When WAS it?  the Magic Diaries of Spirit Cloth, Jude Hill…????   Michelle will know.

 

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This is not at all what i'd thought,  when i pulled it down from the shelf.  I think i thought it would be a kind of Finishing.  This is not finishing.  This is Going INTO.  And there is such a softness,  deliberateness,  mindfulness.

Today was many things.

Some weeds

Caring for two Households of animals beside my own.  And so…5 horses, 4 llamas,  17 Goats, 1 chicken, 5 Peafowl,  5 dogs and 4 cats.

Make Goat cheese.

Stare Off into space

Listen to the Joanna Macy link that Michelle sent on 9~12  (for the 4th time)   while stitching.

And the stitching of Sun Flower Plant Being….going out side to look,  coming back in to stitch  and how the stitching has changed from the original Magic Diaries days…how there is no tension now,  no concern.  How the needle is it's own counsel,  pulling the thread,  going in again,  pulling the thread.  I am only the hand.

 

 

 

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14 responses to “a softening of the edges of Time”

  1. jude Avatar

    in the end, it doesn’t matter what it all is. it’s just amazing.

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  2. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Agree…..the amazing stuff of being and going! I’m imagining your menagerie of creatures….where did they come from, the 5 horses, 4 llamas, 17 Goats, 1 chicken, 5 Peafowl, 5 dogs and 4 cats? Is that today, the future or the past? i know you have goats, and one dog now so can’t be now unless you’re going to another place. Well, meanwhile, re your thoughts on center yesterday, I mentioned you in yesterdays blog post (hope you don’t mind) http://mscomfortzone.blogspot.com/2016/09/wheres-center.html

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar

    such a beautiful journey cloth

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  4. Deb G Avatar

    Thinking about the act of holding…

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  5. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    As in so many of the great works brought to me in pictures…..I know they are even more amazing up front and personal. Love what I am seeing but am thinking how does Grace find the time for stiching??? You are one busy lady!!

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  6. cathy Avatar

    Don’t we make time for what we love? The cloth tell us where to go but not when.

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  7. grace Avatar

    am thinking it’s all One thing

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  8. grace Avatar

    Two households beside this one. People gone. Animals home.
    I go care.
    This POST, Michelle…well, it is GRAND…and i was finally
    able to respond with some words…but i LOVE it. SO GRAND!

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  9. grace Avatar

    it’s changing, becoming

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  10. grace Avatar

    it’s holding yes, but also giving birth

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  11. grace Avatar

    a Good day is one when there is some of everything. even if
    the Some is small. As long as it’s there.
    Some stitches and 17 weeds. This is good.

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  12. grace Avatar

    it calls tho, doesn’t it.

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  13. Nancy Avatar

    I can’t tell you how I love the vast texture of those stitches.

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  14. grace Avatar

    working with it again, i have a whole deepening
    experience with them…i love them too.
    Will forever be grateful to Jude for this Teaching

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