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in the spirit of the year of What If, What if i place a Personals Ad?

Old Goat woman seeking smart hermit with chickens.  Must have solid handy man skills.

What do you all think?

Ok.  that's enough of that for now.  I have things i want to do.  Today it was housekeeping in the ROOM.   Such a layer of dust.   

 

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so these are Cloths i've kept for one reason or another.  Will be looking at them for a while.  Looking at the particular small thing that makes them important to me.  Looking at similarities…what is it that appeals to me most in a Cloth?  and Why?  

 

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i think this is the Best Cloth i have ever made.   Why?   Am looking to know that answer.

 

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and i look at the Face….What if i use the Inktense Pencils ????  

 

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here they are a different way.  Couldn't leave them in their Tin.  But spread all over the table wasn't it either.  So will try this,  more organized,  as in color families,  but maybe.  Or maybe it's just going to be all over the table.  It's how i am.  Don't think that will change in a year or ever, really.

so

My BEST Wishes to All of Us,  the YouMeUs for a coming year of whatever it is that we feel the need to Give to the days as they go…for ourSelves and for humankind, the EarthBeing.  May we work with Love and Joyful hearts.

Again…i am so deeply grateful for this exchange here….for all who speak and all who are quiet.  I love you.  You are such an important part of my sense of this world.  Thank You.

 

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26 responses to “in the spirit of the year of What If, What if i place a Personals Ad?”

  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Re your best cloth: it has all of everything: the drawn face that is stitched, snippets of cloth that come to be placed, some of your choosing, I suspect many that simply make themselves known, your lizards, crows, thread wisps, Deb L’s moon glow cloth, colors of place, but most of all, this particular cloth is Windthread come to life.
    Today, this first day of the new year, I needed to dye cloth but I had no gleanings, no frozen leaves, flowers, or berries. My precious cauldron containing walnut dye is frozen, the dye looking like a giant round Popsicle. Still, I had onion skins and that amber color seemed to me to be a wonderful way to glow through this icy, gray, cold, still snow on the ground, day. My glass jar reflecting these amber cloths, continues the ritual that began 5 years ago to set my intentions re dye and cloth for the coming year. I don’t make new years resolutions but I do honor the cloth/land connection that has become so important to me by this ritual of the first day of the new year.

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  2. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    that wall is really something. . .so important to keep our work for ourselves as well. . .so grace, would you have to feed this hermit? I like that you specify he must be smart. . . . .happy new year to all

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  3. grace Avatar
    grace

    are we LUCKY? like really and totally LUCKY to love Cloth?
    to love what is recycled and to love what is
    at hand
    onion skins

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  4. Peggy Avatar
    Peggy

    Grace, your best cloth is lovely — all its parts connecting in balance. And your place looks so cozy and well-ordered, I love seeing the goats inside with you. Love wishes to you. xo

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  5. Nanette Avatar
    Nanette

    A personals ad did the rounds here a few years ago, perhaps there too?…”Man seeking woman with boat, please send photo of boat”. Perhaps you could adapt your ad to say ‘please send photo of chickens’. I think he has to be quiet too, or maybe that goes without saying for a hermit?
    Love your cloth wall.

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  6. Kim Avatar
    Kim

    I’ve been one of the quiet ones for a few years now. It was the cloth that drew me in but the way you write kept me coming back. The way you tell your story…. the respect you have for the land… the love you have for the people and animals in your life… the quiet way you just keep going. Never judging others… just accepting that everything is as it is meant to be. The Best Cloth is the best because it has all of this and more. Thank you for being here and may this new year be kind to you and yours.

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  7. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Well, you seem to have decided the someone should be a man, and with chickens. nice. I wonder if it ever gets posted (ha)
    Yes that wall of cloths. A satisfying sight I’d think. As for your ‘best’ well, it’s the detail. A lot of detail.
    Thank you too for making this meeting place. I get a great deal of comfort just from knowing it’s here. I also get so MUCH MUCH more I can’t really put into words.
    On the Eve- http://zencare.org/new-years-eve-sit-2/ -I was at the Zendo for some wisdom words, and the 108 times sounding of the bowl (bell)…then each of about a hundred of us also struck the bowl, then sweets and such. Today a new years chanting at Tibet House 108 times “The Hanuman Chalisa” with various singers and musicians in call and response” Thy were there from 8AM to 8ishPM (I was there from 2 to the end)-it was live streamed and is still available (don’t know how long) https://youtu.be/QP1CKes1ps0

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  8. debbie.weaver Avatar
    debbie.weaver

    Grace a good new year to you and yours, I love the cloth connection between us all. Kim may be one of the quiet ones but she speaks words of wisdom when she writes, I think she covers everything I would want to say.
    I got some inktense pencils for christmas but haven’t tried them out yet.

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  9. beth Avatar
    beth

    A personal ad might fall under the category of be careful what you wish for.

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  10. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    love how all the cloths hold your sense of place and time
    & re placing your ad, reality can be stranger than fiction, an artist friend in her 70’s recently retired from teaching ran into her high school science teacher, the man who had inspired her to become a teacher they have fallen in love over half a century later!

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  11. Cathy Avatar
    Cathy

    Grace, I am feeling like Beth does about the personal ad. Just please, if you do post, beware and then BE WARY. There are so many kooks out there, and I am not talking about the good ones.

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    it’s ok, Cathy, don’t worry. I would never do that.
    it was just a What If that made me smile and in it’s own
    way clarified for me what i need….like No One. I need
    No One. i just need to sit tight through January and
    learn more how to do what i already do, but better. Also
    talked to Robin, the woman who moved here from Texas to
    work on the Mustang Project. She just got a new job and
    is in training for that, but is interested in coming maybe
    once a month to help me do the stuff that needs two people.
    This will work. Breathe Free. Stuff’s ok.
    Love for your concern….
    i spent some years with someone who could do Anything and
    also became a nightmare. DONE with that karma.

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  13. grace Avatar
    grace

    i would never. but it was a fun thought.

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  14. Bev Avatar
    Bev

    I had to smile as I spent yesterday dusting the room I like to work in.
    love seeing your wall of cloths, each a different world of it’s own
    i was very happy how the inktense worked on plain canvas, i’m ready to try more things that way
    i love your best cloth

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  15. Wendy @ the Late Start Studio Avatar
    Wendy @ the Late Start Studio

    Oh, catching up through snow and all! I wrote a great long response on chooks and men and then deleted it because it ended up too personal (for me) and now . . . well, chooks. They’re lovely and mean and cuddly and gentle and vicious to each other, they give and take . . . like men really. Unless, unless you find ones that are just right for you. They’re work that you may not want. Do I mean men or chooks (here in New Zealand too) or both . . . yes, both.
    And your wall is a Wonder . . . there is one, far left and centre that intrigues me. I didin’t follow you blog when you made it so I don’t know what your thinking is but I’m a little in love with it I think.

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    the Ink tense is exciting for me too…Very much

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    bummer. you know how i like “personal”…it’s real. Oh well,
    yes chooks. I continue to entertain the thought. In the middle of the night last night, when…often stuff Comes, i though about how they might really LIKE the newborn lizards, as in snap them up…. would i be willing to take this chance? Would the newborn lizards be wary enough ??????
    Chickens, someone i know said, are like one step away from prehistoric reptiles. that thought has stuck in my mind’s eye.
    Everything that we love has that Front and that Back.
    the Cloth that i think you refer to….about the Magic that the Summer Electrical Storms cause to Rise UP and become Real. Am not at all near letting that one go

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  18. Cathy Avatar
    Cathy

    Phew! Feel much better. I am alone, too, but not lonely…
    well, not lonely enough to deal with MAN karma. Tried that twice already.
    Never again.

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    nope. if i had a smart hermit i would not fee that hermit.
    All are responsible for feeding themselves.

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i wish i could bring all the Goats in each night…how GOOD
    that would feel, i can imagine them, pushing themsSelves
    around as they find their settling place, their breathing and body heat. Tay would like that

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. i think a hermit implies silent.

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Kim, Silent One, Kim who speaks….thank YOU for coming and
    speaking. That has meaning to me, that i’m not just
    saying stuff that has no meaning to anyone but me, so
    Thank YOU and Love

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    all that you HAVE there Michelle…if only i had that

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i look forward to hearing how the pencils work for you…they
    are really Magic
    LOVE

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  25. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    oh Jeez. i do not want that.

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  26. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    there is what needs to be faced about being “alone”. It means
    being Singular when more than that makes this so much more
    do able, but Alone is a really BeautyFULL kind of existence
    and i really wouldn’t give it up for anything at all

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