The base has been here for a while. I added the earth beast from so long ago and this time she has decide to go higher. story
cut, relax
There was pucker, where the dense stitch pulled up the cloth. Sometimes I manage that well. Sometimes I don’t, or can’t.
overlap, settle
I let one side of the cut shelter the other. The cloth flattened out. Almost. Sometimes I just stitch that in place.
cover. reinforce
This time I thought to strengthen the cut. I covered it with a strip of fringe. To continue.
continue through
The continuing idea went right through by adding fringe to the top as well. It became like a magic carpet now. The way it went.
The way is is today is not the way it was yesterday. cannot
these sentences. they are a moon a basket holes in the sky…..i love it all here, the strangeness of it all. yes.
things have become SO strange…
I Love your symbolism. it says much.
we are all stardust, ageless and ongoing… but yes, during the dark time of the year, time weighs heavy on our hearts, esp as the years march on…. Altho it is my birth month (& should be celebrated) I’m always happy to see Feb go!! hah!
So happy for March now–let the Spirit uplift! Let us plant seeds and forget the tick-tock of the clock!!
Hope your ear infection heals ASAP!
Sending love healing & happiness.
XOXOXOX
after so many years, I feel I can speak my own language. We are in big meltdown here!
I do love your videos and am glad there are so many of them for you to fall back on … like puzzle pieces, I imagine you putting them together in endless new ways
wishing you well … wishing you gentle joys … go where you will and we shall follow you there
I am glad you said this, I have been rethinking video, I need it, but I need new ways,
Do not know if this is helpful, but perhaps it could benefit you and your vertigo – https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/home-epley-maneuver
this is not unlike what I engage in, leftover advice from my chiropractor dad. And also a self massage on the sinus related shoulder area right above the shoulder blade. And heat, and sage mist. I avoid antibiotics if I can. And I am much better today. Thank you for the link.
Anything you do, and anyhow you do it is so great. Letting go is so good. A book….ohhh yeah 🙌🌞🌕🌟
oh you should know me better. oh ha!
Thank you so much Jude, and, please take it easy, or easy does it
slept. a lot.
love this piece, love your voice.
it’s funny, I don’t much like my own voice…
I see an arm reaching out and pointing, sending the beast…
where? Hmm…
that was interesting… I did not see that but what a great image that could be developed.
This one soars, and sings to me…I’ve spent a lifetime daydreaming of being in the stars, but to Be a constellation. Something new to dream about, thank you. (I’ve had the dizzy thing going on for a few weeks- can’t get up, turn head, etc. too fast…hoping it’s allergies, just started the meds this week, some better.)
I think it’s the forced air vents here…
the Beast as constellation…Beauty Full. As thought and as Cloth.
of course it’s been thought of before…. I like how it ends up to be connect the dots…
A book! Oh, that would be magic! Sending you lots of healing vibes for your ear problem.
I wish that book could magically appear but it’s way more work than that.
Oh Jude I did not see sun moon and star in this beautiful work. I saw a woman standing there, dynamic, with the triangular piece either being her hair streaming in the wind or her arm pointing to where she wanted her beast to go. I love the idea of a constellation of self. Thank you for sharing this.
my goodness, that’s a lot of seeing into this one.
Still ever so thankful that I stumbled down an internet rabbit hole and found your blog 3 yrs ago this summer (or is it 4) as I lay on my sofa with injured back and then thanks to you, began hand stitching which I could do standing! I’m much better now, able to sit or stand, walk and swim, looking at 75, and still so thankful. I love to read your words, hear your words and see the way you make such delightful story cloths! Thanks Jude! A book! Oh yes…
I’m glad I could be there as part of healing for you…
I love the fringe!
Maybe the limitations are the path. The more you understand the more you can simplify. I can emphasise with forgetting the finer points of how the video works and deciding to manage without it.
And there was me thinking you were flying over the pyramids and domes of ancient Egypt.
limitation are definitely so much a part of going.
I might have been flying anywhere.
one of my favorite components.
My eye is drawn to the left of the pink pyramid in the lower left … bunny stretched out. Observing the leaping beast. Perhaps ready to leap, too.
like in clouds , we see so many things…
I think the photo’s explain it all quite well, no video necessary indeed.
Yes, things change, slowly but they do. (Minor) physical discomfort put things in a different perspective than they used to be, and (old) age does that too, one day more than another. Good it doesn’t last that long
All the best with your ear and let’s wait for spring 🙂
there are so many ways, still I am always driven to learn new things, maybe it will just be that.
There are so many ways to tell stories. 🙂
maybe I can draw them
your voice, telling the story… the still photography, indigo windows for the soul to fly thru’ and soar… a different experience than a video, but equally beautiful. healing. <3
we just keep at it
finding this wild Virgo Full Moon is very exacting
what a Moon…
Yup, 70 was hard……but 83 is freaking GREAT❣️
Ahhhh thanks ! I’ll wait for that 😀
ha! thank you!
I love hearing your voice, it calms me and I would love to buy you book
thank you
It seems to me the earth beast is simply stating her truth
and she has been working at it for a long long time
I would love to have a book that you wrote. Sabrina Ward-Harrison has an on-line class on producing your own book . A local Artist here on Gabriola took the course and produced her own book . It’s beautiful , her name is Tammy Hudgeson.
I am lucky to have a brother who might edit and his partner who know about about page layout. Content is overflowing.
I am “there” with you . Or maybe ahead of you. Mama said there’d be days like this.
yes she did
I always love your fringes…
yeah, they go way back don’t they?
The beast looks like she’s soaring over a teepee…. all so calmly beautiful 💙
Dear Jude, I do hope you feel better soon, you give so much and it is appreciated so much, that creative heart and mind, just keeps inspiring! Thank you for continuing with the audio, I kinda like these a lot more in some ways, when there is no visual there is more concentration on your words and thoughts. ‘Rise above it’ so much in there 💕
Also, I would love to own that book when it comes along.
I love the audio element. And I enjoy it, talking to myself like no one is listening and then sharing it.
I like that
Thank you for sharing your creative process in pictures. I love the earth beast both sweet and fierce, is she sad?
no I think she is relieved
She is calling for Pluto!
maybe she is singing.