It rained AGAIN,  all night.  All night.  Today was a partly Sunny only just a reasonably warm day  and i spent it with cloth.  I was quiet.  

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A wild wind had blown this down from where it's been hanging from the Big Beam  (where  i intend to put the   hanging rag rug loom) ,  hung it on the wall and thought about how much i like it even tho it is almost nothing at all.   And got lost in thought for a little while thinking of things i could DO to it to make it "more",  but then  realized that anything would Undo the reason why i like it so much.  

 

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and for some Unknown reason,  i had the urge to look for this one.  Made so long ago, at the Beginning of Jude.    I think it was because i have been thinking about  "story"  all night and then on into this day…maybe that's it?,  and i wanted to look at it and  see what it might tell me.

 

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But mostly, it was this.  I tried a while, to use that other scrap of cloth for Her.  I wanted to because it was so Soft and so how i remember the Feeling of her,  that Biggest Lizard of All  (that i haven't seen since)  (maybe soon, again)  but it just wasn't working.   So i began again and this is good.  Except for her left leg,  the legs and arms are pretty much ok.   I have to wait to do the hands and feet till the grass seed stems are in place.   The hands and feet need to be just exactly right.  As they ARE on lizards.  ….  Wild Lizards as the kids used to call them…..wild lizards.  That makes me smile.

and i'll just say it.  I was expecting Patricia to,  but she is deep into her Life at the moment,   but one of August's Eyes,  the left one,  became a Goat eye.  and that striated shape just above,  amidst the petals is not a petal but a horn.   Story tells its Self.

and since i write here about any particular day as it IS,  i have to confess.  I wasn't going to.  But, here i am,  needing to….   Last eve i turned the hose on under the Close Young Cottonwood to run softly on her earth.   and i FORGOT.   In the middle of the night,  in the middle of the night with Rain  steadily coming down,  i woke and went out with the flashlight and sure enough.   Flooded.  This morning i saw that Tay must have tried to bring it over to the porch.  She's into hoses.   She gave up when it got hung up on the Child Buddha Diamond bed and left it.  The water from it had gone and gone and gone into a crevice and now there is a deep sink hole.   Not big, but deep.

So, here it is.  This day.

 

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and as i was writing the above,  a Storm was coming fast over the Rim.  I shut down the computer for Lightening just in time.   But then  it was so fast,  MOVING,  that SUN was Glaringly Beauty Full at the  Same Time and  Rain and Sun and  Lightning and Thunder and everything was glistening and Wet so i tried to get a pic of that but i couldn't but look…….,  those little Spirits…..

 

 

 

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21 responses to “quiet moist goodness”

  1. Patricia Avatar

    deep into it…but here, Grace. loving this

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  2. LAB Avatar
    LAB

    Ya gotta love Tay! I wish I could meet her…

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  3. grace Avatar

    i know. i count on you.

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  4. grace Avatar

    i wish you could too. She is an Intermediary.
    You used the word Proud of your own Rudy G. and it rang
    true. Tay is a proud dog. Proud. interesting word, isn’t it. How do we get to be proud?
    and then…more story. i remember that my mother told me that Pride comes Before a Fall. and i remembered thinking that. Pride comes before a fall. and i never understood that.

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  5. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    animal pride is so different from human pride, I think. that is something we can consider. . .adjust ourselves to. . . . .

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  6. grace Avatar

    this is true…Animal Pride. Animal pride is just about
    being. No EGO. Ego being human maybe. But when i look
    into her face…so just pushing up into my own face, i
    recognize things in her that are like me. Like the Goats,
    really. How we just Go. All of us here. and we just go
    with a certain sense of ….what. ?? …what?….maybe a sense of just LIKING to JUST GO. Maybe we LIKE it, this just going, that it feels good and right and so we do it?
    and feel kinda proud that the WET and the MUD didn’t suck us in?

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  7. grace Avatar

    and more…like Gideon. Old crippled Buck Goat. Every morning i have this soft dread that i will go out There and he won’t come. And for
    a while he doesn’t because it takes him some time to get himSelf going. But then, here he comes. and at the feed bowl he pushes and snorts and says all the Gideon things he says, full, FULL of Himself, still FULL of his pride, of his Just Going and his son, SunnyRay whacks into him hard, LOUD, having acquired his Pride i guess genetically…such VERBAL Goats….Gideon and his son SunnyRay…
    One day, i know, he won’t come. His time will be up. But still, till then, he has pride. So…what does that mean, Pride?

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  8. grace Avatar

    and i think about me. a skinny old ish woman. What is MY
    PRIDE? i have pride too. I keep showing up.

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  9. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    you know, the more I read your words, I think that the kind of pride you are talking about is really a Confidence in living. . . .in the Just Going. . .especially on the good days. sending love for you re: Gideon. Isn’t it lovely. . .to have that mature goat energy in the herd. even though it may be winding down, he still shows up. . .for you. . .for the younger ones. oh, and I never, ever, think of you as “old.” strong. reliable. trustworthy. better words? I think so. and incredibly loving Grace.

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  10. linda Avatar

    the little green lights in photos are always a mystery to me. they show up in interesting places. i have a friend that used to see them in her photos of the river. little sprites are good words.
    just been gone for a while and out of the loop. will be catching up soon. been a lovely summer of quiet.

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  11. Patricia Avatar

    Hi LAB–glad you’re here.

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  12. jude Avatar

    yes. the Just Going.

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  13. jude Avatar

    i like the way you hung the top piece. and i like the two eyes.

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  14. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    The lizard is delightful … and they aren’t always, but this is obviously one of the nice ones.
    I also love that you can leave one piece be while repeatedly revising another piece. That is a gift.

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  15. Mo Crow Avatar

    oh love the magic of the shapeshifter !

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  16. grace Avatar

    Gideon the Old, it’s good, to think of him with your words pressed to him. “mature” Goat energy….Dear and Dearest
    Him.
    and what i CAN say i am good at is Love.

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  17. grace Avatar

    i took a few pics and looked…and they were in different places even tho the pics were pretty much the same…????
    Sprites/Spirits well….they show up. I will look forward to you being Home.
    Love to you

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  18. grace Avatar

    i had to hang it that way because it was just that scrap
    with that shape to itself
    i do too, the eyes….maybe in time i will develop one Goat eye. What might that change for me???????????

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  19. grace Avatar

    do you know not nice lizards????
    i am learning to do that, go back and forth

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  20. grace Avatar

    yes. the shapeshifter. Seems like there’s a lot of that
    going on lately

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