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on that same wall, near the Shell Woman.   this being, when i saw her in an old, like 1950's Natural History Publication,  struck me instantly as being  "just like Me!"  there were several photographs of her.  i forget what kind of monkey she is.  but i instantly and totally identified with her.  and, really, not just her eyes, but her nose, her smile too.  but the feeling of the eyes…     What IS it?

so…just some thoughts about eyes that i don't want to forget…:

When eyes meet eyes ~ We are here, together, fully present to one another. 

I see You.  You see Me.  like the Mocking bird today, trapped in Fiona's Palace.

if we do  not make eye contact, or if we DO.  What's the difference?????

You are like me    our similarity   =   relationship           back to eye contact

lizards

Feeling eyes, sensory eyes…as in grass clumps  

Awareness ~ Acknowledgement of me to you, you to me

Seeing Coma's eyes.  i instantly knew Jude Hill, or something about her

Appearing in the Other's awareness

I am.  You are.     WE.

Coma's eyes again, eyes that see        internally?   an inner world?   a world of sensing?

so much that we see is symbol only, is not at all what is presenting in the moment??????  what about this???????

 

 

 

 

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25 responses to “eyes”

  1. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    and eyelids. eyelids do something really amazing. what?

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  2. Henrietta. (aka ani) Avatar
    Henrietta. (aka ani)

    I’m excited about this event over at Judes as well. Made some notes in my journal. Can’t wait to see what she’ll post tomorrow. My she studied physical anthropology as an undergrad – that is a new world monkey. The name I think begins w a t. I’ll id it for u tomorrow. Will ask her. Nite grace

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Hi Grace–look at this site–It’s a Madagascar Lemur your haunted eyes creature (large because they are night hunters and need to let a lot of light in (that’s appropriate, don’t you think?)
    http://www.pbs.org/edens/madagascar/creature2.htm

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  4. margaret johnson Avatar
    margaret johnson

    Hi Grace, you cheeky little monkey you! By the way, if you want to see amazing eyes, Google “The Aye-Aye” An exquiste animal, who is hunted and killed for its appearance. Apparently people think it is an evil spirit. So now they are an endangered Species!! They are primates,from the Lemur family. They have a long finger for foraging. I think they are beautiful, but most people think they are ugly. They’re beautifl gentle creatures. So sad. Did leave a message on your last post. Bye Grace. Marg. ox

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  5. Penny B Avatar
    Penny B

    And when someone just can’t make eye contact, doesn’t that make you feel so uncomfortable.

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  6. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    So how is it that there are times in emails, in blogland, that words connect so deeply yet we do not see the person who put the words down, do not see their face, their stance, their eyes, yet we know them from their words…wondering…

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  7. jude Avatar
    jude

    eyes have many forms. evolution.

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  8. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    In that sense, words become windows that allow readers to see into each other.

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  9. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    And what does it mean, how does it change things when someone is blind? How much communication that cuts off…

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  10. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    Those monkey eyes are really something – I see wonder, surprise, no-hiding presence, soft love, and a fair amount of stark intensity…..

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  11. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    it’s a whole other day now, ani. but
    nite on this one to you

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  12. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    i love that she smiles

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  13. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    yup. i saw the message. sometimes i let things
    ferment a couple days. kind of blend together.
    i would really like to know this being. i think we
    would really get along.

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  14. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    well…i am used to that here. the Navajo, Dine people,
    as well as the fewer Apache people do not. a cultural
    thing. and even with my neighbors…direct and frequent
    eye contact by women to men is uhhhh,
    forward.
    when i was married, i learned not to do that.
    also, when i was in the peace corps in India, it was
    a no no.
    so…
    its complex.
    i often too find that in large social groups of people i
    often don’t look at peoples faces when i’m introduced…or
    just very fleetingly. i often don’t know what people
    look like really until after i’ve met them a few times and
    have
    reason to??????
    again, complex.

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  15. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    luck.
    or willingness, on the part of the receiver?
    openness?
    i think luck. on the part of both.
    but i don’t know.

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  16. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    it doesn’t always happen tho.
    actually, in my experience, only sometimes.

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  17. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    there’s a LOT written about that. how other senses become so refined that if sight is restored it is felt as
    intrusive, as a negative.

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  18. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    isn’t she just magnificant?
    your words express what i see about her exactly.
    the no-hiding especially, i like.

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  19. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    HA! I knew you’d like that no-hiding bit….! But truly, the eyes have that quality for me.

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  20. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    yes. no hiding.
    and i think about the fact that she is a relatively small
    being, in the presence of human beings who are
    studying her.
    most likely seeing her as an
    animal
    and she still simply IS exactly as she IS. the full
    array of who and what she is.

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  21. BJ Avatar
    BJ

    I love this grouping…this meeting…of minds and eyes and thoughts of these things…and the stitching…thank you…all of you :o)

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  22. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    BJ, thank you very much for saying that.
    we are still almost new to one another, but we
    “just go”

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  23. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    Yes…I’m remembering reading that somewhere. I thought about this post today while I was playing peek-a-boo with the one year old group. About what they are learning and experiencing…

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  24. grace Forrest~Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest~Maestas

    oh, peek a boo.
    at first i was going to try to refer this to this being here, but then remembered an oh so wonderful grouping of
    short stories by i think Ursula LaGuin about animals.
    about how we view them as child like when the truth is
    they are mature beings. sometimes grandmother beings.
    and this one, i see her in the bloom of her womanhood.

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  25. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    i think it is the soft light that is in her & your eyes that is the connection for me.

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