now

 

starting a new piece

the memory of how we felt

the conventional rushes in

my truest self

 

I found embroidery was like a prayer.  It brought me in touch with my spiritual self, my truest self, and connected me to a power beyond.    Ranjith Raman

continuing on

 

 

love, love, love
it was the core of my life,
from which, of course,
comes the word for the heart.

Mary Oliver

authenticity

notebook paper stitched with red thread to old table cloth

unpicked

 

I have been circling for a thousand years
and i still don't know if I am a falcon
or a storm
or a great song

Rilke - from the book of Hours

large emptiness winter

 

It's really awkward and heavy.
It's really new - do I love the white horizontal stitching?  I still need to know that.
I do love the paisley back with white big thread.
Maybe it wants some couched lines.  Maybe it needs to be quilted in the ditches.

It's not going to Mexico with me.