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THIS.     oh,  This.     i have said, off and on,  that i live by Signs.   this is true. ,  when there Are signs.   There will be times when there are not.   and so,  i just go.  wait.    but then…sometimes, something like this.   I've had this book for a while.  but when i was writing about wanting a Teacher,  and then it went on,  to finding the photograph of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and clearing the altar,  setting him there,  remembering my Intention,  remembering getting Waylayed by my own design,  and in the midst of all this,  needing to find this book.  Needing to find this particular painting.  

So today i googled more,  Jane Bregoli,  and found facesofNB.com,  an Artists listing,  and at the end of her modest blurb,  "for more information" and a phone number.

i called it.  She answered.

She answered.  Her.  Jane Bregoli.  and i had the most so GREAT conversation with her.  She is retiring from teaching Art in the public schools.  She is participating in a summer program at the Dartmouth Public Library about the book.  they will make

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with her retirement,  she hopes to make more children's books.

and,   ,   ,   ,  she will contact the person who makes prints for her.  She will find out about a print of the above painting.    

the original is privately owned and is…..Four feet by 8 feet in size.  Can you imagine?  Can you imagine the Beingness of this ?   

so…i am so so happy.  so happy that i am not shy about finding what i need to find.  happy because she is just a Very Fine Woman that was a joy to talk to.  happy because i might really have a print of this and what it might mean to me over my long haul here with Goats….to have as Teacher a Goat Lady Supreme,  her best goat Anna.  

 

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and Marti and her family came and the kids were great and the Goats were great but i loved this pic best of the children's dad being King of the Stump  with  little daughter looking up…..

 

and then,  after all that,  it was all quiet again 

 

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and i just looked at cloth.  thinking i was looking for how to just go with the Cloth and String Loom cloth,  but as it went on,  i saw that there is a second cloth there too.   one with that worn  tomato plant tie.  and this was such a great thing to find out.  

 

 

 

 

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26 responses to “Good~ness in so many ways”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    I love the quickening of Spring the Equinox is stirring in this post!

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  2. grace Avatar

    yes. Quickening. i love that word and it always takes me back
    to the baby quickening in the womb. that moment around 4 months
    when there is that flicker. flicker. then…yes!, it is
    Quickening. the Life….as yet unseeable, but Felt

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  3. jude Avatar

    wow grace, she answered.

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  4. julie Avatar
    julie

    well, she is just a person, after all, and how great that you could just go right to her personhood.Its kind of like getting comments on one;s blog, knowing you touched…imagining how she felt, knowing she touched down in New Mexico.
    Did anyone get the reward for finding the mother of pearl buttons that the Wind swallowed?

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  5. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    she did.
    she did.
    i write this after commenting on Spirit Cloth, while still
    listening to Zoe Keating…
    Jude…she answered the telephone and i said Hi….uh, this
    is grace in New Mexico.
    i was startled. i was not at all expecting a PERSOn, let along HER. but…well, ta da.
    and she is like so softly elegantly wonderful. a Woman.
    and we talked about the painting of her children sitting
    at Noele’s table and the jars on the table, the Nescafe
    THIS WORLD CAN BE SO INCREDIBLY FINE THAT IT MIGHT BREAK ALL OUR HEARTS IN TWO…but then…that would mean
    twice as many hearts, yes??????????????????????????
    she answered.
    she is a woman who wants to write books for Children about REAL stuff.
    the Finest of the Fine.
    i gave her your name, gave her Spirit Cloth, and now
    Zoe Keating is
    Quickening in her musiclanguage
    it CAN
    it CAN
    be so very very Good…we need to Water the Goodness….

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  6. grace Avatar

    the music. it’s still going….and it still IS.
    and i went out and brushed them, them Goats….bringing in
    all that Undercoat to put NEXT to the basket because the
    basket is
    full
    and Zoe Keating still makes her
    Sound
    we make our sounds. calling
    out…………..

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  7. grace Avatar

    i need to send you Zoe Keatings music.
    i will.

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  8. judykeathley@cox.net Avatar
    judykeathley@cox.net

    oh yes how we need to water the goodness —
    & HOW much goodness there is here to water..
    i LOVE this story
    love love love
    & i love your rags
    i think it was einstein who said that thing about we can live our lives as if nothing is a miracle or as if everything is a miracle–
    so MANY miracles here
    thanks for letting us in.

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  9. grace Avatar

    we do.
    we Cry
    we Cry out
    about this world
    and when
    Incredible Goodness
    appears
    we
    skip
    skip
    over
    we do not lay down in front of it and say
    Thank You

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  10. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Everything IS.
    Ain’t it grand. A miracle per millisecond, and billions of hearts breaking to make more.

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  11. patricia Avatar

    again….you’ve done it again

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  12. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    yes

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  13. Cynthia Avatar
    Cynthia

    oh to throw something out into the universe… a wish, a hope made concrete and to have it answered…and so joyously answered..what a perfect way to enter this day…and grace..new goats at breezy meadows…and more to come..the balance shifting..slowly but it is ..and so full of life..happy day to you..

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  14. grace Avatar

    typepad must be throwing my comments in the trash…
    to repeat what was disappeared,
    i think it surprised us both….our personhoodness….
    and we never got to the button hunt…it was a very short
    visit really and the Goats were IT…

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  15. beth Avatar

    I am astounded. 4′ x 8′ and king of the stump. A phone connection out of the blue.

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  16. KAMFreeman Avatar

    oh Grace…the faith extended in your call…the hearing of the voice, the listening and learning and sharing…what a most amazing and magical fulfillment to the love you have had for the image….and that now there is more story..is it not story that is everything? and the hope and potential for a print to be in your home…so much richness…reaching, expanding, sharing, growing, learning, touching being…just begin…that is how your daily posts bring you to my life..
    The photo of dad and child, wonderfully captured magic and delight which asks me to just sit and take in the blessed energy that is in that…most wonderful….and you have the memories of the visit to add story to your image…another just being gift from your friend Marti as she share her family with you..much blessing…thanks for this great post.

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  17. handstories Avatar

    oh, grace, I love how you just DO things. This is all just great.

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  18. grace Avatar

    yes. it’s horrible and GRAND.

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  19. grace Avatar

    my fingertip to your forehead….

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  20. grace Avatar

    just doing
    Why NOT?

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  21. grace Avatar

    YES…i see the little boys of Breezy Meadows….
    Many times a day i send vibes of Just Going…to you
    and to ALL there. Such an endeavor and such adversity
    with the continuing of the Weather…
    how things will be weighed and Re~Viewed by them…knowing that sometimes things like this will happen. i wish i
    could just appear there and listen in on it all. would
    learn so much…
    again, i think of you all the time,
    Love,

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  22. grace Avatar

    i would just love to see it once…
    the four feet by eight feet
    how totally an act of Love, to paint it….
    she, Jean, the writer/artist is just so fine. Everyone
    here would love her
    and that Dad…yes. for that one moment he was like his kids.

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  23. grace Avatar

    i’d really like the print…for my own purposes now, but
    also i would like to give it to Daughter down the road.
    so i’m hoping it can happen.
    and yes…Marti and her family. again. who’dve guesses.
    as Alz B. calls them…”your faceless people”… so many
    years we were words typed just like this. and then
    yesterday, her kids were here. and i already knew them.
    already knew them.

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  24. grace Avatar

    as i said somewhere above….
    Why Not?
    Why Not Try?….you never know. and it was way MORE
    than i’d hoped.

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