how the OutSide here is a circle of Rooms,  this place,  my home at the center of the rooms,  within this home are rooms.  

how this Place,  this blog,  is a Room.  

Expand/Contract

i sense the feeling that words cause…is it expansion?  contraction?  what do both Feel like?

this blog and what a heavy word that is,  blog….but it's what it's called….this blog is a Room,  as real as the other ones…the place where i come to sit at the end of the day with All of Us,  me included.  Us.  Sometimes in silence, sometimes with an exchange of words.  But it's a Real Room.  I just spent some time thinking, feeling what it would be like to not come to this Room.  Contraction.

i went around today visiting other people's Rooms,  their Blogs and sat and felt what that was to be invited IN,  no matter what was happening there,  how Loving that is.  Expand.  I thought about how if anyone asked i would so much be FOR creating a blog,  no matter What For,  how it EXPANDS our worlds.

I went to Martine's Place  and this was there,  as if FOR me….

"the witchery of living

is my whole conversation 

with you my darlings.

All i can tell you is what I know.

Look,  and look again.

This world is not just a little thrill for the eyes.

It's more than bones.

It's more than the delicate wrist with its personal pulse.

It's more than the beating of a single heart.

It's praising.

It's giving until the giving feels like receiving.

You have a life – just imagine that!

You have this day,  and maybe another, and maybe still another."

Mary Oliver

 

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31 responses to “that thing about rooms”

  1. Liz A Avatar

    Oh … the light in the tree, like the sky that lit up behind our house this evening. I am loving this and hope you will consider sharing how it came to be.

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  2. grace Avatar

    the Inktense Pencils. They are MAGIC.

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  3. grace Avatar

    get them Wet. they are permanent.

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  4. grace Avatar

    Permanent. what an Interesting word.

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  5. Patriciaspangler47@gmail.com Avatar

    Hello Grace. This is a wonderful reminder of the importance of drawing together–sharing space, love, thoughts and concerns. I’ve missed this. Even though I was here, I guess what I missed was allowing myself to speak up. Speak out. Hear my own voice as it melds with sisters everywhere. XO

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  6. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    I love your rooms, all of them inside and out and online! Your words are your thoughts and they decorate this online room so well that pictures are not needed but do add the perfect touch. I tell everyone of the wonderful artist woman with the goats and her world of followers and if you choose to stop or take breaks i will just have to read the archives🐐🐐

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  7. yvette Avatar

    Martine’s room is heaven……..and your cloth is growing deepening and make my day

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  8. jude Avatar

    blog, short for web log. have become like rooms, yes.
    I’ve been using inktense here and there. Because they are here. maybe you will spot that.
    They are perfect for you though. more perfect for you.
    this post makes me want to sit under the roof rain.

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  9. Deb G Avatar

    I agree, rooms, rooms with open doors and windows.

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  10. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Yes rooms … I’m grateful for all who have welcomed me into their rooms. So very grateful!
    Love the added coloring and shadows … creating movements. Love it!

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  11. saskia Avatar

    was offline for just a couple of days, so missed the past couple of posts here and find self pleasantly surprised by just how far and how much this cloth has evolved! love the story-telling it contains, even if i knew nothing about you, i would have fallen in love with this particular piece and been curious about it’s maker

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  12. debbie.weaver Avatar

    Love this piece, the light round the, I had some inktense pens for Christmas but haven’t really experimented with them yet.
    The idea of blogs as rooms, I like that to, to borrow and slightly alter from the bible ‘in my house there are many rooms’ different one to visit each day and regular old friends with a comfy sofa to read on.

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  13. Martine Bos Avatar

    Have been stumbling around, lost in words, so happy i found your room again…………

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  14. Ali Avatar
    Ali

    How strange that pictures on a screen, that thing called ‘technology’ can be a safe room to share and feel love and connection.
    I find it amazing to see how your work grows and develops. It makes me happy and gives me inspiration, thank you so much for the sharing.

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  15. grace Avatar

    i like that choice of words very much…a safe room. Then,
    safe
    one more reason to not give in.
    Thank YOU, Ali

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  16. grace Avatar

    your voice has always been your own and so needed. I hope
    you can stay, “back”….

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  17. grace Avatar

    your words come to my Heart…thank you for them, it’s what
    i have here, this life, this Place….some times i think
    it’s not much, but it’s all i have.
    BIG LOVE to you

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  18. grace Avatar

    the pencils are something, aren’t they

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  19. grace Avatar

    we go back and forth to Each Other…how just so elegant this is

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  20. grace Avatar

    a Room of Rain

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  21. grace Avatar

    open. Open Rooms…open to one’s self too

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  22. grace Avatar

    the pencils allowed something…i LOVE working with them

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  23. grace Avatar

    this is good…Curiosity….we NEED Curiosity VERY MUCH

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  24. grace Avatar

    always the comfy sofa…like very much that image

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  25. grace Avatar

    oh, Martine, we NEED to stumble sometimes i think, allows us
    to re find balance for a while before stumbling again…

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  26. handstories Avatar

    rooms make a home. just said yesterday, that even when I feel at a loss in understanding when visiting blogs in this community, I still feel welcomed and included. I treasure this.

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  27. grace Avatar

    Yes. so much YES. we are Always Welcomed. We are Always Included. Always. there is never a question or doubt…it’s a
    GIVEN and how great and loving is that…to know that, to be
    FREE within that Knowing….

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  28. handstories Avatar

    How family should be. oxx

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  29. Mo Crow Avatar

    in your hands they are!

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  30. Linda Avatar

    your drawing is magic

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