so…at 8a on the dot i talk again to yet another very fine young man at Century link Tech Support.

Internet light GREEEEEEEN.

Soon as i feed the Goats i will order a new modem and be done with this comotion.

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He gave me all the stuff to type in to reset it this time and waited patiently while i wrote it all down with a pen on a piece of paper.  It is possible that until the different modem arrives,  i may be able to reconnect myself  if /when it goes out again.  We'll see.  But if i am Gone again,   floating off, like the figure above….well….i'll be back when i can.   Because i LIKE being here.  It occurred to me this morning that this blog is like my Basket, ….in Jude's terms…..

so…off to feed Goats and Love to all and Thank you to Marti.

 

LATER THIS MORNING….11:00 AM,  waiting for Alfalfa Delivery

Who would have guessed.    I remember long ago,  when i liked to use Runes,  one was 
"Consider the uses of Adversity"…it was my favorite.

While sitting on the porch last night,  watching the Rim with Tay,  waiting for time to call the Old Cowboy and tell him to take his pill, ( so I could go to bed myself)  I was just free floating…like the figure of the drawing…untethered…dis~connected…adrift….and i was very suddenly awash with so many feelings.  All at once,  almost undistinguishable one from another,  none of them surprising or unknown but that they were so strong.   and I suddenly wondered if Tana,  the Old Cowboy's Hospice Social Worker had a private practice…………..??????????………………………..

and i thought that i would think about it a little first,  but maybe call her and ask…tell her that i would like to sort through some things.   

This morning,  (how it goes)  she called here to ask if OCB has a fire extinguisher and smoke detectors.   and i thought….OK.  so i asked her and no,  she has been thinking of beginning a private practice,  but has not acted on it.  She asked why and i told her…that i have loose threads that are tangling all over the place,  that keep moving and i'd like to sit with someone and at least Look at them,  see if i can Still them a little.  As she does,  she was quiet a moment,  and then said  That can fall under Bereavement counseling for Care Giver.  I said   Not about the Old Cowboy,  but rather me…this time in MY life.  She:  Bereavement is bereavement.   

so longer story shorter…..I GET TO GET INTO THERAPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   YAY AND HOORAY!!!!

i never would have guessed there might be anyone in this place that i would want to work with,  but she is just GREAT and the best and NO ego,  NO PERSONAL AGENDA,  she is SMART and well…  she's just Great.   So i breathe a great great exhale and hopefully,  next week i will begin.

UPDATE on modem:  The computer guy in town has just the one i need.  will get it tomorrow.  More TaDa.  Stuff's Good.

AND NOW, ALMOST EVENING….

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8:59 p.m

refer to comment and response from Julie.

i apply some of the anti itch stuff to leg for the "spider bite",  which i really don't know is from a spider,  but i just say that.  It's the kind of bite i get in summer.  It began on my knee and the as days go,  moves down down down and tonight the swelling and itch is at the ankle.  Probably tomorrow it will be 

done.  finished.

There will be more,  as time goes on.  But i understand them.  Know them.   When we have become familiar with things,  we just go.  When they are NEW and for the first time,  we don't know and are startled.

 

 

 

 

 

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27 responses to “Wednesday morning…while it lasts Later, 11:00 am, a Surprise i am giving myself”

  1. jude Avatar

    nice notes to self.

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  2. Mo Crow Avatar

    hi Grace do you have a surge protector for the power supply to your computer and modem? I bought one after the first computer was cooked when the power lines were struck by lightning.

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  3. Liz Avatar

    Welcome back … love your recent figures. Looking forward to where they go …

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  4. Dana Avatar

    This is a wonderful figure, free floating as I sometimes long to be too.
    Good luck with the modem switch and thank you so much for being here.

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  5. patriciaspangler47@gmail.com Avatar

    i love this figure as well. the simple gesture, the angle and size of her head, her hands–and the sense of animated suspension as though she’s at the apex of her leap…

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  6. grace Avatar

    i do. and also am very careful to turn things OFF when
    storms approach.
    Nothing else has gone out…just the internet thing of the
    DSL Modem. it’s an old piece of equipment. It’s Power light,
    DSL and Ethernet lights stayed on. so…it’s just time.
    Tomorrow.

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  7. saskia Avatar

    have been offline for different reasons, mainly because we’re travelling and most of our ‘homes” didn’t provide wifi; pretty okay really, just being with my men, where we were.
    staying with my cousin now (in her gorgeous apartment in Edinburgh) with a kitchen table where i can sit and work on the laptop plus reliable wifi, what more does a girl need after a couple of days on the wagon?
    i like your scrap a lot and as for the jumping woman, well, she has soul, for sure.

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  8. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    It is good about the modem but what I am so moved by is that this figure of a floating woman, you grace, is also a woman who is grounded enough to know that sometimes, we just need to put a hand out and ask someone to listen to us. To know that that you have done so and will do so with Tana takes strength, courage, an openness and an understanding of who you are and the willingness to understand the whole of your life and this is what tugs at my heart and the tug is filled with love, admiration and deep respect.

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  9. helen Avatar
    helen

    I love your floating lady, Grace. To me she is flying off gently, light as thistledown, quietly confidently and curiously into the future…
    … in her nightie! Which is making me smile – she is off to make her best dreams real.

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  10. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    What goes around really does come around…..you deserve nothing less! I have no doubt that you did right by speaking out…asking!!! Love the freedom in the ladies you have been stitching….is it you Grace doing the happy dance????

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  11. handstories Avatar

    what I am taking away from this post is the very strong freeing feeling of Trust

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    lucky that i caught the moment

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    who knows….
    am still wanting to leave the figures only ink wash…

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    Dana…thank YOU and Everyone for making it a Place for me
    to be

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    ooooooo, beauty Full words….the apex of her leap…..

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    HEY!….! a kitchen table in Edinburgh…what visuals THAT gives!!!
    i love the scrap very much

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    you need to remember that i worked in Psych for 17 years. I am
    at home there, at home in wandering through psyches, my own
    included. So…it’s no courage or strength. For me it is
    pleasure, and a miracle that i found someone that i can wander WITH.
    Am really looking forward to it. It will be interesting. Tana
    has long experience with End Life things, and as with Hospice
    work, families in those times. All of which would inform her
    original training, whatever that was, with getting to the core
    of things. With a sense of no time to waste. This is perfect as
    i look at my 70th year out the corner of my eye. It’s a time for me of ReView, of Gathering for the Next.
    Once in a conversation with Wendy Golden~Levitt, she talked about a Group she does with women of a certain age and how much she loves it, how energizing and loving a Work it is and at the time, i listened with such longing. I would give anything to be in that
    group of women, her. It is just as my granddaughter says….
    developmentally correct….we are Never finished as human beings, we continue to evolve if we so choose.

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    your comment makes me smile…in her nightie…yes….in her
    nightie
    and thistledown….such a soft light image…

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    no, really, i don’t see them as me. I see the figures as
    FEELINGS more, as ways to be, to experience…and to put that
    in Figure form allows for the story, for the sense of things
    that can’t have words, or would take TOO many words

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    i like so much reading this.
    Trust
    Why Not?
    love to you, Cindy

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  21. julie Avatar

    Look what you got for yourself just because of the OCB. Funny to think what HE would think…

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  22. grace Avatar

    yes. He
    would not have any clue whatsoever…..therapy????? What is THAT?
    i just talked to him. To tell him it’s time for his last
    Lorazapam…he was goofy. Don’t know what to think. Maybe it’s too much for him?
    Tana talked yesterday to him how when people are all tight with
    anxiety, it is hard for them to let go and “Pass”. Pass being a
    word for die. She talked to him about how when there is Ease, then dying is possible. I wondered if this would spook him, but it didn’t. He listened. and looked into her face.
    Tonight, he is well….he is…uh…..all smoothed out. I wondered if it was a good idea or not for him to take the bedtime Lorazapan. But he said he would take that last “little pill” and just go to sleep. And i said ok. We would start again in the morning. See where we are.
    Things are edgy now. There is No KNOWING.
    In the Buddhist sense of things, it’s important to NOT use these
    kinds of “aids”. To FACE whatever presents. Face it and Just Go.
    Old Cowboy isn’t buddhist. so…i look at it all and need to play it by ear.
    But, yes. Oh, SO MUCH yes… Look what i got for My Self. This is
    Grand.

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  23. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Well, just made my night to see you here again (for however long, and I still have your number by my phone in case you’re gone too long or I have a great need to chatter with you. Meanwhile all seems to be going unhindered despite the technical glitches. Smiled broadly to see the butterfly rising and the charming little woman watching. What super colors! All good that’s good for you. You know so much about yourself, the sessions with the smart and attentive care-giver should be very productive. I know the wise woman who was mine for years was a blessing for my being.

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  24. Dana Avatar

    Therapy with the right person is such a blessing. I’m so glad this has presented itself to you now.

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  25. grace Avatar

    it’s a MOTH…see the feelers?
    yes. i know self but this is a new space/time and
    she is very familiar with it…i am not.

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  26. grace Avatar

    am hoping so. the only way to know is try.
    so many years since i thought to do this….how you
    think you’re “finished” but then find yourself
    needing to Think/Feel yourself into a different space.
    I hope we are a good match. it’s rare.

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  27. Mo Crow Avatar

    I love those feelers!

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