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just the other day.     really.   just the other day,  i thought about the WonderBird.   Thought to look at it.   Robe hangs on a hook in that Back Room.  All the time..   Has never been on the Evac list.     ?     I guess because it's Linsey-Woolsey and Evac days are in the 90's?  or so?     i re-think.        As i look today,   WonderBird is faded by time.   

so             Liz found it.   She should be designated World Librarian,  being that brilliant… .she FOUND it….the beginning of the Intention of every day to be March 3,  2013     i never could have found it.   I would have imagined it to be earlier than even this,  but…this….11 years.   Eleven years.     And as i read,  i thought…..WHO wrote all that?,   All those words?   Who     HAD   all those words?   i smiled….ear to ear…my heart…..i smiled at the      Sincerity    of them,   the Earnestness.   At the person who wrote them     Who is so familiar    She lives in New Mexico,   the land of  Horizons,   a Beauty FULL place in the desert.   I know her.

She wrote   "I am thinking it's a very good thing to have given a commitment to  one year.  every day for one year. and at the end of that time if I can come to no good conclusion,   I will just    STOP and be done with it"            

But she didn't stop.    she went     on.   and goes     on.   and she is me.   and here i am.    I am where i WAS   and i am where i am.   

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21 responses to “threads are strong”

  1. maria Avatar
    maria

    yes you are where you was ad now in this moment by every breath you/ we take we are the old IN the new they are part of eachother, even that what you/we will be , life/live IS great

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  2. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    This is so beautifully said Maria. Yes, “we take, we are the old IN the new they are part of each other”; we are all part of this community of grace, then, now and always…

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  3. Deb G Avatar

    Something to celebrate. 🙂

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  4. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    WOW
    So many threads woven into this cloth of women. My journey to Grace with Grace began with a blog called Red Thread ?.( lost in the mist of time) and like all the threads in the bottom of our sewing baskets, confused and jumbled. with no obvious beginnings or ends Has arrived here, with Grace and Nancy and Yvette and Dana and Tina and Debbie and Dee and Jude and all the other women of the cloth and at the well.
    I contacted Grace because of her goats and stayed because of her love of beauty , life , and soul searching..
    Can we ever find where we began?
    Or even know what caused us to travel on the path we find ourselves on?
    I am joyful with the companions I find holding my hand and whispering songs of love into my ear.

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  5. Jude Avatar
    Jude

    It’s a journal. Some of us keep at it.🙃

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  6. Nancy Avatar

    Yes! This.
    I so love How you say Maria.

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  7. Nancy Avatar

    Grace! I paused in my searching…paused to look at this robe again, like a time travel to a different place, an older place…yet the same place all along. All through what I read were the questions, studies, pondering that makes you YOU. So much the same, yet different. I got lost in that space remembering the days gone by and the conversations and happenings of a wonderful little, smaller world.
    And it flowed like it was yesterday. I thought to myself, yes Grace always looked at the big cloth, the moving parts, the story for so many days…she always noticed this or that in her NM yard…she accomplished many great tasks with her animals, space and fencing…
    Grace always considered, deeply, who she was at any given moment…moving from moment to moment in wonder.
    Going back to look for you, because I have no power issues, was a gift and a joy (even if a bit bittersweet for days gone by). It was like going home. Thank you all for this blessing.

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  8. Nancy Avatar

    Beautifully said Donna. We’ve woven together quite well ❤️

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  9. maria Avatar
    maria

    Thread people , words with golden borders of care and love for life for eachother ; you have bring over your thoughts , your experiences, like the wind connect the thread

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  10. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    grace, I am so thankful I tuned into some cell service today and read your wonderful words. And I want to Thank you for past gentle prompts to start my own blog.. I never will.. but am thankful you and so many here have blogs. I first found Jude and Love her teachings of cloth and threads. The thoughtful writings here by this community warm my heart. I wrote in my Journal “Intentions to Commit to Daily for one Year”.

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  11. Yvette Avatar

    Thank you
    Love beyond the stars

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    life…to live….IS great

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    all this…..what is striking to me is that it is
    the community
    that has BeCome over time. Really, what Windthread IS. It’s ALL OF US

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s US, isn’t it. Yes. the sense of that is so
    strong

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    and for you, so many New people come

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    i LOVE that you say this…. It was like going home.
    i LOVE that, Nancy.

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    and isn’t it so
    that the Wind
    connects the threads of Us

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    and on the Road
    you wrote in your Journal
    love this, Peggy
    Love that i journey with you so much

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    Yvette, beLoved Yvette
    yes. beyond
    the stars

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  20. Saskia van Herwaarden Avatar

    yes connected
    clicked on second image and noticed entangled life!
    so that is where we are: woven together

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