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i wonder sometimes about what i write here.  Sometimes have second thoughts,  wonder.  Like last night.  Should i talk about this Place?,  this small metal home?  my feelings about living here?  

or not

maybe not?  because it seems like some kind of hardship?  When it isn't ?  When it's just how it is for now,  or maybe, who knows, for my Forever?  Should i just leave that part out?

and i thought,  in the middle of the night about how much i love word from others about their lives…how they live,  things they wonder about,  things they love,  things they don't love,  like maybe stripped upholstery window treatments?  Would that maybe make me laugh…the dumbness of using any energy to not like that?  

Kay sent a link to a young woman's Utube.   Jonna Jinton in the north of Sweden.  There are several,  but she linked me to recent ones that tell of her great grief over the loss of the forests there to a Huge commercial Wind Farm.   The great sorrow at  needing to leave that land.  She is a photographer,  videographer, writer,  her husband a jeweler.  They have moved.  Their life has gone on.  What i loved a lot was their work to maintain their fire during winter,  then her joy of shoveling snow to "help" the thaw of Spring.  Small things.  Her sitting in a lantern lit barn starting seeds in pots for the garden she hopes to have.  She is young.

What i would want to read in Blogs,  is 

How do people live?  How do they go through their  "ordinary sacred" days as Marti so often says.    And if truly honest,  that would include those days of mumbling about a particular circumstance,  no matter how trivial,  or telling of a deeply difficult grief.

the important thing is….that it's all a part of the Whole.  I think nothing should be left out.  The blog does not serve then,  to help the blogger see clearly,  learn more.  Love more.  And in my case,  to make that connection with me.  To help me know humankind better,  to see my own self in anOther.  

so…not to worry,  ever.   I will say that,  if it is a true tribulation.  If it's just some dukkha…Buddhist…commonly translated as "suffering,  pain,  unsatisfactoriness and painfulness of mundane life.  It is the first of the Four Noble Truths"  Wikepedia  I will say that too.  You can believe me.  I promise.

 

 


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at mid summer last year,  Jenny brought two lilac bushes in 5 gal landscape pots.  They sat  there,  being patient,  while there would be intermittant short conversation about where to plant them.  They were for Alyssia,  at A.  They sat.  No one decided.  Finally,  early fall,  i planted them up above the Wall Garden some feet apart in what i envisioned as a tiny Secret Garden there,  in a small cove of Scrub Oak.    Their blossom buds are unlike any lilacs i have ever known before.  They are succulent, plump.  So much so,  they make you want to eat them.  Only a couple individual ones have opened,  but….yup….lilac.  

ADDENDUM:  ok,  i give up.  the "selfie".  i am wide like a frog or a toad.  and maybe that's as it should be?  I tried to fix that but it just got worse.  So,  you'll have to just get the drift

ADDENDUM 2   if you tap the pic i think i become normal.   Whatever that is.

 

 

 

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23 responses to “you can Believe me, addendum at bottom, then, addendum 2”

  1. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    I love everything you write, because it brings you into my home like a dear close friend.. I know I can call you Friend. Love and Hugs.

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    you can. and i can call you Same.

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  3. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    Love the picture. Love the words. Love the white lilacs. Wish I could smell them!!!!

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  4. Michelle Slater Avatar

    Okay, no worries unless you say “worry” (((smile))) My upstairs neighbors or their guests came home a half hour ago thud thud. Then settled in somewhat with a scuffle or high heeled tapping from one place on my ceiling to another and back. No just heavy footed moving despite being bare footed. (((sigh))) There’s one thing I usually don’t include in my blogs. I love reading others lives too, the details and shifts. The way each expresses self. It is all interesting even if everything is just water flowing under the bridges of living. Yes, your selfie is accurate when one clicks and it shows up original size. I notice eyes first. Yours are glowing. And OH, those LILACS (((WHEW))).

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  5. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    To speak of life is to speak of the wondrous, the mundane, the uplifting moments, the rough and tough times. It all belongs because in sharing our lives, our days hold all of them…
    I have a wild shower curtain in my bathroom, bought in the days when we lived in Maui. It has assorted fish in every color imaginable, lavender, purple, a rusty red, yellow, turquoise etc. Why do I tell you this…well it has to do with lilacs: They are blooming here, we have 3 bushes in our backyard and yesterday at first light, slight misting of rain coming down, I went out and picked several lilac sprigs. I like to put them in assorted jars. I only have two vases since I prefer putting flowers in ordinary canning jars. Still I do have this one vase, found in a thrift store in CA that has traveled with us wherever we have lived. Nothing special really about it, it is a narrow, tall ridged vase but oh the color- that is what turns this ordinary object into the sacred for it is the most beautiful deep greenish turquoise color.
    Close your eyes sand imagine it and then imagine it filled to overflowing with lilac sprigs…you would think I would place it in our living room for all to see right off but no, I put it in our bathroom: why! well for one thing the gentle scent is nice in a bathroom but more than that, the colors echoed my wild shower curtain and it made me smile- those simple, ordinary moments make up a good day…

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  6. Deb Avatar

    the lilacs and the light in your eyes!

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  7. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    I might have that same shower curtain.. ha.. it is in my basement bathroom that has no shower but we hung it for color and fun. When my grandkids were young.. 4, 5, and 10.. I had them paint the whole room blue with waves and we cut fish out of wood on a scroll saw that they drew then painted and glittered and velcroed them up all over. The kids are now all in their twenties..and I am moving..so hard..but the fish and shower curtain will be saved.

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  8. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Yes for saving the fish and shower curtain for they are more than what they seem, they hold dear story and memories that fill the heart. Peggy, thanks for telling this.

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  9. Liz A Avatar

    I am this way … when someone simply wants to tell me their experience, I can’t help thinking of how it could be different … my mind flies from one possibility to another and things emerge, unfiltered … I have often said for every ten ideas I have, only one ends up being worth pursuing (if that)
    Just saying …

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  10. Vicky Davis Avatar

    I love your home Grace! And yes yes yes, take out that big bed and make a room for yourself!! All those windows are perfect! There is usually storage space under those beds and often water tanks. So build the shelves over the water tank. Or a bench for others to sit on.
    My how your grass has grown! Do the goats eat the clover?

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  11. jude Avatar

    ok.
    typepad does that to pics lately

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  12. Mo Crow Avatar

    (((Grace))) your eyes are so beautiful!

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    Grace i like your picture more when i click on them and then click to make them bigger , yes you live sommtimes in my life and i see you on this screen ,
    who will it be … without this internet, without the words of connection ; who without our answers , your answers back ? we feed and feed back ; wath we feed only the heart knows , see the similar/identical things in the other in our selfs .
    just water flowing under the bridges of living
    the ordnary sacred days , ordynary moments who make the day , to find to see what give the color
    i have never ( ? ) meet somme blog in my language like this like these ,i guess that is why i came back on time
    greets to all of you

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    i would bring you a bouquet

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    i always love even hearing about your obnoxious neighbors

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    this is SO something you would do

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    your colors have similar Intensity as the scent of
    Lilac

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    i love though, all Ideas, they flutter around like
    butterflies

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    the Goats would LOVE to eat all that lush clover, but
    alas…..they would quickly move to the garden…Goats
    most love variety

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    i kinda liked it. My nose seems smaller.

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar

    for whatever reason, they are a little blood shot now and
    then? I think i need to do the relaxation technique i learned so long ago….

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar

    Maria, how really so so GOOD it is, to know that you
    are there, far away in Belgium, I can close my eyes
    and see your garden. But to know we have the Same Heart
    Like we do. Same Heart.
    This eases the the harshness of this world.
    I love you for this

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  23. Saskia Avatar

    keep on writing and sharing

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