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the plan was to drive up to Water Canyon.  but it rained here, all last night

 

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and tho the roads all the way up the mountain were clear and BEAUTY FULL,  once we began to enter the canyon,  there was snow and ice.  ahead i could see that an inversion was settling low…colder temperatures just down the road.  so now being older and wiser we turned around and came home.  Next time.

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undaunted,  we Ate Drank and Were Merry

 

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me and Marti

 

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me and Marti's Very Good Husband, who…..while we were getting things on the table…

 

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ordered, turned and watered BOTH my composts in the most loving way.

 

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the bronze Goat went out to join the Child Buddha

 

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Solstice.  2013     Spring is just around the Corner

 

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28 responses to “Solstice”

  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    What grace is too modest to say is that her lasagna was just about the best we’ve ever had and I am a very good cook. This was no ordinary lasagna: This life affirming Solstice lasagna had that most important quality- the oozy factor, that melting, gooey luscious factor that took it over the top and made you glad to be alive on a cold, snowy, windy New Mexican day. Eating together at the table, the warmth of the alligator juniper burning wood, sharing, a bit of cloth looking, laughter and did I mention eating, well, this is how you come in out of the cold to the light of the Solstice and to the enduring love of being together. A day simply doesn’t get better than today.

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  2. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    Happy Solstice, Grace!! Other than roof leaks, things look fine and dandy there.

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  3. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. and to all who say that the Internet is not real….
    we met through a Writing Circle. and here we are today…
    what??? 7 years later?, going to a Canyon, putting wood
    in the stove, passing things across the table, listening to Goats, talking to them, turning Glorious Compost, ignoring
    drips from a ceiling, ignoring how the Old Dog makes
    mistakes on the floor, petting the shy cat, looking at
    Cloth, receiving gifts of Cloth, candles.
    Whoever says it’s…uhhhh, well…whoever Says. i Say
    Real is Real.

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  4. grace Avatar
    grace

    GOOD SOLSTICE to YOU!………..Paul the Fixing Magician
    will come Thursday and fix the leaks.
    We are having MUCH more rain/snow than ever. Things
    Change. it’s leaked a little, always, since daughter and
    i made a Room from a porch. but, we said…SO WHAT?!,
    WHO CARES! it’s only a couple times a year, then it
    dries. but now….hmmmmmm. So, Paul comes Thursday.
    He will fix it.

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  5. suzanna Avatar
    suzanna

    What a perfect celebration…it warms my heart to see you all…to hear about this day…

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  6. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Just what I needed to hear and see…loving relationship aptly described, and photos bursting with warmth, spirit and JOY. Oh, and speaking of joy, is this a tear of it in the corner of my eye? Is this calmed heart a sign of the comfort received? Of course.

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  7. jude Avatar
    jude

    that husband is a very big guy! thank you for the warmth you shared here, although, none needed here today. 70 degrees!

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  8. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    in my mind i stepped into this circle and shared the hug. the love. the joy. palpable. and i’m looking at the raft and the glass jar. and wondering what is in it? and where will it go from here? and the goat. oh, the goat. so alert.

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  9. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    What a lovely way to spend the day… That lasagne looks so incredibly yummy. Even if Marti hadn’t said so,it oozes of the screen. 🙂

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  10. saskia Avatar
    saskia

    such a wonderful day; how wonderful also to see Marti, hi Marti you visit my blog lots and leave such lovely comments it is really fine to see you ‘in person’
    and yes Grace, it is Real
    he sure is a big guy
    xx

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  11. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Hello Saskia, I am always held in quiet joy when we connect through the airwaves of our computers. Yes, it is so incredibly wonderful to see and be with each other in the flesh, “in person”. Yet it is equally special to come to know someone from their willingness to share their lives via a blog, their words, their photos, their heart allowing for connection…it is all Real.
    And as to the big guy. Well he is only 6 ft tall but is big boned and big muscled, huge of heart as well. grace is a tiny woman. He loves coming to grace’s place, makes himself right at home and is always moving about on her land, connects him to his Minnesota roots.

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  12. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    what a good solstice gathering!

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  13. Linda Avatar
    Linda

    Happy Solstice, Grace and Marti and husband.
    It rained here all day and was DARK and dreary..
    we had luminaries and it brightened our path.

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  14. beth Avatar
    beth

    This is so fine. Loved seeing you together.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    a calmed Heart
    a calmed Heart is Everything.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    he IS big. a BIG presence. but he is such a CLEAR
    presence. i am always surprised by HOW Clear. no
    adjenda. just Being. how rare.

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    you would have been so good here. your presence would
    have melted in.
    the glass jar, a canning jar, holds/has held two
    watercolor paintings and words from two of Wendy Golden Levvetts kids from a couple years ago…who had
    relationships to the Cloths i made that are there.
    i’m not sure of the Reasoning of why the jar, why Out
    There, but maybe it is the place of my own Vulnerability
    and so, i put them there with me. We are all vulnerable.
    But, we All also just go.

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. it needs to ooze. it needs to be squashy.

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. it was REAL.

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    oh Linda, you who chooses to live in your dreary sometimes
    Land….i’m glad for the luminarias….glad your path
    was bright…LOVE

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. amazing isn’t it?….Real People. but in Reality,
    no more Real than Here. i love this. a LOT.

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  22. grace Avatar
    grace

    you would be at Home…..

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  23. Linda Avatar
    Linda

    Love right back. It was a lovely soft day.

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  24. nance Avatar
    nance

    So nice to visit and see everyone together… Blessings

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  25. grace Avatar
    grace

    thanks Nance…i knew you would like the pics…
    love,

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  26. KAMFreeman Avatar
    KAMFreeman

    what a pure gift of delight to see, in a photo, Marti and her husband. Marti’s voice coming to me over many years on the page as I opened the computer, and now when I read her words I will see her “self”. Solstice shared with deepest heart centered friendships is surely one of the very best gifts. Food, place, thoughts, all wrapping up in comfort the love of friends – deeply felt and shared. Grace, thank you for sharing this Solstice time of beauty and light.

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  27. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    Oh too cool … Marti, compost, lasagna and solstice

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  28. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    How GREAT. just how so totally GREAT
    you bring us back to this place that is coming
    how the Circle goes, spins slowly but in BIGNESS, this Circle
    spinning………
    Thank You. Thank you Liz. Very Very Much.

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