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spending time.    as in,   how do i spend my time.    and/or   spending ….Life.    how do i spend my life.

this all is nothing new…i've put it here before a lot.   But it was just the Spring Equinox of that 77th year that has long held meaning to me.   and the sense of things is at a new level.     Circumstances in the last short while have had it so there has been no time for   Making,  cloth and drawing.   How does that FEEL,  grace,   for real.   Is there some sense of relief?    In just going about the necessities of the days?   that in themselves are good and more than enough?   What IS this sense of Getting REAL about the making ,   if i need to continue?  What does that mean that is different?   Why do i really want to define that so much right now,  instead of…. just going,   some In/some Out.   

 

 


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and then…things like this.   The Turkey Tail.   Trametes versicolor.   You can google.   Used around the world for centuries for it's medicinal benefits.   Growing here in it's Joy of self.    If i LEARN.   the How of it.   to harvest,  to keep,  to offer.   But i haven't.  

we passed this cluster 2 days ago and said…Turkey Tail.   Today,  after a long GOOD rain,  when Emrie and i passed….this….

all brilliant and so Alive,  but then also….some other being having become involved here…????  Beneficial?,  to the Turkey Tail?,  or………not?    I need to go back tomorrow and look long and long.   Looking for Real.

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15 responses to “getting real”

  1. Nancy Avatar

    Grace~ only you know the ‘why’…or will discover it at some point (or not?)…but the turkey tail reminded me of these playing cards 🙂
    https://shop.adventurewithkeen.com/product/mushrooms-playing-cards/

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  2. Liz A Avatar

    “Circumstances in the last short while have had it so there has been no time for Making” … and yet, here you are, making a record of that … your faithful recording of time’s passage

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  3. jude Avatar

    Yes, i agree

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  4. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Many kinds of making and one of the “realest” is simply walking with Emrie on the Hill, pointing out what is before you, sharing the moment of discovery. Turkey Tail noticing is one of the best makings I know of for you are making Memories…

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  5. Joanne in Maine Avatar
    Joanne in Maine

    I am seeing Turkey Tail for the first time here with you. So that is doing and making memories for others. Cloth comes and goes. Pencil and paper takes it’s place. Photographs. Words. It’s all the same thing- sharing. Expressing. Being. Making. Not always with cloth.

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  6. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    What you’re doing is making me very happy with your sharing and telling .. giving to your loved ones as only you can do. The Land .. the Animals .. your family and friends. My goodness Grace that is a lot!!!

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  7. victoira Avatar
    victoira

    Turkey tail—–I’ve never seen these. Just beautiful! Wish I could cultivate some in my shady back yard.

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  8. Faith Avatar

    Wow! A very aptly named mushroom.
    For me it’s a matter of cycles. I think I always want to be creating something, but the intensity of the need to create comes and goes. It’s partly circumstances and partly unknown, inner reasons. Lately I’ve been thinking that the “want to create” during the waning need may be more feeling I “should” be creating, be productive. I am v e r y s l o w l y learning to live in the moment. When I succeed at that, I see that mostly I do create when I need to. It may not be what I think I should create, but that doesn’t matter.
    As everyone else has pointed out, you (all of us, really) do a lot of non-cloth, non-drawing creating. Perhaps the pondering about it is not the least important of it.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    i love this..the thread to playing cards and there….the
    morel mushrooms pictured that the neighbor Angela says also grow here?….i have not found them yet

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    it is. a faithful recording. i breathe and nod. yup.
    all of what it is or is not. recorded. faithfully. and
    cloth waits.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes…but it’s that Other Kind of Making that pulls me

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    but the truth remains that between me and cloth…deep love

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s a lot, yes. but it’s not All of it and i want to go toward All of it

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    Hello!….they are hard to cultivate deliberately as i understand…they love the fallen Oak here. Where are you on this planet?

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    the pondering matters

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