so is it  5:35 or 6:35?  Sky says  6:35,  dusk.  Computer says 5:35.   an hour away.  Feeding Goats,  the hour matters.  

 

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Cleaned the chimney pipe to wood stove,  taking off the screened cap that prevents birds from making careless decisions.  Sucking out the soot with a shop vac borrowed.  Ready.  Ready to burn.

Doe Goats are hot.  Nigerian goats come into heat monthly and so can be bred around the year.  But for whatever reason,  November is a particular kind of month.  Actually,  November is the month that i too would choose to breed.  5 month gestation,  bringing them to kid in  late March or April…when it begins to be warm for the little ones.

The bucks out there blather and blubber,  all steamy to do the work at hand.  The does,  almost all of them today are in the middle pen,  their tails Flagging,  calling out.  In its way,  a horrible day of Goat noise.  But it's how it is for them.  To Just GO.  to breed and bring forth new of themselves.    I try not to listen.

 

Soon.  A woman who is driven.  a woman, driven.  will be seated There.  We aren't used to that.  a woman driven….we know men,  driven….nothing new.  But a woman driven.  What

might we expect from

HER?

What can we DEMAND from HER?

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13 responses to “time”

  1. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    All that beautiful fabric….waiting….the goats .. waiting. All of us….waiting.

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  2. handstories Avatar

    I find myself holding my breath about the election & what all this unknown might bring.

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    “The shadow knows” maybe, but we must wait and watch and hope…closing our ears to goats longing, political pundits and the like while keeping our eyes open for possibilities.

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  4. Mo Crow Avatar

    hehe! goats are wily, they’ll be looking for a way to keep the tryst!

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  5. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Yes, what can we demand from HER but I have thought about this for a long time partly because I have sat somewhat silent and not as willing to engage as I would have done years ago. Still the offsetting question to what can we demand from HER has to be answered by this: What demands will we make on ourselves. Today, Rebecca Solnit in an article in the British newspaper, The Guardian, says this:
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/07/what-happens-after-clinton-trump-win-election-progressive
    …”The Obama administration could have done much more if more of the people who elected him stuck around to push back against the corporations, well-organized conservatives and big-money interests. Which is not to even raise the question of that administration’s principles; it’s more useful to ask what are our own, if most of us do little or nothing about policies we deplore or ideals we praise.
    The same will be true of a Clinton administration, if that’s the one voters choose on Tuesday. The extent to which it serves the interests of people and our planet depends in part on the extent to which citizens apply pressure to it. You may feel exhausted right now; tired of a bruising cycle which has left no personal stone unturned (often to the detriment of policy scrutiny). But the truth is, we’re at the beginning – either of a period of sustained resistance against a racist, misogynist, deranged climate-denier – or a period of sustained action to push the first female president to deliver a genuinely progressive, climate-conscious agenda.
    If we end up with a Democrat (and I regret that that’s the best choice we get in this binary election), a lot is up to us. That’s a gift and a responsibility. I’ll take it. I hope you’ll join me.”

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  6. grace Avatar

    yes. i am so restless

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  7. grace Avatar

    we are about to find out. Sun’s heading for the rim. I’ll
    vote at the local elementary school in the morning on my
    way to work.
    and THEN…either way…one out of Hope and the other out of
    Fear, we will go forward

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  8. grace Avatar

    oh…it’s just something that i never would have imagined…

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  9. grace Avatar

    i’m a good fence builder.

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  10. grace Avatar

    yes. exactly what i’ve been saying. Work. Can’t just sit
    back and assume somehow someone will do something.
    Her and then our local people in the house and Senate.
    the particular issues we choose to put our hearts into…
    finding ways to do that in an active way.
    we have to.

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  11. jude Avatar

    I sit and imagine the smell of goats.

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  12. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    So glad that we have early voting here in New Mexico since I would not have been able to make it tomorrow. Voted on Oct. 26th at my local library, the day before my twin daughters 46th birthday and it seemed to be such a fitting way to honor them by voting for our first woman President.

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  13. Kristin Avatar
    Kristin

    Love all your recent photos…have been staying far away from the electronic world to keep myself in my center…and not be pulled by fear. smoother sailing for my life’s ship…and prayerfully hope that our first female president will be elected tomorrow…along with a host of local and state folks who mean so much to me to make a shift in the energy of hate and discord.
    I begin work this week with six Congolese women who have come as part of the refugee program….I am working on their learning English for now. And soon I begin to work with their children in a reading program. Feels just right to put my self forward to support refugees…my step to stand strong against hate.
    The photo of the crow keeps pulling me to look again – the fabric photos are delicious…and the family of goats, now so very much a part of the world I see as Grace’s….cannot even remember how it all was before they came…in truth, they seem to have forever been a part of your life.
    Breathe, rest, listen to the wind…all the things that matter.
    Namaste my dear one.
    Kristin

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