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Jude's post at Feel Free.   a photograph of a basket she'd forgotten on the fence,  nested in the Summer's growth.   I was filled with such a longing to draw it.   was transported back to me and my loved friend Dora spending days drawing dried,  paper thin iris…the joy of that and i wanted to draw these stems and vines and spent leaves in this photograph….

when i fed Goats this morning…at the gate,  a  mushroom that just yesterday had been an oval cone shape but in the passing of just hours transformed  to a  withering almost flower appearance…it all was so delicate…this transition so i thought…Draw this.

and how such devotion is required.   slow.  touch of the point of the pencil,  one into the next,  slow and breathe…touch again

have been asked a couple times…What will you do if you use up all the cloth?  

Draw.

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14 responses to “inadvertent gifts”

  1. Nancy Avatar

    This slowness you describe…I know of it now. Ever so slowly, ever so focused I draw those funny bird creatures one spec at a time. They could not come out of me if I was going fast. I’ve discovered this in my 63rd year.

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  2. maria Avatar
    maria

    yes go slow … and breath … even slow

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  3. Deb G Avatar

    This is good… 🙂

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  4. jude Avatar

    me too, yes…

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  5. Liz A Avatar

    for me the joy is in the doing, not in the ending of it
    I think this is one of the reasons I love to stitch … it is so wonder-fully slow

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  6. CatherinE Avatar

    I have a complicated relationship with drawing… probably over-complicated. Maybe the slowness needs to seep in. I love to look at your drawings.

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  7. Mo Crow Avatar

    drawing helps me understand the world, stitching is a solace

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    the “funny birds”…the BeautyFULL birds that Fly us UP,
    cause WE are funny birds too
    yes. one spec at a time. the magnificance of that one speck on paper
    growing
    one speck over and over into a
    bird
    it’s a good year, then, your 63rd….
    can you …………retire………….as in Social Security………….at 65? I did, at 63. Maybe or maybe not would have been wise to wait till 65…but it was an
    election year and i thought SS might disappear but life changes so much when you are no longer in the hustle. It opens out. I want that for you.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    there is nothing
    more than slow.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    keeping us to
    one
    at a time

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    thought about this all day. I think you have drawing IN
    you.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    stitching teaches me how to live

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