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from the middle of the night.  no context upon waking.

 


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how FIERCE she is for Life!   What?,  third day in transplant pot,  already….NEW !   She begins again,  wasting No Time…I take this deep into my Self…Waste no time

 


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the second lesson.    I had not stitched down the Crow.  maybe wanting to indulge in my misery as Don Juan would have suggested to Castaneda

but i remembered a Moment,  many years ago when i was wanting my friend Joyce Tinkham to teach me beading.  One of the first things.   Take such care to not spill your beads.  We were working with micro seed size…tiny….and maybe i felt reckless to her?,  but she told me.  She had been taught by her Tlingit grandmother.  and her first teaching for Joyce was….take great care to not spill your beads.  if you do,  Every Single Tiny Bead     MUST    be found.  MUST BE.   no matter how long and arduous  the search.  If one single tiny bead was not found,  the Bead People would never give Beauty to your designs.   

i had not stitched the Crow down.   Just left loose …. part of the tail feathers went missing….because i was having Feelings?  I stitched down today and Cloth Making has taken me in again.  Cloth is patient.  Cloth waits.

*  John Lewis.   as if Family.   a brother?,   we will Call the Grapefruit Tree       John Lewis.   Even tho i feel her as female,   John Lewis is her name.   She WILL grow.   There WILL be fruit.

 

 

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12 responses to “being taught addendum*”

  1. maria Avatar
    maria

    beautyfull words , it is thru , even the smallest(?)bead count’s and is worth to be found , to gave shine ; so it is with the love energy
    my heart hug’s you all ( even it is difficult to write in your language

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  2. Acey Avatar

    Plants are the masters of just going. and John Lewis is a fine name for a grapefruit tree or any other. Will the kids be taught of the actual John Lewis??

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  3. Michelle Slater Avatar

    You made my heart sing.

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  4. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    I like that you gave him honor on your Hill.
    I’m glad you have found your cloth again.

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  5. jude Avatar

    Cloth will always be there if u need it. You learned its language.
    John Lewis. Like Acey , I wonder.

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  6. Kirsten Avatar
    Kirsten

    “the joy of nothing” is so powerful and just really spoke to me when I came to see. At first it was a little disorienting but then I realized the statement was much more than I though.
    the phrase still echoes with me two days later and often find myself saying it to myself almost like a mantra
    Thank you for this!

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    your words always come, always ring through and Shine

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    they will. My love for him is DEEP ROOTED. They will know.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    then, we sing together

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    i want to PLACE what he stood for Here…what he gave his whole life for Here…
    PLANT that

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    John Robert Lewis
    they will Know this man

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s the joy that just lives…like a breeze
    unasked for
    often un noticed
    then…we do…we notice and There it IS, so brilliant and
    Alive

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