i could have known. but preferred to be in denial. the morning began with some chaos. somehow, i think from just rattling against the cattle panel gate hard enough, somehow the 3 little ones got out.
there they were, cheerfully milling about nibbling here nibbling there in the Albatros….finding bits and pieces of the old kind of grass hay. Getting them in to their side was an event, their mothers screaming at the top of their lungs because none of that was supposed to be happening, it was supposed to be milking time. Then, that done, coming in there was an odd sense…so i looked out into the Way Back and
total Insurrection.
almost all of them which would be probably 8 goats, i don't really know because i was so freaked, almost all of them had decided enough was enough and had broken through the fencing that surrounds the Oasis there..1 small tree, 1 Very small tree and one large bush and native grasses, the first time this year wild asters,…the Only Green left out there…
and to make a long story short, this repeated three times. each time being no easier to get them all out than the one that preceeded it . so i went and bought some bales of alfalfa/grass mix. ok. i give. and the truth is, Goats will, if they possibly can, forage for what they need nutritionally. their instinct is Strong and SelfSustaining. and they will stop at nothing. and truth is too that people can say as many times as they want over and over and over that eventually, if there is nothing else, they will eat what you give them. and i suppose that might be true. but in this case, there IS something else. the Oasis. it would take them maybe 3 days to completely consume it. and maybe then they would eat the junky grass hay. but i can do better than this. and i will.
so…Goats aside. what's really on my mind is Art. Making stuff. Other artisans and craftspersons making stuff. participating in a network of support. Some conversation over on Spirit Cloth about this and i really have strong opinions that i don't need to repeat. but as Deb Lacativa says,
Buy Art. It's Good for You.
i totally agree.
and i have an Art Jar.
i keep it under the kitchen sink. into it goes change and often one dollar bills. it adds up. i had been using this Art Jar for Jude's work. and it's been a while. but months ago, i don't know how long, there was a cloth she made that i totally wanted. and i saved for it. but it never went into her shop. so that Art Jar had gotten pretty full. today, it is emptyish.
Go to India Flint's blog. click on the video that Tracey Mc Connell-Wood made of India in Scotland this summer. Watch. and most of all, listen. the sound made me Crazy with love…
it's a steel drum made by Jason Shearer, his email is there in the credits.
a drum is coming. i can't believe it. i can't believe how perfect this is for this Time in my life…how this CREATION can make sound for the Goats, for the Morning Light, for the Cold of the Winter , the time of Looks Within, for that River, the Rio Grande. Really….it's extraOrdinary….how much i LOVE this sound, how much i know will be CHANGED by being able to make these sounds. how they will Help me. Help me know what to do in each Next as it comes.
Go listen.
and about selling Art/buying Art… what could possibly be better????, really.
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