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January 3, 2016

the Now What space. Cradle of Mother Night finished and in it's mailing container. so

there are no words or thoughts in the moment. just this space. empty. how it goes.

so i ran my hands through baskets of cloth, seeing what rose up

an old now piece of woven cloth from early Jude Days. Affixed to it that piece from Marti.

Set on a couch cushion. I like it. But i'm not so much into making couch cushion covers or pillows. Stuff here needs to be uhhhh, tough. For the kind of life there is here, it needs to be able to go into the Hot Regular Cycle of a washing machine,….over and over. I guess i could make it into a kind of removable cushion cover? Because i like it a LOT? or

maybe i just am not much for making home enhancement things. Maybe i am not practical . Maybe i don't have a thing for Usefull. Just the Useless, like story pictures. Saying that doesn't bother me at all. It would have, not all that long ago. Being useful was important i thought because other people thought so. But really, No, i guess i don't care. So i left it on the cushion and kept feeling through the baskets. Finally…

these two…i washed them in my hand in the kitchen sink and set them on the chair to dry.

of course! a Deb Lacativa

can you see the Eye in the lower left? Double click

the second piece, the B side of a thrift shop article of clothing

the A side which i do not like at all.

SUN did come. Halfway through the day and the melting progresses. Still much SNOW, but progress toward mud. We are now 3 days into January. Moving toward Spring.

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13 responses to “a …… ~space~ …….”

Mo Crow

January 3, 2016

love how that blue diamond in your “cushion cover” lights up with the indigo patchwork in the background

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grace

January 3, 2016

it does, doesn’t it. So maybe it’s a Sign that i should
do it

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Liz

January 4, 2016

I love the woven cloth and I’m guessing it feels wonderful to the touch. I’ve been pleased by how well my triangulation pillow has worn over the past year. So keep it out where you can enjoy it, look forward to mending it as needed … don’t hide that beauty in a basket!!

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cynthia

January 4, 2016

In winter
all the singing is in
the tops of the trees
where the wind-bird
with its white eyes
shoves and pushes
among the branches.
Like any of us
he wants to go to sleep,
but he’s restless—
he has an idea,
and slowly it unfolds
from under his beating wings
as long as he stays awake.
But his big, round music, after all,
is too breathy to last.
So, it’s over.
In the pine-crown
he makes his nest,
he’s done all he can.
I don’t know the name of this bird,
I only imagine his glittering beak
tucked in a white wing
while the clouds—
which he has summoned
from the north—
which he has taught
to be mild, and silent—
thicken, and begin to fall
into the world below
like stars, or the feathers
of some unimaginable bird
that loves us,
that is asleep now, and silent—
that has turned itself
into snow…M.O.
i loved double clicking on the eye…and waiting..being here in this Now What space..my world is all snow and ice..we are in..the snow looks soft and untouched..but underneath it is such a solid mass..even the plow has not made it up the hill this morning..and usually he comes early on days like today..i had thought to tiptoe..or stomp out and recover some things forgotten..their shapes suddenly delineated..but one step onto the surface was enough to send me back inside..earlier today it was 10..now it is 8 and the cat..meowing to go out took one step also..and retreated back with me..it seems like a good way to go into this first week of the year..a quiet space..unmarked..waiting..
gentle day xox much

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dee

January 4, 2016

back when I made things to try and sell (and successfully sell) I thought I had to make pillows… Now I want to chuck any uncovered pillows just because they take up so much space.
but I have to say that stitching the night, or the wind, or the eye of the grass, or the lizard of astonishment, or the goat of joy — these are useful, are they not? the cloth when it is done is useful, the blogging while in progress is useful, the memory of the thing later — also useful.

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Marti

January 4, 2016

Was surprised that you sold Cradle of Mother Night as I thought it was your cloth of turning 70; expected to see it on your cloth keeping wall. Could be that all of the women depicted on the cloth were my thinking it was your “story” of yourself and how you face winter and just go…? don’t mind me, just projecting my feelings about this most meaningful and beautiful cloth whose use is of such importance in the overall arch of being a Maker of Cloth.

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grace Forrest

January 4, 2016

that Winter Bird….you, Mary O….your world that you find
yourSelf in with a cat
coming Here
to the world i find mySelf in
oh, just Love, Cynthia. Just Love.

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grace Forrest

January 4, 2016

i don’t know. it’s just what i am compelled to do. Useful
or not. And as i said….i don’t care anymore…it’s what
i do.

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grace Forrest

January 4, 2016

that Wall, right now with all those Cloths, well, ones that
have stayed quietly in the drawer….they need to go somewhere
too. A drawer is not a place to Live.
Cradle of Mother Night was about how it is leading into
Solstice, how small Day is, how we live that smallness. Not
my particular story. All Our story because it is the Story
that Earth gives All of Us.

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grace Forrest

January 4, 2016

i would need to make it into a removable case. I do not
live in a normal environment. It’s a camp ground.

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Vicky aka “stichr”

January 4, 2016

do you have more of that print you dont like the front of? put it in the sun to fade a it? sprinkle bleach on it? or lemon? vinegar? something to change the bright-ness.???

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grace

January 4, 2016

if i can find it, i’d just send it to you. You would like both
sides and that’s the Best. I am going to look tomorrow or
Wednesday.
xoxoxoxo

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Vicky aka stichr and stichr2

January 9, 2016

yes, maybe that would be the best…hearty laugh!

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