almost finished with sorting through that back room….the last basket and in it this first weave experiment from Jude's teaching, remembering how amazed and exhilarated ….being able to make something as big as i might need with just strips. I remember thinking i could weave a home if i needed to.   i'll take it…

Mashed potatoes with garlic.   A bead of Wasabi.   maybe two.   maybe three.   

working through that Back Room.    working through.   the stuff.     This.   a cloth i made….so long ago,  in the first days of Jude's weaving teaching…it's a mess.  layers.  maybe 5 because of the weaving?  and just because you dye with walnut,  doesn't mean it's BeautyFull.   But i remember what i wanted to portray.   a…

i was asked:  should i worry?    No.  there is no Worry.    there is what is.    There is 318, 930 acres burned.  15 people died.  an entire community decimated,  a school,  churches,  homes.   How many sentient beings…the  brilliant wildlife habitat.  So many displaced,  mountain lions seek new territory.   95% contained.   Contained doesn't mean…

this Tree Woman…having been treasured 30, 40 years finally coming to be attached to a page.  Acey says we did these collages in January.     i am drifting.  i feel….NO…wait,  i ….Think.  I think that i should be going forward.   but i can't see which forward to go toward…it seems just standing still and wondering…

  not backward or forward.  This Moment.  As is. ….images from Acey's collage challenge….how then clearly lives in Now.

"To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening." Eihei Dogen       from Fire Monks

  i don't know what that means.    Everything is needed.   but the words simply came and were Clear and there was no doubt about them.   Everything is needed. Everything is needed. ??? all the seeding happening.   so many Grass Beings,  seeding like crazy.    when Giving Water,  i just stared in Wonder.   I continue…

mornings are now cool.   got this shirt out…old…from the thrift shop in Polvadera, NM.   A great shirt.  Territory Ahead,  Santa Barbara, CA.   This left cuff,  the only truly worn place even though it must be at least 20 years old?   It looked like a bleach splash for so long but in the last year or…