couldn't understand it, really.  It's been this way for a while,  but today seemed so intense.   Tried to get quiet enough to see if i could understand what it IS,  but couldn't.   So…just going.  Just Going about the doings of the day with this Pervasive Sense of Restlessness…..Big.   Tried to sit down and Write,  as in pen to paper, thinking maybe it would show itself, but couldn't sit long enough.  so  i did what i often do to distract self,  in dog terms, to Redirect self and i cooked.  All kinds of stuff.  I have enough cooked for a week.   But still….restless.

When talking with Granddaughter who will be 26yrs this month,  she is interested in Many Things suddenly and Astrology is one.  So…that in mind i thought maybe it's some kind of tangle in the Cosmos?  Maybe.  and if i could talk with my old friend HoneyDove,  she could consult her big fat astrological volumes and tell me but i don't know where she is anymore…so i am here, floating restlessly on a thread, a fiber,  an umbilical of a sort,  just floating floating……uncomfortably….

but then,  while giving Water,  that old Rolodex in my mind flipped up      IONS.  Everything i have ever heard, ever read, ever seen, ever imagined is in that Rolodex.   Small index card like entries.  It's all there.  Reference.  

For about a week now,  the winds rise and storm clouds scud from the South West to that Rim over there.  LOTS of Thunder…even visible lightning strikes in the distance…lots of drama…but except for that one Good Rain…nothing.   But it is as if there is a HOT BREATH breathing into this world here, breathing into our nostrils, lungs, selves.   So i google Ions effect on humans and ta Da…

"the negative ions make us feel good.  The positive make us feel bad.

If the positive ions occur naturally in sufficient numbers, for instance during the onset of the commonly known hot and dry desert winds, the winds cause depression, nausea,  insomnia, irritability,  migrane, lassitude and also affect the normal function of the thyroid glands.  Biochemically speaking, the body becomes exhausted and this can lead to accidents, violent crime and suicides.  These can be counteracted with the beneficial negative ions.  "

Negative Ion Report:  the CBS Nightly News  Feb 14, 1995

looked up lassitude:  a condition of wearyness or debility, listlessness, languor.  So…

in me,  it is a restlessness.  but yes,  with a wearyness.  OK.  now that i know…it has lifted.  with the knowing and also with showering the tree leaves when Giving Water…so that a mist falls from them down,  on me,  on this earth.  OK.  Ions.

 

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and FINALLY….the first of the Yellow Hots.  here they are called Wedos…meaning "blondie", in mexican spanish.  I was always (and maybe still am) referred to as a Weda…light,  light skin, light hair…and in me, blue eyed.  It 's slang.  Wedo…a yellow hot pepper.  They are the best.  Just the best.  Sautee them and then eat them with anything and everything.  

And Dogs…well,  to day was really just a totally OK day.  A real SHIFT from all before.  and i think i have found that if i put my index and middle finger on her "third eye",  it means something.  it shifts something.  Maybe not.  but i'll find out.   But today we were GOOD.  all of us.  Not without our small comotions,  but we were, really,  Good Enough.

 

 

 

 

 

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22 responses to “restless as in….~R E S T L E S S~ then…remembering about IONS”

  1. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Oh Grace I know that exhausted restlessness well, and used to get such peace and comfort going out to the church garden after supper and just watering for an hour or more, showering everything out there including myself in the mist. That balancing of IONs made all the difference. This is a great post….what a treasure your little rolodex!

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  2. grace Avatar

    yes…the beLov ed rolodex. I never, like never, have access to
    details. Never. i am a Big Picture person. but that rolodex…
    it keeps track of So Much and can reference for me enough to walk
    backwards and find what i saw, what i understood, even if so many
    many years ago
    and then…as with the info on Ions…it’s there, at my fingertips
    that mist…misting down from the old Grandmother Apricot tree changed
    Everything.
    for me, for the dogs. for who knows……..
    but still……….no Rain.

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  3. kathyd Avatar

    oh this makes a lot of sense … we have had hot desert winds . i thought i was just nuts and totally irritated by everyone and thing.
    now i feel better … but the winds were no more today and i was already feeling better . good info grace , thank you (:

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  4. yvette Avatar

    makes mad those ions
    the wind.
    to all in your shooked up lifes
    circulair thinking
    weaving uncertencies in being
    but seeing all the eyes at your pictures…grace loving looking
    really

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  5. patricia Avatar

    hot, dry, wind. positive ions. ok. that explains your side of this land. here–heavy heavy atmosphere, damp, cloying, steamy, oppressive even. but the moon is full tomorrow i think, and i’m ready for a shift.
    love your explanation of rolodex big picture memory just that sometimes i can’t find my rolodex. and so….

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  6. Mo Crow Avatar

    & it’s the nearly Full Moon in Capricorn, time to work with diligence, dedication and discipline.

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  7. beth Avatar

    Ions… Not in my rolodex. But interesting. I’ll explore that further. But yes, I am feeling the pull of the full moon. She hit me full in the face about 3 this morning. It was strong enough light to wake me–like a headlight. Not liking the sound of those 3 Ds though, Mo… I’m in summer-time-livin’-is-easy sort of mode.

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  8. Mo Crow Avatar

    just depends on your definition of work? I make a living from gardening and art & can’t think of anything more pleasurable except the walks on the beach to connect with the sea every few weeks & curling up with a good book in the evenings as the reward for a days work well done!

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  9. Micael Avatar
    Micael

    If you feel the call to connect with astrology again, I just discovered Matthew Stelzner. He is an archetypal astrologer ala Richard Tarnas, and does a free Ustream talk show. I just started listening and love his approach. He summarizes the energies of a given week by way of how the planets interact with each other. He seems to do a show every few weeks to month. You can listen to him at http://ustre.am/18TGF. His most recent show is for the week of 6/30.

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  10. Joan@CopperCreekers Avatar

    this lady, Chani Nicholas, also has an interesting astrology site.
    this post about this full moon
    http://www.chaninicholas.com/capricorn-full-moon-gods-change

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  11. grace Avatar

    still feeling NUTS here…but tonight, oh…just with the
    Goats, there is a WIND that tries to let us be just OK…
    it’s a FINE wind…swirling and trying to ease it all…
    Goats are Good. Goats are Very Very Good. I trust Goats.

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  12. grace Avatar

    yvette…there are so many Eyes here, and we look….into
    our eyes and we go. Sometimes we…really, I
    don’t understand
    but i go. With them, i go.

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  13. grace Avatar

    opposites. Opposites. love this. cloying, steamy, oppressive….love this so much. it eases me. more easing.
    how it IS and how we find a way to be inside it

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  14. grace Avatar

    nearly. nearly. ok. and we could say my middle name is
    diligence, dedication,discipline. This would be me.

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  15. kathyd Avatar

    Full moon .. My oldest friend asked me if I was ok ( after I went on a flip out )
    And I said yes , I am ok . He said thats all that matters . So I am trying to
    Stay grounded . I am glad the goats are good !
    Xxoo
    Sent from my iPhone

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  16. grace Avatar

    Mo…do you have your “art” in galleries? How do you make
    a living from it?

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  17. grace Avatar

    i looked and it is very very good. Will continue looking
    and learning. Love to you, Micael

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  18. grace Avatar

    o yes. i like this very much. Very. Thanks…i like
    this…

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  19. grace Avatar

    kathy…yes. like jude said…once i said to her…I am
    always ok. and i am. Always ok. Always. but it doesn’t
    mean that it’s not edgy.
    Goats are/were so incredibly grounding…wind has picked up and their chin hairs flutter, they push into me, in a strong and firm way, pushing into me. it feels so Good and they are so themselves, no matter what. This tells me.
    Be myself, no matter what. Ok.

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  20. grace Avatar

    flying straight into it

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  21. Mo Crow Avatar

    I put work in the Xmas Salon at Artsite Gallery (two minute walk away, the annual Australian Bookbinders Exhibition & the Glebe Art Show + sell handbound books and cards through the website and Etsy shop. It covers costs, the gardening pays the rent & bills, it’s a life.

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  22. Joan@CopperCreekers Avatar

    YEP!
    i’m basically an introvert and these words spoke to me:
    (the hope the f word does not offend)
    “I don’t want to spend another year covered up, suited up and bound up in my usual uniform of stay the fuck away from me. So I have to lay it down. Not all together, not even permanently but at least momentarily.”
    http://www.chaninicholas.com/capricorn-full-moon-gods-change

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