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Morning

 

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Finished.  For M1130 and F1305

 

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the Raft

 

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Native Sunflower….thrives…in over 100 degrees while other things wilt

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Goats thrive.  Run the corridor,  back and forth through evening into early night.

 

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the Dog.  The Dog is Good.

 

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this photograph….somewhere around 20 years ago.   a Solstice.   A moment that marked a moment… when i realized it was going to be different than i had imagined.  Harder.  I didn't have a clue how hard.   But i had a sense of Holding Place.  But NO sense of what that might mean.

So i sat.  Watched dark come.  I DID hold Place.  but i thought tonight about what that had taken.  What i Gave to Hold Place.

 

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Next.

 

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16 responses to “Solstice 2015”

  1. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    sometimes it’s enough, just to have a feeling of “next”. . .

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  2. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    If it had come easy, would it have meant the same?

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  3. Els Avatar

    Happy Solstice Grace !
    And keep on Holding Place ! 😉

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  4. patriciaspangler47@gmail.com Avatar

    more on that, please–more on what it meant to hold place.

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  5. tracy Avatar
    tracy

    Yes, please. Patricia and I want to know.

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  6. Mo Crow Avatar

    The wolf cloth is strong, may she find her pack
    I love the look of quietly fierce determination in your eyes Grace
    & yes please to hearing the back story on what it has meant to Hold Place
    celebrating The Turning in this MidPoint of the year

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  7. Martine Bos Avatar

    Happy Solstice Grace…….
    You fiery, strong beauty….lets enjoy summer!

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  8. .cynthia Avatar
    .cynthia

    i too would love to know..to Hold Place..in this year when i have been so glad when centers have Held…thinking of you in your heat..i have been walking on the grass..the earth is so warm and so soggy..sodden…wet…as is the very air…i do not forget this in vermont…..but the reality is intense…so verdant ..i have been looking at mouse ear hosta leaves in the yard and then back at your sunflower leaves and as always coming here makes the world stretch and contract all at once
    so happy for Tay
    gentle evening grace

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  9. grace Avatar

    i still always need that…that Next….i hope to come someday to
    a time when i don’t
    when i can just let Nothing be Nothing

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  10. grace Avatar

    i don’t know, Marti. It could have come softer, more gentle more
    kind and it might even have meant more, but i don’t know. It came
    how it came. Hard, some ugly and some frightening. But by then, there was no turning back.

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  11. grace Avatar

    thank you Els…yes. it’s easy now to Hold. It’s Good.

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  12. grace Avatar

    to not let the workings of the Story that doesn’t belong to me
    take things
    take things that were/are of deep value
    things that were/are Real
    to stand and face the hardness and stand ground.

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  13. grace Avatar

    Celebrating the Turning…today toward the dark already, how
    swiftly the turning is

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  14. grace Avatar

    always i LOVE summer, LOVE summer so so much, my time of
    ease and comfort and love

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  15. grace Avatar

    sodden earth and the very air
    how so unlike this place of dust and DRY
    as you love the words from here, i love the words from There, your
    sodden

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