So…i am at Ease this evening.  Today's monsoon storm has come and gone.  There is a good Wind,  but just good.  All is well.  I am sitting here,  typing away.  Watching the print appear on the screen as it appears in my mind.  Thinking how i think it and it flows down from my brain into my arms and out my fingers onto the keyboard then appearing on the screen.  It's a kind of Talking.  Silent Talking.  and an odd kind because i talk first and then Wait for YOU to say something back.  Not the same as in a "real time"  conversation that is immediate.  There is waiting here.  It's nice, in its own way.  But so is….talking.   VOICE.  

so here is my telephone number:  575  835  9363

it's True,  that i am not a lot a telephone person.   But it is also TRUE that sometimes i am.  or,  Like it.  A Voice.  A  voice  is very important.   An immediate response.  So i'm thinking about all this.  Wondering.   Thinking how it's changed.  the Etiquette of Communication.   How it seems that the telephone is "off limits".  Is somehow an Invasion?  Feeling that it's really an Intrusion to call someone.

Just thinking.  Just Wondering.

 

While there was no way to communicate here,  i watched closely how my world seemed to become so much smaller.  How it was just as far as my eye could see out over the horse pasture next door.  I don't have television or radio, even,  tho i could have radio…and maybe i might do the radio thing again?…but in these two days that seemed much longer,  there was only me and whoever lives here with me.  Sunday night the granddaughter called and it felt like from outer space.

So to pull all this up a little short…There is the TELEPHONE number up above.  If you might be Wondering what's going on….dial it…HA!   poke the numbers.  I'll answer.

The very Fine young man in the Telephone/Internet tech support,  after he fed in the "lost" or "forgotten" information from/to the modem told me that sometimes when this happens,  it begins to happen again and that means i need to get a new modem.  This one is 8 years old.  Which to me seems young.  But i guess in modem world it isn't.    So OK.  i won't be shocked like i was this weekend.  

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this is how the Storms are.  Just before the Internet went out,  this one came…from over on the Rim.  They are stronger and MORE than they ever have been.

 

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Chinche is afraid.  She doesn't know what to do.

 

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Tay stays as close as she can get.

 

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When SUN comes

 

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in cloth,  does she "read" as she originally did in paper?  I can't tell because i am so used to looking at her

and i forgot to say….to the first above,  that i would Never just kind of disappear here with no explanation.  I would at least say i'm going away.   Writing here and posting the pics is not at all hard for me.  It takes no undue effort,  and really is a certain kind of Joy.   I am not one to be worn down by blogging  or the Internet.  Always,  my only concern is that it's boring,  and i have come to terms with that and think…Oh Well….Boring…so OK.

So….LOVE to All who come around.  It means a lot.  Here in this Place i find mySelf…..

 

 

 

 

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29 responses to “Ease. And too, thinking about Etiquette”

  1. Liz Avatar

    I’m not a phone person … hearing is too hard, so I love the blog world and email. I did worry, just a little … your weather has been pretty intense (all weather these days actually). But I recalled a recent post that said you were having computer issues … and was glad that was it and was fixable. So, we are your Plan D … phone accessible if ever the need should arise. And that’s the great thing about backup plans … when you have them, they usually aren’t needed.
    And glad you’re back … I missed you!

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  2. carole Avatar
    carole

    Yes Grace we missed you, we need our daily dose of Grace
    Love & Blessings for you .. Carole xo

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  3. grace Avatar

    so, carole…i am still thinking. It’s a dose of a Day, really.
    when i began the everyday thing, it was because i wanted to
    really Honor that, just a day, maybe a day that didn’t seem like
    much, but really…was an intrinsic part of a Life Time that is made UP of just days and before we know it, it’s gone BY and OVER…
    day by day….
    and to say…ANYTHING THAN ANYONE EVER IS INCLINED TO ADD HERE IS
    SO SO SO MUCH WELCOME… these are OUR days,
    Love,

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  4. grace Avatar

    i need ALL my plans. am realizing that. I need ALL my plans and
    am GRATEFULL for them

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  5. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Now I’m not worried. I was worried, in fact I put your number by the phone and figured if you didn’t blog tonight I’d call, but now I’m not worried at all. I like the phone well enough, but the cost is a burden. Otherwise I might phone a few people a lot more. As it is I have to pay at least 45$ just to keep the damn land line. I have a pay as you go cell I use only in emergencies, or when traveling. It’s off most of the time and right now has no $ on it due to my most recent austerity belt tightening. You should have a wind up battery radio though Grace….just in case, though a CB would be ultimately the best. I’ve always wanted one of those. Meanwhile…
    http://www.smarthome.com/c-crane-cobs-cc-solar-observer-wind-up-emergency-radio-with-am-fm-and-weather-band-black.html
    Love the little cloth woman as much as I did the paper version…LOVE HER VERY much!

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  6. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Part two
    Monsoon-“Ever So Lonely”–https://youtu.be/ouIss1cBghk

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  7. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    She “reads” so well on the cloth. I look at Patricia’s scrap and see what looks like a thread trail, leading down from it, a kite, maybe but what comes to me is a sky opening, revealing how it looks when weather, wind, the wild comes and the thread trail could be a way to hold on or fly into it all…
    Re: etiquette. Glad you gave your # because when you blog daily and then don’t, people worry and as Liz said, we are plan D. To that point, I was going to call on Sunday but Rich said to wait, because he knows that there are times you like the phone and times you need to be with yourself so I waited…I am not a phone person, have never been, even in my younger days when phone and letters were how we communicated, would rather write than talk but sometimes, those emergencies crop up and sometimes, as you say, the sound of a voice is good.

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  8. grace Avatar

    it’s a moth

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  9. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Very good to have your number….although I was worried a bit I was more happy thinking that maybe you just needed time for yourself…..and that thought made me happy because way to often we put the need of others before our own. For the time you give to this blog world….GRATEFUL BLESSINGS!!!!

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  10. dee Avatar

    to me the moth has the energy of the storm or its aftermath or its incipient state, rolling in … her looking up the way you look up
    i thought being ‘without’ might have been interesting for all the usual ways that when we are denied something that we depend on and need and fill our time with, we sometimes discover things. It’s one reason Julia Cameron has her students do a ‘reading fast’ which these days would have to be a ‘screen fast’… to see what comes up.
    Anyway, I, too, am glad you’re back.

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  11. Mo Crow Avatar

    what a beautiful new cloth and it’s so good to see you back in the cyber sea!

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  12. jude Avatar

    so far she looks the same on cloth.

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  13. beth Avatar

    I laughed and laughed to see your phone #. But yes, I have felt that little stomach lurch before when I have come here and there is no post–so this is good. If ease is needed it is a phone call away. I love that you did this.

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  14. dedri Avatar

    It is some comfort to read here that I was not the only one who wondered, Where is Grace? What has Happened? And What about the Goats??? The storms have been strange here this year, I am south of you a bit in Las Cruces. The wind comes from the North and East here too – which is just strange for this time of year. Enormous rains, so when you are not here on this blog I do worry because we get some of what you get.
    This blog is never boring. It is a true touchstone in a tenuous world.

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  15. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    ************************ANNOUNCEMENT********************************
    grace just called me and she is having the same problem with her computer/modem as she did over the weekend. She will come back to windthread just as soon as she can get this all sorted and fixed. So no worries, she is ok.

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  16. yvette Avatar

    thank you Marti!
    it takes the worries away!

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  17. carole Avatar
    carole

    Thankyou, Marti xo

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  18. carole Avatar
    carole

    sooo good, everyone looks out for each other , hugs to all xo

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  19. Liz Avatar

    I love this … love this community, this caring, this need we have to know all is well

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    the phone is a good invention

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar

    i have plenty of time, really. it’s how i choose to use it.
    But there’s plenty of it.

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar

    well…maybe this is true. The Therapy came up.

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar

    close. close. maybe close enough. i hope so.

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar

    phone number…like it’s such a thing to GUARD….
    hmmmm….i am in the phone book in case anyone remembered
    what that was
    i would have put it in NEON
    LOVE to you..

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  25. grace Forrest Avatar

    O HEY dedri just down south of me…thank you for coming….
    and yes…it’s different isn’t it…am glad that you tell me
    that you feel it in Las Cruces too….
    it IS. and yes…from the North and East. This is not
    “how it is” that we know of.
    It’s the Goats. Me, the dogs, cat….i don’t worry for. What
    will be will be. But it’s the Goats, those Goats….

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  26. grace Forrest Avatar

    Yes. Thank You Marti. This was good.

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  27. debbie.weaver Avatar

    Grace I may not comment much but I read your blog everyday, though we are not in a wireless zone at the moment or only at times like now. I love your blog, boring never, my own world is quite small, reading blogs from all over the world makes me feel as if there is a large circle of people out there who make me feel included.
    I am not a telephone person, finding it easier to communicate when I have time to think about words before I say them.

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  28. grace Avatar

    yes…debbie….it’s what has been the most amazing to
    me, more and more, …. this Large Circle …and the Ease
    and Pleasure of continuing with Us All over time.
    I never imagined when i began. But how “ready” We All have been.
    Thank you for your words, love

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