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arctica…wondering what it might be like to Ask.

 

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Onday

 

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even Just Going…who never tries,  but remembered that yesterday there were peanuts.

 

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she who hesitates is lost.  Oona Claims space

 

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Oona.  who in younger years was the most snotty.  Now,  with Onday,  gives the most Love.

 

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Onday claims the Stump,  the wildest thing here in this Way Back.  In the new Goat Forest there is only Wild….fallen branches,  brush.  How will she claim that?

 

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the tortiseshell mother cat who i have seen in the Way Back a couple of times.   Tay,  spending nights outside.    and here,  in the SUN of morning….at first i thought there were three.

 

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i think there are 5 kittens.  FIVE KITTENS.  under the house.  I gave them all Water.  Them,  their mother.   Cats.

 

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the date is wrong but close enough.  it was this morning.   When Travis and Everett came today,  a toad crossed the thing called driveway.  Going North to the stick pile.  As they were backing up to leave,  i had to yell STOP because the same toad was making its way back…WAIT and ok and it made its way back  over to where i was watering.  2 storms had come and gone.  Almost hail but not.  

I can't keep everything totally Safe,  forever.  

I can't keep everything totally Safe, forever.

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8 responses to “two days become one”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    you are so open & aware to all the nuances of every living being sharing your raft out there in the desert
    namaste

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  2. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Oh the beauty of them-your drawing too
    Oh scruffy orange kittens-I’d be going crazy trying to catch and tend to them with the mother I think, how wise to realize one can’t keep everything safe forever.

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  3. ali Avatar
    ali

    Such beautiful, wise faces. Only birds and toads, newts, hedgehogs and slow worms to keep safe in my garden, but the cats and the Sparrowhawk come, and the hedgehogs go on to the road … many little griefs

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  4. cathy Avatar

    Your goats are precious. And the momma cat, too. Such loving lives.

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  5. dee Avatar

    not even for the short term, really — you are ALL going to go through big changes…

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  6. annalisa sorensen Avatar

    wise words, Here the turtles are crossing the roads laying their eggs… you save some and some are lost, little griefs indeed…
    I cant keep everything safe Forever,

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  7. grace Avatar

    i WANT TO. i want to
    keep All Manner of things SAFE, FOREVER.
    if i stay here, “forever” , for some More Time, i could…
    i could keep us safe inside this acre of SAFE inside this
    wooden privacy fence, where the feral mother cat brings her
    little ones and lizards and toads go north to south. and NO
    CHANGE happens. NO CHANGE.
    but then…there is the rest of it, the All of it and i look
    beyond the wooden fence.
    THANK YOU. thank you so much for coming here and leaving your words….

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