....on this crisp, cold, sunny day i am remembering one of my favorite stories. The Treasure by Uri Shulevitz. i pulled it from the shelf this morning and just enjoyed the wonderful illustrations because i already know the words by heart.
By Heart....seems to be where i am as i contemplate the beginnings of a new spirit cloth to fill this year. i chose COMA as a theme. what i was originally thinking was i wanted to start a different kind of journey this time. i wanted to go to a new unexplored place.
Now i am thinking that my idea was a bit mis-placed. how do we forget the things we once knew? or lose our way back home? perhaps we keep building instead of breaking down. getting instead of getting back? so a coma could be a state of mind then that could set me on a journey not to a new place but to a place i once belonged. it could shut out all the noise and useless struggle and clear a path to the heart of things. sometimes coma is induced to eliminate the drain of wasted energy in order to focus on the core source and promote healing. i like that concept.
a recent post over at ragged cloth cafe got me thinking about the source of creativity and the core of craft...how we have lost sight of certain things. in these tough times it is obvious that we are all concerned with losing all the wonderful things we have collected or accomplished. and today it just seems clear to me that if you get to the heart of a thing and work with it and live there....you need not be so concerned with the chaos on the edge.
so here's to slower times and slower cloth and where we once belonged. and happy birthday to my brother jeff (aka walter).
there seems to be some kind of playing card thing going on here. i finally found a way to fit these images together.....amazed at how they met in some free form symmetry ...a little exercise in reflecting. this year i am committing myself to undoing something.
