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the Very Young Vitex is making a Bloom

 

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hollyhock and basil.  I can Feel it.  This year…my 70th,  i can Feel the slide,  the movement,  how it is,  the curve,  the turning.  i can Feel it.  Like really Feel it.  It is so WhatItIs,  just WhatItIs,  and round and turning and revolving and turning and round and turning, revolving, and going

 

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mending the futon cover…denim.   Mending.   Maybe the first thing i have ever mended with the intention of USE,  as in real use.   Something that needs to hold its self.  There are all kinds of things that can be imagined as Use.  This is the only one i know for sure that is in That World…Use…..to

Hold.

to maintain against accident,   at the cause of inadvertant occurance.  to maintain integrity of Isness

i am trying to remember when i first stitched it….One of Jude's Things….when?  don't know.  but i did it because that was the prevailing energy of the moment and i did it,  but also didn't have so much of a deep connection to it.  Today,  as i mend it,  mend the weak places,  i find connection.  I find love, even. 

 

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12 responses to “day one of the slide”

  1. jude Avatar

    you did mend the soil.

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  2. judy martin Avatar

    I agree that mending is love. xo

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  3. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    I finally had to replace a very old handmade quilt from the 30’s that has kept me comfy and warm for years. I found it at the Goodwill some 10 years ago feeling sad and happy at the same time. Over the years I mended it plenty but just could not keep up. Today that quilt is safely living as the batting in a new quilt…knowing it is there covers me with comfort and LOVE. Not sure if this is something I would have done before learning from all of you life’s treasures are everywhere….we just need to look beyond what we see.

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  4. Deb G Avatar

    yes, mending as holding.

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  5. Mo Crow Avatar

    the pleasures of mending

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  6. Wendy @ the Late Start Studio Avatar

    I this of mending as strengthening the weak . . . and weakness is realitve.
    p.s. At 95 my mother moved from one city to another. One of the very first things she did was scrape back some soil and plant silver beet and scarlet runner beans. The desire to grow food, to feel her hands in and on the Earth never left her.

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  7. grace Avatar

    yes, and i do still. another holding.

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  8. grace Avatar

    it was such a good feeling

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  9. grace Avatar

    i love that you hold this old one in a New one…that old/new
    combine….
    We give what holds EachOther, don’t we…

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  10. grace Avatar

    for the moment there is a pause but i will go back to it.
    there is a good feeling to look forward to that

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  12. grace Avatar

    this story you give Us….it mends my heart’s longing

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