whatever else happens, where ever else i go with cloth…. These. All the while i am saying I don't know, they came. Clearly and surely. i will stitch. Stop questioning and simply Receive.
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three. they make a path
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“Stop questioning and simply Receive.” I think this is IT:
For so many years, I needed to be doing, be productive, not waste time, be the top of my game, whatever may game was but now in my elder years, the arrogance of needing to do and be all has quietly gone. In its place, is a richness of acceptance, a willingness to let what comes, come, in its own good time. The biggest lesson that I have learned from the way I work with cloth is to have patience, to wait for the foraged materials to reveal themselves, to listen to the elements, and I include Cloth as an element.
In my first years of learning to naturally dye cloth and then create my simple landscape collages, I was a “furia” the Spanish word for fury, could not dye or make fast enough, pushing, rushing, feeling that I had to produce and the funny thing about this is that I was not selling my work, have never done so but I would email friends and attach photos of what I was doing- the need for validation was so strong. These days, now and then, I still send the occasional email and photo but it is to share a discovery or simply, to continue my story and journey with cloth.
Learning to accept what comes in its own good time has enriched my life, had made me value what I have come to learn from cloth, from foraging and dyeing, and especially what I have come to learn about myself and the exchange has and continues to be quite the gift as it is the ultimate example of reciprocity.LikeLike
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The need to ask why ebbs and flows for me. I am asking why more right now as a way of checking, am I really spending time the way I want to? Maybe there are better questions.
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Questions are beginnings
answers are ends
I’ll hold close to the questions
and make them my friends
The Letter Q from The Illustrated Lyrics of Old Man © Rod Morgan 2010LikeLike
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“i will stitch” … how rich it makes our lives, this simple practice
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“simply receive” – a good mantra
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oops those lines were from An illuminated Book of Cats © Rod Morgan 2010
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Yes, indeed. A very good mantra- simply receive. But the quote from The Illuminated Books of Cats is also very good. Hmmm . . . maybe it asking the questions AND simply receiving without necessarily having the answers. A balance of asking, listening and receiving/doing with understanding simply a thread woven in and out.
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thank you Marti for the words i recognice myself ,If i will have the best result , it become nothing ( and i don’t understand it why the plant paint give not that result like before ? the rest is to finf in your written words .
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yes ” simply ” in and out “that is the wonder ” like bread , thank you Faith
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Sometimes we have to just put on out rabbit ears.
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a moment
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it’s Sunday and i still spend time with these words
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hmmm…maybe there are better questions
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All.
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i need.
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it becomes easier
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i’m thinking it’s all of it
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love the image this gives me…thank you
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our
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i automatically read it as our…didn’t even notice
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