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circling from long ago

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this gossamer silk       on some edges and as here,  inside…..felted with wool.    such surprising   satisfyingly deep visual and tactile experience

from Yvette's hand  and heart….many many years ago and being perfect now

i DID begin again today.   and surprised.   When last i sat with the long mala,  it seemed so much.   Today,  not at all.     I think about what has changed.   ..only me.

it had hung on the curtain rod of the big window of that tin house in Polvadera New Mexico,   the one that was the window to the Rim of the world to the West and and today as i held it,  that view was still Inside it,  the view,  the window,   the Rim,  New Mexico still.   Just as it was.   This helps me understand…..Time.

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  1. Yvette Avatar
    Yvette

    I feel your touch on the felt……
    Your love giving fingers!
    You really changed my perspective of life!
    Jude said years ago….I think you would love windthread…..and yes yes yes.
    I started reading at the point when you moved the goats from Jenny to your place in New Mexico.
    Lots of people were worried if everything went well….yes!
    Never stopped reading and loving you!

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  2. Margery Avatar
    Margery

    Ah, Time…. crawling, stumbling, impossibly fleet; linear, circular, spiral… I’ve been very aware recently of the many faces of Time — and am still puzzled. T.S. Eliot says so beautifully:
    “We shall not cease from exploration
    And the end of all our exploring
    Will be to arrive where we started
    And know the place for the first time.”
    ― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

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  3. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    as so often happens, a phrase or a thought triggers a remembered song
    “time keeps on slippin’ … into the future”

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  4. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Like you Grace time has been very much on my mind .. with no clear understanding of what it really means. So to satisfy my confusion I decided to research it a bit. This scientific definition I like.
    Scientific Definition
    Physicists define time as the progression of events from the past to the present into the future. Basically, if a system is unchanging, it is timeless. Time can be considered to be the fourth dimension of reality, used to describe events in three-dimensional space.
    Reading Yvette’s comment .. realizing how long you’ve known each other .. I came much later to this circle. There’s that word again … time!! My head is starting to spin ….

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  5. Beth from Still Life Pond Avatar
    Beth from Still Life Pond

    Loving the thought that the beads contain your window view from the past. Adding to the circling, because of your long blogging, I can also see your photos of that view in my mind.

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  6. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Time past is a conglomerate and I am enjoying learning that my past has shaped me into a pretty good person, not perfect, but gives structure towards understanding the direction forward. People, in person or by reading their words are vital to growth.

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  7. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    I wasn’t sure how Mala beads were used .. I assumed like a rosary but figured that had to be wrong. However after looking it up I decided that really they are used for the same purpose … after all prayers are a form of meditation. Sending you prayerful Blessings Grace. 🙏

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    and here we are today…
    me..you…and all the rest of Us
    i am so beyond Glad

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    to know the place….
    to know the place. This, my hope

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    how those songs are so much a part of us, integral to
    our lives. I am always so deeply amazed by that

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it DOES casue spin…and is so much worthwhile Work

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it’s Yvette’s magical cloth that was at the window…
    i didn’t say that clearly….
    there’s pictures of it there, somewhere in these
    archives

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    very much. vital

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    they are…like a rosary
    and once you are steady in their use, become that.
    in the beginning, they are an incrediblly useful TOOL to
    help still the Mind, the wandering….to keep focus on intention

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  15. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    My thoughts on time right now are not deep or philosophical or metaphorical…they are more centered in the right now, here and now and what can/can’t be done and how many dominoes may fall.
    But, I most certainly can appreciate the remembering the window view and NM life and the fact that you and Yvette have had a special bond for so very long. Something that Time can enrich and hold and honor. Isn’t that wonderful?

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    time Grows love…like it grows trees
    it is like i said to you recently…maybe in the Gathering?…somewhere….
    how i always
    liked you
    but/and over time….now i
    LOVE
    you

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  17. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Love back 💕

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  18. Beth from Still Life Pond Avatar
    Beth from Still Life Pond

    Ah. The same really. Just a different touch.

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