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Cabachou

This is where i am heading.  Cabecou.  there are intermediate moments, but this is IT.  if i can get Here, then…good.  like, Totally Good.  this is a pic from a book, an extremely beautiful book that i was Gifted.   i look at it a lot.  can i GO there?,  i think so.  no real reason why not….and so.  

An Unforseen today with Alz B. and then coming home, BIG MONSOON STORM…but with the new even unfinished space for Them, i was able to really Welcome it….was able to go outside and stand, facing it and throw my arms UP to it and LOVE it…it's been a while.  so much concern for the sentient beings out there, but today, i was some free of that.  When i finish the SW wall of the new space, i will be able to totally RECEIVE  the Storms…call out to them with joy.  o  glad for this.  again, it's been a while.  and i went out with the Goats and just WAS with them.  how Good that is.

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and here.  on the left, a piece of the original thrift store cloth so the difference can be seen.  the over dye of walnut that Jude talks about.  LOVE.   and i guess today is a LOVE day.  cause i am loving a lot, in this moment.  but look.  and on the Very left is a piece of harem cloth….stuck in.

so…this.

and then a long PHONE conversation with Kay, my old Mentor, of my Other Life and there has been a conversation on Jude's Spirit Cloth about this internet thing.  Kay, who so much of ME has been involved…who i LOVE, like way way Big…but really…who knows and can't know so much

about my immediate moment….i try to tell it, but really, YOU who come here to this place which is really ephemeral,  you know more..???  you do.  and isn't that interesting.

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  1. Judith in N. Calif. Avatar
    Judith in N. Calif.

    When I had my handspinners flock of sheep and we all lived in Ohio for awhile, some of my favorite times were weathering a storm in the barn with them…lots of hugs and kisses were exchanged….it was so GOOD !

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  2. Dee Avatar
    Dee

    being free to receive storms – there’s a thought.

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  3. grace Avatar
    grace

    it was/IS a stunning moment.
    yes.
    FREE
    to know we will weather them as best possible.
    we will do what we CAN
    and if it’s not enough…well, we did our Best.

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  4. grace Avatar
    grace

    i don’t know how, really, to speak of this. when i go
    out there and get IN there with them and they muddle around pushing and moving around and they are so oddly Aware that i have come out there and am squatting there, with them.
    i don’t know how to talk of that, really

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  5. Judith in N. Calif. Avatar
    Judith in N. Calif.

    I was very, very connected to my flock..they knew their names..they knew I (my voice, my touch) was safety..and, of course, I represented FOOD. This is what it means to be a shepherd (no matter the animal or human being). I always accepted it as being a natural part of myself (I had been a City Girl). The very best moments are when they invite you to be part of the birthing…in that moment you can connect with every good shepherd that has ever existed since the first shepherd and flock..it became my Church. Grace, just float in those moments with them…let them talk to you through their bodies and their voices. Remember those moments when they’re giving you hell and you will laugh out loud !

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  6. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    Such a life, so full of the muchness… you are a huge inspiration Grace, thank you for sharing your days!

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  7. Robyn Ayaz Avatar
    Robyn Ayaz

    Hello dear Grace after a very long time, and I see you are getting closer it seems to your dream of goat cheese. Oh, lots of love for that woman receiving the storm, how wonderful it is to see it coming and greet it knowing you and yours are safe or as much as can be. I am helping my youngest sister see out the last of her days and it is almost unremittingly SAD but I took some time to look into my almost home. Loveandhugs, Grace, always. I will be back.

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  8. kat Avatar
    kat

    So glad that you, too, are getting more of the “normal” (? as if there is anymore) monsoons. I’ve actually gotten spoiled – if we don’t have rain at night, I’m disappointed – it cools off the surroundings so nicely. And that first cup of coffee is so much better in the cool, slightly damp air.

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  9. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    thinking of the Fillyjonk in that story, who welcomed her beautiful storm. love the harem cloth’s lines.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. it’s just So MUCH. today, cleaning out the water
    tub in the place where the two does and their kids are
    STILL because i haven’t changed that yet…they were
    incredibly funny. really, in a certain way, having a
    sense of HUMOR, goatly tho it may be, but as if they
    were very deliberate with it.
    and you had some Churros, right?

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i have always loved the Great and Horrible Electrical
    Storms. Brought my kids up to love them too. We would
    sit on the porch swing when they were little, just so
    crazy happy with them….yelling, laughing, totally happy with them.
    my concern for the comfort of the Goats who do NOT feel
    this way has put a damper on that. but now….it’s all
    OK again. everything is getting OK.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    love you, Mo

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    oh….HELLO dear Robyn!~ yes, a very long time. you
    and your sister will ride in my Heart….thank you for
    letting me know….
    i’ll wait here for when you can be back…Love

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    not long now and it will Pass that point. so yes. we
    need to Love it while it IS.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. just like the Fillyjonk. just like that.
    and the harem cloth’s lines are extremely good

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  16. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    I will imagine you standing next to her whenever I read that story now.
    & i just love it when we are talking to each other in different places at the same time.

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    it’s Something, isn’t it. yup.

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  18. Judith in N. Calif. Avatar
    Judith in N. Calif.

    oh, oh, ohhh…you are listening to them…goats are so smart…they can express lots of different emotion…so many humans have forgotten to listen but some of us still do, isn’t it wonderful ? Yes, I did have Churros…they are a whole different thing (at least mine were, lucky me !). One of these days I’ll forward a photo of me (taken in 1995, I think) receiving kisses and snuffles from a Churro ewe lamb…we both had red hair..someones was more natural than the other one.

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  19. grace Avatar
    grace

    i will await the photo!!!
    i met my first Churro in of all places, Oregon. She was
    the Queen of a flock of sheep, mostly Jacob. but she was
    SOMETHING.
    i have wanted a Churro for forever. but alas….there is
    nothing here that can be
    GRAZED
    and i cannot imagine keeping sheep with no graze option.
    Goats don’t mind so much. brouse can take many forms.
    but graze is graze.
    Once, when i was still making the “dolls”, the fiber figures, there was a man who wanted to trade an older bred
    ewe Churro. oh, the angst.
    These Beings, sheep/Goats, i am wondering…WHAT ARE THEY, really. anyone who has had them continues on with
    being in love forever….
    i wish i could find words that can tell of how it is. Tonight i was feeling lazy. DIDN”T want to do one single thing more, but once i was out there…they just are so
    GLAD. they just like to push and rummage around and do
    stuff. and when you scrub the water tubs and fill them with all new and fresh water they come and drink so LOOOONG and Sweet!…if only THAT, the way they drink fresh water, if only That, it would be enough to take my breath away.

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  20. Judith in N. Calif. Avatar
    Judith in N. Calif.

    Perhaps the WHAT ARE THEY is more than we realize…flocks and humans are one of the oldest connections. I recall a moment in my history while helping with a successful triplet birth sometime after midnight, 20 degrees in snowy OH barn…tears streaming down my face as I realized I was part of all that had passed in TIME/HISTORY. It was the most powerful feeling of oneness with the universe…even more so than when I (a mother earth type) gave birth to my 3 daughters. I must think more about this connection…thank you for raising it all…my emotions are very full at the moment..tomorrow I’ll examine more what my head is telling me (’cause that’s how I roll)..time for bed (this means I will probably dream about large trucks full of alfalfa)…sweet dreams to you.

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  21. grace Avatar
    grace

    o.k.
    i will stay up for a while. there is
    L I G H T N I N G
    beautiful against the Dark

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