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watching the Moon

in a blue sky,  this moment,  pale,  translucent white in a blue blue sky blue sky,  still over in the East,  across the ditch

followed Sydney and Talulah over to Rudy's the mechanic's place in case Sydney's truck quit and also to bring them back to their house.  Shared some concerns with them and felt good that Talulah who is only 12 didn't hesitate to offer her thoughts  and was very sure of herSelf.   I told her that.  Stay sure to listen to instinct.

Cleaned for Allan and brought home a ton of food from his Bernie potluck,  the curried pasta especially.  He will try to get the recipe for me.

Watered the Pea plantings.  If they took,  any day now they will RISE

 

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the Face and then just some single strands of thread to be able to envision what her Hair might be like

"What lies ahead seems unlikely,  when it becomes the past,  it seems inevitable.  In 1900, the idea that women should have the vote was revolutionary;  now,  the idea that we should not have it would seem cracked.  But no one went back to apologize to the suffragists who chained themselves  to the gates of power,  smashed all the windows on Bond Street, spent long months in jail,  suffered forced feedings and demonization in the press."

Rebecca Solnit

 

 

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14 responses to “watching the Moon”

  1. Cathy Avatar
    Cathy

    Recently I watched the moon in northern New Mexico. It was wintry and so dry. I was parched all of the time. I thought of you, Grace, in windy, dry New Mexico. I got altitude sickness and I wanted to go home. New Mexico spoke to me. I really mostly liked it, but then I needed to go home.

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  2. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Lucky you with your potluck leftovers and your sliver of moon in a blue sky! I LOVE Rebecca Solnit, and the thread face too.

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  3. margaret johnson Avatar
    margaret johnson

    Hello Grace, mmm, watching the Moon, this piece is so tender. I do see another face, almost mirroring your beautiful thread face, in the rock/mountain above. Giving me goosebumps. oxox
    p.s. good on Talulah

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  4. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    The rising of pea plantings- the image as strong as your moon watching and that image leads to this: Continuing with reading Solnit, she has an essay titled, “Revolutionary Plots” having to do with the rise of gardening, organic and in particular, communal gardening etc. The essay was written in 2012 and she makes a point that I think is very important and in its own way swings around to this election, and the idea of the 1% and the 99%:
    Solnit says, “Feeding the hungry is noble work but figuring out the causes of that hunger and confronting them and transforming them directly needs to be done too. And while urban agriculture seems like a flexible, local way to adapt to the hungry chaotic world that climate change is bringing, we all need to address the root causes directly. Maybe there’s something in the fact that the word radical comes from the Latin for “root”; the revolutionary gardener will get at the root causes of our situation, not just cultivate the surface.”
    She later adds this: “But gardening and all of its subsidiary tasks are sturdy metaphors. You can imagine the whole world as a garden, in which case you might want to weed out corporations, compost old divides, and plant hope, subversion, and fierce commitments among the heirloom tomatoes and the chard. The main questions will always be: What are your principal crops? And who do they feed?

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  5. grace Avatar
    grace

    Cathy…where?, is your home?

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  6. grace Avatar
    grace

    like a windfall, those left overs. mediterranian hummus,
    red enchiladas, that Curry Pasta, 2 kinds of cheese, even
    a half a loooong sandwich from Subway, potato salad, and
    some potato broccoli thing, two cornbread muffins.
    Food for the WEEK.

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  7. grace Avatar
    grace

    o!, mirrored in the rock!…i see that now…hadn’t
    and in the face is a close to invisible child face of
    the present face….
    and yes. Talulah…actually, her response was almost more
    useful to me than her mother’s.

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  8. grace Avatar
    grace

    she is Extraordinary in her thinking, isn’t she….and
    her ability to form her thoughts as she does…
    a brilliant mind
    i guess i do need to get this second book too….
    Thank you, Marti

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  9. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    oh yes, that second face in the mountain is beautiful, thanks for seeing her!

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  10. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    Rebecca Solnit and Jay Griffiths are the two brave fierce writers that give me the most hope in this wild 21st C world

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  11. Cathy Avatar
    Cathy

    Chicago…plenty of humidity here. Huge contrast to NM.

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    ahh, Chicago Cathy!!!!….yes…like different planets.
    and my daughter is like this….her love of humidity….N Mex
    was hard for her.
    I wish you could have come at a different time of year…
    winter in N Mex can be stark, then add they dryness and Wind,
    it would have been very different in other seasons, somehow
    the warmth changes things, they become vibrant and soft,
    benevolent. and the afternoon Electrical Storms…those ions,
    wash you clean and clear

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  13. Cathy Avatar
    Cathy

    Yes, a different season perhaps, but not the mountains for me,
    although I so love them.
    You are a brave woman to live in New Mexico, in the desert.
    Now I know what that means.
    Cheers and good wishes for warmer (wetter) weather.

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    i forgot. you said Altitude….and yes…this is Real.
    The sudden change in Altitude. You can do things for this…
    potassium. Grapefruit juice will do it.
    For me, it’s not at all brave….it’s like returning to
    the place i was Really born. The Dry. The heat. i am
    a Lizard.

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