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softening, softening, Taking IN

This world.  Planet…inhabited.  World.  Planet…inhabited.

I     do.    I   do look at the Google News Feed.   Reading….looking.   I do Metta Meditation as i read and look.  It takes time.  But it's something i can do.  Metta.    as Example,  today i did Metta for Ahmad Khan Rahami.   I did Metta for his father,  Mohammad Rahami.  I took the time.  Slow.  I said the words and was quiet with the meditation.   Later,  for Elizabeth Warren.  and then John Stumpf.  Each of them,  i did Metta Meditation.  

I watched as a very soft and elegant Wind moved the branches of that tree,  the Desert Willow just at the side of the Gate….it was Grand,  the soft movement of it.  I did Metta for who ever it was down at the end of the road here,  banging and whacking at the remains of a travel trailer that lies there like an artifact from the time that Beatrice and Armando lived there,  long since abandoned,  years,  and today there was someone banging on it …. just with a stick of some sort,  not even having a tool……………  banging to salvage whatever small amount of metal was left to take and sell,  most likely for a small hit of drug….this one…i did Metta for.    May you be safe.  May you be healthy,  be happy.  May you live with ease.  Metta.  What those words mean for this person at the end of this road,  for John Stumpf, ….may you live with ease…they vary, Yes?   but still,  the basic meaning is the same.  May you not need to struggle.  May you not need to fear.

I saw on Face BooK something….i don't know any way to send this …but i think it was from the Netherlands.  I have watched it maybe 5 times so far,  the language is not english 

Beeldwerk TV  #animalcompanions#lovealways#qualityoflife    Hidden Desires is a special project of the Care Group and the Green Cross where small wishes are fulfilled.    www. verborgen-verlangers.nl  Mrs. Jacobs 87 would like to go horse riding just one more time.

 

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i did it.

 

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And of course,  Onday proves me wrong and lays by Mercy in the food tub.  Learn from Goats.

 

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13 responses to “softening, softening, Taking IN”

  1. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Trust a goat to contradict you :–> All that Metta traveling the aether (chiefly poetic/literary the clear sky; the upper regions of air beyond the clouds)….gives me pleasure just to think of them.
    By the way….a sure fire cheap and easy weed killer I know of is a big concentration of just plain vinegar to 1/2 as much water, best sprayed on new growth when it’s just started up but can be done later….won’t hurt animals or anything else but kills the weeds so they can just be raked up, and if caught early the roots too~only not around too close where there is other stuff you want to grow. Great for around gravel and flagstones.

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  2. margaret johnson Avatar
    margaret johnson

    Just LOVE your gateway. Light in your last pic is BEAUTIFUL, ox

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  3. julie Avatar
    julie

    Some serendipity that I come here this morning after a tortured night’s sleep(or lack of it) about the impending election and the scenarios created by my runaway mind. I am pretty fearless by nature but I am now really wrestling with terror. Metta as a way of releasing me sounds good.
    or maybe a day pulling up weeds–what a before and after you have there!

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  4. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    love the details

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  5. Martine Bos Avatar
    Martine Bos

    https://www.facebook.com/fortheloveofhorsesandponies/posts/369100876810701
    This is the only way i can post it Grace. For this old lady who has been horse riding/jumping a big part of her life and has now parkinson, it was a dream to be on a horse once again. Green cross made it possible.
    Its not only Dutch but the dialekt of my reagion.

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  6. grace Avatar
    grace

    these are the times we live in.
    some weeks ago, after the kids left, I pulled over on the side of the road in town next to an elementary school. The kids were out
    at recess, i watched their motion, listened to their sound. Saw a few standing to the side, felt their isolation. Children.
    Probably 1st or 2nd grade.
    This world is growing into a world that you and i would never have imagined and really can’t find a way to imagine or understand now. What is Happening????
    Yes. Fear. Helplessness. Hopelessness.
    But it is the world that we live in. We are mature adults, not even young anymore, and not ever children again. so this is the world we will hand them, the children, saying “this is your inheritance”. A dying planet.
    It’s possible that nothing can change this anymore. Too many of us have been unconcerned. Many are unable.
    Reading Joanna Macy, World as Lover World as Self has changed me, has helped me Stand and Face.
    Ten years down the road if any child asked me, “if you saw it,
    what did you do?”…..
    I cannot say that i felt helpless, so i did nothing. I can’t say I hunkered down in fear. I can’t lie and deny I knew.
    i can’t “just” do Metta.
    So to find PURPOSE.
    there are so many ways
    education on any level
    the refugee crisis
    a billion ecological arenas
    conflict resolution
    public libraries
    ESL
    Farmer’s Markets
    Civil Discourse
    All the zillion human services
    on
    on
    This actually is what has given me the wherewithall to leave this place, the willingness to show up on that land of family
    and begin to learn WITH them how we can Be in this world we
    have
    to DO it with those young ones. Consciously and with clear
    Purpose.

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  7. grace Avatar
    grace

    everything is about the details, i guess…

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  8. grace Avatar
    grace

    I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU FOUND IT AND
    BROUGHT IT HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    OH, mARTINE….THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH.
    I know that motion, that feeling in the body of the
    rock of the horse’s movement…this is ingenious….the
    “hammock” they made so this could be felt in the bones…
    THANK YOU AND SO SO MUCH LOVE

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  9. grace Avatar
    grace

    well…for the Kochia….i don’t think so, but i’ll try it on
    the GoatHeads in the Back. Do a test swatch and post it.

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  10. grace Avatar
    grace

    everything is feeling excruciating

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  11. Kim Avatar
    Kim

    YES…!

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    Thank you Kim…i really mean it. It’s all there is anymore
    it’s not going to get Easy

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  13. grace Avatar
    grace

    next day….i didn’t continue…i will in a post sometime,
    but that determination for purpose transforms the fear
    and sadness and helplessness. it becomes a whole different
    thing…
    this is what Macy teaches in The Work that Reconnects

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