for a couple of days, i have been having a conversation with Particia ~ followingthread.wordpress.com  about karma.   and in one of those exchanges i said i don't say much, write much about Karma because it has so many associations to so many people,  i didn't think i could possibly explain my own living sense of it without becoming ,  well,  lost in the explanation.  but, ever since i said that,  i find myself having an Urge to say something about karma.  because i am having a sense of karmic quickening in my life.  and as this evening went on, and i listen to Thunder Man in the distance, drawing closer and closer,  i got the thought that i would like to just SAY,  i am going to

talk about Karma.   in the same way i would talk about the Moon and the Sun.  Wind.  like that.  and just see what it feels like.   this Interests me.  

and following that thought, i am looking again at the lizard cloth, the cloth of the Personal Moon 

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and i had an urge to put this there

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see it?…the flower in the Upper Left?   so….what if there is this personal moon that is in and with the Lizard, the rocks, the plant people and then that Moon of the Universe that sends it's cosmic order.   BUT/AND,  then….What if there is   ~karma~  in this instance,  represented by this flower ??????

 

this morning, i was feeding the Goats and i was singing, making up a new song and kind of moving to the song and when i filled the last tub i whirled around with a flourish and took steps toward the house  and ran directly into a broken off stickbranch of the dead russian olive.  i have a cut in the bottom "lid" of my left eye, just under the eyelashes…almost a half inch long.  and the corner of my eye hurts too…so it must have gotten some action.  it hurts.   but…somehow my "brain" saw it coming and alerted to close the eye…it happened without warning, in less than a split second,  but my eyeball itself was spared.   this kind of thing has happened before.  and i can only marvel at the brilliant awareness of the physical body and its primal brain.  it's really amazing.

~THUNDER~

 

 

 

 

 

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23 responses to “l73 storms again!”

  1. jude Avatar

    karma in the corner, i like to think of life like that.

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  2. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. karma in the corner. and on the back porch right now, GOATS,
    vying (sp) for their place for the night. thumping, banging. Who
    gets the actual porch space???? who gets the steps?????
    it will go on like that for a while. till it’s really DARK and
    everyone gives up to what they have. Some the porch. some the steps.
    Some the space Under the porch. some, well, some somewhere else.
    and karma is somewhere. somewhere in the corner, smiling, sending
    invisible filaments, clues. sending clues. always the clues.
    clues for
    refining.
    re defining
    fine tuning love
    learning
    changing
    karma.
    and we will NEVER know. there is NO… answer. but we sense the clues. it’s enough.

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar

    ha! the Karma Chameleon, you come and go!

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  4. debbie.weaver Avatar

    lovely, just is right

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  5. Valerianna Avatar

    Cosmic lizard cloth… love it. Glad your eyeball was spared.

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  6. helen lee Avatar

    I loved ‘seeing’ you whirl with a flourish whilst singing…and am sorry that it was stopped…painfully….glad it was not an eye injury.
    The Karma Flower fits so well…is it an over~dye? It’s beautifully subtle.

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  7. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes…the whirl.
    the flower…yes. first tea dye and this is from that
    incarnation.
    it’s a man’s shirt, cotton, from Thrift Shop…a wonderful
    patterned design but just blue and white….but now,
    it’s many things, varying shades from more walnut overdye.
    am so looking forward to what changes can come from
    using other recycles that i’d brought home because of
    interesting design but not so interesting coloring…how
    the walnut will affect them….
    am happy to see you here this morning, love…

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  8. Minka Avatar

    Sending healing thoughts to you and your eye.
    Where did the flower come from? Did you draw it?

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  9. beth Avatar

    A whirl, a flourish, and a thwack. Don’t you just hate when that happens…

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  10. grace Avatar
    grace

    HOW DO YOU FIND EVERYTHING???????????

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  11. grace Avatar
    grace

    karma is everything

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    debbie…THANK YOU!!!!!, for coming by and for liking
    it….THANK YOU! and you were There, with Eva and India!
    i will spend some time looking at your journal of that in
    the morning…how LUCKY you were…………..

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  13. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. eyeball. me too.

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    nope…a shirt from Thrift Shop over dye

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  15. grace Avatar
    grace

    well…it’s odd and great…no. i just kept going.
    am getting really BETTER at just going….

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  16. Mo Crow Avatar

    well… hmmm…. I like Barry Lopez’s thoughts on all that-
    ”…. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.”
    and you do that well Grace!

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  17. debbie.weaver Avatar

    I come by every day, just don’t comment much, Love your work and yes was incredibly lucky to be with India and in such a beautiful place.

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  18. helen lee Avatar

    Yes….the experimenting with dyeing is so exciting…never knowing quite what the result will be, but that it WILL be DIFFERENT…endless possibilities.
    I am “dyeing” to get my hands on some walnuts, but have not found a source yet. Acorns and onion skins keep me happy though.
    Love back x

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    it took me a while to make CONTACT with Walnuts…made
    the waiting well worth it.
    the pot is stinky, out there….need to put more cloth
    in it….
    and onion skins…nothing like onion skins, really.
    more love

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  20. mimmin Avatar
    mimmin

    what a fitting addition that flower makes
    need to do some reading about karma: i don’t think i understand nearly enough, probably the stuff i think i know is all wrong

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  21. grace Avatar

    takes a lifetime for it to “soak in”….

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