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yesterday, the electricity went out.  somewhere an electric pole had caught fire.  so that was most of the afternoon.  then maybe early evening,  it was fixed and electric back ON,  but, alas, there was no internet.  i called the Electric company but they thought it was in the internet server which is my phone company.  so, called the Tech Support number and spent a lot of time with "Frank" in the Phillipines trying to figure it out.  he was Great.  Kind and funny and when i asked him how the weather was there, he said they were at the moment under a Type 4 Typhoon Warning.   i apologized for being whiney.  he laughed and continued.  we came to no conclusions and he set  me up with the phone company service call on Tuesday.  but then, just a while ago,  it fixed itself. ????  Maybe when repairing the electric pole the cut through the internet fibers that are underground?  Anyway.  so, day 205 fell into oblivion.  

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she does have a thread song…in the color of the River,  with small thread "words",  images.

This for now because another storm is almost overhead.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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34 responses to “205 and 206”

  1. jude Avatar
    jude

    hey!

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  2. grace Avatar
    grace

    yup!

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  3. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    boy oh boy, I get so nervous when your posts arent there with my coffee in the morning. It used to be the phila inquirer but now its windthread. that is truly all the news that is fit to print.

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  4. grace Avatar
    grace

    well…a flaming electrical pole was, i guess, newsey…..
    i thought a lot about not having the computer, but seems as i
    have come to some peace with that. i LIKE it. it’s my contact
    with What I Love…and that’s just good. i’m glad it’s fixed.
    xoxo to you….

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  5. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    You are back—good, I’m addicted too Julie, and Oh, Grace may it be so–fixed and moving forward….LOVE the song!

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  6. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    hey, you made it back!
    Love the colors of her & song. some of my favorite songs are about rivers.
    nice to have heard your voice.

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  7. grace Avatar
    grace

    the little green light is still a little blippy…?
    i was told that the water from Colorado is beginning to
    flow down into the Rio Grande, their run off…so
    i need to stop by there again tomorrow and see.
    I grew up on a creek, a small river. that creek taught
    me the first HUGE lesson i had about seeing/looking. i can smell that creek anytime i close my eyes and remember
    it.
    and Voice. yes. yours too..Love,

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  8. grace Avatar
    grace

    it needs a few more “words” still

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  9. grace Avatar
    grace

    and a final note to Self today, because i don’t want to take the
    time to write it down…easier here, but i want to remember to
    write about separating the kids from the does…about how i always
    say ” i need to get better at these things ” which means, i need
    it to stop being “hard” for me to do…
    and tonight as i did it, and then done with it, standing there
    looking at them, them looking at me, i realized that maybe it’s
    really ok that it
    hurts.
    it’s just how that kind of thing IS
    ?????
    so…i want to say more about this.
    NOTE TO SELF

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  10. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    I grew up two blocks from the Clackamas, and fishing on the Willamette it flowed into & the W. flowed into the Columbia…to the sea. Maybe it’s the flowing…and endless going…x

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  11. Micael Kemp Avatar
    Micael Kemp

    I’m so glad you’re safe, Grace. I missed you yesterday.

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    “maybe it’s the flowing…and endless going…x”
    it is.
    it soothes. it comforts. it
    it
    it
    ………..

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  13. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. safe. just Unable. Dis Abled.
    i used to be uh chagrined about liking the computer. that’s gone
    now. i appreciate it in the deepest sense of the word.
    Thanks Micael…i need to continue saying things to you…xoxo

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  14. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    here’s one of them…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0zduRJCYQQ
    sweet lulling dreams to you.

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  15. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    That piece about the river teaching you to see? That belongs in your artist statement. Ha!

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  16. Minka Avatar
    Minka

    So when you separate the kids and does, is it 24 hours a day? It seems that’s the only way weaning would be successful…but then I wondered..

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  17. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    El canto del rio, the song of the river, the earthy colors, She who sings, as much to honor the river possibly as to honor the passages of her life and all done with such deep caring…this is a profound cloth to me.

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  18. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    oh. ohhhhhhhhhh. the song she’s singing.

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  19. beth Avatar
    beth

    You have become a touchstone of sorts, a checking in place, an almost daily practice for me. And so a small lurch when nothing is there. Thanks to Nance for spreading the word. And glad all is well. This is a strong and very fine cloth…

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  20. kat Avatar
    kat

    Our autumnal weather has been quite something, hasn’t it? I was greeted with a gift of hail outside, after our storm blew through (picture on my blog today). Glad you got power and internet back. I, too, missed you yesterday.

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  21. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    “Take me to the River,
    Drop me in the Water,
    Dip me in the River,
    Push me in the Water…”
    it’s the Talking Heads version on the soundtrack in my head this morning
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ar2VHW1i2w
    1978 More Songs about Buildings and Food

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  22. yvette Avatar
    yvette

    oh yes ..talking heads…..
    Grace we/computer are your loveones at a distance so no worries about addiction..it’s about modern friendship
    Mothers kick their young out of nest at a certain point don’t they?
    XXX hugs

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  23. grace Avatar
    grace

    so many River songs. i was in love once with a stonemason
    who was also a musician. he sang songs about rivers and
    fireflies. i forgot him till just now,

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  24. grace Avatar
    grace

    Well…you very well might be right! and still
    Looking

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  25. grace Avatar
    grace

    hey, Self. not yet. busy having a Mood.

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  26. grace Avatar
    grace

    that comment below was to you, Micael

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  27. grace Avatar
    grace

    oh…i love how you wonder these things…
    Yes. if you are WEANING them. but i’m not. i am trying
    to find some way that is most CONVENIENT for me. ME.
    i put them to themselves at dark. at the Crack of Dawn
    they, and their mothers, start yelling. i go out and milk the does who haven’t had any baby sucking away since 12 hrs
    before. so i get 12 hrs of milk.
    for the rest of the day i let them be together. There
    are MANY differing ideas about this. but i agree with the ones that say that it’s important for their well being to be together like this.
    IF i were to want to milk twice daily, to get the maximum
    milk from them, then i’d wean the babies completely.
    But i kept the two little does, one for each mother, so that i can have at least a Little latitude with my own life aside from them. IF for instance, i can’t be here to milk for whatever reason. the one in mind at the moment is if i drive up to Colorado to see my son’s newborn baby.
    I have no one to milk for me. i really have no one to even feed for me. but chances of that are way better than both.
    it’s the Back Side of living alone. of LIKING ALONE. you are Alone with stuff. makes it tricky.
    Thanks for asking. i like that….Love,

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  28. grace Avatar
    grace

    it’s a profound thing, Marti…this Living stuff.

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  29. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes…there’s more
    “words”

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  30. grace Avatar
    grace

    beth…i’m glad something here is meaningful, however it is

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  31. grace Avatar
    grace

    oh, eeeee, hail. Hail can be hard with vegetables and
    Goats…………
    i’ll go look at your blog….

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  32. grace Avatar
    grace

    oh, them…i don’t know how many times that particular
    song played over and over and over. i used to spend a
    Lot of time recording the same song over and over…i would
    have like an hour of the same song…drove my kids nuts

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  33. grace Avatar
    grace

    yvette, yes. loved ones. you. and all. for so
    Sure this is true.
    dag dag

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  34. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    In one of the first share houses I lived in when I was 18 the guy in the house who could cook ( I couldn’t even boil an egg without burning the pot at that stage & Old Man Crow will vouch for the fact that I still do that but not quite as often) anyway that good young man took the needle out of the record player for a week because he couldn’t listen to Cosmic Wheels by Donovan, After the Gold Rush by Neil Young and For the Roses by Joni Mitchell any more! Soon after that a crazy friend destroyed the record player because he was hearing hidden messages in David Bowie’s “Diamond Dogs”… they were different days, in many ways the world is easier to maneouvre in this 21st C…

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