Usually, one of the layers of cloth extends out from the story on the front. Always there are three layers. Whatever is the "story" on the front, the inner layer of harem cloth and then the cloth on the back., the other side where the map of the stitching remains. This particular cloth, being
WINTER
needed this very particular piece of fabric that was and is so much this Winter Sky. And that it was a newer fabric, so not worn or soft, it so very well talked of that sky. But also, it's edges were harder than i am used to. I'd thought off and on about putting it on a back of a softer cloth but that just wasn't it at all. Better leave it to stand alone, hard edged. But waking this morning there was "in place" a completely different thought. And as i began trying to figure out how that could work, things fell into place. I have never made a "frame" for a cloth before. All the edges now are "finished", not ragged and frayed so the whole Feel to it is different. Half way through i took it all back off. But then put it back on. Because though it is very different, it felt Right and i looked for a long time to try to understand Why it felt right. And realized that tho there are components to Story here, it is really a Portrait. It is a Portrait of this Spirit of Plants in Winter. It is a way to see through Winter, to see that still there, within the cold, within the Winter Sky, the Spirit of things remain....active and very vital. So...a portrait of that Ongoing Living Energy that is simply ordinarily Unseen, only because it isn't Looked For during the Cold Times. If you Look and Call to it, it is There.
I was very absorbed in all this and Tay tried to be patient.
I had been eating Fritos today and when i went out to do the Evening Feed, and was Singing, they wanted to smell my breath
Yesterday it was 69 degrees. Today 56. Tomorrow it will be 39. There may be Rain. How it is here in Winter. Some of Everything, and not too much of Anything. New Mexico. Perfect. By Monday it will be WARM again. Every day now, i will go Out and close my eyes and Imagine that Spirit Plant, hovering, watching over, waiting, Knowing. I have an Image for it now. It can Hold me well.
