Bert Willaert,  Belgium   photographer  

there has been such a wonder Full response to these Invocation Cloths….so Very gratifying ….Why?   Because they are giving me a way to be my most honest and genuine self.   A way to stitch my best truth.  To BE my best truth.   i woke this morning…this one was among those to Let Go of  but…

i want to keep going with these.  It's very different making than  all before.   I want to keep trying to give words to that so i can learn something.   Cloth here,  with these,  is not cloth FOR    me    to create with.   Is more something about partnership.  With cloth ItsSelf  taking the lead,  teaching. …

in the beginning,  you look at the pile of scraps thinking…..this can never possibly work.  But then,  you keep going and it becomes the most beauty FULL Cloth in the world.   Like each of them is,  time and time again.   Trust.  There are 16 of them now.  

this stone.   Sometime late 1960s.   Hurricane River which empties into Lake Superior,  Upper Peninsula Michigan.    Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.   Where i learned the need to be Away,  but always Held.  Everywhere,  since then.   Where my Heart can rest.  in the hollowed bowl of this stone.  Today i give   It    water from the canal…

  i live with this  Cloth now.    i have loved Patty's touch with so much Art…over the years,   from when we "met" through Jude's early online classes.   Even then,  the same sense of this Cloth was present  when  i went back in her blog to 2011 .  Her recent work is so much like…

Again.      the placement on the card means nothing other than i'm using it to remind self of the size i would like to work within.  Small.   She obviously isn't.   but not far off and maybe with a different face?…her face is a quick drawing on a post it note so could easily be…

This is not easy,  but was what Presented.   I worked all morning to try to understand a way.  Got this far and left,  to go Give Water at the Gardens…..the image remaining in my mind.   A kind of pathway from somewhere To somewhere,   It is what it is.

Wiped Out.  Twice in a week.  Spirit and then Body.  The Body…yesterday i got  up…see how that felt…nothing changed for the better,  just a total sense of body engagement.  Back to sleep.   I slept through it other than to feed and check water.  i ate and drank nothing.    This morning is like a clean…

all night,  restless,  body feels Dense,   Thick.   Waking this morning to lowgrade constant headache and body ache.  Not good.   Slept all day.   All day.  No food.  No appetite,  a kind of nausea but not nausea.    Looking forward to tomorrow.