i just wrote a long Thing about how the day went and then somehow obliterated it and i am going to take that as a sign that i didn't need to write it here.  

But just to say…it's a lot more complicated than  it might appear here and there is MUCH ambivalence and today he rallied and was more his usual self and it was difficult.  I am not such a kind and loving person as it might appear.  The truth is that he is a sentient being.  For whatever reason,  we find ourselves where we are today.  But just to make the picture True,  to what it IS,  there is great  ambivalence….many feelings…which do not preclude Compassion.

and i woke last night.  Goats were all awhirl,  all awake,  moving,  in the middle of the night.   Went out with the flashlight…nothing amiss…but they were AWAKE and MOVING.  All of them.  Tay and i sat a while and i looked up and the SKY,  the SKY was INTENSE with dark dark darkness and Clouds.  I tried to take a pic but it wouldn't happen.  The camera is having issues.  But i have never seen a Night Sky like that one.

 

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one more mend

 

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i didn't cut away the "frays",  just stitched them in and left a tail of them free

 

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so two more major mends ahead.  and then,  you can see here,  that arm hole situation…that too

I am over at his house till Monday,  days,    so,  maybe.

Went OUT.  Tired.  Not physically,  but emotionally.  Drained.  and gave water to Goats,  to the vegetable people and was given this gift of

beingness

 

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this is Love.

watering.  said…Please…wait for me…and ran in for the camera.  He waited.  I snapped and snapped and the camera isn't working great anymore and they were blurry and i went back Out and he had waited again and as i tried so hard to take a clear image,  he turned his face to me…turned his face to me and i didn't catch that,  but he did.  and this.    This is Love.

 

 

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19 responses to “to be Honest”

  1. beth Avatar

    Hey Grace. It’s okay. How I wish I could bring you a cup of tea and sit with you and watch the sky. It is what it is and you’ll just go. Love.

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  2. grace Avatar

    hey Beth…yup. it is ok. and yes. it is what it is and yes, i WILL
    just go and we both will come out on the other side of it and maybe have
    learned someThing for the next time around…..
    you would have LOVED that Sky…you would have just so much loved it
    and really, you just DID bring me a cup of tea with your words….
    Love back to you,

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    The new song from Frazey in the side bar! Brilliant. I am so in sympathy with all those conflicted feelings, and the exhaustion. Hang on as best you can. This too….oh, you know. i’m dealing with a plague of cupboard moths here and have been for over a week. They are driving me bats and I, who put so much store in saving everything, reusing everything, am forced to discard grains, nuts, breadcrumbs, dried flowers and so much more because the less than 1/4 inch white worms and the nursery webs are everywhere. It’s proverbially killing me, exhausting, depressing and frustrating me. I’m waiting now for the arrival of a package of kill traps that worked the last horrible time over ten years ago. Who knows, maybe every decade needs a good cleanse. On the upside, I visit here and feel a different tough time and am comforted (hope you don’t mind). Bless your heart, all our hearts.

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  4. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    …and bless that dear green preying Mantis, and you for loving him. He has his place in the scheme of things.

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  5. patriciaspangler47@gmail.com Avatar

    isn’ t it amazing how beauty and wonder appear at perfect moments?

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  6. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    …and one more incarnation of Frazey Ford’s song https://youtu.be/dx3p8o5Iqao

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  7. Liz Avatar

    Yep … been there.
    The compassion mantra will be one lips as I stitch today …

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  8. Liz Avatar

    “on my” not “one” … (sigh)

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  9. Dana Avatar

    I was the caretaker for someone through a series of surgeries and medical problems and often found myself feeling uncharitable and resentful. I recognized logically the reasons why I had to be there (instead of someone else) but had to admit to myself that I was not the angel of mercy I was forced to appear. I wanted to be, but no. Now that time has given me a little distance from the situation I see that what I was was a human being. I did what was needed and most of the time with outward grace at least. I see you doing what is needed for the old cowboy and if your feelings don’t always match your actions remember that you are much more than someone else’s prop. You have been corralled into this without ever feeling the love and kinship that smooths the way because you recognize that the old cowboy needs you and you are too compassionate to turn away. That doesn’t mean that you don’t feel annoyed and effaced by those needs. There is no way that his slow dying can be all sweetness for him or you. You are so talented at meeting each moment as it comes that I am sure you will fulfil your duties with him exactly as they should be done, in full awareness of the humanity of you both. My thoughts and hopes are with you as you go about your days.

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  10. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Such beautiful sentiments from such wonderful people…..one day at a time Grace!

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  11. grace Avatar

    i love that you tell me of the Plague. the nursery webs. I love this because for all of Us there is something off and on and when it’s there it is THERE with such intensity. I hope this….for this blog that it is a place where stuff happens and is lived through…that it is a comfort that we keep going with love and energy though we may be depleted , we go
    BIG LOVE to you and BEGONE~~~!!!!! that Plague!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  12. grace Avatar

    EVERY THING appears….EveryThing appears in Every Moment….

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  13. grace Avatar

    Compassion.
    Compassion is there. if free. is available. at All Times…
    Compassion Rules

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  14. grace Avatar

    i am so honest with him. I can’t make a “story” that’s not real.
    i wonder about that, but i can’t. I am so honest. Yesterday when i was trying to be “good” and “kind” and “the expected”, i felt all tangled up and not good at all. Today, i reoriented and it WAS
    good and it was honest and Real. Not just for me, but for him too.
    i think of the word…Effaced.
    effaced. ok. yes.

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  15. grace Avatar

    the people here, yes…we Are. We Are WonderFull…and
    we circle in when it’s needed. I have never had this before and to me it is beyond elegant
    One day at a Time. yup. this is how we are Going

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  16. saskia Avatar

    even though you may think of yourself as a less kind or loving person than you think we think you are……your actions as far as OCB is concerned are what matters
    i have many unkind thoughts and keep most to myself, however i have noticed time and time again, just listening to other people’s needs/lamentations helps them – i doubt they really care what i think

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. so much…it is the listening.

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  18. yvette Avatar

    If i understan correct….mason jars?

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