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you realize how little,  really,  there is to it.  We mostly focus on their Wings.  Their Wings.  Butterfly Wings.  but then,  there's their bodies.  Which aren't much at all.  But then,  there is the Spirit of butterflies,  the All that they cause in us when we see them,  sailing and sailing and sailing

but back to the bodies,  the physical bodies.  How did they evolve?  I don't know.  I never have taken the time to find out.  I know that their numbers are dwindling.  Maybe i should know how they came to be.   

as i tried to stitch today,  the day all RAIN and so little light and i turned on the light of the table battery to even see enough to put the needle to cloth and couldn't really tell how that was going,  i couldn't see,  the body so few stitches of single thread of Deb's floss.  So little,  this body that carries the Wings.  But these butterflies,  the midwives to whatever that is in the center, getting born,  no matter what.

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15 responses to “to stitch a butterfly’s body”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    butterflies are such beautiful beings, I carved a glass bell jar with a spiral of butterflies half a lifetime ago, learned a lot about how their wings attach to the body, the geometry of the venation in the wings, the way their antennas have rounded clubs on the ends & moths have feathers, which direction their tongues spiral…
    https://itscrowtime.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/butterfly-decanter-by-mo-orkiszewski-1987.jpg

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    you both do it so well Mo and Grace

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  3. Michelle Slater Avatar

    Wow Mo and Grace, how I love how you love things. Googled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_butterflies

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  4. Liz A Avatar

    stitches like the gentle tracings of your pencil … they read true

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  5. Laura R Avatar
    Laura R

    Your butterflies are beautiful. Indeed, the day was dark, and it looks like more of the same today, but with more electric and damp air. It makes me feel miserable and tetchy. I wish I didn’t have to go out in this storm. I wish you a warm day with good-enough light. How do the goats fare? I guess you have to go out to tend…

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  6. dee Avatar

    and there’s our destructo-in-chief plowing through a national butterfly sanctuary to build his wall

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  7. Deb Avatar

    that gold/orange piece on the bottom. I remember hatching it from a mason jar. When I held it up to the light, the juices ran down my arms and I didn’t care.

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  8. Deb Avatar

    You bring it all to life!

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    this is Beauty FULL, Mo

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    oh, again, Thank YOU!

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    even a single strand of thread is more than their reality

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    love the word….tetchy…yes. That’s exactly it…tetchy

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes…such grief if that takes place

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    yup…your hatchling…no one would care, the JOY
    and unadulterated pleasure would have RULED

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