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Gentle Day

cynthia is always there with the offering of Gentle Day and today,  the gentle day came.

Off to cat duty at Allan's early but that takes about 20 min.  Home to rake out the space where the Alfalfa goes and the delivery of this months 1/2 ton bale.  Me doing a good job of directing her to back the truck up for drop off on the pallets.  Last time i was very crooked.  Today,  all lined up.  

looking long at the tail and it just wasn't going to work,  so i cut it off and took a nap.   Woke,  just being Still for a long time,  watching the light in the window.

stitch the tail instead,  and it's Good

 

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begin a leg

scrub all the buck's water tubs and fill.

and later today

 

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how we identify    …..sky……  with departed souls.   I watched the sky,  thinking how today Old Cowboy's  physical body was traveling to Albuquerque for his cremation.  Thinking of him,  his oh so wasted physical body that was in those last moments,  so just skin and bones….how his mouth was open and his eyelids were so tender.  And i thought how if They would let me,  i would have brought him here and buried him,  his plain body,  let it feed this this Earth.

it was a Good day.  a Gentle day.

 

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23 responses to “Gentle Day”

  1. Patricia Spangler Avatar
    Patricia Spangler

    oh Grace

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  2. grace Avatar
    grace

    yeah, oh, Patricia.
    such a gentle day.

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  3. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    how the living have their own ways of letting go. . .love you grace

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  4. grace Avatar
    grace

    so, so, so, BEAUTYFull Out Side there just now, late feeding Goats and it’s dusk
    and so elegant, this day’s dusk
    and i think asking Mother Night to come and rock me
    living
    the living
    we do.
    and i am surprised more and again at how much i hold the stories
    of how it all was, how they Inform my Now

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  5. carole Avatar
    carole

    I could feel, gentle, reading your words Grace, and that wonderful heart cloud just for YOU … love the lizard tail
    love and Blessings xo

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  6. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Those skies so apt for the leave taking of Robert, those wispy strands of soul dance…we sat outside tonight and watched the skies, flashes of lightning here and there and about 5 miles away, rain.
    If you could, and if they let you, would you take some of Robert’s ashes and sprinkle them on your land? Feeding the earth is such a fine ending, compost, it’s what I would want for my self.

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  7. grace Avatar
    grace

    uh huh…you saw it, the heart cloud
    for me
    for him
    for All of Us , really
    isn’t it something?, a heart cloud?

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  8. grace Avatar
    grace

    i don’t know. I could, of course,
    take some
    i think.

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  9. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    love your lizardy toes

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  10. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    the tail is perfect! the Dusk is too. Love to your dear self and the goats and critters with you.

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  11. ² Avatar
    ²

    big SMILE to YOU GRACE , to all of you

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  12. Dana Avatar
    Dana

    No words here Grace. Just love.

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  13. .cynthia Avatar
    .cynthia

    hearts cloud..which was not what i meant to write..but they do..and then this sky ..and the heart cloud..looking at my sky here which is a morning mix of grays in so many layers..and thinking of ashes..
    my parents were both orphans..an my mall family mobile..so one afternoon we sat at the window looking out at their wonderful garden…before they became truly ill…and they each made a list of places they loved and places they wished to see..and asked if from time to time..when we were in these places if we would leave a small bit of them in each place on the list…they have been scattered on sacred winds and placed in several gardens..and taken their place with large trees and small moving waters..and all the while kept close..wherever close has been…there has been much humor..much love and such a peaceful feeling in trying to fulfill their requests…
    and such gentleness..may this day hold that feeling for you grace

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  14. nadia Avatar
    nadia

    Hi, Grace. I finally managed to stop by, trying to get back to blogging friends. Just love your lizard, or rather the idea of “lizard”. Beautiful. I see so many lizards around my place, and the teeny tiny ones frequently come inside and run along the walls. I never thought of trying to express the idea of lizardness. And your posts about the “Old Cowboy” were so moving. May he have peace. I hope to have your strength to face a similar situation with my own cowboy. I suppose the courage to face it all comes in small increments, day by day.
    best, nadia

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  15. beth Avatar
    beth

    heart cloud… I always knew you had so much to give to OCB. A way through, helping to ease passage. But this extreme tenderness shared at the end is unexpected and just so touching.
    And smiling at the lizard break-away tail regrowth.

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  16. buzz Avatar
    buzz

    Hey Grace, catching up. The lizard tail is grand. Love to you, and Old Cowboy’s spirit flying free. Buzz

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    me too…just love their feet how so like hands they are
    so sensitive, expressive

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    and love back to you

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  19. grace Avatar
    grace

    i feel it,,, the big SMILE

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  20. grace Avatar
    grace

    these tender stories you give about your family, they
    enrich me, extend into me, so they become a part of me,
    your family, their stories
    such a gift you give Us

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  21. grace Avatar
    grace

    the facing…yes. exactly, born one day into the next. We
    just need to show up. Things somehow take care of themselves.
    what is the difference, i wonder, here and Tunisia, there
    the lizards come IN
    here, never…
    is your home made of earth…like stucco? maybe that’s it…???
    Would so love having lizards come in
    So happy to find you here, Nadia….thank you for coming…
    love,

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  22. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. very much unexpected and
    continuing so
    human beings can surprise themselves.

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  23. grace Avatar
    grace

    O HEY Hey Buzz!!!!!
    How GREAT that you appear and i will go look for you….

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