windthread

i read a little in the morning.

John S. Allen,  a neuroanthropologist and research scientist at the Dornsife Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center and the Brain and Creativity  Institute at the University of Southern California.  

and it feels as if Things that i don't even know are coalescing by the moment.   Right in the beginning, he talks of Emotions and Feelings.  Differentiating.  And i was reminded of those pages i had torn out of some Natural History publication years and years ago when my home then was in a very simple wooden workshop with a wood stove.  The place where my mattress was on the floor and the Goat,  a strong young Nubian Goat, EBie,  slept with me in there,  on the floor.  Next to the mattress.  Her eyes slitted half shut half open,  chewing her cud.  So i went to the belov~ed  Picasa Mess to look for those pages…

and i found them.  I found a Lot.  and in this moment,  i went over to Picasa to upload some of what i found.  But for the same unknown reason that has stopped me before,  it's stopping me again.  I wanted to show you pics of those pages from the Natural History publication.  and then somehow important,  i wanted to show you a pic of my maternal grandmother.   But i find that i cannot access them.  So…ok.  I accept this.  ok.

and then it was finally a warm enough day to spend a large part of it OutSide and i did.  Just wandering.  Tay and I.  How we can wander SoFar is such a small space, really, 

we did

and i came in to do this

stitched the face onto a piece of cloth  to send with a Thank You to Nancy Krampf  for an incredible package of wildharvested flower seeds from her canyon in Kanab Utah.  The drawing i'd done a while ago,  it's been in that basket on the altar  and today i saw it as a Protector Spirit of Canyons.   Just stitching two pieces of cloth together gave such deep pleasure.   What she might do with it, i have no clue.  It's almost nothing.  But it's Something.   And the simplicity of it was very appealing.  Very.

Enough that i drew another face

and stitched it to two other scraps of cloth.  The faces are fast…as if they are just there.   These are small,  this one just a little larger,  larger than a 3X5 index card.   What Are They?  I don't know,  but i like them a LOT.   I thought of the word Mudra.  You can google that.  Gesture.  Gesture of the Hand.  So they are cloth Mudras.  Small gestures of the hand.  Feel good.

And because i am going to need to be OutSide a LOT as these days warm toward Spring,  they are perfect to fill the need to Make.