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so,  this is a good example for me.  What the re re re re re on and on re commitment to meditation does…

It was supposed to Rain last night.  But this is what i saw first Light this morning.  

And instead of a lot of internal commotion,  i simply saw Blue.  How Blue it all looked out there.  Instead of entertaining all manner of useless concern about the Goats,  i simply saw Blue.  And i just went Out.  Spoke to them,  emptied their soggy feed bowls and filled them.  Shoveled the steps for Chinche and watched  Tay run.   Free.  It was all Free of any  "overlay" of stuff.  It simply was what it was.  And it was Blue.

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i loved looking at those CatHairScraps,  still flying like prayer flags and i saw the one on the far left as a horse.   a Horse Cloth.  someday.

And as a continuation to the post of yesterday,  this is what meditation means for me,  specifically, Tonglen…it is a release from the self created commotion.  It is a Response to what IS,  rather than a Reaction.  There is an important difference to me.

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more just small stitches but important,   the Invisible Baste,  Jude Hill   Spirit Cloth,  on the right side in this pic.  I wondered if it would be discernable.  It is.  there is a substance on the right side from the stitches  that is not present on the left yet.  A very slight implication of dimension. 

I've run out of wood.  Had called my wood guy, Evan,  whose mailbox was full.   He did finally call back and said he would go and haul more down,  but that he had been focused on some  OAK that he'd brought back from Texas  (LIZ)  when he hauled a load of New Mex wood to them there.  

OAK.  wow.  Oak.  well, more wow.  But it's $400 a cord.  No way.  He is looking for a market for it with restaurants  that cook with wood.  I am kind of a restaurant,  i cook a LOT,  but ……….and then he called back to say he couldn't go UP to get more for me,  it was wet,  slippery,  etc.  So now, i am thinking,  now what.  And again,  without commotion.   Just a quiet now what.  

ok.  so it's all Just Going.  

 

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10 responses to “Continuing ~”

  1. ² Avatar
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    fresh smelly air and a crystal carpet all over it
    good for the soil to

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  2. grace Avatar

    yes, Maria, yes.
    Good.
    a crystal carpet. Snow. a crystal carpet.

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Snow! Ho ho ho. Love the drape of snow on a piece of cloth on the line with the horse rag. Nothing in the way of being and doing, not even the lack of wood (though I hope your wood guy comes quick or you may have to use potentially useful boards). Every day, every moment is practice. It’s a gift.

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  4. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    One day at time…gifts and challenges. The snow is beautiful in all its freshness and yes much needed moisture. No fire wood is yes….challenging…..perhaps today that can be resolved. One day at a time……

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  5. Mo Crow Avatar

    Gosh I hope you don’t have to burn your favourite sticks! (I burned my driftwood colllection and all the old surfing & horse magazines one winter living out in the bush without power, running water or motorized transport (over half a lifetime ago now)

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  6. handstories Avatar

    I see the difference with stitch. and the horse, and mostly..the beautiful strange blue. It’s as if you awoke on another planet.

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  7. grace Avatar

    it is. every moment, Practice. the Opportunity to Practice.
    is such a Gift.
    there’s wood around here and there. I hesitate to use some because things have taken up HouseKeeping in them, in the “condominiums” of some wood piled. But if i have to, i will. We are so near the
    end. I’m hoping there’s enough here and there.

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  8. grace Avatar

    resolved by deciding to just hang in here. See if i have enough
    around. Yes. I like very much, One Day at a time.

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  9. grace Avatar

    no…it won’t come to that. There are a lot of other options.
    Bummer about the horse magazines
    some years ago there was very black smoke coming from neighbor
    Margie’s stove pipes, i called her to see if she was on fire but no, she said she was burning a cushion.

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  10. grace Avatar

    i like that you see these things. and that blue…only for some
    very few moments. And it swept me away.

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