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Prompt:   Plant the seed of a beautiful dream

These two are one.   

the one from yesterday.  I can say that i love it.   I can say that it brought to mind that thing from the birth announcements in the local Socorro,  New Mexico newspaper.   How i would love to see an announcement of a Navajo birth,   the Alamo Navajo.  They would read much the same as usual but always the sentence….Born FOR.   They would speak of the parents of the newborn,  the name,  and then it would say…..born for the _______clan.   Born for maybe the Bear clan.    Not born to,  but born FOR.  

Dine.   we,  the 5 fingered,  are Born FOR.   We are woven in.   We have purpose,  from the very beginning.  We belong.  We are OF and FOR.

the image from yesterday….Born For.   Born For Earth.   

then today….the beautiful dream….just a continuation but i would have been able to use this image that Acey sent me.  I have been waiting,  hoping a prompt would ask for it.    

The dream is a longstanding dream that i have Lived to one degree or another,   to connect to and work for this Gaia Consciousness….to create the heart connection and also the physical manifestation of Planting/Growing/being Fed.   Both spirit and body.   

It will have to wait until morning to take form as collage.  it was ironic that the moment i'd been waiting for coincided with the trip to the laundromat that had been drawing near for days now.   OR,  really weeks.  OR really months.   There were NO clean clothes left.  Zero.  I had planned to go yesterday but Emrie came instead.    At dawn this morning i began sorting the stuff into bags.  Pulling off all bedding,  quilt and comforter.   Taking down the Wall Cloth.   Off the denim couch cover.  And then…just the clothes.   The Beauty FULL thing IS….that first laundromat that was SO AWFULL?…Has had a complete makeover.   ALL NEW MACHINES.   The floors CLEAN.  Women WORK there and are cheerful….    !….cheerful,  even.   so it was a monumental WASH but it got done and i got two trash cans to hold the new feed that Jenny says we need to use and i went to the Feed Store and got 50 lbs of dog food and  50lbs of Goat pellets that Jenny says we need to use and i got back and moved those things.    Fed self.  Fed Goats.  Fed Tay.  Fed Talkie her meal worms.   To ALL of you,   which i think is ALL of you,   who have a washing machine in your own home.   Place flowers on it.   it is a sacred thing,   washing.   See it as such and be so joyfull it is There…right There.  It's the one of many things different here and in my old life.   I didn't have a washing machine in my home,  but had one for weekly use.    it's a first world  given.   Taken for granted.   But…think about it.  

 

 

 

 

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14 responses to “the world and this World”

  1. Acey Avatar

    forgot that one was in there! Love that artist’s way with the female form engaged in earthen activities.

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  2. Acey Avatar

    think about it virtually every time I go where those machines live and see them there. Gratitude. And pondering at the same time my undeniable affection for them. Am just stopped cold at times to consider various things it would be possible to take for granted if so many of them weren’t relatively new additions in my life. Sometimes notice various levels of complacency settling in.
    worry about that …

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  3. jude Avatar

    mom used to kiss her machine. we lived in a one room (garage) when i was born, she did wash by hand and she was using cloth diapers. i vaguely remember them strung across the room over the pot belly stove, which i burned my fingers on once…

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  4. Mo Crow Avatar

    Yay for the brand new beautiful laundromat down the raod! half a lifetime ago my flatmate Olga and I knelt down and prayed to the goddess in the second hand washing machine a friend gave us after washing our clothes in the bath but even more than the washing machine I am grateful for the magic of having hot running water every day. There were a few years back in the early 80’s when I lived in an old dairy shed by candlelight with a pot belly stove for cooking and heating with no running water. Hauling buckets from the creek for washing and drinking water that needed boiling first.

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  5. Hilda Avatar
    Hilda

    I lived on the economy in Germany when my husband was stationed there many years ago. Had to take laundry to the post laundromat…hauling a duffel bag on two buses. Then I would starch his fatigues in the bathtub and dry and iron them. Clothesline on the apartment balcony couldn’t be above balcony height. I told myself I would always be grateful for my own vehicle and washer and dryer. It’s a luxury we soon come to take for granted. Thanks for the reminder!

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  6. Dana Avatar

    I love the Navaho way of clan affiliation and the term “born for”. Thank you for reminding me of that and the wonders of washing machines. When I dye large lengths of cloth I have to stand over a hot kettle for hours stirring. It is hard work and I am grateful that I don’t have to do that just to keep clean. I am glad that your local laundromat has become a more pleasant place.

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  7. carol Avatar
    carol

    I am being completely repetitive, however, “OH MY GOODNESS’!!! I dont have great enough command of language to describe my feelings about your response to todays prompt other than WHOW. Thank you for the bit of Navaho education, so beautiful; and washing machines, well mine is a miracle for sure. I have lived with them, lived without them. Lived washing clothes in a stream, and hung out at many a “Wash & Dry”. Love having one in my home, however miss the chance encounter conversations at the “Wash & Dry”. Met many an interesting human being at the “Wash & Dry”! And miss feeding clothes through the old wringer style machine my Gram had, while she worried over my fingers! Wonderful post friend. xox

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  8. Debra A. Price Agrums Sposa Avatar

    Dearest Grace,
    I haven’t visited in a while and I’m loving what you’ve been up to with collage. These all are so rich and beautiful, so alive! Bravo from your favorite retired art teacher Ha ha!
    Love ya,
    Deb

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes…Anna Price Oneglia

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    if i had one i’d kiss it

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes…running water.
    I have to heat it here, either by turning on the
    propane water heater or a kettle on the stove

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    oh…HEY, Hilda…
    yes…hauling it to and fro, enormous effort.
    and starching…oh…eee…so glad no starching
    Wrinkles have become my friends

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    thank you carol…
    my mother did all our laundry with a wringer washer
    and at some point my brother had his friend bring
    it to me in New Mex. I used it a few years there.
    I actually love them.
    And you are right about the interesting interactions
    at the laundromat. A little boy was blowing bubbles

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    Deb…thank you and THANKS for coming.

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