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made late last eve so i could have it for breakfast.   

 

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all these,  right on the porch,  just outside the door,   Antidotes.   

 

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this exceptional crystal,  which to me is a flock of birds and as i looked,

 

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behind it,   this small form of thread,  resting,  looking as if it is Becoming….so still and self contained…

 

went into Tenzen and Nogal's yard.  Their shelter suddenly looked tenuous…the support post barely touching the roof.  That would be all i need,  for one or the other of them to be up on the roof and it come crashing down.  But no…it IS in need of mend but the cross beam is strong, so for now,  it's ok.  While i was there,  i went to the far side and poked around in the sand.

 

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JULIE:….your hots will soon be satiated.   There was MORE.  I'll hose it down tomorrow,  get some in the mail.

 

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Close now.  

 

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Evening.   Evan the wood guy,  the young one,  came.  Had a half load of wood.  Not the Whole that i will need,  but half and could he unload it.  Yes.   The antidote for me to Winter is Wood.

 

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Tay forgot from last year about the delivering of wood.  She chewed her stick in the Grasses to quiet herself. 

 

 

 

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12 responses to “Antidotes”

  1. jude Avatar

    this cloth is nice grace.

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  2. grace Avatar

    you know,
    it has meaning to me that you say this,
    and as i stitch it, it being able to Speak of Things for me, i
    think of how grateful i am that you gave the Antidote of Cloth Making

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  3. jude Avatar

    This one has néw clarity

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  4. grace Avatar

    ah.
    then, maybe it has to do with the subject matter.
    Shelter.
    how it is my life’s leit motif
    how this is becoming more and more clear. The Dreams, how i live,
    the familiarity of migration, and so much now, immigration.

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  5. grace Avatar

    shelter.
    Shelter is frail.
    Shelter is dependent.
    Dependent on so many things.
    we live in a fragile state of dependence.
    This asks us, requires of us, to maintain a certain kind of Wildness
    which knows that
    the circumstances of our momentary shelter can change.

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  6. Mo Crow Avatar

    ah that light…

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  7. Nanette Avatar

    I’m left wondering about Julia’s “hots being satiated”……is ‘hots’ a typo, an auto-correct, an Americanism for something, that tangle of metal, that escapes my colonial knowledge….and if it really the “hots”…I’m intrigued and want to now more.

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  8. julie Avatar

    What a great questiom!! Hots is indeed slang, It refers to coveting, and is traditionally used mostly in the sexual sense, as in “having the hots for that guy sitting on the motorcycle over there.” I already have a guy and so now I get aroused by the story, the absolute majesty of rusty metal in cool shapes. I love looking at its patina and you don’t have to cook it dinner.

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  9. grace Avatar

    refers back to Julie’s comment on the post of Sunday the 6th…
    there is that strip of copper on the dye table. From a
    Subaru radiator. Julie loves these artifacts.

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  10. jude Avatar

    and cloth as shelter.

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  11. grace Avatar

    so much so. and more and more, it’s cloth

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  12. Cathy Avatar
    Cathy

    the mac and cheese, a bowl of beautiful objects, wrapped driftwood, a wreath, the pile of cut wood, and the cloth–yes, all beautiful…

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