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from day break    

i think this is my most loved  Cloth in certain ways.  I want to go to where this Cloth was From and sit there awhile

 

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How many Crows?   Are they just coming from the Crack in the Sky?  or are there Many?

 

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today there is a shadow of a Crow on her face.  I didn't do that.

 

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then,  the Lizards.  I don't know if i can make them this small with thread,  even a single strand of 6 strand floss….small.  they are small.  these are with pencil.  Can i do it?

 

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Toad egg cloth strung around the structure for the green beans as trellis

 

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seeds planted at the foot of each stick

"Thirty years ago,  Edward Abbey wrote a novel,  The Monkey Wrench Gang,  in which his hero blows up Glen Canyon Dam,  the huge desert dam strangling the Colorado River upstream from the Grand Canyon.  Getting rid of the dam was an outrageous idea then,  though the novel helped spark the birth of the radical environnmental organization Earth First.  In 1981,  the group announced its existence by running a three hundred foot sheet of plastic,  bearing the image of a mighty crack,  down the dam,  which never seemed quite as eternal and immutable again.  "

Rebecca Solnit

 

somewhere here on this blog maybe in 2014,  i wrote about the implosion of the Elwha Dam.

you can go look on Utube about that.

the Condit Dam in 2011,  the Elwha Dam in 2012,  the Glines Canyon Dam in 2014.  FREE.  FREE flowing rivers.

the lower Elwha Klallam people began when the dams were built.  They never gave up.  They never quit.  The dams are GONE.

 it's Dusk.  this day is ending and i am feeling so small.  just so small.  But i am here.  Caring.  i am here caring and so small.  but i am here,  caring tho so small

 

 

 

 

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16 responses to “everything, yes.”

  1. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    Small is good …
    Back when I used to stitch with silk, I would unply it to make super-fine stitches. Don’t think cotton floss can handle that, but perhaps someone out there can suggest a source for superfine cotton floss. Anyone?

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  2. grace Avatar
    grace

    superfine…maybe that’s what it will take?, but
    not so much time for this one…till the 29th only

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    the dams holding back the flow of water changing the ways of the land… flying over the US back in 2014 I was deeply shocked at how incredibly dry the land looked from just before the Rockies heading west
    love this new cloth, wondering if you ever use sewing thread for the really fine details. I use Gutermann thread, they come in silk, cotton, linen, poly blends, I love their polyester upholstery thread, very strong with no stretch.

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  4. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Be-U-ti-full cloth working tonight-both-but I secretly want many many crows processioning across the whole sky (no secret now)…and what a simply perfect seed cage…I am visiting in the middle of the night of course (my current normal), and everything around me but the ticking clock is silent. Free flowing everything (damn the dams).

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  5. dee Avatar
    dee

    Edward Abbey used to be a personal hero… it feels like such a long time ago. Recently re-read a poem by Gary Snyder. In the spirit of embracing nature. About Smokey the Bear. We have really fucked things up.Your smallness does not feel despairing?

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  6. judy martin Avatar
    judy martin

    I do love the light coming through the cloth in the top few photos – it reminds me of Virginia Woolf’s descriptions of the dawn in her novel, The Waves.
    It’s such a yearning time of day.
    x

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  7. sue Avatar
    sue

    loved seeing daybreak entering the cloth..gorgeous pictures. so much expression in the little face with the shadow crow. are the crows just coming through the crack in the sky..or do they come and go? love the trellis too..never thought of using cloth..looks good.

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  8. grace Avatar
    grace

    went forward with one strand of the 6 floss and it’s going to
    be ok enough.

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  9. grace Avatar
    grace

    i hadn’t thought to try that, but recently Jan sent me a spool
    of beauty FULL thread and i DID try it this afternoon…it’s
    very different than the floss…and to back split stich…eeee

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  10. grace Avatar
    grace

    like very much to think of you visiting in the middle of the
    night. I get up around 2:30 to pee and sometimes will turn
    this machine on to watch Adouma without disruption of pauses,
    so maybe we are here at the same time….a clock ticks here too,
    the Old Cowboy’s with the numbers in Chinese

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  11. grace Avatar
    grace

    it does…seem like a long time ago, but that’s part of
    Solnit’s point in this book that things begin with sometimes
    a single seed, seemingly a long time ago but they GROW
    steadily. Those Dams DID come down. The salmon Run. If not
    “forever”, Now, again.
    We Have. and continue to fuck things up. And i don’t know the
    best way to talk about the smallness, the possibility of despair,
    but no. I work hard to try to really SEE what’s going on and
    there is so much Out There that chooses Courage in the face of it all, having no known Outcome. But choosing on the side of Love.
    Love of Humanity, Love of the Earth.
    that question that i like more and more, when “entertaining” a feeling, “What does it Serve?” Despair serves nothing. Love
    serves everything. What are all the small ways to express Love.

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    a yearning time…yes, and then there is that single note
    of First Bird
    many x’s back

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  13. grace Avatar
    grace

    i think they come and go. some times they stay, living in
    the high trees but they come from that crack and go into that
    crack to get information about what Humanity needs
    the cloth strips will “keep” for 2 maybe 3 years and it
    gets interesting, the irregular fading, i can use it
    when some of it rots and needs to be replaced
    looking at it makes me feel good

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  14. sue Avatar
    sue

    it’s a great little structure, grace. draped with cloth it would make a sweet play area for a child. my partner was going to get some trellis to go on a couple of strips of wood on our garden wall to hold the growing honeysuckle.. after seeing this i think i’m going to have a go using cloth instead. it may not last so long here in uk wet weather but it’ll be worth the time making and replacing it. i really like the way it looks.

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  15. dee Avatar
    dee

    I feel the love when you say “small but caring”

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    then this is Good. because none of us know anything. even
    Solnit. We are all just going in a New Kind of Time that is
    so totally New.
    all there is
    is that sense of gut feeling about things

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