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where there was two trucks and a car,  now space.  and it somehow looks so much larger than ever before.  Chinche was/is sad with Owen's leaving.   

and over at Sprit Cloth,  Jude said today:

" A storyteller can keep a good idea alive.  Encourage its becoming".  

And this is just exactly it.   Am still in re-play mode with my VISIT.   tomorrow when i can be home all day,  it might settle .  but it might take longer, too.  it was a LOT.   But i read Jude's words and thought, Yes.  Yes.   And i thought..yes.  We  told eachother stories.  Owen, Rory, Zarina and me.  We told stories of our lives.  that's how we told Who and What we are,  by telling stories.  it was the form of the Exchange.   and by doing this,  i am now a part of their stories as they are a part of mine.  As we all go On,  we will tell this WeavingIn too,  how it was.   

and the stories are so beautifully what they are.  When Owen was packing and repacking his belongings in his truck,  which included two large tubs of Stuff he realized he no longer wanted,  among it all was a fan.  the fan kept making me smile as it went into the truck and out.  back in.  this morning as he was ready to go out of the gate,  i said…so….what's the deal with that fan?  and he said he really didn't know.  Did i want it?  and i said no,  but then remembered, and asked if it was an oscillating fan and if that function worked.  Yes it was and yes it worked.  so i said…ok.  mine doesn't oscillate anymore and i miss the sound.   So he handed it to me and looked directly in my face and said, " Think of me every time you hear the sound."   and i am thinking about that thread of the Story right now,  as Sun heads for the Rim.  How i will forevermore think of Owen when the fan sings it's movement right to left.  It's woven in.  It's part of my story now,  that Giving.  Part of his.  How he brought along a fan just because and gave it to an old Goat woman who fed him spagetti.

Nice, huh.

 

 

 

 

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39 responses to “361 home alone.”

  1. Sharon Tomlinson Avatar

    Yep, pretty nice. It warms my heart. Stories.

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  2. julie Avatar
    julie

    This is Julie being SOOO jealous. Of you, of them.
    Then I look at the pic of them shlepping their stuff in and out of plastic containers in the back of two trucks and a car and I get over it. Mostly.

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  3. grace Avatar

    Sharon…yes. my heart is very Warm.
    there’s so much more to say about it. about both hope and faith.
    hope…i don’t much spend time with, faith i am looking at.
    and if only the stories last…then…that will be really Something.
    they are SUCH fine, Fine, young people. they give me that Willingness for Faith, no matter the Outcome. they are just
    Beyond Fine.

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  4. grace Avatar

    well, Julie girl, you go ahead and BE SOOOOO jealous. there is good reason for that. the Exchange was a Once In A Lifetime one. i feel really amazed by it. Part of it is who they are, Part of it is me and ALL OF IT is that something really very FINE was able to MESH together in a very singular moment. I feel that i am probably on the Good side of it all, but also won’t minimize my own energy to it because i truly saw them for WHO THEY ARE and was able to say that.
    So we knew who and what we are. and i think it Matters.
    and this gives me
    Faith.

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  5. jude Avatar

    yes nice. no. more than nice. goat woman.

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  6. grace Avatar

    yes. WAY more than nice. their SCENT remains tonight.
    the SCENT of young natural Beings. Like wild animals.

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  7. Deb G Avatar

    And now I know the story too of the young man who gave away a fan and thought to say, “think of me every time you hear the sound.” A very wonderful gift and story.

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  8. grace Avatar

    YES and now it’s your story. oh, o, eeeeee, i love this.
    YES. the story thread wanders afar. and i’ll add…yes,
    their Scent is here and how they put foxes in the old Goat
    Womans freezer. a freezer of foxes. and how the youngest and the Old Goat woman watched KunDun almost by accident on a tiny lit screen late into a night. and said…This is a
    True Story. This is Real. and it’s not over yet.

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  9. judykeathley@cox.net Avatar
    judykeathley@cox.net

    couldn’t be much nicer if you ask me.
    i LOVE this story.
    LOVE it.
    i mean REALLY love it.

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  10. peggy Avatar
    peggy

    i sooo love the story of the fan and how you will think of owen every time you hear your fan oscillate. i love the memories we have from the stories we live. it keeps the story going, ours and those in our memories. what a beautiful story you are sharing…

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  11. grace Avatar

    love. such a simple emotion.
    love.
    yes. i love
    it
    too.

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  12. grace Avatar

    it is a shared story, this sharing. it’s Their’s. Mine.
    the Dogs. the Goats. the sticks. every Thing.
    shared. breathed.

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  13. judykeathley@cox.net Avatar
    judykeathley@cox.net

    & it’s also ours –our story —
    those of us who hear it be told–
    i feel an opening in my own heart —
    because i know some of this beautiful story.

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  14. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    Well, I got their Mama, so there!

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  15. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    When you get down to it, what is it that we have to give, to leave when we physically are no longer here – Our Stories. It is in the daily give and take and sometimes, the extraordinary bits of our days when new people come in for a time, fill a space with caring and sharing, break bread, share words, name themselves and make their self known to us that leaves an everlasting place in our soul dwelling spot. Days from now, months, a year, we reach into that spot and pull out that special story coming to realize that we were given a very special gift -as in a young man, an oscillating fan, a goat woman with a huge heart and if her spaghetti is anything like her lasagna, Owen will indeed remember…as you do grace of a time when three young people came and let you know that the planet would be in good hands.

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  16. grace Avatar

    yes. it’s Your story now. take it and weave into it

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  17. grace Avatar

    Marti…you say it here, you say it
    how it is.
    perfectly.
    perfectly.
    perfectly.

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  18. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Jeez this is a tear jerk of a tale. I’m grateful. Tears of sheer pleasure here. What a fine story, palpable in tit’s details (the scent of them, and mysterious too (foxes in the freezer?) and how sweet it is to know there are truly good young’uns out there carrying the banner of goodness on into the future.

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  19. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Jeez…not tits (ha) It’s

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  20. judykeathley@cox.net Avatar
    judykeathley@cox.net

    i am so incredibly grateful to be here in this moment.
    & maybe at another time i will reach into that spot that so moves me on this nite
    & pull out this special story
    & remember
    the special stories that happen all around me
    that i often forget to see
    every
    single
    day

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  21. ² Avatar
    ²

    a story full of beauty
    of humanity
    it’s makes the world go a round
    lift us up
    brings us together
    give future
    is love
    real love
    thanks to the love

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  22. Mo Crow Avatar

    oh that’s such a fine spun tale…
    brought a few tears for the joy and the sharing and the wonder of it all
    thank you for being on the planet (((Grace)))
    Aaaarrrrrkkkk! AAAArrrrrkkkkkk! AAAAAArrrrrrrkkkkkkkk!
    “In the end, we’ll all become stories”
    Margaret Atwood

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  23. suzanna Avatar

    Really REALLY nice.

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  24. Saskia Van Herwaarden Avatar

    the stories, this story; yes I am beginning to truly realise how much the story-telling absolutely matters and the sharing of the stories and so it continues……

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  25. patricia Avatar

    and goat woman. i have to ask about the foxes in the freezer?

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  26. handstories Avatar

    i love this post. once a friend said, “you have so many stories” i told her we all do, we just have to tell them. “the goat woman’s fan” is a lovely tale.

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  27. beth Avatar

    But not an empty space. Tire tracks and a pile of brush that was outside, now inside. A lingering scent, an audible reminder, and a fine memory.

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  28. grace Avatar

    that Mama. she must be really Something.

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  29. grace Avatar

    love that image…”carrying the banner of goodness”…
    yes, oh so yes they ARE.

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  30. grace Avatar

    i think that would be the Best. if some time or another
    this story came to mind and could be “pulled out”.
    there ARE stories all around. yes. but sometimes they
    come like this with such Fierceness of Beauty. i don’t
    expect even one more like this.

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  31. grace Avatar

    “is love. real love”
    and YES…” thanks to the love ” ….so much. so much
    gratitude.

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  32. grace Avatar

    i am in deep Gratitude for All of Our Presence on the
    Planet and the knowing of that…

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  33. grace Avatar

    yeah. REALLY nice. oh, so.

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  34. grace Avatar

    they do. they matter very very much. and YOU are
    a Storyteller

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  35. grace Avatar

    well…i don’t know. Zarina came in late from the
    organization work, the night before they left for the
    mountain camping trip, and in her so soft way…said….
    grace…we were wondering if it would be possible to put
    some foxes in your freezer?
    foxes?????
    but i said…well…see if they can fit. So with a lot
    of rearranging, yes. Foxes in the freezer.
    and when it was done, Rory said thank you very very much and in that instant i thought of Patricia’s deer and thought how SunBear taught that if you take something’s life it MUST be USED. ALL of it. so i said that.
    “If you took it, it cannot be wasted.”
    and he said yes. and again, thank you.
    that’s all i know.

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  36. grace Avatar

    the fan. yes. the fan.

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  37. grace Avatar

    you are right. not empty. i worked out there today, breaking up those branches and really, there is a residual
    image. like a mirage that remains. that Will remain.
    always.

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  38. Nancy Avatar

    Yes to it all, but that touched me too…that he thought to say that to you Grace. That really says something.

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