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Change.  I don't know what or how.   It might be me that changes?   or  Things?   but a sense of it.  And that procrastination….i have been doing things that i could have done since last spring even.  Like today i finally pulled the two big tarps up  from where they've been all to the side of the road up,  disarray,   how every time i passed them i thought i should do something and every time didn't.  One is 30 something ft long.  We covered the entire roof of this travel trailer with it last year because of those Atmospheric Rivers of Rain.  In spring it got removed and lumped over,  halfway down that hill,  under the trees.    Today i pulled them over the gravel and stretched them,  swept them,  hosed them off.   folded and rolled.  tied with feed bale twine and set over where we store things.   Done.   After i'd hosed them  i left them to dry and came back a couple hours later to fold and roll and as i did,  i flicked off what i thought was a clump of dirt but BRAIN that SEES more than i do said….WAIT!  LOOK AGAIN! and here was this small friend…a shell,  but i put it in my palm and Immediately s/he came out to see what was going on.  NO HESITATION,  Out,  the things that extend,  extending,  righting Self and on the MOVE.

 


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I've forgotten what i know about Snails.  Need to go read.   But what a BeautyFULL creature,  so vulnerable but so trusting in the Going.   i want to be like this snail  as whatever is Different takes place.   

 


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the Greening is in full swing.

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13 responses to “a sense of change”

  1. dee Avatar

    Love the last shot. Funny I don’t think of you as a procrastinator because it seems like you get so much done every day. You’ll feel better when the driver’s license is behind you.

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    i don’t know, Dee…what it is. But it’s something,
    for sure
    you would love to live here with your dog…just opening the door and it’s ALL just OUT THERE

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar

    Have you read “The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating” by Elizabeth Tovah Bailey? it changed our lives as gardeners, if a snail has to be moved when delicate young seedlings are trying to get established we do it ever so carefully & with great respect.

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  4. grace Forrest Avatar

    i have not read yet. not sure why. read a LOT about it.
    i am sitting here, in the dark, falling asleep sitting up and still,
    so totally enthralled by it’s Beingness

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  5. Mo Crow Avatar

    and this beautiful mystery film experiment with the music of Sigur Rós
    https://vimeo.com/50053037

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  6. Julie Avatar

    The brain that sees more than I do…I love this.

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  7. jude Avatar

    I guess I sense it too

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes…it’s the Brain that is AWARE…same as when
    i put my hand to pull a weed when it’s not a weed at
    all, but something i’ve planted…or about to dig my
    hand in to earth and there’s a Child of the Earth…
    or awareness of the presence of a Huntsman Spider
    When the me of preocccupied with thoughts…that
    Brain partner keeps track of whats critical in the moment

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    in your own life? or in what’s Here?

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  10. jude Avatar

    all of it, I don’t separate them, one thing affects another.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    i’m glad you say this

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  12. Saskia Avatar

    it is great, one of my absolute favourites
    I already liked snails, since that read I love them

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