so on Monday i became officially on this planet 70 years.  I type this and stop a bit to look at the print on the white space….70 years.   Intellectually,  i know this to be true because i was born in 1945.  So…it's a fact.  A fact.  But experientially,  i don't exactly know how to take in that Fact.  And i don't mean in the way we glibly refer to aging….as not really,  this is Real.  These many years.  Yet,  somehow it's not all that different from 17 or 27 or 37 or or or and all the sevens…but this particular seven,  the 70  has meaning to me in that seven is my most loved and best number.  It also has meaning to me because i see it as a

Threshhold

We are down to serious shit here.  so and OK.

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this morning with the Inktense pencils.

a day

as it flows out.

I will keep the Mondays of work away because i have this iron work ethic,  and the every other Tuesday.  But really….i have

SPACE 

now.  I have days that belong to me.  What will i chose to DO with them?  

The big question.

For sure,  there is night,  Mother Night,  in this drawing i think of this as a cradle.  And night rolls softly and surely into Morning.   These are Given.  The rest….well,  that is for me to uhhhhh,  that is for me to Receive and do with what i will.  No small thing.

 

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while looking for the cloth upon which to place this sense of a Day,  i looked here and again saw  this incredible and BEAUTY full flaw in the weave….it took my breath away

 

 

 

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39 responses to “so.”

  1. Liz Avatar

    I smile … Monday was daughter Meg’s birthday, too. May you both have a wondrous trip around the the sun.

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  2. grace Avatar

    me and her then. it’s not an easy alignment.

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar

    Happy Birthday Grace, you made it all this way to 70, may you have many more and get to see 77!

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  4. grace Avatar

    who knows?????????????????

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  5. carole Avatar
    carole

    Happy 70 years Grace,one more 7 in the 70’s , wait awhile(there is that word again ) then 87 ,eek
    Love and Blessings 70 year young Grace xo

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  6. deb lacativa Avatar

    Happy Birthday Grace! Maybe some cheese making?
    Have to report that I caused that flaw in the weave when my strength was not the equal of the cloth. It has to be ripped with authority or those things happen.

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    ²

    this 70 years are past by and o.k. there are 366 days to make 71 in 2016 , wish you the light of the sun , the reflection of the moon and the countless vicinity of the stars , the playfulnes of the wind and the youmeus blessings

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  8. kathy dorfer Avatar
    kathy dorfer

    happy birthday grace ! i knew there was a reason i liked you , my birthday is sunday ! 66 …
    xxoo

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  9. carole Avatar
    carole

    a senior moment.. there are more 7’s before 87…. what was I thinking xo 😦

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  10. Nancy Avatar

    Happy Birthday to you Grace. Enjoy 70…your a whole year holding 7 ~ your most loved and best number! (((hugs))) and love to you.

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  11. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Perhaps it’s time to read May Sarton’s Journal “At Seventy” :–>
    http://www.rambles.net/sarton_at70.html
    Certainly it’s time to celebrate you (for me at least). Now you and I share a decade as well as cloth (seeing the brilliant flaws), and compassion (loving the great ones who returned to teach). :–>
    Dear dear Grace may the night always be a cradle waking or sleeping, and may you be happy, warm enough, safe enough to go on going on :–>

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  12. jude Avatar

    many more. enjoy your SPACE.

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  13. elizabeth Avatar
    elizabeth

    Happy Birthday to you Dear Grace…

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  14. .cynthia Avatar
    .cynthia

    oh ..may you be cradled gently or all this year ..oh all the decade..and many happy returns o the day..i remember when i was little and i thought that was a silly saying..and now i mean it with all my being’
    gentle day as well

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  15. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Happy BIRTHDAY ….. Sending love and BLESSINGS galore!!

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  16. beth Avatar

    Happy birthday dear Grace.

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  17. handstories Avatar

    Your drawing, a tender beautiful place to be. Happy, happy seventieth trip around the Sun. I hope that this decade of sevens holds ALL you dream, and fills you to overflowing.

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  18. Dana Avatar

    Your drawing is beautiful and so are you. The reckoning of our years is always touching because we know there will be an end. Seventy years….may this one coming be especially fruitful for you…lucky seven.

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  19. Stephanie Avatar
    Stephanie

    Happy birthday, dear Grace. May this be a beautyFULL shining year ahead for you. Love, Stephanie

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  20. grace Avatar

    not really…you are Right….it starts going
    FAST

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  21. grace Avatar

    i wish you had caused more flaws
    the flaw is just magnificant to me

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  22. grace Avatar

    youmeus. These. youmeus. Under that Sun/Moon/stars/wind

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  23. grace Avatar

    Ha…we are of a certain Kind

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  24. grace Avatar

    holding 7 yes. Holding Seven.

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  25. grace Avatar

    yes…the night…always the cradle

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  26. grace Avatar

    it’s Different, this Space, very different and how will
    i
    honor
    it

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  27. grace Avatar

    thank you, elizabeth and love to you

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  28. grace Avatar

    i am cradled.

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  29. grace Avatar

    love the word
    Galore

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  31. grace Avatar

    trips around the Sun…love this image

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  32. grace Avatar

    the Lucky Seven…and yes. now it becomes so much more because
    the end is really in Sight

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  33. grace Avatar

    it will…and you will help make it be so

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  34. handstories Avatar

    if you had been in our class, janie & i would have had you hold a globe & circle the sun (a candle) once for each year old you were & we’d sing “”Grace was born in a circle of the sun” ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6KAByualg8 )

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  35. Suzanna Avatar

    70! At first it was a little frightening, such a largish number, and then within a few days the river of gratitude flowed in, and is deep in my awareness now, a year and a half later. Wishing always love, expansion, beauty and contentment for you, Grace, a spirit sister…xo, ~s.

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  36. yvette Avatar

    Wise seven shows the way!

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  37. saskia Avatar

    such a huge number
    yet, it seems like yesterday
    you were a young girl

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  38. jan millington Avatar
    jan millington

    Happy B-earthDay Grace…..belated. Enjoy the turn of the Wheel. X

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  39. grace Avatar

    jan….i am watching closely, that turn, listening to the
    sound of it….

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