windthread

maybe ley lines and pixels maybe

maybe

the Leaflitter Dress,  the Magic Dress

really will only need two functional buttons,  ie with button holes.   maybe 3      so the rest would be just for Magic?   What about Magic and leaflitter?     a lot of questions arise.

we'll call them the Dress Days Days of Finding

they follow the Evacuation.   maybe are even    FROM   the evacuation.   Or simply because it's time.

Michelle's dress.   She sent it.   A dress that knew her body,  that walked with her around NYC.   Was   orange   when  i couldn't "do"  orange,  so....just put away.   

But today,  becomes one of two.   The Magic Dress LeafLitterDress  ,  the Michelle Dress.   With them,  i'll learn how to live in these times.

and then,   this.  Which i might repeat many times ,   because it needs repeating until it      sinks in.

 

from Karen Caputo   Facebook

"this constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie,  but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.

A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot  distinguish between right and wrong.  and,  such a people,  deprived of the power to think and judge,  is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies.  With such a  people,  you can do whatever you want.

Hannah Arendt   

 

 

found

what if?

folding and sorting the things i had washed at Alyssia's,   i found this.    i don't know what i thought it was when i stuck it in the washer...just some walnut dye  muslin?    But it's This.   a work dress for 100 degrees.    It is   muslin.   It must have come at some point from Dharma Trading.  Long Ago.   i'd cut it up the front.  Needs buttons.   Began looking for the button jar.  which i couldn't find

 

but i did find the jar with these,  these   ...magic...  beads...what i had called them in the days of Magic

 

and things began to ROLL OUT from there

keep looking for the buttons,  the beads would be always only pinned on with safety pins...the safety pins...but what if it was a Magic Dress?   What if ,   in it,   i could be invisible...same as leaf litter. hidden  ...EarthLeafLitterMagic dress?   What if it's time?

the last

Thank YOU, Sandy      

so  much.    I didn't even know you had them all these years.   How Wonder FULL,   to see them again.   Love and Love.....and more Thank You.    

the most simple

one of the very first ones,   like,  Very first ones

before i knew

grass is grass

from long ago

my long long long time Friend     Sandy     sent me these photographs of some of the fiber figures i made ....in the early days  of them...Book Store days,  Ann Arbor Michigan       I was surprised to see them,  to know she has them.   and wondered how they might be different after all the time with Jude Hill's teachings?    i'll continue to put them here for these last few days of over 100 degrees.....until we return to the 90's for a week  and i maybe find out why i am      how    i am.........   Thank you, Sandy

 

one basket can hold a lot

• 
•  it's the one that lives next to me on my left.   on the bench here at the Table.   acts as a side table to hold the drawing board which holds the calendar,  sometimes the  drawing book,  and always that Life Basket we see here so often.   it lived in the spring st. house in Ann Arbor and drove with me in Fern,  the  1975   Ford Econoline van  to New Mexico.   And back.   and then back to New Mexico.   And then to California in a UHaul Truck.    
• the Threads.    are usually on the table in their own basket....just there,   to help me live.    they are not just thread   but Things to me.   They are butterflies,   flowers,   trees,  grasses of here and New Mexico,   they are the Rio Grande River,  the Rim of the World  there.    Lizards and praying mantis,  crows,  moths and human figures,   the    doings   of those human figures, and rocks and stones  and through it all,   FEELINGS   and the earth,  the earth ,  the earth upon which all those doings and feelings  play out.   They will come back to their own small basket on the Table where they can breathe.   Till Next  Time.
• One more thing about This Time.    That day we came back,  that they insisted we must,   Jenny left work early again and we met at Home Depot.    They'd taken their  measurments   and had a piece of delux plywood cut.   Brought all the needed tools and bateries from both homes,  the fence cutters etc and in the far parkinglot DID the repair of the floor.  My daughter.   My granddaughter.   Ample and Strong.   

and the Garden has died.   the days of no water,  100 plus temps.   i'm not ready to say anything more.