so, i have been writing this post in my head for a couple days now. pages and pages, but as it seems to go anymore, in the end, not much. and things keep circling around. i am more clear about why these images suddenly needed to go up on the wall the other day
having all to do with the urge to Claim my life in yet another way. To go back around to seeing it all as an Experiment. and in keeping with the coming of Jude's What If, try it that way.
and looking at these two pieces of ART i have bought this year
here is Saskia's Air Tree. before it finally arrived here from the Netherlands, from her studio, where i have begun to feel familiar, i thought i knew where it would rest here. but it has remained close. right here, on the table with all the things i use every day. the little table next to the morning chair. and throughout the days, every day, i gaze upon it, into it. it Glows and Pulses.
Cindy's shawl. wool she carded, spun, knitted. the warmth and beauty of it, more than i had imagined when i asked if she would make it for me.
so...both these. and part of why i love them is that they were created by two women i have come to know and through buying what they created, i could participate in their lives, their Livlihood as atrisans. this has great importance to me.
and quoting the same passage as did Deb G. from Joanna Macy's book World as Lover World as Self..........."We can watch time's rhythm in the breathing of the moment, and sense how its very passage connects us with the past and future moments. They become to us like unseen guides and companions as we once again reinhabit time."
When i left my old life, my old self in Michigan years ago, i was driven by the words "living hand to mouth". So, i see this coming back around now. and see it again as claiming my days even more. However it can work. To fully inhabit time. Time meaning moments, days, the experience of being alive. a life. To fully inhabit being.
