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This is the month. Nothing forcast less than 97, with some of those over 100 degree days. And how it is. I'd like to watch this more closely than i have. Watch how the Use of the Day differs now. How early Morning becomes so critical. I'd like to watch more closely how the Goats work it. This might become important to know. The Goats had company today. Alz B's daughter came. From Seattle. She set up in their rain shelter, just sitting in there, as it was the only real shade at that hour and they came and went from her. She was happy as a clam in that poopy straw place (dry poop) but it inspired me to continue looking for someone around who might really like being with them. So…soon, i'll put up another flyer at the grocery store. I KNOW there's someone. And Bill offered some good ideas about resurrecting the Salon.  They had enjoyed rubbing against it and it had collapsed.   So,  i'll try again soon.

 

and i began the morning going back to Joan at CopperCreekers blog to listen more to Rising Appalachia  Sunu and got all energized by that AGAIN,  and remembering how in my other lives i used to Decorate myself and got as far as 

 

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this.  Two little braids of the hair that is so ALMOST long enough to be captured in the barrette but not quite but also doesn't seem to want to…. so i braided them.   But then ran quickly out of interest.  It was nice in the moment tho.

 

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and some more birds.   Maybe enough birds.  

Finished The Soil Will Save Us and yes,  i do have HOPE.   It is an excellent book and the last half is a clear and great picture of how more and more dyed in the wool Agriculturists are looking at these practices with Interest.  All around the Planet.  Some for altruistic reasons,  but many others, because it WORKS.   So,  it looks to me like a Win Win and might at the very least Buy some time.

and maybe the best of reading it is that there is a whole  new and renewed sense of what i am doing Out There as being more than what meets the eye.  Photosynthesis.  Photosynthesis.  Even the "weeds".  I look at how GREEN the "dread" Kochia is.  Photosynthesis.  Healing disturbed earth.  That's what weeds are for.  Healing.  Many new and very good thoughts.

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15 responses to “Heat”

  1. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Love the birds, the braids (you look surprised), and your hopes for our earth. I join in with those.

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  2. grace Avatar
    grace

    the Look…it’s just familial. it’s my Dad’s face.

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    back again to share this–Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver:
    Hello, sun in my face.
    Hello, you who make the morning
    and spread it over the fields
    and into the faces of the tulips
    and the nodding morning glories,
    and into the windows of, even, the
    miserable and crotchety–
    best preacher that ever was,
    dear star, that just happens
    to be where you are in the universe
    to keep us from ever-darkness,
    to ease us with warm touching,
    to hold us in the great hands of light–
    good morning, good morning, good morning.
    Watch, now, how I start the day
    in happiness, in kindness.
    So Goodnight Grace

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  4. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    My day begins with a bit of movement, unloosening, doing a daily blessing ritual but my ritual will change now that I have had a chance to listen to the music of Rising Appalachia’s Sunu. grace and Joan, especially, thank you for providing this wonderful music. It has enveloped me.
    First, I watched the video but found that I couldn’t sit, had to stand and dance. I love to dance and do so at any given moment. Played the music a second time but this time, with eyes closed so I could let the music creep into my joints, muscles, sinews, heart, brain, soul,letting it enter deep inside of me and I danced around the room, hips keeping time to that most ancient of rhythms.
    Sheer, unadulterated JOY!! I will wait for the sun to come up because I want to go outside in the back yard and dance again to welcome this day, in the fresh air, among our plant people, the few that are left from the the grasshoppers who along with the ground squirrels are our present companions ! I will probably startle the birds and lizards with my dancing …was going to bring my laptop and plug it in outside but what I think I will do is to just go out and dance because the music is now in my bloodstream and I can hear it from deep within.

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  5. grace Avatar
    grace

    i just watched/listened again. and again, the thought that
    maybe this is a Photosynthetic Response of human beings, to
    make Sound, to make Dance.
    the Video makes me remember a time when i was very interested
    in performance art…and to me, this is perfect in many ways…
    but what i love most is that although it Moves as a Whole, each
    being is completely involved in their own particular expression
    of the Whole. How there is flow, a symbiotic sense, but so
    individually expressed. I could watch ALL DAY and really, ALL NIGHT
    too

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  6. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    if you go to youtube you’ll find a whole library full of rising appalachia–plus this http://www.risingappalachia.com/video
    and ooooooo that heat–i’m glad you’re planning early morning/evening work. got heat stroke one time building a goat shed in the middle of the day on July 4. no fun.

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  7. grace Avatar
    grace

    we share the same mind this morning again…i was just
    there…Scale Down…just there probably watching as
    you were watching….our eyes and mind in the same place
    in that moment
    right now, it’s just beyond Perfection OutSide, full of
    birdsong, soft gentle breeze, cool and and and…for
    maybe two more hours.

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  8. Joan@CopperCreekers Avatar
    Joan@CopperCreekers

    it makes me soooo happy that this music is making a home in new hearts.
    Sunu seeps into the soul and makes us dance with joy and life.
    Rising Appalachia has other videos on YouTube. the music is magic.
    ♥

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  9. Joan@CopperCreekers Avatar
    Joan@CopperCreekers

    YES!!! Sunu video has so many things to hear, see and involve the mind, body and soul.
    each person adding their part separate but combined to make the whole.
    ♥

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  10. Joan@CopperCreekers Avatar
    Joan@CopperCreekers

    Leah and Chloe and their group are talented in so many levels.
    ♥

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  11. Joan@CopperCreekers Avatar
    Joan@CopperCreekers

    Grace, you share so much with so many of us each time we visit. i’m happy that something i shared brought you memories and enjoyment.
    i didn’t realize so many would be touched.
    those birds in different pinpoints of color, the grasses, soil people with the soul grounded and expanding to the sky is so entwined. i keep coming back to look.
    ♥

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    Joan, i think that’s it. things we might not think are maybe much,
    can be such powerful energizers in so many ways. The Music, yes,
    the VIDEO, for me, YES! but also these young women, their
    brilliant mind/hearts…they so much Feed me and as we see, all of
    us. It’s of great meaning.
    So…
    and i have sent in a help ticket to typepad to see if they can
    tell me how to post the UTube on the side bar here.
    just to you, Thank you beyond Thank you and love,

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  13. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    And those of us who make the “whole” when we come here will also have individual reactions to the music to how we let it enter into us, to how we move to it yet the underlay is the joy that we each experience and manifest through our own unique movements…reminds me of the chant,drumming, trance music of the late Gabrielle Roth who said, “sweat your prayers.”

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    i am SOOOOO glad you remembered those words for
    me in this moment
    as i work to finish work here before Going to work…
    “sweat your prayers”…o, and eee, i’d forgotten.
    How good it is to remember just exactly now in this moment

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  15. deb Avatar
    deb

    its getting hot here soon..do you ever take the cloth and stitching outside when the light is so good before the heat comes up? It all looks very different outdoors.

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