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they came at twilight.  close to dusk.   much later than usual.   Bringing ice 

 

after their day going to Chico for a few things, one being dropping off saliva samples at a lab.  The naturopath.   looking into Cortisol.   Alyssia had to collect saliva samples every 2 hours for 24 hours.  as in all night too.    105 degrees.   Emrie wants to get in her pool.  Alyssia is exchanging ice thingys and rearranging refrigerater,   emrie and i go to the pool next to the Curry House.  There's a tree frog in it,  sitting on one of the wood scrap 2x4s  that become Emrie's floating tea table.   it moves closer to dusk.  Alyssia comes and sits.   The HEAT begins to dissipate,  palpably.  Everything seems  "palpably"…..We drink imaginary tea,  the little frog floats.  It is all so surreal.   I am with them but also almost not,  am a little distance away,  disconnected,  and i LOOK

at them….

We have changed in these months that don't seem like months at all,  but have been swallowed somehow and are gone…almost without memory,  a lot of it,  and i look at these two human beings….they have changed.   The one who was so girl like has changed to become almost matronly.   things have weighed on her.  almost matronly.   The one who was a toddler has become a Girl.  a Young One   of the Kind of the almost matronly one.  There is great similarity.   Time has been a blur  but change has taken place.   I wonder about my self.   i have become barely here.

 

 


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there were 5 green bean seeds left.   I planted them at the B Garden  and lo,  and behold….     I am DETERMINED to grow at least a healthy Green Bean Plant if not green beans.   I could hardly wait to get there this eve to see how it was going.  It was

106 today.

it is fine.   and there are 3 others.

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20 responses to “surreal”

  1. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    Their eyes and their smiles are so alike. So alive and so full of love. I just don’t understand how they can sit there after 106 degree day and not drip. Not even a sheen. How do you do that?

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s not humid. there is a slight breeze. enough to
    evaporate.
    but …it’s humidity. it’s not humid. I think of the guy at the dump in New Mex…i would go there, my load in Sunny Truck, we would exchange thoughts about the Heat, and sometimes, when it WAS, he would say, It’s so Humin.
    i miss him.

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  3. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Sweetness in their similar faces;the hint of the twinkle in the eye for Emrie- portraits of love, plain and simple.

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  4. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    More often than not I come here and am left speechless by the tenderness in your sharing. Again and again you leave me smiling ear to ear with a feeling that all is well and a yearning to be with all of you.

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  5. Deb G Avatar

    I have said this before but…you write so beautifully Grace.

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  6. Acey Avatar
    Acey

    I smile to imagine the way you will welcome and give water to healthy bean plantS in the plural …

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  7. Acey Avatar

    completely overlooked a NEED to forms words about the pictures of your dear ladies there. Their mother-daughter status is always apparent but I love love LOVE the way Emrie is looking at her “keeper” Old Nana through the camera lens.

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  8. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    I am reading this post out of order… saw the lizard creature.. who is barely there but so significant.. you too are feeling barely there.. but oh so significant.

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  9. Nancy Avatar

    Oy! That punim!

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  10. dee Avatar

    love seeing pictures of your family, reading your descriptions.
    I think I’d rather have dry 106 than moist 90.

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  11. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    I love the close-up portraits of your beautiful girls!

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  12. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    I forgot to tell you how happy Emrie seemed in her summery spot a bit back!

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    it comes from somewhere else

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s July now and they GROW

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    i am just so skinny

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    there’s a huge difference. Humidity can cave you in

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    she is Happy by nature…is a JOY to watch that in a
    small being

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