He's worn to a frazzle.  His feet hurt,  his knees are giving out,  it took him 2 hours to shave his head,  sitting down,  on his walker seat.   His nose is running like a faucet,  his mind  is full of screaming meme s (don't know how to spell that),  he wonders why he did anything and everything he ever did.

so,  we worked on the thousands of movies he has pirated from his  TV movie network thing,  seperating them, bagging them up to get rid of.  They are all in the back of my car right now.  i told him i'd think of something to do with them.  But i laughed a lot and that saved the day.  When i laugh, he feels like stuff's ok.  When i'm silent,  a lot of the time,  he gets worried.   and so. 

 

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the Walnut pot.  mouldy and stinky,  but still potent.   It went Out Side today.

 

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building a shelter for a soul

 

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Altar is Working

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18 responses to “Big day at the Old Cowboy’s”

  1. grace Avatar
  2. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    I’m touched. Sometimes I think thank god for the ones who make us feel it’s okay. I’m glad the old CB had you today. A wonderful set of colors and a fine alter. More comforting to see than you can know (you know.)

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  3. Cynthia Avatar
    Cynthia

    building a shelter for a soul words that will stay with me today..isn’t it strange the way sometimes doing that just flows within you and some days it is lie moving boulders

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  4. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    The tumbling, soft colored cloths, essence of a New Mexico sanctuario sends protection and at the same time, openness…I’m not explaining this well but when I look at the cloths, just as they are, a sense of enfolding and expansiveness comes, all at the same time, as if the land hugs but the sky releases…

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  5. jude Avatar

    the colors of old bleached rock. softened.

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  6. patricia Avatar

    he is lucky to have you walking this part of the road with him. and i too love the colors here. soul shelter–such a concept.

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  7. jennann Avatar
    jennann

    Yes – building a shelter for the soul – i need to remember this today (and the next and the next).

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  8. grace Avatar

    it’s what we do. find ways to be OK.

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  9. grace Avatar

    yes. like moving boulders sometimes.

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  10. grace Avatar

    it’s how it is here. the land/sky teaches this, just as
    you say…hugging/holding…releasing…

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  11. grace Avatar

    time softens. changes. Gives

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  12. grace Avatar

    he is A Piece of Work as my loved friend Marjorie Burke
    Price used to say.
    He is a piece of work. and i guess, really, i am too.
    So we go. Him/me trying.

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  13. Valerianna Avatar

    Laughing is such good medicine…

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  14. Tracy Leppold Avatar
    Tracy Leppold

    Who is the photo of, the man on your altar? Not the Dalai Lama. Nice face.
    I love the goats checking out the empty laundry basket. Anything in there for me? They’re so cute.

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  15. KAMFreeman Avatar

    such beauty in these cloths..the stories they tell just as cloth. The pot with walnuts waiting, ready to share their essence with cloth and thread…so much, the bounty overflows with delight..nurturing the soul.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    it is. and i am not one for uhhhh, laughing out loud.
    there is a lot of internal laughing, so when it gets
    Out of me, i am always kind of surprised by it but
    am so happy about the sound and feel of it

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
    i wish i could have studied with him

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    that walnut pot…there are two and they are Never Ending….

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