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there is rarely a WhOLE day to Devote to one thing,  one activity,  one focus of the intention to Do.   Days are fragmented for the most part.  Some of this,  Some of that.   Maybe my whole life will be that way?  

In between so many things,  i am continuing to be Ready for the next evacuation.  It morphs,  what i have ready.   Last time,  nothing at all.   Since then,  a lot of thought and heart given to it and there's more.  I re~did the cloth baskets,  the Nomad baskets.   Took things out of the Pretty Baskets that Alyssia had given me and put stuff back in the Nomad Baskets.  They travel well that way.   The pretty baskets are fragile.   So,  here they are,  two of them in the back room.   There's two,  really 3 in the living space.   In this back room,  these baskets i seem to have  a need to go through…i found this true when working on Michelle's Prayer.   rummaging through.  And even so so little was used,  it served to re~acquaint me with what i have.  Re~know it all.   I like this a lot.   And when i was down at the Wall Garden today i brought up some of the garbage bags i'd taken down there and they are now looped through the handles of the baskets.   If we get the WORD…evacuate….i would put the Nomad Baskets in the  garbage bags,  tie those tight and take them to the bed of the Toyota Truck.  Ready.

 


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when looking for what i wanted for Michelle's Prayer,  i also found this shirt cloth,  with the flower image.   At first i'd not included it in the TAKE,  but now i have.   It's very much take.  Things change.

the days are continuing,  not so hot.    Cold, even,  in the mornings.  Jenny and Alyssia built a permanent roof on the Doe Goat Shelter  today.  No more tarps there.  No more disintegrated tarps for the land fill.   A permanent roof.  It's Good.  Next will be for Sunny Ray and Jack Flash.

Tomorrow morning before first light i will make a Meatloaf.   Baked Potatoes.

Tomorrow afternoon,  Emrie will come.   Then Julian.

it's a WEAVE.   a Tapestry.  And it's BEAUTY FULL and it also makes me want to cry,  the kind of Cry No Cry that i do.

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13 responses to “devote”

  1. Michelle Slater Avatar

    So glad you included the sunflower cloth. It is indeed BEAUTy-FULL. I also, though only three flights up in my Manhattan apartment, put thought into what I would take just in case. It’s daunting each time I rethink it. But, we have had occasions to consider here to. Your thoughtfulness inspires me. None the less, “May it never be necessary” I pray.

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    Yes. May it never be necessary. I pray that for you too.
    Here…it might be necessary TONIGHT. There’s no way to know. No Way To Know. so you just be
    Ready.
    and i kind of am. Ready. But am also ready for an exquisite day tomorrow, with
    No Going
    anywhere.

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  3. grace Forrest Avatar

    It’s always both.

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  4. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    Being ready for an exquisite day tomorrow is soooo necessary to balance the ready to go ready. I’m not sure I could do that as well as you are. When you do have a few minutes to go to the post office there should be a package from me there. No rush. Stay balanced. love.

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  5. Acey Avatar

    I can’t seem to plan beyond a seasonally updated grab and go Ready bag and congregating other bare essentials so they can be scooped up without much time or thought. Any time I try to push beyond that my brain just flat lines. It’s not even about Stuff and prioritizing what I think I’d want/need to take with me. It’s more the pragmatic logistics of where I live with limited roads going limited places. Unless I was heading for an interstate and driving to whole other part of the country, I can’t for the life of me visualize where I’d be going. Any town with a fairground or other major gathering place is going to be past capacity long before I get there.
    so I would have to be on foot with just the barest essentials. Maybe that’s why I can’t seem to visualize the luxury of what I might plan involving fleeing for my life in my car.

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  6. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    A tapestry, yes;a loose weave given the reality, at least for the next two months, that ordinary days can change with the call to evacuate. So as you go about these days of being ready while still maintaining and living the flow of each day, my wish for today is that soon, the Hill will be perfumed with the wonderful aroma of your baking meat loaf. Meat loaf just says home to me. Sharing this meal with Julian and Emrie, your good home cooking, is devotion of the highest order.

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  7. Irene Avatar
    Irene

    It’s definitely meatloaf and baked potato weather. Also brisket, that stick-to-your-ribs stuff…currently looking for grandma’s recipe.

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  8. Mo Crow Avatar

    love the way you share your days (((Grace)))

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    on foot. Maybe that’s a good thing.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    it was a really really GOOD meatloaf.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    brisket…never done a brisket….will look it up.
    i do one of these kinds of things each season after
    a spring and summer of rice and leaves

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