It kept snowing.
Didn't amount to much but the cold has slowed me once again. I had to order more wood because you just can't know, here in the mountains, how long the cold will hang around. I can always use it next season.
I look forward to sleeping through the night, once keeping the fire going is less critical. haven't slept through since I got here, almost 4 months. Seems like years.
The worst part of getting sick , for me is the loss of energy. Energy is the magic for going. I stitched a loose energy patch to celebrate it's return. I feel it. I thought of making lots of them. Loose patches help me keep going. They are at my side when I need them. Stored energy. I'm thinking a lot about loose. I spent time and new energy pinning a lot of loose dyed patches up where I can see them. Finally getting things out of their hiding places from the move. Loose. Free. At last. It took too long to unpack. It drained me not being able to look at what's here, waiting. The atmosphere has changed. It's just me. The whole place will be my studio. Inside and out.
Bruno has a lot of energy. It might just be contagious.
I will send out a Forever Zone Newsletter tomorrow. For those of you who are part of that be on the lookout for an email. There have been issues where these emails go to spam so if you do not receive the email, check your spam folder. If you do not receive it let me know. No need to let me know if you got it, just if you did not. Thanks for your help. Just cleaning up a few bugs before I begin again.
Re the whole place-
Phil was gone for a couple of days and I’m prepping for a workshop. When he came back I said- sorry, I kinda blew up the house with cloth prep. He said- wow-imagine if I didn’t live here!! 🤣
I can imagine… cats and cloth everywhere!
Ha! Exactly! ❤️🎶
We’re getting of an age 76&77 where heating with wood full time is becoming a question. I’m thinking an alternative during the deep of the night will have to be next. Because as said SLEEP is required. It takes more BTU’s to bring back a freezing house if the fire goes out at 1am than if it’s kept to 50 overnight. Easiest solution looks like a couple oil filled space heaters. Some can be set to come on at a temp you decide. Quite energy efficient but still electric, it’s a math problem more wood versus a few hours of electric. We can still burn wood during the day- morning to last stoke before bed. What will happen eventually is a worry. Good thing we over killed (so people said)on insulation when we built the house in ‘79. Plus not solar but lots of south facing windows heats the place on a 25 degree winter day. Most of you probably know all this but it is helpful to see scattered thought written down, and the time to make changes is in the summer when the time sucked up by constant wood work is over. Then again when I lived in Vermont there were very few evenings without a fire year round. That was before the warming though.
I think of the whole house and garden as studio and project, all together. 🙂 The energy that young children have is amazing…
Yes, I need that oneness.
He never stops moving! Wish I could remember how that was.
Maybe you can stitch Bruno’s masterpiece -quite the challenge!
What a nice idea!
Go for it! Live in your home the way you want! My home is my studio, nearly all of it. If my daughter moves out I’m taking over the last two rooms. I’m looking forward to seeing what you do with it!
Just relaxing into it…
bruno’s drawing feels like a celebration of fireworks in a night sky… quite freeing for your cottage ‘n studio to become one… the ability to shrink yourself ‘n soul-o inside one of your patchwork houses ‘n see it from another perspective…
New eyes!
The snow was really beautiful here yesterday. Always nice when it’s here, but doesn’t require energy, just looking. Ha, Bruno’s energy is quite visible. 🙂
It’s melting, it was ok really, a reminder to not be so sure
Gathering energy…Yes! And Bruno shows the uninhibited free flow!! Rest when u can work when you can, keep the balance!
Good advice.
Glad there is a return of energy, and I LOVE your celebratory loose patch, and Bruno’s art 😍
It’s great to be vibrating!
sending you positive energy and love!
Thank you!
Thank you Jude,
Your letter made me think of Jerry Lee Lewis, Makes me feel real loose like a long neck goose. I am going to search him singing it on utube, it might get rid of the tension.
Yours truly,
Dale O.
Oh Jerry, yes,yes,yes!
I feel the energy. I’m so looking forward to your making the studio your own.
I’m on it!
Send some energy my way!
💙🕊️
Ok!
Cuppa hot soup and rest…
Yes!
Well the freedoM to treat the whole place as your studio is one mega-silver lining, I gotta say.
Yup. Tis.
Loose feels good!
There’s a song 🎵 I like to softly aong to myself in tense times – good to know it, Imagine you’ll find it on the web via the words below ☺️💕 (passed on in the oral tradition … “loosen, loosen, baby-
you don’t have to carry
the weight of the world in your muscles and bones, -let go let go let go)
🙂 Nice song Linda
💕
Yes!
Jude~ YES! Surround yourself with cloth and Bruno energy! Love his mark making, such big whole body, vibrant creating!
It’s all comforting.
I need some energy too
(Getting sick sucks, as I can attest to)
Hope the snow melts quickly, stays away, and Spring can stay! 🌱
I guess we’ll see as it goes.
Ohh you need sleep. The sun and the foraging will be so good very soon.
Yes, I do, I’ve been patient. I’m excited for the new season .
Hello, Jude. 🍀
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