Spirit Cloth

Considering Years

 

Here's to a another year.

May you be not ashamed

and cast a long shadow.

Undoing (which is really a form of doing) once again

So here I am.  We all are actually, where ever we are.  Another day.

Here it has turned cold.  With the biggest cold yet to come as the days grow longer.  I've been quiet.  Without words for why.  That has not changed really.   I wrote in my journal today, waiting for January.  And then I wrote why?  Why am I always waiting?  Undo that.  This is the great Undoing I think.  The hardest.  Undoing the definition of patience.

This is the month when shadows are long.  Now I see where my stray cat inspiration has come from. The shadow of going. Which seems here a bit like standing. Without waiting.

I have learned a lot from this little beast. The first cat I have rescued from the wild.  My wild. This place where I live and watch how it changes. This place that challenges me in so many ways. I marvel at how he knows it.  He has no schedule. No place. He goes out. He comes in. He sometimes does not come in. He is fine. And he knows how to take care of himself.  I like that about cats. I have tried hard not to break him.  I am just here for him.

This one has been headless for too long. Inspired by this, I think I found a solution.

Here's to a new point of view.

Natural Order in December

How it is.

In the garden...

Balanced on the rail

 

A Small Journey (December's Stray) and what's left of Mom's lavender.

 

 

 

 

Joy in the dark

 

Wishing everyone a good turning.

The spirit of the stray

 

 

... all the while being held  by the thing that holds you.

Light Catching

 

 

 

A little journey in December

 

 

 

 

May your heart be a path. (in progress)

Studio closed.  Fire burning.  I will be posting without words here, now and then, through the shift and beyond.  Small Journey links will pop up now and then.  Safe Journey all.

What Magic has become

The Magic Cloth hangs in the warm room.  It has become a base in a way.  A design wall.  A place to store smaller  cloths in process. A shelter. A space to pin a small cloth as it becomes larger.  It might seem confusing. But really  it helps me see me clearly what is going on. A picture of the flow.

 

At any one time, I am considering more than one cloth.

All of them, to date, are studies for something else. Once I have absorbed what they offer me, I give them away or sell them.  This something else, if I live long enough, might actually come to be.

The weather has turned very cold in general.  A few warmer days in the coming week maybe with not much of the above freezing kind of weather predicted for January at all. I've ordered some extra wood from a local guy just in case. If we don't need it, it will just be a head start for next season. Better to think about it before any big snow gets in the way. Today I will shut down the studio. And spend the next week or so settling into smaller.  Mending life's design, in order to continue all I do in some sane way, through the coldest part of winter.  I will be rocking inward now, posting less until after the New Year. Letting the Holidays simply become a sense of rest, more or less.

Maybe spending some extra time mastering one piece meals.