so to clarify. Yesterday, when i said "the background of unknowing, of confusion". I was referring to the larger world, the world of society that we live in. The one in which there is so much unknowing, confusion, betrayal, dishonesty, anger, violence….a tangle of those things, that present to us daily in the news. That is the ground cloth here…the tangle, the confusion. Atop that, is the piece of SKY. Deb Lacativa. you recognize her cloth now, i'm sure. None else like it and as the plain soft muslin of earth beneath it, nothing here about tangle or confusion. Both, one Cloth.
On Being Ellen Langer, the Science of Mindlessness and Mindfulness….most recent episode. I listened while i drank the morning tea(s)..(3). and it brought to mind an old tool i'd forgotten. The thing of And and But.
How often, to ourselves in our own mind and also out loud to others, we present something and then use the word But and continue with something else. How the word But creates a dichotomy….stops things up short…closes a door….creates a divide. And in the practice that i thought up, i catch myself everytime i use that word but and instead, replace it with AND.
there is a very significant difference. In this Cloth, it's clear.
I could think…there is all the tangle of confusion heartbreak that is the undercurrent to the days of this life in 2017 BUT i can find Joy
or
I can exchange the word But for the word AND. Which then would be inclusive
There is all the tangle of confusion and heartbreak that is the undercurrent to the days and i can find Joy. Is the difference subtle or not? But acknowledges dichotomy. Separation.
And is inclusive. It is ALSO. Equal.
so…(Jude)….here it is. Lesson of early November…. What began as laying a small rectangular piece of the folded edge of something Deb sent…a body became. The angle of that led to the face. I'd thought it would be a small cloth but the face said that there needed to be Sky above. Enough to indicate vastness. This changed everything. Nothing worked anymore….needed more Earth if there was more Sky. ok. then that Kite appeared. NEVER IMAGINED. but there it was. ok again.
How great is this? that Cloth gives so much.
the joy of stitching the Tail of the kite with Deb's Dirty Thread
i'm on a mission to try to get Fatter. Peanutbutter cookies.
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