this is my great grandson.  Julian Daniel Ortiz.    he is at Staples.  has his packet of blank pages and a new box of crayons.  he is approaching the check out.

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i printed this pic from his mother's facebook page, so it's not the clearest, but nonetheless, you can see something of who he IS.    he is not yet two. 

beside his mother, he is the other Entity who lives where we are being magnetized.   this is who daughter Jenny will live with for the next months.    if you might remember, he is the one who skips.   the other thing i can tell you, to give you a "picture", is that he has taken up running LAPS around their back yard courtyard.  as with the skipping,  no one knows where or why he began this practice.  but he does.  and LAPS.  round and round.  he does not discuss this with anyone.  just does it.   his mother, my granddaughter respects his space and does not ask.  he just

takes off his diaper and runs.

August is the second most significant month to me.   July 31 is always like New Year's Eve.  August however is a              heavy month.    here, the word       fecund            fits.   i have traveled the calendar enough years to be ready for it.   maybe this year it will bring some different surprises?  maybe some distortions of the usual?

 

 

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32 responses to “ready.”

  1. jude Avatar

    determination. that is what i see in this little one.
    here we go

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  2. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    yes. hey ho.
    i sent him this cheetah shirt he is wearing. his mother has a
    story about
    cheetah.
    maybe i will use the cheetah as a symbol in the future. funny.
    Anatolian livestock guardian dogs are being employed in Africa
    to work out a way to live…cheetahs and goats. hmmmm.
    already i am seeing a flicker of distortion to August….a flicker.
    Flicker. the bird with the aqua eyelids. there is that beautiful aqua in Magic Two.
    signs

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  3. Penny B Avatar

    Ready to create his own marks and symbols.

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  4. serena Avatar
    serena

    what a adorable little guy. i’m trying hard to portfolio the kids early drawings as much as possible….

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  5. Tammy Avatar

    A beautiful baby boy .. love his determination to be free in the wind .. in that story about his running laps after taking off the diaper. My youngest grand daughter likes this freedom… grandchildren are wonderful .. hope I get to see one of my great grandchildren. 🙂

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  6. Acey Avatar

    I love seeing the small ones run like that. I think it’s so important not to question and analyze everything they do especially if it clearly serves a significant purpose for them. He is really adorable and clearly knows what he’s about.

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  7. handstories Avatar

    a boy with a plan…he’s beautiful. love his spunk and spirit. clearly an important member of the tribe.

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  8. Nancy Avatar

    This one seems to speak loud and clear! Adorable. He will love his running story when he is older 🙂

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  9. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    Tammy…the way to have a great grandson at 64 is for
    your daughter to have her first child (the now mother of
    this boy) at age 16. something we tend to discourage.
    but then they do it sometimes anyway and over time, it
    becomes one of the most amazing and beautiful things in a lifetime. you just never know.

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  10. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    his mom, my granddaughter, is very good at that…not
    questioning him….it’s quite noticable to me. i have
    heard myself asking her….”What was he thinking?, did
    you ASK him?” and often her response is no, she did not.
    she just comments… in this case, to say “Good Job!,
    that was a Lot!” she is an interesting mother to an interesting child.

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  11. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    yes. he makes a lot of decisions.

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  12. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    maybe…took my own kids a long time to appreciate all the stories i kept repeating about them. but yes, now they
    sit all happy and smile to hear them.

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  13. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    they are the best drawings we EVER do…i have one my daughter did that is priceless. she carefully drew my
    CHIN.

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  14. deanna7trees Avatar

    oh what a treasure. wonderful that your grand daughter is allowing him to make decisions and not questioning so he can see the consequences of them. a great preparation for the world he will live in.

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  15. twhich aye Avatar

    as i read this, i thought, he reminds me of my littlest niece. and then she came around the corner… sans diaper. with only a little shirt on. sat right down next to me on the couch and pointed to your little cutie. 🙂

    how’s everything grace??? i’m now presently in your part of the country friend. enjoying the wonderful sky and clouds… and a minor flash flood the other day.
    traveled to albuquerque on the 13th. came back and down the center of the state and saw a train of clouds marching across the sky. i thought they must be flying over grace’s place.
    miss you mucho!

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  16. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    twhich!!!!!!!! you passed right by!!!!!!!!!!!!!! had i known,
    i could have climbed the tree and waved a flag so you could see
    me!!!!!!!! Where, and for how long?????
    i was just looking at your blue chair……..

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  17. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    he really is quite prepared within himself somehow…
    am really looking forward to the arrival of
    language
    in this next year…wondering what he will have to
    tell me………

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  18. nance Avatar

    isn’t it great how we rally around these young ones of our friends? it takes a village and julian, the determined skipping and running boy, just got a lot of love from your blog friends, grace!

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  19. Tammy Avatar

    Well I didnt think you were that old to be having a greatgrandchild but your right it happens and again your right it does become one of the most amazing and beautiful things because babies are pure love, babies are so wonderful and this part I do know .. my grandbabies are my best joy!!!

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  20. Tammy Avatar

    Isn’t that the best part? I am so excited about this too. My oldest grand daughter is just now three and she talks pretty good and I could listen to her for hours. They are all just so precious!! !

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  21. judy keathley Avatar

    i agree—the BEST drawings–
    now this little guy ….
    i so loved the skipping —
    now LAPS !
    what will he come up with next–
    something fun no doubt…
    why else would he do it…

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  22. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    it’s really hard to tell. he just formulates a decision
    and then goes forward with it.
    he’s like this a lot. before he could walk, he really
    liked a very large plastic pasta strainer. would use it
    rightside up for putting things in and then upsidedown as some kind of skooter. all these activities are very
    uhhh private, singular. he gets absorbed.

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  23. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    yes. the transition to language is something.

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  24. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    yes he did. someday i will tell him about all this.

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  25. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    have been thinking about this since i first read it.
    …best joy
    and this is why i so miss my dead friend Marge. i will
    write her whole name here
    Marjorie Burke Price
    she was my most loved mentor about so much…about
    womanhood, art, Jungian psychology
    and we used to talk about how maybe there might be something “missing” in us???
    about how although we loved our children beyond Beyond
    ….still, it seemed just undeniable that we loved our efforts toward Art, toward creativity …as much?????
    and how that seemed in some ways so
    self centered.
    we talked for hours.
    so…yes. i love my kids. i love my daughter’s kids. and i love my daughter’s daughter’s son who skips and does laps and makes good purchases with thoughtfulness
    but i also, really, and i ADMIT it, i also love creating
    stuff. i love cloth. kinda equal.
    just to say

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  26. Tammy Avatar

    I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that Grace. When I am in the studio creating or in my yard lost in dyeing and thinking of new ideas and get in that creative zone I am in my bliss and this I think is being my authentic self and who I was born to be .. who wouldn’t find joy in that? I think we have many best joys! 🙂

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  27. twhich aye Avatar

    hahaha!!! i felt i could see you! i know i could feel you!
    i’m in carlsbad and i think for awhile. there was a health scare for dad and sis, so it changed some things. letting it all go. sometimes things creep up, but i try and remember what it’s all about.
    when i’m outside i look up in the sky in your direction and think of you…

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  28. twhich aye Avatar

    i replied last night, but it’s not here 😦
    well grace i thought i could see you anyways! hahahahha i know i could feel you! i just kept gazing off in your direction as we drove… it’s so beautiful out there.
    i’m in carlsbad and i think it might be for a while. looking for work. but there’s hardly any businesses here. and taking care of dad.
    was just thinking about that chair the other day! this property used to be my great uncles and he had a red one just like it. have a photo of my sis crying sitting in it when she was 2 yrs.old or so. we were just talking about it…
    well i think i’ll come and sit a spell in the chair this evening… 🙂

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  29. helen lee Avatar

    I’ve been thinking about your daughter’s move since Wednesday. Things have been a bit yuck here, but I am finally catching up :~) How are they all? Have they arrived?
    Julian Daniel Ortiz….what a great name he has…I’m loving saying it out loud! :~) He is adorable in his focused intentness. Your granddaughter sounds wise.
    The elder pot is growing mold. It’s just over a week now and I’m fascinated with the process. The greenhouse seems to be doing the trick :~)

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  30. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    soon as the dust settles with Jenny’s move we will talk
    about how we can get together?????????
    i hope it’s going well enough there.
    give my love to the bats!
    xoxo

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  31. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    buzz……..
    am waiting word from them. on edge.
    mold. well, something that wouldn’t happen here…
    and i’ll try to get some pics today or tomorrow of those
    pots in process.

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