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still,  no Cloth making.

so…some voice says:  you are no longer legitimate.   you take up        space.   Time to      go.

?

I am keeping things Alive.    Keeping things i have Caused,  alive.  Garden.  s      Gardens.   I have planted the Malabar seeds in both A and B.    Almost as soon as i finish giving water,  the soil on the surface is dry to touch.   It Hovers around 100 degrees.  there are no clouds.  Full Sun.  I walk the paths back and forth and am amazed at the GREEN of the trees,  so Green.  the tree frogs that appear in the spaces of the wood of the Wall Garden.   This

Mullien

unfazed,  and even,  continuing.

I am deeply engaged in Some Thing.  I can't  "name" it,  can't exactly say,  but i am.  deeply.  I remain in The Book with the People there.  I remain in the Call that arises from this….What will you ….DO?,  grace?   Way back,  you felt this and then way back, you somehow ………forgot?    I think of words…apathy?,  indifference?   but they don't hold themeaning…it's more like having fallen into a Spell.   Is that it?   No.   that's not it.   I assumed,  maybe,  that people in power who knew more than i do would do the work needing to be done.  ?   and went about my own business of becoming.   How long has it been?  since the 60's?   And  how many of us have gone along,  seeing to our own business.   How has this seeing to our own business formed a kind of Resist that pressed together to avoid so much that was needed for the Good of the Whole.   for Every Body Else. and for Every Body Else,  truly means for us.  for  US.    They say…take 3 or 10 years to know your Whiteness.  Then,  come to the table.   Ok.  This is about how much time i figure i might have with luck.   OK.   I want to come to that table.   I want to leave something GOOD for the children.

Emrie…Julian…..10 years in the Future…are these words still here?    Are you reading them?   I am talking to you….,  this is me,  your Old Nana….can you remember?

 

 

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13 responses to “7. maybe i have finally moved from 5 ?”

  1. grace Forrest Avatar

    second day in a row that Mo has emailed me that the comments box
    here was inoperational….
    Typepad again….

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  2. Joanne Avatar
    Joanne

    I will give it a go to see if Mo is right. 100 degrees- here in Maine it is in the 80’s and I am wilting. But we have humidity. Dry heat- is supposedly better. I have experienced it a few times in Las Vegas. Awful.
    I have no one going into the Long Future. My two small children are both near or past 50 years old. I have 20 or 30 hand written journals for them to read if they wonder what I thought- who I was. My son says Blogger will never be gone– it’s where my blog has been for almost 15 years– he writes code and knows these things. I won’t be around to find out if Blogger is around long after I am gone. Wondering who will find and read our blogs, dear Grace.
    I read blogs that haven’t had a new post in over 10 years. Still of interest.

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar

    thank you for holding space with all your heart on The Hill
    namaste

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  4. jude Avatar

    I often think of not leaving a trace. Haed these days…

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  5. Patty M Avatar

    Yet I still come here to find out what you’re thinking and it’s always
    worth the journey. But I know what you mean about blogging and
    the why of it. The why is changing these days.

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  6. dee Avatar

    “And how many of us have gone along, seeing to our own business. How has this seeing to our own business formed a kind of Resist that pressed together to avoid so much that was needed for the Good of the Whole.” This seems to strike at the heart of what needs undoing. In order to offer up a ‘body big enough’ to hold
    Black pain (as Menakem suggests). I’m also reminded of another Listen you suggested — Stephen Jenkins — who sees the virus as a chance to become addicted to doing with less for the greater good. Instead, he says, we are mostly addicted to going back to things as normal and returning to our lives as consumers.

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  7. Nancy Avatar

    I wonder much the same. Although, I do have littles, two grandchildren…but what will they care to know? What will anyone care to know when I am so long gone? I wonder.

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  8. Nancy Avatar

    Yes, Jude, this. I call it “disappearing my life”…but there will always be some trace, yes?

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    i don’t need them to know any of my details…i just
    want them to know i was aware and i was …..o…..
    i don’t know. i don’t know.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s not enough

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    that’s not ok for me.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    how do you think?…changing?????

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    Jenkinson has a new post today. Haven’t read it yet

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