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I am a curious traveller ~ I love Lao Tzu's adage: "A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."
Interests: Photo of a Great Blue Heron, that I took in winter, on the beach, at Birch Bay.
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When I heard of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "passing" while listening to NPR news, this quote is the first thing I remembered and thought of. From a personal "looking back "perspective, this just about sums up the heart of his work.
"I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder".
I did not have the privilege of meeting him. I have had though, the privilege of seeing and reading his work, and to do so over so many decades (from early 60's). Some of his books are in the "dog eared" section of my bookshelves. well, quite a few actually, as he has a section to himself...
love your homage to him, Acey. thank you.
thank you, Larry
Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1919 -2021 for all the words and all the rest best and most wondrous afternoon, never to be forgotten, at City Lights Books with J. after living out of our van for about a month or so in '82. this is the man who made me certain I could and should write poetry simply throu...
cat naps...sleep gently, wherever and whenever you can, as a cat does. whatever needs to be done or that you wish to do, will still be there when you are rested.
these are a pair of seriously intriguing cats...
intermission
Between trying to get Lola to eat, distracting Widget (who got put in the bathroom for awhile yesterday) and trying to get some sleep...I am not getting much else done. I'll be back in a few days...
"Definitely clap or stomp your foot ~ or dance!
imagine a world where somebody was always doing this consciously - for the benefit of the collective as well as themselves."
Imagination ~ action. "You gotta show up", as the Dude sings.
love your hollyhock.
bring it up from the root
Magenta hollyhock at the old place. The dive's working with an essence made from this plant in the same season as the photograph, but from different flowers. Today we have the Avett Brothers singing Ain't No Man two ways. Nobody's surprised, right? Watch: One of the best 'tasks' I had yeste...
Oh how gorgeous your plant pix are! I could dive right into that magenta radicchio!
I got goosebumps on this ~ heart chakra ~ the second wise woman to speak (write) about "unstruck", in a 24-hour period. Unofficially enrolled in the Sparkling Lotus University, I found this in my "home-work": "anahata means "unhurt, unstruck, and unbeaten". Anahata is associated with balance, calmness, and serenity". blessings to you and your fine Man!
unstruck
I really love the translation of the Sanskrit name (Anahata - which is also a very beautiful word) for the Heart Chakra. Unstruck. not unbroken/unbreakable or unbeaten/unbeatable. Not resilient, determined, brave, good or any of the more negative descriptors we all commonly hear, speak, or ...
some of my favourite "yellows": amber, topaz, citrine, yellow calcite, yellow jasper. Two of my sisters are renowned artists (well, one "walked" on over Xmas holiday 2020), and I have learned so much from them about colour. For example, I have a handbound book/blank journal for 2021.Long ago, they both recommended a tip for facing a blank art pages fearlessly. Put a wash of umber, sienna or burnt umber, ~ perhaps they referred to it as an underwash ~ on the blank art page. Painting, drawing, collage or mixed media, the angst of the blank page is gone! Looking at your stellar and varied yellows, does the same thing for me. The second valuable use of yellow - in art - add an imperceptible amount to white, when painting clouds, especially if also using/painting blue skies. Voilà - beautiful airy clouds! Yellow can also be in-your-face, or or lurk just beneath the surface - this is a gentle place for the eye (science of harmony versus dissonance). These yellows of yours...I aspire, YOU inspire! Blessings to you this new chronological year ~ I'm sp looking forward to seeing more of your Magic!
Happy Birthday, Calendar Year!
[Most images are from a yellow/orange/gold color collection journal. The yellow stenciled flower lives in my informal botanical moly. Flower bowl is from last spring.] Here we are - at long last beyond 2020 if only in the most literal of senses. For me it will always be known as the year ...
Acey, I'm so glad you stopped by! Now and then, I try to write about things that interest or have meaning to me. And your gardens, altered cards, and writing posts inspired me to learn how to blog again, after a long absences. Thank you for the kick in the britches!
Crow, Trying to fix up his Old House
Rather than show photographs of the two pieces of Lillian Pitt's work that I have, I will let her writing, and two of my favorite Lillian Pitt artworks, speak for her. She is a legendary and deeply respected First Nations artist and Elder. Lillian Pitt: Native American Artist. "Lillian Pitt’s mi...
Crow, Trying to fix up his Old House
Posted Sep 12, 2020 at Joyful Stitching
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yarrow ~ fanning the flame within
Posted Sep 4, 2020 at Joyful Stitching
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of trees and squirrels
Posted Sep 1, 2020 at Joyful Stitching
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adoration des fleurs
Posted Aug 29, 2020 at Joyful Stitching
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this ALL so good ~ those feathers takes my breath away, I would love to know their stories, their drama. This hawk is one of the most magnificent birds ever, to watch. They play on the wind, soar with the thermals without moving a wing. They are fierce about their nests, perch and roost trees, and their offspring. They will play half a day away, with ravens or crows. Not to sound too sappy here - they are also oh-so-fond of rabbits, squirrels, and neighborhood cats, other birds...
the cloth, in every way, is good. blessings
on a Hill
Red shoulder Hawk. What happened? I'd commented to Jenny a week or so ago, how there seemed to be three...how there was so much flight, circular, back forth, so much calling. We said maybe mating?, maybe a pair and a fledgling? And now i wonder....territory? There is also a fu...
"hey" back to you, Grace ~ lovely to "see" you! Not really lost, just away. I started this journal, to participate in Jude Hill's "What if" cloth exploration, knowing nothing about "blogging", and 100% delighted with Jude's cloth meditations and techniques. Wouldn't you know it ~ a confluence of life events required all of my focus, attention, time, and energy, so the journal/blog just waited until I could get back to it. maybe a "fallow field"?
a Lantern ~ the wee book is all about Diogenes reply: "I am seeking an honest man".
edit: after reflection, making this mini-book got a lot of history ~ out, and onto paper, glue, collage, gel mediums, etc. Out, not in. so much easier to deal with, and closes "the book" of that period of my own life. It is a wee book. life is made up of many small things. It reminds me that I'm not large and in charge, I'm small and not at all (in charge). Blessings to Thee.
Diogenes Lantern
Diogenes with His Lantern. Mini-book, bound in an altered-book. cover. Golden® mixed-media. 2003. Diogenes with His lantern. Culture and change, myths. mini-book, bound into altered book. Golden® mixed-media. Diogenes with His lantern. mini-book bound into altered book. Stamped and paint...
Diogenes Lantern
Posted Aug 25, 2020 at Joyful Stitching
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Sisters United
Posted Aug 20, 2020 at Joyful Stitching
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anything, anything at all, that you or yours need ~ call anytime. Safe travels, love.
plain
i'd imagined a plain Hot day, maybe some more plants eaten by Something, but just a plain Hot day and i would go Give Water after Goat care. around 7 am there was Thunder. A little distant but then ROLLING closer and closer and ROLLING, the sound almost continuous, Roll into Roll i...
Horns, antlers, buttons
Posted Aug 17, 2020 at Joyful Stitching
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Nests and feather
Posted Aug 10, 2020 at Joyful Stitching
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LaceLady is now following Acey
Aug 5, 2020
blue moon and mountain love
Posted Aug 21, 2013 at Joyful Stitching
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immobilité
Posted Aug 20, 2013 at Joyful Stitching
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Wonderful is the goats new shelter in your "155". So instinctive to explore shelter ~ I am most secure when I have my back at a wall, and windows all around in front of me, so that new shelter of theirs - oh so nifty - well done!
Today "156" ~ the scene/picture that you love is my favourite! Truly a "thrill, spill, fill" arrangement of beauties ~ full of promise and substance ~ scene is a 'work of joy'.
And your new shop item - IMG_6440f - oh. my. word! if I could just touch it through the screen...
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stitching. many very very small stitches. very very many very small stitches necessary. but not necessarily Seen. maybe Never, really, noticable. but necessary. Thunder Man is out there again. This is really a Monsoon year and there is great Relief for that, that the order of the seasons ...
oh, deer...
Posted Aug 1, 2013 at Joyful Stitching
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winding down a hot, dusty day. grateful that I have things in life that give me purpose, and yes, exhaust me in a good way. I am now intriqued with lizards, of all things. The only creature close to a lizard, that I am familiar with, is what I call a "roughy newt" ~ Roughskin Newt (Taricha granulosa), which is nasty, and not really a lizard. Piqued yet another segue in my curiousity and learning! Yay! Rest thee well.
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this morning, i couldn't find Mercy when i went out to move the feed tubs and then i saw her. She was having a personal moment. and all the while everyone else crowed and pushed and maneuvered, she remained there. i can't know what she was thinking. but for sure, Something. and t...
oh this is one of your BEST ~ I mean to say my favourite, instead ~ posts EVER! the goats ~ pictures, commentary ~ lizard drawing, lizard stitching, your "stamina and resilience"! made my day, thank you so much!
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this morning, i couldn't find Mercy when i went out to move the feed tubs and then i saw her. She was having a personal moment. and all the while everyone else crowed and pushed and maneuvered, she remained there. i can't know what she was thinking. but for sure, Something. and t...
Grace's Self: you have the goodLuck within and without, and the temperment. You have the love of place, of creatures, of beauty. You have stamina!
Haven't milked goats, but a.lot.of.Tillamook.cows! dairy farm cheese and soap makin' in the "last century"... I'll take a look in my storage locker to see if I still have a couple of cheese molds, and if I DO, will send them your way.
110 and now begins my litmus test
O K we are all PRESENT. Caroline: 1 doeling l buckling. born in the Guinea hen Palace around 6 pm. easy birthing, strong and precocious kids....like their elder sister, Jude's Magic from last go round. moved to the other side of the Albatros. bad pic, but REALLY BEAUTY FULL little buck. ...
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