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its been hanging here for some time now.  i pass it often and stop…look,  wonder,  remember.

 


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what year was that?   

when Jude started talking recently about large cloth,   i decided.   Since then things have unfolded that i couldn't have imagined.   It's really quite amazing that this time of 2020 is when the Other Side begins.   the side of Now.    RIGHT now,  lately,  i've been somewhere in some kind of limbo.   a combination of things,  not just the Virus.  It's about the increased need of Goat Herding,  Talkie's concerns.   My frame of mind about this world and my beloved Earth.  the Garden,  being Spring and planting,  caring for  the newly born  seedlings there.   and things like how the Hydrangea is going to bloom,  how Sunny Ray is beginning to show signs of Old Buck.    But a lot is some internal landscape i seem to be standing on/in…..i haven't been able to imagine how to begin any small Cloth,  any story….i seem to be storyless.   I look at the baskets upon baskets of cloth,  and don't go further.  I look away.   Many of the cloths i made  have a figure…a woman….her form and posture,  gesture,  telling the Cloths story.  I looked here.   I t's the Eye.  with the exception of that one figure of the third pic.   That is a Key.   

i washed the table that i don't love because it's not wood,  Over There beyond where Sunny the truck is parked,  on top of the rise above campsite B.   Where Emrie's sprinkler is during the hot days.  Where we sit when it's too hot inside and too much SUN just out side.   We walk over there.  All her plasticware is windblown,  i collected some and will take a bowl or pot over to wash them in.  Keep them in.   Washed the table.   Took down the Cloth from the Looking Line and carried it over.  Looked once more at THEN and turned it.   it's a good place to stitch the Tree down,   the Green Tara from Patty.   That will begin things,  those stitching downs.   it's what i have Heart for right now.   It's a whole space of not knowing of having no idea.  I wonder what will happen?

 

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22 responses to “one more time”

  1. sarita Avatar
    sarita

    Dear Grace. I’m sorry you are having a difficult time. Life is strange now…not just the virus but I’ve been feeling a shift happening for awhile. I have no words for it, good or bad. Just Something.
    I’m struggling with cloth also. Trying to find my way, but it isn’t showing itself.
    My dear dog of 16 years will cross the Rainbow Bridge tomorrow. Its hard… to be strong for him…to imagine life without him.
    I’m sending you a huge, love-filled, Beautiful. Hoping a bright path shows itself to you soon…a path bringing your spirit peace.β™‘β™‘

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  2. sarita Avatar
    sarita

    Ps…your cloth has a lot to say. I love to listen..xx

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  3. grace Forrest Avatar

    we have walked those steps to that bridge here. and
    me, many times before.
    always a long difficult walk.
    My love to you, to Dog. We are One. It will be
    our turn. It’s his now.

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  4. grace Forrest Avatar

    am counting on Cloth

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  5. maria Avatar
    maria

    my dear ones , big hug ” love filled ” of corse , what els

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    maria…to you…that hug returns, full even more
    in its return

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  7. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    Sarita, So sorry for the loss of your 16 year companion.

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  8. sparrow Avatar
    sparrow

    “i washed the table that i don’t love because it’s not wood…”
    oh I love you, grace…remembering how your mother said how your writing makes her head swim…oh me too…I loving your writing and you…

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  9. Joanne Avatar
    Joanne

    perhaps it’s Time to tell your stories on paper. I was thinking of that herd of goats getting older and older. and the Time of saying goodbye to them- closer. My friend asked if we would get another dog- I said I am never watching another dog die. Shutting myself away from the joy of dog just because of the enormous pain of death. In this time of Virus- we are all seeing- too close– the end of what we thought we knew. making what exists- even more dear to us. Like you, your words and pictures- HERE.

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  10. Liz A Avatar

    for me, this time has been four years in the making … the unease of knowing there is something deeply wrong
    so I find comfort in this cloth, the stories already imagined and told in a different time … the moon moth especially

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    SMILE….this post is a really good example of that,
    isn’t it.
    and i love you Back, dear YOU

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    that’s where my work with buddhist teachings comes in…
    the gentle reality of old age and death being just
    the counterpart of the Joy of being alive
    spending time with this Cloth helped me feel the
    love of cloth making…that will never go away…
    cloth is the most expressive friend for me. Working
    on this OtherSide will take me somewhere i haven’t
    been before

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    that moon moth came as such a surprise…i remember
    the moment exactly….

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  14. Cheryl Fillion Avatar
    Cheryl Fillion

    Such a holiness to your cloth. Even hanging there, it seems to be wrapped around you. You are such a blessing to us, Grace.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    Cheryl…we are blessings to EachOther
    Love,

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  16. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Just to put here how much this cloth means to me: how from the beginning way back in 2011, when you wrote and shared photos, when I actually saw it in person, how the whole of it spoke of life and land and how especially the feather grass stitching did something to me… how this morning those same feather grass stitches, mended a hole in my heart from all that is going on now…how from the beginning with the blue/purple backdrop to its faded glory now, this cloth holds center and as you continue, with what you SEE to add to the Hill side, already I am comforted and strengthened by the soon to be stitched mighty tree…
    https://windthread.typepad.com/windthread/2011/09/diaries-cloth-is-all-stitched-down-ready-to-continue.html

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    Desert Willow of kantha
    Oak of walnut dye
    Time
    stitches of the Feather Grass comes through and
    remains present as i watch the Grasses here begin to
    dry for the 3rd circle of summer.
    When you walk near them, please run your hand over
    them, say my name.
    Love

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  18. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Seems we have all lost our balance .. the world is shaking under our feet and we’re all just holding on. Thank goodness we have each other. Gentle hugs my dear sister 😘

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    holding on and understanding new ways to be i think?
    and we can do that work because we are Solid in the
    US of Us. i think about that a lot.
    Gentle Everything back to you

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  20. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    Same for me, too, Liz. Both of your comments.

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  21. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    You are busy with Spring. Your stories are going to bloom soon. It’s nice to have clean air to breathe in deep.
    Your Large Cloth is interesting. The closeups are wondrous.
    I started Jude’s Large Cloth and I will continue, but everyone seems to need more masks, so…
    One will be for me; it is white with bananas. Perfect.
    Thank you very much for sharing yourself and friends.
    Hugs!

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar

    white with bananas. i like that. bananas.
    a lightheartedness to a brokenhearted ness.
    this is good.

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