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on the wall.   across the "room"  from where i sit at the table which is the Everything Table.   this walnut dyed big Cloth of pieces.  That is the looking cloth.  

this one has been there for a couple months at least.

 


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there is that Eye.   The Eye of Place.   What looks back at me as i look at this Earth here,  as i looked at the Earth everywhere i have found myself living.   And then…well,  i guess      shapes of color of movement of form of Maybe of Who knows  made of the smallest scraps of cloth just fluttering,  how it is,  that all of the whatever of Place just flutters….you have to be still,  day unto day to see        And then wonder       And then be ok with not knowing

 


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it is a piece of very old,  worn,  linen…almost not there anymore and stitched with those flutterings, the eye,  to a piece of harem cloth.   it has no weight at all.    

I need to keep it just like this.   just this.   no backing,  no border,  no nothing more.    It's a Holding Cloth.  The only thing about it that has any weight is the small form of a new seedling at the bottom that was added maybe a week ago?,   but added  and grounds it somehow even tho it cannot be grounded.

when i take it off the Looking Cloth and hold it in my hands,  and look upon it,          there is nothing more in my mind.  All the mess of things of this world simply dissolves without effort…just is gone.   I only have this thin cloth,  the shapes and colors.  That's it.    Until i put it down.    Two distinct and competely different  "places".   The place of the Cloth   and the place of this world.   That's all i can say about it,   but i wish i could say more,  but there isn't any more.  Just this.

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21 responses to “cloth. this small cloth.”

  1. jude Avatar

    very much like a cloth here, i don’t talk about it much…

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  2. Liz A from Texas Avatar

    the seedling reaching up … and the sense of touch, how it is integral to this piece of cloth … of all pieces of cloth, really …

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar

    love how this fragile cloth honours the spirits of place in The Hill

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  4. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Place, cloth scraps, stitched bits; was looking at the cloth on my niche, small dyed cloth scraps from TN,carried in a jar on the floor of the car as we drove here to New Mexico…first bundles of dirt, leaves and bark from here and how it all came together in a cloth that speaks even now, of journey, of how those TN scraps were the first stitched on the first NM cloth and how we found a little Mexican market filled with chiles of all kinds and we bought Hatch and some tiny pequin chile peppers and how I knew that one of the pequins needed to be stitched in a corner of this first cloth- to anchor us to this place… scraps, small things, offerings of place, signifying an on-going life.

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  5. sarita Avatar

    This takes my breath away…I can’t find any words…♡

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    this could be the last Cloth i would make

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. the seedling

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    honors all Place, really

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    they can Mark and Hold things beyond well enough.

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  10. Deb G Avatar

    Be okay with not knowing, yes…

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  11. sarita Avatar
    sarita

    My comments have not gone thru on anyone’s blogs this week….makes me sad. But not giving up!
    This post, today, your small fragile cloth has left me…breathless, speechless. It speaks to me deeply.♡

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    i just emailed you. This one above came through fine…
    all the others are there…like about the wedding bouquet of hydrangea….
    i explained in the email…
    i am so happy to read your words here about this cloth…
    they have great meaning to me…
    thank you so much….
    love

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  13. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    The strength of a small, fragile, natural cloth with a nonjudgemental eye, and tiny bits of lovely colors made a holding cloth, a meditative cloth.
    Is medication available yet for your GD?

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  14. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    If it carries the spirit that moves you … it’s enough!

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  15. Yvette Avatar

    Holding cloth…..comfort cloth….tender
    Wish I were there with you
    Love

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  16. Nancy Avatar

    Those flitting bits. Life. Fleeting.
    Not knowing is hard for me right now, but I’m working at that.
    Don’t understand, why the last cloth?

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    sometimes there’s no choice….there’s just no choice
    because you can’t imagine a way to be

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    i don’t know….we haven’t talked about it.

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s what IS. just IS

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    how so Wonder FULL that would be, yes? I
    like to imagine that….you sitting here with
    Poika

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar

    nothing’s coming

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