what an interesting day.   Company day.  I think this might be like what Sunday's used to be????

Alz B's son Bill came.  He brought their youngest dog,  a small dog,  Nanno.  They had gone to the dump and i am on the way home.  He called when they were a minute away,  saying that and could they stop by.   I watched self.  Ordinarily,  i would FEEL   ……   NO!   but because of the sense gained from the EXPANSION of time,  i thought…

ok.

sure.

He brought Alz.B's obituary, first.   One he had written and then a revised version from his sister.  Wanted input.  Edit.  ok.   But he also came because he really wants to be OK with Tay.  Wants her to know him.   He is a dog person.  

At first we kept his small dog, Nanno,  on her leash but while we were studying the grubs in the compost,  we set caution to the wind and undid her.  Tay SAILED…flying over bushes and wheelbarrow with the thrill of company and little Nanno went about…she's familiar with this place long before Tay came here.  And to make that long story short…All was Well.  Dogs buzzing about,  people conversing about a dead member.    It was good.  Just good.  I have the obituary and i will revise it and return it to him.  An Obituary.  An Obituary.   hmmmmm.

Then,  Cindy,  the Good Nurse from the Old Folks home came by on her way home.  and Tay had even MORE practice at Company.  This company brought her milk bones and she accepted and ran but ended up lying quietly,  just watching,  letting go of her stranger energy.   Good Again.  Very Good Again.

 

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i need to stay with this awhile.  You see here,  a peanut in a shell on the right for comparison.  To recreate in your mind the SIZE of these grubs.  Contracted, they are as seen here.  But Extended as they become when they want to dig themselves BACK into the soil,  they are longer.  And i want to spend time with these grubs.  Spend time with how i am well, truthfully, repulsed by them.  WHY?  WHY? do i almost instinctively recoil?  They are only a lifeform.  WHY?, do i recoil?   

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and i look at the SOIL here,  that once was chunks of things and now no longer

 

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this BLACK SOIL,  transformed.  Because of them,  that i am repulsed by.

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20 responses to “SUNday”

  1. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    What a TREAT! SUPER! and Superior. Ordinary to some, I suppose, but special in this context.
    Re Obits (I read something recently that might interest you)-http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/09/23/the-art-of-the-obituary-an-interview-with-margalit-fox/#.VCJhoVI4mhM.facebook
    Grubs and worms are rather repellent to most people and it is not reasonable. As always, you push beyond the instinctual and into self analysis and positive practice. That soil is what gardeners call “gold” so perhaps the grubs and worms are alchemists. Nothing to worry about there…..Praise is due!

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  2. Saskia Van Herwaarden Avatar

    who knows, one day you might grow to love them!
    I’m repulsed by them, at this point in time; it’s hard for me to imagine for I now like (love?) snails and even slugs as I have become so familiar with them and some of the stuff they do fills me with admiration, but I was once repulsed by them, although I don’t like saying that out loud as they might be insulted (ha)

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar

    hmmm… they look a lot like the white curl grubs that can be a problem in pots & raised garden beds here in Sydney. Here they are the larvae of Christmas Beetles and will eat plant roots as well as rotting vegetable matter. We feed them to the magpies who think they are delicious treats, Tay may enjoy eating them too. Personally I would listen to your gut reaction, get rid of them and encourage the earthworms who are much more plant friendly soil improvers.

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  4. Patricia Avatar

    having a funny reaction–aversion/intrigue–and oddly enough, imagining what they’d taste like if sauteed and then broiled to a crisp. hmmmm.

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  5. jude Avatar

    comfort zones have a lot to do with understanding

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  6. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    How interesting to see you use words like “repulsed”, and “almost instinctively recoil”; it’s how I feel about snakes but you have always tried to talk me down from that…well No. As much as landscape so deeply matters to me and anchors me to the many places that I have lived, I have never felt that I need to understand nor embrace all that lives on the land, no matter how beneficial…

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  7. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    We have these in our compost heaps and it’s all I can do to sift the black gold through wire mesh and then throw the nasty things into the next heap over. It makes my toes curl just to think about it (ick)

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    so you have, then, those “flying olives”?,,the irridescent
    metalic green Fruit Beetles?

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  9. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    I haven’t yet figured out what our grubs turn into … fortunately not the garden marauders that Mo refers to. At this point they appear to do more good than harm, so it’s live and let live …

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  10. beth Avatar

    They also look kind of like the Japanese Beetle grubs and there is no contest there since both forms are destructive. Its odd these lines we draw. I catch and release most bugs that come inside but I will kill some things with no hesitation. Ticks, fleas, mosquitos, roaches, brown recluse and black widow spiders, tent caterpillars… What if it boiled down to compost or plums?

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  11. beth Avatar

    eek. eek. eeeeeeeek.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    there is the Issue of Good Grubs/Bad Grubs. How funny, yes?
    Good/Bad
    the Bad ones are bad for yard grass mostly.
    i am trying to Understand a LOT.

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. i know that your slugs have come into your space and left
    their Mark there. How you have Watched. How you have ALLOWED them into your space to tell you things, even eating things as part of their Speech.
    how this Looking is so important

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    here there are two kinds. i am still trying to know.
    In this moment, all i DO know is that they have created a real
    miracle of EARTH SUBSTANCE in this place of Sand
    so…i look. Look. Look.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    today i looked and thought they are similar to shrimp.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    comfort zone. what is my
    comfort zone?

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    one or two. Easy.
    but i am seeing MANY.
    and i need, like so much NEED to embrace.

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    but Liz…look at the WORK they DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    well, that’s the question. How do we survive?
    but to really know. for me, the black widow are just companions.
    I don’t find them threatening at all. They are quiet gentle beings

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