Today,  just full.   Full.  of Everything.

Went to drop off the mouse and stopped by the mailbox.

 

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From Saskia.   Tales from the birdhut.  Her March 6th Post about these small pillows…..when i saw them all together,  i needed this one.  Purchased… (Why do i say  "purchased" when speaking about Art?  I do that for nothing else….everything else, i want to BUY..Art i "purchase" ….like it's more polite than Buy?)  Anyway,  it arrived.

it's so amazing,  always that you can see and feel the maker.  I could see this small pillow anywhere in the world and i would recognize it as coming from her hand.

about a week before she posted about these,  both daughter Jenny and Alyssia had asked me to think what was really important for me to be included in my little house on the Hill.  Two things came to mind…a ceiling fan if possible and a windowsill.  a single windowsill is fine.  But i would love to have a windowsill.  These metal homes like i live in,  have lived in for the last 20 years,  have no windowsills.

The top of the book shelf has served in its way as that but i won't have the bookshelves in the new place.  So…a windowsill.  And looking at the photographs of the small pillows on Saskia's blog,  i immediately "SAW" this small pillow on the windowsill there.  I saw it as a place where someone,  anyone,  might place a thought or a feeling they were considering or wondering about.  A place for a thought or feeling to rest.  and i thought of Destiny who has many things she considers.  Maybe her. It's perfect.  and i had the urge to try it out but then thought no…i will wait.  I will set it on that windowsill and begin There.

My brother and his son return from Arizona any minute now and will leave for their train back to Minnesota on Tuesday i think.  I look forward to hearing about their trip.  The friend they visited works with horses as therapy beings.  

 

 

 

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20 responses to “my heart”

  1. Nanette Avatar

    Windowsills..yes! When I moved to this house a year ago and started renovating, I told the builder….windowsills everywhere, wide enough for cat’s bottoms so they can look out and room for whatever I want to put there. Wonderful pillow!

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  2. grace Avatar

    yes…am excited about a windowsill, even one.
    it is a Wonderful pillow…so much Her…..

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar

    what a beauty!

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  4. Liz A Avatar

    Saskia’s cloth and a windowsill … these would make me smile, too

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  5. jude Avatar

    we looked at a small stone house in Turkey with windowsills that were 2 feet deep!

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  6. debbie.weaver Avatar

    Windowsills are great and Saskia’s cushion wonderful, I would like to own one as well.

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  7. ali Avatar
    ali

    So charmed by your writings today Grace, rescued mice, embroidered little pillow (lovely idea) and windowsills. We just got two hedgehogs back to release into the garden. Rescued them last Autumn because they were too small to make it through hibernation and they went to a hedgehog sanctuary for the winter until they were big enough to go back into the wild – not that the garden is that wild.

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  8. vicky aka stichr Avatar

    windowsills. we have them now too, in this manu home that isn’t metal, like we had before too. tho we did have a sill or two then because of rot.
    i grew up in stick built. want to live in stick built again.

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  9. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    It is the little things that can get us through the day, thanks for that reminder!

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  10. dee Avatar

    from fences (last post) to windowsills and then to SKY (next post). there is transition, so much movement and also stillness. Windowsills are things, but symbols too, of the domestic edge of the world, a place to look out. Pillows, too — of domestic comfort, where we lay our heads down.

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  11. saskia Avatar

    btw the title: The twoGoldenBirds
    on your windowsill, who would have imagined

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  12. grace Avatar

    there is So Much in it, about it

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  13. grace Avatar

    can you SEE it??????

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  14. grace Avatar

    a small stone house
    DEEEEEEP windowsills…for Everything, Anything…..
    i see some kind of vessel of water, shimmering

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  15. grace Avatar

    they are Strong, the cushions, could hold Anything

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  16. grace Avatar

    ….hedgehogs….i only know them by images, have never
    been in the presence, but i love the thought of it….
    and
    a hedgehog sanctuary…o….this is just so tender….

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  17. grace Avatar

    you know…it really doesn’t matter, really, as long as
    our stuff is dry

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  18. grace Avatar

    sometimes little is BIG

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  19. grace Avatar

    ah…you give the word
    domestic
    domestic……..~

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  20. grace Avatar

    we would have. the two Golden Birds. yes.

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