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She is three this summer.  Winter over Winter over.   There was never a cabbage but it didn't matter,  the leaves were excellent in stir fry.   And then somewhere along the line the aphids settled in permanently.  But that was ok too.   She was what she was,  had a personal life.   i looked down on her today and lo and behold,   how so absolutely BeautyFull her interior is…pure and healthy and Fine.   I felt and there's a small nub in there…maybe marble size.   the beauty of her heart makes all her wear and tear even more  appealing.   I want to draw her…like i used to draw dried flower blooms…iris…following her lines so so slowly, rendering her perfectly and exact.  I won't,  but the feeling of wanting to is Good.  

 


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don't know what's going on here.  The original thought was for square and rectangle shapes…turned edges except for that first central piece,  edge to edge.  traditionally.    Just once in my life.    Pinned scraps just to see how it might go…could go ,  color wise but seeing them like this i don't think that's going to happen. 

About the Fires.   I don't think i'm going to write much here about them anymore.  If we evacuate,  i will tell that.  But otherwise,   it's just how it is.   This is only the beginning of Fire Season.   And i believe the truth is that it's just Climate Change.  We have talked about Climate Change for years,  talked about it as if at some point,  like a certain date,  it would 

begin.

That already happened.  This is it.  This is what it is.  Here,   higher temperatures,  longer  Season..begins sooner,  lasts longer,  atmospheric disturbances i.e. 11,000 lightning strikes in 3 days,  decreased snow pack.   This is it.    The Work now is to learn how to live.   That's enough.   Much of that Work takes place in the Heart.

…………………~………………………  pic of the BeautyFull Cabbage disappeared.  If i can get it back i will.  If not…i'll give up,  bring her around tomorrow  

Got her Back.   

 

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22 responses to “form and Will”

  1. Deb G Avatar

    Cabbage as lace.

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    so much as lace…so willing to give…some to them, some to the dream for self
    i cannot say how much i love this Plant Being, her Just Going, keeping on keeping on.

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  3. Patty M Avatar

    Plant teacher. You are an excellent student.

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  4. Liz A Avatar

    cloth will be its self … as you are … your self

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  5. Joanne Avatar
    Joanne

    Someone once said- we can’t change Nature (but we did in a very negative way) and now we can accept how we have changed it. I expect winter to arrive here in the North East any minute- but will enjoy the Sun and the Heat as long as it lasts. It rained for an hour yesterday. Not enough…but I was thankful for even the small amount….. I have found that I am enjoying holding and folding cloth but not stitch. I cannot settle into stitch right now..

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  6. Mo Crow Avatar

    I would love to see your drawings of dried flower blooms!

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  7. Michelle Slater Avatar

    Cabbage soup and stuffed (rice, raisins and spice) Cabbage leaves and happiness vibrating at the core of your own heart as you construct that cloth expression and listen close to what she/he has to tell. The safety from lightning and fire Metta continues here daily.

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  8. Acey Avatar
    Acey

    i have the sense of great concentrated energy of many objects and situations shifting themselves. Everything around us shifting to accomodate our own shifts as/if we make them.

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  9. jude Avatar

    Dad’s cabbages always looked like that

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  10. maria Avatar
    maria

    the work know is to learn how to live, much of that work take place in the heart . You know … we have to do it like that , it’s the only way that take sence , x

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  11. Yvette Avatar

    Has it flowered?
    I put a pastinaak in the ground and she flowered and gave tons of seed

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  12. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    I can feel and see your excitement .. from a seed to dinner on the table. Cloth works much to same from scrap to unending possibilities. Sending love and never ending Blessings 😘

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    i love this Plant so much. I wondered today, 9/5, if
    she might want to be taken, eaten. become Food for
    me, Alyssia’s family….?

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    Self
    a huge thing, Self

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    holding and folding is communicating

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    cabbage is such Incredible FOOOOOOD

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s Intense, isn’t it.

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    then this is Good.

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes, it’s all heart…cabbage heart too

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    last year. she is such an old cabbage

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar

    i always feel the FLOW from you

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