I love the eve of the calendar New Year.   There is a real sense of Doneness to it.   A sense of having gone the distance, no matter,  and come out at this POINT of the tip into the New Year.

 

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Some HouseKeeping today,  so  the frequency of the vibes are High and Clear.  Stuff is ready.

 

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Tay wanted more time OUT Side.  We shoveled More.  We shoveled the Corridor all the way to the Way Back and along behind was a parade of Goats coming along.  So funny they won't go alone but stringing along behind they came and we got there,  through the opening in the fence and i know they had been hoping that it would all be as it always was Out There, as in, no snow…just earth and food bowls…well,  it was snow there too but we hung out and  just felt what it was and it's about half melted,  so…SomeDay everything will go back to how we know it best and love it.  Then i shoveled for Gideon and Flash so they have a good space for lying in the Sun and then over to Nogal and Tenzen and working to lift the block of ice from their water bowl and couldn't but i Could push it down and they each came and drank Long.  Tomorrow i'll dump it out,  block and all and begin again.  Begin again.

 

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so, 

it's Done.  The Calendar Ritual.  Things brought forward.  Days marked.   It was really Easy this time because nothing much was noted except for the Old Cowboy Things.  And to bring forward of those,  only 2 really,  the day he cried and the day he died.  So i have an elegant New Calendar tomorrow.  Ready.  Ready.

 

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and a Wreath.   Kind of an odd place for a Wreath?  But it's where i want it.  Cynthia sent it from the wild lands of Vermont,  from her family's Farm of Breezy Meadows.  She harvested herself…a note accompanying says…."picked for you with an audience of goats, pigs, chickens and cows"  So i look out my kitchen window through the cedar and spruce of Vermont,  of a farm worked by two young ones with all their Hearts and Souls,  a good,  very good way to look out at January.

 

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the HouseKeeping was dusting clear the Altar and placing a birch candle holder from those same Young Ones of Breezy Meadows and i guess this says what needs to be said…Bless the Young Ones who are Making.  Bless them.  Bless them into 2016.

Love.  BIG AND BIG LOVE, to all who read here.  Let Us go Forward.

 

 

 

 

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42 responses to “THE eve”

  1. Martine Bos Avatar

    Begin again.
    There’s always a new beginning.
    A new calendar and a new year. I wish for you the happiest and healtiest year ever with lots of time for art……….

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  2. grace Avatar

    and to You, Marine…i wish this to You also. May it be So.

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  3. Liz Avatar

    Wishing you peace in the New Year … good health and happiness, too!

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  4. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    I love seeing Cynthia’s beautiful wreath affixed to your window. It symbolizes for me the beauty and magic of ancient times, when a home was put to rights and the old year swept out to make room for the new year and greenery adorned the dwelling. As this year becomes a whisper, let the conversations and connections continue into the new year and may you and all who come here, know the simple and quiet joys of the seasons.

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  5. grace Avatar

    too much wine…Marine…..

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  6. grace Avatar

    it’s the Wish

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  7. Cindy from Georgia Avatar
    Cindy from Georgia

    Thank you, Marti, and love to all.

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    me-ml

    yes Big LOVE and BIG Peace with each coming moonrise, sunrise.and all between.
    (Yes, Grace the wine..i can smell it! my mouth waters!)
    Ease to all of you.x

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  9. Mo Crow Avatar

    clink! a toast to you Grace for much magic & wonder in 2016!

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    me-ml

    The Big LOVE was meant for all in ‘the Village,’ the community that is here.
    Thoughts that turn into words that flow from all of you to create this place, it is just so..so..breathtaking to me. that you are able to just be. and interact. The laughter and sadness. and joy and wonder. and so much Thought Full NESS!
    you all give me strength and a curious stability. i am so grateful for you all.

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  11. Nanette Avatar

    Gone into, going forward…..winding down here the first day of this shiny bright new year. I wish for your …for all our wishes….to come true. Much big love back.

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  12. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    G’night Grace, G’night Tay, G’night Tazmeena, G’night all goat beings there and everywhere, G’night all who visit here and all who don’t. may every one and every thing everywhere have ease and joy.

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  13. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Oh…G’night dear Cinche too.

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    goede morgen Grace and all of you here
    we have to breath more , 24 hours longer to make 2016 a round
    and so on and so on …..
    power full greets from out Belgium to all of you

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  15. jude Avatar

    Happy New Year Grace.

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  16. julie Avatar

    First greetings of the new year, Grace and Gracelings.

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  17. Liz Avatar

    And a clink of the coffee cup to you, too!

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  18. elizabeth Avatar
    elizabeth

    Peace and Happiness to you in this new year…

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  19. beth Avatar

    Happy new year Grace and the youmeus.

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  20. Cathy Avatar
    Cathy

    Always the same wish for the New Year…peace to all.
    Could this be the year? Peace.

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  21. Deb G Avatar

    Happy New Year! (Listening to Rising Appalachia right now, good first music for the year 🙂 )

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  22. Doris Avatar

    Happy New Year, Grace.

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  23. Dana Avatar

    Your calendar ceremony is a perfect way to transition from the old year to the new. It feels like everything is in place for The Next Thing. I am looking forward to whatever it is, hopefully. Happy New Year!

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    Stephanie

    A bright and happy new year to all of you, dear Grace.

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  25. Bev Avatar

    Big Big Love to You and Everyone here.

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  26. grace Avatar

    and Cindy, to you….

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  27. grace Avatar

    yes. Are WE just FINE????? yes. so much so. Points of
    Light, we glow upon EachOther…

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  28. grace Avatar

    All wishes…may we make them true

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  29. grace Avatar

    All. May we live with Ease in whatever circumstance we find.
    Breathe through. Surrender. Find Peace somehow.

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  30. grace Avatar

    yes…PowerFULL coming from Belgium

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  31. grace Avatar

    thank you Jude

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  34. grace Avatar

    it could. it
    could
    be the year….

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  35. grace Avatar

    how smooth they are…a gift to the world on how it can be

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  36. grace Avatar

    OH! Doris!!!!! YES…and to YOU!!!!, love!

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  37. grace Avatar

    We are Ready

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  38. grace Avatar

    i see your smiling face and feel, yes. Yes.

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  39. grace Avatar

    and all the Angels, we give Thanks.

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