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Cloth needed to go on the wall.   for Looking.  but before that there needed to be some housekeeping.  Not just moving things Off the wall to make space,  but to clear space,  to clean.  I vacuumed and ordered.  Moved things that Were on walls to other places,  some folded away.  At first i am thinking, not enough walls,  but then that it's good this way.  Is a certain kind of ordering that has the quality of Ritual.  Cleansing for the work of the Now. 

 

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looks very different on the Wall.  Spacious.  and i remember thinking that it was as if there were Rooms.  Rooms where different things were spoken of.  yes.  still seems this way.

 

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this lower left corner.  

it is said that when facing fear,  it is important to have a sense of inner protector.   and  when you grow up with parents who did not protect you in some way, then cultivating a "protector" kind of inner energy is very difficult.  

waking in the night,  i lie there,  thinking about this,  looking into an unprotected night mind…nothing i could call protector shows up.  Just me and the dark.   So i have been  thinking about this and what i've been able to come up with so far,  is that Imagination is my inner protector.  Has been since i can remember.  Imagination.

Imagination as a life force that is constantly there.

Imagination as the Energetic Entity that is the Door.

Imagination,  the female energy that encourages birth of the new, Protects what is born.

Imagination,  that held me, helped  me stand and go when the rest of the world,  the world i seem to have been born into,  that world, when that world seemed flat and unwelcoming,  because there just was no welcome there for any one.

But Imagination took me in.  Taught me.  Educated me.  Protected me.

so…this lower left corner.  It's where i'll  begin now,  first.  Making a "house",  a shelter for Imagination.  Welcoming and in Gratitude.

 

 

 

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17 responses to “Housekeeping again”

  1. Peggy Avatar

    Beautifully written. So glad the cloth is strong because it has much to hold and there’s still time for more…if we evolve. Thank you, Grace, you always touch something deep within.

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  2. velma Avatar

    your cloth with the baskets working all around is lovel.y

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  3. jude Avatar

    this is another beginning Grace, I sit back and ready myself.

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  4. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Best post ever!!! I have just started reading Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard… from page one I have been thinking that this is a book Grace could have written. Your post today proves me right….this book was recently loaned to me but if you do not have it or have not read it let me know and I will try and find you a copy.

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  5. grace Avatar

    Thank YOU, Peggy…and there is a sense of a lot more….
    a whole Other Side

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  6. grace Avatar

    Velma, Thank you
    those baskets…..

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  7. grace Avatar

    we are readying

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  8. grace Avatar

    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is one of the books i will always
    keep close to my heart…it makes me feel so good that
    you see an association….
    I read it the year it first was published and it took my
    breath away. What might it be like to meet her?, A Dillard???
    Am so happy to hear you are reading it and i’ve got it off
    the shelf to begin again….Love……
    When you have finished, look sometime for
    Teaching a Stone to Talk…especially, Living like Weasels

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  9. debbie.weaver Avatar

    A beautiful post Grace, I really feel this, I did have a protected childhood but when you have flown the nest, you sometimes need another protector and I didn’t always have that when I needed it. My imagination tends to the negative but cloth is a good holding place.

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  10. Mo Crow Avatar

    conscious dreaming

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  11. saskia Avatar

    very moving post
    imagination is Reality, how we are able to deal with this world we’ve been thrown into

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  12. Wendy @ the Late Start Studio Avatar

    My mind is my bastion, my fortress.

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  13. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Thank you Grace I will do that….

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  14. grace Avatar

    Imagination for me really IS the protector, always was.
    and Cloth as holding place, yes, so much

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  15. grace Avatar

    love the words…conscious dreaming….i think of them
    as I go….thank you for giving them

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  16. grace Avatar

    think a lot lately how we were Born into this particular
    Time of humankind
    like the Navajo say….Born For

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  17. grace Avatar

    fortress….SAFE, STRONG,

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