Spirit Cloth

Just Do Something

Just sitting idle, focusing how hard it is to get started is a sure fire way not to get started. Yesterday I sat around tangled up in that. I went back to nine, which , because I have come back to it so many times, has become a circle. Imagine that. I use Nine to find a way.  I begin with a square. Probably we all have something we love. Start there. Love is a seed.

This morning I sketched this. I thought I can stitch this. One square in the middle that can be lifted up like a page. Actually I could put a few layers, like a little book in the middle. Actually this could work with paper too. Actually, that might be a great class. Cloth to Paper. I can get so easily ahead of myself by Thought Catching. That used to confuse me but not anymore. It just leaves me floating in a sea of possibility, and a sea can be like a liquid basket. Evolutionary. I miss the sea honestly. But floating helps.

Growth

Today is my birthday.

67!!!

 

The avocado plant has awakened.

After months of dropping leaves.

Birthdays always have me thinking about growth. 

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I have some really old paper. Because I waited so long.

Ha, even I have become antique.

 

 

 

The Stray Storyteller

A late night sketch.

Thoughts about story. The stray.

How a storyteller might weave time and place together.  Master the art of just going and saving the thread that runs through it. Tell a better story.  How then, a good story might become a kind of cloth. Woven to last. Mended with care. Given as a gift. How useful cloth can be. Have you ever counted the ways?

Life without cloth is a different life. We might miss it I think.

 

PS, This is a wonderful idea, isn't it?  I hope they can make it happen.

3:56 Oddly warm enough to open the door in the studio for a bit....

Smells good.

 

Simply Going through G r e y

Paper  and stitch by jude,  shifu  by Velma.   Poem by Nazim Hikmet.