the celestial sphere.   atmosphere.   Sky.  

 

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the New 12 ft of fencing,  give or take.   It was the Old 12ft of fencing that smashed me into the mud.  I was Under it.    So,  it was a matter of being squashed.   Goats.  save the Goats.   Squashed.

so,  Alz. B's son Bill.  He likes to run things on the edge.  Was coming   "any minute"  for hours.  I tried to keep Goats here or  then there in order to make it easier,  but to no avail.  Between imminent storm and the neighbor's fireworks,  they would not have it and broke through two attempts to contain them until i just finally gave up and let it go.  Late evening,  just before he arrived,  STORM came again and so some rain to begin it and they ran into the Albatross  and i ran too,  closing their way out.  Stuck.  They were stuck.  But he DID arrive and with him was Allan,  his neighbor, who i also work for,  and we began.  Overhead,  or,  as we call it,  SKY,  

moved

whirled,  churned,  lit up and was beyond Grand.   We worked,  cutting and digging and moving over and screwing in,  and the

SKY

i cannot tell you.  There is no way to say it.  Above,  in all and every direction was Some Kind of Sky.  Different,  in all directions.   At one point just Above,  in NorthEast

 

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These are Mammatus Clouds…Mammary Clouds  that i have never seen before.  You can google this.  

Other directions GRAND DARK and BRILLIANT LIGHT clouds with LIGHTNING.  This kind of atmospheric phenomena is called Micro Burst.  You can google that too.  Micro Burst.  Can drop an ordinary Airliner from the "sky".  

The turbulance.  Up There above me,  struggling here  on my little rim of this Earth.

I am humbled.

on Friday,  when it was HERE in full force of what it is,  Tay and i were trying to KEEP  what we know and what we love …. Safe.   Yet

we were at it's Mercy.  and i know that that is just a word…mercy…..there is no Mercy….there simply is….Sky.

and so it goes.

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Vitex.  Chaste Tree.  Blooming very late,  yet…blooming.

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26 responses to “sky”

  1. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    you took it all in. . .and lived to tell it. . .and the goats are fine, no?. . .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4MokLDi5NY. . .Sam Baker’s Mercy, love

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  2. grace Avatar

    Jan
    there IS
    mercy, isn’t there. Just not what we imagine…but there IS.
    this Utube…incredibly just so tender and yes, how it feels that we did. we DID be ok, yes, the Goats, ok, me, Tay, this small
    Rim here, ok and
    a kind of Mercy.
    i cannot Thank You enough for this…this Sam Baker’s Mercy in the way it is in the way, love

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  3. Wendy Avatar
    Wendy

    Ah. Wonderful. I’m glad all of you made it through the storm, and the damage, the squashing. Such a relief. Mercy indeed.

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  4. Mo Crow Avatar

    such beautiful music
    namaste

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  5. elizabeth Avatar
    elizabeth

    So glad You are all ok…

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  6. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    The phrase, “at the mercy”, humm, well yes. We come here to New Mexico and gasp at the wondrous sky, the vastness of it and it can and does change in an instant and we are at the mercy of the elements; when the dark glides in, it sometimes comes so quickly that all you can do is gasp. It’s a story unfolding daily and in time, you get the rhythm of it all, how it begins the dance of changing in the late afternoon and just when you settle, the rhythm changes and so it is here. But mercy is also kind and so merciful thankfulness that all is getting back to where it should be.
    The cloth, with the eyes, witnessing it all, now seems to have absorbed this stormy turbulence, as if not only bearing witness to it all but “living” it as well…

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  7. jude Avatar

    I might call this cloth “In It.”

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  8. yvette Avatar

    ooooh Grace….i googled and o myyyyyy scary….you must have been so frighted for the goats and probally not for yourself
    what a force of nature
    sososooo happy it’s over now and you are sore but safe…all of you
    mother earth is with you

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  9. Mo Crow Avatar

    love your wild sky reflected in the cloth

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  10. saskia Avatar

    such a marvelous tree
    thankful you are still okay

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  11. saskia Avatar

    oh and am strangely moved by yellow/golden beads in pics 5,6,7 from top to bottom

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  12. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Weather….it can be as ugly as it can be beautiful….as fearce as it can be gentle….so happy that you and all your 4 legged family members are ok.

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  13. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Whew. Can’t beat nature for drama! It is humbling….or just a reminder of the facts of being alive in the material and the material has SO much material to manifest….May you be well, may you be safe may all be well and safe.

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  14. Liz Avatar

    I just don’t know what I’d do without a day of Grace … and so am thankful that all is well in the end, though the getting there made for a harrowing tale

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  15. grace Avatar

    and to you

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  16. grace Avatar

    it is still operational almost a week later

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  17. grace Avatar

    thank you….i am so so glad too
    just to be ok is really Something

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  18. grace Avatar

    i didn’t know it would be this, but it is, yes…Living it as well.
    How often the cloths come as precurser

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  20. grace Avatar

    Everything is here in it and of it. This was a Great Great Lesson

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  21. grace Avatar

    the cloth talked of it Coming

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  22. grace Avatar

    the tree, yes. I should write about this tree

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  23. grace Avatar

    yes. i really wanted that Thread to be present…the color…
    and some are thread beads but most just random marks, a single
    stitch some, some small clusters
    like energy lights

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  24. grace Avatar

    this is what i am so mesmerized by…how it’s all kind of the
    same and how do i know that More….???????

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  25. grace Avatar

    yes. May we be Safe. and if not, May we know how to be well.

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  26. grace Avatar

    but it’s been and continues to be so extremely Important…

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