Do you see the rainbow?
I turned on the sprinkler because it is so dry and it is going to be a hot one today. Just happened to glance out the kitchen window. No Freakin' way, I said. Ha!
F might be for Free your Mind, but that is not to say don't think. In today's connected world, well, I think there is just too much information. And most of it is aimed at control or manipulation. Freeing your mind may not be possible. Less exposure and simpler days might be helpful.
I stitched this.
I stitch in reaction to how it is going.
I was thinking that wishing is in some way a way to consider change. I thought I might wish to be able to continue honoring change without fearing it.
F is for Fear and how it Fucks up everything. (not sorry, words are often just perfect)
F is also for the Forever Zone. I am not posting there today. I am reconfiguring a few things and will put a newsletter here next week to welcome September and some new ideas. If you are a member of the Zone, I thank you for your patience while I smooth out some wrinkles in the cloth of life.
F is for Fall, the word I like better than Autumn. It has a story built in. The Falling but then the nourishing rest and the rising up again. Tree selves are brewing.
F is for just Fine
Powerful Star!
It can do and be many things!
Love it!
I really love that star. It radiates outward so offers a different feeling from the contained log cabin squares. To view change without fear is a laudable goal.
What if I could combine e those two forms?
I’ve always been a scaredy-cat.
It’s a word one may use full-force. As in What the…! If orange wins, I fear that I will loosen my two front teeth.
It’s the kind of word we save for our own special occasions…🤣
What a fine harvest of comments. The sparkling Force of creativity. Fantastic!
A Friendly Fever
When I was in 11th grade high school (1971?)I wrote a paper and gave a speech on why f*ck was not a dirty word but a way of expressing. Now all these years later I find it being used more frequently than ever before. Fast becoming a norm? 😂
Oh ha, great! It lights a 🔥. Everyone gets it.
Flora and Fauna; things that delight.
Soul-O reclining in nonchalant elegance waiting to see if just maybe the Fake mouse will move this time.
Funny!
i used to be one of those who avoided swear words but i’m like you anymore, i just use them. one of my favorites has become “oh hell, no!” in college i learned to swear in other languages which is often handy.
harvest is such a better word for the late august to november time frame. a time for the fields to become fallow. more “f” words!!!
Ha!
Fallow is a kind word somehow.
Fantastic feline friend.
Love the sprinkler Rainbow and the ‘wishing being a way to consider change’ patch, the f word used so well…I find myself really enjoying swearing as I’m getting older 😉 I would love to feel the way Soul-O looks in this photo.
Cariad MAWR x
Yeah, I get away with a lot more swearing. Folks just look away and think it’s just an old grouchy woman. 😂
🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣, I love it!
🤪
C is for Curmudgeon….hahahaha
Ha!
Furry feline first came to mind, followed by Fall is in the air, finally.
Funny. How we use finally. Over and over…
F as in fine Feline. And Fuck this shit, which has been my mantra for a couple of years now. Hot here too and everything is so dry. Will be dragging my sprinkler out to the garden again today as I always plant late and it’s only just now producing anything. Frustrating.
Fickle weather here, was so cool, now it feels like the Tropics. The indigo is so confused it gave up.
Hi Jude, Did you make the tiny mouse at the edge of the carpet where Soul-O is resting, stretched out, looking anywhere but at The Mouse?
No, it was a gift. I made a square one way back, I should look for it…
I love how Hope in Transition holds a Rainbow in the points of its star — expanding outward — no longer either/or [i.e., black/white] — but about to burst into a colorful flaring forth.
Yes, I love how the idea of change might reach toward expanded vision!
“F” is for Friendship, which can be Fantastic, of course.
I totally agree with your statement on Fear.
And “F” is for Feelings, of which there are many and some more Frivolous, some more Friendly.
Feel Free!
Ha, yes. I’m working on that.
Fall is in the air, even though it is humid today. Soul-o’s expression is great. Also, I see a bit of a rainbow on the right side of the driveway in the first photo, interesting. 🙂
It’s hot as hell here today a d humid.
It’s not the driveway, it’s the triangular spay field of the sprinkler and yes the colors can be seen along thee edge.
Oh, ha, that makes sense! I was wondering if you had a driveway portal to somewhere 🙂
OK.. am I seeing the rainbow on the road area? If not give us a hint so these olde eyes of mine can focus. Love the challenge! Be Happy! Thank You, Jude!
It’s not a road, but yes, it is the spray from the sprinkler and the colors are along the edge, it was hard to photograph. .
Hmm I think of Autumn as the colours. The golds, reds, orange and yellow and shades of brown and all shades in-between. Autumn Gold. But then, I’m a bit finickity, fussy, fastidious, about words sometimes. Fall I see as a fall from grace, a stumble on the path a fallen Angel thrown out of heaven.
Yeah, autumn is definitely color in my mind.
I’ve found another… Frith, it means peace and friendship conducive to peace. ☮
Oh that is a new one for me…
An old friend used to say that it’s important to keep certain words on your shelf, at the ready, for when you need them.
Oh Hazel, I really connect to that saying of your friend – it’s a Good One, and I’ll remember and pass it on. Thank you and Bet Wishes.
Absolutely, some of the most important ones are on the shelf!
F is for fundamental. Seasons are fundamental. People went about their lives based on seasons, indicators of what was necessary to live. Fall is my favorite season for I am a child of this season, born in September. My name for this coming time of year is The Quieting Time that to me has always been the framework for the digging in time of winter.
Good word! I am considering renaming my seasons.
Enjoyed the post & comments today.
Enjoyed posting today!
F for friends …. fantastic friends that never fail to feed one’s soul with fantastic inspirations and ideas that can come to be using fabric.
Leave it to you, friend, to offer this beautiful word.
Fear is such a complicated emotion. Thinking about reactions…flee, fight, freeze. Sometimes fear is a healthy reaction but too much is unhealthy. Wishing…mostly I think of that as the positive side of change.
It’s hard to embrace the fact that positive is different to different people. We need a longer view.
I always liked that the early Colonists, or perhaps the indigenous people, referred to this favored time of year as ‘Leaf Fall.”
Soul-o. Makes all things right again.🧡❤️🤎
Seasons and moon names always interest me.
Soul-o looks fearless today. Many times I get courage for the day from my rescue, Louie. There’s so much strength and trust in my doggie. Thank you for your beautiful art and daily thoughts.
Yes, doesn’t he? I was just telling him how we made it through somehow…
Friend. Soul-O is your friend.
He is. A Fine Freind
F is for Fabulous
Love everything about this post…including word(s) that are just perFection sometimes! 😁
Gotta use the ones that seem to say it!
So your note made me curious about the word autumn and entomology is where I go when I am feeling fun-curious.
Turns out the original name for the season in many languages was based on a word for harvest.
“Harvest (n.) was the English name for the season until autumn began to displace it 16c. Astronomically, from the descending equinox to the winter solstice.” They go on to say, “Old English hærfest “autumn,” as one of the four seasons, “period between August and November,” from Proto-Germanic *harbitas (source also of Old Saxon hervist, Old Frisian and Dutch herfst, German Herbst “autumn,” Old Norse haust “harvest”), from PIE root *kerp- “to gather, pluck, harvest.”
So, Jude, thanks for the prompt. I like “Fall” and “Harvest” better than autumn, they have more STORY to them.
I’m glad you put this here, I was just researching it myself…