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18 responses to “just journal”

  1. yvette Avatar
  2. patricia Avatar

    remember that book–The Family of Man?–ALL of these pictures portray that. love studying them.

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  3. Judith of N. CA Avatar
    Judith of N. CA

    Sweetness…

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  4. grace Avatar
    grace

    that is Lucky Star’s first kidding here…her third
    kid out…that i thought would be the first loss.
    she was barely there. barely able.
    and i went out in the morning prepared to bury her
    and there she was.
    Just going. one weak step after another.
    Just Going…her name
    and today she is a strapping young doe.
    Just is a very vast expanse

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  6. grace Avatar
    grace

    i tried again to comment on Tales…. i can’t get the
    scroll down bar to scroll down. i looked at Nancy’s too…
    same thing, it’s Blogspot blogs….
    have you or anyone heard of this before???? it’s really
    strange…i can use the one for the Posts,
    just not in the comment box
    ????????????????

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  7. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    dont you just love your life to pieces????

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  9. grace Avatar
    grace

    softly, on the forehead

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  10. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. i do remember. yes.
    i love that you make this connection
    do you remember the photograph of a person standing at
    the edge of a cliff, arms outstreatched, upstreached???
    and the words were, maybe a paraphrase now…
    Is this Real?
    Is this Real?
    This Life that i am living?
    that became my mantra

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  11. grace Avatar
    grace

    i do. i almost have too many feelings for this kind of life

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    to Us All……

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  13. patricia Avatar

    i have looked. backward. forward. four times. i had in my mind a singular person. and then i came upon this–four women. two standing. two squatting. draped in cloth. one with hands extended. in the foreground, a village. in the background, perhaps the foothills of the Himalayas? Kashmir. Henri Cartier Bresson. and the caption:
    “to know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty…” a. einstein
    wondering if this is the image?

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  14. Nancy Avatar

    Yes! I still have my mother’s copy and The Family of Children as well.

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  15. Nancy Avatar

    The babes and the light of these photos really grab me and speak to me in lovely soft whispers.
    This is a good life for you Grace.
    I think once again of the book “The Good Earth”.

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    no…but i remember that one too.
    and i realized that i have done this before. the image
    and words that i am thinking of were in some kindred
    publication and i have somehow merged them.
    this has happened maybe 4 times….
    i have never been able to find the one i’m thinking of

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    that first pic…in the blue shirt, my daughter, mother
    of this new mother here for that, i love this pic
    but also for the Midwife in the foreground. She was
    magnificant. this was a Naval Hospital in San Diego.
    Granddaughter in the Navy. when i went i didn’t know
    what to expect….but it was incredible. they let all of
    us stay in the birthing room, my daughter, me, the father,
    my granddaughter’s friend. didn’t blink an eye.
    and this Midwife. she was truly a Gift from the Universe.
    so loving and easy and totally competent. AND when Alyssia delivered the placenta, and i heard her say
    ooooo
    i commented and she held it up…like a pizza dough all
    spread and we, the midwife and i just loved it and she
    gave us all a beautiful “lecture” about the Gloriousness of a placenta. i loved her. i wish i had her name to put here. she was a military senior something*, i can’t think
    of what you call them, but she was up in the ranks. but
    she delivered a baby like she was Ina Gaskin on
    The Farm. *Officer
    it was humbling. All of it.

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