Just dropping in to say hello.
Sorry for the quiet here but things are just crazy.
I am here in the Valley for 3 more days and then that’s it! I really wanted to make a video but that won’t happen so let me talk.
There will probably be an echo, the place is so empty, no carpets.
Lost and Found Lion Self coming together from scraps of self.
Words by Thomas Hobbes.
If I recall correctly, he also said…
Survival is falsehood detected in time.
And also, Substack, not sure, eh, will probably be back here. But let’s see. I don’t fit to the labels artist or writer. I am just me.
Ah, I was lost for a while and now I have found you again.
This has happened over so many decades for one reason or
another but it is always such a pleasure to be reunited with
your tenacity and Spirit cloth.
I hope the Lion of courage and the little cat of comfort will be Home
safe and sound soon.
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Love you and wish you a happy new house…
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Sending love to you and Soul-o and the magic basket. x
Sending love back
JUST LOVE YOU that is all
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Love this piece Jude. I think what is brewing is a buncho fantastic for you and Soul-o. 🙏🏻❤️
Yes, that sounds about right… we create our own joy.
All of us ready to move with you ,Soul-O and the Basket of Glorious Scraps. Happy days to all!
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❤️ Thanks Jude! Love the raggedly lion! Glad you are feeling good and ready for the new round house. I envy the round house. I grew up near Navajo hogans and always wanted that or a yurt. It feels right somehow. Best wishes! Also thanks to those ragmates who comment. You are very insightful!
Round will be great!
Phew, here you are .. just going strong. Sending love and light to guide your way and keep you safe from harm. With your little familiar in tow. Blessings and Peace for the festive season. (I’m still here too)
Yay, 👋
So nice to have you back here, Jude, I missed you. Can’t do substack. Warm, soft and peaceful wishes to you and Soul-O
So very glad you rediscovered your inner lion energy ♥️ isn’t it great when you again find the self you’re happy with.
Excited for you and Soul-O.
Love you ♥️
Oh! I don’t like substack either!
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So good to find you here in your digital home. I see the appeal of Substack for people like me who never got our blogs off the ground. There are so few good outlets for sharing long form writing. But you have built this warm and comfortable place here. (I also understand that the maintenance is probably a pain, like keeping up any home). Your lion self here does have an energy that is different from the more recent pieces. Fierce, grounded maybe? I always find I’m more creative when I have fewer options (supplies).
Yeah, for writers maybe it makes sense, still it feels pressured somewhat.
Whatever, here can be enough, I don’t need to seek attention.
True about fewer options, less distraction.
This lion does remind me of when I first found you and your stitching stories! I wish you the best on your move and settling in to a new house. Excited to see your round house and how it suits you and your life. Fingers crossed for Soul-O as well… cats are very resilient though so as long as he has you and you have him. Happy and safe travels.
We will be ok! ❤️
Sending you love and positive vibes as you move forward. Always love hearing your voice. Wish I could get you to do a nighttime podcast…I find what you say and how you say it very soothing. ❤️
You never know!
Always good to hear from you and see your work process.
Thank you for sharing!
Sylvie
Can’t help myself really…🤓
Hi. A move opens up a whole new world. I’m anxious to read your gorth coming cloth and paper words. Pleasant journey. ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks!
I’m glad you are back. You are a part of something larger than you realize.
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Thank you, just glad your back …..simple is better💕
yes, it is contagious…
Hi Jude, It’s so good to hear your voice again! I’m not good with substack so missed your recent musings. wishing you and Soul-O an uneventful reloction. Age is creeping so I’m in the stage of clearing out much of my house, it’s hard. Your words are always like poetry. Be well dear Jude.
it’s all hard or I guess just how it might go. Needs to.
Age is creeping in here too. I hope to be outside a lot and to keep active, keep moving. Most of what I have these days is cloth. So I need to give it new life, that motivates my going.
I am glad that i see you again. I love your work..
Just gorgeous and inspirational.
Well done.
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Something new rising out of the old scraps, bringing together different pasts and raising up the embers of a deep and vibrant energy always there not always seen. The alchemy of scraps drawn together. I love that words from the past sat waiting for their time, unknown till now. The echo is curious as I imagine you in a holding space neither here nor there.. the lion has a quiet strenght, beautiful scraps at the base.
Im not comfortable on substack either. Something swallowing and hungrily huge, can’t really explain it. Ive arrived there and leave, nothing to belong to, no sense of place. I’ve followed you for years a quiet constant. You were a light in my dark season in the beginning. Holding peaceful warm wishes for you Jude and hoping they might find you across the oceans.
Yeah, it works for many, I tried twice.
Just cannot warm up to the aggressive social thing going on.
Thank you for your kind words.
So lovely to hear your voice Jude, so much emotion and strength in Lost and found…I’m moving too….in 4 days a big change here also. I wish you peace and strength , I couldn’t get to grips with Substack either, simple is better ❤
oh! good luck!
I’ve been stressing but I just let go.
Picture me keeping the fire going, it’ll be 11 degrees when I arrive.
Simpler life once I get used to it.
I’m glad that you are feeling positive as you contemplate the emerging of this fierce, strong lion part of yourself that has been buried. Yes, you go, girl! Sending love and light to accompany you!
Rrrrrrr!
It seems globally to be a crazy time, everyone seems to be struggling.
That is a really fabulous piece. Love the words.
Wishing you all the very nest for your move.
yes, the struggle is apparent.
I love this one too, it’s ragged and holding so much.
And you love the words, that just triggered something for me.
What if I stitch my glossary? oh ha!
Jude this blog feels like a warm and cosy round house for me ( i know nothing abour substack). Sending you love and warmth and hope you and soulO feel warm and safe……………..
I agree. And my glossary and my ragmates are here, which helps me understand my own story in clearer terms. So here we are.
Hello,
I’m so glad to hear that you’re feeling good. Give yourself a big hug and say ‘I’m special’! Because you are a very special lady.
I wish you well on your travels and I look forward to hearing all about your next chapter, but in your own time, please.
Deborah 🧡✨️
Somewhat, my change in mood just makes everything seem a lot easier.
It is amazing that this creature kind of showed up to lead the way to a new stage in your life. Onward dear Jude. With affection….
Yes, I took time out, with coffee, to let it take shape. And I smiled the whole time.
Hi Jude 🎄
So many beautiful comments .. so I’ll keep it simple …. 💖🌟🧚
Stay safe
Maria A 🌸
Thank you
hello, jude! what u shared about the familiar energy stored in old cloth, yes! it brings life full circle somehow. feelin’ such joy as u ‘n soul-o embark on this grand adventure (with all of us)… x
I think the unpacking might be fun this time, scrap by scrap.
I enjoy you best here Jude, not on Substack. And looking forward to hearing about and seeing your new place. Super excited for you. And you are both an artist and a writer and so, so much more to all of us.!
just want to share and speak my mind, that’s all.
Thanks for the amazing adventure with Jude Hill.
just wait!
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Hello, I never caught that you had moved to Substack, … and I’ve been missing you and this blog that holds us all in warmth and comfort. I’ve missed you alot and wondered about you.
May you be well, may you smile more often than not, may you keep on keeping on. May we all.
yes, may we all. a softer gathering seems healthier.
May you be happy … may the move go well … may you find ease both in your new home and back here on your blog (I guess I’m not the only one who struggled with Substack) … and may you be safe, all-ways
Thanks Liz. some kinds of change are manipulated. I felt that there. I guess maybe it can be the backup or well, maybe silence is a better cushion, ha!
Yes there is something brewing, Winter Solstice is soon bringing light and perhaps this light is illuminating or morphing into something a little different as you move to your round house, a new perhaps brighter light which lends itself to a realization that we do go on, as best we can, bringing what matters and creating new what matters when we get to our destination.
This place here, this blog, has always felt cozy, comforting, “touchable”. Substack is vast and people jump out of the woodwork. I left a comment the other day on your Substack blog and got emails from 8 people that I do not know liking my comment; I found that to be just strange, weird and somewhat unsettling and it has made me wary of leaving comments…!
Marti~ That is just how I felt when a man I do not know”followed me” after I left a comment. Huh?
yes, substack has it’s pluses in terms of technology, but it seems just another form of weird social media disguised as something different. Maybe, I think to myself, I am just getting old.
Maybe then I think, thank goodness, I have perspective.
I’m thinking the fact that blogging is considered old-fashioned is a good thing … making it less traveled and therefore safer … as for the strangers who subscribe (they rarely comment), I check to see what their online presence is and 99% of the time I end up blocking them
So many things gave changed. Hard to “know” so many people and why they follow.
Thank you for these words. Touched my heart ❤️
Glad!
A scrap of a heart so big there is always space.
Yours. Thank you for sharing Jude. You sound like yourself.😘
Feeling more like myself.
The gathering together of all your fragments in preparation for the move…. So beautiful! …Inside & out…. I’ll be keeping you & Soul-O in my heart as you take the leap and settle into your wonderful round house. A change of so many kinds of seasons. Solstice soon and the light will be returning. Wishing you much joy and many new adventures are you move forward.
Hey you! Thank you…
I follow Substack. I’m a bit schitzy about who I follow. There are a few textile/fiber “artists” that I like. Then I have followed mixed media folks when they bailed from their own websites; I am having
adjustment issues with them.
So happy, happy that you can see the dawn arriving in a new abode very soon.
It’s all so overwhelming really, this web stuff, I prefer smaller. I can just be here ad I am.
Soon there will be more fresh air!
“Step out with the right foot” as my superstitious mother would say, with a wink. “Then only good luck will join you.”
Wishing you all the best.
Loved that!
Hello Jude. Good to see you here and the Lion says it all…lost and found..emerging…familiar…growing…same and new …
Thank you as you move from one place to another..and as you take us with you….stay well and here’s to more and more found.
Tried following you on substack..am not very good at that..glad to see you here:)
Feels better here.
Happy you are here, and I’m not liking substack much it’s too busy for me.
💙🕊🏡
yeah, not liking it either. Technically it works great but, nah, I need something softer.
👍🏻 I feel stressed out going on substack and I’m not even a person writing anything other than short comments.
I get it.
Yes, to be alive…and close to Nature! Hang on to Nature, Jude, and never let go of the gifts she provides through the Seasons, through OUR seasons!
yeah, I’m running to it now
when i first left Michigan for Oregon it was to build a Yurt.
so…finally, here, a round house. Took a while and another
life, but, finally. I am excited
I am transformed today. Everything seems possible.
Jude~ This was a real treat…your voice, that face, and the quote. All work. I’m wishing you ease in these last days of moving. May you both settle in comfortably. Not that it matters one way or another, but I like it so much better here. Like home. Hugs.
yeah, home, I don’t need anything more.
Me neither 😘
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I’m picturing a circle of your dearest companions, both here and from across the veil, sitting with you in these last days in this place, helping to gather up any energies you want to take with you, and clearing out any you don’t so the dwelling is as much “back to basics” as possible. Clean farewell. (Hope this is not presumptuous.)
Wow. If that beast was a flag, I would fly it from my rooftop.
May peace and ease enfold you gently.
you are right on the mark…
I love how you said this Jana.
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Survival- I have said it too- and woman is good at this. Hope your change brings new explorations.
ha, no doubt
Hoping for the best; sounds like there are some regrets.
I’m not crazy about substack. Sorry 🙁
Substack has it’s own agenda. Not feeling comfortable even though I have met a lot of new folks.
The only constant in life is change… I don’t know where the saying originated, but it’s been the story of my life, and no doubt yours too. Happy trails, and hoping you and Soul-o are able to settle in your new place with little duress and a sense of peace.
yeah, to be alive and close to nature will be just fine for me.