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There are days, y’know?

Sometimes I look back at my life and what a mess it can be, and I hold my head in my hands and figure that I am not really ready for prime time.

Ever been there? Where between the baby drool, and the bunny poop, and the lack of a proper haircut a person had just better stay home.

But the reason I have looked that way is because I have been snuggling or adventuring with my kids and that took priority.

So the parties I’ve missed get put into the perspective of what I have gained.

So do you know what Love does to us?

Love changes us.

It may not all be pretty, but I wouldn’t trade it for the woman I was before.

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I have been in the process of a decision, and as I was waking up this morning I realized that I love the feeling of what I want to do;

so just like learning how to love my children and all the changes I have been through with them,

 I can lean into this new place and trust that the changes that will be wrought within me will be

Divinely Inspired

and very, very good.

What is forgiveness?

I’ve always held this whole topic pretty much at arm’s length. That whole “turn the other cheek” stuff made wary. Yuh … umm …  No.

But sometimes a person gets to a state of surrender; looking for answers a person keeps hearing all this ‘yada, yada, forgive and let go’ hilarity.

I was in such a place. There is a delirium in exhaustion and even the absurd looks good if it promises a way out. I took it to my studio for consideration in and amongst the stitches.

In the past few days I have been thinking about love, and loss, and dreams, and coming to terms with all that I want. This is what I understand: Loss re-routes a life. It makes us wise, or strong, or lays us as low as the dirt.

Wherever you are, I believe you. I’ve been fierce and I’ve been ill. I am not sure why this is so important to me but I think that it is crucial to be where we are for as long as we need. We must have the answers that only the dirt can tell us. It is hell to watch our friends go there, I know, but it is a part of the healing.

And at one point or another, if we have listened well and done our work, the healing includes something that we frame as forgiveness.

I am not in love with the meaning of the word that includes some sort of sweet character assessment. Rotten behavior still smells and the rest is between that person and the god of their comprehension.

But I like the part of the definition that talks about how that part of the narrative is over. The debt, or loss, or wound, may not be restored exactly, but something else is happening.

We can’t hurry love and it seems pretty pointless to try to rush forgiveness as well. But if you want a hand up and out, try this:

When you are ready,

When you are willing,

Take up your tools and practice your art. For days. For hours. For weeks. (I did it for five months once.)

Keep your hands moving and know that there is magic in this: the physical flow from right hand to left, and back again keeps your intelligence quick and your imagination warmed up.

Ask Them/Your Heart/The Universe for a new story to tell about yourself. And keep your journal handy.

Welcome!

Welcome to my first Virtual Blog Party of 2012. I am so glad that you are here. Please come in and join the party.

You look fabulous, by the way: so elegant, so stylish. It is just wonderful what the Virtual Couturier can come up with these days, isn’t it? You wear it so well. You do look great!

Let me get you something to drink. You have your choice of anything in the world. I also made these fantastic juices: there is an apple-lemonade, a beet-apple juice, and a zucchini-apple kale juice. They are all better than I would have imagined – I do love me those apples.

And would you like to see what our favorite chef in all the world came up with at the New England Culinary Institute?

Summer canape: cucumber, lime, prosciutto, melon and mint

Scallop quickfire appetizer plate. Seared scallop, mashed sweet potato, sauteed spinach and almonds. Sauce: raspberry apricot syrup.

Gorgeous, yes?

Southern pork theme. Aspic plate design, Cleaver Tallow carving, Pork Terrine wrapped in collards with candied pecans and sweet potatoes, Pork Terrine wrapped in Caul Fat with pickled Prunes and Smoked Hazelnuts, Molasses Gastrique, Peach chutney, Cornbread triangles with mustard greens bacon and caramelized onions, Sweet potato shooters with spicy nutmeg whipped cream cornbread crumb rim and candied pecan, Slaw of red and green cabbage shaved radish, jalepeno, and asparagus.

We love our Chef Hanna.

So we are here tonight to celebrate the re-opening of my website. I am learning all the new corners of my home here with WordPress, but I have to say that I would be nowhere without the kind and expert help of System Serenity. Stacey and her people have made the impossible seem kinda ordinary. Yes, even I can learn a new internet protocol. Stacey’s faith in me has been the light of many days. I think stuff up and she helps me “Git ‘er dun.” Magic.

We love our Magic Stacey too.

I hope that you will take a bit of time to look around in my Gallery and the whole site, and I really want you to wander on down to the Comment Section below and make your presence known to everyone. Say hi to folks you know and tell us all about your stunning attire! 

I chose this weekend to re-launch my website because we had the Vernal Equinox this week: we have leapt into Spring. Actually, here in Maine we have been enjoying the very unexpected and unusual delight of temperatures in the high 70′s. (So maybe we leapt into summer??) In any case, here we are in the New Beginnings time of our Northern Hemisphere and I thought that it was an auspicious date to step into my new life with you. We also marked the New Moon two days ago, symbolizing a waxing of growth. This is just the energy I want for my launch.

Have some Chocolate Mousse Tart?

I keep saying “we” a lot, not only because I am having a little “reality” party at my home tonight (my daughter laughed when I called it that) but also because I am celebrating my friend, KarenAlder of www.foodtoflourish.com who is also launching her brand new website on Tuesday. Karen has been my Accountability Partner in a Business Coaching Program with Christine Kane. Karen has been an enthusiastic and steady friend and partner. Christine has been an abundant and thrilling resource and coach. (You can find her at www.christinekane.com) This has been a thrill all around.

I have been so excited getting ready for you, here, today. And of course, because it is a party there have to be party favors! In yesterday’s post I gave you a Celebration/Meditation Paper Chain. Scroll down and get that if you haven’t yet. You’ll see that I used it as a Celebration Chain with my name and website linked in. You can also use it as a Meditation Chain by linking an inspiring word into the chain.

Your gift today is a Dream Wake Up, and Call Out Your Blessings Rattle.

Click the link here to download your instructions to make this colorful hexagonal  pyramid. Wake up those dreams of yours, shake the sillies out and sound out the Blessings of The Universe.

 

In some of the work I do as a fine art quiltmaker I love to explore the world of exactitude. The minutia of thousands of tiny beads is fascinating to me: you could walk over one seed bead and never know you had, but if I am patient and keep at it I can make intricate worlds of Beauty and Deep Story.

But I also like to play: these Rattles get their color from, get this, Duct Tape! So find your Inner Kid and get ready to Make Some Noise. And just in case I have a little rattle-making instruction on my Video Page.

Now, scroll down and chat with us.

I love that you came all this way!

Aah. The Wonders of the Internet.

XOXO

Robinsunne

 

 

 

Sometimes a girl reaches the edges of her known World.

She needs to grow and has some general ideas, but just needs some juice.

She’s feeling a little empty.

So she asks for help.

She whispers the situation on an exhalation. It is a conversation with the smallest particles of the Universe. She is making wishes and prayers. She is discussing cosmic blueprints. She is wearing her heart on her sleeve here.

And as she looks out she feels movement.

There are answers.

Yes.

Breathe.

There is a tea tag saying inside a tiny bottle in one of my Art Quilts: “You will feel exalted when you do the impossible for someone else.”

I have been absent from my blog for quite a while here as I have had my Conversations. I have been rearranging these tiny cosmic particles – “quanta” so that they could form the answers that I needed. I had to configure the formerly impossible into the actual for, y’know, someone else. The changes for my Someone Else have been requiring that I change. I think that this is the most wonderful and curious thing about loving someone. No question about it: I get changed. I am not who I was. And although some of it is kinda surprising, I am deeply O.K. with it. I can’t imagine wanting to be anyone else now. The mud and blood is .. whatever .. I. Feel. Exalted.

As a part of this adventure I have a new internet home now, and you are here, and I am delighted. I made something to celebrate this new grounding: a paper chain.

It says (you can enlarge the picture) “robinsunne dot com” because today is the first day of my new website .

I was thinking that maybe you could use some help focusing on a word, or a concept, or a little quanta arranging  of your own. So I am going to give you the template and instructions as a webite-launch-celebration-gift.

Click here to download the instructions

And I am throwing Virtual Blog Party here tomorrow night. Log in, here, at 6:00 PM EDT.

Post a comment and let me know when you get here.