My loose ends have found their way. Like the tendrils say, maybe of a grape vine, or maybe the honeysuckle out there they gave me last year…those tendrils, extending out… groping, blind….but just going, simply Assuming they will
touch
something
and can begin to take hold of it for the Just Going…..
my tendrils today Touched. As Hildegaard de Bingen said, "all is well and all Shall be well, and All manner of things Shall Be Well. I feel that this evening.
What Was Hope Farm Native Plant Nursery. Mike and Thelma's place. That they quit doing a couple years ago. Who for years, each week, i would go to and buy some plant. Many of which subsequently died but some of which didn't. The trees and bushes here, the Feather grasses are theirs, the ones that remain somehow felt "native" enough, here in this wind swept Place. The ones that died, died from lack of consistent water, which was me. Inconsistent. Because of Circumstances. But i will never regret the joy of trying.
Thelma grew up here. Mike grew up in Florida. They met in the Navy and married. Lived in San Diego and Florida and finally came here. Bought this piece of Earth all stone and just went.
it looked all like This in the beginning. Nothing but this.
but then….
all the plants are sleeping now. and being there, i remembered about the Sleeping now. Sleeping now became OK today. I'll take us back in spring when they awaken. It is Stunning.
their first greenhouse, just scrap wood and recycle. Here two wildly productive Fig trees
the leaves all fallen below
a few, clinging to the Mother
one of the first Sage plants
two lemon trees. Thelma and i came in here to get out of the WIND. It was silent and still and warm and punguent.
Mike's fire pit
their Point of View
this is Thelma. I love her like a sister. Over the last years, and more when the Goats came, when they visited her mother and father on Sunday, they would all come Here. We would sit and watch the Goats and talk and laugh. Her father died last year. Her mother has moved to Albuquerque to a nieces home and can go to the Casino which she likes. Is near her doctor. As i said, Thelma and Mike are readying their house and their Place to sell. To move to …correction…southern Washington state, not Oregon, but southern Washington State where their daughter and her two sons live. Today we talked about that. They are unsure. But they are doing what needs to be done, in case. Will they? Won't they????????? But it was a day FULL of so much. So, just this for now. I think how it is that Life gives us what we need in every single moment. And i NEEDED this today. And i was Given. So So Given.
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