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this stone.  From  the shores of  Lake Superior,  the upper peninsula of Michigan.  

i used to work at the University of Michigan,   Adult Psych Unit,  Neuropsychiatric     Institute.   Those words  seem so old.  Already.   Anyway, i used to work there when my kids were little.  I accrued a day and a half a month vacation time.  Paid.  All year i would wait.  And then we would GO.   Load  what ever vehicle and Go.  Camp.  We would go Camping.    Upper Peninsula of Michigan,  Lake Superior,  mostly the Hurricane River.

take a few minutes to  FEEL that

ok and now flip to 2019,   Oroville California.  My kids are adults,  their kids young adults with kids in one case,  in the other adults with a kid.  

Me.  here.  With this stone.  That i have brought with me for 30 some years,  40?    A long time,  me and this stone.

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12 responses to “friend”

  1. Michelle Slater Avatar

    I too have ‘friends’ like that…and memories of time passing.

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  2. Els Avatar

    Ohhhh Grace what a beauty !
    That one should never leave you !
    LOVE the placing on the cloth !
    (you could make a cloth stone … like Penny Berens 🙂 …)

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar

    love the sense of deep time in your stone

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  4. Deb Avatar

    I have a thing, a frog’s mummy, cast in brass in the summer of love. Now that I think about it, I have a lot of small things kept a long, long time. Not enough to weigh us down, but they anchor us in sweet times.

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    ” the ancher in sweet times ”
    i will think about this
    greets to all of you

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  6. dee Avatar

    the layers of time, of cloth, of sediment – – I love to hear how memories overlay California.

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    i’ve made some cloth stones…the feeling of
    that is different than anything else

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    it is said that stone is the oldest people

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    a BeautyFull thought, yes?

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    the overlay, the under, the present moment

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