If the path before you is clear,
you are probably on
someone else's.
-Carl Jung
I was going to talk today but I feel quiet. Thinking about holding and being held. The idea of amulet and talisman and the history of fear and power. How much of life is shaped by our sense of them. How much imagination plays a part in that sense.
I need a few quiet days.
Space. Funny how, for me, the concept, or even the word Space, conjures something big. Or at least bigger than what was previously considered. Even though space could be small.
These new squares are larger. 3 x the size of the basic small unit. 3 x 1.75" = 5.25". A ring of these will bring the cloth closer to 5 feet square quickly. (these muslin squares have been cut down slightly from 6" squares once set aside for another quilt long ago. Leftovers rescued.)
I'm not planning, just generally going. And then looking at where I have gone. With no regrets. I like the floor. At least the cloth is at rest horizontally.
Although the grid has begun to shift, I have not yet changed the math. Still using the little squares I had prepared. For filling in the corners of the square ring making.
When I began I was obsessed with keeping my place, X marking the spots I had been. I gave it up. Now the corners simply mark my change of direction in new found space. So I might remind myself of the hug of the rings. Trust it's form.
We did get snow.
Expecting more today.
He is watching me fill the feeders.
I'm off to the market and then I will stack wood on the porch.
I've not been feeling well. I'm doing an apple cider vinegar fast since last night. Sometimes not eating is good. Give it a rest. A New Year's purge. Trusting in past experience.
Today is warmer but after some chill, new furrry fellows have begun visiting for breakfast.
This is Bob. He is quite young. Fred, well I haven't seen Fred, maybe he has moved on.
Whenever I make squirrel friends, I think of Glennis. I thinking of all these blogging years and how long some friendships have been. Although I have actually never met her, I know her. I know her for her generous nature. Her teaching. Her slow persistence. Her loyalty and clear heart. I trust her.
So today, while sorting through cloth, wanting to talk about that some, I came across a few things here, that I dyed while participating in her shibori class from way back. I should make a section for Shibori over at Feel Free I thought. But really, I am only a beginner. Then Poof! In the spirit of free(r, Glennis pops up and decides to offer that old class. For Free! So a SHIBORI page is coming. You can go visit her blog and see what's up about that. My shibori page will contain a link to her kind gesture. I've so many ideas based on her introduction to it all. The page will surely fill up quickly.
Thank you Glennis.