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day 38 Evening, or , really the beginning of night

crickets.  dark. 

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this is mid day.

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and Julie…some where…during the day….This Happened!!!  Look!, Meera!  OH!

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does she stay

on her own cloth?  or do these cloths become one? 

i don't know.

and a long phone thing with K, my  old friend/mentor/partner with bookstore/wife of Cas and i am pretty much stunned tonight with the beauty of how things are.  and in the distance, dogs bark and fight and close up, crickets sing.  and i planted seeds.  i planted seeds.  seeds.  food and flower.  and the Goats watched.  they don't wonder stuff.  they just Watch and Know.

 

 

 

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25 responses to “day 38 Evening, or , really the beginning of night”

  1. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    Am I seeing things or is that some ancient bra or bustier on top of that napkin? And you are asking so I will say that I like your mega undoing icon, as I refer to her myself, with not so wide a pice behind her… Maybe even none. But then she has already told me who she is and what she said might be from another lifetime than the one she is experiencing with you. And I hope mr fix it man comes tomorrow. It’s hard thinking of you without connection… Though it isn’t really true, is it? We do become hooked to our plug ins. It’s good for us to be unplugged occasionally. But I prefer to choose when I want to be unplugged. And I remember those Sharon astyk days as well… What a big conversation that was… Life changing for me. It brought so much into perspective. Xo and have a wonderful night.

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  2. Michelle Avatar
    Michelle

    Looking in on your evening now from my morning–Your cloths, my cloths over at the blue table thinking themselves into something once remembered–your crickets are my chortling pigeons–your thoughts on people, my thoughts on last night’s poets and the walk home through city traffic–your fighting dogs last night, my neighbors poor little unhappy yapping poodle in the street below–That Golden new Mexican light fading, my gray dawn rising into a bit of bird song from the starlings. This predawn to dawn time is most precious to me. Glad to see your computer has gotten back on track

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  3. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Yes Nance, Sharon Astyk and how we moved along then and spent the summer reading and discussing Barbara Kingsolver’s, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, A Year of Food Life: each of us chronicling our gardens, tales of hands in the dirt and how we came to the land and how we each adapted frugality in terms of our pantries, and putting by…
    And, grace. She on the wall: she has caught a wind drift maybe but what I really think is that she is listening to an underground beat pulsating from the ground, maybe a bit of salsa magic in the air, because She is dancing on that wall and I want to join her…and maybe adorn myself with that cloth with the bustier, and twirl and shimmy and shake because last night I was watching my beloved Celia Cruz on Youtube. Dear Salsa Queen Celia who in her 70’s, came out in a long sequined blue gown, wearing a blue wig and as she sang, she sauntered and moved her hips and shoulders to that blood pumping music and I kicked back my chair and joined her and this morning, residue of her magic still with me, I shimmied down the hall.

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  4. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it is…it’s the bustier that Julie sent that she
    salvaged from Dead Horse Bay….how when i moved it
    from the West window curtain and put it on the wall,
    the napkin and it…just gravitated together…
    and the word Perspective. big, this morning.
    waiting for light so i can watch the mega undoing icon
    some more before i Set Out
    love,

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  5. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    day into night night into day there here here there
    and it’s not fixed yet. just this here and Spirit Cloth.
    it’s quite amazing

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    what a beautiful image, her and Celia, dancing together
    and you…
    maybe we all need a blue wig?
    xoxo

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  7. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    That is quite a thing that happened on that cloth, Grace!! I’m jealous of crickets, we don’t get them until late July/August around here. Haven’t even had frog songs yet. Love what you say about goats… so true!

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  8. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    hi Grace. just stopped by for a peek.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i am so glad…just read your post on the Forum. with
    half of this computer not functioning i can understand
    some of it…the not being able to comment on other
    peoples blogs etc..no email…
    so glad you came by. it will All settle, yes?
    LOVE

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    oh…then yes…they are rearranging for this season…
    adjusting to the watering going on…

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  11. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    just responded to your post at what if. yes. all will settle. it does. sometimes i want to hurry it along, but it’s like cloth, isn’t it. can’t be hurried or corralled or —ignored. and so, no wonder your words touch me so deeply and bring tears. and it’s good. love xo

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    that cloth will hold great meaning now. if it were me,
    i’d spend a lot of time with it for a while.

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  13. Laura R Avatar
    Laura R

    Hello, Grace. If she were mine, I might make her into a tie. Like a man’s tie. And I would embellish her with thread, and wear her with a lightly- or un-ironed linen shirt and jeans or cut-offs.
    I am glad you have posted every day. I wish I had your discipline. Anyway…
    Thanks

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  14. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    ah, perfect. Think back tthrough the chain of events thst brought those two together, and their own histories that we dont know anything about..this is EXACTLY why I gave it to you,

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  15. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    PS Not to be greedy, but when are we goimg to town with you???

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  16. Laura R Avatar
    Laura R

    I realize yours is too large for a tie…

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  17. JennAnn Avatar
    JennAnn

    I have a book I got years ago when I went to New Orleans – Storyville…the bustier reminds me of something like that. And on the radio yesterday, a story about how there was this locked room full of Frido Kahlo’s clothing and possessions and there is this woman – a fashion curator (!) – who created an exhibt of Kahlo’s clothing…

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  18. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    Oh Grace! I dunno about goats just Watching & Knowing… we Goat Folk are always wondering if the grass is greener on the other side of the fence & how to get there! (I was born in the Year of the Goat!)

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  19. jude Avatar
    jude

    maybe she should be wearing the bustier, oh ha.

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  20. jennann Avatar
    jennann

    Actually, she looks pregnant to me…

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    aren’t we always pregnant?

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    in one way or another?

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  23. jennann Avatar
    jennann

    No…we are only pregnant sometimes….

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    ok. maybe not.
    right now
    I DON”T KNOW.
    i thought for that moment we are…i am…maybe Not.
    what an odd evening

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  25. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    Hi Grace. I’m missing you.

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