it seems impossible that only a day has passed.  that it was yesterday that they were born.   last night went on forever.  i slept a very different kind of sleep.  not sleeping, not awake….an inbetween.  hour after hour with waking many times.  listening.  i listened all night.  i listened for Lucky Star, for the little ones, i listened for Caroline, in case she began to kid.  and i listened to the dogs.  i slept on the couch because one of them, Ramon,  was dying on the floor in the bedroom.  on the dogs quilt, under a towel.  the one with cancer.  the other three went back and forth all day and all night, checking.  sitting.  lying in the doorway.  in the dark i could hear their toenails clicking along the floor.  back and forth. and i listened to that too.  Please, no need to express sadness for his death.  he was who he was and he had a long story and it was time for him.  but still.  it took forever for him to let go.  and today, his absence is huge.  and it was a work away day and  that was hard…feeling like i really needed to be Here.  but i went.  and it was all ok.

But so many Thoughts.  so many Feelings.  So Much.

and this is as far as i got with more pics…not far

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and then,  this

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25 responses to “109”

  1. Laura R Avatar
    Laura R

    You’ve had a full day. I send you my love and encouragement.

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  2. linda Avatar

    sounds like a work night. so hard to deal with birth and death together.
    your clouds look like someone is running across the sky.
    i used the word stamina today.. guess we all need to be aware of it.
    just going

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  3. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    I can not believe how much they have grown. Are they all healthy? Bless their hearts.

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  4. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Plenty enough Grace…PLENTY!!! When I had animals, there were many nights like that, and I know the absence feeling too. My God there’s so much life in your life. Thank that sky for darkness and that moon doing the best it can. You are much beloved on this earth…can’t claim the phrase, it’s Raymond Carver’s from “Late Fragment”
    And did you get what
    you wanted from this life, even so?
    I did.
    And what did you want?
    To call myself beloved, to feel myself
    beloved on the earth.
    Goodnight and good morning.

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  5. patricia Avatar

    there is such a sense of well-being in that first pic. contentment. ease. presence. that’s a lot. in fact, i think it’s huge. and it speaks volumes about you.

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  6. Cynthia Avatar
    Cynthia

    transitions..and then those spaces inbetween..and you capture it all..peace be with you today..and joy and some stillness xox much cynthia

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  7. Minka Avatar

    I see the evidence of all your preparations. What a time. If you could clone ourself, would you want to?

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  8. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Simply, love. Ramon was with his family until the very end and cared for until the end as well. Not in another place, a cold place but here, in his home. For however he was, he was known and loved and that really is enough. Give yourself time querida.

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  9. grace Avatar
    grace

    i just read this again…it’s Tues am and you know…
    the words “peace be with you today”…
    made me stop and realize that only i can give self that…
    so..i will postpone the day at the Old Cowboy’s house…
    just stop by quickly so he can see a face…
    pick up 50lbs of goat pellets, some straw bales and
    come Home.
    i held that latest altar cloth just a minute ago and
    that is how i will give self Peace…a little invisible
    baste…basting peace, basting self, basting all these
    pieces of life together with good space inbetween…

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  10. grace Avatar
    grace

    Laura..thank you. I Receive.

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  11. grace Avatar
    grace

    birth/death
    yes…all swirling as one
    and prevailing over all, the Just Going.
    ohhhh, the bless~ed Just Going…

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    except for the B/w doeling’s sticky eye, yes. all
    healthy.

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  13. jude Avatar

    they match

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    Goodnight and good morning to you….

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  15. grace Avatar
    grace

    it speaks volumes about what i can learn from these
    GOAT beings…how they JUST GO….oH!…
    so MUCH to learn

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    no. i would dent the earth

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    i am thinking about what i did and why i did it.
    this thinking will take place around the doings of
    these days.

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    they do. she cooked up a little buck self. it’s what
    the daughter had wanted.
    i understand more about your Nightshifts….

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  19. beth Avatar

    Sitting vigil for the coming and the going. Hugs and love to you, Grace.

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  20. saskia Avatar

    how all of a sudden they’ve left your body and you just sit there gazing upon them: yours one moment, the next thing you know they’re up and about and belong to themselves

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  21. Margo Avatar
    Margo

    awesome, just going…

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  22. grace Avatar
    grace

    no moss on me

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  23. grace Avatar
    grace

    and so much so with Goats. it’s really Something.

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  24. grace Avatar
    grace

    the Epitomy thereof

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  25. Dee Avatar

    catching up — did not know soooooo much was happening out your way. what a gift those goats are to you, and you to them, and all of you to us!

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