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this is the Morning Tree.  just out from the little table here where i wake up.   Alyssia had put this pic here for me almost 2 weeks ago now and i didn't post it because it wasn't "right".   On the camera,  it is a magnificant image…of burnished copper/bronze brilliance….that same kind of magic that sometimes happened in New Mex…how Sun provides a magic show.   But "reduced" here,  you don't see that .  So i didn't post it.  I guess i can sit here forever,  waiting for something that might never happen how i want it to.  or,  i can just go.   my decision.

at this window,  the table.  coming out from the wall with two bench seats on either side.  Table is 3 ft x 2 wide.  Between the end of the table and the stove and sink,  there is a 2 ft space where Tay usually lays in case someone drops food.

Still living in Chico,  Alyssia drives here to Oroville to take the kids to school every day.  She and Emrie spend the day here.  She picks up the kids after school  and we have late afternoon and then dinner.  Dinner at the aforementioned  table.  Tay on the floor.  So…an 8 yo and now 10 yr old, almost my size,  a mother, an old Nana 

AND a 6 month old human being in a booster seat.  it's tight.  the conversations are always a little loud and fast.    I suddenly really SAW this scene a couple nights ago,  for what it really is,  and most striking was Emrie.  She's so little,  so well, NEW.  But she takes her Place at the table…offering what she can….grabbing at spoons,  squeals,  sometimes makes shrill and loud sounds,  laughs and is so fully and completely a PEER.    

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30 responses to “how it is, which is how it can be”

  1. jude Avatar

    and here you are…! how it might happen.

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes…it’s good enough….but i still wish i could
    show you the original pic, or, show you what i
    actually saw…but
    i looked for that hiku from Jan in Nagasaki…the one
    you had on your sidebar…..

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  3. jude Avatar

    Not what is not there and yet not what is there now but what is coming.

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  4. Mo Crow Avatar

    the photo looks glorious, full of light and life, so good to see!

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  5. Nina Avatar
    Nina

    Even in reduced size the tree photo is amazing! So glad you are sharing your days with your people.

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    with all its pixels, it’s stunning

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    it will be this kind of intense sharing till we all have
    our own places, or at least Alyssias and mine…that
    can happen just out of the blue one of these days. I
    look very much forward to that…they do too.

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  8. Wendy@ Late StartStudio Avatar

    What a stunning tree to keep you company through the seasons . . . your clock.

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  9. Michele Bilyeu Avatar

    It brings tears to my eyes. Grace, i see it, i feel it. It is intense. A very diffefent for you world with so much, so many. but so magical, vibrant, energetic,and such a filled to the brim and overflowing new world.

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  10. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    It is almost impossible to do nature justice in pictures … it’s enough to see it through your eyes. Grace my heart is full … filled with great joy imagining you all around that little table. Soon enough you will all have your own space and look back at this time as a precious memory.

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  11. Nancy Avatar

    I see glimmers of what you speak of and your words fill in what you saw. Some images are not meant to be captured, but to lived.
    Love the image you’ve painted of your family table…and yes it is just that, she is here and a part of it…bottom line, respected. Love that 🙂

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    tree. Live Oak. They and whatever kind of pine it is here, that i don’t know yet, they comprise the Forest here

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    michele, it is
    so different
    but also there is no question that it is what it is supposed to be. No question.
    When they have left and its quiet, i go Out and walk some and feel the Hill here and this too is magical, vibrant, energetic and filled to the brim but also there is such a complete and full sense that it needs ALL of It, to be what it IS. To be what it wants. I am only a part of it All.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    i remind my self of that often, that it’s just this Time, that it will change and become in some way, less than it is now. and i will look back.
    Love to you….

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    she is. part of it. respected. as the Being she is, that chose us and came to us for this Round.

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  16. Deb Avatar

    I would sleep in that tree.

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  17. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    A photograph simply can not replicate the perspective one has of being there…especially landscape, though Ansel Adams did sometimes.
    The colors are quite amazing. Your situation is clearly somewhat stressful and yet fortunate in relationship. Everything changes.
    I think I sent a package but don’t recall what was in it or even if I actually did. I know I sent a card and it was returned to me for one wrong number three weeks later. I put it in a new envelope and mailed it to the correct address Friday.
    Love you.

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  18. Deb G Avatar

    6 months…so much world to discover.

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  19. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Your words enhance the beauty of family and land. And document for us and them. Lovely.

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  20. beth Avatar

    Your words paint images so clearly. I almost don’t need photos to see.

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  21. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    I love your morning. Tree. I wonder what it looks like with movement over time. Does your cellphone do that? Is that what you wanted to show us? It sounds like so much movement is happening there. I am so happy that you know that is where you are meant to be. What a perfect feeling. sigh… hello, family of grace!

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar

    that one single tree could hold the World

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar

    “fortunate in relationship”
    hmmmm. yes. Alyssia is like another Self…easy and smooth, same. Jenny, different but feels Good..the uhhhh, raspy ness of it, feels Good.

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar

    6 months. 6 months, “alive”, what does alive mean?
    6 months, born.
    6 months. Emrie. Here. on this Hill.

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  25. grace Forrest Avatar

    document. yes. for them. so much

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  26. grace Forrest Avatar

    you do, though. the images are stunning and transport you

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  27. grace Forrest Avatar

    hello back, jaime…family says hello back….
    the cell phone, this new one that CAN receive waves from the whereever, yes…pics. the pics it pulls from the Here are just magnificant, but when reduced to accomodate the pull of what internet there is, become so much less than really how it IS
    but o well….its all ok, yes? yes and all ok.
    again. they keep saying that this is Winter here. hmmmm.
    Winter. there is no Winter that i know, but ok. Soon, like any minute, things will change and the whole scene will be different? i am watching, with All of Us….

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  28. dee Avatar

    Such fullness here! I like to think you’ll take photos of that tree in all kinds of light and moods and we will come to know it.

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