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a very large day

there was an EarthQuake.   Polvadera is on direct fault line…Rio Grande Rift.   There have been a few other quakes in my time here.  This,  the longest and most strongly felt.  Everything quivered.  Goats stood,  facing one direction,  still….alert.  Tay bolted in through the dog door.  Late in the day a News Helicopter circled and circled over head.   I stood on the porch and waved up…maybe i will be on TV tonight?  Neighbor Margie said she'd watch for me.

Three of Us in particular.

deemallon.wordpress.com

imgoingtotexas.blogspot.com,  Liz

ravenandsparrow.typepad.com   Dana

feeling impelled.

i wake,  every morning now,  my dreaming still clinging,  and as i walk through the hallway to the Morning Chair,  i understand that this is not "politics".  This is something entirely different.  This is something very Dark and insidiously seeping through in the GUISE of politics.  And as i commented to Liz,  i am not good at the details.  I am a "bigPicture" kind of mind.   And the big picture is not good.  There are hundreds of thousands of human beings on a razors edge.  This is NOT politics.  I FEEL it.

so i am grateFULL to those among us who are more capable than i am.

in the Shop

Who is the dreamer, who is the dream $90

to feed the Goats

 

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the "face" is back.  scraps are moving.  Face.  eyes,  nostrils,  lips, chin.  That's all it takes.  Face.

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24 responses to “a very large day”

  1. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    Oh my goodness Grace … the very earth moving beneath you. This is beyond my imagining.

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  2. grace Avatar
    grace

    no one fell through a Crack

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    Be Brave Bear Witness and remeber what Rebecca Solnit said about change always comes from the edges, make art, write, stand in the way of the bulldozers where necessary
    Souls on Deck
    we were made for these times

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  4. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Makes me laugh thinking of you waving up at the news copter… I have never exspienced an earth quake and hope I never do. Although Trump definitely has me shaking in my boots.

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  5. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    NOT POLITICS-The razor’s edge—Astute attuning Grace, and the earth moving in confirmation. You waving at the helicopter-there’s an image i won’t forget. Nor will i forget the dreamer dreaming….and now the goat face emerging! This is just most wonderful…these word and cloth images. I know Dee and Dana’s blogs but not http://imgoingtotexas.blogspot.com
    I’ll go there and have a look, meanwhile thank you for being here as I wander through my NY night at 3:30AM on a Friday, having woken from a sound sleep at 2 am. Lately, though it feels like forever) that seems to be my habitual ‘normal’. No dreams, more’s the pity. Apparently I’m doing it all in waking consciousness. I wonder what my unconscious is doing? I haven’t heard from her for quite a while :–>

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  6. julie Avatar
    julie

    I am reading Rebecca Solnit’s Hope in the Dark, written in the “dark hours” of 2004!!It is giving words to many of my unnamed sensations and in that way, helping me translate a feeling of being impelled into action that fits my life.

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  7. Patriciaspangler47@gmail.com Avatar
    Patriciaspangler47@gmail.com

    I have no words. Or at least the ones i have are so pitifully inadequate. What happened? You say it’s something very Dark. Yes. Dark with fangs and claws dripping blood. And i resist even expressing this but find myself now even challenging previously held notions like “avoid imagining negative outcomes.” But now, although i still manage to stay with the present, it is the present that looks so hideous and evil there’s no need Imagine the future. I have been making prayer flags daily with the intent of staying the course but it’s feeling more and more like a fool’s mission–and every morning, when one is ready to release to the winds, the poison out black cloud rolling over the earth looms a bit bigger, a bit more dense, a bit more toxic. Last night i read a news story about a young mother who died in a house fire. But just prior to succumbing to the toxic smoke, she strapped her 12 day old infant into a car seat and dropped her out the window. The infant was unarmed. The mother died from asphxyation. Toxic dense black smoke. I can’t get this out of my mind–an allegory for life now. Fire, flames, toxic clouds, death. But wait. As i dwell here in despair, i have to say my analogy isn’t complete. The infant survived. Seems i just went full circle. Delete this if you find it too negative. Sending love.

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  8. Patriciaspangler47@gmail.com Avatar
    Patriciaspangler47@gmail.com

    Now i smile. Meant to say the “infant was unharmed.” Interesting mis-spell.

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  9. cynthia Avatar
    cynthia

    oh you will like it there so much…it is an amazing place

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  10. cynthia Avatar
    cynthia

    these places..like this one are places of such strength and so beautifully weave together so many of my thoughts and feelings in beautiful, rational words..
    i remember when i was in third grade..living in san francisco..and we had such a series of earthquakes..one occurred during the week at school..it struck and our desks went skidding across the room..not time to carefully get under our “desks ..tables or a nearby door way ” as we had been so carefully drilled since kindergarten…and then the next saturday..being in an old house in alameda..a small island across the bay..my sister and i playing upstairs in an old house when it hit..the house swaying..the sound it made as the chimney cracked..how when it was finally still we were made to come down immediately and leave the house..and how aware i became that weekend..that grown ups..even the ones we loved and trusted..could not control the world around me..that nature was even more powerful than i had known..already being very much in awe of the pacific ocean..this seemed pretty overwhelming
    i am so glad that you and the goats and tay are all safe..isn’t it amazing to watch the animals..
    so now overwhelmed..almost ..i value more than ever ..the words that this group shares..they strengthen me..i spend time with patricia’s prayer flags..and feel connection..i cross my fingers and hope for decent weather next week when i am hoping to drive to Montpelier..half a state away because some of my favorite fiber artists are presenting an art in the time of trump exhibit and lecture..because i want to see..i want to hear..i want to be strengthened and refreshed…
    i want the beauty and the anger and the compassion that flows from all of these hands..i want to tuck these things in my head as i write post cards and make phone calls as i send emails and talk to the people /children in their thirties who are so worried about the world their children will inhabit..
    i treasure being sustained when i waver,,,,tonight there is a second meeting..of the after the march groupie formed here in this small village last sunday..to gather..to write more postcard..share thoughts and addresses..the hosts have warned that the road is icy and their driveway icier..and since to me..from cities with warmer winters..to be here where everyone dashes out in any kind of weather..i heed their warnings carefully..and it hurts a bit,,knowing if it was another season..or ..and here the truth stings a little..if i were younger..i would go out ..carefully but definitely..go..ad i probably will not..after all i can do these things here..and sadly there will be many other times to meet this way..
    but here is a place..these other sites..are places i can be..and come to no matter the time or the weather.. these places you all have created do not overwhelm or strike fear..they strengthen resolve..they share and confirm…and they offer such beauty..so many ways of creating..of making thought visible..i am so grateful.
    gentle day

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  11. cynthia Avatar
    cynthia

    ps to make you smile..best seed catalogue cover for these times…
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10210637148818856&set=a.1262176708485.40758.1051720504&type=3..if the link does not work..check the FEDCO 2017 seed catalogue…

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  12. Wendy@ Late StartStudio Avatar
    Wendy@ Late StartStudio

    Everything shifting around you . . . physically and metaphorically. Tough times.
    Zealand is often referred to as The Shaky Isles with good reason . . . with our frequent earthquakes and active volcanoes things can get fraught. The strongest and longest I have ever felt was the 7.8 a little way south a few weeks back and my home town of Christchurch will never seem like the same place to me and I found my recent trip back there heartbreaking even now, a few years later. One of the things that comes out of these events is the outpouring of community spirit . . . that first impulse to check your neighbours, to see what you can do for the community close or distant . . . Heart Warming, humbling.

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  13. Wendy@ Late StartStudio Avatar
    Wendy@ Late StartStudio

    And you have some delicious fabric on your wall!

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  14. Ali Avatar
    Ali

    I was dismayed at the Brexit vote here in the UK. It seemed like a kind of madness especially against all the other things that are happening in Europe. Then the election result, and I began to realise there are huge movements in the collective unconscious and all we can do is to move in our own small spheres of influence and do what we can to send love into the world with whatever is in our hands, and resist becoming overwhelmed.
    The local art college is running workshops in natural dyeing using local plants, I hope I can get there, I think it will be grounding and I need to get back to the ground. My own ground is very muddy at the moment with all the rain on the clay but the sky is blue so I may get out before the rain comes again.
    So glad for the sanity, wisdom and love here. Blessings Grace

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  15. grace Avatar
    grace

    repeat in the heart, over and over,
    we were made for these times,
    yes.
    repeat

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    it was just a tremble, but lasted. there should be
    something about it in our little newspaper…comes out
    on Thursdays…

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    i wonder if maybe as we go…through the years, our conscious
    self becomes more adept and the Un conscious can simply be
    at rest, alert.

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    to become more clear with the many unnamed sensations…this
    is true help. I quit reading part way through. Will resume
    soon, maybe

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  19. grace Avatar
    grace

    for me, it is important to speak about it all. the thing
    of not giving energy to one’s despairing responses doesn’t work.
    all of it needs to be on my table. So i can see it.
    Hidden or unspoken won’t work for me.
    it’s interesting isn’t it, that because of this present,
    there is almost a spontaneous lessening of any grasping
    of Future. We have been gathered in by necessity of This Moment.

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  20. grace Avatar
    grace

    had to go back and look….i’d read it unharmed

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  21. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes…to have places. i am so Grateful for this, that
    We have become solid and familiar and trusted.
    i have looked for a group like yours, have not found one
    yet…

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  22. grace Avatar
    grace

    YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    i LOVE this…..THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  23. grace Avatar
    grace

    I have followed Christchurch’s activity….i can’t imagine
    that….am not sure i would be able to live with such
    a possibility…and yes…Community would be foremost

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  24. grace Avatar
    grace

    i hope you can get to the workshops too and then
    come back here and Tell Us about it…i would love
    so much to hear what you learn.
    the ground speaks it’s own language and Holds us well

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