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AnyThing can Happen

i've got some sort of Big Thought incubating.  I have NO idea what it is.  But it IS there,  just out of view.  

the new National Geographic was a clue.   Stories on Dolphins and BEEs! and of all things, Detroit. Who'd guess.  Detroit.  I was born in Detroit.  Spent my late teens and very early 20's back in Detroit.

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i thought about when we are young,  we get an Idea and we go for it.  Then at some point along the way,  we get some kind of Image of Who We Are and we begin Feeding this image.

What if i sold everything.  Bought a big horse trailer,  took the Old Cowboy's Chevy 4 wheel drive truck that is really mine now and just took off.  

I have a friend,  Wendy.  Still there.  She never left.  I had my first Real apartment with her.  She has one of the houses in Detroit…one of the old really beauty FULL ones with beveled glass everything,  oak door casings,  it's Elegant.  It's still an ok neighborhood,  her's.  Barely.  What if i showed up.  Me and the Goats,  Chinche, Tazmeena and Tay.  And unloaded in her back yard.  There's a guy who has a hydroponic talapia farm.  What if i wandered the outlying areas of the inner city with this Herd of Goats.  Cleaning and fertilizing neighborhoods?  Can we SEE it???????

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MANY invisible baste stitches today and i keep fooling with the face

 

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23 responses to “AnyThing can Happen”

  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Well actually, nooooooooooooooooooo, cannot see you anyplace but here because:
    …your eyes shine with the blue of this amazing sky.
    …your breath blows the sweet breeze of feather grasses.
    …your skin tans like the mesas on our way to Cuba, New Mexico.
    …your aura is painted with the hues of turquoise, burnt umber, sienna, mocha, sage green, sand, snow cloud white.
    …you hum a tune that I think the spadefoot toads sing when they rise up from the earth.
    …you are one with New Mexico because that little girl who looked through those National Geographics in the attic, took into her body and soul, the vistas, the land, the colors, the stories and to this day, this place, this simple, wild, land of enchantment,flows in your blood stream.

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  2. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    Yes

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  3. Micael Avatar
    Micael

    Kai and Lana, two children for whom I am an adopted aunt, were given some caterpillars a few weeks back. They have just started to pupate. The kids are so excited about this. This is the stage where anything is possible – those caterpillars are in their little butterfly cage engaged in alchemy, turning lead to gold. We suspect they will turn into butterflies, but who knows? They might hatch out as hummingbirds, or giraffes. That is kind of how I feel reading your blog tonight – like you are engaged in some alchemy, pupating. I am excited to see what will emerge. All blessings to you.

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  4. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    (Grace, a brief note about your comment on my last blog post sent me back to add the original photo and this note–The photo is the loop at the bottom of the wood block that is hit by a wooden mallet in a series to call us into the zendo to sit zazen at ny zen center for compassionate care and NOT necessarily negative. Like the Tibetan Book of the Dead, it is to remember death in order not to waste life.)
    As for the BIG idea about a maybe Detroit…not entirely a bad idea. Lots happening there, neighborhoods rebuilding and reclaiming themselves and some places were even giving away homes for anyone willing and able to rehabilitate them and rough out the change. I don’t know if you’ve got the grist for that sort of HUGE shift and struggle. But, you will know. You sure have enough grist for the struggles you’ve faced right where you are. Then I think about the land you laid claim to next to yours because you want space between you and development, and about how much silence you need, and about the colors of New Mexico, the smells and the light. It’s pretty exciting to think about. Keep me posted.

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  5. .cynthia Avatar
    .cynthia

    what a beautiful response

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  6. jude Avatar
    jude

    My son is looking at Detroit

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  7. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Beautifully said…..heartfelt!

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  8. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Looking and seeing…dreaming and doing…..in our minds eye we are capable of amazing things. Sweet BLESSINGS Grace.

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  9. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. in our Mind’s Eye. it’s important to look from that
    point of View….

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  10. patriciaspangler47@gmail.com Avatar
    patriciaspangler47@gmail.com

    well, at this point i think i can say there’s not a lot that would surprise me–and because i see you as a woman capable of so much, i can see you pulling off this adventure as well. so, will watch from the wings. and who knows, maybe on the level of “imagining,” the imagining may be enough.

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  11. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    Oh Ha! you and the nomadic herd of goats visiting Detroit! A man walks his 2 goats in King St here in Newtown (very busy eclectic bohemian inner city 4 lane truck route) & they enjoy it!

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  12. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Grace-Jude–this is a year old but there are numbers and contacts and maybe there’s still something there–http://archive.freep.com/article/20140414/NEWS01/304140133/Detroit-land-bank

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  13. julie Avatar
    julie

    oy

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  14. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    Hmm…is there something in the air? Over the past two weeks I’ve thought…I could go somewhere else, I could have an “adventure,” am I really where I want to be, need to be? I think it’s good to occasionally stop and ask these questions.

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  15. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. it does. but i also have Detroit IN me like a cellular thing. Looking at this article, i so understood every word. It was a real awakening.

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    hummingbirds, or giraffes…how beautiful this thought….
    that’s the thing….Everything can be Anything

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes…i know about the wood block. Eventually, it falls apart…
    I read the article and i am watching. Detroit. Talk about
    transformation….
    It’s important to me, to know why i need to be Here

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    For him, it might be Magnificant.

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  19. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. This is what is Happening

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  20. grace Avatar
    grace

    it will be enough, but it is also very important. To really
    know that it COULD happen…if it needed to. I really COULD
    do this. This is important.

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  21. grace Avatar
    grace

    2 Goats….17….different

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  22. grace Avatar
    grace

    i come upon this
    oy
    and i begin laughing. Yes. oy for sure…still laughing

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  23. grace Avatar
    grace

    they are critical questions to me. Why?. Why one and not the other?
    Clarity. a soft smile and gaze and a nod of the head. Yup….it says. Ok.
    EVERYWHERE IS GOOD
    EVERYWHERE IS GOOD.
    so, ok. Yup.

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