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it is a time of Rainbow rain.   Each evening, lately, a storm.  Sometimes great Electrical energy, sometimes, like just now,  a soft rain from a single cloud.  fast, from nowhere, and leaving a rainbow.

so….That pieces of cloth with things just pinned together has begun talking.  there will be a face.  there will be How the lizards, the birds have always pulled the Energy forward.  I see it now.  it has begun.

i was given, as a "going away gift" for Alz B,  $2,000.  Her son knew that i wanted to fence in the other half of this acre so the goats could go there on a "day trip".  maybe not so much for the goats, really, but for sure, for me.   I have this sense of Space Needed.  This will ease this for me.  On Saturday Paul will come and the materials will be delivered for the addition of the fencing, the wood privacy fence.  This will reduce the possibility of any loose dogs from becoming attached to facination with the goats.  Will keep them "safe"…if that can be.  But as safe as i can keep them.

There was an urge to just keep this money.  I have no other "safety net" anymore, money wise.  But,  what IS a safety net?  What does a safety net DO?  and so it goes. 

This morning i got out some of the pieces of cloth that have occured over the 2 1/2 ~3 years with Jude.  i pinned them on the wall.  Amidst them, the one that is coming on now.  Looking.

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Then, i went out and fed the goats.  I am seeing/feeling/felt sensing how this is all melding into One Thing.  Who would've guessed???

 

 

 

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  1. elizabeth fortes Avatar
    elizabeth fortes

    Dear Grace: I can already feel ….. the beautiful “something” emerging…. Under the aegis of Rainbow rains and goat magic new inspirations are manifesting …. a new world space is coming along, protective boundaries for just being while just going….May all the energies conspire, coalesce and bring Meaning Alive! Much love, e.

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    elizabeth ~ “for just being while just going”…Yes.
    This is it.
    it is the Best i can do. the very Best. anything less would
    have left a feeling of emptiness, of not. Not. but this is the best i can do. All around. the Best for the goats, the best for me in my sense of them, the Best that made this cloth begin to Happen. it is all connected. i am content tonight.

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  3. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    and also…
    out There, amidst those goaty beings, i amazingly watch
    lizards run. Who would guess?
    not me.
    i would have thought that they would become even more Shy.
    but Not.
    everytime i go out there, i see one skittering across the space…her blue tail trailing….this is VERY much
    NOT what i would have expected. So, i watch. Learning.

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  4. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    E again….i love, am softened so, that you are watching
    this too

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  5. elizabeth fortes Avatar
    elizabeth fortes

    Dear Grace – Thanks! Yes, I’m so happy to be connected to your worlds.
    You are in mine too… bringing the wisdom of a reality i’ve sort of known in my past, somehow, from growing up in a farm, in a land of warmth and plenty. Memories of the naturalness of being in a world alive from the heart and the feet on the ground…. trusting the Larger….
    I can feel the water from the creeks of my childhood, pouring sustenance in goodness, hope for a new day. You and your writing make me remember Deep connections. From the heart, e.

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  6. Suzanna Avatar
    Suzanna

    I so love reading this post…the rainbow rain…the soft rain from a single cloud. Those are very lucky goats and lizards to live near you! Looking forward to hearing more about the fence…

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  7. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Once more you are the herder responding to needs, the woman rising to create some space, or stitch a vision. The addition will be helpful I’m sure. This affinity for the living breathing things is compelling, isn’t it….a few days ago, I met an old friend whose wheelchair bound, and she described her recent horrible infection of bird mites (she feeds doves on her city windowsill, and the mites came in through the AC vents apparently…it was a terrible infection and life threatening. So, at home here, where I for years (illegally) feed pigeons at dawn on my own sill…I started to think, I shouldn’t. Then one expectant avian of the newest crop (where do they go to die) landed, waiting, and I noted it had already lost a foot (who knows how)…so, I spread the seed. It breaks my heart to see the need. Well, we can’t save everything. But we can do what we can. I’m sending you a feather and some trinkets for the new world you will make with Julian….and looking forward to your next post. Love

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  8. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    they are such very lucky goats to be with you Grace & love the cloth conjuring!

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  9. KaiteM. Avatar
    KaiteM.

    grace it seems as tho the goats are your current ‘safety net’. most things have a way to work out if one is as much in the present moment as you are my dear.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    this is very good then, that it connects to days of creeks. my childhood was spent along a creek. and if i could give any single thing to any single person now, it
    would be to remember, or Feel, for the first time, the
    love and goodness that rises from the Earth and then to
    be willing to do whatever is necessary to live in harmony with any Earth, where ever we find ourselves, taking only in equal balance with what we give

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i am so surprised by the lizards. and the toads. i know that i’ve said this before, but, again….i’d thought all the comotion of the goats would cause them to be wary. but
    it has been quite the contrary. i often see a lizard
    whizzing across the goat pens even, and more often than
    ever in the yards. and each evening and night, the toads
    are everywhere i’ve watered. so…rather than less, it’s
    More…???….
    this summer it’s how it used to be…late afternoon, early evening, one of those rains. they are so loving.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    we, dau and i, trimmed all hoves today. and really, now at the end of this day, i feel that i am the lucky one.
    How interesting they are, each one, different, and some a complete surprise. Arctica had to be caught with the
    lasoo. She screamed as if we were gutting her, but once
    out and heading for the milking stand where they get their
    hooves trimmed too, she became really, the BEST goat. She
    jumped up and stood, busily eating her pellets from the
    basket through all four hooves and did not even register
    any concern when her udder was touched. Who knows???
    when she kids, she may become one of the easiest milkers.

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    hey Kaite…well…the Present Moments are calling,
    strong and real….
    One of the only good things i have that my mother told me as a child and all along was about how my Grandmother,
    an illegal immigrant from Czechoslovakia, then Moravia,
    who was a well respected member of her community there,
    upon arrival in this country could not find acceptance
    as a midwife, as a trained nurse. so she worked in the
    sugar beet fields and raised chickens and did people’s ironing. whenever some particular amount of money would be needed,it somehow (and my mother said it was God) would
    accrue from those things. i used to ask her a lot to tell me that story again.

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  14. Suzanna Avatar
    Suzanna

    It sounds like they are so happy for the company…relating to new creatures…a happy schoolroom!

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  15. KaiteM. Avatar
    KaiteM.

    Down here we call people like your Grandma “battlers”, in that they persistently battle on in life and somehow survive. Good solid people.

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  16. dee Avatar
    dee

    I find the notes on weather and creatures to be like poetry. I am struck by the ‘safety net’ being the fence for the goats – they are so much the same in structure (financial safety nets and goat fences), though one is abstract and the other tangible. I do not know how I would live without some savings, some sense of cushion, and admire you in your – what to call it? – nakedness? But isn’t all ‘security’ a bit abstract, i.e. not real? Isn’t the question, not – how can I prepare for the future, but: How can I Be Here Now? You are a living/breathing example of Being Here Now, and you take us, your readers, with you.
    I think – this is a hunch – that your cloth work is taking a leap in Jude’s absence. Am I making this up?!

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    dee, i probably couldn’t live like i do if i had not come from another life with all kinds of nets. satety and
    otherwise. when i “set out” from that other life i wanted to find out what was the Bottom Line. What was a Good Life? that was 20 some years ago and i have found that
    Life consists of days. and they accumulate over a
    LifeTime. in the end, and i’m not there yet, but in the end, i think little may have to do with safety.
    I visited Alz B early in the day on the locked unit of the Good Samaritan old folks home. She of all people clung
    to a sense of what was a Good and Secure and Proper life.
    Today, her meatloaf on her fork flung itself through
    the air and she didn’t notice, but picked up her spoon.
    We are never safe. But we are always Alive.
    and the cloth taking a leap?, hmmmm, no….is maybe MAYBE
    just now finding its way. these ideas have always been
    there…some on the wall in this post…it’s just how
    they can appear with all the rest. and it has taken all
    this time of learning for it to even begin a little. just a little. So, we’ll see. Jude has given me the Way to
    go toward Something.

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