70 and a soft warm SUN

 

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child buddha on SnowBunny's grave

 

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the two rocks that are like her…same colors,  and crystal and the blue heart of Love

 

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there are two of these cement blocks.  They go.

 

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some extremely weathered cloth…fragile…originally from the Raft,  then moved for Snowbunny.  I will take Time and untie if i can.  keep for the altar.

 

and then this.  Which day to take down?  the latest would be Wednesday morning.  Maybe Tuesday,  when it is still quiet,  easy.  Tuesday, i think.

 

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3.  Only so slightly different,  but enough that i couldn't choose.  Where will these go, when we are There?

and i continued to think about the default today,  and to make it more clear,  it was tied to Hazel's Me Too post on Handstories the other day,   and i thought about how my default is quiet, slow,  thoughtFull with great care taken,  that it has taken this far of a LifeTime to get that down,  but how i also need to be able to …give….when it seems to be the only way.  But it's the FEELING,  that i

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that i can't trust my own decision and that's pretty pathetic for a 72 year old woman.  Shows just how Conditioned the whole phenomenon is.  and how thoroughly we have been complicit in giving over our own AGENCY!….YAY….that word,  that concept, Agency!  Generations ago,  we didn't doubt.  We have come to be conditioned to doubt and part of it is our own participation.  

This is what i think about for  Emrie.

Beauty FULL Hilda came today to take the Hoya to her home.  How much i love that….a woman would travel over an hour to adopt a plant.  She was wonderFULL and oh so kind to Tay who was her worst,  just so excited and enthused by her being here,  but she was kind.  

Everett called early this morning from Barstow, CA.   Stuff was good.  I had,  just before that,  realized that i couldn't find the cell phone.  I freaked.  Called the truck stop.  went to Pricilla's food cart.  looked everywhere here,  dialing and getting no ring.  so asked Everett…check the truck.  Maybe when i was at Bill's picking up the grass hay?…his dogs meet me and i open the door and they jump in and ride with me to the hay  barn.  If i've had anything in my rucksack purse,  like Fritos or something,  they nose in there….so maybe?????  but it wasn't at Bill's on the ground.  But when they next stopped for gas,  Everett checked and IT WAS RIGHT THERE.  on the seat.  Little plain black flip phone.  So, the truck Sunny and the cell phone arrive in California before me.  They'll leave the truck but bring back the phone.  at the end of this day,  stuff's just ok.

 

 

 

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26 responses to “maybe the last really beauty FULL WARM day?”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    it’s warmer up there in New Mexico coming on for winter than down here in Sydney in the first week of summer, right now at 2 in the afternoon it’s 62 degrees fahreheit, raining, it’s c-c-c-cold, we live in very strange times!

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  2. grace Avatar

    we do. we live in strange times. but they ARE the times we live in. and so we learn how to do that. We watch, we live. we Go.
    We Love. Love is the answer.

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  3. ² Avatar
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    i am ready to to leave N mex ,
    goïng with you to Ca
    just a big hug , all is well
    thanks for letting me us part it helps you
    it is a big thing for me
    we love , yes it is the answer
    love the song Mo’s Rod sing

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  4. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    They are safely THERE.
    Sigh of relief from here in Maine–where the nights are cold and the days warm and sunny. So NOT typical for this time of year–but nothing has been right (weatherize) the entire Spring, Summer, Fall and now Winter. The weather guys say heavier than usual snowfall for the North East. We’ll see.
    Barstow. Will find it on a map.

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  5. Yvette Avatar

    We are all travellers with you

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

    All is well, All will be well. Your beautiful piece of wood hanging on the post (the first pic) reminds me of goat horns. And a beautiful sleeved arm and hand draped around the post. So glad you are taking all your special things. The rocks look amazing, so many hues in them! Would love to meet Tay, she sounds like a lovely Dog. As Yvette says, we are all Travellers with you…..Marg..OXO

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  7. Susan Hemann Avatar

    lovely photos, the child buddha is so calming, love the weathered wood!, have a collection myself- I have a bond with trees

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  8. Liz A Avatar

    How wood might gesture …

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  9. Martine Bos Avatar

    Yvette said it: we are all travellers with you………
    Our thougts carry you.

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  10. Hilda Avatar

    Thanks again, Grace for letting me adopt the hoya. I’m so glad Everett found your phone. Safe travels to you all.

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  11. Patty Avatar

    OH, take that wonderful piece of wood. Sending good adventure
    wishes.

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  12. beth Avatar

    Thank you for thinking out loud through this. As another quiet, slow, thoughtful, careful person it helps me to understand myself better. And I do know that hesitation and being cajoled into something that is against my best judgment. Sometimes it turns out fine, sometimes not. What a lovely twist that they also have custody of your phone.

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  13. Kristin Avatar
    Kristin

    The phone is safe…and will return to travel with you..a perfect ending to the question. Yes, yes on the wood to travel..soon, very soon the story of the journey will become action, and then arrival..wonderfully full story.

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  14. grace Avatar

    we do. we love. and yes. it IS the answer.

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  15. grace Avatar

    they still had a long way to go.
    the weather everywhere is not ordinary.

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  16. grace Avatar

    i am counting on that, will feel this, everyone
    gathered and going…

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  17. grace Avatar

    Tay is a Big Heart.
    today i washed the rocks.

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  18. grace Avatar

    a bond with trees….what a beauty Full image that brings.

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  19. grace Avatar

    i wish i would have been able to see how that
    came to be.
    It was in an arroyo when i found it

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  20. grace Avatar

    i rely on that

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  21. grace Avatar

    You are so beyond welcome, Hilda. I feel so good to know
    Hoya is in your home!
    and what a so great day for you stopping at Sevilleta…
    it must have been exhilarating.

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  22. grace Avatar

    Patty..do not have a snail mail for you…email please
    if you would like

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  23. grace Avatar

    it’s something to really take the time and effort to
    understand. I think its pervasive, really, and very
    much part of a dynamic that needs to change, would
    benefit everyone.
    yes. O! Relief…phone.
    I never use it. Don’t like it. it’s one of the little flip
    phones. Not really user friendly.
    I got it when the Old Cowboy signed up for the Med Alert line…
    needed a cell phone for that. a 3 year contract.
    but now, cell will be what there IS to get used to. No
    landline anymore.

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  24. grace Avatar

    it’s getting very close.

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  25. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    I come to you here at nearly 2AM in Manhattan three flights up on Tuesday morning 11.5.2017 and you on the very verge of going. Glad for you of course and concerned for me losing even temporary touch with you (selfishly)…Happy the truck and cell are on the way and safe so far. I’ve been so mostly ill of late my thoughts are of myself. Forgive that and know I, with my often ‘don’t know what to do’ seventy five year old mind with total understanding of that questioning lack of sureness-that self doubting and it’s deep causes. The practice and comprehension of Buddhist thought is a buffer to the messy reality of life in the fragile body on this battered earth and in these troubled times. But what would I do without the internet? how would I know that a ‘Hilda’ exists who would travel an hour to adopt a Hoya? How would I ever have connected to Jude’s community, met you and all the rest and come to love and count on those presences? Who would I be without these connections. Idle thoughts. In the end, all is lost so learning to ‘let’ is crucial. I’m still practicing.

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  26. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Because of the Hoya, I have just added your blog to blogs I follow and sent you an email.

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