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it's OK now.  Just some dark brown stitching to the branches and it's just very much ok now.  And there is reason why it's been hard that i understood when adding the dark brown…that Fallen Old Russian Olive Out Back…how yesterday eve and then again this morning i tripped on some of the scattered branches,  seeing self clearly,  how i've made ZERO effort to move any of them,  they lie where they fell and both those times realizing how that was such heartache,  even tho it had been dead for so long…but still there for the birds and how now,  all the ones, birds,  that have migrated back from wherever they went,  no longer have the tree.  This coming to me because i realized that the Mocking Bird pair no longer drive me crazy just outside the window…are somewhere over by the ditch where i still can hear them, but softly.  So now i understand this Cloth.  It's Good.

Listening to Jude talk about weaving sent me back into the Picasa archives to look at the Daughter Cloth i made for Jenny's initial trip to California with the Goats…that was in 2011 .  I was going to post the pics here tonight…they are beauty FULL,  how it was woven while hanging from the beam to the ROOM,  how i stood on a ladder to weave it.  But as it is and has been,  for some reason i can't upload those years onto Typepad.  Typepad only goes back to the 2015 pics in Picasa.  I don't know why.  So,  i fooled with things and now have created an uncomfortable mess that i don't know how i created and have no clue how to undo.  Uploading photographs at the end of the day is no longer pleasant.  It has more steps and i can't see what i'm uploading,  just the numbers of the pics.  This is a bummer.  But oh well.  Soon enough i'll disconnect this computer and need to reconnect There.  They know how to do things.  I'll wait.  

ADDENDUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I JUST THOUGHT….!!!!….if i go to the blog Archives and click,  it took me back…clicked into March of 2011!!!  and even there,  is the pic of when Ginger was new,  she's 6 now and just Out Back  HERE !, in this NOW,  with HER daughter Cinderella,  her mother Onday,  and even there is a pic of me and the Belov~ed Kadir.  OH EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeee

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how i have blindly counted on having access to my life through these pics…..today,  feeling how it might be to rely on my memory,  what a small room that is,  my own memory,  and how solitary.  I would not blog without pics.  There would be no point.  I could never begin to tell it in words. 

To be Grateful then that for now it's all here and to accept the possibility that it might not always be so.  Ok.  

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22 responses to “the Cloth offers understanding……then!!!!….ADDENDUM!!!!!”

  1. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    just back from a week in Myrtle Beach visiting my sister … I’m looking forward to some catching up here…. looking forward to seeing and reading all about what you have been up to.

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    wow…YOU go PLACES!!!!!
    just begin again with today. What’s past is past. Just life.
    Not remarkable, really, unless it’s your own….
    Love and you have sand in your shoes!!!

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  3. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Not Picasa but you did post some photos re the beautiful daughter cloth on your blog. Maybe this will help:
    http://windthread.typepad.com/windthread/2013/03/white-i-did-work-with-white-the-daughter-cloth.html

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  4. grace Avatar

    O!!!!!…EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, Marti……this is even BETTER!!
    this is a great link to it. WAY EASIER than going all the way back to it’s beginning…
    THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    SO MUCH!

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  5. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    U remember this (wept for Kadir) – Astoundingly beautiful cloth Grace.

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  6. grace Avatar

    kADIR. often remembered.
    Kadir…Anatolian Shepard. Guardian Livestock dog.
    We got him in Silver City NM…drove and drove to pick him up.
    from a breeder. His Grand Sire still in Turkey where the breed originates.
    They LIVE with the livestock. Among them. They are not herding dogs, but Guardians. This, after the down the way two german shepards breeched the 6ft fencing and dragged a goat kid over it. This, when SnowBunny, the matriarch Goat stood her ground to protect and had her face, throat and chest ripped….who Jenny cared for, irrigating the wounds after the vet told her to put her down, SnowBunny, who to this day we still so so much miss.
    as we do Kadir.
    the pattern is deep in Livestock Guardian Dogs. it repeats. Generation to Generation, no matter place…Turkey, New Mexico. There is an appearance that indicates Alert. There is forward movement to be present to the threat. There is bark to indicate this presence. There is forward rushing toward presence of threat. There is attack if the threat comes forward.
    Kadir. I am deep in grief for him still. He never left his yard. He simply STOOD, ready. He was shot.
    he fell.
    similar, i think in this moment, to the Russian Olive. Sudden for both of them. How Jenny felt. How she Gave UP.

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  7. Wendy@ Late StartStudio Avatar

    I thank Marti for the link taking me back to a time before we met Grace.
    And I have to say, I had locked the screen on my iPad and looked at your latest cloth upside down and saw from the centr of the Earth, fire and water and a tree! But then, I do live down under so I guess it’s okay it I look at things from another way up.

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  8. jude Avatar

    http://windthread.typepad.com/windthread/2011/05/a-more-sobering-view.html
    It just occurred t me, if you use the search bar in your sidebar, type in the words, in this case daughter cloth, it will list all the posts with those words. It is a handy tool to find old stuff, even words. 🙂 I use it a lot to search my old stuff.

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  9. Valerianna Avatar

    Love that thread-tree. 🙂

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  10. Mo Crow Avatar

    do you still have the raven cloth in the second photo in this link?
    http://windthread.typepad.com/windthread/2011/03/finding-the-one-necessity.html

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  11. grace Avatar

    no, i went to Wendy Golden Levitt’s children

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  12. Martine Bos Avatar

    I learned so much over here………..

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  13. grace Avatar

    i turned it today and it’s GRAND that way…amazing….!

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  14. grace Avatar

    you know, i have never even imagined what that Search might mean
    ignorance is not always bliss

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  15. grace Avatar

    yes…thread tree…MORE even, today

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  16. grace Avatar

    yes…i am. Married to trees. What could possibly be better?

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  17. grace Avatar

    about the Dog, Kadir? yes….he was a Magnificent Being
    before him, i had no idea. He showed me.
    He made kid Goats wet with the drool of his Love, but he would
    attack to whatever degree necessary to protect them.
    In Turkey they wear collars with spikes to aid them when protecting against wolves.

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  18. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    touching and so sad. I will never understand this sort of stupidity. I think I might have prosecuted that neighbor.

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  19. Dakotah Avatar

    I see there are years of your blog I never knew were there. On a ladder to weave…wow…and what a beautiful cloth. Neighbors…sigh

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  20. grace Avatar

    yeah. years. it began when i began with Jude. So i could
    keep track of what i was learning.

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