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everyone came today.   Jenny and her man earlier,  bringing bales of feed.   She also brought cucumber starts,  onion starts and a jalapeno.    We sat OUT with the kid goats,  marveling.   Laughing.   She took the propane tanks down to Lakeside and when she went in to pay,  they have erected 2×4 frames with plastic in front of the registers to protect their cashiers who are now wearing nitrile gloves.   She reached into her pocket and handed the change from the $50 i'd given her…Cooties she said.   I pocketed it,  the Cootie money.   It's there,  right now.  in my right pocket of my levis.   I did wash my hands,  but…..

Alyssia and the kids came  to bring ice for the refrigerator and batteries for this laptop and the phone.  They went right away OUt to the Kidding House,  the Curry House,   and hung out there,  playing with the Two Babies and it was such JOY on the part of the kid Goats and for them….Such Silliness,     But then when they came out,  she got the kids into the Car…i said….you aren't staying?  and she said No….i want them to get used to not coming IN. ….the cooties. 

O.

So.

Things ratchet up.   

for right now,  the Cooties Rule.   i feel sad.   Particularly….i miss Emrie here.  IN here,   how she is….showing me things,  telling me things.   I didn't ask Alyssia more….she is how she is,  and talks about things as she can.   I don't know her PLAN. Maybe she doesn't really have one yet.   Maybe she's winging it in the moment,  an experiment,   and so we go.    For the third day,  Talkie has laid her egg down in the feed house,  in the Buck's grass hay.   One needs to be careful not to squash it.  It rained off and on,  tomorrow forcasted to be the same but then after that,  warm and SUNny.   I will PLANT

EARTH:   teach me.   Please.

 

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25 responses to “dressed in Sky”

  1. me-ml Avatar
    me-ml

    damn the cooties and all the evil it brings!
    ..feeling like a stranger in a strange land.
    breathing is such a good thing. X

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  2. me-ml Avatar
    me-ml

    p.s. and DAMN i understand how Alyssia could feel cuz i worry about you too, have for awhile. so much unknown to face.

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  3. grace Forrest Avatar

    dear you….mary lou….so much unknown to face.
    to Face.
    to Face.

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  4. Mo Crow Avatar

    (((Grace))) taking care

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  5. Michelle Slater Avatar

    I couldn’t love you and yours more if it rained gold.

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  6. Acey Avatar

    necessity isn’t just the mother of invention – it’s also the grandmother of survival. I know this may be an extremely unpopular point of view but I’d worry about you far more if your family just left you there to get through it alone with the goats and Tay, talkie, etc. And then, inevitably, lack of juice for internet.
    I feel like IF the decision for you to be left in complete isolation from other humans has to happen coming along the road it will be SUCH necessity there won’t be room for anything else. The direct opposite of five minutes to get everything loaded and be on your way Out – you can think later when there’s time. …

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  7. jude Avatar

    it’s hitting home here, but at least there is spring.

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  8. Liz A Avatar

    on any given day, one of us thinks it’s okay to go see the Austin grandkids and the other doesn’t … we see-saw back and forth … usually ending with “how do you explain social distance to a two-year-old?” … how can she comprehend “no hugs” … so we stay in place, sheltered and sheltering … it feels like we are living out a dystopian story in real time
    She is beautiful wrapped in Sky … someone to hold … Emrie would love her

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  9. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Understand both sides of the cootie thing but it is hard, not to be able to be with our grands, especially for you when they live so close. For me, I settle for hearing their voices, seeing them on line, exchanging emails, snail mail, while all good, it doesn’t take the place of hugs and tickles and how the first thing my grands do when they see me is to stand next to me to see how they are growing and I am shrinking! This is our reality for now and we take it as it comes…
    With all that your Hill gives you in terms of foliage, treasures, Sky Woman can become Grass Woman, she has already been Leaf Woman, can be Pine Needle Woman, can be Pine Cone Woman although not sure how you would attach pine cone petals…can be Hollyhock woman, can be Veggie Woman- she can be anything and everything.

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  10. Deb G Avatar

    It’s been very clear to me lately that love can mean hard hard choices. The last time I saw my mother was about 4 weeks ago, my dad stayed in the car. I told them not to stay…I was and am still working and my dad is at very high risk of complications if he catches this. Mom too, in the high risk category. It’s hard to make the choice, hard to be on the other side…. Sending love, be well.

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  11. Irene Avatar
    Irene

    My dad (RIP) used to run his fingers through my hair when I was a kid, said he was chasing the cooties.

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  12. maria Avatar
    maria

    here the same stay in your house , go out just for a short walk , to the groserie (shop) my celphone is stopt , no whatsap , no sms , just call and be called , wath a silince , and peace , what a offer/lesson to accept to stay by your own totaly independed , thank you corona , we al have created you , you do your job well , going over/around the world , we are al the same /in differend , love hug from over the ocean to al of you

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar
  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    today there is just a big open space of It all.
    Sun has broken through an early haze and i have MANY MANY
    seeds to plant. That’s what i’ll do.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    and Spring, in its Steadfastness….it’s Gloriousness.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    all we can do is keep loving. I stare at those words…
    what does That Mean? keep loving, i guess keep
    loving each moment that we are given. ????
    i don’t know.
    Yes…Emrie only saw her briefly the day she got her
    body….we didn’t have time to talk….were into
    the Goat Babies….
    I feel vague and floaty. Need to go plant SEEDS.

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    our lives have been woven together since i’ve been
    here. We are part of each of our lives…they are
    one life, from day to day. it’s difficult to
    pull the threads apart

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes…to say….don’t stay. and don’t come back.

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    somehow the word makes it a little Less hard to
    talk about….in between all the conversations
    that are exchanges of all we know at this time

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    it is a lesson of the highest magnitude….
    how no one can deny anymore that we are One…this whole
    living Earth….
    I send love to Belgium…i close my eyes and picture
    you in your garden there.
    Big Big LOVE to you

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  21. Joanne Avatar
    Joanne

    Thank goodness for Spring and we here in Maine can go outside the house for a few hours each day to work in the garden. Today it rains and tomorrow rain turns to sleet. But the rain feeds the Earth so it is very very good. Yesterday pruning. Today laundry and some bread baking. Soup. I have not touched cloth for a few days- I have it all pinned to the wall. Look and consider each day- several times. A friend came to drop off an inhaler. She had an extra and gives it to me. Such kindness. But she left it in a bag yards away and we talked separated by much space. then she left. Usually we would have tea. I owe her a hug when it is safe again.

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  22. Kirsten Avatar
    Kirsten

    Here in the DC area the cherry blossoms were in full bloom last week but DC was discouraging people going to see them. Four cherry trees are in the yard around my apartment building and the smell was so divine as if reminding us that nature is still here for us.
    A big hug to you Grace out there on the Hill. “dressed in Sky” is stunning just says so much by her stance.
    ps When I get coins now, I spray them with bleach/water mix, let them sit a few minutes, wash them off and let them dry.

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar

    what if it DID?, rain Gold??????????????????????

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar

    our days………….

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  25. grace Forrest Avatar

    i have never been in the presence of a Cherry Tree. I imagine the scent…thank you for this telling…
    and the coins…good then. I have bleach.
    They are still in my pocket.

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