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i will know this forever Please see addendum below

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to wake,  from the refuge of sleep to re-knowing that you do not have your favorite spoon.  Your good pot for making soup.  no way to make fire to make soup.

 

i knew this for 10 days.  But i could come back to them.   I have learned things forever.

Suzie Yonts belongs to us, a fiber Woman.  Is Kin.  in refuge from Paradise.  We need to wait here for her,  until  i don't know what.  But until.  As long as that takes.  

Addendum.

i always just assume people read all the comments…and really,  i know i guess that that's not always true.  So,  in case you missed her comment,  Suzie Yonts is a fiber artist who lost her home to the Camp Fire,  Who lost her community of  Paradise, California.  This same fire that i am talking about.  She had to evacuate and is staying with family in Davis.  

I was touched deeply that in the midst of this,  she  thought to comment here.   it made everything even MORE personal for me.  It is my hope that We can be some of a community for her here.  I know we can.

 

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22 responses to “i will know this forever Please see addendum below”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    fire teaches so much about life and loss and the precarious nature of existence in our beautiful broken world

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  2. Michelle Slater Avatar
    Michelle Slater

    Did I miss something? Who is Susie Yonts? Waiting where?
    Well, perhaps no matter. What matters is so much more of spirit than thing. Ten days! (((whew))) Forever is the imprint of experience.

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  3. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    Welcome Suzie Wonts to this community of fiber artists and other stuff. I saw your post when Grace was at the campgrounds. I am so sorry for your losses. Is there anything we on the East coast can do to help you?

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  4. Vicky Davis Avatar
    Vicky Davis

    There is a Church in Chico, I think, that set its self up as a shelter. They relied on themselves to get organized, provide medical care, security [bikers] and other logistics. They dealt with a norovirus and military tents that weren’t set up for them. A housecleaning business came in and took over cleaning….an engineer sheltering there, figured out the tent set up….and other stories. THAT is where some money should go, to helping those who are actually helping! And they will know more about who needs the help than Red Cross, who was actually a hindrance to them.

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  5. Vicky Davis Avatar
    Vicky Davis

    I am glad you are figuring out a new plan, grace, should you need to gather and go, again. write it on the walls of the goat boat, so you can read and remember.
    Water. rain and grey/gray water. reuse it all. and ice plant. it saved a house in my neighborhood, once upon a time. the home owner would just toss her cuttings over the fence…and those cuttings rooted, grew and saved the house from a cig butt carelessly tossed out a window.

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    precarious. precarious

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    ice plant???? a sedum???? that i am familiar with from
    N mex?

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. there is confusion. Who really HELPS.

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  9. jude Avatar
    jude

    open arms.

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  10. cynthia Avatar
    cynthia

    open hearts

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  11. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    Thinking about what it means to be a neighbor…

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  12. Joanne Avatar
    Joanne

    Grace–just let us know. We will send, give..whatever.

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  13. Vicky Davis Avatar
    Vicky Davis

    yes. a sedum. holds water.

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  14. Vicky Davis Avatar
    Vicky Davis

    Another thought I have had, finally looked it up…Green Roof System. Growing plants on your roof. Use gray water to water it. I wondered about it being ‘fireproof’. Found this on an site for England….
    “It has been suggested that green roofs and walls may constitute a fire hazard. In
    relation to fire performance, the general consensus is that as long as the green roof
    or wall is kept moist (which is the normal case in order to keep the roof alive) it is
    likely to be very resistant to ignition.”
    And….it helps cool the dwelling in the summer.

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  15. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    Can certainly help with a donation, but it occurs to me that many of us have more fiber art supplies than we can use in a lifetime. Once Susie has space, perhaps she could let us know what kind of fiber art she favors so we can send things to restock her art “pantry.”

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    we will wait for now. She is in that place where nothing can be known i think. So, for now. She has her place here
    in the Circle.

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    am going to research this

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes…very Yes. the key is
    once she has space.
    and so, we wait.

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  19. Susie Yonts Avatar
    Susie Yonts

    I’ve been doing pretty good about keeping it together. I have generous, loving, functional people around me right now that are holding me up and providing basics for me.
    I’m living in a friend’s home but I had a moment alone when I just read this. Grace, your kindness makes me cry. I’m so grateful to your understanding of what this is.

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i am so grateful for the opportunity to Understand some of it. sO BEYOND gratefull. I am blossomed to so much more of a human being like the lichen and the moss,
    We are here. We wait till there is a Way that you need.
    THANK YOU SO MUCH for showing up here and leaving your words, your imprint. I am grateful for that. On my knees gratefull

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  21. Susie Yonts Avatar
    Susie Yonts

    Jaime thank you so much for your concern. Right now I am looking for a place to live. then I will look for a bed and a few kitchen things. Then I will look for things that make me happy. Those things will undoubtedly be fiber-related. But until I land somewhere I have no place to have anything. For now I am fortunate to be safe and warm.

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it becomes so primal

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