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here the scraps of Mother Night are most clearly seen

 

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here, the Threads of a Winter Sun.  Neither is how it is to the naked eye.   Naked Eye can see both, easily.  Camera can not.    And it struck me today,  looking,  how really,  well,  Beauty Full this picture is and it surprised me.  For someone who has had so many feelings about Winter,  what this Cloth has become is really BeautyFull….limited by Time,  but Beauty Full.  And i am letting self feel that.  

Cloth teaches.

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This will be January,  most likely.  The pic at around noon.  The rest of the day,  just More.  It never stopped.   It's dark now and it never stopped.   They had to run,  against their own natures OUT into it to eat this evening.  This is so hard for me and why i wasn't  "made" to be a Goatherd.  SO many feelings about them and for them,  hard.  They are so unsure of Everything.   I can't make it different.

the snow blew from the East for whatever reason and tho i had done what i thought i could,  still,  Gideon and Flash's space had snow except for the imprints of their bodies.   Travis just called,  just now,  is back from Oklahoma and he and Rebecca and young Zarek will come tomorrow and we will  do Something to correct this.   We will do something.   I Ache for them,  Out there.  I know it isn't necessary,  but i do.  I can't change that about myself.    or…..can I?   

 

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an index card hung on fishing line over the kitchen sink…says ……Drip

 

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to help me remember to let the water drip for the night….it will be in single digit temp,  the pipes freeze.  Drip keeps us OK.

WINTER has been a challenge for humankind since forever.  No different today.  There are casualties.  and i realize that i wanted to think in terms of Fiction,  because if my life were Fiction,  there very well might be casualties….they would be just part of the Story.   hmmmm.  interesting.

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22 responses to “more than i’d imagined”

  1. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Reading your post this evening makes me feel a bit selfish for being so very happy that here in Milwaukee we have had only rain no snow. I will be going to sleep soon but not before I say a few prayers that you all get through the night with warmth in your hearts and those pipes.

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  2. ² Avatar
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    hello Grace millions of water crystals lay down on your living place
    may your warm heart warm up the air arround you and keep the stove on
    greetz to you
    ps : you can make a snow flake cloth

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  3. deb lacativa Avatar

    It made me catch my breath all that white. I will always miss days on days of white stillness and all that goes with it. I may still go back up to NY in Feb. if there is some winter to visit.
    I had an old car, a 53 Chevy that got very stiff in the cold. We ran a droplight out across the yard and that single 75watt bulb snuggled up against the block at night was enough to keep it startable.

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  4. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Beautiful beautiful cloth
    Alarming and also beautiful whiteness out there and I SO understand feeling for the goats. All animal people feel like that. What a miracle that friends are coming to help make it better. Bless those friends, the goats, tay and Tazmeena and YOU……dear Grace, BLESS YOU.

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  5. NancyK Avatar

    am loving mother night
    silent night

    went out for a dance
    in the blue snow light
    beautiful holy night
    for we stitchers of stars

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  6. yvette Avatar

    Such a beautiful cloth. Telling the truth about what’s happening
    On the news it’s all fire.nrain and snow
    Maybe en ninjo but
    The goats Grace
    Sonhappy friends come to help you
    If i wasn’t disabled i came rightover
    Hired a solid camper and ask more people so we can make a circle of warmth and healing helping hands
    Well that is my dream for you
    The cloth tells it too
    Lovelovelove

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  7. Nanette Avatar

    Maybe you can change, but do you want to. I was out in torrential rain putting my chickens back in their pen, I could’ve stayed inside, dry and comfortable, they have shelter of sorts outside under a shrub which is under an overhang but I don’t want them huddled there, getting damp and cold, I want them IN, warm and dry, so that’s what we do to take good care of our flock, our herd.
    The cloth is splendid, it glows.

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  8. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Cradle of night cloth is holding so much more than the story of a 70 yr old woman who lives in a substation, what you used to call your home before the goats. It speaks to me of this moment in time, living in this white world, the landscape that greets both of us today. Your white thread beads falling like snowflakes from the winter sun. Landscape can be both outer and inner and Cradle of Night, Mother Night, has this quality of holding center in the story of this cloth even though there is also expansion because the thread garlands are not completely closed, there are openings and swirls and the story of our lives is like and asks do we have the courage to embrace the possibilities?
    You are gifted with words, you are gifted with the sight that speaks to us through your camera lens but most of all, you are gifted with cloth and thread for both fiction and non fiction reside in your cloths, gently and sometimes fiercely making us want to turn the page, see side B, wonder what comes next.If that is not spirit and magic story telling, I don’t know what is.

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  10. Dana Avatar

    Mother Night is indeed beauty full, as is your snowy yard. That dense flat grayness of more snow to come…truly a winter phenomenon. Isn’t fiction a recognition of all the possibilities latent in any situation? There is that what which is…like more snow, and there is that which could be…stories that arise from and embroider what is.

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  11. grace Avatar

    i love this
    “Isn’t fiction a recognition of all the possibilities latent in any situation?”
    YES!…what Is and what can be born From it.
    yes, so much and i am realizing that the desire for FICTION comes from the acceptance of what is, the surrender, and then HOW WE
    UNDERSTAND THAT SURRENDER…how we can let it be …..welllllll
    let it be more than our small understanding?????

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  12. grace Avatar

    and i am thinking that this is the desire for Fiction, that if things
    don’t go….OK….if they go Hard, for me, with the Goats, i could
    make something FROM it that would be Beauty Full for them in the Hardness???

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  13. grace Avatar

    it is just so Hard Out There
    and there is nothing i can Do

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  14. grace Avatar

    ah, no. Love the Ease of it. Another time it might be your turn.
    Love the Ease….
    and i so much Receive the prayer for hearts and pipes…

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  15. grace Avatar

    Maria…i saw snow fall on Tay’s fur in the form of small
    crystal flakes this morning, it was stunning and i felt
    grateful for it

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  16. grace Avatar

    if it were not for the Goats, all would be different. But
    Goats. it’s who and what we are, so we Live…..
    yes…that light bulb can keep chickens alive

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  17. grace Avatar

    well…it didn’t work out…the friends…but we are ok just the same. we are just ok.

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  18. grace Avatar

    it is., holy, all of it is. Holy.

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  19. grace Avatar

    your dream surrounds us and protects us. Dreams have
    Energy and your dream is Here

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  20. grace Avatar

    that….the question….do i want to? well, i think i can’t but i also think it is just ok….that symbiosis, is worth a LOT,
    is full of meaning and goodness…your chooks…
    shelter of sorts under a shrub but when you can give them more…
    the exchange is Great…the keeping of them, how they in turn
    KEEP us

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  21. grace Avatar

    do we have the Courage?.
    WHAT, really has
    Meaning?
    How do we want to learn Meaning?
    Is Hard ok?
    Can we find Ease
    within hard?

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