GREAT WIND today,  March is here.  The walls of this house move, literally,  buffeted by this WIND.

My work away Monday got canceled and it should have been a BElovED  home day but the Old CowBoy needed some stuff done at the bank before his lawyer's appointment on Wednesday,  and he also said he needed to "rehearse"  what he wanted to say.  So i found self driving into town,  thinking,  after spending the last several months "weaning him" from any xtra time from me  (thinking he was moving to the relatives place)  here i was…."back in THAT saddle" and WHY???? and i decided to give up that line of thought and instead begin the Om Mani mantra which i did, 

and suddenly i SMILED.  What is all this buddhist practice FOR?  Compassion.  Spontaneous Compassion.  And what IS all this change going on with him but him expressing Need because he has no alternative now and what is this i'm feeling but the response to that need because there is really no alternative i have to offer and What Is It Then,  but

Compassion.

What i Practice.   OK,  then.  So.  OK.  Compassionate Just Going.   ok.  yes.

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the remaining CatHairScraps,  like Wind Horses that fly in Tibet, Nepal, India

 

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Wind Horses on the Raft

 

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Lizard.  How i Love how their arms and legs, hands and feet are so much like Our Own.   How they have five fingers and five toes.   How their arms and legs have a very spare plumpness to them.  How i Love Lizards,  their beingness, really so much like my own.

 

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19 responses to “Everything Moving”

  1. Liz Avatar

    I find it intriguing that I can have a very visceral negative response to snakes, but don’t mind at all that the anoles find the chairs in our breezeway to be a nice place to sun bathe.

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  2. Mo Crow Avatar

    ah those wind horses and the joy and the just goingness

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Cloth prayers waving in a wild March-strong wind.
    How divine are the rags the artist has pinned.
    She is loving those just-going winds, their surprises of timing,
    while up through grasses, on to her dress, a lizard is climbing.
    Then the old cowboy on his last long ride needs her.
    Om-Ma-Ni-Pa-Me-Hum the blessed mantra will feed her.

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  4. Valerianna Avatar

    Beautiful cloth, Grace, and a good reminder to always come back to compassion… I need to work on that for myself today! Happy March!

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  5. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Wind rippling across here yesterday, intensifying in the late afternoon but nothing shook except for the rattling sound of my cauldron lid that I had not supported with a heavy weight. My dye station which consists of a little fold up table loaded down with copper, aluminum and enamel pots is outside in the back yard. I keep the cauldron lids on by little bungee cords and heavy weights, The other day I was checking on the frozen icicle cloth in the walnut dye and forgot to put back the heavy lid weight so off I went, chasing down the lid which luckily did not sail over the fence and land in the scrub trail behind our house.
    Later rain came down hard, could have been hail from the sound it made hitting the windows but it was dark and I was tucked in bed reading so didn’t get up to check…fell asleep to the booming crackling sounds of thunder.
    This morning, all is calm, the land bathed in that benevolent blue that belies the force of the weather patterns here…the calm before the storm, more rain expected today; I stepped outside for a moment to bathe in sky glow.

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  6. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Just loved this Michelle.

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  7. Martine Bos Avatar

    You compassionate lizard….you!

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  8. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    WHY???? I think that people are always called to give of themselves in so many different ways……called from all directions …… we don’t all always hear that calling but those of us that do…..just do it…..we somehow find a way……I believe that is the answer to WHY!! Love the lizard…..and the flags blowing in the wind.

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  9. grace Avatar

    lizards are very much LIKE us. Look at those sun bathing anoles and see how their eyes are just like your own, and how they make
    EYE contact

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  10. grace Avatar

    yes. there IS joy

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  11. grace Avatar

    o
    this is so
    GOOD.
    and it does. More and More, the mantra feeds

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  12. grace Avatar

    Compassion is the Center. We can wander all we need to, but in the
    end, Compassion….for ourselves and for All is what it is

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  13. grace Avatar

    Marti… i love reading this because i can envision it , all of it, and it is so satisfying and good…the Waiting Through and “taking
    moments to bathe in sky glow”
    thank you so much for these glimpses into your Moments.
    Love….

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  14. grace Avatar

    I love becoming a compassionate lizard…Happiness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  15. grace Avatar

    if it is according to the PLAN, we DO. Maybe sometimes it is
    to NOT do??????
    to discern the difference is the Work.
    and yes. Lizards and Wind Horses…an odd combination, but
    truly what it Is.

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  16. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    revision of first and last lines for the rhythm when spoken:
    Cloth prayers waving in a wild March wind.
    Om-Ma-Ni-Pa-Me-Hum the blessed mantra feeds her.

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  17. jude Avatar

    i like the second pic, imagining the scraps breaking free and just going.

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  18. grace Avatar

    wouldn’t that be just so beautiful, to see them sailing across
    the Land….going and going

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  19. jude Avatar

    And everyone looking up and saying look!

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