it's very quiet out there.  i would even be able to say PeaceFull.  i think this is the first evening in maybe 3 weeks or a month that the two mother Goats have been able to lie down and chew their cud in the evening hours.  it's funny, that i'd not really clicked on the Whole of that.  i was aware that it was intense and noisey.  that Lucky Star and Caroline were calling out and calling out and nothing i could do seemed to relieve them.   i thought it was because LS had 4 kids.  and that Caroline is not so much a long time Mother.  she does what she needs to but also likes her own space.  but tonight, it seems that it may have been these two things, but also the increasing level of testosterone out there.  the two banded bucklings are quiet.  they are eating and drinking water.  Nursing too.  but then they lie down to rest.  they are not double ly driven…to nurse as babies and to nudge and prod and push like little buck Goats.  Nogal, the one that i left Whole, is more placid by nature.  

so..i am learning.  

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i have to let this Daughter one go to full bloom.  One more time.  i will love her.  totally and Care Fully and completely.  and then, before she can seed, i will pull her.  but This, for now.

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this morning.  the peacock feather had slid behind the curtain.

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and here's whats happening here.   nothing that you see is necessarily going to stay.  it's all just Looking.  but i think it's how it's going to go.  Out from under the edges of Spirit,  life just Goes,  in all its ways and all its  forms.  ??????

 

 

 

 

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34 responses to “163, So.”

  1. wendy Avatar
    wendy

    I’m glad to hear that things are settling. But it’s so intense. And Grace, this advance on the altar cloth is amazing. I started my own tonight, with the little embroidered fragment from my blog about the birds and neighbours… I’m making it into an altar cloth, inspired by you. And I was working tonight figuring out what cloth to include. Your last words here help me know how to move ahead. Thank you Grace.

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  2. Deb G Avatar

    Peaceful here too. Quiet in the neighborhood.

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar

    Gosh what a magic flower you must keep one at least just very safely away from the herd!

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  4. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    So quiet here in this exact moment
    I can hear the hum in my inner ear.
    Distant cars are like waves when one sees
    ‘wave upon wave rolling in and out again’ with mind’s eye.
    Hindsight? Foresight? Right sight? Wrong sight?
    Day sight? Night sight? Dark and light sight,
    Insight.

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  5. patricia Avatar

    out from under the edge of spirit. what a lovely image. both on cloth and otherwise. edge of spirit. i will hold that today. and am appreciating your appreciation of datura blossom. the understanding that all things have a place. a purpose.

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  6. jude Avatar

    i feel you settling in in some new way, on cloth as well.

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  7. Sandi Avatar

    Can you pot it and bring it indoors? Or is it an all around danger to animals? It’s so beautiful. Cant wait to see it in full bloom.

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  8. beth Avatar

    Oh. That feather shadow. I can’t stop looking. I want that on cloth.
    When I look at the cloth this morning I think “big bang”…

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  9. Minka Avatar

    I remember long ago suffering….from a herd with too many bucks. Me thinks you have done a good thing.
    Civilization just is. But maybe I’m selfish…..because I benefit from civilization. Anyway, I’m glad things are quiet. This is good.
    And this cloth with life peaking out from the edges tells me we are in opposite places because I often feel life is in the foreground and Spirit is peaking around the edges…beckoning us to look further and deeper. You are already there.

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  10. Minka Avatar

    Can you shoot one picture of that flower from overhead? Or did you already do that? What is it? What is the danger?

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  11. Minka Avatar

    Ps. Love that image of the feather…..looks like a milkweed.

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  12. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    I love the way you put this, Minka. I have often thought of life like a woven cloth with golden shimmers coming through random holes, that shiny stuff is the spirit we encounter here and there.

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  13. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    This cloth, Grace, it is magical, esp since you so rarely have that kind of color in your work.

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  14. Dee Avatar

    and no rainstorms… I’m glad you are (were? already? is it already were?) having a moment of equilibrium… it’s funny how we might not even notice how chaotic things are until there is just such a moment.I am in and out so do not know the hazards of the flower – is it invasive? poisonous?

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  15. grace Avatar
    grace

    Wendy…this is so great to me. the fragment you choose
    is so Perfect for this purpose.
    i wish sometimes i could come to Ontario.
    love to you

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    sometimes it’s that way. isn’t it just so FINE?

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    this one is in an odd corner. just inside the gate of the House Yard. there are so many other things of interest to a Goat, in case of insurrection, that i’d have time to Avert them. i think.

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    no. they are really Wild things. would not live in a
    house. plants are BIG, sprawling.

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  19. grace Avatar
    grace

    a quiet moment for you. i love this. i love this
    FOR you…
    SIGHT.
    sight.

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  20. grace Avatar
    grace

    well…this Purpose? i’m not sure. the Hawk Moth, i know
    and so maybe other creatures that i don’t know. Hawk Moth
    makes the tomatoe worm. funny, huh.

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  21. grace Avatar
    grace

    i hope so. i really don’t know. am out of focus.

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  22. grace Avatar
    grace

    and then the reverberation, echo echo echoing on and on and on and on and…….

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  23. grace Avatar
    grace

    i’m not already there. but i am sure that Spirit is. always and i just don’t know how to Know that. as in Live inside that knowing.

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  24. grace Avatar
    grace

    OR
    WE are the tiny stuff that Spirit encounters here and there

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  25. grace Avatar
    grace

    Datura. Loco Weed. a hallucinogenic. toxic.
    it’s a common plant in the desert.

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  26. grace Avatar
    grace

    what a surprise to see..

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  27. grace Avatar
    grace

    this is Sunday…it has been an interesting day, working
    with it

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  28. grace Avatar
    grace

    the rain is coming during the night now.
    and yes. Toxic.
    nothing much really, in the desert is invasive. well, that’s not true…a few things are. but not much.

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  29. Minka Avatar

    Really really full of exotic beauty. So many photos on google. I love this one that you look. Poison beautiy about to unwind. Wow

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  30. grace Avatar
    grace

    another pic tonight…typepad being goofy…says link is
    broken?
    but they are extraordinary plants. you have to really
    WONDER of their purpose of being…

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  31. Mo Crow Avatar

    does it have the most incredible perfume at night? I grow Brugmansias aka Angels Trumpets here and when they are full flight the scent is intoxicating!

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  32. Minka Avatar

    I hope you don’t mind….I tried a Spoonflower design with thr Datura
    Have a peek
    http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/2315631

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  33. grace Forrest Avatar

    You did it AGAIN!!!!! i would have Never imagined how
    this could be….it’s just MAGIC

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