First,  just to say because i don't think i've said it before….

i leave the computer on pretty much all day.  I come and go from it.  Looking to see if anyone showed up commenting,  for one,  and i go read the uhhh,  stuff of the Google news off and on because this IS the world i am needing to Live in

so even though i don't reply back right away,  i am carrying your words and thoughts with me as i go… like it's that you all are going along with me  

i have conversations in my head with you

i am Informed by your responses.

so sometimes i like waiting and letting things ferment a few days.  I just did that,  going back and reading it all again and it's good this way for me.  

and then….if we could go to Michelle's Blog  Ms. Uncertainty Principles….just click on her name in the comment she leaves and it'll take you there….her 9~14 Post about the Bus….Where's Center…. how extraordinary the images she gives with her simple and straightforward telling of something in her day that has SUcH  MEANING to me as a teaching story of how things can go

 

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so i put the bells.  am not so good at stitching bells,  but ok, then,  it's enough ok and good.  Bells.  and i have begun stitching the Desert Willow tree that is just outside the gate that began as a single stick,  maybe 2ft tall.  a single stick.   How i watched it grow,  using the Gate as a measuring thing,  like we do with kids and a doorway with marks.  I distinctly remember looking one spring and seeing that the tips of the branches were at the cross bar of the Gate…when was that????   I don't know,  but i remember seeing that and now it's so well beyond and more interested in going sideways,  thickening, …..so i stitch the tree.  It's going to take a while.  Like the tree did.

 

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This door knob.  Brought by the same person that gave me that post outside to make me feel at home.  Louie,  who worked for drugs.  But was also him self,  Louie,  who connected to something in me that i "put out" just because of how i am.  and though doing so was a little ify,  the person i was married to being very possessive,  still…Louie brought stuff for me.    He brought me this door knob from who knows where.  It's brass with a very deep deep cobalt glass knob.    He put it on my old refrigerator door…..????  and when i got the new refrigerator and hauled out the old non functional one,  i took it off and put it out somewhere in the Albatross and hadn't seen it for forever till i hunted it down.  I'll take it with me when i go.  To remind me that things are So Many Things,  not just one or some,  but

Many.  And it's good to try to see it All.

 

 

 

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38 responses to “To say some Things”

  1. Liz A Avatar

    “I have conversations in my head with you” … I love this, that words unspoken echo in our minds. Likewise I have conversations in my head with you as I walk the land. It is so right and good.

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  2. grace Avatar

    i do. and it’s so GOOD, the conversations, the knowing
    of
    everyone
    here
    how it’s really so much MORE than anything i have in
    the reality of
    here

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  3. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Grave I love the door knob…with its beauful reflective handle and perfect old fashioned key hole. It is a great symbol of how I see what you have given me…all the doors you have opened for me…how many times I have seen a reflection of myself as well as family and friends that I love. The key to a better understanding of who and what I want to be. And I totally know what you mean about Michelle’s way with putting words into sentences…such an amazing group of talented giving women. I am BLESSED!!

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  4. grace Avatar

    Tina…just as you say….a reflection. What occurs here is
    nothing less than a REFLECTION of YOU…who you are, how you
    receive, how you GIVe
    We are all our keys. I love that thought….we are all our keys

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  5. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    So glad you are taking that gorgeous doorknob with all it’s deep meaning, and when you set up you new space be sure to attach it to an important door and show it to us. You know that it was you and your post that sparked me to tell that story in the first place. Sometimes we are portals, sometimes windows, sometimes mirrors for one another.
    that’s the magic of long standing connections, the gold in the thread that creates the web that carries us. I love us.

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  6. handstories Avatar

    I would love to put my hand around that cobalt blueness, and to turn it. I will imagine it while remembering a poem Janie used to read to our class of little ones…thank you for reminding me.
    “Go and Open the Door…”
    http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poems/door

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  7. Mo Crow Avatar

    love the connections we are weaving ’round our beautiful blue and green world

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  8. ² Avatar
    ²

    yes the conversations in my head with some of you in some minutes of the day when they connect with the things i do or…..
    so the last days i remember me Marti i mis her comment reaction is she o.k. ? it is so long time ago .
    grace i will email you but my p c is not really o.k. or son will ficks it when he have somme time
    you can email me if you will
    yes Mo love that eather ” the weaving we made
    the go and open the door ….
    the gold in that thread that creates the web that carrie us …
    the words ” i am blessed ”
    the unspoken echo in our minds ….
    thank you ALL for this on a grey sunday morning

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  9. Lynn Avatar
    Lynn

    Hello Grace,
    What a beautiful world you live in and what inspiration I find in your creations. I found you from Jude’s blog and wanted to subscribe to your feed but I get a page of typed information – can you subscribe me?
    I loved your post about canning – I too find a bliss in the process that I agree must be from the days when it was a necessary thing – it links me to my grandmothers and their mothers. Today I freeze a huge pile of organic apples we picked yesterday. I also have some beets to pickle and the squash is coming of age and will be ready soon.
    Your little cloth named The Going…oh my oh my does it touch my heart, if you make something similar I will be thrilled to give it a new home 🙂

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  10. grace Avatar

    i’ll take some more pics of the knob…it’s non functional.
    sort of…will take more pics.
    i am BEYOND glad you gave the Bus Teaching, it keeps opening
    out for me
    Just such a BeautyFull moment, so FULL of all that we are.
    and yes…I love Us too.

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  11. grace Avatar

    o and a hello to Janie…it’s been a while, wonder
    what she is doing

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  12. grace Avatar

    it’s our Gift of Goodness we can give at the least, yes?, this
    weaving between us

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  13. grace Avatar

    the unspoken echo in our minds….yes, Maria……
    i don’t know where Marti is. She signed off before going to
    California for the summer to help with her grandchildren.
    I have not heard from her since. i’d thought she’d be
    returned by now….
    maybe she is having a break from the computer?
    i don’t know.

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  14. grace Avatar

    Hey, Lynn…Thank You for being here this morning….and thank
    you for letting me know about the subscribe glitch…i didn’t
    have any idea. Have filed a Help Ticket (love that image)
    with Typepad and am waiting for their reply.
    I don’t know how to subscribe you…am not very tech talented…
    yes…both canning and freezing…putting food “by”. All
    these foods you are tending to…today i was imagining
    sweet potatoes….and squash, oh, squash.
    am glad you like The Going. I really want to make more
    of the small drawn cloths. Am waiting till a piece of
    the plant dyed cloths begins to talk….it’s the only way
    i seem to be able to work….wait to be called.
    Again, thank you for coming and leaving some words…
    Love….

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  15. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Thank you Maria for commenting about my absence. I have been in California for almost three months, only returning to New Mexico this past Wednesday. Hope all is well with you.
    As for me, the time away was filled with sadness, worry and family deaths, a bittersweet time but overlaying these events was our deep family bond and love. Our grandchildren are the lights of our lives and our daughters and son-in-law are wonderful, loving people. It will take me some time to resume my quiet life here, slowly easing back into blog reading and commenting. Cloth will help as one of the first things I did upon my return home was make a bundle using dried chiles, onion skins and dried sunflowers from the garden; it soothed me to get back to my pots and cloth and in the coming months, I will spend time with my dyed pieces and perhaps, create a cloth symbolic of this past summer.

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  16. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    I’m back grace, check your email. Even though I was gone for almost three months, I often thought of all who come here. Now as I re-enter my quiet life,I look forward to re-connecting but it will take time for me to step into the rhythm of my days here…
    Speaking of life: “por vida”, many changes ahead for you and La Familia, all good as you create a new substation once you move to California. My heart overflowed to once again see your Magic Diary cloth; the story of place, your place. I exhaled deeply to see the stitched grasses,telling so strongly, the story of your land. As you created this cloth and posted on your blog, many comments were made so these along with our love and heart filled thoughts accompany you when you begin this next life journey. Por vida, por corazon (For life, for heart…)

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  17. Deb G Avatar

    This always shines through to me, how you hold conversations and let them flow. I have been thinking about this, how there is community to be found online. Different than what is local, but no less important.

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  18. grace Avatar

    i am whole heartedly into Joanna Macy right now…the book
    i didn’t want to read
    am reading now and it could not be more perfect and
    part of what she gives is that Everything is Important
    that these times call for all we can do. No matter what
    we imagine the “outcome” to be, the perceived smallness
    of the effort.
    I have determined that when i get to CA, i will find her
    hopefully somewhat locally, if not, go to Wherever she is
    and learn from her. She’s a Brilliant mind and a Fierce and
    Loving Heart.

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  19. Deb G Avatar

    I was just revisiting her On Being interview. I have to go back and finish reading one of her books as well. Those are very reassuring words for me right now, that everything is important.

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  20. grace Avatar

    are you reading World as Lover World as Self?
    and the On Being, yes
    and the link that Michelle gave Us
    on the Sept 12 post here in her comment is even better

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  21. vicky aka stichr Avatar

    grace…what? you are moving? when did that come about? i admit i don’t always read every word you write, i just relax and go with the flow. i have noticed you haven’t mentioned the goats much. you have posted fiber bits, which i love to look at.
    my summer was fractured with broken grandbabies and their worried mama, whom i’ve had to be fierce for.

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  22. Deb G Avatar

    I have Active Hope. I need to follow Michelle’s link, haven’t gotten there yet but I will.

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  23. saskia Avatar

    always conversations in my head with you

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  24. Kristin Avatar
    Kristin

    Grace..so often I, too, read and carry thoughts and pictures and ideas around in my being for long periods of time….not writing, but writing on my heart and soul so much of what comes across in the posts. Thinking about the shift that will occur as you change locale to be with familia…and how that reflection of my doing the same five years ago has brought many changes, much delight and new steps with my stitching and gardening and writing. So, in the breezes, on the winds that blow as you go about your days, know that I am there…floating along, feeling the shifting energies….and that door knob is a treasure, not to be lost in the transit to a new place, for sure. Seeing you working once again on the cloths from times before, a warm, lovely thing to see.

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  25. Liz A Avatar

    My mom had a doorknob from her childhood summer house mounted on a board, used as a dish towel holder.
    I’d love to make a patch out of your doorknob details … to remember this post.

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  26. Liz A Avatar

    I just can’t stop commenting … the bells, I love the bells!

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  27. grace Avatar

    you were gone a long time, it will take time to return.

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  28. grace Avatar

    i didn’t like Active Hope so much

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  29. grace Avatar

    yes…your broken bones…i see that…..
    and yes. I don’t know when. It could go quickly or it could
    go slow or anywhere in between. Daughter and granddaughter
    are buying land in California near where their life things
    happen but Out….a minimum of 5 acres, hopefully 10. There
    will end up being 3 separate dwellings. and then all that
    the Goats need. Most likely she will end up coming for the
    Goats before the time when i will go. If nothing changes,
    i have someone who will live here and care for this Place
    which makes it so much more possible for me to leave it.
    And you are right…i haven’t put pics of the Goats much…i
    have been thinking about that too. The summer was extremely
    hot and it was late before any cooling came. Then this last
    month was RAIN each late afternoon and evening. I would
    go Be with them but not to take the camera. That takes sitting
    quietly for a long time. Will get back to that now things are
    shifting again.

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  30. grace Avatar
  31. grace Avatar

    yes. you have accomplished this. and yes. always, i know
    you fly along side….

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  32. grace Avatar

    ooo, the bells….well, i am not an embroiderer but they do well
    enough

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  33. grace Avatar

    i wonder where it might go….maybe just on the new gate?

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  34. ² Avatar
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    for MARTI ,
    Grace i know it is o.k. for you that i give reaction for Marti by this blog ( thank you ),
    welcome back and of course take al the time there is , comming back with the bagpack of your California life/time …unpacking … quick or slow … it’s al o.k.
    the memmory stay , cloth will heal
    big hug

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  35. Nancy Avatar

    The thoughts I carry are often seeds of ideas. Sometimes these seeds are shared, sometimes I gently hold them until the grow or drift away. Any of these ways are fine by me, for these seeds carry me too…as do the images and the friendships that grow here. I am grateful for this.

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  36. grace Avatar

    yes…Very much ok. If everyone talked to everyone
    that would be even More ok

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  37. grace Avatar

    we are the gardners of our seed selves

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  38. Liz A Avatar

    I did make a patch of that doorknob inspired by this post
    https://imgoingtotexas.blogspot.com/2016/09/4-3-first-week-of-september.html
    and now it is five years later and even though we have each left the land we love, we have cloth to hold its memory

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