A weekend of Shumba, the song of spirit lion from Zimbabwe.  I named my little boy dog, Shumba.  He has a lion's spirit though he is very small and gets afraid and freaked out sometimes.  Oh, that in his next life, he be born a lion with a might roar and a lovely pride. 

I will think of that as we play this weekend.  Shumba!

Habu textiles http://habutextiles.com/yarn:  From their website and in support of making Reiki shawls:

"Why?
Do we bother to take so much time and labor... actually weaving or knitting when there are so many good machine woven fabrics or knit wears? They are durable, inexpensive...

Why?

Because we must stubbornly believe all the care our actual hands give to each and every process of making a length of fabric creates something more than just a good look. It may be very subtle, but you know when you wear and touch. You know when that fabric ages with you. You feel the thought of that person, who made it for you. We carry “slow” materials, not flashy, not necessary pretty, not cheap, not easy, but those that will give a soul to the fabrics. We would like to offer you the best and unique, rarely available. It took us many trips and years to cultivate the relationships with the suppliers to discover them. You do not have to do that. They are here."

 Red silk with stainless steel (above).  Silk mohair (below)

Now here is a strange example of truth gone astray.   I thought of Wilhelm Reich because of his work with orgone energy and the subsequent burning of his books and destruction of his orgone accumulators.  He was jailed for his refusal to defend a truth,  work he considered scientific.  He died in jail.  So strange.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich

There is a small company in Ashland, Oregon that sells orgone blankets which have stainless steel as lining  to help accumulate the universal energy.

I just found some stainless steel yarn during the 2012 Rose City Yarn Crawl.  It is made by Habu, a very fine yarn company in the US (inspired by a Japanese connection).  Trying the copper wire first.  http://www.habutextiles.com/A-148

A friend said that Reiki is better (which is also from Japan).  Still how very fine to wear a scarf made with a substance that helps one accumulate one's life force energy.

Does this seem weird.  Probably.  Is it true, yes.  

Perhaps Habu makes a color close to True Blue.   Checking it out. 

Flower of life

My morning meditation with color, flower of life sacred geometry, and stone friends.

Reorganized my color list of Berol Prismacolored pencils. Added in new colors yesterday. Accidentally bought a second true blue. My friend says there are no accidents.

A good friend emailed her practice of writing one true sentence a day. When I called another friend to ask where to buy the artist's colored pencils, she suggested that I read the book, One True Thing by Anna Quindlan, a story about a woman taking care of her dying mother. 

Now I have a "True Blue" colored pencil. Each day I will attend to what I color true. I will honor and protect it ferociously with my Black Tourmaline stones.

So far the universe has responded by helping me knock over my cup spilling all of the bright yellow and orange pencils onto the floor while moving a screen.  Balance.  Adding in some sun to warm up the serious nature of the ponderings.

True blue

True blue! Focusing on the vibration of true blue.
A good friend is writing one true statement a day. My statement that is true for today is "I color my sky and all that is in it, true blue".

Thinking it is a good time to write a mystery.  All good things must have their out.  Lots of twists and then the truth, the ultimate truth and a happy ending.  Yes, I think so.

I remember in a math class in college a hundred years ago, a professor saying to a fellow student, "that question was redundant".  I rushed to look it up knowing by his tone that he was thinking that poor student who offered the question we were afraid to ask was not only redundant but "st-pid"and "useless".  I know it is Monday but sometimes I feel like when I offer the quietest part of myself, the most vulnerable, that the message comes back in a similar form.  Something Jung would say about the inferior function.  One carries on to someone who is least likely to understand them.  And that perhaps the one you are trying to explain that you don't understand is someone the other person understands the best.  There must be some equation that explains all of this having to do with triangles and why to stay away from them.

Remembering that, I now remember that I was in advanced Geometry in high school and never really got proofs.  Maybe they teach it differently now.  Logo the language of the turtle, an expression of Seymour Papert, was a welcome help.  How to move with the body like the movement of the turtle on the screen.  Wish more people were excited about it for teaching kids.  It never caught on in our district in part because our coordinator programmed in basic and logo is recursive with loving iterations.

I first met fractals in logo.  Now I understand just enough to tantalize my mind.  I "should have" been a programmer.  I remember control codes.  Now programming is a whole new language but maybe not so much.

I need to go see my mother, I am remembering how much she loves patterns.

Love, April

Reading Alchemy of Nine Dimensions:  The 2011/2012 Prophecies and Nine Dimensions of Consciousness by Barbara Hand Clow.  The 6th dimension is  Sacred Geometry and Platonia... the 7th dimension has the property of sound.  "The 7th dimension is the realm of sound that generates the 6D geometric forms by vibrational resonance."  "These waves sing the Divine Mind."  The eighth dimension is the realm of the Divine Mind--light--that manifests through the visible light spectrum in 3D.

I am relating these levels to my work with stone grids and sacred geometry and weaving and fiber optics.  The sacred flower of life is found everywhere.  Geometric shapes are held in the stones themselves and in our earth's core. Here is a little bit of stone grid info:  http://www.crystalsrocksandgems.com/Crystal_Therapy_and_Healing/CrystalGrids.html

The 7th dimension I relate to the tuning fork that I bought on Monday at Mt. Shasta (city of).  The OM tuner http://www.biosonics.com/shop/om-tuner/ is a sacred sound based on the music from India.  My harp practice with IHTP and reading about resonant tones and geometric shapes relating to sounds in water and sand are tuned in here.

Light, the 8th dimension is now my realm of exploration.  I think of fiber optics but so much more.  A tricky topic with many aspects and yet a simple thought form.  Weaving fits here. 

Hmmm...  A shower and some humming are needed here... my heart is stepping forward to hold my exploding brain.

Two lessons from Musekiwa.  Learning Nyamaropa which never seems to stick.  Sitting by Musekiwa as he played and then clapped the rhythm gave it great staying power.  And then I revisited the kutsinhira to Mukatiende.  I learned it in Ashland from Musekiwa now learning it again as I haven't played it.

A hug from Musekiwa is straight from the heart.  A gifted young man.

If anyone has an discarded cell phone, they could be put to good use in Zimbabwe.  I only had one old Nokia to send that only got put on the shelf because I was dying for an iPhone.  The Nokia would have worked forever!

Rats! I typed the word "rats" instead of "darn" in my gmail e-mail and a sidebar immediately listed ads for rodent control including how to keep rodents out of my engine. Spooky.

Big brother is watching.  Beautifully but strangely webbed world we live in.

Time

According to theory, time moves every so tiny bit slower in the lowest level of a building.  So in my low level apartment, I should be aging less quickly than if I lived on the top floor.  Today, I will finish my segment on time/space from the Nova series.  Though time is edging along where I am but I expect that life might be more exciting at a higher level. 

Distraction occurred when a white Ridgeline truck started to whinny at me.  Soon I could imagine that it was a white horse an I was riding wildly across the snow capped peaks.  Next I had a loan and a horse in my driveway:

Such a welcome turn of events.

Watching Nova series called The Fabric of the Cosmas by Brian Greene.  I am half way through the segment on time or (spacetime).  And flirting with the term dark matter.  I see that first my vocabulary is behind.  Catch up time.

String theory, fabric of the universe and flower of life sacred geometry

What do these have in common? I am determined to come up with a "yarn" regarding the above. Any help out there?

Time

Anna left me her books from college relating to time.

A fascinating mind trip? Is one better off with traveling experientially? Meanwhile the clock ticks. Which clock should I listen to now?

Harp meets keyboard

Dusty Strings harp and Yamaha keyboard collaborate. GarageBand assists.  Where is my midi cable?

What is a writing table without an iPad (and iCloud)

Images seems to explain everything. My small writing table has an iPad which collects the images taken on the iPhone through iCloud so one can take another image immediately which contains the previous image or some warp of the image. Love the idea of nesting. Might be my new theme of introducing one different thing in each nesting of the last different thing.

Not sure what that all means but it is fun exploring image as a dimension.

 

Here is time as the 4th dimension. Hmmmm. How does that work? This is the inner workings of a watch my great aunt gave me when I was a child. This is all that is left of that gift but somehow the very best part of the great wheel of time being held in a very small space.

The bag on the table above: my knitting. Knitting a bit of copper wire into my shawl. Wonder how that will impact the greater scheme of things. More on that another time.

Tuesday, Jackson day.  He is 19 months old.  Learned to clap for himself when he makes a basket.  Important skill.

I have no cohesive thoughts or feelings.  Maybe tomorrow.

Rose City Yarn Crawl:  We visited 19 shops in the greater metropolitan area and found some all time favorites including Knit Purl in downtown Portland.  The good ones far outweighed the so so ones.  Learned so many new things that I might have missed had I not been traveling with a long time friend.

Revisiting Ravelry.com as social media.  I have an account but only downloaded patterns, didn't share.

Alas in a New York Moment, we were rear ended on the Marquam Bridge on our way home.  I wasn't driving thankfully as we stopped short with traffic stopping short.  4 cars piled on behind.  We were in a nice solid Audi which took the shock well.  Policeman made us all drive off the bridge since we all could and exchange info.  One poor young man with kids in his car had no insurance.  I know he "should" have insurance but felt bad for him.  Some cars drove on once we got off the bridge.  He pulled over and said, "I don't have insurance."  I think he should get points for that.  He was two cars back.

The policeman said exhange information, got in his car and left.  The three cars that remained exchanged info amongst drivers.  Must happen all the time.  He just said it was an accident and that is why they call them accidents.  We agreed, still sorting out things would have been helpful.  Assume it was minor in the total scheme of things.

We should have stopped for ice cream or better for coffee.  Doing Reiki and using Panaway on my neck which liked the accident less than I did.

Blogsy

My little blogger post is my first attempt at posting from the Blogsy app on the iPad.

Love this way of casting on for a Moebius strip shawl.  There are others.  Love youtube videos SO much.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx85sIs8x4w&feature=related

Here is the way I would probably use.  Seems easier in the long run:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3si7KrA9I

Rose City Yarn Crawl + red soap dream = silk and merino wool yarn (abstract fiber and scrumptious brands)

Woke up feeling like I was living in the movie Groundhog day.  Maybe today is actually tomorrow.  I'm ready.

Day #2 of the Rose City Yarn Crawl.  19 shops in 4 days.  We are doing 19 shops is 3 days so there are 7 on our list.  Yesterday we started in Forest Grove and worked our way back through the 5 west side shops.  Today we start in West Linn and Oregon City and work our way north through 7 shops.  Sunday we will do downtown Portland and a couple of NE shops.  All for the cause of visiting every shop in the metro area this side of the river AND to register for the grand prize by getting a stamp from each shop.

This is not a 4th dimension voyage.  It is a grand 3rd dimensional experience to feed the night dreams of a weaver.