https://www.youtube.com/wathttps://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIkII5WY5V0&t=182s/watch?v=dIkII5WY5V0&t=182sch?v=dIKII5WYVO 

 

following kindergarten instructions from Jude….DID I?????????????????????

This is in the city of Chico….maybe 20 min away from the Hill.   3,670 acres.

the first part: Vision is short..just be patient till you get to Inspiration.,  or, that's somewhere around 3

Addendum.  I found this one on Utube early this morning and watched and watched and watched and wanted to put it here,  to mark the day i understood where i am going.  Before now,  even tho they have lived there for a few years,  i never looked.  Didn't want to.  It was their lives,  their world.  But this morning i looked.  

I have been doing Morning Pages trying to sort through so much.  This morning again,  it is about "Time".  What is it, Time?  Time equals Life.   Time is being Alive.  Everyday.  Waking, Doing, then falling asleep and going somewhere else,  then waking again.  This is how it is.  Living.  Every day.  24 hours.  Repeat.  Repeat.  Repeat.  Spending Time,  Living.  Being Alive.

I think how when i Go,  i can't come back.

But really, i "can't come back" already,  and i'm still here,  i'm not even gone,  but i am.  Because it's time.  

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 this is what i see.  it's Time.  

I watched the video many times and felt so like i was betraying what this Place is,  what i tried to do here,  what the land tried to do back in response.  This land is its own self,  what it has always been,  what it knows how to be.  But it Gave.  and Gave and Gives.  

The love for this is close to unbearable.

 

PART 2 OR 3?   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M2j5SIPC6U&t=50s  link

so there is lots of email exchange about what can happen and still,  i hold out for the pallet home.   

 

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looking, turning, changing, looking and wondering WHY am i wanting to do this, but i am and so…………

I brought in wood for three days.  Today,  Tshirt,  birkenstocks with no socks.  Tomorrow and Monday WIND ADVISORY,  rain, snow.  Ok.

 

 

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32 responses to “experiment then failure then success and addendums”

  1. jude Avatar

    type the word link. highlight it. click the the little chain symbol above the compose post box. paste the link it where it says url. that will make the word link into a path to the video.

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  2. Deb G Avatar

    Try this (if you still want to try links anyway): 1st
    Copy the address you want to link to by highlighting the address and then selecting copy from the tool bar provided by your browser, in my case firefox. 2nd if you are putting the link into your post select the link shaped icon on the toolbar for formatting your post, the type pad tool bar) 3rd paste the address into the box that comes up. That should put a link in the blog post. If you are putting it into a comment box on a typepad blog all you have to do is copy the whole address and paste it into the box.
    A gift for you this morning:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdIhpkEkC4c
    Be good tanyas, “The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs”

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  3. grace Avatar

    YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!oh EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
    oh more eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
    it worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    O! Enough for now…i am exhausted!

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  5. Mo Crow Avatar

    Hooray, what a beautiful place to walk!

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  6. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Oh I get by with a little help from my friends 🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶

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  7. Suzanna Avatar

    Grace!!! I have been … absent…and now to learn you will be moving to California!! This is very good news. I am happy for you and for California! You will be near by. Or somewhat near by. Thank goodness for some good news. Now I had better go catch up with the story of how this came to be…❤, s.

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  8. ali Avatar
    ali

    Oh Grace, so many emotions running through. Morning Pages are a good way to stay with these and let them go with love.
    Looks like such a beautiful place you will be going to, and i love the pallet home.
    So good to see how the cloth is growing.

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  9. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    BRILLIANT brilliant housing video and I love that the spokeswoman wonders why something this affordable and practical has not been implemented for refugees world wide! Also beautiful and brilliant song from the Be Good Tanyas! Your love for the giving land and that it’s ‘almost unbearable’ hit me in the gut. I Love you Grace and I’ve come to love the land too at least in the virtual. I’m sitting here this morning imagining the actual and equating it with the back yard and church garden I loved and how wrenching their loss was to me. I love you again dear little friend….the Littlest Birds DO have the Prettiest Songs!

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  10. Mo Crow Avatar

    hmmm… the only thing I would worry about with the pallet house plan is termites with laying the floor pallets on the ground. I would need to build it on stumps with ant caps as the foundation or the termites (here in Australia anyway) would eat it from the inside out within 10 years, this happened with a couple of the handmade houses friends built back in the 70’s

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  11. Dakotah Avatar

    The first thing I thought when I read the post that you were leaving was “but who will water the toads?”
    And then I felt…someone will come.
    But in that moment I felt how you have changed the land there, brought things in that weren’t there before, created this oasis.
    I also felt how much we are all experiencing this change With you, we feel it too, the conflicts…and the hopes…
    Leaving a place always hurts, you always leave something of yourself behind, in some cases many things. But all you are gaining is so obvious to me. The chance to put down permanent roots among those who love you in a beautiful place? That is a rare gift.
    Maybe it’s the fact that we imprint ourselves upon a place, show others what can be created and how things can change, that is important. Not necessarily that we stay there forever.
    I know this will be a wonderful adventure for you.
    You will take a piece of the Russian olive with you when you go, won’t you?

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  12. saskia Avatar

    we live and learn
    the pallet house is absolutely fantastic, if i had to build a new studio i’ld build it with pallets and move in

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  13. cynthia Avatar
    cynthia

    this was wonderful..

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  14. cynthia Avatar
    cynthia

    it is so hard..isn’t it when the heart can stretch and grow to contain so much and the physical being has the limits of time and space
    gentle day grace

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  15. Irene Avatar
    Irene

    ” i “can’t come back” already, and i’m still here, i’m not even gone, but i am. Because it’s time.”
    Exactly how I felt when I knew it was time to leave NY.

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  16. grace Avatar

    it is
    a gift
    the song

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  17. grace Avatar

    so far, so good

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  18. grace Avatar

    yes. it really really is

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  20. grace Avatar

    LOVE you Suzanna!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I might even be able to be Face to Face with you????!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  21. grace Avatar

    the Morning Pages will save me now….get it all out of my head
    and to a place where i can see it and let it fly. They have
    saved me many many times before and i have faith in them

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  22. grace Avatar

    yes. like the church garden. Love MAKES US
    Love creates us
    Love is Love and Fills us to overflowing and we are
    formed by that
    I am grateful.

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  23. grace Avatar

    not sure about termites there, don’t think so. But that aside,
    there would be a foundation of some sort because of being on a hill. All that is being taken into consideration.

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  24. grace Avatar

    to participate in THEIR ROOTS is huge to me at this time of my
    life. It’s THEM that i am so invested in.
    and here…what makes it possible for me to do this is that
    Travis, the one who i met when he was taking care of demented Betty at the old folks home and then when he helped me care for the Old Cowboy in his own home that last year through Hospice…i know him from those times and trust him beyond Trust. He will be given this place. He knows everything about it, he has heard stories upon stories about the Toads and Lizards. I have great Faith in him to care for their needs. He will CHANGE it. will use the Albatros as an automotive thing, he loves working on vehicles…so it will be so different, but it will remain a world for the beings here, no matter. I couldn’t Go if it wasn’t for him.
    Don’t know about taking some of the Old Tree….if there might be something that would take negative substance over state lines? I need to find out about this

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  25. grace Avatar

    just love it…the building with pallets. i can see you
    making something so beauty FULL this way

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  26. grace Avatar

    it is. We need to breath through the stretching but i am
    so looking forward to what that might be like

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  27. grace Avatar

    YES!!!!!…ISN’T IT????????????????, YES ISN’T IT HOW IT IS?
    So glad you recognize this moment…so odd, but so how it is
    such a strange phenomenon

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  28. Dakotah Avatar

    The opportunity to experience life and living with them on a daily basis…truly wonderful!

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  29. Nina Avatar
    Nina

    I love the pallet house design! And the Bidwell Park is amazing. It must be quite a huge area. Exciting, but I know it’s sad for you to leave your home. The goats will make it better, they will be with you I believe?

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  30. Wendy@ Late StartStudio Avatar

    Oh Grace! Wouldn’t it be wonderful to gather up all the grandmothers you know to build your home? I’d come . . . I’m handy with a hammer.

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