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Posted on December 31, 2014 in a little holiday cloth, alignment, Becoming more or less, Cloth is like self, considering/reconsidering, continuing aka Just Going, long cloth/pathworks, natural order, placekeeping, reflection, self portrait, through | Permalink | Comments (39)
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.
Posted on December 30, 2014 in life, notes to self, questions, redefinition, season/change, Soul-o, Un-Doing ( which is a kind of doing), wandering | Permalink | Comments (28)
Posted on December 29, 2014 in a little holiday cloth, balance, Cloth is like self, light and dark, natural order, season/change, Small Journeys series, the beast-spirit, winter | Permalink
Posted on December 24, 2014 in doodle wednesday, doodles and drawings (joodlehill), paper, SpiritCloth Lite, winter | Permalink
Posted on December 21, 2014 in light and dark, season/change | Permalink
Posted on December 18, 2014 in Becoming more or less, questions, self discovery | Permalink
Posted on December 16, 2014 in alignment, ceremony, light and dark, reflection, season/change | Permalink
Posted on December 15, 2014 in alignment, light and dark, long cloth/pathworks, natural order, season/change, Small Journeys series, trust | Permalink
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.
Posted on December 12, 2014 in Becoming more or less, Cloth as shelter, considering/reconsidering, context/frames of mind, design mending, home, large cloth, life, One-ness, place, rest, season/change, weathering the storm | Permalink | Comments (40)
If the path before you is clear,
you are probably on
someone else's.
-Carl Jung