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sitting down here to post for the three hundred and tenth time,  i had some uneasiness.   Am i sure about what i think i want to say??  and i got up and walked over,  and looked at the wall.  Yes.  i am sure.

 

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it started this morning looking at the linen runner with the colors.  Back up.  from the  Color segment of Jude's What If Diaries.   i had decided yesterday to put it back and use the runner for small "Lookings".  just fragments that i want to watch together for no reason.

 

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this little face…What is she looking at?

 

 

 

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what is this thing about Dimensional?  what is it saying?

 

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and my eyes travel down

 

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after i return from seeing Alz B.,  i pick it up immediately…there is a real excitement about continuing.  the needle is already threaded so i finish out that thread with the kantha.  Why does it look so much darker????  i don't know.  and then, the Eye.  What is here, but more that i took away.   realizing i need to go slower.  need to breathe through this part of it all.  Slow down.  Slow down, grace.  Listen.

and i have an answer to that Question from the Narrator the other day.  

To whom do you belong?

in a comment somewhere i said something about belong to the consciousness of the Earth.  and this morning, suddenly, it came with more understanding.    in the 1980 's there was a lot written about the concept of Gaia.  The Gaia Hypothesis to be exact.  i have a copy of ReVision Magazine from the 80's with the whole issue devoted to the Gaia Hypothesis.  i spent a long time, searching here for it and can't find it.  so i am going to rely on some small simple words.  if you google Gaia Hypothesis you can find many many references.

Gaia.  a concept that the planet Earth,  all on it, all in it,  all around it,  ALL….is a single Organism.

This.

then, in the 90's  Quantum Physics became popular.  that can be googled too.  Nothing is as it seems.  Quantum Physics.

and here we have it.    There are a million ways to view ourselves on this planet in this life time.  There has been a sense that beginning in this next year of 2014 (which adds up to Seven)  i will want to "ground" myself in one of them.  to not be Vague about it.  To choose.  to, well, ground myself,  solidly.  and i think this is from whence that Question.  To Whom do you belong?, grace…

to WHOM, not WHAT,  but WHOM do you tie your alliegence?,  your fielty?  is it the "world"…as in "worldly world"?  or……but i didn't have the OR.   Today i do.  it's Gaia.  it's the sense of being like a single cell of a huge organism.    that seems like an old concept now…it's been 30 years.  no one uses that term anymore.  retro.  but here it Rises.  and it is the best Image i can sense to direct me in these next days, months, on into this Spring of 2014.    just as some micro organism works in my compost,  so do i work.  no more, no less.

and all this has been coming for quite a while.  clues have come in many of YOUR comments here.  in many of the small things outside,  like those worms in the Way Back.   like the mention of Permaculture and how i connected that to the other day when i made the HUGE error of forgetting to turn off the hose after filling the Goat tub.  how it ran all night and in the morning i was so freaked to see it had pooled,  Pooled,  but then with the morning's SUN,  suddenly there were trillions of birds…bathing, eating, singing, spinning and whirling about, running on their funny little feet through the mud, leaving prints of themselves everywhere….WATER.  Water when Water is scarce.

and the serendipity of daring to ask Roz to make me the small talismen.  and how i'd mistakenly imagined i would wear them as earrings,  and putting them on needing to acknowledge that i no longer can return to that earring world.  those days are gone.  but putting them on a piece of the black string from so long ago,  and them touching my skin where the Heart Chakra and Solar Plexis meet….feeling that as i move through the days…

All this.  

and i am uhhh,  assured that this is how i will know how to go forward here,  in this Place,  with these companions of Goats.   i had begun to feel uneasy.  now i don't.   we are all one thing.  it's OK.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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40 responses to “310 an Epiphany”

  1. Valerianna Avatar

    Funny how we can become uneasy or shy… glad you grounded yourself with your words. The Gaia Hypothosis – we still talk about it around here – it seems more mainstream now, and embedded in the work of Joanna Macy and John Seeds – the Deep Ecology work.
    Anyway, LOVE the bathing bird story… what a GREAt outcome to leaving the water on!!!

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  2. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    beautifully expressed, grace. love. . . . . . .

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  3. Elizabeth Avatar
    Elizabeth

    Dear grace, a lovely post when I needed it – and the joy is that there is not just the one epiphany for each of our lives

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  4. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Allegiance to Gaia, epiphany yes, but ever since I have known you, I have also known this about you, this allegiance. It is what fills you with joy when the time of the coming of the spadefoot toads arrived, when the little feather grass clumps took hold, when worms thrived in your dirt, when we learned about Wangari Maathai and her Green Belt movement, when you, Nance and I took one summer to discuss Barbara Kingsolver’s, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle; when the goats came and you learned to care for them and how they have enriched your life…We and many who come to windthread are what I call planetary woman; women who see, feel and care deeply about everything around them – who move to an improvisational flow of rhythm that is all our own yet is so tied into a universal rhythm of the world. The Pawnee have a prayer that says it so well:
    “Earth, ourselves, breathe and awaken, leaves are stirring, all things moving, new day coming, life renewing.”

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  5. grace Avatar
    grace

    E L I Z A B E T H
    oh…elizabeth….just yesterday…yesterday!, suddenly
    i thought out of nowhere…
    i have not been to Ballarat…to the Southerly Post…
    oh…..
    and i was coming tonight!!!!!
    to find the PEACE that you live there…..
    and no….Epiphany comes when it’s needed.
    I am SOOOOOOO happy that you came tonight!!!!!! you are
    yourself, part of my Epiphany
    LOVE

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  6. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. yes, but it needs to go deeper now. as in this
    Pawnee poem…
    Earth, ourselves.
    not as observer. not as steward. but as Self. again,
    no less, no more.
    it’s a stronger, deeper, more rooted sense. and i need
    that.

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  7. grace Avatar
    grace

    Joanna Macy…World as Lover World as Self
    maybe it’s because there is no one here who speaks this
    language????
    i don’t know that it is still Viable????? i imagine it
    to be part of some kind of PAST????, forgotten?????
    THANK YOU for saying it’s not. that people still do
    talk these things….in their day to day…i don’t know
    this.
    and those birds…they were WILD with PLEASURE in all
    their birdy ways of pleasure. it was so beautiful to watch and the Goats were startled and stood aside and watched too.

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  8. grace Avatar
    grace

    Jan…LOVE to you

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  9. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    So 310 days ago, you started this posting process with the specific intention of finding some truth about your life, your place. And here you are….

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  10. ² Avatar
    ²

    understand your need
    to felt the earth as self as a whom
    to be that earth to really be part of it
    a conscious part of the holeness
    to try to understand
    it is so huge
    i trust our planet
    and say thanks
    also to you and al so to them who think in that way
    and life that way

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  11. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. i did.
    and not knowing. not knowing what would
    Show UP
    and here i am.
    and here i face too the What’s Next. and i feel very
    good
    about it.
    OK. and
    Yes.

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    Maria…i too trust the Planet. and i say Thanks too.
    but the Planet
    not so much the world.
    that world i am uhhh, leary of…Leary is going to be a
    hard word to take to your dictionary….but leary.
    the Earth. the Earth i trust.
    and US, here. Us i trust.
    may we be strong.
    love,

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  13. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    All truth is essentially elegant. The Pawnee prayer, so full of connectedness, and fearlessness, is a fine example. This post was full of ‘Epiphany’, which means ‘Sudden insight’. I come here to be inspired, and it never fails to reward me. Thank you all.

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  14. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    /////////All truth is essentially elegant. The Pawnee prayer, so full of connectedness, and fearlessness, is a fine example. This post was full of ‘Epiphany’, which means ‘Sudden insight’. I come here to be inspired, and it never fails to reward me. Thank you all.

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  15. patricia Avatar

    shoulder to shoulder.

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  16. patricia Avatar

    and as it happens, i moseyed over to another friend’s site and what was there? the Council Statement signed by the 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe and others. and because this sort of synchronicity is occurring so much lately, it didn’t quite blow my mind, only AFFIRMED so many things. i’m typing the address for those who might want to read it. not as a link, so you’ll need to copy and paste. still a bit concerned with viral stuff.
    caretakersofmotherearth.com

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  17. Cynthia Avatar
    Cynthia

    ..affirmation,…inspiration..planetary women ..words that fill my morning..moving out the door to yet another dr appointment..heart in my throat..but it was so good to come here ..to be touched by the connections ..thank you as always…it is so good to come here and just to stop ..even for a few minutes and to breathe and settle..to know that as lonely as it seems , right here, right now ..there are these unseen but deeply felt tendrils of thought
    anyway ..as always many thank yous..
    oh and the rain here is torrential and my yard is full of the sound and movement of so many birds, stripping trees and bushes of berries, splashing in puddles..the earth..uncovered, rain and snow melt have made a small lagoon..the mist is incredible as the warm air hits the frozen ground..it is magical and it is very real..it is, exactly like this post..a good thing to have in my head as we face this day …cynthia

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  18. Mo Crow Avatar

    The Gaia principle, we are all eyes & hearts and hands caring for our beautiful planet.. we are all sentient and non sentient beings together here on our 3rd rock from the sun made of the same stuff, there is no other place…
    this is a little thing I wrote back in 2007… 7 years ago…
    Watching in wonder
    the brave & fragile moment
    of a butterfly trying out
    her brand new set of wings
    as she flits between the cars
    in yet another gridlock
    & sitting there in my car
    the realization dawns
    that I am part of the problem too…
    Living in hope &
    dreaming of the day
    when we all learn
    to see with our hearts…
    & walk on this old earth
    just a little more lightly…
    Help Ever,
    Hurt Never
    was written in that plastic heart
    I brought home from New Orleans
    It could be that easy 

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  19. Tracy Avatar
    Tracy

    This is slightly off topic for this post, but it relates to other things you’re trying to do in your life.
    http://thequakerdharma.blogspot.com/2005/03/simplicity.html He’s a Quaker and he’s talking about simplicity. I work with a Quaker woman who’s explained it to me again and again, but I’ve never quite understood it, though I try hard. It’s one of those good pieces of a religion that’s worth thinking about.

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  20. grace Avatar
    grace

    it’s not off topic…and yes.
    and go look at Julie’s post of Dec 31 Wish List
    juliestockler.blogspot.com threading the dog

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  21. jennann Avatar
    jennann

    beautiful…

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  22. saskia Avatar

    love the idea of the runner with the ‘lookings’
    do you think maybe we’re like a group of ants crawling as a huge organism, each and everyone of us imagining the self as an individual, but looking at us all from a distance you are able to see the connected-ness? we just haven’t figured this yet? could it be?

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  23. nance Avatar

    Going deeper begins with observing… It’s observing that is the vehicle for going deeper.
    We are all one.. We are all god. We are all one.
    From the smallest particle to the largest concept to infinity.
    I don’t know the exact words right now but ts Elliot’s poem of circling around to arrive at the beginning.
    And valerie anna, I don’t know where you live, but Gaia is alive and well in our consciousness here in the n.w.

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  24. grace Avatar
    grace

    nance…do you and your people there use the word, the
    term Gaia?

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  25. nance Avatar

    Yes… Specifically in spiritual terms

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  26. grace Avatar
    grace

    and in the terms of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis?
    i am thinking kind of more in terms of Biosphere right
    now…the Spiritual sense of it yes, but i am interested
    in the BIOLOGY…they physical form of Gaia

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  27. jude Avatar

    today this is all over my head.

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  28. grace Avatar
    grace

    epiphany…out of the blue….

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  29. grace Avatar
    grace

    i am going

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  30. grace Avatar
    grace

    a lagoon
    a lagoon
    to just Breathe and behold the happenings. that’s what i
    am looking at. to behold it and let it be what it is
    without inserting my self, my own un knowing self. watching. listening. leaving it all alone….letting be.

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  31. grace Avatar
    grace

    live and let live

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  32. grace Avatar
    grace

    Hey….

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  33. grace Avatar
    grace

    no…i don’t think that. i think we are all as we seem
    to appear. interacting. breathing/doing/living
    as we appear. in concert with all of ourselves.

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  34. grace Avatar
    grace

    ok. you have kitten head.

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  35. grace Avatar
    grace

    no…not ants. us. as we appear. different, beautifully
    different one from the other. and individual. up close or at a distance. the connectedness is that we live in concert with one another, potentially for the BENEFIT of one another…
    we
    can.

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  36. Tracy Leppold Avatar

    Thank you! I’ve seen her blog before, this time I saved it. Context is so lovely…so is her writing.

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  37. jan millington Avatar
    jan millington

    Thoughtful Grace; your posts are full of words that fill me with thoughts. And Marti, thank you for the ‘planetary women’ phrase! Nice! And birds; yes. After a struggle to create new ways of living after big changes in my life, I’ve put the fatballs out to feed the birds. And had great joy from seeing them acrobat their way through the bushes. It was a re-membering. A re-making. Yessssss; your birds delighting in their waterpools and lagoons echoing the birds here, across the pond of the Atlantic, delighting in their fatballs. Here, it’s cold, wet, windy, and rainy. Yet the days slowly lengthen, and the birds sing more strongly.

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  38. ARS Avatar

    I can assure you that, “in the terms”/context associated with James Lovelock and the late Lynn Margulis, Gaia hasn’t been rendered irrelevant. More personally I find it my word of choice for quickly conveying a whole realm of ecological and spiritual meaning that holds a more neutral charge than most classical or theocratic language.

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  39. grace Forrest Avatar

    oh, Hey, Acey!!
    how great to know that you keep an eye on me from afar…
    love,

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