Again,  the morning dawned  bleak.  Vague.  like,  almost not.  It was so still, with almost a quality of emptiness.  The silence of it was so silent.    And I just sat and tried to understand  how it was making me feel.   The best i could come up with was that there was just Too Much of It.   And then i thought of Barometric Pressure.  Barometric Pressure.  and what IS barometric pressure?  I googled.  It is the weight of the air around us.  "The joints and other parts of our body are filled with fluid and this fluid responds to barometric pressure".      ……thinking…..the Brain is filled with fluid.   Maybe this is it.  Or maybe not.  But a day for Just Going. 

And i had thought about Just Going a lot yesterday.  The term comes from Jude Hill,  Spirit Cloth and it has her meaning and also so totally gave word to something i know very intimately,  have known, maybe for ever,  i so loved the term when i first read her using it.  But what Really?,  IS   Just Going?   And that made me think about the young Goat, whose name is Just Going.

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She was born July 4th, 2012,  the last of Lucky Star's 3 kids.  The two large buck twins,  Los Dados, and then her.  She was so so small and frail.  She could not hold up her head.   They were the last of the 14 kids born and i sat there and looked at her and thought,  well….it would be too much to hope for all of them to make it.   The two little bucklings were already finding their teat.  Wobbling around after Lucky Star,  

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was in some kind of post partum altered state.   So i got up and went into the house and sat.  After a couple hours, i went back Out.

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and i thought…Just Going.  She is Just Going. 

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By the time she got to where Lucky Star was,  in her quest for What She Really Didn't Know Yet,  Lucky Star would have moved somewhere else.   So she had to start again.  Just Going.  She had to just go.  and she did.

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her on the Raft, a couple days later.

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Today.  Her butt is the same size as her Mother's.

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she is strong and snotty….one of the two most Feral.   I need to change that,  she and i need to Just Go in these next months.  No easy task.  

So….really,  What is Just Going?,  back to the original thought.   Maybe when you are at some Point.  Where things seem unclear.  When there are no known indicators.  When you need to go somewhere you have not been before.  or Forgot you have been there, because it looks all different.  But you want to Live,  to "fulfill that covenant",  if you can,  so

you just do the one single Next Thing.  That accomplished,  you do the next.  and so on.  ????????

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Actually,  yesterday wasn't at all   "nothing",  it was a LOT.  So much so a Lot that all i could say was Nothing.  But there was this….i'd forgotten to put water in before i went off to the Old Cowboy's and it was all dried out.  Stiff.  Crusty.  but beauty full none the less.

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this morning i added water

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added just some Earth

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this is a printout with drawing on it

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and then i DID it.   The small figure  at the mercy of Winter Sky,  but "asking"  and so,  in a way, also Just Going.   I stitched the figure first.  Before any other stitches at all.   it must Mean something?

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at the very Last of the day,  the Grey broke and blue.  Blue was there.  I knew it was,  but i really needed to SEE it.  and so.  Time to just go.

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20 responses to “barometric pressure?”

  1. Liz Avatar

    Just Going realized, made real … I love this
    And the tiny figure, dwarfed by the immensity of it all … just going
    And the flower (no longer a jellyfish) … going somewhere … interesting
    And the sky … blue at last, some coming our way tomorrow … finally

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  2. grace Avatar

    looking back at her, Just Going, i was flooded with memory.
    and the tiny figure, how it is in the Face of Winter for me
    the sky. blue. blue at last. Just for such a small moment, but Enough!…just a small moment is Enough to keep going
    i will HOPE for you for your tomorrow

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  3. Julie Avatar

    I have such a hard time knowing when I am just going and when I am not reaching for what you have called “my best self.”

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  4. grace Avatar

    the just going finds the best self

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  5. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    These days I’ve come to realize that my aims are small, that my reach is small, even though my intent may be huge. If I give each day the best that I can, given the circumstance of the day, it is enough because it is a continuum of effort and that to me is what matters…

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  6. ateliertovke@yahoo.com Avatar

    i red somewhere, if you don’t like your life, do something totally different
    wise? or ?
    Grace i don’t fully understand the goat fertile thing….no more little goats?

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  7. patriciaspangler47@gmail.com Avatar

    oooooooooooooooooo. the kid. my heart stopped. at first i thought -an unplanned breeding? but then the text and the memory of this from long ago–and to see it again before my eyes. almost resurrection i think. and i think also that yes, this clearly epitomizes ‘just going.’ thank you.

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  8. Mo Crow Avatar

    your deep heart shines through this “just going”, it’s all so grand and alive and real, this expansion of being in the moment full of the love and pain of being in the microcosm of your raft in the desert & you do it with such grace Grace!

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  9. Dana Avatar

    Whoa Grace…this post just smacked me, picture after picture. First the tiny dead goat that was not at all dead (what a great sequence of photos!), then the reference to “no known indicators” which is where I am spending a lot of time right now. Then the earthy knobs of crusty fabric blooming before my eyes into color (a Just Going that I would wish for everyone) and finally the tiny figure under the towering sky articulating a feeling that most of us know in our hearts. Thank you.

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  10. grace Avatar

    and thinking this morning, Thursday, how Sky seems Everything
    in Winter months…harder to keep grounded. This is a good
    realization for me. Will find ways to that Groundedness.

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  11. grace Avatar

    Yvette…it’s that i haven’t been able to get anywhere within myself about what to do with the babies that are born. Obviously, i can’t keep one single Goat more. Can’t. Each Goat bred would kid twins or triplets. So if i bred two, that might mean 4 or 6 kids to find
    lives for. Since i don’t participate in the Larger Nigerian Dwarf
    Goat world of competing in Shows or the State Fair, i am left
    with small local solutions that are, well, small. Some people might want them for meat. Others might think they want them for whatever
    reasons but then soon decide they are too much trouble and i don’t
    know what their Fate becomes. So, it’s that dilemma that i haven’t
    gotten ANYWHERE with. So I didn’t breed this year.

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  12. grace Avatar

    she Was and Is my Teacher

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  13. grace Avatar

    am finding self needing to refine my “being in the moment”,
    a deeper surrender to Just Going is needed

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  14. grace Avatar

    so small under so much Sky, in cold months, such a challenge. In
    warm months, there is the balance of the Rim that eases things.

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  15. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Just going……being our best selves! The pictures and remembering the birth of Just Going ….Such an inspiration….it is all any of us can do!

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  16. yvette Avatar

    this is good!!!!!
    i was worried how you must make decicions about what to do with the not knowing where they go to
    no pfffffffff

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  17. grace Avatar

    YES!….pffffffff, yes. and yes.

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  18. Liz Avatar

    Sun came … yes it did … joy

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  19. Liz Avatar

    Have just finished reading July 2012 … synchronicity

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  20. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    best description of just going ever. And oh Grace the little one and the dearness of that birth and survival. I’m moved. Those decisions are hard, and your decision is kind given the circumstance. Kind and wise. Lovely new cloth!
    You know while I was scrolling down slow re-reading and re-viewing this wonderful post a song i loved from my own kid-hood popped into my head so I went searching for it to send to you: Singing Cowboy Gene Autry and the Ranch Boys sing the Cowboy Classic “Tumbling Tumbleweeds” from his movie “In Old Monterey” from Republic Pictures 1939. http://youtu.be/96XDEMh4Kis

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