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it RAINED.   RAINED.  

Rain

It was forcast for 7 am.  and at 6:58 it began.  Rain.  I could say that word a hundred times.  Rain.   With the first drops,  Its scent rose and filled the air.   Rain.  I didn't close the door and it Rained IN and i put a towel on the floor.   It hasn't rained i think since last March.  April for sure,  but i think March.   All these months.  I watched out the morning window as the branches of the trees darkened with Wet.  I listened.  Smelled.  Felt.  Rain.

Emrie loves rocks and stones.  Every day,  through the days she picks them up and gives them to me to hold and i do and she carries them too.  The walking up and down the road takes a long time because of picking up rocks and stones.  Last week we gave her a pouch for carrying.  Still,  she gives them to me to carry,  or her Mother.  The smallest plain ones are of great delight for her.   The ones that look the same as any others are a delight for her.  She needs you to exclaim over each…OH!  Beauty FULL!  you must say,  OH!  YES!,  Great Stone!   and she nods in satisfaction,  her eyes kinda slanty.   She licks them lately.  I know licking stones.  I have done that all my life…to see their patterns better.  But that's not what she is doing.  She is somehow knowing them.   We discourage this,  saying that sometimes there's Goat poop on the stones,  or Talkie poop,  things that can give you a stomach ache.  She pays no attention.  We hope she gets over it.

this morning her stones and rocks were washed clean by Rain.  Rain.

 

 


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Mid day i finished Irene's prayer.  What can i say about that?

i went to the scrap basket thinking i was looking for one more.  4 rose up.    

The Intensity of the stitching is all there is.  No thought.  No sense of anything outside the stitching.  I love this so much.  So different from all else.   And when it was over,  i looked.  I would never have imagined.  It simply is.   I love this.  A lot.

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14 responses to “Sky Water”

  1. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    My brother in law sells rocks. Semi precious stone. Pretties. He always tells me which ones are lickable and which ones just need to be spit on.
    Beautiful prayer cloth. I especially like the triangle of strength and fierceness.

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  2. Michelle Slater Avatar

    Perfect prayer and how I love the picture you made of sweet Emrie and her stones. Thank goodness for the rain rain rain.

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  3. Liz A Avatar

    I’ve always wondered about rock versus stone … as a geology major, I should’ve known, right? Anyway, I recently read (in Barry Lopez’s latest book Horizon, I think) that rocks are what appear in nature, stones are what we make of them (think stonework, cornerstone, grave stone, stone wall, etc.) As if the rocks and stones care, right?
    Your woven prayer speaks to me of rain clouds … a setting sun … and a tiny fish jumping for joy …
    And yes, the smell of rain … nothing better.

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  4. grace Forrest Avatar

    i tell her to wet her finger, then the stone
    but as i said, i think she’s doing something
    else with the licking

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  5. grace Forrest Avatar

    today is Clear…tomorrow maybe a little More Rain

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    for me, rocks are larger, stones what has become of rocks
    with all the movement of their lives.? All that has been
    required of them

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  7. Acey Avatar
    Acey

    Emrie’s life is so enriched and deeply blessed by everything about that Place. And for you – seeing both her and the place through her arc of awareness as well as your own. LOVE that she loves rocks so much. And smiled at the notion of the pouch she ignores. I wonder if she likes having you or her mom’s energy mixed into the stone vibe? Maybe it makes the rocks more meaningful to her ??? Not as a critically thought-out awareness but just instinctively in that female way of absorbing change in physical matter as well as human tone and intention.
    Have never personally witnessed it rain out there but I am beyond inspired by your description. Is thrilling to imagine scents that land could offer in response to such blessed quenching.
    While I was growing up my mother and her various rockhounding buddies were very particular about calling rocks/stones/crystals minerals. They would say the word reverently amongst themselves and in sharp (often spontaneous unison) rebuke aimed at anyone beyond their circle who called them anything else.
    (wondering if Emrie’s way of knowing rocks is something she picked up from observing the ways of the herd???)

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  8. Mo Crow Avatar

    & raining steadily over here on the other side of the wide blue

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  9. Irene Avatar
    Irene

    After a summer of “nonsoon,” it hailed and poured yesterday.
    I remember touching my tongue to stones when I was little…there was a dusty, salty, mineral taste that I connected with.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    I am so looking forward to telling you how it is as it goes.
    RAIN Season, winter, a complete Transformation. It becomes a literal Rain Forest, another Place entirely. Is enchanted. You would be amazed. I will try to witness the change well, so you can sense it and it will add so much to the Love that you have…
    Emrie and the Goats…they lick her. Her arms, sometimes her face. it’s possible. You lick when you want to know.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    i always love this so much, the up side down

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    so, we had the Same Day.
    She is very feral. Taste and Smell are the utmost for her.

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  13. Laura R Avatar
    Laura R

    It’s beautiful, Grace. I will love to add a prayer for Irene.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    and you have. Your Prayer is Here

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