I wore my Bird Robe.
I stopped thinking about this robe as in process for a while, but I am always adding to it.
This stitched spin, one of the first symbols I considered has been on the robe since almost the beginning.
Spin, today, now considered a kind of flow. The whirlpool.
And going in circles, a kind of going, I forget sometimes, is ok.
It is a direction.
I can change my perspective and imagine it rising me up instead of sucking me down.
It often rises up when I am stitching round and round anyway. Who needs flat?
While walking I realized what I love about this land is that it is not flat.
I remember stitching the first stitches on this large cloth project, By The Sea.
And today it is raining.
Yes! Sometimes we do realise we’re stuck until we feel the seam give and suddenly we’re unstuck. Just like sometimes we think we’re going round and round in a circle when really it’s a spiral…….
Ah, that stream! Like Jude’s own CALM app 🙂 We listened for a bit together.
I tried putting one of my daily rings back on yesterday. It felt too awkward and with so much washing all of the time, I just took it back off, even if I wanted to and thought I was ready to go back to my rings, I was not.
i sat there for a long time.
i have so many less things. i like it when it is just me.
Water always finds a way… A good thing for me to remember.
It is in us…
Full moon tomorrow.
In “our” Oregon wetlands it is the Frog Moon.
Then Spring Equinox the 20th.
A good time to get unstuck and start blooming…
Gosh it could be frog moon here too, they just started singing
Yes! Singing away here too.
The stream is such a beautiful sound. I know exactly what you mean about calling the land “mine”. It just doesn’t feel right. We are the the caretakers and protectors of this land for as long as we are able.❤
considering going broke and buying an additional parcel behind us, just to keep it safe a little while longer. But then just how longer is longer…
So happy for your spring……water….let it flow……….
gosh, so good to see water. moving.
Walking. Paths. Rocks. Hills.
Spring! I so miss the more dramatic and surprising changing of seasons. Glorious for you!!! 🍀🌳🌱🌼🏞️
it’s been a slow surge
Having land to walk is wonderful. Stewardship of it is the challenge, even the quarter acre my house sits on … to learn the trees and shrubs, what they need and don’t need. I apologize regularly, but probably not enough.
Flow, clouds or water… movement that is alive soothes, centers and grounds me. Creating anything after taking in that blessing, flows.
I really need the exercise, walking is such a gentle way to keep active.
Thank you, Jude. Beauty inside & out!!! Your post was just what I needed this morning.
i sure needed the outside time
soooooo happy u wore the bird robe!!! have u ever woven bracelets or earrings? today the plum trees stand like enormous bouquets of white blooms erupting from the earth ‘n the black walnut tree is awakening. unstuck is on the move. x
no. not really, I am not much of a “jewelry” person, Always seems to be in my way. I have even lost the rings in recent years, with covid and everything, washing hands all the time and stuff. and digging in the dirt. the robe is way useful for me.
how the Flow of Water forms, unforms, reforms
such a lesson.
form. liquid. temporary. forever.
I love the symbol of the spin you’ve created with all its references to life forces. I might add that for me spinning is an act/process of creation as I spin my sheep wool. The spin pulls together the fiber and holds them, Gently or tightly. Depending on the energy flowing through my hands onto the wool it can look different every day.
oh yes, it has the holding and the freedom at the same time.
The spiral made me think of a galaxy.
ha, then what if it were larger?
walking the land … making paths … oh, how I miss those things … it is good to know that you have these joys close at hand … even as I share in your missing the sea
the constants are cloth and stitch … how they are ever-present … the through-lines of days
I don’t directly think about it much, but I do miss the sea. This new stream has awakened the water in me.
I like your whirlpool view of the spin stitching instead of my view of a hurricane 😬
and love the little stream with trickling sounds 💙✌🏼
maybe it’s about speed, it can be all things spinning.
Yes, moving water, it comes and goes here, the ground is liquid, the rocks hold it.
I love that robe. I made one when you did the course and ended up gifting it. I would love to make another for myself. I love the colours of yours.
indigo is always a good base, there is something elemental about it.
Oh Jude!
Yesterday, I slowly began to unfurl, uncurl, open, rise up ( love, love, love the upwards whirlpool idea, hm yes! Like birds riding thermals, up up up and away!!) Nature heals. Love your Spring, that has sprung forth …
(Yes, I too am bad about “my”….🤦♀️)
Doing a little stitching this morning, and then; back out to the garden today….the birds are serenading the world!
May you continue to feel uplifted!
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a beautiful spring rain today. the birds still singin’, in the rain.