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wanted to see what it might be like….Deb Lacativa's Dirty Thread for the leaves,  there's going to  need to be a LOT of leaves,  that canopy that Jenny told me about,  so a lot…thick

Deb's thread is beyond FINE.  i can barely stand the pleasure of it.  Like i say about drawing with graphite…Better than sex.  it's like that.

 

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the soundtrack of Now and as i imagine it,  the soundtrack of getting there and then the soundtrack of learning There .  Maybe the soundtrack of all the from now on Going.  ??   You can find it on UTube.

What a brilliant young woman she is.  Like the brilliant young women of my daughter and grand daughter,  i LOVE young women,  how they carry SEEDS of Everything in their Going,  how great it will be to have the privilege of watching this Happen,  young women flinging life seeds

 

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got this from Montana Joe,  manhandledthreads.blogspot.com some years back.  For no other reason than its BEAUTY and GENIUS.  Will pack it in the black toy box.  For the kids.  So they can understand history.  

it's 5:38 pm.  so close to Dark, but still some vague light on the Rim.  To be honest,  i am grateful for night.  This waiting is hard.  Night brings a kind of reprieve,  in the crazy dreams that have stuff to solve and resolve but won't happen,  really.  Bizzy,  but of no consequence,  unlike the Day.

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  1. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    love the stitched canopy of leaves with Deb’s magic threads & that is a beautiful old machine, what year was it made? it looks fancier and older than my hand cranked 1933 Singer

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  2. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Zoë Keating is a one-woman orchestra. She uses a cello and a foot-controlled laptop to record layer upon layer of cello, creating intricate, haunting and compelling music. Zoë is known for both her use of technology – which she uses to sample her cello onstage – and for her DIY approach, releasing her music online without the help of a record label. Born in Canada and a cellist since the age of eight, Zoë obtained a liberal arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College and spent her 20’s working at a software startup while moonlighting as a cellist in rock bands. She eventually combined the cello and the computer, developing her signature style of live-layered music while improvising for late night crowds at her Francisco warehouse. Zoë’s grassroots, label-less approach has garnered her much public attention and press. She was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and serves on the boards of the Magik Magik Orchestra and CASH Music, a nonprofit organization that builds open source digital tools for musicians and labels. As a cellist, Zoë has played with a wide range of artists, including Imogen Heap, Amanda Palmer, Tears for Fears, DJ Shadow, Dan Hicks, Thomas Dolby, John Vanderslice, Rasputina, Pomplamoose and Paolo Nutini. She has collaborated with WNYC’s Radiolab and lends her music regularly to film, tv, dance productions and commercials. In August 2014 she started composing for the A&E drama “The Returned”, due to air in March 2015. Zoë lives in a redwood forest in Northern California. http://www.zoekeating.com/bio.html Tracklist: 1. Exurgency 2. Walking Man 3. Arrival 4. Updraught 5. Coda
    https://youtu.be/gAI1murpSAc

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  3. grace Avatar
    grace

    i don’t know. i don’t remember….it was a time that was so
    FULL of things…and like now, so full of things….just
    taking what appears????? in the moment?????
    I’ll look more closely tomorrow…see if i can go back, see
    if i can ask Montana Joe

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  4. grace Avatar
    grace

    Michelle…how deeply grateful i am that you are gifted with
    finding these links to the MORE of things…me, so primitive

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  5. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    just typed in Singer in your search box in the sidebar, it’s a Singer 28K from the late 1800’s (your post 166- Lust 08/13/2013)
    such a beautiful machine!

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  6. cynthia Avatar
    cynthia

    ..i wake up each morning..and come here..taking an extra bit of pleasure in finding the next part of the journey..in still having your words to keep with me during the day..seeing the responses..the back and forth of the familiar names.. who add on and fill in and. people a world that is as real to me as the one i actually walk in here…this place where i sit in the early morning light in the summer and the dark with no shapes on these going into late fall mornings..i feel torn..sitting here..first cup of coffee and wind thread..my morning pleasures…because of course even more than this..i want you to be on your way..to not be waiting..this less fluid part of transitions..it is good that night brings a reprieve..but of course i want you safely…easily.. through tp the other side of this adventure… to another beginning..
    holding my breath ..knowing how i will wait for your words..your pictures your cloths..knowing how there will be such a space ..an emptiness ..knowing whatever i imagine will be so far off..so sketchy..and yet simply so glad for it all..enjoying with an extra sense the beauty of the leaves..the dirty thread..your presence this morning..any and every morning that you appear..
    enjoying the new backdrop of music and the unexpected appearance of the amazing sewing machine..just enjoying your presence..do you have your po box number yet..please share it as soon as you do..it would be so nice to be able to greet you there when you arrive..it is starting to get light and i am going out to check on the cows..they have developed a sense of wander lust..which is decidedly not funny..i will send the story later..now it almost makes me laugh..no actually not yet..and while night gives you a sense of reprieve..i feel that way as the dawn breaks enough to see their huge dark shapes ..sleeping mountains…and i breathe in and realize how tightly i have been holding my muscles..how i can come back in and look and see how this cloth has colors that echo the growing light on my horizon..how my mind leaps ahead imagines your fingers interpreting the landscapes so near where i where i grew up..because always..thank you for these mornings..these so important starts to my days ..gentle day grace

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  7. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Dirty thread leaves are beautiful. I had never heard of poison oak as a vine, so looked it up. Goats love to eat it and it does not affect them. Bring on the goats!!

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  8. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    You have put into words so many of my own personal feelings. Visiting here first thing in the morning as well as the last thing before going to bed …. reading and in my minds eye seeing you all in your different parts of the world. I feel loved.

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  9. dee Avatar
    dee

    “still some vague light on the Rim” and “Night brings a kind of reprieve”… love your words.
    I have my first batch of Dirty Threads. Not yet used.
    and that machine is one, maybe two iterations prior to the one I learned on… the black wasp body, the gold stamp on the body, the metal components — sturdy but feminine somehow

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  10. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    I have my grandmother’s treadle machine in the original cabinet. I should look it up and see what year it is.
    But there will always be hand sewing. Which I love best of all.
    I, too, look forward to reading your words each day. Usually in the morning or after work.
    They bring comfort.

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  11. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Me too.
    when she is absent I feel bereft.

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    never think to do that…search box in sidebar…you are
    Brilliant!
    and i went back to look and oh, how just so BeautyFULL was
    that August 2013…so so Beauty Full
    THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!FOR THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  13. grace Avatar
    grace

    you are so IMPORTANT to me…this response….SO important to me, gives me great Reason to be who/what i am, beyond my so small
    nothing self
    I love you cynthia

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    we go. All of Us. in our own ways and we take strength
    from one another

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  15. grace Avatar
    grace

    I LOVe.
    i love Us. so much. Us is me. I am something in this
    floating world because of YOU, the all of YOU, helps me
    be me

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. Goats love it. They cannot eradicate it, it’s a fierce
    plant, but they can “control” it. and with Joy.

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    black wasp body. feminine. Capable. For the kids.

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    joanne…you are my sister.
    these old machines…how Brilliant they are, tools.
    now that i understand that hand sewing is Strong, they
    are less necessary, but they represent such Beauty to me,
    their Brilliance
    your being here…call and response.

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  19. Deb Avatar
    Deb

    You made me chuckle..threads better than sex.

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  20. grace Avatar
    grace

    no…for real. Better than sex because with sex there’s the
    Other….the Rest of It that comes from a partner
    the Thread, like Graphite, is just its Self and Gives
    without wanting anything at all
    and is Satisfying. FILLS everything.

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  21. saskia Avatar
    saskia

    those leaves are so perfect!

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  22. Susan Hemann Avatar
    Susan Hemann

    wonderful stitching and thread, new on your blog, not sure i understand, are you moving?

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  23. grace Avatar
    grace

    i love. like LOVE. so much you presence here, Cynthia…
    you of the winter dark mountain forms…
    i will hold you when i arrive there…see for you. tell you.

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  24. grace Avatar
    grace

    Deb’s thread is magnificant.

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  25. grace Avatar
    grace

    Susan…i know you from all the years you have commented on
    Jude’s Spirit Cloth.
    and yes. i am moving.

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