a work away from home day.  done.  a come home and give water to earth and plants and see that the indigo seeds, some of the tomato seeds are UP.  dear little thems.

be visited by Talula and her other mother Jaime and Talula's friend from school.

dug under the Daughter of the original Lilac and gave compost.

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watched the disorderly order of the Doe Goats.  the young ones from last summer are working to establish their place in the herd.  Mercy finds this uncomfortable and most times just stands away.  this is very interesting and i wonder if it will continue.

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once again, Michelles indigo cloth on the russian olive that is beginning to leaf.  daughter of the huge dead one.

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this little failure to thrive native New Mex Olive is doing GREAT.  ?????   it's probably maybe close to 10 years old????  a true mystery, but cause for celebration.

and that's about it for today.  I feel quiet and uhhh,  well quiet.  the last days were a lot.  and today i can see so well that it was just my reaction to them.  ok.  Notice, grace.

and just to say…i love.  like LOVE.  when i call out a certain goat's name from a far distance and they stop and look toward me.  i did this with Tenzen a few times and he STOPS and looks and his ears go straight out…  i would like to do his hooves next and give him a shampoo with conditioner and then shave him and put sun screen on this suddenly exposed skin.  i would give maybe Everything.  maybe…Maybe Everything for him to live where he could free range and his hooves would be worn away by stones and rocks.

 

 

 

 

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23 responses to “the Real day 25…is it????? i think so.”

  1. grace Forrest Avatar

    so..this goes back to a comment to Patricia in the last post.
    and it carrys into today and it carries into this moment.
    and i go back to the words Michelle gave about altar.
    “an altar cloth is a stage, or place, where something sacred happens or has happened, and an altar cloth acknowledges that ‘something’.
    and i have to change that a little. so if i quote Michelle, i
    will have to say….”from”…..
    but nothing happens on the altar.
    it IS a stage, i think. and maybe because i love the word
    stage.
    it IS a stage.
    but…not where something happens or has happened, but a PLACE
    where the happening, in the present or in the past, is
    acknowledged.

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  2. LaceLady Avatar

    and IF I could, I would MAYBE give almost anything or everything, for thee and me, to free range, and cover our feet calloused by rock and stone, with soft sturdy leather. thank you for your “today”.

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  3. grace Forrest Avatar

    YES. i think this is it. and it feels right.
    acknowledgement.
    Acknowledging stuff.
    for my Self.
    for Gideon.
    for all of Everything.
    THAT IS WHAT ALTAR MEANS TO ME.
    i think so.
    i think so.

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  4. grace Forrest Avatar

    free range.
    what a concept, yes?

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  5. Deb G Avatar

    Noticed my apricot was blooming for the first time today and thought of you…

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    well…maybe your apricots are smarter than the ones here.
    WIND…two days ago…WIND ripped off the blooms. and
    you wonder Why. Why would that happen? i don’t know.
    but we can pretty much count on it here. it happens
    over and over.
    how amazing.

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  7. Michelle Avatar

    However it works for you sweetie.

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  8. Michelle Avatar

    Though there’s little free range for the having, I wish this for you both, and the goats, and, well, all people and critters…a free range and the FREEDOM to range either externally or internally wherever spirit suggests!

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  9. Mo Crow Avatar

    “Look at everything with at least 2 eyes and an openesss to meet whatever comes your way. Look beyond & between as you live each moment intensely. Have fun, breathe deeply, & be light, be yourselves”
    an old friend Pete who has been living in Brazil collecting seed to save rainforest species for many years gave me those words a long time ago, this is the other line he gave me-
    “Spirit likes to see us dance on the shifting sands of change”
    Peter and Bel Cesar run the the Vida de Clara Luz centre in Brazil
    http://www.vidadeclaraluz.com.br/principal.asp
    they are doing good work and so are you Grace it is such an honour to be your friend!

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  10. saskia Avatar

    thanks for the link Mo, I traveled in Brazil many years ago, fell in love with the people and the country; although I never went back, it has a place in my heart and I love reading about what happens there. One day I want to return with my men.

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  11. saskia Avatar

    bummer: I commented on a comment somewhere on yesterday’s post and it got lost when I pushed ‘plaatsen’ anyway cannot be bothered to repeat myself, who knows it will turn up; anyway I realize I’ld said nothing on seeing my AirTree in the post and how honoured I feel seeing it there, being part of your life Grace; I am grateful it is with you.

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  12. LaceLady Avatar

    Exactly! thank you for the all-inclusive, which I thought, but didn’t write.

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  13. patricia Avatar

    i’ve been thinking a lot about this, Grace. and posted on my blog just now, clarifying for myself. what it is about altars–what it is about “things” we place on altars. the honoring. place holders. repositories. memories. spirit, yes. and LOVE.

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  14. patricia Avatar

    i’ve been thinking a lot about this, Grace. and blogged about it today. we’re painting. moving things–lots of things–here and there, hoping that once again they’ll survive shifting. and i’m seeing that all of the things we surround ourselves with ARE our altars, the place holders–repositories–of that which we honor, acknowledge as you say. for me they’re the reminders of … and the reminders to ….

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  15. patricia Avatar

    apologize for all this re-peat-ing. the first comment didn’t seem to TAKE. wouldn’t hurt one bit if i cultivated a bit more patience. ha.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    i like both comments. 2 is good….and i KNOW…i was
    just over at your house reading your post. isn’t it
    amazing how we can travel with the speed of light?????

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  17. beth Avatar

    Yes–we do most of it to ourselves don’t we. All the world’s a stage?

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    internal…lots of freerange there, for me anyway…
    wonder about Goats….

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    mo…and you. we are very lucky.

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    i live everyday with AirTree. it is very important to me.

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. that’s my thing about thoughts being mental
    constructs. if you move just some away from them
    they suddenly often dissolve

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  22. Dee Avatar

    ha! coming in and then out, it’s wonderful to see the thoughts continuing and I sigh now, a big end of the day sigh because people – you Grace, others – have such a running role in the minute-by-minute decisions I make in a day, but there isn’t always time to report them… but because the altar comments kept flowing, I am reminded. And I can report that I turned my red desk upstairs (a little thing with fold down top that my guides told me to energize for writing months and months ago, and I only now, today, did) into an altar. I put a couple books of devotions on it and my mother’s perfume bottle and three decks of tarot and moved all the cluttery envelopes and old cards out and away. It’s something new now. A place I can rest and query and send my longing out from the chest.

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar

    Dee…you Cleared it. made it ready. love this.
    and today i cleared stuff too. will post on that in a
    minute.
    but i think this clearing, this clearing of space and
    clearing of attention is so important. we don’t do it
    once or a hundred times, we do it over and over to make
    room for what wants to come.
    and i just KNOW that you will say YES to that. yes!
    your mother’s perfume bottles….
    which decks?
    love,

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