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small day, an arc over Night

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what if i put stars?????  Jude's thread beads…stars??????????????

 

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and then, of course,  stars have a Moon.   The moon and Sun here are from Saskia.

 

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what does this look like?   That 70 person making her way

 

Terri Windling wrote on Dec. 4th blog post about Elizabeth Gilbert's new book….Big Magic.  She really likes it.  Elizabeth Gilbert of Eat PrayLove  which i never read,  but how she talks about Big Magic….well….

she writes about the poet Jack Gilbert,  how he told his students  "they must live their most creative lives as a means of fighting back against the ruthless furnace of this world"  creative meaning Making.  Making absolutely anything and everything…Making.  Making what's in you to Make.  ok.

ruthless furness and i thought from those two words about the Gmail News that i have.  I thought how so many have TV,  Television…what a funny word,  sounding archaic,  Television,  but TV,  maybe flat screen,  TV in their HOME,  how it might be to have TV in my home and i recoil……..how it must be to have the  flashing images of Stuff happening which really IS a ruthless furnace….to have that thing visually in my Home…i would be insane.  I would become pulp.

so thinking

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i light the fire

 

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dogs curl

 

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keep adding till it's HOT.  Cat on the bed,  waiting.  And finally,  i let go of this day and go lie down between the sheets,  under the covers,  i think about the Loving Kindness,  Metta meditation,  May i be safe.

safe.  fire is burning and will go into the hours of the night,  will burn out before morning but still those moments small in comparison when it's cold and i relight the fire and it burns again into a new day.

How Crazy this world is.  How Crazy this country is,  this country where i live…crazy crazy  stupid but so ok…it's the time i live in.  So i build my fire.  I make stuff.  ok.

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24 responses to “small day, an arc over Night”

  1. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    Oh, that 70 person … how perfect in the circle. I like this a lot!

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  2. julie Avatar
    julie

    There are TV channels that are just burning fires. Go figure.
    I am home now. And thank you, Grace, for the candles. Tonight there are three (two nights, one doing the lighting).

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Today was muddled through and then a return to the writing group which has dwindled from 12 to our current 4. The prompt from Haruki Murakami; “Inside our heads–at least that’s where I imagine it–there’s a little room where we store these memories. A room like stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you’ll live forever in your own private library.” We have ten minutes…I write”
    My very own dream space–skates and skating eights around the rink, that parakeet surprise, the sand in my shoes and the smell of the ocean, the taste of salt water taffy, the endless cloud shapes becoming animals, the animals who curled into nooks and crannies of my life. All there/here in the folds of my brain just a synapse away–a spark ignites a reference like the phone ringing, like the sting of a bee might just be the key to open that vault and bring the whole catalog out for review: Suddenly it’s 1968. A door opens into a room suffused with the scent of Patchouli.
    I am lighting my fires when I write…defending myself against the furnace of the world which burns on with or without me….and I look at your night cradle, your fire, your beasties and feel warmed.

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  4. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    stars & a moon for the seventy person to be with…lots of love for that & your mother night blue.
    I read “Big Magic”, appreciated her ideas of being with & owning your creativity & that it’s work, too, we have responsibility in the tending of it.

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  5. grace Avatar
    grace

    did you like it as much as Terri seems to????

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  6. NancyK Avatar
    NancyK

    70
    seventy
    how glorious
    in the present
    you are
    love the drawings, love the ink pencils
    onward one with wisdom
    onward

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  7. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    seems I can’t post here which is all for the best I said more than enough about this book over on Terri’s post, love the new piece!

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  8. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    & re TV, haven’t lived in a house with a television since I left my parent’s in 1973!

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  9. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    overall, I LIKED it, loved moments. a very fast read, glad the library had it. I think I was expecting something else, not sure what?

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  10. Martine Bos Avatar
    Martine Bos

    Yes……make the stars, and the moon and the sun and light the fire…….
    Our crazy world needs all this…….

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  11. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    beautiful cloth grace. . .working with 70. . . . .I am working with rejecting nothing these days. . . . .that includes TV. we have it yet are very selective. because there are stories there which weave with our own. . .and because it is so very hard to imagine the things we hear about. . .because we work to understand where so much of the confusion and chaos comes from. and because we can turn it off. as well.

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  12. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    yes Jan that’s how I feel as well re TV. We have a small one and I watch our PBS channels because I am an anglophile and no one does drama like the British plus I watch news as well. We don’t have any cable channels so PBS is invaluable: PBS News Hour, Democracy Now, BBC America, New Mexico in Focus, etc. are all important to me especially when I want to go beyond what I read on the internet. It is my window also into the political, economic and cultural happenings of New Mexico.

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  13. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    I agree with you on PBS and BBC America. . .we do have cable news but I mostly listen to the GPS program on Sunday morning. . .Fareed Zakaria does a concise view of the week and assembles more balanced panels of people, as well as individuals, to discuss or shed light on things. thanks for sharing.

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    i’d like to put her in it. Not sure if that’s possible

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  15. grace Avatar
    grace

    you are back Home. Yes. I like it that you are back Home
    and candles…yes i know…..
    have a blessed Hanukkah.
    My children’s father’s father’s father was Max Zimmerblum. Well
    they gave him the Zimmerblum when he came through Ellis Island.
    I had the opportunity a few times of sitting with him back when
    i was just a teen ager, the Girlfriend of his grandson, and he told me stories of making his way across Europe….from Latvia.
    Making his way to New York City and finding Jenny Fox who my
    daughter is named for. How so beauty full and oh just everything she was to him. How so beauty full and everything his life in New York City was. He was small and had brilliant
    sparkling eyes. Max. I wanted to name my son Max. It didn’t happen. instead we named my son’s cat Max.
    I have a candle lit here…just one….for all of Us, all our
    deep traditions that strengthen the Web.
    Again, i am happy you are Home…LOVE to you

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    change the water in the flower vases.
    and just a synapse away…it is, isn’t it….the spark does
    ignite.
    we work, here, we work to keep ourSelves. Just as you do
    in that vast and amazing world you live in

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    i am ALWAYS expecting something else, just like with movies
    back in the day when i went to them….nothing is ever quite
    how Grand i hope it will be…
    but i’m glad you liked it and will ask, but pretty sure our
    library won’t have it so might order it to read and then share
    with granddaughter
    Thank you

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes….Onward is where It’s At

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  19. grace Avatar
    grace

    read your words at Terri’s and will read again and wasn’t
    surprised by your fierceness but still…..
    her thoughts might be good for me, good for granddaughter as
    she raises two young ones

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  20. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes…make the world here on Cloth and fire to keep us
    The Craziness can look and know that we will not remain
    flattened

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  21. grace Avatar
    grace

    that thing of push nothing away, pull nothing toward
    and i know there are good things….
    and i honor you for looking at things hard to imagine, working
    to understand
    but i am so sensitive to visual image, i don’t know

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  22. grace Avatar
    grace

    a window
    it IS a window

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  23. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    think I was wanting More, especially looking at the size & price, so again, glad for the library. I think it felt like a long talk, which was fine, just wanted it to go further. giving it to a younger soul, granddaughter, is a very fine idea. I think I would have felt fuller way back when.

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  24. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    I think you know where to focus your energy. . .what is right for you. I keep thinking we’ll give it up. . .we talk about it, my son and I. . .but there are so many things we turn to it for that it doesn’t seem right to do for us. . .the other part of it is that I sort of dream the images so it helps to know where it’s happening. . .it slows down what I dream and helps to order it, love

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