some kind of death.

i took down the Magic Diaries Cloth,  folded it Care FULL y and placed it in the Wall box which was once a toy box.  

 

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put back the long linen runner that holds all manner of things from cloth to paper to wire and stick

then,  the day went along.  And i thought about how it feels like some kind of death.    I thought a lot of things and i read what was presented on the computer screen and wrote some things down so i can track it all as the days continue.  But it still felt like some kind of death.   

I thought about the months long conversation or years, maybe even,  i'd shared with daughter about Things You Can't Undo.  And this helped me.

Things You Can't Undo.

the things of human to human now,  we can form.  as of clay.  Things of the planet,  not so much and i look at that.  Will keep looking at that.  Some things we will not be able to undo.  And here is the Grief.  My grief.

 

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so i'll work it out here,  on the wall with Cloth and paper and pen.   What died?  Maybe the self that came of  age in the 60's.   What remains now?,  the self that is coming of age now…in my 70's years?  I think so.  

Michelle gave the link yesterday.  Maybe she will give it again for today.  Maybe i can enlist Jude to set it in the side bar here?   Leonard Cohen,  Jikan.    How gracefully he has excused himSelf.  

 

 

 

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15 responses to “some kind of death”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    the waves of grief flow right across the wide blue

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  2. Deb G Avatar

    Today I needed to explain to a coworker (female who did not vote for Trump) why women would cry. We have come so far that it wouldn’t be in someone’s frame of reference, that it wouldn’t be obvious to them right away and of course, not far enough…

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    How worthy you are and how beautiful your grief. It is a consolation for me that you share the depth of your feeling with us. That break in composure I had while taking the photograph of the Empire State building was the beginning of relief in acceptance of our current condition. I have slept wrapped in my comforter on and off for the past forty eight hours. Cells and synapses had some time to repair from weeks, nay-months of the assaulting process that was our National election. Now I can entertain the wonderfully simple three line joke offered by my favorite Polish Sheep dog blogger and posted it hoping it will serve up a moment of humor for many other wounded souls that we may laugh together wryly again and move on: https://bobnsophie.blogspot.com/2016/11/french-humour.html#comment-form

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  4. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Taking the liberty of sharing this moment with all who visit here and with you Grace since it’s from my second blog which few see:
    http://homeshift.blogspot.com/2016/11/empire-on-fire.html

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  5. jude Avatar

    things undo themselves.

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  6. Nina Avatar
    Nina

    In 1972 as I left high school, I never ever doubted that we couldn’t be past this by now. I feel like I have not worked hard enough to make sure that such a tenuous movement could survive. Thank you for sharing your grief. My grief, all our grief needs to be mobilized.

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  7. Liz A Avatar

    I suppose the work will not be done in our lifetimes … and yes, I share this sense that I could have, should have done more

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  8. grace Avatar

    NINA….you give the magic word.
    mobilized.
    to not discount the grief, deny the grief, be ashamed for the grief
    but to let it ferment and to MOBILIZE the grief….YES!!!!!!!!!!!
    Thank you so much for this, so much. and love to you
    and your Goat world, Reddog, and all…o just Thank You…
    Big and well…ok.

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  9. grace Avatar

    flow, flow, flow

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  10. grace Avatar

    part of that for me is as you say….to be denied…..
    but it’s just SO MUCH
    that’s the ache of it

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  11. grace Avatar

    i cannot just sleep. i wish i could, really, just sleep and sleep but the Just Going here is a daily pull at dawn

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  12. grace Avatar

    take ALL the LIBERTIES my beloved Michelle

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  13. grace Avatar

    i think not always

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  14. Jennifer Avatar
    Jennifer

    My grief is still lingering – hanging on. I am trying to turn it towards action. The picture of your room, the baskets of cloth, the wall of creations…I keep coming back to them…they bring me peace.

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  15. grace Avatar

    no hurry…this is something that needs time. It is BIG. Bigger than we have ever known before.
    so…the pics of the room and it’s companions, giving you some
    kind of peace, this gives me some kind of peace then and
    kinds of peace will hold us until we can see some way to Go
    but no hurry. no hurry. we need to breathe into it, slow.

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