then suddenly it went away and i just wanted the most spare of things.  The word    Stuff   became a favorite.  

but/and today,  as i was walking back to the faucet after filling the Way Back tub with water,  my Self Mind said "aloud",  i am really Happy.   I noted.   

I am really happy.

How can this be?   this 

really happy.   ????

But i WAS.   In that moment.   Without anything,  i was really happy.  I was walking slowly back to the faucet,  having filled the water tub.   The Goats were chewing their morning alfalfa,  i could hear the sounds of their chewing.  There was Sun.  It wasn't warm yet,  but it also was not Cold.  My hood was up from the sweatshirt.  I had my gloves on.  They were sheltering my hands.  The Fire was burning inside.  There is plenty of wood.  The day was Opening Out.  and right away, then

i thought of Fate.  I thought of how i don't know anything about how it is for him in that moment.

and I thought about this thought.   And there was an unidentifiable sense.  Somehow,  Everything had the same

weight

i don't know another way to say it right now.  But,  Everything had the SAME WEIGHT.  Nothing pulled down.  Nothing rose up.  All.  All was the same.

so maybe this is a clue for what i am trying to understand?

I think of the words Happiness,  Joy,  Pleasure,  and then i immediately set them against/with

sad

But maybe

Everything has the same weight.

 

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18 responses to “semantics”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    that sweet space in between

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  2. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    A full life….and all that comes with it!! As beautiful and unpredictable as the dyed cloth….the weather….the friends we gain and loose…..a FULL life beautiful and unpredictable!

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  3. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    Grace, you are a writer. you show up every single day and carry others along with your words. true words. the finest kind of writer.

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  4. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Draping the day…that is what I feel as I look at Deb’s beautiful cloths on your futon. They are so fine just as they are, draped there, bringing sky and earth together because those colors speak to me of both. I think at the end of the day, to sit and drape the cloth around myself, for a moment and soak up what the day brought, would be like a prayer unfolding.

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  5. Simone Avatar

    sigh beautiful read!

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  6. kathy dorfer Avatar
    kathy dorfer

    just being in the moment is my mantra and doing this is hardest challenge i have . reading your words are a beautiful reminder .

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  7. Wendy @ the Late Start Studio Avatar

    Those moments of clarity . . . of knowing what you know and what you don’t . . . yes, and knowing the weight of things and even the weight of spaces between them . . . yes, that’s happy even if some of the knowing is not as you’d have it.

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  8. grace Avatar

    sometimes it is very small

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  9. grace Avatar

    unpredictable, yes, and also, Real.

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  10. grace Avatar

    well…i put words here. But it’s different than what i’d
    once imagined…

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  11. grace Avatar

    i am going to do this. Drape those cloths around me. Tonight.

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  12. grace Avatar

    Simone….your name is like a sigh, Simone…..

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  13. grace Avatar

    it’s the BIG challenge. There is EveryThing
    in the moment
    how to stay still
    how to See

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  14. grace Avatar

    yes….the weight of the spaces between
    it All is elegantly same

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  15. saskia Avatar

    Every thing has the same weight. Yes Grace….I do believe this to be absolutely true . It doesn’t always feel like that. True nonetheless

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  16. grace Avatar

    am continuing to try to find better words for this thought
    because i too believe it is true.
    will continue.

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  17. Liz Avatar

    I have been away for a week and have been reading backwards through your blog because I didn’t have the sense to start where I left off. And then I realized that it is another way to see and I like that very much.

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  18. grace Avatar

    yes…for me to go backwards with you, yes….and it’s in its way
    even More, the going backwards
    thank you for saying this

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