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i had cut the Wall Cloth a few days ago.   To accommodate Old Oak.  But also to allow air flow.  its warming up.   Was 79 yesterday.  it won't stay that way,  will be low 60s again for a while,  but we're moving along.      And…..i like this.  She can be Together.

 


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i thought….Why Not?    it turned out to be many things.   i connected the pieces by taking two stitches at various points that would hold one to the next….just cutting the thread  to let it dangle.   Easy to take apart.   And almost immediately it was a lesson about Ecstasy.   You can't  HOLD it.   Not its nature,  to be held in place.   I kept referring to the photograph to make sure i was keeping each fragment where it originally was and it kept changing.  Not a lot,  sometimes almost imperceptibly.   But even that,      changed it.   So i just kept trying.  Over and over.   twice i thought it was secure and twice i lifted it and  pieces flopped down or off entirely.  Once i gave up and let it change,  it was better.  Not Ecstasy,  but enough.   A couple times during the 3 hours of this,   i went to Jude's latest post,  rereading,  thinking,  reading all the comments.  Thinking.   And all of a sudden,  it hit me and i laughed.    I think i could say that i might be Jude Hill's most devoted student.   Or at least a front runner,  but i think  most devoted would  be me.  Maybe Hazel.     Anyway…..there she is.   Taking such INCREDIBLE CARE to create  a Forever with EveryThing……….ALL.    ALL  she has taught.   For me…over 10 years of receiving.    And here i am.     This is the fruit of her labor as a Teacher….her most devoted student….obsessing    over  primitively tacking scraps.   that will be taken apart.   Oh Jeez, grace.     My friend used to say….you're a piece of work.   

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12 responses to “i did it”

  1. jude Avatar

    that’s the goal, to become a piece of work, you are in the zone!

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  2. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    YES, you are a piece of work, a fine piece of human/woman work, always doing, always going for it and YES to basting it together.
    So. I looked at this luscious basted cloth and yes the world luscious and I thought of Food: how it is essential and how good it feels to have a bowl of fruit on the table, or a bowl of cooked beans in the frig, or having scallions to add to leftover mashed potatoes with lots of butter for breakfast…dipping in, picking what to eat…
    AND it simply came to me that this luscious cloth is like food as are the teachings of Jude: You look at the whole of it and maybe one little dangling piece calls your attention so you slip it out, hold it, put it someplace else, or simply place it on its own to touch later on…follow a thread, arrange a little differently; sense a story that wants to be put to needle and thread and you pick up some old white cloth and bundle it with leaves and land offerings and voila, a story emerges and you feel nourished and realize that mind, body and spirit have also received the nourishment of teaching and doing…

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  3. CatherinE Avatar

    there is something breathtaking about primitively tacking scraps to be taken apart later – to me, a taste of ecstasy this morning, thank you!

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  4. Liz A Avatar

    this post reminded me of Ruth Ozeki’s Book of Form and Emptiness … how objects have agency … being able to move and to communicate in ways we usually barely notice, let alone comprehend

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  5. Faith Avatar

    Obsessing over something for no other reason than to do it. I get that. I doubt I’m Jude’s best student, but she certainly does often instigate ideas that “must” be tested.

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. Cloth and Food.

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    i am glad the ecstasy traveled. It returned again later today.

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    i looked for this book….didn’t know of it….
    THANK YOU FOR telling me

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    not best….most devoted. We are ALL Jude’s best
    students. All of us.
    and i was being humorous about most devoted….
    just because maybe the most devoted creates a pile of
    scraps with whisps of thread
    after ALL and ALL she teaches
    so humor, but really, my truth. it’s what i did for
    hours.

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  10. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    You are a great student of everything, Grace. You watch and listen, seeing and hearing. And, doing…
    xx

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    i am happiest as a student. Content to know Some and know there’s so much more to learn

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