recycling containment - that which contained will now provide.

today i wondered if life is a verb or a noun. no need to explain we know you from more then just words...stay balanced ala tight rope walker style with the -brella, yea. x

Hi Jude. I put a hint hint to Jude in my reply to Doris above so as you have "many things in your head" maybe you could include this one too. Sharing is what makes us come here/hear...showing emotions I feel is one of the things that defines us as human/vulnerable.

Doris, I took a while to reply to you comment...I read it very early this morning and maybe it was the pre-caffeine brain but I actually teared up. I was a librarian for 30 years at the same library...leaving made me so lost...the first few times I went back, still cleaning out my office, btw, I cried everytime. That and taking care of my parents has been all I've know most of my life. I also know that my mother will someday meet up with all those people that have left her behind...so, I know that it will be time to start again...I'll have to. So yes, we have a similar story. I was am fulfilled and had dreams that maybe someday will happen. Being fulfilled I think and living the life imaged (dreams) are not the same. Books make me crazy that is why I became a Librarian. I love the touch, smell, feel of the page/paper/words. I am also a binder so I understand the under laying structure of the object. I think being here at diaries provides a very similar experience for me. I wish Jude would do that on-site workshop in the woods near her house. It would be a delicious experience to sit, stitch, down beverages of choice, and bitch about living...Hint, hint, Jude. Take care Doris. I hope you wander over to my blog someday. I have a picture of my mom there. You can see my little treasure.

Man WAS has a very human like shadow. Must be one of her past lives. hmmm creation at it best.

this is really moving along Grace. It's so big when I think about what I'm doing, ha. Anyway, I really like the addition of the lines and the thinner pieces...really adds to the dimension and moves.

Every time I read one of Jude's update I just think about how my vision is altered. I think besides filling in gaps you also see better, more, then a lot of people. You are a true bricoleur/maker of bricolage. Warms the heart...

yes, days should be thought of as holding promise...we have to wish for that, even though they don't always arrive. small but important piece/peace.

I just vacuumed yesterday. I sucked up so much potential vision! Yes, we just have to see....we miss sometimes by looking and not seeing.

SEEing and reflecting. Reflecting in it's so many and varied forms of meaning. Jude reflects on what she sees and then we reflect on seeing...and it goes around like that circle in the bottom most picture. I've missed this...this reflecting back on and off each other. So good to have these streams of thought flowing again. I like the "real time" double exposure. So important to distinguish real from non-real. Going to make this a stitching day...ah a sigh with peace and joy. Yes, very FINE.

This is a little amusing to me. I did a post today over on me old blog...about discipline and one of the lines read, "and Jude sews in her sleep." Serendipity. Good to see you stitching and I was wondering how you would continue with the little piece you posted and few ago...now I now, a new growing walnut.

Jude, thank you for sending friends to visit. Good to be finally able to share.

The weave of the top fabric, brown, looks like little patch-works. Tis that time of year, isn't it?! Change.