julie asked a good question.  What does Ready mean?  and i answered this morning with what i had then.  Later today,  i got an email from Wendy Golden Levitt about a child that had come to her Sacred Place.  He is 5 and needed to talk with a lizard.  I've tried to get into the Picasa files to bring forward the Lizard that i sent there.  I can't.  it's always such a mystery to me,  how sometimes i can go there,  most times not.  but it was in 2010 when i made that Cloth…during Jude's (Jude Hill Spirit Cloth) patchwork beasts online workshop.   This child needed to talk with a Lizard and there it was,  a Lizard…hanging in the entryway.  He took it down and climbed INTO the sand tray,  the cloth with him.  What came of this is really more than anyone might Ever HOPE for.  and i can't put it here,  it's sacred to that space,  the child, the cloth,  the sand tray that was in the moment the desert that the child had come from.  But what it gave me,  GIVES me,  is total and complete verification of the part of my Self that will need to stand and be accounted for in the days to come.  To TRUST that self and live from that self,  no other,  without rationalizing or again,  without apology.  Truth is Truth.  My truth may not be yours or anyone elses,  but it IS mine.  and I stand with it.

 

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i looked for and found this.  It's on poster board…was cut this odd way because someone smeared paint on its surrounding.  I drew it when i was trying to know what to do about leaving Michigan all those years ago.  Then,  when i couldn't come to any decision about something,  i would draw.  Just draw what came.  This came.  a lizard, the messenger…said….Go.  I went.

there was more i was going to say here but i can't think of what it was in this moment,  so this is it for now.  it's enough.

 

 

 

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9 responses to “one of the ways to be Ready”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    thank you for this soul deep sharing beautifully drawn

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  2. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    I gotta be me …. not just words from a song … but words to live by.

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Often I find myself wanting to speak directly like you do, a hint of images and the past, of what is sacred to you. I think you accomplish it beautifully. Telling just enough to convey the feeling.
    Tedious isn’t it how Picasa and other sites become so difficult to access. the New blogger format had me bamboozled then I just decided to abandon it and return to my old blog. I need ease not challenge here. There’s enough challenge in real life.

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  4. margaret johnson Avatar
    margaret johnson

    Such a BEAUTIFUL post……ox

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  5. julie Avatar

    You asked me what I thought of your answer and I had been working on a reply in my mind all night (thanks for THAT). Synchronicity when I wake to this post because I was going to say something along these same lines. Being fully alive and aware without letting him crush me–I see so many people I know developing daily tactics (I will write a post about my own) but the common denominator so many of us arrive at independently is doing good for others and touching–no, yanking on–what is true and loving and sacred to one’s self. Maybe not being ready, just Being?
    love to you and your Self

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  6. jude Avatar

    it feels warm here.

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  7. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    you are always so true to the land Grace. . .even when it is another land that is calling you. . .speaking through you. and I imagine that is what the child at Wendy’s felt too. to me, that’s what being “ready” means. . .being fully here x

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    this is deeper and more beautiful than words can reflect , it’s in the crack we can see the light trough ,between the lines
    yes being ready , being fully here xxx

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  9. Angie Avatar

    WOW, this is powerful stuff…and my soul responds…

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