Image: Memory Weaving from Dec 22nd, 2024
discarded paint strip samples
a gift
Layers of embedded memory
Get tucked away in our nervous system.
The holiday season is here for us each year
to relive, relieve, reunite and rejoice
in the memories of the year/s past.
And looking forward to the years to come.
Memories for me can come in pairs… like the weaving
of our parents, two green – midwestern fields
Of our sibling, two blue – blue sky/blue lake
Single red strands – love + strain
White punctuations – memory/stress yet to be released
This is what I love so much about weaving.
It is not a fast notion in any way.
It allows us to think about what we want
to use as the warp. Memory of what was. And how
we feel about those memories now.
The weave structure- How will I bind these memories
together? With ease or with intricate complications?
Losing my way in the memories and uprooting
my nervous system. What is.
It’s Easy to get lost in memories.
Confession: there is a weave mistake
in this 8 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ piece of art.
I was too far ahead of myself when I realized
it was done. (sound familiar?)
I thought to myself, this layered weaving is forgiving.
There is so much going on in it, my friend won’t mind.
Then I realized, how many mistakes have we all
made in our lives?
They get forgiven, or not. Forgotten or not.
It’s a choice we all make.
So here we are now. With the future in the making
of What is Coming.
Those Red strands and White accents
Get reunited with each other,
and the Joy we feel with the memories of the
times past gets layered and woven with new
memories in a more peaceful, colorful,
creative way.
Our Vedic Meditation practice allows us
to release these memories,
not forget them… to forgive them…
The forgotten embedded layers of our awareness
get released.
Vedic Meditation gives us the ability
to strand each color together, seeing the correlations of
each structure in our lives.
Making way for what we want.
Filling ourselves with What was, What is and
What is ahead of us, in a layered
weaving which I would call
LIFE.
12.29.2024 Deck Talk available upon request info@fifthfloormeditation.com