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not the best time for just branches

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but that's where it's at.  the branches.  slow.  single strand thread with effort at split back stitch.  Slow.

found self looking around for something to photograph to provide relief and felt self reacting to that.  Why?  to have something  "uplifting"?  something pretty or interesting?  same question,  Why?

so i might take a blogging break.  or,  i might only post when i have something worth looking at.  I didn't used to blog every day.   i don't know.  but the old unbuddhist stubborn part of me feels like refusing  what seems to be disingenuous.   to appear here on this blog as a different energy than the one who is living this life.  can't do that.  

so i don't know.  will need to let IT decide.  

Love to ALL of US,  Love to the Water Protectors of Standing Rock,  Love to this Earth,  Love to Love.

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24 responses to “not the best time for just branches”

  1. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Blogging has been a kind of daily practice, but then so are the goats, personal maintenance, cloth and thread work, and place maintenance. All of it is a form of love and so is silence. Love to all that is.

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  2. Irene Avatar
    Irene

    Split back stitch with a single thread…that is a true stitching challenge.
    Love back to you from snowy Sedona…I actually got stuck in gridlocked traffic today…thought I left all that behind in New York…:)

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  3. yvette Avatar
    yvette

    love to love
    obligations are no good…..see you when i see you here but you’re always close..love you more

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  4. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    I feel like we have become a group that hold each other near and dear ….always! We will hold each other up …. love you!

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  5. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    stitching is helping make sense in these strange scary times, mending our beautiful our broken world

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  6. cynthia Avatar
    cynthia

    whenever you can..whatever you can freely share..this summer … i remember the day so well..i clicked here to start my day..started to respond and i was empty..i just could not..and i did not..and yet each morning i made my rounds..the blogs of women who post here and at spirit cloth..at hand stories and i’m going to texas..
    the responses of women who do not blog yet comment so beautifully and meaningfully..and it all somehow helped hold me together..literally by a thread ..of the words..the images..the threads themselves..it took so long to come back..but the feeling of presence never left..it is such a gift..to be able to step away and then step back..
    of course i want to find you here..always..but whenever you can..whatever you can ..you feed so many spirits..may we hold yours gentle day grace

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  7. ² Avatar
    ²

    love IS the light trough the crack’s

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  8. Linda Avatar
    Linda

    I’m here every day but I don’t say much. It doesn’t seem like my voice is needed. I will continue to check in and see how things are and you can know that I am in agreement with the chaos of the world. Being quiet also helps..
    love

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  9. Nancy Krampf Avatar
    Nancy Krampf

    LOVE
    to you dear one.

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  10. Ali Avatar
    Ali

    I was just thinking yesterday about spiritual practices and how sometimes that part of my life flows and other times not, and rather than beating myself up I realised that there are rhythms in our lives.
    There are so many treasures to explore on your website I will find plenty to occupy myself.
    Love to you in your season of quietness.

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  11. Wendy@ Late StartStudio Avatar
    Wendy@ Late StartStudio

    I know you’re there and you know I’m here . . . and together we are just going. That is, together with a crew who visit each other’s blogs, drawn strength, and take a few more steps. Encourage and encouraged. What a word . . . to imbue with courage.

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  12. Wendy@ Late StartStudio Avatar
    Wendy@ Late StartStudio

    And thank you for the link to The Day Of The Dead. It is many years since I read it and I have just recently taken it down from my shelf to read again. I’ll watch and then read.

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  13. Wendy@ Late StartStudio Avatar
    Wendy@ Late StartStudio

    Of course I meant The Tibetan Book of the Dead. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying is what I have . . . I’m feeling somewhat distracted and need sustenance for my soul.

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    snow in Sedona. That would be a holy sight

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  15. grace Avatar
    grace

    daily practice, yes and one that SUSTAINS the Will to go…

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    obligation…no…not that, exactly, but the feeling
    of not being able to Give what is worth giving

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. this is what it is. Holding eachother. I need
    that.

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    stitching allows my mind/heart to be vital….to be new
    as it all unfolds

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  19. grace Avatar
    grace

    that was a long time and there wasn’t a day that i didn’t
    think of you, but also knew that what you were experiencing
    was a necessity for your well being, but that said, i am
    beyond glad you are back now

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  20. grace Avatar
    grace

    oh the beloved crack
    oh the beloved Light

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  21. grace Avatar
    grace

    well….the definition of “needed”? Nothing is truly NEEDED
    i guess, we can all get along
    but so many things give that one iota of energy…your
    presence here for one,
    Being quiet doesn’t seem to work for me

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  22. grace Avatar
    grace

    and you, in your Canyon, love and love to you and your man
    and that pack rat

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  23. grace Avatar
    grace

    it’s probably not going to happen, a season of quietness,
    i’ll take that Risk

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  24. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. I watch every day or so. It BREATHES me and yes…
    i knew what you meant….

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