So the good news is...I found the power cord for the computer. Totally by accident, while searching for something else. The glitch is, I cannot get my desktop to connect to the wireless network here. I gave up and will reset the router tomorrow. Fingers crossed I don't fuck it all up. I am used to have the techy man helping me with all this crap but I am learning by trial and error. The whole day passed. Anyway...
There was more snow last night. Some during the day.
And more expected tonight. Big wind is pushing the snow onto the porch. I keep sweeping it, it keeps blowing back. The sun came out for a while, but it just keeps getting colder and colder.
There is still going.
Nine for a New Year. What a funny form this has taken. I think about how this might be hanging around and someone might visit and look confused and ask what it is. And I might say...
Let me put on some tea and I'll tell you a story.
As I unpacked the books I took with me, I decided to begin reading them again.
This one, a very important one, I drew in it.
« Boring « …….. »unwise » !!? Really, Jude! If this day of wonderful conversation is anything, it is exactly what I LOVE about you and your Ragmates. So happy to spend this moment with all of you. I only wish I I was as éloquent at expressing. Thanks to all today – and for all the other days!
Valerie
Hey you…❤️
jude, I like thinking about…” how one thought leans into another “. I said to myself a different version of your thought….how one thought leads to another. That’s the phrase I am most familiar with. I like yours better…the idea of leaning into a thought. That is subtle and so important in my mind. The idea of leaning seems more present. Leaning into a thought offers choice and slowing to consider before deciding. It feels more expansive. Thank you, Jude.
This would be the best tea party ever 🍵
You wear nine layers! Love it 😀 I only need six! ☺️
Hope your tech issues are easy today.
The red of the amaryllis is wonderfully startling against the white of the snow ❤️🤍
Cariad MAWR to you and Soul-O.
So much beautiful pictures you have shared with us. And it is interesting what you made. Live it. Keep warm my friend
My goal right now, until spring..
I look very big, like a bear!
Jude, I totally understand your frustration with the tech stuff . . . I have no tolerance for spending my time on that now, even though I used to work with it as my job (in a former life!!). Thanks so much for pushing on through & sharing with us. I am SO looking forward to seeing how the Spring unfolds in your new life!
I can do it, it is just so annoying and I’d rather someone else do it… ha!
Spring will be wild I’m sure.
For some wasn’t going to respond…but, as I read all the words here, I must. Along with so many others…as a woman, you inspire me, as an artist you inspire me, as a “worder” you inspire me, words from
your readers inspire me and most of all your path/story inspires me. I’m grateful for all you sprinkle on my path. Wish you sunny happiness. 💞
And thank you for you words today!
Loved your new house, Jude – it’s really special, like its owner. Glad you have your son not too far away. And the Nine Square! Love it too.
Here, in the Land of Oz, it’s 33 degrees centigrade and has been higher, and is way too hot. Your place looks beautiful, and love your scarlet flower, but I’ve not had to cope with that much cold and snow, so hope you can keep warm and cosy with Soul-O and sew more art. Very best New Year Wishes.
I actually like cold better than too hot. I’m adjusting really. Not feeling the cold at all. 9 layers of clothing!
Reading and making are a good combination I think. Reading lets fingers rest and making (unless it is detailed) gives a chance for eyes to rest and the mind to wander a bit.
You will figure out what you need with the computer… 🙂
Yes, I have a renewed i yesterday in reading, mind food …
I will, I have less patience with technology lately.
I was reminded recently that nine is the number of completion (numerology). This could be the year when a lot of things are recognized as finished. the way we think about things is so important. to see when we create obstacles/obstructions. my teapot is on hand as well! happy new home.
Yes, nine is indeed a magic number.
Blessings… your search is great, and so glad the computer might be OK…Reading is so important and so happy that you added your handwritten drawing as a notation at the top.
Enjoy the quiet and celebrate the beautiful plant we see…reminding you that we all live for colour and thoughts each day!
I start we d drawing un a lot of the old books I kept over the years. I haven’t read much in recent years. Only certain kinds of writing appeal to me. But we’ll see, I’m curious how my old favorites will seem to me now…
Stay safe and warm! and I always feel boring, and learning by trial and error is the best way in my book 👍🏻💙🕊️
Ha, yes…
OK I am now worried for you out there on your own in what looks like a weather event to a townie like me . Hope the son is in reach for any emergency. Jude I so admire you and what you have achieved and I know us creatives are naturally solitary beasts ( in the main) but that is a lot of “aloneness” You are an inspiration to me dear friend of the ether as I set out on my own “alone” journey after forty years .Thank you, please be safe and all your friends are rooting for you have the happiest of new years .
I am happy here in my aloneness, but my son and his family live about a mile and a half over the hill. Still, he knows when to leave me alone. It’s often me that calls and asks ” do you need anything?”. Ha!
Thanks for getting back to me darling , all anxieties put aside and happy thoughts of you and Soul O enjoying your amazing new house X
I am so glad to hear that your son is a mile and a half away. It is very good to have someone you love nearby in case you need help or to visit.
Yes, the move was planned to have this in place. Can’t belive we found this place so nearby.
Hello Jude, I had to comment about your techy man remark. I am on a similar journey to you and those words just leapt off the screen. I only wanted to say that sometimes people can make us feel we can’t do stuff. But we can. Maybe by trial and error. Maybe not the ‘right’ way, whatever that is. But we can. I am (re) learning my own capabilities too. Your new home is beautiful, I hope you can stay warm. Love to you and Soul-o.
We learn so much by failing, I am happy to still be learning.
What you do is wonderful. 🍀
It doesn’t matter, it’s what I do…ha!
Your amaryllis looks good. Glad you found your computer cord. Love what John Dewey says about art! Only you could see that there is a 9 in 2025!! So I hope this year of 9 will bring all you need.
Hey, 👋 happy new year!
What I need and even want had changed so much.
I am happy about that.
A snowy landscape can look so serene. The amaryllis is a beautiful red. So perfect for this season somehow.
They are amazing, the energy of growth is so apparent
I’ve never lived in cold like that; I don’t even want to imagine it. Stay warm and enjoy the tea party.
The air is the freshest!
Tea for two, or three, or nine…
Tea for you, for me…for us and thee…
And yes, a story (cloth) –Always.
((is it Spring yet?–HAH)
*love the book page! Food for thought!
Story everything!
Your words had me singing this song…it’s cold and it’s getting colder! lol
Dang, I don’t like when it makes it huge – hogging up your comments. Sorry.
I like that it does that!
Haha good!
My dad loved this song.
Oh being able to have tea along with you and a story .. that would warm my heart enough to melt some of that snow.
❤️
I’m sure there would be laughing.
laughing is very warming!
Dear Jude,
I think of you; however, words fail me these times as I can think of nothing wise or even interesting to write. Nonetheless, I think of you often, am glad to be on your mailing list, and send you my best wishes, as always.
I’m feeling very boring and unwise lately. It’s ok though…
Exactly the way I feel reading these eloquent posts! I’m ever thankful for finding Jude though even if it did take a nasty back injury (now largely resolved) for me to find the path.
Interesting book page there. And we seem to be getting similar weather. Cold, colder, snow, snow again. Lake effect snow squalls adding and inch here, and inch there. Then the wind blowing it around, back onto the paths I’ve swept, though today, it’s blowing it off the paths. A nice change. Good luck with the technology tomorrow!
Funny how these words seem so different now.
The weather report changes every hour here. I love when it’s dry and cold enough to sweep instead of shovel. I’m sick of computer stuff.
A mathematical equation is not subjective. After all, 2+0+2+5 does equal 9. But art IS subjective because people, when viewing it, project their own experiences into it. Now. Let’s have tea, Jude. I want to hear that story!
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yes!!! me, too!
A tea party.