this morning. The curtain it is on is an off white. The Winter Sky fabric itself is white. This fire honey is the Sun Itself. So yes. Light returns.
I give. This is it. There are flaws. But any "correction" causes something else. so…done. I cannot find the wherewithall to continue. The second window is on the bathroom sink. After work away tomorrow and Tuesday i will finish that one and i WILL NEVER IMAGINE THAT I CAN DO THIS EVER AGAIN. EVER.
cleared the dried Kochia from inside the Way Back Oasis fencing. Some of it was over 6ft tall. the Goats were glad to crunch away on the leaf and seed heads.
i had tried to clear it Mid Summer when Goats were pushing the fencing down and getting inside. Getting Inside means also eating the Russian Olive, Three Leaf Sumac and the forever vulnerable Native Olive that are what the Oasis is. I would very much like to keep these Three Out There.
The Wasps. When Mercy and Cinderella had managed to get themselves IN to the fence and i was trying to herd them Out without letting Everyone Else in, i got stung on the mouth. So i need to think ahead of how to work this this year. There are other places for them, these Wasps. There are ways we can all be here, following the Do No Harm tradition. I am thinking. But these cells today were so beauty full to me…the delicate papery cells, their color, elegant….how Strong that "stem" is that holds the nest to the twig. It's beauty full. All of it. And i remember that the Wasps feed on caterpillars and i remember how the caterpillars consumed half of this Three Leaf Sumac's leaves. I need the Wasps. The Three Leaf Sumac needs the Wasps.
How can we do it?
and because the Wasps stung me, i never went in there again to pull down the Bindweed from the branches. Today again. it is Beauty full…the tangle, but stifles the Sumac.
squatting there i looked at the Earth under these Tree Bushes…how it's changing. Because of the fence, the leaves seem to stay where they fall instead of blowing away. They are layering, decomposing there and the quality of the sand Earth is changing. Still sand, but with other components. Does the Sumac and the Russian Olive and the dear Native Olive send their roots beyond the fencing, Out…into where the Goats are and take nutrients from that soil that is changing? I don't know. It takes a lot of time to be able to even speculate yes or no. All i can do is notice.
AND i almost forgot. On Being Krista Tippet…..the interview with Brene Brown. The Courage to be Vulnerable.
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