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this day,  one year ago,  we were on our Way.  There was sadness and fear.  There was a kind of numb blankness.  We were approaching the place,  Merced (mercy),  California,  where the fate of a kitten would intertwine with ours.  Puppy.  So,  it's kind of a holiday.  That we might yearly celebrate and maybe we will call it Puppy Day.  Because it had to do with courage and blind faith all around.  Just hoping for the Best,  but who could know.  We were just going.

and there is Joy here.  Nothing at all as i might have imagined.

  This Place,  nothing at all as i had imagined .    This life,  not at all what i had imagined it might be.   

and it continues this way.  Beyond what i imagined.  so,  the Eve of Puppy Day.  

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30 responses to “to celebrate. the Eve of.”

  1. Elizabeth Avatar
    Elizabeth

    Happy Puppy day then grace, celebrating courage and faith and love – and survival?

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    ²

    it is a big gift to find grace in this life what has no imagined in it
    candle 1 for celebrathing give light
    through the cracks of…wat is given

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  3. Joanne Avatar
    Joanne

    Happy Puppy Day as I post this at 0:06
    As you may have learned–LIFE is what happens while you are making other plans.

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  4. Mo Crow Avatar

    happy anniversary Puppy!

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  5. Michelle Slater Avatar

    Yes indeed. A fateful moment in time and oh, though no one knew for sure, all that blind faith and just going got you all to where you are s’posed to be. A yearly celebration of Puppy day means you really ought to be thinking in terms of some images for next year. Love the many visions on the cloth…so much is unseen it leaves the imagination to interact. Love the BLUE>

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  6. Michelle Slater Avatar

    PS there is a small package winging it’s way to you and yours slated to arrive by the 13th according to the post. I sent you an email too. Be on the look out when you can.

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  7. Liz A Avatar

    Happy Puppy Day to one and all … may it presage a year of hope and happiness
    And could that be a phoenix rising from your cloth???

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  8. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    When you first mentioned finding Puppy, I got goosebumps because you were not far from where I was born in Merced County…feeling connected to Puppy, I lit a candle because it’s what I do when I want to give honor, give blessings, and Puppy, you, la familia, Tay, Tazmeena and the goats, deserve both…

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  9. Angela G. Shipley Avatar

    So hard to believe that it has already been a year for you…and happy Puppy Day. An annual celebration of this Day is a grand idea. Grace, I want to thank you for this ‘just going’ phrase. I find myself smack dab in the center of the ‘just going’ right now—including all of the fear and anxiety of what lies ahead. My husband has been in the hospital for the past week in a city that we do not live in, and I am having to make decisions that he would have been in charge of, about temporary living arrangements in this city. He is not happy that he has to relinquish such control to me, but one of us has to be pointing in a direction for us both to ‘just go’. Thank you for sharing your journey with us. We all richer for you and your sharing. Hugs of love to all of you, two-legged and four-legged alike.

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  10. dee Avatar

    Well Happy Puppy Day! Hard to believe it’s been a year already.

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  11. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Happy Puppy Day to all of you 🎶🎵🎶 sending you loving Blessings and complete Joy.

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  12. Laura Rylander Avatar
    Laura Rylander

    Perfect, Elizabeth.

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  13. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    Happy puppy Day!!! Purr, Purr, Purr.

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  14. Els Avatar

    wish you a good Puppy-day then 😉

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    Oh, eeeeeeeeeeee!, so happy to see you here, all the way from Ballarat!!
    yes. All those things. and Survival, just Going, Living.
    Some of us get the Chance.
    Thank YOU for appearing here. How much i love that….

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    a candle. light through the cracks of what is given.
    yes, Maria. So much, yes.

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. it is a Truth.

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    Dear and Bless~ed Puppy

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    the Imagination is on the move

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    i think the phoenix rises every day with the SUN.

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar

    year.
    year…to signify a long time, months, comprised of days
    a long time
    i think

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar

    December 11. a candle day

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar

    Angie….BIG LOVE to you as you step into this undertaking.
    Day by day. one day at a time. you will Go. He will
    become ok with how it needs to be right now…bless him that he needs to learn this, that you teach…how the Going is received.
    I place a “prayer” for the two of you, over there at the foot of the young Manzanita.
    Love Love and Love….

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar

    yup. and totally unexpected. all of it.

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    her Purr is like a lion

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  27. grace Forrest Avatar

    DEAR Els….
    i left you a note about your little birds

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  28. Angela G. Shipley Avatar

    Dear, dear Grace, your LOVE and Blessings, and ‘prayer’ for us is so needed…and SO humbly received. Thank you and thank you and Namaste

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