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i like days that have Gaps.   Gaps of drift.  Drift that has no agenda,  goes where ever of its own accord.   Monday wasn't like that.    and i woke Tuesday  thinking.   Was it just me?  or??????   So i decided to write it down.   because it wasn't just Monday,  it is "lately"…accentuated since the kid Goats have been born,  but also before that.    So i wrote the date.  like i do,  in the stenographers pad i use as written journal…wrote the date and wrote 9:25 am.  Finished morning feed and water.   I intended to record the whole day,  hour by hour or,   task by task.   Thinking i might see more clearly,  Time.   Maybe there WERE gaps and i was just not appreciating them???  Maybe the days are not so FULL as they seem?   So.

i woke this morning to look at that entry and there it was and then

it was blank.   The day ran away with itself.

The day was FULL of Everything.   The Goats are more complicated now with different feed events because of Caroline and the kid Goats.   Because we have shifted to evening feed being pellets instead of hay.  That in itself.   But beyond that is the constancy of the Goats  uhhhhh ,   their sense of no schedule,  so they are constantly checking,   IN CASE it might be feeding time…which i find crazy…there is food all over these 6 acres,  but Goats are Goats and they like Easy.   They like very much being Fed.  So they are aware of me and my movements through the day….come check.   Just in case.  And they are Loud when they check.   11 Doe Goats make a Lot of sound.    And over There,  is Caroline and her kids,  separated,   making their own selves known.

so Goats.   and then,  there's the Wall Garden where seeds have been planted and now just beginning to come up from their little coverings of earth…some not yet…and it NEEDS attention and WATER.   

and there's no Gaps.

it will even out in days to come.   But for now,  no gaps.   no drift.   Coming up from late water at the Wall Garden i thought about the many many women who have tended land.  Tended life in times of great challenge.   How all over the Planet Now,  women tend to life.   with no gaps of drift in much more dire circumstance.     ok.   what else is there to say.

 


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9 responses to “kinds of days”

  1. dee Avatar

    I just love seeing the California light in your pictures.

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    there is no way to say how Beauty FULL the days now are. No way.
    from first light, through, to now, as i write this, late day, eve, still
    such Beauty
    such Pure Space
    you can walk now in the last of the day
    or sit
    the days are about Love of Planet for itself, Love of Life for itself
    the Full ness of it

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  3. grace Forrest Avatar

    and as i write that…i see
    there is a
    Gap.
    my old friend Sara called it Women’s Time of Day…late evening right at the cusp of Dusk

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  4. jude Avatar

    I am finding less gap in terms of imagining. maybe angst, worry, has made normal daily tasks feel bigger, days seem shorter and just more about life.

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  5. Joanne Avatar
    Joanne

    I too find these day’s getting shorter. I was thinking I was just getting more comfortable with the “ not going anywhere “ but now ……suddenly the day is over, I am tired and sleep is easy when it never has been before. It is strange but comfortable in some way.

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  6. Susie Yonts Avatar
    Susie Yonts

    There is a much more normal flow to my days now. In discussion with my friends in/from Paradise, there seems to be a feeling that we finally have the time to recover. The busyness of building life from scratch is no longer the focus. There is time to recover from the exhaustion. Energy can build again. I can catch my breath.

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    i don’t know how to understand…or
    work inside it all?

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    sleep is a relief

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    this so interesting….the busyness, that has Requirements,
    can’t be
    and so
    something else becomes……
    and there is space.
    simply to recover. Catch the breath.
    LOVE to you, Susie

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