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it's Good.

 

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the orange with the holes.  Because it's about the Big Going,  and because i will keep this one,  i can put this small fragment on.  It's from Jude.  a long time ago.  I just have held it now and then,  loved what it is,  so fragile and so full of Magic.  But it can be stitched on here,  now.

 

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and the scrap of the WW2 kimono that i got at Rag Stock in Minneapolis  (where Prince used to shop) the mars violet scrap with once again, the circles that means Magic to me….why?…..how there is so so little of it left.  Back in the day of making  "dolls"  i used it to make the bodies of the Coyote Women.  i can stitch this down here.

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and this black/white that i treasure.  Again from Jude.  it's on the inside of the cloth too…just to the right but mostly the B side there.  How if i ever were to find something similar i would faint.  Why do i love it so much?  Well…black/white is also about Magic,  the the print here is vague enough, organic enough, and the weave of the cloth

so i can stitch this down too.  it's all there is.  but i can.

i'm thinking now about what to Take and What to leave.  There's stuff like bowls and pie plates.  actual plates.  cast iron pans.  stainless steel pots that i got for the cheese making.  a whole range of pyrex casserole thingys.  canning jars.  all the stuff in the kitchen junk drawer.  I instilled a strong sense of a kitchen junk drawer in all my kids,  first and grand.  the junk drawer.  which shifts to tools.  all the tools.  the needed and the useless but beauty Full.  two circular saws, an electric chain saw,  the wood splitter.  3 wheel barrows and another thing like a wheel barrow for hauling goat feed.  Rakes.  shovels of all kind.  hand saws.  Picks,  large and small.  stake pounder, can't think of the name,  vehicle battery charger.  an enormous assortment of screws/nails, washers etc.  a two horse horse trailer even tho we will need a 4 horse for all the Goats.  This is right off the top of my head.  and then there's all the Goat stuff.  bowls, tubs, fencing,  baling wire,  wire cutters to cut those things,  t posts.  

and then…harder…stuff in the house…cigar boxes, wood boxes,  all manner of funny art supplies, the old broken Viking Sewing Machine,  my mother's 30's Singer.  and harder,  outside,  the Janet Chairs,  that Mirror,  the Wood on the gate and  out at the Raft.  

and rocks.  

Soon,  if the deal goes through,  i'll know better when i need to really take all this wanderingWonder seriously and begin.  Right now,  i can just get used to the feel of it.

 

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Update on Fate.  16 months old.  Favorite book:  Hop on Pop

 

 

 

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29 responses to “stuff”

  1. Irene Avatar
    Irene

    I have moved about 20 times in my life…it never gets any easier. I still look for certain things until I finally realize that I didn’t take them to AZ.

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  2. grace Avatar

    and How Does That FEEEEEL? that you didn’t take them?

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar

    I love the whole thing about moving, the sorting, the memories, the letting go, the careful packing & then the exploration of the new space that becomes Home once again!

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  4. margaret johnson Avatar
    margaret johnson

    What a gorgeous little boy Fate is oxox
    As far as what to take with you…definately take what you will need to use. Out door tools etc. ‘cos they will cost heaps to replace and the quality won’t be as good. Indoors the same, everything you will need to use..as well as those things that make you feel good.
    I still miss my beautiful rocks I had to leave behind. I was able to bring some with me though.
    What an exciting time for you and your Family Grace….oxox

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  5. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    BIG thinking for BIG going. Whew.
    For Fate:
    https://youtu.be/kWXdf5Elg7s

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  6. julie Avatar

    Will you have your own residence in the compiund? (Is this how the Kennedy’s talk to one another?)
    The Janet chairs could go down by the creek.

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  7. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Fate … oh those eyes and that hair … he looks very happy and healthy. Moving is hard but being with your family and creating a new space for yourself will happen. One piece at a time just like this latest piece you are spending time with … it all comes together beautifully.

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  8. jude Avatar

    scraps of self. what to keep what to share, or let go. time sure does fly.

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  9. Joy Avatar
    Joy

    Your fabric composition is really coming together Grace. I like the myriad of colors, how you are framing the face. Moving is such a huge undertaking…

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  10. cynthia Avatar
    cynthia

    tools and the things that touch your heart..last week i was making a cinnamon fungicide for the e too hundred fig saplings in my basement..and after a night of steeping i needed to strain it and then decant it..the simplest of instructions..and really it was not hard to do..but oh it made such a thick thick slurry..
    and the filtering and straining took forever..and all i could think of were the beautiful set of circular increasing fine copper industrial strainers my husband had once rescued from a lab throw away pile..used..loved..and left accidentally on a shelf ..in another house..how perfectly they would have worked..and so easily.(.the house smells amazing and the spraying each day is truly pleasant..and it has worked well..)
    it is strange the things that are hard to part with..and personally..i will send you pyrex or whatever if it means you can take a rock..a chair a..anything that touches your heart..who can truly say what is the practical..
    how can the beautiful Fate be 16 months old??
    gentle day grace

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  11. handstories Avatar

    Look at Fate! A Person, complete with favorites.

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  12. Nina Avatar
    Nina

    So glad to hear of your move possibility. I hear Northern California is beautiful, although in a different way than New Mexico, I am sure. So lovely to be near your family, particularly when your grandchildren will be close.
    When I moved back to the New York area after having lived in Israel for a number of years, I felt joy for the greenness that I found surrounding me, but I mourned, for a very long time (and still do now to some extent), the big open sky and the desert, and the red Judean Hills. My compromise was to live in a green area, but very close to the ocean, where that big panoramic view is within reach. It’s never the same, and when I am one place, I long for the opposite.

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  13. ali Avatar
    ali

    Beautiful boy, Grace.
    Loved the trip round your scraps, how much love and meaning there is in cloth, and reminded me how we can resonate with material things which comes back to the mammoth task you have on hand. Wishing you wisdom and judgement in your sifting.

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  14. saskia Avatar

    wow, time sure does fly, he looks healthy and happy

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  15. grace Avatar

    when i left Michigan, i just Left. Took the barest minimum,
    what would fit into banana boxes and stack into the Econoline
    Van to create a bed and a shelf like. I left a whole 2 story house of stuff. Things in the refrigerator, cupboards. Furniture. I told everyone i knew…come and take what you
    want. Door is unlocked.

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  16. Mo Crow Avatar

    have lived in 49 houses in my 62 years on this planet & made a garden in every one since I left home at 18, my folks moved a lot too for my dad’s work, my Mom is the queen of moving with no dramas, it was always an adventure!

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  17. grace Avatar

    my Eyes are looking with all this in mind. My new space
    will be smaller. I can get a storage shed and i think i might.
    Just keep things in it. shelves. Like all my books. Art
    supplies. Go in there, like a library when i need something.
    But the living space, keep it clear.
    and yes. rocks. some. but they belong to New Mexico. I might
    leave almost all. The ones i brought from Michigan i’ll take.
    and Fate. he is. he is just great. Happy and loves learning
    Everything even things like mastering the use of a fork.

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  18. grace Avatar

    don’t you just love how Dr. S is good and good and good…
    generation after generation??????

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  19. grace Avatar

    that’s such a tender tender song

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  20. grace Avatar

    it’s going to hard to decide placement of the Janet Chairs…
    they may move from place to place…it’s my guess
    and yes. my own hut.

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  21. grace Avatar

    one piece at a time and getting clear on what matters…that
    i’m learning from this Cloth today, Sunday…

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  22. grace Avatar
  23. grace Avatar

    well…i’m answering this Sunday and the Cloth is
    asking many qustions

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  24. grace Avatar

    ahhhhhhhh…i can visualize the fine copper industrial strainers…, oh, yes,
    and well, to be truthful, i am very attached to my
    assortment of pyrex casserole and bread thingys. It will
    be a humorous list of what i decide i want to take

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  25. grace Avatar

    yes. so complete. a very complete boy.
    and we see that he is left handed!

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  26. grace Avatar

    i began thinking today that really, i am LUCKY at the possibility
    of Loving two places deeply. That it’s really a great gift.
    I will NEVER not long for this place. But only because i love
    it to the degree i have and do. am Thankful for this.

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  27. grace Avatar

    i’ll be good with the sifting.
    Granddaughter is a pack rat. Her thinking is to just take
    EVERYTHING and decide when i get there. Says we can get
    a GIANT U Haul truck that will fit the world

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  28. grace Avatar

    he is. healthy, happy, such Luck considering the beginning. But
    he came through with flying banners of beauty

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