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this is the Daughter Cloth.   the daughter brought it to me a couple days ago.  

I'd sent it with her the first time she left New Mexico.  With the Goats.   As she notes,  everything i make for her is unfinished.  This is true.  It's very unfinished,  but enough to send with her.  I said someday i'd finish it.   It's back now.  Someday has come.

it was in the midst of Jude's Online Classes.  Jude Hill.  Spirit Cloth.   the great part of it is woven scrap household cloth,  all stained and worn that i found over time at the thrift shop.  The strips are 2 and 3".   I stood on a ladder to weave them and at the same time baste them to a light weight cotton blanket,  thrifted.  Pics of this are somewhere in the archives.  I looked for them,  but gave up.  They're there.  Then the square,  what i will call a large doily thing,  i forget it's formal name…Deanna 7 trees knows.   

 


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the Goat.  On it's way.  Just Going…..from work in Jude's Patchwork Beasts.

 


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how many years ago, now?????  i'm not sure.  but it's up again today.  5 x 6 ft give or take.  I look at it.  I've learned a lot since then.    Looking today,  i wonder what i will add?  How will i change it?   The Goat has reached her destination ….the Hill of the top left corner.  Had followed a rainbow road.  Arrived now.  

It's the EVE.   This morning before light,  i read Peggy's post,  Woman with Wings . blogspot .  All ,  and she pointed me to Rebecca Desnos,  her publication….Plants are Magic.  and an interview therein on her blog with Liz Spencer,  Dogwood Dyer.

I am working on how to learn to live with the element of Fire as ever present.  There's a way.  I just need to find it,  Learn it.

and when i read these two women's work,  it popped.   Sudden and clear.  You plant.   that's all,  you Plant.  How great!,  because so much of the calendar   review,    so much of what will be added in this New Year… is   Planting.   I sat,  long,  on the hill above Campsite B.  Next to the Janet Chair where the Solstice flags fly.  Sat,  looking.   There's no house there.  I don't know when there might be one.  But there is Earth.  To plant in.   A language to Fire.  Planting.  ?  I think so.

An oh so Gentle and Loving Eve to all who come here,  who mean so much to me.  Love and Love,  and let us go with a joyful fierceness toward Goodness for All.

Thank YOU…ALL.  so much.  Thank YOU ALL.  love….

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28 responses to “an Excellent and so Wonder Full New Year’s Eve to YOU All…Love and Love”

  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    The daughter cloth:
    https://windthread.typepad.com/windthread/2013/03/white-i-did-work-with-white-the-daughter-cloth.html
    Love to you on this eve of Ano Nuevo: here we are hunkered down waiting for more snow, said to be fierce here until tomorrow night. Before it got dark, I went outside, leaving footprints in the snow in the back and front years, looking at the plants underneath their topping of snow. Noticed how the herbs, rosemary, thyme and oregano have hung on and to my deep joy, underneath some snow and leaves, arugula so we will have it tomorrow for salad. and underneath some leaves, found some arugula, gave me such joy, ANd I love your words, “joyful fierceness” . See I usually speak of quiet joys but sometimes only fierce joy will do for fierce joy drives us to do what comes next and so we go into 2019…

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  2. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    meant to say back and front yards but I guess given that the new yeaar will be here soon, I have years on my mind…

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  3. me-ml Avatar
    me-ml

    ..never finished.. are mothers and daughters ever “finished”?
    this year will soon be. so many of you here have held me together with your words. grateful for more time, and for open generous women! and a place to be. X Thank YOU for sharing your space and heart.

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  4. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    I love you Grace .. your daughter quilt is a true treasure. Seeing your bed and how you are able to wake to this that holds so much of the past and the future is just soooo beautiful.

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  5. Laura R Avatar
    Laura R

    Happy New Year, Grace!
    XOXO
    L

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    i read it that way…context moved me along, and i read your world, am still connected to the “old” one in Polvadera, the cold there…are they letting the water drip?????
    Years remain on our minds…

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    marylou…no. they are Not. Ever. We are Here, both mother/daughters. Women. and as Women, we know the need to hold. To provide a place to be.
    My Great and BIG love to you

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    my bed….your quilt upon that bed, under that Cloth.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    and so much to you, Laura….a NEW year!!!!

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  10. Mo Crow Avatar

    a toast (clink!!!) to a whole new year ahead!

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  11. Michelle Slater Avatar

    Every moment’s a new Year. Followed the link back to the ‘white’ post. This is a wonderful cloth whether you add to it or not. Love the photo of you working on it. Judes card to me said ‘We made it”. WE DID and we just keep on doing that. Big love to you dear Grace.

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  12. cynthia Avatar
    cynthia

    ..i loved the idea of footprints in the back and front years..so many small and large personal things are shared here that i simply thought this was one of yours..and immediately started to think of how i could share and develop this idea with a small girl who has suddenly discovered the delight of foot prints paw prints..markings in the land and the snow.. gentle day Marti

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    yes every moment there start a new year with a other cipher in front
    it’s how we look at it , thank you all you read here the written words as answer or question or comment of our own thoughts .
    big hug from the heart let love grow and shine , i will from Belgium/Flandres to your part of the world !

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  14. Deb G Avatar

    I hope we are always growing…sending love. 🙂

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  15. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    The center–the charming happy goat –the hill. Hope, promise and happiness.
    Yes, to planting. I have my seeds ready to go.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. we did and we Do

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    i feel the Flandres hug….it’s light and strong at
    the same time..
    love, love, Maria

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    my guess is that we will be

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    we gaze lovingly at the box of seeds from you. Soon.
    Must start inside Feb l at latest!

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  20. Beth Avatar

    Love and happy new year Grace.

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  21. Angela G. Shipley Avatar

    A Blessed New Year to you, Dear Grace! Namaste

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  22. Dana Webb Avatar

    Happy happy New Year to you and all your relations.

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  23. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    happy new year, grace, emrey, alyssia, julian, jennie, jennie’s man and all.

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  24. Liz A Avatar

    I wandered through old posts … before my time … so glad I found my way here
    And yes, the frolicking goat … such joy in cloth

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  25. Nancy Avatar

    6 days later I arrive to say, Ah the daughter cloth…how well I remember it, you, that time. You on the ladder weaving…I could follow the link, but it is all so set in my memory. We are never done with planting, cloths and daughters, some in different places of growth.
    Much love to you in the New Year. xo

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