Rabbit.  This morning.  Again and i went out and chased it around the East side of the Oasis and it made a cross yard get away through a small space at the hinge of the big Way Back fence.  Good.  Out.  OK! and i collected some rocks that would fill that space just right,  too  heavy for a rabbit to push.

Turning,  a Surprise!

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a Flower Garden of sorts!

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PINK blossoms

 

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and PURPLE!  Look how cracked the soil is.  There is NO WATER back in this part of the Way Back other than falls from the Sky.  But it evidently was enough…for a Garden of sorts.  Which Wind, i wonder, had deftly carried and scattered these seeds?

 

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i worked away an extra day today and when i returned,  went out for a Rabbit Patrol and LOOK!  The Pinks are really a kind of daisey!  So this Places version of Jude's beauty Full Place in Long Island.  How Beauty FULL that we bloom together in our own way……………..

But back to the R word.  After marveling at the Garden,  i turned again and what did i see????  Another rabbit.  This one very small and not a Jackrabbit,  but a cottontail.  ACK.   I went back and pulled the rocks away and then took off after This rabbit which ran, without hesitation,  to a small space that is open to UNDER THE HOUSE.    It knew where it was going. 

A while ago,  while i was on the phone to Greatest Nurse Cindy, i was looking out and there it was.

So small,  innocent, sweet,  inside the Oasis,  Goats all around  eating grass and weed tips through the fence,….right there….and small rabbit among them,  and it comes out and sits in the way only a rabbit can sit just inches from Goat hooves and they  look down and sniff and snort like they do and he sits.  All Happy.

Happy.

The final round of the Metta is 

May We ALL be safe.  Be Happy.  Be Healthy.  May ALL live with ease.

so i think.  But there is an entire field of alfalfa just across the road.  There is a ditch flowing with water.  There are so many great places for a Rabbit.    Why here?  for the first and only time in 20 years?  

I let it go and worked more on the cloth which has totally captured my Heart.   How I am LOVING this Cloth.  With each stitch,  invisible,  i love it more.    

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how the very Old and Soft linen that is the High Desert Meadow After Rain is so  so  sensual just as a high desert meadow after rain IS.  

This Cloth is BEAUTYFULL.  And i say that,  not having an iota to do with me.  Nothing to do with me.  It chose its Self.  It IS its Self.  There are only two stitches…the running stitch of the Kantha and Jude's Invisible Baste.  Nothing much,  but oh….oh……to me it is so so BEAUTY FULL.   a couple of moments i've thought it "should" have even just a Sun or a Moon because it is so Plain,  but NO.  It's the plain ness that is IT.  Nothing Needed.  Earth and Sky and then all that is Ever Present Around,  circling Around.  Available…all that is Ever Present and Available.  

so….Happiness, Right?  Wendy's Children.  To become Safe enough,  to someday find that there are Things just Available to them,  just There,  and if they can become Safe enough,  they can reach out….take something…try it out…..find out that it's Theirs Too.  A piece of Sky.  A piece of Earth.  A Color.

 

 

 

 

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24 responses to “love, scattered and some unsure, maybe ill advised”

  1. Wendy Avatar
    Wendy

    The cloth is just stunning; your photos of it opening itself up, blooming, have been breathtaking. And, peace with the rabbits. How beautiful that is, too, Grace. Lots of love.

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  2. grace Avatar

    Wendy…then you see it as i do….i never know….but you do…
    you see what i’m seeing…it’s Openness, its just Love. Thank you.

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  3. Chip butter Avatar

    High Desert Meadow…after Rain…Beauty Full, For Sure!

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  4. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Just gorgeous…everything is just gorgeous. This cloth as it grew and right now is SO fine…and anything but ‘plain’. It’s a very strong statement of wholeness, and skill. Just VERY FINE. I also liked seeing your feet in the darkness below the work table 🙂 As for lovely rabbits and how they so easily integrated with the goats, well I love them. None the less I sent you an email with some information to consider, as there are never just two rabbits and rabbits are prolific.

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  5. patriciaspangler47@gmail.com Avatar

    sometimes when i meditate, i imagine a meadow. sometimes a mountain. sometimes the sea. now this. this portal into another realm of beauty. beauty with perspective. and i am the bird. soaring. this image will be with me for ever.

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  6. julie Avatar

    It(the cloth) is like daybreak through a window, only the sun is on the inside of the window!! I love it too.
    Doesn’t Tay want to Kill the Wabbit?

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  7. Deb G Avatar

    Love this…that’s all and everything. 🙂

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  8. deb lacativa Avatar

    that cloth is magic. a portal to the right place.
    I wonder if the flower garden might have come from seeds carried in the rabbit (or bird) poop.

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  9. beth Avatar

    Oh Grace, the tenderness here. Imagine a child with anxiety and fear about what lies beyond, what is hidden around the next corner. And presenting the possibility that the beyond could be such a wonderful place… A portal. I’m so moved by the work Wendy is doing and how cloth can be a part of that.

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  10. jude Avatar

    It’ swell when you love something.

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  11. Martine Bos Avatar

    I read r and i see pink and i can happily go to sleep, knowing you are really pink!

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    it IS. the suddenness of the water from the sky changes it all.
    and how things WAIT, WAIT for the water is astounding

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. i am watching. I DO NOT want rabbits here. All around me there is Place for rabbits….so much space for rabbits. NOT HERE.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    a bird soaring…yes. very much, yes.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    Tay doesn’t know rabbit. She knows Cat and Toad, but in her life,
    she is yet 2, she doesn’t know rabbit, doesn’t know “wild”. I don’t know what she might do. She has instinct to chase and know, but
    i don’t think kill is in her. But chase and know would be enough for deterring rabbit, maybe….we wait. see how it plays out.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    it is, isn’t it.

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    it could. not the rabbit because it’s not been long enough, but bird shit, yes, but because of where it is…the farthest point of the Way Back, i am thinking Wind

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. the hypervigilence. exhausting. but to imagine something
    different…and it IS there….the something different. Wendy
    gives this, the the reality of Other. And cloth. cloth speaks of this Other reality…indicates a Way

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    i love to think of pink and sleeping ease for you…over there,
    where you keep your Eye on me

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  20. handstories Avatar

    Today I’m going to stitch the words “enough” & “with ease”.

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  21. grace Avatar

    yes.
    enough, with ease.
    yes.

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