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things here today have caused me Feelings.   so what i have to offer for this day is not much.

 

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getting home from going to Music Thursday at the Old Folks Home i spent a lot of time with things about/with the DOG.  This DOG that is a dog but more and i don't really have the wherewithall to find words for it.  Just that She is …..well….She is a dog.  yes.   But she is different than a dog.  and it's the different than a dog part that is Wearing me, Pulling me IN,  causing.   She works on me and works on me when i am "weak".  I guess when i am most helplessly OPEN?  i think that's it.  When i am helplessly Open.  ok. yes.   This is when she works on me.  ok.  

so inbetween being WORKED by a dog,  i began the grasses.  Above.  and i was making what came to be Desert Love Grass.  here is some POETRY about native desert Love Grass from the beauty

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excellent    A Field Guide to the Grasses of New Mexico    ……    Second Edition  Kelly W. Allred  Agricultural Experimental Station  New Mexico State University  1997

"Inflorescence a panicle.  Spikelets several -flowered,  the glumes, lemmae, and grains disarticulate, often leaving the paleas attached to the rachilla.  Lemmas 3-nerved, awnless."

it could go like this:

 

Inflorescence,  a panicle….

spikelets several 

flowered

the glumes,  lemmae and grains

disarticulate.

Often leaving the paleas  attached to the rachillas…………………………………….

Lemmas, 3 nerved, awnless.

reading words about grasses makes me swoon.

 

 

 

 

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25 responses to “Feelings”

  1. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    A wearying day? Still a wonderful cloth and here listen to this loud…It just might make you as outrageously happy as it did me…I was singing along and shaking my tambourine three flights up here charging the air…http://www.npr.org/event/music/322940438/ages-and-ages-divisionary-do-the-right-thing?utm_source=npr_email_a_friend&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20140828&utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_term=

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    hey Michelle !!!!! THANKYOU
    by a hour i seth is a loud as possible
    now the neighbours sleep
    i LOVE it
    grace wonder Full friend you have
    do the right thing ……
    like a mantra in my head

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  3. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Grass love, corn stalk love… In my corner of the world here in California, my happiness comes from the looks in my grand children’s eyes as they watch the corn that they planted in summer camp grow. Sadly the corn grows in small containers on a kitchen windowsill; it will not produce corn as they do not have a garden to plant their stalks and they know that but feel happy to see the 10 or so inches of green stalk, swaying in the breeze.
    I return to New Mexico next Tues, after a little over a month away…so much has happened in the world: a funeral, an earthquake that rolled along at 3:30 am last weekend, felt by all here and the little ones participated in their first earthquake drill. A quake of a different sort, the first day of kindergarten for my grand children yesterday and memories took me back to my girls starting kindergarten…time echoing the past, embracing the adventures and friendships that will come.
    Connections abound for the day before kindergarten, an open house and play date for all parents and family. There were two grandmothers present and we found our way to each other where I learned that the other grandmother had lived in New Mexico (Albuquerque) for 17 years, loved it dearly but as so often happens, moved back to CA to be near family. Connections only require an open heart…this is all I have to say for now but here in this place called windthread, open hearts are so plentiful…

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  4. Patricia Avatar
    Patricia

    thanks Michelle–wonder full

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  5. Patricia Avatar
    Patricia

    oh Grace. i started to read this and after your first sentence thought, well, this cloth offering is just so much that I probably couldn’t absorb much more anyway. but I scrolled down and to my surprise, there was more. so much more.
    but first. this cloth. Desert Love Grass. this cloth leaps to another level of being-ness. as though many steps in evolution were simply leaped over to arrive here. Desert Love Grass. and then the fine poetic description–which i must admit was initially like reading a foreign language yet still lovely. so i googled each unknown word and now am so struck with the existence of this other language that so concisely expresses the sublime.
    and Tay. please tell us more. i don’t understand the juxtaposition of “weak and helplessly open.” but i do understand this–that when you preface your musings with “not much,” i need to take a deep breath and be prepared for quite a ride.

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  6. Patricia Avatar
    Patricia

    hi Marti. thank you for providing this window into your doings. you paint such a vivid picture.

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  7. julie Avatar
    julie

    I am wondering much the same as Patricia….is the Tay-pulled opening a positive thing?

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  8. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    these “pets” as shamanic companions. . .agents of transformation. . . . .we don’t get to choose the pace of change. . .and I have been there like you. . .weakened. . .open. . . .when a small, gray and white kitten came bounding into my life and literally tore apart my design wall. my dreamboard. he’s still here. . .a six-year-old cat. . .and a bigger dream is working through us. I believe that you’ll ‘recover’ faster than I did.

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    but somtimes the question is …..
    wath is right ???? at wath moment …. ????

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  10. jude Avatar
    jude

    yes, what is the “right thing”?

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  11. jude Avatar
    jude

    Being worked by a chicken at the moment.

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  12. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    love the botanical description as a poem Grace
    and gosh this cloth holds your wild magic spirit of place

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  13. grace Avatar
    grace

    Who ARE they?…..will have to check out further but
    for sure…VOICE
    like in that World organization i so love Avaaz…which
    translates to VOICE in many languages

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes, Maria….and in each moment it might look and BE
    different, yes….xoxoxo

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  15. grace Avatar
    grace

    I will WELCOME you home

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    “expresses the sublime”
    expresses the sublime, oh, yes. yes it Does. beautiful
    words you give here.
    weak. i thought about the choice of that word, weak.
    weak. how is it that it fits?…???? weak
    weak
    weak i guess empty of Stuff. vulnerable. soft.
    weak like a clam inside it’s shell home. ok and yes…a
    picture not…that hermit crab the kids used to have when it would outgrow it’s shell home and need to GET OUT and find a new larger shell but for the time it was looking, it was EXPOSED to the air the elements just this oh so ODD creature scrambling around
    so am thinking we need to be weak sometimes…How Much?…but at least sometimes so we can feel at the Mercy of Everything and know what that feels like. To miss that, to miss knowing what that feels like is missing something really important.
    Tay…she is
    strange, odd, different, challenging. I find self stopping mid motion so many times and just looking at her and me…What ARE we doing here. And what i don’t say as much is that she is extremely Loving. She is Constantly
    near me either physically or psychically….if she has
    gone OutSide, something in her constantly is tuned to
    my movements InSide and she comes to look….
    She’s a really very different dog.

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    Yes it is. Yes. Yes it really so MUCH is.

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    they are. Agents. like that term. and i think for Them?
    for Us? and i think it’s MUTUAL. again…that
    Magnetizing what we need Along the Way

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  19. grace Avatar
    grace

    i see his eyes. yes. he will Work you. Already you
    are having 2 rooms instead of 1 for the winter. He needs
    space for his Work.

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  20. grace Avatar
    grace

    aren’t those terms just really SENSUAL?

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  21. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Cats gravitate and anchor in a place even if they are fond of people, or one in particular, and dogs, or so it has been in my experience, are attached to people, usually a particular person. Tay has attached to you. That’s all. You are the fulcrum of her world, her primary territory, or so it seems to me. Your acceptance is crucial. It’s only natural, I think, to feel the pull of that, and to feel vulnerable in the face of it. It’s a big thing.

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  22. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Ha!

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  23. grace Avatar
    grace

    i tried to comment here but it seemed to not “take”…will wait a bit

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  24. grace Avatar
    grace

    ok…it now “takes”…
    not only has she attached, but i have too. We are a fulcrum, me and her. we are primary territory, me and her, together.
    and it is BIG.

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  25. jude Avatar
    jude

    winter should be very interesting

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