back to the Dog Diaries.   It's all somehow just a single elongated moment that stretched from sometime  Wednesday on……and i have no clear thinking of at what point things happened,  changed.   It 's kind of a blur.   I think i tried to be diligent with the suggestion of the dog trainer  through Wednesday and on into sometime Thursday.   And the level of tension here Rose.   At some point,  i think Thursday, during the night,  when i woke at maybe 2 or 3,  i understood clearly that i could not do that.  couldn't.  it was so out of my own sense of Anything,  that to try would be the biggest dis service to All.   That, coupled with other things made me come to  the point of  needing to return Tay.    So, in the meantime, in the middle of the night i watched Cesar Millan on UTube.  Episode after Episode.  It was interesting because there are a lot of dog sounds in those videos,  but both Tay and Chinche slept.  I watched.   And from whenever it was,  i just was me.  This is such a small home,  Tay and Chinche are not far from me at any given moment.  And OutSide,  i found it easy to distract Tay all the time by my own necessary movements, with the Goats,  the Giving Water.  Just NORMAL everyday things.   It RELAXED.    Everything, Everyone relaxed.   Stuff began to flow.  Today has been a Good day.   A day of attention,  but a day of attention that made sense to everyone.   So…we'll see.   I'll keep trying.  Watching.  Thinking.  With always the openness to the reality that this might not be the place for Tay.   I accept that totally.

 

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Tay sleeps in her crate.   When i let her out of it this morning at day break,  she picked up her "toy" ratty chewed up pink rabbit and went directly to Chinche who slept just feet away on her quilt….

dropped it there and went on with her morning.   This said a lot.  This was something that she should have been corrected for.   So…i watch.  closely.  Trying to see what can happen.

 

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a RAINBOW!   a Morning Rainbow…with no Rain…and to the West Rim!!!!!!   I have never seen this before.

 

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took it off the box loom.   Just some very small invisible baste,  to its Self and to that piece of cloth that Marti and i dyed.   How good it is.  Simple.  Nothing much at all,  but the Feeling of it is Huge.

 

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the first jar of Coriander.  Aeromatic s.p …………put one seed in your mouth and the World Opens.

 

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i wondered how the kantha would change this one….the choice of thread… i think it's ok.  Will look again tomorrow and if not,  take it all out and try again.

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22 responses to “to thine own self be true”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    Such good news!

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  2. dedri Avatar

    I hope you are all able to come to terms with Tay being a new part of the family. Perhaps the dog trainers would see otherwise but I would interpret the ratty toy shared as a very good sign. For years my dog has left dog biscuits laying on top of the cat as he slept. It seems like an animal offering to give what they have to others.

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  3. grace Avatar

    it’s how it is. it’s how it is happening. Tonight is so
    soft. All day, threat of STORM, giant black on the horizon, but by the time Storm travels the distance, nothing. and maybe this is it too. Giant Clouds for Tay
    and by the time they travel to our horizon, they dissapate..become Vapor….wisping off.
    OR NOT.
    either way. We go. We just Go here. by intuition. Maybe good, maybe not. but it’s how we go.

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  4. Micael Avatar
    Micael

    I love the rainbow! A blessing for you for all your efforts. The Goddess smiles.
    Hugs to you!

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  5. deb Avatar

    dogs giving gifts.
    rainbows.
    Did Cesar Milans methods and philosophies differ greatly from the Trainers? He makes so much sense to me.

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  6. Saskia Van Herwaarden Avatar

    I agree with Dedri, a good sign

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  7. Saskia Van Herwaarden Avatar

    re the quote:
    funny seeing it here, as this is a quote I typed on a card years ago, when I was in my-quoting-years, it is one of only a couple that are still with me, pinned to a beam in the studio

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  8. patricia Avatar

    there’s a feeling of space here–an opening–for organic shifting to occur. everyone finding their way. assisted by the rainbow cloth–remind me of a prayer wheel.
    and the other cloth. the woven on top of background. so rich. so simple. so power full.

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  9. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Accepting the reality that training and easing into life here with Tay and Tay with you, may or may not work. Accepting the reality that kantha may or may not give what you want on this cloth. The connecting thread between the two is the trying, the seeing of possibilities and the wisdom to know if it doesn’t turn out as planned, it all was necessary…

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    ²

    that’s true Marti
    it is the connecting that’s count
    the trying is the work
    the wisdom is the feeling in balans with the mind
    and yes it is verry necessary

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  11. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Thank you Maria. I always look forward to your comments, they teach me.

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  12. debbie.weaver Avatar

    loving the weaving, haven’t had time to do any yet.

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  13. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    You are never less than true. Truly you is just fine I’m sure. I love these cloths….Love the generous gestures of a dog trying to find a way into the pack of one….and you musings remind me of the million times I thought “Oh, I can not bear this” when my own animal companions seemed to have their own minds not convenient to me, or even incomprehensible to me sometimes.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    it was a very very VERY clear statement.
    i hope i am not way way wrong. But i think we are a
    peculiar uhhhh, well, group here. i know that i am
    peculiar. She is a very “thought Full” dog. Today, we
    had a bad moment when i was in the kitchen and heard a
    sound that made me go look and yup. she was chewing the edge of my book on the Dali Lama table. REPRIMAND and not a
    smooth Dog Whispering kind but rougher and i took her
    outside and tethered her to the fence for a while, through
    Goat feeding and did not look in her direction at all. Ignored and i know that’s not according to Cesar’s Way either, but it was what was IN me. The book chewing was deliberate. So when i went out to undo her and turn without comment to the house, here she came with my shoe that she has very sneakily stolen this morning in the Innocent Hour*, and layed it on the porch. Not chewed, but just stolen. This is a dog that thinks. A dog that challenges. I am not at all sure i am up to her.
    *i had looked all over Out There for that shoe. All the places she takes stuff. Could not find it.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    oh, such Smiles i so NEED…this is way more than i’d
    bargained for

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    at some point i want to answer this question because it
    is Very Important to me that i do. But i’m not quite
    ready. I am so glad that you asked it here though….
    i love you for asking

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    loved seeing it over in the BirdHut

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    interesting to me that through all the comotion, the voices of the Cloths still sound out…

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    it IS, Marti. so much it IS. and the waiting inbetween
    the trying, then breathing, and trying more and then
    waiting. it is. It’s the trying.

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    debbie…at least you are a weaver. I am feeling a little
    lost

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar

    am realizing that it’s the InConvient that i am reacting to.
    How much i had become uhhh, deep, i guess, deep in my
    Ways here. And how disruptive dog is.

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  22. Drucilla Pettibone Avatar
    Drucilla Pettibone

    so good for you Grace! i’ve been meaning to stop by for ages, and got engrossed in your dog journey. sounds like you are finding your way, but fwiw i just wanted to say my fave dog trainer is patricia mcconnell, http://www.patriciamcconnell.com/training-your-dog
    i’ve missed you and hope to stop by more!

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