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my world got Big today

Nina of Ruit Farm in Maine….ruitfarm.wordpress.com….is READY.  Those of us who really wish there was something happening in the Goat world here can go there and experience things to come.  These moments of hers now are what i look forward to so much when we are settled in the Next Place.  So much floods back of that first spring they came  here,  when 14 kids were born.  All without a hitch.  Go check it out and be on hand for the big moments.  and please leave her a message that you came.

and then….Deb Lacativa …morewgalo.blogspot….her today's post about a call for work.  threadsofresistence.blogspot.com

 

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is Love a kind of Resistance?  For me it is….as i wrote about the other day,  that i won't let what's happening take my heart down,  i won't let it take my reality away,  my days that are hand and hand with this Planet Earth….is that a kind of Resistance? and would this cloth be relevant?   Entries need to be a minimum of 20×20.  and so this walnut dye cotton.  Down in the low right hand corner is the place for the Lizard.  So.  I look at it pinned and wonder.  I've never sent anything for jury,  well, Cloth.  Back in the day,  i sent the "dolls",  the fiber figures.  I kind of like doing that.  it's about believing in what you make.  But in this particular instance,  i'm not sure it's relevant….but then,  who cares.  I might just do it.

 

 

 

 

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20 responses to “my world got Big today”

  1. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    Thank you for the link to Threads of Resistance … I’ve put the blog into my Kindred Spirits and asked to be put on their email list. I love how your cloth has expanded in response to the call!

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  2. Acey Avatar
    Acey

    grace, i really really understand (and love) what you said about not letting All That take your reality away. Or love. Ever since that day i barely remember that i wrote the long story about in comments i have been thinking about a particular quote that has always inspired and strengthened me. I do not remember exactly which tribe it comes from but i think it might be Lakota: a nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground. some years back i left the quote in comments at jude’s over something upsetting but nowhere near like what has become just another day in our present tense. operational word: tense and that is as good as any reason to be in ongoing touch with the looser side of things. the ordinary belovedness we have created to match up the world/life we choose with the core truths of who we are. right now i’m damn proud to be living free and wild in the common/wealth of massachusetts. don’t one bit like why i am feeling that kind of tribal thing about a marked-off area of the land, but yeah. I persist, just like she did. As we all do. And persisting can be as gentle and lovingly subtle as we please. the profound resistance to despair and over the top hatred in living a daily life of quiet reverence. our hearts are resilient as all hell. that’s part of the ongoing definition of being an old woman, isn’t it?

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Grace all you need to do to add a real LINK to a site you want us to share is add http://ruitfarm.wordpress.com and http://threadsofresistence.blogspot.com
    May I suggest you pull the tail out to hang down in front of the bottom border. It looks good in the center set off by the brown cloth.

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  4. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Unfortunately threadsofresistence doesn’t work.

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  5. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Speaking of a big world: across the pond in Australia, Barry Smith sculptural artist posted a message of hope and peace on his blog.
    http://rustnstuff.blogspot.com/2017/02/hope-and-peace-giveaway.html
    He offered to send the first 10 people who responded, one of his beautifully made unique pendants. He only asked that we share our thoughts re hope and peace. More than 10 replied so more than 10 will receive one of his amazing pendants. Barry reached out across the planet with kindness and generosity. In so doing, he has demonstrated that in the face of so much turmoil, the simple core value of friendship and generosity connects us all.

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  6. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    http://threadsofresistance.blogspot.com/

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  7. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    allowing space for deep listening

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  8. Cheryl Avatar
    Cheryl

    Thank you for these words, Acey. I am so encouraged by the women who gather together in this virtual space of an ever-expanding Internet, going and growing like an organic lace, together making each of us stronger. Last night a group of us who meet periodically in the physical world were wondering how to best respond to friends and family who seem to be increasingly polarized on both sides of our current “situation.” I wish I had known your words, “… persisting can be as gentle and lovingly subtle as we please.”
    BTW I believe the quotation, “A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground. Then it’s finished; no matter how brave its warriors or how strong its women.” is from a Cheyenne proverb before their split into Northern and Southern tribes. As long as each of us persists, no matter how big or small our influence seems, “they” will never find our collective hearts on the ground.

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  9. Cheryl Avatar
    Cheryl

    Oops – typos and auto correct get me every time! The end of the quote should be weapons, not women!!! Geez.

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  10. yvette Avatar
    yvette

    so much to think over
    but want to follow it all
    be with you

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  11. Nina Avatar
    Nina

    Thanks, Grace, for pointing out my farm. I wish I were as ready as you think I am!!! I am excited to dream of your coming time in California, where you can again breed your beautiful goats. And most likely not have to worry about minus degrees in the winter, or so I hope!
    I love the quote ‘a nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground.’ So true. My heart is with all of us women who are rising up to speak truth to power. We must. No matter how difficult some days feel. I take heart from my beautiful goaties. They are my tonic to what is going on in the world. And your beautiful work is another way to handle this. I hope you do put your piece into the juried show!

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    it’s Sunday now and i’m re thinking

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  13. grace Avatar
    grace

    i love every single word you offer here. I have writting them
    down, each word and i keep them here on this desk.
    Thank You, Acey so so much

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    i think we’re all good at context

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  15. grace Avatar
    grace

    nothing hanging allowed or i would…

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    and i see you were among the 10

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    need

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    we will go ToGether

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  19. grace Avatar
    grace

    it’s Amazing to me, how much Goats create sanity and
    balance by simply being.
    Daughter and i talked today about how they will love that Hill

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  20. Deb Avatar
    Deb

    even from the fringes, I love this community.

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