in the midst of Today i realized that the Unforseen is not even considered that anymore at all.  The Unforseen has simply become what is.   that in itself is quite Something.  

Paul was supposed to come wednesday to look at the cattle panel in the Albatros.  

this, supposedly,  is the LAST of the list of stuff that Alz B's son Bill  keeps in his head.  that list called Stuff grace Needs.   i can only assume that the list rises up because of his feelings of wanting things to be ok for me because he needs me to be ok for his mother, Alz B.   i have addressed this very bluntly with him many times.  i used to feel that it tilted the balance too much.   but then at some point, after saying that to him i don't know how many times,  i just gave up.  maybe we could call it Surrendering.   so…as i said,  Paul had this one more thing.  and today it is DONE.  Bill hires him and pays for all the materials.  all i do is help.  

 

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what used to be 10 or 12 feet of cattle panel,  on both sides of that center post is now 8 ft of panel fencing,  each side  and then two gates big enough to let the wheelbarrow through.   this might not look like much.  but when you are bringing Goats in and out, back and forth, it's HUGE.  Gates.  it's so Huge that i can't even think of expending the energy to tell why.  but it's DONE.  and do you see the piece of plywood in the center?  that closes off the space where the baby goats would try try try to squeeze through, sometimes with success.  well…no more.  but  as i looked at it this evening, taking this pic,  i saw it as something else too.

 

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i saw it as something related to this.   i was not expecting this.  but here it is.  remembering yesterday,  sitting and looking long at the sticks that go from Earth to Sky,   i looked at this new arrangement in the Albatros for Goat Gates and realized that i need to make some marks there too.  i need to Mark it .  like i Mark the Cloths i make.  i need to put Beauty there.  i need to put "Spirit" there.  That is what has been missing and making things feel out of sync.   i am not a practical person, really.  i DO do practical things.  but i need to do them in the way i am at ease with,  the way i did them when i was Seven years old and then on and off  when i have honored and Remembered. i don't have to have a reason.  i don't have to be able to give it words.  but i DO need to do it.

 

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night of a Full Moon before Solstice.   a window, a plant,  Green Tara,  tin butterflies and tin star, bells  and peacock feathers.  a wall.

 

 

 

 

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6 responses to “263”

  1. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    I’m always shocked to see no comments when I come here late like this in EST==now almost 10PM. but I shouldn’t be. Your day was dark hours ago. Sp, I look at the gates…how well they are now and know how much it means when something is done that will make your life with the goats work better. A lot! Thinking about your resistance to the help, and understand it…how you felt it would shift the balance, the integrity of the straight deal made about your caring. I have a similar sense of how the balance has to be for me to be comfortable. People who offer me help (and there are many), get me thinking if it’s fair, if it’s worthy to accept. Then someone comes along out of the blue and tells me what I mean in their lives (more than I knew), and it wakes me up to how mutual needs, including the need to help, are just as true as straight deals, maybe even truer.
    Well, enough said. The new ‘Altar’ wall? if that’s what the last photo is (too dim to really see) is probably as beautiful as the goat flag at the raft. Show me a daytime picture if you think of it dear mark maker, shaking sacred vision out of ordinary sights.

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  2. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    So that’s what that last picture is? The beauty-flying of the goat home? I wasn’t sure. Then Michelle suggested it.
    I wanted to comment on the marking of the goat home. I had a friend who loved her chickens. She built her hen house herself to look like a little chalet of sorts with left overs and pieces found at the re-build store. She hung little frames of pictures for them in there. She would bring special treats on tiny dishes as if it were a tea party. And I thought it was a beautiful thing to honor our animals. Some people thought that the chickens wouldn’t know …so why bother unless it was for your own aesthetic sense. But I disagree and I am happy to know that you are giving to your goats the same as my friend gave to her chicken. You put spirit there when you do things like this. And do they know? Yes in their own way… They surely can feel the energy of love that you put out for them. I am happy for your goats today. It’s very good.

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  3. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    oh grace, that is all so good. and it seems like your seven year old self is at last marking all the places where you and the goats live. I am touched by what Bill thinks of for you. because it is an energy exchange. not just money. he knows, which is rare enough, that being present for someone like his mother takes a lot of energy. and how dear that he makes sure you have practical help for your own stuff. interdependence. easing the way for each other without overstepping. . . .and accepting graciously.

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  4. jude Avatar

    the last picture is as if all those things are growing there. practical is a special kind of appreciation for life. a special kind of spirit too.

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  5. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes, almost like a Forest inside. or like inside had
    become Outside. like looking from outside, even tho i
    was right next to it….
    an incredible moment

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  6. saskia Avatar

    one of the many things I love about coming to your blog, are the glimpses of your life captured in photographs, moments of A Life; the words in this post, yet again affirm your way of living and the last pic, breathtaking omg absolutely

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