if i could.
if i could snap my fingers and become 30 or even 40 again…if i had made different choices, if i had in my wildest imagination imagined this day today,
which i could not have
but if i could have, this would be me. I would travel and simply STAND at the places where inhumanity occurs, i would stand, silent, focused and Raise UP the fiercest of all Metta i could, i would hold the fiercest of Tonglen inside me until i trembled. and beyond.
I would go with you. I would be as fierce as fierce could be. I had to look up Tonglen but I would do Tonglen with you too. Fiercely. ANd lovingly.
SNAP. SNAP, SNAP. Are we younger yet?
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I would join you, too. I have always considered myself Warrior: Peace is My Legacy. I am hoping that more and more well-known and diverse women will join those few who are finally speaking out – Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, et al. It will have to be the women, won’t it?
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Direct and powerful statement dear Grace.
Jesus Christ, Gandhi, The Dalai Lama, St, Michael,every man woman and child warrior down through the ages, and this old hag in full hippie battledress would be there too of course, and Nancy Erisman, Jude, Deb Lacitiva, Dee Mallon + fifty or more other bloggers that we have in common, Cybthia and all your blog friends, Emrie in her new donkey cart, your amazing daughters, the homa fires of every Goddess, the last mountain gorillas, several bonobo and crows–millions of crows swarming around us with the West wind to carry them along. Won’t it be glorious!
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the young are so busy getting their lives together as best they can, going to work, raining children and all the rest, it’s up to all of us old crones to stand with fierce love!
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all day yesterday i watched Emmi run and call back to me run run fly fly..and we ran and flew..and always she would come back…those .small arms raised.. . and while i truly have always gathered her up so gratefully..now each time pierces through me..so intense is the knowledge of all who cannot do this..of all those small arms raised..she has discovered echoes and her voice comes back to us and she is so delighted…
right now we have four very pregnant cows and one new mama and calf in our meadow..and she runs to keep watching..waiting for baby cows as focused as we are as we watch and wait..and her voice keeps ringing out with such joy ..mama mama cows..which may sound ridiculous and far off here..but if you could see..or if you have known this connection of cow and calf..it just seems unreal that i can have such peace and closeness of all kinds of mothers and their offspring..goats and piglets up at breezy meadows…and still be unable to make any difference in this strange new land we are inhabiting..when we are watching children..our children..
.joining you ..of course..and meanwhile grateful for the smallest of things..and for my phone as i call and call and call..knowing this is not the same as planting myself..but so hoping it helps….with much fierceness..gentle day grace
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I told my employer that if I went AWOL it was because I was going to go pound on the doors of wherever those children are so that I could hold them…
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I am holding space and gathered with you….
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i came here just to see. What you and the circle you have gathered over time might be sharing from their heart. Turns out the organized marches have pinpointed my 61st birthday as a rallying point. Can’t think of a better way to spend it in offering for gratitude and determination to be worthy of my eldering.
broke down when I read Deb G’s words. I want to do something very tangible for these children. For all children, really …
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Grace .. what is happening is beyond heartbreaking. It is all just so unbearable to see and hear.
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no…we are not younger. But that you are shoulder to shoulder…we stand. This matters.
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it is interesting that they have not, isn’t it.
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the image your words give…so beauty FULL
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it is. and HOW do we do that????? this is what i am
looking at…How do we DO that?
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i think it’s so much more intense when there is a little
one with up raised arms in your life…for me, it is. So
much. Not a memory, but something immediate i SO relate to, so recognize as fresh scent, fresh touch
and there…Breezy Meadows…where Life is Enduring, over and over…the call…calf to Mother, Mother to calf…
Emmi
So unencumbered Need and Response
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that they can’t be touched…held…comforted….
i think that was what has pushed me over the edge
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yes. I Know you are here
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61 is still young enough….she says, from a 72 vantage point…
ten years. It’s a lot of days.
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but we have to Witness it.
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It is Already happening Grace. There is no time, no space between us in tbe big past, present,future forever that is the Truest Nowtime . It is happening. The heart is the mother ca1ther earth wind and sky. We go into the heart with intent with focus with the power of manifestation accepting that if its not our insistent time it is the consistent yinyang balance of time. We are in the circle joining hands and hearts. We the elders and all who are filled with metta with love with compassion with all there is of good/God’s/Goddes’s power. It is the power of the solstice now to magnify. Remember and hold onto the “it is done.” Lessons hard lessons for humanity for inhumanity now. Horrible times for horribly needed reasons. We are all One and we are lifting up, holding, consoling, singing lullabyes of hope, faith, love together.
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I’m here, reading, feeling. Dont know what to say………
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Michele…i am living with hope for all your words…i say
“it is done”…but especially, i hold as Truth that we
ARE all One and we are holding, love, together…
Thank you for your prayerwords above, for coming here to
offer them…Love to you
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many days now, not knowing what to say. but, feeling.
LOVE,
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