We are nearing the end of the calendar year but I have a bit more time being 72. And 7+2 = 9. So what meaning will I choose to associate with that? I have come to realize (that is, for me) that giving meaning to things is a choice and an anchoring device when floating gets out of hand. A convenience really. Making a loose thought into a puzzle piece that might fit into my personal and liquid puzzle .
Nine has always been there. Even before cloth. I have not yet gathered all my thoughts about why I imagine that has meaning. But now is a good time to begin. This just an old loose page that I met in the loose page box this morning.
Back to Matcha.
I saw #1 as surgery. Ha. And I can relate to sleepy #6 🙂
“telling your truth as if it should be everyone’s truth”
My daughter once argued about “who’s truth is the truth?” (type of thing). She was taking the opposing view of her college teacher and fought hard for her ideas, getting much of the class seeing it her way.
Truth. sigh.
There are so many snd we need them all.
#1…looks like someone on the way to the disco. 🙂
Ha!
…just hearing your thoughts as you speak ..or rather, what we pick up or resonate with as you chat..that does the learning..and so the teaching in a way. It’s enough and more.
The meaning each one subscribes to it..creates it’s own mosaic, I guess.
May you , also, enjoy your own, quiet journey right now ,as you see your own work thru your eyes.
We gain so much from your own journey..thank you.
8+1=9. As a quilter nine-patch comes to mind first. Then, as a retired librarian and master at organizing, putting my life into 9 segments. Interesting thought game.
Is matcha only to drink or is it a dye also?
I so often divided my canvas into nine when painting, and then when quilting began, poof, the 9 patch!
To drink really, doesn’t present much more than a hint of stain and doesn’t stay.
9s are a big part of me, too (7.2.54) and a flying frog floats in my room.
best winter wishes,
fumiko
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YES!! I have always considered this aspect of teaching of “telling your truth as though it should be everyone’s truth” and worked really hard in my early teaching years to come up with language that negated that as much as possible. Like telling students that this is my bias as a landscape painter, or, this in the canon that is taught, but I think differently about it. 2024 marks the 29th year of teaching at the university and 29 years of thinking about this question of telling my truth as if it is everyone’s. I think I’m pretty good at finding ways around it now, and I recognize how I’m mostly a loner in the department to even be thinking about this, and the longer I teach, the more intensely I practice the workarounds.
Thank you for coming here today and taking the time to say this. I think about it more and more, and I do feel quite alone sometimes with my truth, but it is who I am and more attention need to be paid to it. It is harder these days when the reach is so far and the culture of approval just seem to create it’s own truth. We really need the free flowing deep pool of thought…to learn.
… “free flowing deep pool of thought” yeah, totally agree!
Thank you for these thoughts Valerianna.
29 years!
Hi Nancy! Yeah, 29 years, but, I found out this week that I’ve lost my job for next semester because of my injury. Dang. 🙁
loving all these transparent selves. since 7+3+10, wondering what meaning you’ll associate with that shift?
Maybe it’s time for nothing!
Love your nine selves sketches! and painting 💙
I still want to try the Matcha you’ve mentioned! 🍵
I could wander through these old scraps of paperworks forever…
I rock back and forth between coffee and matcha. Different form of waking.
I was struck by these words in your audio: “telling your truth as if it should be everyone’s truth”..too many try to do this….At 76 yrs of age, I’ve learned a few things about life but these are individual truths, specific to my story. There may be some shared experiences and here I am speaking of the often universality of being an immigrants daughter, etc. What I do know is that I don’t know the secret of life or even how to deal with what presents in a universal manner.
I do know what works for me and I offer my thoughts, at times, in comments on various blogs, not as a teacher, not as what the British refer to as an “agony aunt” someone who gives advice but simply as a way to connect and keep the conversation going…so thanks Jude for doing just that this morning.
just to add to the pool of experience…
Marti~ Yes, the older I get the less I know or maybe the less I need to prove what I know.
I see all of these 30’s – 40’s year old teachers, very much in the throws of All They Know. I no longer need that.
I love drawing #7 …alchemy of self
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And your matcha looks like your Grow cloth.
Lots to think about these days.
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they were all drawn at different times, cut loose and rearranged. that’s a game I play to confirm connection. The other game which I am playing now is to isolate each one, stare for a while and then recreate the same image 9 times but without looking. I call it the expansion game.
Match wakes me up and calms me at the same time.
Oh, wow. Those paintings…and your flying creature…amazing.
Will have to check out Matcha…and go feed my Crows.🖤
the birds are in migration mode, it’s deafening outside.