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i was ready to go,  this morning,  at eight.  I'd had two teas.  Lots of thinking .  Ready.  Down to the Wall Garden,  gave water.  Came up to B ,  turned the water on there and came in.

let the hose run while i went through boxes of Stuff.   Letting the feelings flow,  like the water.  Went through some things…objects…went through a box of papers,  stuff i thought i might be required to produce,  ripped them in half and put into a big garbage bag.  Who cares?   I'll just say i don't know.  It might work.

Stuff….all my stuff.  When i went to the faucet to turn off the water,  i saw the smallest flower EVer,  just so small and so RED,  there,  just by the faucet  and i thought…..i could have spent that time drawing this so small flower,  drawing and putting color,  RED,  but instead,  i was looking at papers of words having nothing to do with anything, really

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  1. Michelle Slater Avatar
    Michelle Slater

    “feelings flowing like water” is release.
    Still wondering what that frame that looked like a wall was for and wonder if you felt any of the earthquake?

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  2. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    It comes down to that. I am reminded of emptying my father’s home after his death. The really big dumpster we had delivered. Filling it with his junk. Bags and bags empty jars, tobacco tins etc. All the usable things I donated. To the food bank, salvation army, even to a church. I shredded bag after bag of paper he had saved. I only needed his will and death certificate to transfer property to my name.
    Yes, drawing the tiny red flower would have been Time well spent.

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  3. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    I think about this a lot, how time is spent. Trying to get rid of things that just take up space. Often I wonder, “what was I thinking?” The answer probably is that I wasn’t….

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  4. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i think you mean the frame of the floor of what might
    or might not be the room house at B?
    no..no earthquake here. In this moment, it could not
    be more excellent here. Dry Hot no mosquitoes any more…
    they are a short lived spring event. In this moment
    it’s a totally benevolent world on this Hill.

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  5. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i’ll go back today, see if i can finish off all the
    paper stuff. then look at all the treasures some more.
    i feel differently about it all this morning.

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. time is the only thing i care much about anymore.
    the Doing of things in the Present. Inhabiting, fully
    inhabiting the Present moment.

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  7. Beth Avatar
    Beth

    I remember some of these things from your NM blogging photos. Storage fees really rack up over time. My brother saved a lot of furniture from our parents’ house, thinking his kids might someday want it. It began to cost nearly as much to store as the furniture was worth. He ended up donating most of it. Glad you have your books and some of your things back.

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  8. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    (((Grace)))

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  9. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    It usually turns out we save the wrong things. There are things I have here that I will never use but there were things I tossed in the dumpster I would just love to have back again. We can’t know what the Future you will want. We just have to give it our best try.

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  10. jude Avatar
    jude

    there is too much paper being generated here.

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