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SO.   This morning  i   "got somewhere".   O hallelujah!  

The last time i had to "work" so hard was around 30 some years ago when i Understood that i needed,  like NEEDED to learn to meditate.   

This last period of time felt as urgent,  as Necessary,  but i had no clue really about which direction.  Patricia,  followingthread.wordpress.com  asked me some questions in an email yesterday.  Things she wondered about what i'd been saying here about Sorrow…to clarify  where i was coming from.  For this,  i am grateful.    In thinking about the questions and in trying to answer them,  i  pushed self this morning to  Keep Going.   And where i got to is GOOD.  this is in part the response email and i'm just putting it here because it's enough for now.   Goats are stirring and  i'll need to go out.  From the email reply:

This morning your words pushed me to read more.  I didn't want to.  Was feeling like i just want to do nothing for a while.  But your words caused me to formulate a thought….that what we are experiencing has exceeded the limitations of the Personal and opened into the vast space of the Collective and that word,  Collective…in the Jungian sense ….was the key to where i DID get to just now.  I think we are willing to look at what we have no way to SEE,  as in understand,  what we might be peering at.  Because it is NEW.  Just NEW.  We are acting on a FeltSense that something is being asked of us but we don't know what it is or how to explain it to ourselves.  It's evolution.  Remember in Eckhart Tolle's book he oh so bluntly says Evolve or Die?  Well, i think there is a Collective Awareness that that statement is not just an intellectual/spiritual one, but an Evolutionary Reality.  We are Evolving.  Whether we like it or not.  Whether we have any clue about how it might feel.  What the result might be.   For us personally, but in that as part of Humanity as a whole.   So i thank you for helping me get somewhere with it all this morning.  i feel now like i have a direction…at least for Time Being…and that's all there is, Right?, Time Being?

 

So  i wanted to get this down here.   Because i feel like i'm on a roll.  I feel like i am rolling forward through to the other side of Sorrow…at least for the Time Being.  And here are my Teachers, my Touchstones for this part of the trip.

 

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photosynthesis

 

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Sky Beetle

 

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my son's daughter,  Giana Lily Alluvial Fan

 

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Goats

 

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the work of Mary Evelyn Tucker

 

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the work of Kristin Ohlson

 

The new thought of COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS

 

These things.  Good Enought for Time Being.  and eeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEE.  what a Relief!

 

 

 

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  1. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    “….Eckhart Tolle’s book he oh so bluntly says Evolve or Die? Well, i think there is a Collective Awareness that that statement is not just an intellectual/spiritual one, but an Evolutionary Reality. We are Evolving. Whether we like it or not.” POTENT!
    YOUR TEACHERS–POTENT!
    I wish I were relieved. Not yet, but the words and images here tell me I will be when the time is right.
    Thank you.
    All of you.

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  2. Minka Avatar
    Minka

    So glad you clarifies this. I had assumed something…which was obviously way off base. Sounds like you not only have sorrow but ideas for turning this around…and in god company.

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  3. Minka Avatar
    Minka

    So glad you clarified this. I had assumed something…which was obviously way off base. Sounds like you not only have sorrow but ideas for turning this around…and in good company.

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  4. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i just needed to find a direction that felt true.
    The writing of Mary Evelyn Tucker is it. I hadn’t gotten
    that far in the book till this morning, had set it aside
    in my Preoccupation.
    and in her Essay she talks about the American Museum of
    Natural History in NEW YORK…two permanent exhibits…
    the Rose Center which houses the Hall of the Universe and
    the Hall of the Earth. The second exhibit is the Hall of
    Biodiversity.
    Can you GO there????? See it FOR me???????

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  5. beth Avatar
    beth

    {Grace} I am having a very hard time with words right now. I wanted you to know I am here. And very grateful for your words. All of them.

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    my guess of what you assumed is that i was feeling like
    it is all beyond that tipping point. and if so, you
    were NOT way off base. When i first was FACING new
    information, i had to accept that it is a possibility.
    I Still accept that it is a possibility, but i also
    CHOOSE to look for everything i can to understand how
    to go from here. and i love the return in my thinking
    of the COLLECTIVE…meaning the collective energy of
    All of Humankind. All of Us. and tho it’s all new
    thinking this morning, what i CHOOSE this morning to add as my tiny drop into this Collective Sea is really no
    different than ever…Love of Planet…it’s stunning and
    amazing Flaring Beauty…but now to love even Harder, with more knowledge and conscious awareness of where we
    Are in that time line of Evolution. it’s just begun,
    so i have nothing really constructive to say…but i’m
    trying.

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Beth..i know you are here. as i said to Minka above,
    i am trying. trying hard to Get Real with it all and
    in a way that is straight on. eyes/heart wide open.
    Love…

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  8. beth Avatar
    beth

    It is important to me that you know you do not have to temper words for me. There will be days of looking at sorrow. There will be days of huge love. There will be days of great hope/hopelessness. Sometimes I have to sit with things a long time. It’s almost like words are a second language for me. But it helps me very much to hear what you and the you-me-us are thinking. And the abiding love here. Maybe namaste says it best.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    the abiding love, the you~me~us.
    at the very beginning of The Soil Will Save Us is a quote:
    “Even the broken letters of the heart
    ….spell earth”
    Daniel Thompson

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  10. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Touchstones, teachers. For some reason since coming here to New Mexico, my link to my late Dad is so strong. He was my first teacher re the land, putting into my DNA, a root chromosome that has held through all of these years, that has caused me to NEED to have some dirt to grow, to hold, to sit on, to teach my children, to teach their children, my dear grandchildren so in a sense then, this becomes generational evolution, this handing down of respect for the land, for the planet…
    Oftentimes children of immigrants, especially if they are first generation as I am, want to move beyond, away from heritage and at times, so did I. The one thing that always held was to grow something that I could eat, even if that meant, a single little potted oregano plant on the window sill of my first apartment when I was in college, a basement apartment that barely got any sunlight. My father always said if you know how to plant, you will never go hungry but you have to first and foremost respect the land, treat it as family, nourish it and it will nourish you and it is very important to share with others what you grow, what you know so I was enveloped in a connective as well as a collective environment, growing up in this way.
    There are times that I do get down, and Beth, I do understand that feeling when words do not come. I feel that I do so little where the fate of this Earth that we call home is concerned but then I think, it starts with an awareness that grows from family to neighbors, to community. Our rental home is kind of up on a ridge so there is a sandy walking trail right behind the short brick wall. As people walk on the trail, they can look into many backyards. I take that trail a lot and have found that so far, in the stretch that I go, we seem to be the only ones with a garden. Our two neighbors on either side know that we garden and we have offered to share what we grow when it comes and they are thrilled. My wish is that one day I will be out in our garden, someone will be walking on the trail, I will shout out hello, they will stop, look and maybe, ask what I am doing and I will tell them. May not seem like a heck of a lot but you know, it could be…
    AND this is what I love so much about windthread and the community that gathers here: I never know what will trigger some of what I call “marrow” thinking but I know that something usually will and the sharing, awareness and knowledge that I receive, is the best bounty of all so thank you grace, and thank all of you who come here.

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  11. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    i just posted on my blog–said i was tired of the limitations of my own words–but i revel in the words here. all of them. everyone’s.

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  12. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    oh yes…
    namaste
    (((Grace)))

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  13. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    grace, I would say “love deeper and longer.” and yes, evolving together.

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  14. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    *****grace asked me to share this here:********
    Last night while watching news, a promo came on for the CBS program Sunday Morning. Used to have Charles Kuralt as the host, he did the On the Road series for CBS. For many years now, the show has been hosted by Charles Osgood. What caught my ear was the fact that today’s’ show was based in Santa Fe, NM. And then this:
    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-cave-digger-hewing-art-from-the-very-landscape/
    Here is the website for Ra Paulette.
    http://www.racavedigger.com/racavedigger.com/Ra_Paulette_Home.html
    If you go to it, read the section titled, The Present: He writes,
    ” In the analogy of art being one of the colors on the social artist’s palette, the canvas would be society itself, its social conditions in a particular location. In using the aesthetic to address societal suffering, social art is not content with merely decorating the world; its intent is to change it.
    Changing the world is a tall order. Art doesn’t attempt to force change through direct action but to catalyze it by affecting the emotional basis from which change can occur. Begging the question, “How can we change what we do before we change how we feel?” Its underlying premise is that when through wonder and the sense of beauty we move from the emotional realm of our desires and fears to the more expansive and deeper feelings of thanksgiving and appreciation of life with a sense of its sacredness, our actions will automatically be modified, creating a better world – ‘like magic’.
    This is the magic of art, music, theatre, and of the beauty of the natural world. We need for that magic to play a more direct role in our lives.”

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  15. Martine Avatar
    Martine

    Love……….

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  16. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Hey there—well, WHAT A GOOD IDEA! I’m kinda broke but I’ll call this week and find out when their pay what you will time is. I love a project. I’ll bring camera and sketchbook. Just what I need to divert me from dark thoughts. Okay.

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  17. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    So, about ‘changing the world’
    You already have..it includes us for one.
    Pete Seeger “Think Globally–Act Locally”
    You do, with every step you take, every stitch you take, every time you bake or wash or dye, or geed a beast, or smile, or share photographs, or touch the old ones, or pray. You do…you have…in every way. Just keep on keeping on, I think…through the rain and the storm and the light and dark…just keep going on. Stop often, empty and rest….”The River knows. There is no hurry. We will get there eventually” Pooh Bear

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  18. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Feed–sorry using the bad eye.

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  19. grace Avatar
    grace

    you have PayPal???? if so, just find out what the fee is
    and tell me. This is an Important Mission.
    i can send directly to your email whatever it is to
    see this…also bus or whatever fare to get there?
    TELL ME…important….

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  20. grace Avatar
    grace

    this is it. and really, the Beauty of it. That we all
    come from different Places, we all have varied experience
    now, but we can all share some heartfelt focus for the
    Planet, each however we can.
    and i am KNOWING that the moment you describe above will
    happen…the What Are You Doing moment and i get a big
    grin thinking about that…

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  21. grace Avatar
    grace

    well, i reveled in your so good words this Morning and
    they were the key. take a tiny rest, then Just Go.

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  22. grace Avatar
    grace

    Thank you Marti
    and yes, the commercial ads are well, distracting to say
    the least, but i don’t have TV so even THEY were interesting to me and then juxtaposed with the content of the video
    of the man and his WORK…isn’t that just what we’re
    talking about?, or, i am….
    how we keep opening our mouths like little birds and
    the mainstream can’t help but feed us Stuff whether or not
    it is good or toxic?
    i am imagining him, not all that far away from here,
    working. his dog, at the entrance, looking Out

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  23. grace Avatar
    grace

    oh, Love back around TO u

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  24. grace Avatar
    grace

    again, i am very good at Context. never worry which eye
    you are using.
    LOVE to you….

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  25. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    Evolution, that feels very right to me. I am also thinking about how we shape that evolution, the role we play. I have a request in for the Soil will Save Us from the library and will pick up Spiritual Ecology from the bookstore when I get a chance.
    Spent the day in the garden. The raspberries are full of honey bees and when I dig I find worms hard at work. Talked to one of my neighbors for the first time today. She had noticed that I had chickens and wanted to know if I’d be interested in any of their greens that were a little past appetizing looking. Gives me hope…

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  26. grace Avatar
    grace

    this is a love letter to me….your bees
    worms
    and talking to your neighbor for the first time….
    this is HUGE. really very very GRAND. YES.
    GRAND.
    THANK YOU for passing this hope along…

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  27. grace Avatar
    grace

    the thought of being an evolving species…human beings…
    i love this. it explains it all.
    we are evolving…like worms, like starfish………

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    ²

    Marti yes , thank you too

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  29. Cynthia Avatar
    Cynthia

    …sometimes it seems so silly..the small things that fill me with delight..that my husband and i sat and marveled at the ra paulette piece and spoke of grace and then hours later i opened this post and found that you had been there…that you too were struck by the vision of him at the end with his dog…we had sat here and imagined water flowing into the pool he described in this last huge work..and tried to imagine the scent of water in that particular space…
    every thing seems very intense, saturated here this past week..i read of sorrow here on huge levels and personal levels..and in my real world we have been dealing with large illness and a particularly bad death of a pregnant goat and her unborn doeling and while i know this is a part of the whole circle of everything..it hurt..and the pieces of that evening are still haunting me…driving up the mountain..it is almost a mile of a very unpaved and rocky road and when you are almost at the top there are the rice paddies, visible down the hill..it was sunset and they were all reflecting the purple blue pink of the sky..after days of gray and rain it was unbelievably beautiful and peaceful…there are seven of them and so they make a series of giant steps down the back of the mountain…and then although it was so very cold…the peepers were out surrounding us with sound as we sat in the dirt with lucy and it was so very unreal and horrible real all at once….
    and there was the scent of spring, it was..verdant and alive and deep and old…the paddies spill down one side of the mountain..and above us is a spring fed pond…where a whole different set of frog voices will begin soon..and it is as far away and different from the new mexico spaces we watched yesterday could be…and yet the feeling of …well earth..of gaia seemed so strong to me in both spaces…crazy when one was being watched on television..and the other was, temporarily, the site of heartbreak and loss…but life was so there in each place..in the stillness that you could imagine in the sandstone caves..in the amazing circle of quiet adult goats who totally surrounded meadow as she sat with her dying goat..they just stood and watched, occasionally walking over to nuzzle her hair..the new kids stood with their mothers…and then would bolt down the rocks to play and then would return and stand in this intense silence ..
    i don’t know ..the two events have joined in my head and i had no place to put them ..so i put them here…it is so much ..all the changes in my world ..immense and gentle day to you grace and many thank yous…

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  30. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Saturated. sometimes it’s just how it is. Saturated.
    the perfect word
    and Cynthia
    reading your saturation gives me Strength. Meadow’s doe,
    how she just couldn’t. How it wasn’t meant to be.
    How so much i need to feel and accept these things, as
    anyone and everyone does who lives a Raw Life. we have
    come so far away from that for the most part, estranged.
    I need and Receive word from Breezy Meadows. and soon…
    soon you will be writing about the MAGIC of those rice
    paddies………in the blink of an eye
    how it all is
    in a blink of an eye
    and how you and your man see TV and it’s the same as
    Marti did who sent it on to me, who has no TV and we
    Marvel, and feel connected, it brings us Close

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