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Daughter Cloth.   woven with that 6ft ladder in N. Mex       Out.   Here.   On this Hill,  September 2022.   i don't know why.

 


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the Last of Them for this year's Garden.     double click

did i say anything about the grey folding chair that's been under this house for a couple,  few years?   That i pulled out,  now being able to consider other materials than wood,  like i was when i came here when everything had to be wood,  so i shoved it under the house.   Pulled it out the other day and ….in these days of  Figuring Out,   sitting OutSide,   it's comfortable.   It's not wood,  but,

it's comfortable.

comfortable,  why they brought it here to me.     For me.    

so the arms of it …the weird fabric,,,,,   broke through at the "elbow" .    I am there today,  putting off going over to the Beach,  feeling restless,    so i 

mend

the arm that broke through with some denim and Deb's Thread.   sitting in it,  i mended,   awkward,  but 

i kept at it and then on to the other arm that had not broken through but was almost ready to   and i have a Mended Chair that was at first rejected but now, years later found to be Comfortable.   I'll take a pic.   

low tonight  78 degrees

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8 responses to “to day”

  1. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    mending is the best kind of pass-time … and always, at the end, the feeling of having accomplished something, if only to have saved one more thing from the landfill
    and Mo’s word, haptic … how mending is almost always a textural addition that invites return visits

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  2. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    Mending is a form of healing. 🙂

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  3. CatherinE Avatar
    CatherinE

    I would love to see your mended chair.

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  4. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Grace~ To see The Daughter Cloth…her, now, in this place…not the place of red earth, but still of earth and life. I can still imagine you standing on that ladder sewing! So why shouldn’t you sew sitting in the chair being mended?! Ha. The cloth, the sun(flower) of it is wonderful. The living sunflower – amazing, with all of those little hairs! I too would love to see the chair and also I ask, why could things only be wood back then? Be well. xo

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  5. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it came apart today

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    no plasticy or fake anything.
    when it comes to some things, they are ok and good with whatever
    works. it’s generational i think.
    i’ve given in to things…like the “horrible” table thing just outside here…it’s white for one thing, i would have needed a wooden picnic table but this one
    works. Has an umbrella. Can be moved…as in how Emrie and i
    dragged it over here our selves. My kind of 70’s Bougie me.

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  7. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    oh no … and I can’t help myself from smiling … imagining your response

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  8. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Okay, I get that. I still have trouble with those shoes called “Natives” (plastic)…I see tons of them at work. Once a child’s pair was accidentally put in the dryer at work. They curled up like the Wicked Witches pointy boots!! I thought: they are indestructible! Imagine the landfills! I feel the same way about Crocs, for the same reason.
    As for wood, I used to be wood only, vintage or antique only…now I am for the least amount of care needed. I’m so over housekeeping!

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