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who would have guessed.  

Paul has been on the roof for the second day.  so some distraction of that.   but, for some reason that i don't know,  there was a little "Lighten~ing"….of the deep confusion about the Neighbor and the Goat thing.  There was just a small feeling of stubborn~ness.  of Standing Ground.   not loudly or uhhh, full of rightousness,  but just Standing for Them.  Quiet.  maybe even Silently.  just a hint of this.  so far.

and then, late in the day, Marti emailed about a post that had great meaning to her.

it's Beth,  yes, YOU, Beth….   still-life-pond.blogspot.com.    and i went.  and i read.  and though it was not "Good News",  i was RELEASED.   I was RELEASED from feeling ISOLATED.

so if you would,  please go there and read.   if you have the heart, read it all,  all the links.  if you don't have the heart,  then at least read the post…April 22, 2014,  Earth Day.  and then the interview with Joanna Macy.  

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i have written about these before, here, on this blog.  and the circle is circling again.   i would be very happy to send these on their way in a Community Loan.

and then…i needed to go pick up Grass Hay for the Goats.    and i did my FIRST practice run to Bill (Alz. B's son)   of what i thought of, after reading and FEELING Beth's Post.  i  told him about Guy McPherson,  U of Arizona Professor Emeritus of Natural Resources and Ecology.   Who sees  human beings becoming extinct somewhere around 2030,  give or take.   i practiced on Bill.  but i am going to present this information to everyone.  anyone.  everyone i make verbal contact with.  i am going to get it right and just say:  i was reading this.  ………………………the blurb.  and then end it with….What If?   What IF it's true?

and i won't care at all,  as in be detached,  the response of the Listener.   i will just SAY IT.  and that's what i can do,  until i think of something else.  Until the Goats arrived,  i was ready…like in

READY?

to head out for a dam.

and his response?…well, he said….huh.  and asked for the link.  and he said…"you know, grace, there are a lot of opinions"  and i said Yup.  Yup there are.  But…What IF?,  Bill.   and we parted on that note.  Remember, he is a Geologist at New Mex Tech.    and so it goes.

so all this will be on going.   and i want to thank Beth from my deepest Heart, for having Courage.

 

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and here, with this cloth,  this Cloth that speaks so totally to all of the above in an Intuitive and un conscious way..this Cloth…it just Goes.  as it Wants to.  as it has something to say.

 

 

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  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    It was about 6 yrs ago that I became aware of Joanna Macy. She had come up with a definition that I wanted to know more about: she spoke of The Great Turning: “The Great Turning is a name for the essential adventure of our time: the shift from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining civilization.”
    Six years and still we have need of these words, still we need to come together to connect and care for this place we call our home, our precious Earth:
    Joanna listed 5 personal guidelines for this shift: Come from Gratitude, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, Dare to Vision, Roll up Your Sleeves and Act Your Age. Of these five, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark and Roll Up Your Sleeves have struck a deep chord with me.
    By way of thanking grace and Beth and others who have come forth and stood up and cared enough to share with us, I would like to add these words from Joanna Macy:
    Per Joanna Macy:
    “Don’t be Afraid of the Dark”
    This is a dark time, filled with suffering and uncertainty. Like living cells in a larger body, it is natural that we feel the trauma of our world. So don’t be afraid of the anguish you feel, or the anger or fear, for these responses arise from the depth of your caring and the truth of your interconnectedness with all beings. To suffer with is the literal meaning of compassion.
    “Roll up your Sleeves”
    Many people don’t get involved in the Great Turning because there are so many different issues, which seem to compete with each other. Shall I save the whales or help battered children? The truth is that all aspects of the current crisis reflect the same mistake, setting ourselves apart and using others for our gain. So to heal one aspect helps the others to heal as well. Just find what you love to work on and take joy in that. Never try to do it alone. Link up with others; you’ll spark each others’ ideas and sustain each others’ energy..”
    We are not alone, and the continued bravery of those who are willing to write, share, talk via blogs, via emails, via letters, via face to face, serves to unite us for whatever comes. At the very least, open some eyes and raise some thoughts and questions.

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  2. beth Avatar
    beth

    Grace and Marti, thank you both so much for your thoughts and loving support. I first discovered Joanna Macy through her work following the disaster at Chernobyl. Her resilience is amazing. And on the news just tonight. Unprecedented drought in CA, where so much of our food is grown..

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Thrown back to the seventies herein when I first read Joanna Macy, was activist for a decade or more–marches, and encampments and still trying to make a living, sustain my own poor existence. Eventually, I crashed, and that led me to Ananda Ashram upstate for a time as part time resident, and finally to Buddhist teachings. I meditate and keep plugging in now (still concerned with survival). Every encounter over all the communities I participate in is informed by my understanding. When someone seems open, I talk directly about my concerns. They show up in my writing group regularly in what I write. I stay informed about the planet and world politics. I no longer consider myself an activist in the old way. Our current situation is indeed dire. Perhaps more dire than we have time or energy to respond effectively to. I actually think we have passed the turning and are into tipping. I meditate and keep going. We are not alone is true. It always was true at the most essential level. Well, I will go look at the site Grace. Then I will meditate and sleep.
    The newest stitches are so like tanks marks I’ve seen. They elevate wind to a divine dimension. VERY beautiful.

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  4. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    darn my eyes–TANKA–:-)

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  5. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    I came back to deliver Beths site in LINK form
    http://still-life-pond.blogspot.com.
    There is always that http:// for it to turn to a clickable LINK.
    her links
    “We’re Finished, Now What?”: http://dgrnewsservice.org/2014/04/06/4851/
    “Nature Bats Last”, Guy McPherson’s blog: http://guymcpherson.com
    “Spiritual Ecology: the Cry of the Earth”:
    http://spiritualecology.org/publication/spiritual-ecology-cry-earth
    “It Looks Bleak. Big Deal, It Looks Bleak.” an interview with Joanna Macy:
    http://www.ecobuddhism.org/wisdom/interviews/jmacy/
    Good night and tomorrow dear ones.

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  6. ² Avatar
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    thank you all , i’m so agree here
    i do wath i can and be not afraid
    i feel the support of
    thogether work on the same for the same
    wish a lot of courage to us all
    it’s a big chain that create
    and go on

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  7. tracy Avatar
    tracy

    Oh my dears. People have been predicting this forever. Remember the bomb? I grew up thinking we would surely die in a planet wide nuclear holocaust. It hasn’t happened yet, though I suppose it still might. I know we’re in for a bad time, but have some faith that people will go on and on. We’re tough animals and can survive in horrible conditions. Someone will have to survive. What a strange world it will be.
    When it starts getting me down I go read Yeat’s poem Lapis Lazuli. I don’t know how to paste a link from this tablet, but please go read it. It’s hopeful and it’s great poetry too. Hugs to all.

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  8. Micael Kemp Avatar
    Micael Kemp

    I read Beth’s entry yesterday too. And then McPherson page today. I’m feeling kind of shell shocked, and am grateful for the company of others.

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  9. debbie.weaver Avatar
    debbie.weaver

    I haven’t been able to comment on your page for a while, Typepad I guess, anyway I just wanted to say I really love this cloth. The sunflower looking down on the girl, the wind everything about it.
    I haven’t gone over to Beth yet to read but I will.

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  10. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    i’m blown away here this morning. affirmed in some amazing way. HUGE thanks to BETH–http://still-life-pond.blogspot.com –for stepping up. Huge thanks to Grace for nudging it along–i had not seen in–and to Marti and Michelle and everyone else who is showing up here.
    for the past 3 hours i have been pulled from one link to another–Guy Mcpherson, Joanna Massey, Carolyn Baker–and it has been an extraordinary journey — because–
    now i understand BETTER what it is that we can do. how we can be. and i understand that the grief i have resisted for so long just simply needs to be embraced
    this conversation with Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker
    http://guymcpherson.com/2014/04/what-does-it-mean-to-do-something-about-climate-change
    in which she quotes someone who points out that grief “…is necessary to the vitality of the soul, …is infused with life force.”
    that we would be numb and dumb if we didn’t experience this deep grief around the dire conditions of earth life–but that this deep grief is an indicator of our love–and enables us to go deeper into that state of compassion, love and unity with others–with people, with nature, with animals. and through that, although it seems paradoxical, deep joy emerges.
    sorry to take so much space with this reaction–no, not really sorry–but just to say i’ll continue on my blog.
    and Grace, the cloth–it says it all.

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  11. Cynthia Avatar
    Cynthia

    so well said

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    it’s only 8:11 am here and i have been all over the place
    in my thoughts and feelings
    and where i got to, in this moment is
    and this is in it’s most raw form, the thought, but
    when we re incarnate, this next time, we will bring
    with us all that we have learned and seen.
    and this Energizes me to Learn and See

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  13. Beth Avatar
    Beth

    So,WE are here at this moment in time, Earth time, and it’s well we live as if it matters!!!!, regardless if it is or isn’t so.
    This winter I read a book named The Dog Stars by Peter Heller. Excellent, difficult, unusual writing style. The “shit had hit the fan” and Peter Heller strums a disturbing tune of how it might go. It’s a short read and I suggest it strongly as this conversation thread speaks to our human demise. I am alive now and I pledge to live as if that matters. And I welcome the needed reminders as I sometimes do go back to sleep. “Don’t go back to sleep”
    loving life and good cheer,
    Beth (meadows)

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  14. Saskia Van Herwaarden Avatar
    Saskia Van Herwaarden

    Maybe I’m missing something here, but is it okay if I say I don’t mind humans becoming extinct, imagine the space there will be be for all the other species…..

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    if the turning doesn’t turn, Roll up your Sleeves remains
    the same. No matter what, we need to roll up our sleeves.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    there is much to be learned from that resilience

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Wind IS Divine, yes

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    work on the same for the same.
    work on the same for the same.
    yes.
    Love to you, Maria

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i like the words, “tough animals”.

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    the company of others, the ability to VOICE things.
    these to me are the crucial things. to not feel isolated
    in your sense of things, to say things aloud and see
    that some won’t turn their backs.
    No one KNOWS anything for sure. but just to SAY it
    just to feel the saying of it is great Relief to me.
    i have always measured things by No Regrets. i would
    Regret NOT saying the words.

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    this Cloth is more than i had thought, even.
    i’m glad that you see it as i feel it…
    xo

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    and so…we NEED to learn Wind Energy. we NEED to learn
    GROWING. we NEED to learn living in a different way,
    in harmony….for the Well Being of the Whole.
    Breezy Meadows.
    the LEARNING/DOING there will carry through

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    “to live as if it matters”.
    keeping in mind that i am buddhist. i cannot deny the
    sense of re~incarnation. and this is under any circumstance.
    so…most of the day, when i could think through the Radio,
    i tried to entertain possibilities with this in mind.
    what Incarnation might it be? and what works, in THESE
    days, now?????? Toward that Incarnation? Love. DEEP
    LOVE of all that is. Caring for it with every ounce of
    our Being. and i am also thinking a lot about what i need to LEARN. what i can “take with me” when i go.

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    of course it’s ok. For so long, even as a child, i couldn’t
    understand the “purpose” of human beings. as a child,
    i used to wonder…What are we For?
    and your question asks for thought…without us, the
    space for other entities. ??????
    but immediately now, today, my GRIEF is for all that
    we will take down with us. Things i have such Enormous
    love for: frogs, spring peepers, butterlies, Earth worms, and on and on. we will pull them into extinction.
    Penguins. we will pull them into extinction.

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  25. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    So…I think you know. 🙂 Do what we can, one day at a time. If (and I do agree more likely when) the time comes I want to know that I did what I could, that I didn’t stop trying and that I didn’t stop celebrating what is beautiful around us. I will say I’m suspicious of dates.
    I know I’ve shared this before, but want to share it here: Paula Gunn Allen’s poem “Kopis’taya.” Here’s a bit of it: “Even so, the spirit voices are singing, their thoughts are dancing in the dirty air…Let’s ride the midnight, the early dawn. Feel the wind striding through our hair. Let’s dance the dance of feathers, the dance of birds.”

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  26. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    This doesn’t mean there isn’t grief too though…

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  27. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. “did what i could, …didn’t stop trying, didn’t stop
    celebrating” didn’t stop loving.
    i don’t care about suspicious dates. it matter not at all
    to me. but what it did was set a New Resolve into motion
    to speak Aloud. that has value for me. for me. just me.
    i do not speak for anyone else, or imagine i should. for
    me. I need to talk about it. i need to not worry that i am putting people off, or being “depressing”. i need to STAND.
    and
    in me
    yes….like deep, in me…there is that seed of hope. that whatever allowed all this BEAUTY to HAPPEN in the first place over these Thousands of Years of changing and mending, that WhatEver it is that OverSaw the Beauty Full Patterning of that…that there will be Intervention.
    and i Will. i Will “ride the midnight, the early dawn. Feel the wind striding through [my] hair.” i’ll “dance the dance of feathers, the dance of birds” i’ll dance the dance of lizards and Goats and the Plant People. These
    i Love. and i will dance the dance. and i will also
    talk. Voice. Avaaz.

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    ²

    i ll dance with you
    yes let us play and just be grateful

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  29. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    We do need to talk. One of my co-workers said something about some issue (I think it was GMO’s) and said she just hadn’t understood it, didn’t know. We can’t assume that people already know…

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  30. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    I can’t imagine living any other way… there has to be joy and gratitude for something. 🙂

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