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in yesterdays comments,  Maria wondered…where are his roots?   are they cut off or are they dried up?  and this wondering realized that the second component would be the Mycelial world.   Lizard is later.   Forest.  Under world of Forest/Earth mind.

Which brought wondering that i carried all day,  an undercurrent to the doings,  mind pulling back into it……………………………? What was it like There?   that Earth,  what was my perception/sense/feltsense of Earth there?   on the right here are the plant bodies of two of the Grasses.  small root systems on each.  and then?, below that?   it was Desert.  True Desert.    Sand.  and deeper,  clay. Then more sand.    In many instances a plant or trees tap root would extend down to an aquifer.  But only where i'd planted those 20 years was any evidence of deomposition of plant matter,  compost,  and anything more than sand.   I WILLED things to grow.   Is this true?      I think and remember.    I am simplifying.  There must be More,  either that i don't remember or didn't ever know.  Maybe didn't ever know.   I knew of the concept of a mycelial world all during the time there.   But it was an understanding,  not the Reality that i found upon arriving here.

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19 responses to “slow down, grace”

  1. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    I have one of your lizards from NM .. she hangs just above my sewing machine so I see her often. This big piece is growing fast blending thoughts and memories from the past and present. The center looks to be like a giant sunburst warming what was and what is. It’s beautiful!

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    i hope.
    i hope that what EVOLVES now can warm US. That we
    can be warmed in the most loving sense. That we will
    respond like seeds.
    and i think the KEY to it is….if
    we can
    respond
    iike seeds

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  3. grace Forrest Avatar

    your quilt informs me
    a lot
    about this Cloth….what it might be FOR

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  4. sparrow Avatar
    sparrow

    “…if we can respond like seeds…”

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  5. Liz A Avatar

    the plant bodies of the grasses … how stitch holds the memory of them … sadly missed here in the now

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  6. Acey Avatar
    Acey

    love the dimensional component so much here. It’s such a great representation for your ongoing experience seeing things through new eyes there on the Hill.

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  7. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    Maybe some soft moss to walk or sit upon.
    You probably have a bit of mud after that storm yesterday. Those big storms are unusual here.
    Did you have the thunder and lightning? How were the animals?

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  8. Beth Avatar

    You may have willed it but you also gave manure, compost, and precious water.

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  9. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Oh I LOVE that thought.. to respond like seeds…

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  10. Kirsten Avatar
    Kirsten

    When looking at this, I see the stitching from the other side as almost like things in the distance which ends up adding a depth to this side. Not sure if what I am trying to say comes across. But i love the combination on this side of the ghost stitching and the now stitching.

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  11. jude Avatar

    funny how, in my limited expose to desert that I don’t think about earth there.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    they are Strong bodied. and yes. the stitch HOLDS
    that memory

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s very interesting….dimension….of Heart, of Memory

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    no…not the electrical components…it would have been easier if it were so. They do not love it.
    We all HUNKER

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    i did. but it was the Will

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    it does…i understand…and it is SO. this is Very Much
    how it is

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    i am still lost in thought about that.
    there was an all encompassing sense of RIM. of Horizon…such a HORIZONTAL thing. Here…Down into.
    Down. Into

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