it's settling in…for the days of heat.   Just Being upon waking,  meditate,  Be,  drink tea until i don't want anymore.  Feed Them All,  feed self.  Work OUT THERE…today and yesterday that being shoveling  barrows full of shit from the Albatros.  Two more days and it will be done in this space of time….then arrange it and scrap hay into the compost.   I decided today to use the raised bed composted area to plant potatoes.  It's too late to order them from anyone,  so i will let some of the ones i buy develop eyes…they're organic…and plant those.  Would rather have the fingerlings,  but i waited too long to decide this.  It's ok.  

So,  long morning Out then at some point in,  to take a nap….20 min….then  stitch mid afternoon when it's getting hot.

 

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today it was the mountains…with Jude's invisible stitch…or Glue Stitch…which is really descriptive, tho not very romantic a term….but it's what happens….All the layers became ONE CLOTH…i love it when that happens…can feel it with fingertips as it occurs…. a kind of bliss

 

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the Other side

 

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will let this be for now….

 

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then 5 oclock is evening Feed and following that,  giving water that takes till almost dark.  somwhere in there i hang around with Goats…brushing them,  just sitting among them,  walking around and calling them,  different times for this so it DOESN'T become a routine,  that they begin to expect…it needs to be random.  To keep it Easy.   Today Jack Flash WANTED it.  Came for it.  Finally.  

Thinking how it's a really Good life.   How it is so much Enough.   Am feeling it.  and grateful.

 

 

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8 responses to “routine”

  1. Liz A Avatar

    Routine is the invisible stitch that holds together the disparate parts of our lives …

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  2. grace Avatar

    i have always loved the Idea of routine but have not been good
    at sticking to one other than to show up for Work Away, whatever that has been throughout my life. Once home, i would entertain the usefulness of Routine over and over and then well…kind of
    just Forget.
    This year is the first ever in my entire life that there are
    no
    disparate parts.
    as i type the above, i stop …. is that True? no disparate parts?
    it is.
    Few certain things. and upon those Few Certain Things, i can
    “decorate”….with bright colors and shapes, designs
    I think of my This Years Life like a line drawing…a single
    black line upon which i might put ornaments, maybe…..
    but it’s plain. Very.
    Just day to day care of Living Things, including me, as equal.
    it is still very New to me. There are times when i find self about to add a “disparate element” because it IS plain and new.
    Just last week, i almost did that….agree to volunteer at the day shelter for street persons in town with the idea i could have access to the literal TONS of donated textiles…scoring over and over for the cloth work…and that idea extended into the previous urge to learn to make rag rugs…loomed ones…which then blossomed into working with those street persons making these rag rugs….disparate.
    I took myself in hand and went Out, sat with the Goats, talking it over, how at least the one year, things would remain the line drawing. I need to Know what that is.
    so like on the cloth, yes, the invisible stitch makes things so totally all One. I go about the few things and realize that it doesn’t matter because there are so few, the order, like,
    do i tend to one corner of this space or the other today?…doesn’t matter, one corner is the same as the other, and equally beneficial
    so it’s all becoming like the cloth feels in my hand, the goodness of the weight, the drape, …its integrity
    Thank you for these thoughts

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  3. grace Avatar

    peace in this sovereign state of one acre

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  4. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Perfect post to return too….routine….after weeks on the road being back to what is familiar. ..my routine…makes me very happy. You sound happy Grace and I love the vision of seeing you sitting mulling over ideas with your goats. Thinking and talking things out…..finding gratefulness in it all.

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  5. saskia Avatar

    lovely, fulfilling routine
    i prefer the many coloured strip in this position, but that’s just my opninion, for me it Balances&Grounds the entire piece

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  6. grace Avatar

    glad you are back and isn’t it SO, that the return feels
    incredibly GOOD….our life….how it fits so well….
    the Goats somehow soften every thing….they make things
    quiet

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  7. grace Avatar

    yes. and it’s in its place now

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