family Thanksgiving at the old folks home.  a Full house.  Full home cooked dinner that was excellent.  Babies, little kids running table to table.  Nice.  Really Really nice.  and what stood out was the sense of comraderie of the families,  having made the hard decision at some point to bring someone there, to say…We Can't do it anymore…and to give their person to this place, in trust,  today to see all the others who had done the same.  it was Good.

and then a list of errands.  Home.  feed, break a thin layer of ice in the water bowls.  start the fire again, and wait till time to go get a load of Grass hay

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a lot of that waiting time looking out windows,  watching the Rim where a heavy whiteness was gathering which could come as snow or rain or just dissipate on it's way down from the mountains.  and looking here,  the light was such that i saw that great Cottonwood stump differently, see what the Goats have done in stripping it of a lot of the bark…i hadn't noticed.  hadn't been looking

 

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it's becoming very Beauty Full.  a patina occuring.  and i thought about how wonderful it is that this old tree now has become this,  for Goats.  this is very Good too.

so all in all,  a day of Goodness.

 

 

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  1. grace Avatar
    grace

    and to you, my black feathered sister

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  2. Valerianna Avatar

    I like the goat sculpture

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    How vast that view seems, how huge the whiteness, how tiny the goats, and yes, a lovely sculpture in which I see many creatures, and much to be thankful for.

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  4. Deb G Avatar

    Sounds like a lovely day. Lovely how the goats shape the landscape…

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  5. Judith of N. California Avatar
    Judith of N. California

    Yes, many creatures including a wonderful whale eye…watching, watching over Grace and the Goats.

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  6. patricia Avatar

    although i’m certainly not a scholar of “the book,” all of this sounds rather biblical to me.

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  7. jude Avatar

    oh the wear on the old tree

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  8. beth Avatar

    I like looking through your eyes. Makes me see better through my own.

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  9. handstories Avatar

    I love hearing your stories of the home and its community.

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  10. yvette Avatar

    yes the home, the meeting of people with the same worries about their loveones
    i know it soothes ( i mean make it a ietsiepietsie ( little bit) less sad)
    tonight with my mother who compared her death with how my husband died…it was easy wasn’t it, she said!
    will i be good enough for god…does he want me do you think….
    ooh sweet circle women
    i know you know
    the tree says it all too
    love love love

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  11. grace Avatar
    grace

    yvette……Nothing says it all. there is more. always more.
    and i know you have a
    difficult mother
    and are a difficult daughter to her
    but…the questions…will i be good enough for god…does he want me
    how this speaks with the voice of a child
    who wondered if there was any one, any thing that would say
    YES! YESSSS!!! you are good enough you are more than good enough! you are LOVED. exactly as you are. exactly.
    a huge giant warmth to envelop you, yvette. just huge. and warm.

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  12. Minka Avatar
    Minka

    The tree stump resembles a skull burnished by wind, sun, and goats.

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  13. grace Avatar
    grace

    or the Maw of the Hag Boar as my beloved friend used
    to say

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