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one of two baskets like this.  Tazmeena is Felting scraps with her sleep,  her dreaming.  They are dirty from her.  Felted cat hair blended in.   I will need to wash them one by one to use them.  Well, her dreams are worth it.   And because it's the Eve of how we perceive the Year,  the Eve of a New Year,  i cleaned.   Cleaning for the New tomorrow.  Artificial lines, yes,  but it's ok and good.  It gives a place to see as ending and beginning.  And it feels ok.  

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when i finish writing here,  i will go to the Morning Chair.  Settle with my pen and 2 calenders and shift anything that might need to be noted from this last year onto the new.    This is how i RE VIEW what has come before.  How i note what i should remember.  I like it.  It's a deep deep Satisfaction.

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and as if by Magic,  the Paulus Berrensohn book arrived at the Post Office today.  Fortunately, the car started.  It was VERY COLD last night.  So i whizzed over and here.  Those dark spots on the cover are from Tay's tongue.  She tasted the book.  They dried and now are gone.

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so i will look tonight and tomorrow.  The book is for my daughter who has always thought she might throw pots.  But who never has.  Maybe this will nudge her toward that dream.  I'll send it to her on Friday.

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and as it Is.   Here we are.  It has been SOME YEAR.  So HUGE and so MUCH in SO MANY ways and always,  always,  as Jude says….commited,  so deeply and lovingly commited to 

Just Going.

So,  in the Spirit of that,  of Just Going,  i end this 2014 year and Thank Everyone from the deepest deepest place inside of me for going along next to me,  for letting me go next to you.  Letting us Touch and Wonder.

Such Giant and Great and Excellent Love to All of Us,  yes?,  yes.  yup. yes.

 

 

 

 

 

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47 responses to “the Eve”

  1. jude Avatar

    cheers grace, here we go….

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  2. grace Avatar

    yes. cheers. yes. we lift out glass, our bowl, our hearts
    in the happiness of kinship. Yes.
    Here we go.
    i think it’s going to be Some Year.
    so much Gratitude, Jude, to you. so much Love…Big and FULL.

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  3. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    cheers to you both and love. . .

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  4. Mo Crow Avatar

    clink! to you, Tay, Tazmeena, the goats and all the wild things that live on your raft in the desert, it’s 2015!

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  5. grace Avatar

    to US. To Us!….how we nurture EachOther each in our own way.
    to me it’s so Beauty Full….

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  6. grace Avatar

    DEAR mo…Clink to you and the old man. from this Raft.
    here we go….on. we just go. on. and isn’t that just
    Something.
    BIG love to you

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  7. Deb G Avatar

    Happy New Year!

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  8. Carole Avatar
    Carole

    Cheers Grace, 🙂
    it is the new Year here, come on in
    Thankyou for letting us into your Wild Wonderful World… love everything about your home
    much Love to You too … Carole xo

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  9. kathy dorfer Avatar
    kathy dorfer

    2015 here we go … i can’t wait for the ride with you and everyone else that shows up here . much love to you grace !
    xxoo

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  10. suzanna Avatar

    Happy New Year, Grace and four legged ones!

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  11. Saskia Van Herwaarden Avatar

    leaping wholeheartedly into 2015 with a sense of trust in oneself and in one another, cheers to our tribe, love sasx

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  12. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Ah Grace of the great graces, yes yes yes, onward into the mystery once more.

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  13. ² Avatar
    ²

    hey everyone , let us go on to share
    the inner and the out
    the words and tht thoughts
    so we make 2015 energy strong
    thanks and greets to all of you

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  14. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Looking forward….excitedly to travelling along side all of you and your amazing life journeys…helping guide me into an artful future….encouraged by an amazing group of strong….Giving….so generously giving of your talents…visions….Giving…in pictures and writings…..THANKFUL BLESSINGS!!!!!!

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  15. cynthia Avatar
    cynthia

    happy new year..a year full of surprises and adventure and gentle days grace..it will good to continue..and to start new..an arbitrary date..but such a strangely wonderful way to pause and begin again..to the happiest of new years..to growing into it right here
    much love

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  16. beth Avatar

    Thank you Grace for this place to gather. Here we go. Fresh calendar.

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  17. grace Avatar

    to You, too, Deb.

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  18. grace Avatar

    So Much Goodness is so Alive.
    Love back to you

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  19. grace Avatar

    there are crows all the time lately. Am thinking
    that’s a sign.
    xxooback

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  20. grace Avatar

    and circling around…LOVE

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  21. grace Avatar

    trust in Self. i nod.
    and such Goodness to the Tribe

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  22. grace Avatar

    may the Force be with Us

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  23. grace Avatar

    strong. yes. strong. in and out.
    Love,

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  24. grace Avatar

    thank you Tina and i am happy you are Here…
    Blessings Back

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  25. grace Avatar

    BIG love to you….to your world there

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  26. grace Avatar

    yes…here we go. there’s something very tender about that
    fresh calendar.
    love to you

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  27. linda morris Avatar
    linda morris

    Happy New Year dear Grace and Goats and Tay and Fellows. Grateful for this place xo

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  28. Stephanie Avatar
    Stephanie

    Happy new year, dear Grace. Thank you for all you share from your heart. The love spills out to us. You have been a blessing in my life. I’m sending love to you, Tay, Chinche, Tazmeena, the goats, and to all you love.

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  29. grace Avatar

    GrateFULL for you, linda, grateful for you.

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  30. grace Avatar

    maybe that will be part of the coming year…to Take Love In
    any where and any way it appears and then to spill it back out.
    a kind of Tonglen
    and ahhh, as i wrote the above sentence, Crow flew low and
    called.
    Love spilling back….

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  31. patriciaspangler47@gmail.com Avatar

    i’m laughing. still not really settled so sometimes in the morning i visit windthread via my phone. so the first picture, on the phone’s screen, looked like an amazing pot of Mexican stew–and my mouth was watering. just now, when i found the laptop again, i revisited and was stunned. thought maybe this was a different post–but no, same ideas. same book. same thoughts about daughter. so i’m reminded that things are not always as they appear–in fact–maybe rarely as they appear. i think there’s a big lesson here for moving into 2015. sending you big and constant love.

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  32. Jan b. in OR Avatar
    Jan b. in OR

    Dearest Grace, I don’t comment here often but have followed your blog for quite … a … few … years – before the goats arrived. In many of your posts, you’ve written about the Sand Hill Cranes. So when I found this video in my mailbox this morning, I felt compelled to direct it your way and send you the Very Best of wishes for a glorious and peaceful new year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T2Ns9Hf-2M&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=Cornell+Lab+eNews&utm_campaign=41f4c9fb74-1-1-2015-thank-you-video&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_47588b5758-41f4c9fb74-302751997
    (oh dear, I hope this link works.)

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  33. Deborah Lacativa Avatar

    thank you for being a magical presence in the west.

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  34. sparrow Avatar
    sparrow

    twas the perfect send-off, grace.
    i am beholden.

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  35. judykeathley@cox.net Avatar
    judykeathley@cox.net

    love —
    & happy wishes-
    always
    with such gratitude
    for all you do
    for all you are

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  36. vicky aka stichr Avatar

    oh yes …. grace i had forgotten we each play with calendars. i spent today with 2 old ones, one even older than 2014…i made address label/stickers of all the days that are important to me and mine….this way i can just print up new ones every year! i prefer to add color and do-dads than trying to write so we can READ it….and saying this here has reminded me of another important date, so thank you grace!

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  37. grace Avatar

    o i wish, a pot of so great stew, but alas just a mass. a mushed wad of Tazmeena Sleep.
    and things need to be looked at. yes, not always as they appear…
    and back to you. BIG and CONSTANT love

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  38. grace Avatar

    Before the Goats…well…that says something in itself. The Life Before, the Life After…Two different worlds but the cranes, they are a constant and continuing presence of Everything is Still OK.
    The Link came through just so FINE and Elegant and Excellent.
    it HOLDS me.
    Thinking now, about what HOLDS me as i Go. Cranes. they are
    so strong.
    THANK YOU for this. and if you should feel impelled to show up more here i would be GLAD. If not, then well, when you Do.
    Love to you and to Sandhill Cranes and to All of Us….

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  39. grace Avatar

    so much a part of what you Give with your work with Cloth.
    THANK YOU beyond Thank You for who you ARE and what you DO

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  40. grace Avatar

    Sparrow..i BeHold You

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  41. grace Avatar

    judy…you keep on Showing UP and that is invaluable.

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  42. grace Avatar

    vic….send email with address

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  43. Liz Avatar

    Here it is several days into the new year and still I haven’t yet commented … sometimes I feel I don’t have much of substance to add, but I do want to add my (grateful) voice to the chorus.

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  44. grace Avatar

    Liz…it’s just fine. I know you are there. sometimes there are
    these times when words seem short, thoughts quiet. It’s ok and
    Fine.
    LOVE to you

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