Stasia's Place Of Grace

Tuesday, September 03, 2002

 

Color!

I am so grateful that I have (relatively) good eyesight and can see COLOR!

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Here is the wool I dyed yesterday with Goldenrod from the yard. It is such a lovely, bright yellow. Jeff says, as he always does when I use natural dyes, how pleasing the color is to the eye. "It just looks natural," he says. Well, that only makes sense!

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Here is Herman, day two. He's been chomping away at the Milkweed I brought him. He seems to take naps beneath the jar lid when he's not eating - he climbs up there and is still for a while, then climbs back down and eats some more. I think his colors are brightening up a bit. See what a little love can do for someone?

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Here are the flowers from my dye garden, which I showed you in an earlier photo. I ended up harvesting them after all, because I found out they are not Coreopsis, but Cosmos, which is an annual which apparently dyes RED! It also flowers very abudantly - more so when the early flowers are plucked, so I realized I wouldn't be harming the display by picking a few this morning.

I'm giving the dyebath a try now... I'll add the photos of the finished wool, along with the Goldenrod photo above and both recipes, to my dyeing page tomorrow. Watch here for the link!

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I used to go for meditation practice at a Tibetan Buddhist center. The thing I remember most about it was that after sitting motionless for an hour with my eyes closed and then leaving the center, how vivid the colors of the city street, shops, trees, neon signs, and people's clothing seemed! Sometimes we don't even notice the colors around us until we're deprived of them.

Close your eyes for a minute or so. When you open them, how many colors can you see? Aren't you glad you can? Try it outside sometime - it's even more impressive!

Kary mentioned the arrangement of my stones on my table. It is done in an order of colors which basically approximates the Chakra order, the intent being that focusing on any or all of those color ranges will have a healing effect on the mind and body. I try to let myself be drawn to a particular color range, or a single stone, when I am writing in my journal, scheduling the next day, and meditating and praying before bedtime at that little desk.

My Buddha statue (next to the stones in the photo) holds two stones which are supposed to be particularly healing, aligning all of the Chakras in one fell swoop. Gotta' love efficiency!

I hope you will have a colorful day! What is your favorite color that you have seen today? Where did you see it? Tag me, please!

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