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this is  Electricity.    10 x 12,  11 deep.   There are 3.  They rotate here to Alyssia's where they are recharged with conventional electricity. back around.  Sometimes there's 2 here,  one for backup.   depending on how stuff goes.  In these last couple days there were 2,  neither of which had charge.  Reason unknown.

 

 

 


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the dependence on these.   Without ,  there is no phone which means no way to call Out,  especially if i need help.   and then,  no cyberworld.  no laptop.  no blog.  no reading.  Only a Forest

Only      a forest

I thought about how for 60 some of my years it didn't exist.   What about this, grace?   I asked,  then sat,  waiting for an answer and in 

rapid succession,  answers came.  4 of them immediately.   As unlikely as it may seem,  the laptop brings love.  Love.

Love.

i hope it can Give Love too.

 

 


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tonight,  a Full Moon

 


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coming up the road,  back,  there are so many of these leaves,  each perfect and so OAK.   I carried this one up tonight,  and was flooded with the memory of grade school.. being assigned a Report.  How much i loved that ,  was just buzzed by the thought…going to the dime store,  getting the folder with pockets,  those little foldy things to hold in the notebook paper,  how i needed both lined for the report its self and then unlined for the illustrations…in this case,  the pocket would hold a leaf.

this is the same thing.   Here,  i write Reports.  Just because i so much love to Tell it.

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22 responses to “ok”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    Beautiful reflections and your drawing is magic, am rereading ‘The Overstory’ slowly this time to savour all the details. You remind me of Dr Pat the sensitive botanist who discovers that trees alert each other to dangers, was stood down at the time & recognized for her work decades later. Your reports from the forest are vital!

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  2. Joanne Avatar
    Joanne

    I feel the same about this internet connection with people. Kept checking to see if they would bring a battery. Check on you as we all do here. Love that oak leaf so different from ours.

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  3. Liz A Avatar

    reports … fourth grade … my first was on horses … tracing pictures from a library book of eohippus, mesohippus, and pliohippus (had to look that one up, but the first two I remembered), then equus of course … stencils for the cover of the folder, traced with markers which smeared … and the little metal tabs that folded out like butterfly wings to hold the notebook paper …
    and your drawing … the dreamer and the dreamed …

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  4. Acey Avatar

    When I first experienced the online world it was generic chatroom on Aol.I was sitting in my pj’s at my writing desk same as if I was working or writing for “fun”. Everything was exactly the same except I had nothing to do with nine-tenths of the words I saw appearing on my screen. This was a miracle level of perceptual shift. For years I loved the miracle of conversing with others when I was elsewise engaged in a location and activity for which I bore sole responsibility.
    I feel like the novelty aspect wore off right around the time I joined Flickr and met Jude. I had previously read at her very first blog – the one she deleted due to lack of readership about her beautifully woven Treehouse quilt – before eventually connecting the two as being the same person. Through her vision and its application – pure poetry – in cloth and stitches I came to understand an extremely powerful property of the internet that others knew all along: this is where the creative visionaries were congregating because as David Bowie put it so eloquently – the future belongs to those who can see it coming.
    These days a lot of us are uneasy about what we see coming – specifically and more generally – but luckily we have chosen to circle and generate Love all the same. You have gathered us Here just as Jude gathered us There. When your batteries aren’t charged everyone still circles to check for updates and wait. As you wait at Spirit Cloth. As you waited a way way long time for me to wander on back and make it count this time.
    Am convinced people everywhere are doing this: finding their way to the center of themselves even while so much Known is flying to bits and smithereens. People are finding their way to a greater capacity to hold and generate love. To circle together in love, with love, so that love may be exchanged and exponentially magnified.
    Each one of us who reads here is lucky and immeasurably blessed any time we come and find fresh Reports to savor. To me the reports are seeds being broadcast by your psychic Hand so full of Heart. You broadcast Love seeds. Offering them freely with us at liberty to plant them just as liberally where-ever we will.

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  5. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    I second that Emotion.

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  6. Patty M Avatar

    Love seeds – I love that.

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  7. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Thank you for putting into words exactly what it is to be part of this circle .. it’s beyond anything I could have imagined.

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  8. Cheryl Fillion Avatar
    Cheryl Fillion

    Acey, your words, too, are beautiful seeds being broadcast. What a lovely way to capture what Grace and Jude mean to so many of us.

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  9. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    When I first came to know you, sometimes you would sign off emails, snail mail letters and later, sometimes in your blog with Polvadera, substation, your clan and I knew that you would tell…
    Tossing up threads of story, of creativity, of cloth that became so much more in your hands; tell of what grew, tell of what came during the day, in the wee hours of the night, in the sky, rising from the depths of the land, spade foot toads, the goats; tell of what flowered on your land, in your mind, in your heart…
    TELL of a life you often called simple but what I knew was/is that it is a rich, enthralling, LIVED life…a life lived in the present, in the sacred ordinary of the day.
    You told, you continue to tell and the never ending story connects, instructs, amuses, gives pause to consider the bigger picture, allows for the little joys to manifest, takes us deep into our marrow, ALL in the telling, the Report from one woman, her days, her land, her Life…our lives.

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  10. Jackie B Avatar
    Jackie B

    grace your drawing really is magical! The comments expressed so lovingly by everyone today makes what is in our intangible knowing, tangible. Love is truth and our souls recognize it. Your blog feels like home to me.
    Much love.

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  11. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    I agree with all above and am glad to see you back. Yes, you do radiate love through your blog reports and just by being you. I don’t think you could not.
    FYI There are hand crank phone chargers if you have no phone during these dead battery times. I don’t like to think of you with no contact available.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    whatever is even vaguely vital….vital is GOOD

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    post a pic of your oak leaf on jsuley.blogspot.com…Wednesday’s Child
    They would never let me be without Phone.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    the joy of those…how i loved RESEARCH….the library
    card catalog…i know to this moment how the card
    catalog smelled when you pulled a drawer open

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    finding our way to our center, learning to Hold steady
    there. Holding with the centering of others. All of Us.
    our mere presence holds Each Other.
    learning what the word Resilient means. As Trees are
    resilient, plants, rivers, fungus. Days with no Sun. Days with nothing but Sun. Broken branches which become earth from the resilience of so many relations. Wet Goats. Mud Earth. THE PLANT PEOPLE.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    Tina…you say it.
    to be part of this circle.
    that’s the thing. THE THING. Without the parts, there is no circle

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    Cheryl…only because you are there. If there is no there,
    there is no here

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    the Report.
    i think. what is the difference…here and
    the substation?

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    Jackie…and i have not forgotten about the print
    …your grandmother…
    i just have not learned how to do that.
    I have found a small copy store…there are young
    women there. I think they might be able to take a pic
    from my camera and print it.
    this IS your home.

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    we would never get to the point of no phone. No internet
    maybe, but not phone. It’s my only contact. The Hill
    is an outpost. I am in Care and Keeping of many lives
    here.
    or…reading these words…who knows. Maybe.
    But that would be a choice and i don’t think either Alyssia or Jenny would be ok with that.
    People lived that way until just recently, really.
    Many people still live that way today.
    These are things worth thinking about.

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  21. Dakotah Avatar
    Dakotah

    Grace, that sketch…it took my breath away

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar

    thank you Dakotah…i love moving the pencil, leaving
    the marks

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