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so…trying again.   I NEED this post here.   To mark the Space and Time.   This was Sunday…and a Turning Point.

Turning Point.    

all along,  while i've been stitching the Spirals,   i've kept two gallon zip lock bags just across from me on the table.  like…18 inches away.  One is for pieces i come across as i go through those Giant Cloth bags,  the 13 of them,  finding the components for the Spirals….pieces of cloth i love and want to keep close.  a lot of them,  there's only one small piece of.   The other bag is just small small scraps,  like an inch or something.   but needing to be kept also.   just because.

and as i have been reading Ways of Being     James Bridle     there has been fleeting urges to make a Cloth…in the "old" way,  old being before the spell of the Spirals….a Picture Cloth…..but i  still don't really want to do that anymore.   And really…there's no time.   The Spirals and the 3 quilts take ALL the SPACE of the days…as much as i can give and still cook food,  eat it,  care for the  Beings OutSide,   READ,  and with any warm day,   work down at the B Garden,  BE  OutSide and attend to this growing Awareness of how stuff IS.  How It's Presenting Its Selves…how i am OF  It All.  

anyway….drinking the First Tea on Sunday morning,  looking at that bag of loved pieces,   i had the urge to take some out and did.   And just moved them around together in front of me,   pushing the lap top back and away,  making space right in front of me and the

PLEASURE of that.   the Enoughness of that.   and suddenly i realized that it's the thing of Doing,  me and the cloth,  that i love and that i

don't need to stitch them together.

i can just do this…anytime i want to.   create the collages and then

just put the pieces back into the bag for next time.    that THIS IS ENOUGH to fill my need to be with the cloth,  touch it,  see its relatedness making some kind of Image Story.    that this is Enough!   

and that acorn bowl  that has been in the candle holder with the pins and sharpener….impulsively set there…my immediately calling it a prayer bowl…..about prayers….how i don't pray TO any thing,   how they really don't even have words,  my prayers but somehow still are       prayers      and that little acorn bowl is perfect for this.

so…this is enough for now.  it's a big Turning Point and i have marked it here enough and i type this with the fear that once again somehow it will suddenly all disappear  and i'll have to wait again  

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9 responses to “acorn prayers 3”

  1. grace Forrest Avatar

    YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it “took”! o yay!

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  2. Jude Avatar

    Form is temporary…anyway.

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  3. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Yes, ENOUGH…for me, it has always been about process, not necessarily a finished cloth. So many times in the past twelve years, I have upended my reed basket, letting the dyed cloths fall all over the bed and I have sat and touched and held and arranged random patterns, etc. that tell me stories that are usually just for me. Still, there are times when the cloth pieces want their story to be told in a broader sense so that is when I stitch them into wall hangings..
    Two cloths were finished in August and the end of September as gifts for my girls when they came to New Mexico and these are the last cloths that I have stitched. Making takes so many forms…just a few days ago, making took on the form of torn strips of a piece of Spanish broom dyed cloth and one of red onion, sumac and yellow onion dyed cloth. The strips will be tied onto the little branches of my baby Colorado blue spruce, my Winter Solstice/Christmas tree that is too heavy to bring indoors. These dyed cloth strips will not be tied in bows but left to dangle, threads flapping, dancing in the wind as the tree will remain outdoors;this is another way of making, letting cloth flow…

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  4. Cj Avatar

    I have those bags and often that one piece of that one fabric I can’t ever release. One day I could have a piece of just release pieces I dearly love I suppose. Wonder if someone after me would love as much. Prayer comes in some of the most unbeknownst ways.

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  5. CatherinE Avatar

    So glad this post “took.” I struggle with Too Much and realized while reading that the flip side is not knowing what is Enough. Learning.

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes…but in its moment, so so important

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes..you have always done this…i have watched you

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    there’s no way to know, the someone after….and
    well…never in the same way as how it is for us
    i am just so so glad i have them, so so glad

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    it is changing. all the time. and is partly one thing
    partly another
    if i had knowledge of a “good thrift shop”, i most
    likely would struggle more
    it’s a good thing i don’t.
    but with these quilts, they have Life. and it will
    change the evacuation heartache enormously.

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