off all morning…just now….who knows how long.  So if Joanne's Tin Foil suggestion doesn't work,

and if i just am not here,   please know that i'll be back sometime,  soon as i can.  That i'll miss being here.

 

and Sitting in the Morning Chair this morning,  i went through that Drawing Book that i'd begun for the Field Notes.  It will be where things are when not here.  And some loose pages in there,  looking through

This from Nancy Erisman, pomegranatetrail.blogspot  June 3, 2017.   Not written properly because i don't know how to single space for the poetic form….forgive…

 

Sometimes

Sometimes  if you move carefully through the forest,

breathing like the ones in the old stories,

who could cross a shimmering bed of leaves without a sound,

you come to a place whose only task

is to trouble you with tiny but frightening requests,

conceived out of nowhere but in this place beginning to lead everywhere.

Requests to stop what you are doing right now, and

to stop what you are becoming while you do it,

questions that can make or unmake a life,

questions that have patiently waited for you,

questions that have no right to go away.

                                                                  David Whyte  from Everything is Waiting for You

 

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so for a while,  all the cloths will rise up from the images and feelings of these words.  This will be the first.  I'm hoping there will be many.

ok….am going off here right now and wrap the tinfoil.  

Love to You All

 

 Jenny sent this just now

 

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Where I'm going.  

 

 

 

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26 responses to “very tenuous”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    (((Grace))) such beautiful words to contemplate as you make ready to Go!

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  2. Liz A Avatar

    How the land can be everything …

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  3. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    Oh Grace it looks lovely. You are going to be so happy there.
    I sent address in email. Hope you are still online.
    what a time to lose the connection–when you need it most.

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  4. Dana Webb Avatar

    I haven’t been commenting much, but I’ve been watching and I want you to know that I think of you often as you prepare to leave the only place that I have known you. The poignancy of memory, the anxiety of transition, the excitement of the new and your hopes for your family’s future…I can feel it all swirling around you like a dust devil in the desert. Good luck with the physical moving and always, love to you and all the beings that surround you. Also, fingers crossed about the internet.

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  5. grace Avatar

    beginning to lead everywhere
    i can see this.

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  6. grace Avatar

    the land IS everything….it IS.

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  7. grace Avatar

    well…it’s how it is going…but i used the tinfoil and so
    far so good. AM debating letting the computer Sleep tonight
    instead of turning it off…but maybe i should….turn it off…
    thing is, so much is on line…the bank stuff, so i know
    what i have for the Uhaul, gas for the trip, that kind of
    stuff and then…National Weather Service. And i realize
    how good it is for asking questions. today i asked questions
    about internet service there…interestingly….comcast seems
    to be hooked into Verizon towers…..
    Now would be a perfect and easy time to divorce the internet. But i don’t want to. Good to know. I don’t want to.

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  8. grace Avatar

    Thank you for your words, Dana.

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  9. Hazel Avatar

    It’s beautiful, with so many layers.

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  10. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Grace do you know what company services the internet where you are going? Maybe do a bit of research for there. Hope here holds out for you but if you disappear, I’ve got your phone and you’ve got mine. May be as we get closer you might ask for the snail mail address there and pass that on to me in email if you want.
    The new cloth is deep and rich…and there will be more.

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  11. grace Avatar

    layers are where it’s at

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  12. grace Avatar

    there is no snail mail address there yet because there is no
    dwelling there yet. I will be the first. It’s possible then
    that there can be a
    mailbox !!!
    but Alyssia is going to get she and I a PO box in Oroville.
    that’s what i tried to do today…look at services…it seems
    that Comcast is there and also uses Verizon networks.
    how strange and funny to be talking this way…me with my land line here that i’ve had for 20 some years…
    but it’s now. Now. and i am working to find out.
    Jenny says that campsite B, which would be me, and campsite C which is her at the top of the Hill…both get phone through
    Verizon. Campsite A, however, Alyssia, seems in some kind of dip, blip, and Not.
    Since i’ll be the only one there for a while, phone is desired. Phone for the kids at school. Things like that.
    So…am working on it. But really, till i am there, it’s all kind of speculation.
    Cloth is much more gentle.

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  13. johnson.mixedupmedia.margaret@gmail.com Avatar
    johnson.mixedupmedia.margaret@gmail.com

    HUGS AND GOOD WISHES…..OXO

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  14. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    I hope you stay online a while longer. If the aluminum foil doesn’t work I will wait for your snail mail. Welcome your adventure like you have welcomed the rest of your amazing life. I will be with you in spirit. Love you.

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  15. beth Avatar

    It looks like goat heaven.

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  16. saskia Avatar

    where you ARE going!
    eeeeeeeeeeeee
    omg i am going to miss you over here in the virtual, hope you get hooked up asap

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    Thank you, Margaret….can feel them

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    Thank you….there’s momentum, it’ll carry all of Us along
    Love back

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    6 acres there for that soft walking

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes, Goat Heaven. everything a Goat might possibly want.
    I am so excited to watch them learn their Forest world…

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    ali

    Holding you in my heart Grace, if you are here or not. Gaia 1 watches over the altar

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  23. susan matthews Avatar
    susan matthews

    Dear Grace
    Do you remember me buying your cloth of crows and goats? You said the goats would be happy on Bowen Island, now you are taking them to be happy in a place of great beauty, I am so happy for all of you. I will send good wishes into the Universe for your journey.
    Susan

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  24. grace Avatar

    SUSAN! oh, yes! I was just looking at the print out of the
    pic you had sent me of you in your Garden!!! Wondering about
    you. How GREAT that you are here today, and its not Bowen Island,
    but a place of great beauty too.
    I will put my arms up to receive your good wishes and
    Thank You So Much for writing here,
    Love to you…..

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  25. grace Avatar

    Being Watched Over….i think of this.
    Our Altars.
    How so REAL this all becomes during certain times.

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