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needing to just go.  Needing to have this at least in its skeletal form by the eve of the turning of the year.  Yesterday and today were work away days,  so the stitching was in mid afternoon after all the Requireds.  I rubbed in the Arnica last night and again this morning before i left.   Arnica HEALS.  When i picked up the needle and thread again this afternoon,  it was good.  It was ok.  But what was very different was that i knew it might not be,  so i was alert and sensitive to the movement,  the response of my hand,  arm,  up into my shoulder.   

i NOTICED.

when i noticed the tightness,  i stopped.  Breathed.  Thought about what i was doing,  why i wanted to do it.  Waited.  Waited for Release.  Breathed more and began again.  Just like with Metta meditation.  When you find yourself drifted off into the tightness,  stop,  notice,  breath and begin again.

I am watching for "tools",  for skillfull means,  as i and so many wait to move into the NEXT.  They are coming.  and i hope that we all clicked the link from Acey

wisewomanhealingways.com    Robin Rose Bennett,  her 12-2 post  Cry me a River

a map will appear.  in pieces, i'm thinking.  But we'll know those pieces when we see them.  We will be sure.  and we will just go.  Each in our own ways,  but in solidarity with the We.

 

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13 responses to “needing to”

  1. Peggy Avatar
    Peggy

    Whoa i know not how it is Not by coincidence that everytime i read your blog and follow up on the links and blogs of people commenting that it just hits home in so many ways. I never cry either but spent last twelve days on a family vacation with son daughter son in law and three grown grandchildren all with extreme personality divides for the most part wonderful but cried like a baby one of the days exhausting then Release Thank you all for following and commenting on Grace’s blog and thank you Grace for such openess your wisdom and pure heart is so inspiring

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  2. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Love what you are doing with that sweatshirt and am totally imagining you wearing it to the grocery store sharing such a needed message given that this new years is scarier than any I remember. MAY YOU BE….I like it….thanks Grace

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    (((Grace)))

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  4. Acey Avatar
    Acey

    Yeah. i had a strong hunch RRB’s ‘word tincture’and her self-presentation would strike a positive chord. Not at all coincidentally it was she who taught me by example, back in 2005, how do-able it can be to cry – how to do it authentically and deeply – during a period of time when i really needed that specific kind of release and didn’t even realize as much. It’s still not my first or even second or third nature to ‘turn on the faucets’ but every time it happens it gets a little easier. Especially whenever i hear robin’s voice in my memory’s ear, reminding me that not-crying is culturally imposed rather than authentic human nature. There is more which relates specifically to the unthinkable that’s coming our way in another 3 weeks but i have not reached out to gain her permission to share so i won’t.

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  5. Morna Crites-Moore Avatar
    Morna Crites-Moore

    This is just as perfect as can be. xo

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  6. Ali Avatar
    Ali

    That’s looking amazing, the magic of handstitching, and love made into substance.
    Thank you so much for the pointer to the Cry me a River post. It feels good to be given permission – how strange we should need it.

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  7. grace Avatar
    grace

    Peggy…there is no wisdom but there is Intention with pure heart. I read of your weeping, the Release and who knows….maybe for me someday?
    WITH YOU i thank ALL of US who come here…who come in
    solidarity to the just going of it all…and you, you…..
    your pure heart…..

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  8. grace Avatar
    grace

    i like it too, more and more and hope there might be the
    question…???? WHAT does it mean? and i will be able to
    get to respond in the best way i know

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  9. grace Avatar
    grace

    MO…back

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  10. grace Avatar
    grace

    it if is that you do reach out
    WE are here and we need these things

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  11. grace Avatar
    grace

    we go

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    to give permission is a very tender thing
    and how we need it.

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  13. Acey Avatar
    Acey

    if i can’t connect by phone in the next little while i’ll try email sometime next week …

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