so i Will make this Cloth. Ok. Looking, thinking, deciding on the cloth for the Otherside then ripping and placing the harem cloth inside. Ready. With these cloths that are marked in the dye pot there is always a difficulty to covering the other side but when it's a question of how the cloth will Feel… the "hand", there's no other way. Even though there might not be additions of scraps or addition of representational stitching, just the invisible stitch (Jude Hill) will give the feel with the 3 layers.
How Brown absorbs and re constitutes all of everything…here, Brown as Earth absorbing all of Life as we know it. And it goes back on that strong thread that has lingered as an undercurrent, to Stephen Harrod Buhner's book….Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm…..into the dreaming of the earth.
Just as we speak of our Selves as mind, body spirit, so too is Earth, this planet, mind, body, spirit.
and with this Cloth, Brown is the Body of this earth.
Usually, i am sad and in past times, in a funk about the turning of seasons, hard to let summer go, dreading the Cold, the estrangement it brings to my life Out there. Closing the door of this house. The separation.
But this time, except for the need to close the door at night, it's not happening. I don't know why…nothing i expected or intuited. But i don't feel those things, but rather am closely watching the changes and seeing how this time of Season, Earth eats summer, consumes it slowly and gently to Hold it for a time, absorb and transform in a slow slow readiness for Change again. I want to watch this and be Still and wonder about how it goes, imagine this transformation. This is for me, the story this Cloth will tell me.
looking for something else entirely, i came upon this pouch from some months ago
on the right, the white with black marks…a scrap from Jude. The size of a postage stamp. Which i will maybe NEVER stitch down anywhere, because it needs to Move, Be Everywhere, and i see it as how maybe some kind of language can go on this Earth Body Cloth…nothing that i can Know, but somethings that i will Recognize in some way, like braille
windthread 
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