thinking how we look for answers about very Unknowable things....and really, believing that any and all the Belief Systems, Religions, etc are equal as a way
and this morning remembering something from Women Who Run With The Wolves Clarissa Pinkola~Estes....in speaking of Wild Woman "She is the mind which thinks us, we are the thoughts that she thinks."
here is the whole passage:
"She is the Life/Death/Life force, she is the incubator. She is intuition, she is far~seer, she is deep listener, she is loyal heart. She encourages humans to remain multilingual; fluent in the languages of dreams, passion, and poetry. She whispers from night dreams, she leaves behind on the terrain of a woman's soul a coarse hair and muddy footprints. These fill women with longing to find her, free her, and love her.
She is ideas, feelings, urges and memory. She has been lost and half forgotten for a long, long time. She is the source, the light, the night, the dark, and daybreak. She is the smell of good mud and the back leg of the fox. The birds which tell us secrets belong to her. She is the voice that says, "This way, this way."
She is the one who thunders after injustice. She is the one who turns like a great wheel. She is the maker of cycles. She is the one we leave home to look for. She is the one we come home to. She is the mucky root of all women. She is the things that keep us going when we think we're done for. She is the incubator of raw little ideas and deals. She is the mind which thinks us, we are the thoughts that she thinks."
so..i begin the day which is sixteen more days till Solstice.
..............Later in the day...............
when i had the flu i drank tea instead of coffee. and since then, the urge for coffee is just vanished. so i have tried different teas. this is my favorite morning tea...Taylors of Harrogate Scottish Breakfast Tea. today i put all those bags in with some of the silk noile and ahhhh, o look at that color.
i pinned the Magic Diaries Cloth back up and there was
shock
that entire central background was a grey l a v e n d a r color....!!! During the Monsoon it was on the back of the chair and got wet from a leak in the ceiling. I'd hung it out to dry on the clothesline and forgot it for a few days....remembered and just brought it in late in a day and folded it back over the chair, i guess without Attention. and here it is. not the color it was.
this is a pic from when i was making it, in June of 2012. it was a kind of slate bluegrey. and here's the point...i don't really remember how i got that color. i'm thinking it was a piece of cloth that i was trying to get BLACK with the Color Hue Dyes????? i think so, but am not at all sure.
and now i know. A lot of times it doesn't matter to me if something is color fast. but here is an example where it matters a LOT. i NEVER would have chosen to use a cloth of a greyish lavendar for this. Never. but now i have it. and now i know. because i have always assumed that if something loses it's original color, it would just become a more faded shade of that color.
SURPRISE!
