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this took a while.   i kept wanting to do it but tried not to but ended up doing it….. 9   10   and 11  are all from the same piece of  cloth.     

it tells  a  cloth story  about  belief.   about  loss of belief,  or   loss of  a chosen innocence of belief.  of coming face to face with that.    Realizing it has been a long time coming,   has been a process of some years,  really.  30 or 40.    And never wanting to give words to it.  Feeling it was enough.      In Catherine's good comment she gives words about Impermanence,  the ground of Buddhist Teachings.   and then  Nancy  writes about a word   i'd not known,   Venmod,  a swedish word:  "pensive melancholy,  tender sadness (negative) calm feeling that something emotionally (positive) significant is over and never will be back."   Wiktionary .    How  these are the story in this quilt block….it's hard to say,  to find words that can convey my sense of things….but ….,  well,  in other times of the past,  long ago,  a Lot,     i would have felt that  Making Things had some power….

making things can have power

i am not able to say much else about this at this moment,  it's too much,   but  what is different maybe i want to Try to say….?  i'll try…….what's different is that  any  "power"  is in the 

sensing.   in the degree of which there is open ness to Sensing …..ummmm,   the "prevailing winds".   Sensing what is All Alive and in Motion  of which you are part…part…a Kaleidoscope    and you are one of the glass shards   moving with and into changing forms       with all     to  form    a   Big  Picture  that then     changes.    What you   Make   helps you see this.

this is not     it.    it's a good try.     i'll need to keep trying.   

 

LATE.     Adden.           Peggy.  Think of You

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12 responses to “a Wednesday”

  1. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Wow. Such deep and descriptive words. And I am so feeling this right now.. i have been in a rush to close up the florida house and hop on a plane back to MN. Arrived yesterday and slept fitfully all night as I plan my trip west, leaving early morning on the 15th. AJ is leaving Canada on the 14th.. we will meet in Denver and head towards New Mexico. We know the weather may be colder in the higher elevations but we are tough! We will explore much of this state before we head on to Quartzsite.
    I am for some reason not seeing your pictures in the blog… I hope my new T-mobile service is to blame. But these words by you here this morning… I am feeling them and they will wrap around me all days as I travel now and see life with Kaleidoscope eyes! Thank you so much for these thoughts. Very Much Love to you grace!!

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  2. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Ps.. i see no pics on others who blog here too.. so.. maybe Typepad.. maybe my phone.. i will check back later

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  3. Faith Avatar

    Picture problem is definitely Typepad, but I am able to see the picture if I click on it.
    I am sensing what you are saying/trying to say (I think), but have no better words for it.

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  4. CatherinE Avatar

    There is something there to be said, right? I know there is. Keep trying. I wrote this Oct 10 in my journal: “Some part of me wants Magic, Miracles, Enchantment, Fairy Tales, mystical coincidences, messages. And Yet – I do not avidly seek these and remain skeptical. I KNOW from direct experience that an INSIGHT into the nature of things is way more valuable.” Is this something like you’re saying?

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  5. Nancy Avatar

    Ooh…love how you say this. I not only don’t avidly seek, but I fear I am too much of a realist to notice those things when they come! When I do, I am often just surprised in a “like wow” kind of way.
    Thank you for this…it is insightful to me and helps me feel not alone in this way of being.

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  6. Nancy Avatar

    Grace~ Your words here are good, strong, needed. It is that “significant is over and never will be back” part, that NEVER will be back part that made my heart catch in my throat…that kind of missing or longing for again that is hard to get past.

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  7. Carol Gabbert Avatar
    Carol Gabbert

    Grace, thank you for remaining here/there in the place that I return to so very often. I never really leave, I occasionally let life crowd my needs to the side. This post and so many sit so powerfully beside me.
    Today, a few days late, please know your importance in my life.

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    Peggy…am writing this on the 18th. You are in N Mex.
    i think of you there.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s the l8th…love coming back here…re reading

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    again…this is the l8th that i am back to this post, to
    your words here…and yes…it is something of it, like
    what i wrote is something of it
    it is a Big It, isn’t it.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    but it’s real. and it’s where we are. and it’s what we Have to BE in
    and, really….it’s NEEDED.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    Carol!…oh…so so good to find you here….
    i type this on the l8th…so time has passed
    please know…YOU….how glad i am to find you here.
    Love and Love

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