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  • my friend again

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    for the second time the hottest day s  ever recorded for Planet Earth this week

    Alyssia brought a mist~er.   it's up under the Morning Tree by the bench Jenny made where the kids make music.  the  2 faux adirondack chairs.    not far from the pile of  logs from the fallen bough.  Where  one small and one larger lizard live.   Even tho i wasn't planning to go there,  i imagined they might like it so i turned it on.   

    the mourning doves came just before first light as usual    calling back and forth   to bring in the day   and as i stitched those Kantha stitches lost in that repetition rhythm  i realized that i was hearing that Whistle  over and over…the wing whistle from the specialized feathers as air rushes through them     on take off     and  landing    at the mister.    it's been 105.

    and this morning i listen   NPR    about California's newest state park.    Dos Rios is supposed to flood ~ it's a floodplain,  recently transformed into California's newest state park.   It  opened this summer,   emerging among the neverending rows of agriculture the valley is known for.  It's a lush 2.5 square miles now bursting with hundreds of thousands of native trees, bushes and animals.  River otters,  beaver and water fowl.    Dos Rios,  named for the Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers that meet at the edge  is the first new state park in more than a decade."    it goes on…i'd put it all here if i could,  but you can go find it if you want to .   I hope you do.    it is also a place where the Northern Sierra Miwok tribe  have created a 3 acre Native Use Garden…in consultation with  the Basket Weavers Association who " put together planting palettes of native plants..like a mood board for plants   that would be beneficial to the habitat,  but also for Indigenous medicinal and cultural practices."

    NPR July 25  California's newest state park is like a time machine   Jonaki Mehta, Christopher Intagiata and Alisa Chang

     

    as the morning went along,   it happened….the lizards …..back and forth…at first,  hesitant but then not at all.

    Beginning Monday the  29th,   Joy Reid   MSNBC   6pm   for the entire week will devote her shows to reading  through Project 2025 with and for us.     one of the things proposed is to sell off public lands.       

     

     

     

     

  • and?

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    i have till August to be ready.   

  • the weight of magic

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    that placket….for the Magic buttons….the cloth of the  dress so thin,  so Light,  so hardly there.   How would this work? ,  those buttons?     I glanced over at this shirt,  this square of    Kantha     that was put just for beauty on the back of the shirt…just for beauty  but i  picked   it up and feel the substance it gives

    so the placket is half stitched with Kantha stitch.   I hope to finish tomorrow.   I thank you,  Jude,  for these 

    skills

    that continue on,   even tho the Need for them has changed.    

  • wouldn’t it.

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    wouldn't it be 

    ironic

    i grin ear to ear.   just the thought of it.   A woman.   a woman of color and originS.      wouldn't it be ironic.

    maybe the meek can inherit the Earth

  • the last of my loose ends

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    needed a placket.   Magic Buttons have weight.    

     

    i had off handedly wished for a Therapy Group to work through all i'd not become.  said that and then in conversation here,  we would need a facilitator and

    Wendy,  Wendy Golden Levitt,   appeared   Out of the Blue and said     i'll do it.    Gathering at the Well.  We have gathered.

    It's been one year.    August,  we begin a new round.   While the world seems to be falling apart,  we are mending ourSelves together,  our Selves,  eachOther   and i begin this round with   all my loose ends of 

    grief   

    shame

    Joy

    Magic

    These two dresses are my "uniforms" for this.    worn with  Purpose.   The Leaflitter dress with Magic Buttons    The Michelle dress.  As i wear them,  i 'll know more.   

    Things are coming fast.   When you learn how to Ask,  it seems to happen like this.   Things appear,  things find themSelves,  things Present in oh so singular moments,  say   LOOK!    Here!,  where i've been all along!    Waiting for you!

     

  • maybe ley lines and pixels maybe

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  • maybe

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    the Leaflitter Dress,  the Magic Dress

    really will only need two functional buttons,  ie with button holes.   maybe 3      so the rest would be just for Magic?   What about Magic and leaflitter?     a lot of questions arise.

  • we’ll call them the Dress Days Days of Finding

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    they follow the Evacuation.   maybe are even    FROM   the evacuation.   Or simply because it's time.

    Michelle's dress.   She sent it.   A dress that knew her body,  that walked with her around NYC.   Was   orange   when  i couldn't "do"  orange,  so….just put away.   

    But today,  becomes one of two.   The Magic Dress LeafLitterDress  ,  the Michelle Dress.   With them,  i'll learn how to live in these times.

    and then,   this.  Which i might repeat many times ,   because it needs repeating until it      sinks in.

     

    from Karen Caputo   Facebook

    "this constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie,  but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.

    A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot  distinguish between right and wrong.  and,  such a people,  deprived of the power to think and judge,  is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies.  With such a  people,  you can do whatever you want.

    Hannah Arendt   

     

     

  • found

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  • what if?

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    folding and sorting the things i had washed at Alyssia's,   i found this.    i don't know what i thought it was when i stuck it in the washer…just some walnut dye  muslin?    But it's This.   a work dress for 100 degrees.    It is   muslin.   It must have come at some point from Dharma Trading.  Long Ago.   i'd cut it up the front.  Needs buttons.   Began looking for the button jar.  which i couldn't find

     


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    but i did find the jar with these,  these   …magic…  beads…what i had called them in the days of Magic

     


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    and things began to ROLL OUT from there

    keep looking for the buttons,  the beads would be always only pinned on with safety pins…the safety pins…but what if it was a Magic Dress?   What if ,   in it,   i could be invisible…same as leaf litter. hidden  …EarthLeafLitterMagic dress?   What if it's time?