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completely absorbed in stitching,  out of the corner of my consciousness i see a GLOW to the left…the wood stove….jump up….

 

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angle of light changes and it becomes the Red Kuri squash i got at the Farmer's Market earlier and the great bowl at a yard sale on the way home.  This life is good.

 

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Neighbor had needed cooking oil for sopapillas tomorrow.  All i have was olive oil.  Not.  But then, Yes, the last of the pie crust crisco!  This took a while.  Then,  Evan,  my beloved Wood Guy called, had a load of perfect alligator juniper,  so ok.

 

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he pulls up outside the back fence and throws it over the Migrational Corridor.   To me…like a pile of jewels…heat.  I am Ready.

So the Cloth pics above needed to be taken with the Flash.   It is now One Cloth,  invisible baste finished.   in the second pic,  the rim of kantha begun.  

Again….this life is good.  I do Metta….May you be safe,  be happy, healthy, may you live with ease…i do Metta for all upon this planet.  It doesn't take much,  we COULD easily attain this for All of Us if we were willing to try.  I wish i could share this day.

 

 

 

 

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30 responses to “days spin”

  1. Irene Avatar
    Irene

    Glow indeed….peaceful abundance.

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  2. grace Avatar

    Irene…thank you
    for sharing it
    yes. such abundance.

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  3. Liz A Avatar

    “I wish I could share this day”
    You just did … thank you

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  4. grace Avatar

    oh, Liz…Thank YOU for receiving….
    how i wish it could go so so far and wide and give
    realness
    give this same small but totally FULL goodness
    this Enough ness
    Love to you….

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  5. margaret johnson Avatar
    margaret johnson

    Hello Grace, the colours in your pics are beautiful and warm. Oh that bowl! I have a thing for mixing bowls, I find them comforting. The pale yellow of the sky and the rich colour of the Alligator wood is magic. A beautiful life indeed. thankyou for sharing your days oxox

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  6. grace Avatar

    and dear
    margaret…you are Far….
    Bowls yes. Bowls, their symetry and spin, their gentle
    Beauty…how they sing so softly
    i SO wish i could Give this life that’s small and nothing
    special but so so much Enough.

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  7. cathy Avatar

    Your beautiful bounty: squash, bowl, wood. You are blessed today.

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  8. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    You just shared the reflection with me. Thank you.

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  9. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    This feels like a soft embrace so thank you for this sharing of what brought you joy. What comes so strongly here is that it is enough, what this day has brought – the round richness of squash and bowl, the coming together of your earth love cloth, the tangible benefit of the warmth that you will receive from the juniper wood plus the added gift of the wood’s beauty – you are rich with what matters…

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  10. Deb G Avatar

    Oh yes, looking up to find a spot of light like that, just magical. So glad your day was a good one.

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  11. Angie Avatar

    Sharing in your joy of enough here in northeast Tennessee. I have just started our first wood fire of the season. I know that warm comforting glow of a woodpile. Am working on a traditional quilt for a friend’s 60th birthday and finding comfort and enough in that. Also hoping to learn to stitch kantha. Love love love that bowl and squash, the beautiful wood, your warm cloth stitches…Sharing in your joy…

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  12. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    You reached far away Maine with your Blessing. thank you

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  13. grace Avatar

    thank you…send it along somehow, ok?

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  14. grace Avatar

    i am. i am so much. there is nothing needed.

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  15. grace Avatar

    actually…i was startled. it looked so intense, i thought
    something had caught FIRE

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  16. grace Avatar

    Angie….kantha is so so simple…just plain little stitches.
    What makes it this or that is the tension of the thread…
    i spent time in northeast Tennessee back a long time ago…
    you live in a deep Beauty of this Planet. I like to think
    of you there, by your fire, that quilt on your lap….
    Thank you for telling this small perfect story

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  17. grace Avatar

    and MAINE!….YES!!! to Maine…send something along some how,
    ok? Maybe we can fly our love to Syria…who knows

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  18. Martine Bos Avatar

    Yes……….life is good!

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  19. Joy Avatar
    Joy

    That firewood has such a beautiful color, it looks like cedar. Your bowl… I was going to ask if you made it, it’s really lovely. I have a thing for bowls, they’re so useful and versatile.

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  20. Dakotah Avatar

    You are a good example of how to live simply and love what you have. I love reading about your life there. Love old bowls, and pottery…pitchers, bowls, mugs…rescued a gorgeous blue pottery bowl from the thrift store this month…have a pie pumpkin and a green one out front…life IS good…
    My next home MUST have a wood burning stove.

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  21. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    We can try. They need some love.

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  22. grace Avatar

    so much, they do, so so much

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  23. grace Avatar

    i think so much about this

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  24. grace Avatar

    someday i’d like to learn to use a wheel..
    probably in the next life
    for me, it’s bowls and chairs

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  25. grace Avatar

    wood heat is the most incredibably satisfying…it’s work,
    but well worth it.
    I have yet to set the first fire of the season and
    look forward to it.

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  26. Nancy Avatar

    So filled with ordinary exquisite beauty.

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