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was going to just skip posting.  Just skip it.  Then sitting in the Morning Chair i looked out the screen door to see this "sky".   So,  no matter what i had "done" with this day or "did not do" with this day,  the Day Its Self  ……,    …….,   was.   

So, aside what i did or did not do.  Aside from the difficulties of which i participated,  the Day experienced itself.  Clearly and Completely.   I did or did not do things.   I Put things onto this day like we might put pieces of cloth on a blank ground cloth.  

 

 

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34 responses to “a day”

  1. Liz Avatar

    To sit and watch the sky counts as a day well spent in my book

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  2. Stephanie Avatar
    Stephanie

    I love the sky picture! Our sky has been very gray, but I’m grateful for the coolness and the rain we had yesterday in northern California. I love that you have names for things like the “Morning Chair.” Today I had frustration and anxiety. Much better now. I’m hoping that you have found a calm place, too.

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Glorious SKY doing itself despite any thing and any one.
    Forgive me Grace, but I laughed out loud at the Asshole OC encounter, and the two trips and one in terrible weather and the phrase “driving on the freeway of NO VISABILITY”…and the goats and Tay all twisted up with their expectations, and YOU twisted and turned by the neediness of others and not wanting to be twisted and turned. Okay, not funny, but very, very funny seen from a distance like a short movie. Dear Grace. May Sunday bring you a calm beyond calm, acceptance deeper than the deepest river, and peace for piece work, stitching or staring.

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  4. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Again because I think I may have made this comment before but I want to say I love your way with words and the love and friendship you have for Grace is felt in your responses over and over again…..I feel blessed to be witness to it.

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  5. jude Avatar

    well i love how the story came out in your comment but now there is only sky once again.

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  6. beth Avatar

    A distillation of the day leaving indigo sky.

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  7. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    we hold the truth of it, even though the words have been taken away. . .saying what is so. and sky is good.

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  8. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    UH OH–You are not posting today (maybe just exhausted, maybe more disturbances, maybe just sky. Meanwhile Jude said “I think blogging is dead” on Face book…..I said no many many times….but, what ever will be will be.

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  9. yvette Avatar

    looking back all difficulties seem so minor detail
    always a comforting thing for me

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  10. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Thinking of you……

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  11. jude Avatar

    reincarnation!

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  13. Stephanie Avatar
    Stephanie

    Hi, Grace. I’m sending good thoughts your way. I also want to thank Tina for her comment to Michelle. She expressed so well what I’ve been feeling. I see much reaching out in love when I come here. It is a blessing to me, too. So I’m hoping all is well with you, dear Grace.

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  14. carole Avatar
    carole

    Thinking of you Grace, hope today is a better day
    love and Blessings Carole xo

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  15. elizabeth Avatar
    elizabeth

    Hope all is well with you Grace.

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  16. Chipbutter Avatar

    I love your sky pictures, and when you write of New Mexico. Willa Cather in “Death Comes for the Archbishop,” writes of the sky there – “…and there was so much sky, more than at sea, more than anywhere else in the world…that brilliant blue world of stinging air and moving cloud. Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.”
    Missing Windthread…hope all is well!

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  17. Dana Avatar

    I love “Death Comes for the Archbishop”. Grace’s pictures often remind me of it.

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    we look for that…that calm place
    it IS there,
    always

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    since…this is Monday, now, i know that that is where i am
    going to be now…
    the place where i can find laughter in it all

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    this is such a fine thing to say

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar

    distilled. i like this. distilled

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar

    oh.
    she did? she said that? O. O. i am startled. is it?
    Blogging is dead?
    why might we think this?
    o.
    this is kind of a bummer

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. when something really BIG comes, other things seem small.
    I thought a lot about this today.

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  25. grace Forrest Avatar

    thank you for underlining this, Stephanie….it is
    more important than anything

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  26. grace Forrest Avatar

    Monday…and yes. it is. it’s a really GRAND day

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  27. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. and hope for YOU too…whatever is in YOUR world….

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  28. grace Forrest Avatar

    i need to read this book..I’ve known it for so long, so
    maybe now…
    LOVE to you

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  29. grace Forrest Avatar

    ok. will go to the Libray. OK. it’s time now.

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  30. grace Forrest Avatar

    o….am reading this at the end of the day…Monday…and am
    REALLY kind of startled…
    Blogging is DEAD?
    Why?
    Why would someone say this? I suppose i could go to facebook
    and hunt around to find some kind of answer, but i don’t want to.
    WHY???
    oh…this is really a bummer.

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