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Every day.

We go.   Down to the Wall Garden in the morning.   Down half way to B in the evening.  All of Us.

Ramana Maharshi advised:   Do not add.   Meaning,  sort of,  the more you Add,  the more karmic energy is involved.   Every time in my life i have been on that brink of Adding,  i hear his words.  Do not add.   and then,  i've added.

What we are at CAUSE of,  we have moral responsibility FOR.   

Without water,  the Gardens would die.  The vegetables  are not Native to this Hill.  In a mere day or two they would die.   Without food the Goats might….might….become weak?   We supplement their forage of the bounty of this hill.  Right now it's acorns.   Different for the Buck Goats that are limited.  They would die.   and would die from lack of water.  The Doe Goats drift down to the canal and drink there.  To whatever extent,  i am at Cause.   So….our continuing,  our well being,  is mutual.  Goats keep defensible space against Fire,  provide manure to benefit the Gardens.  Gardens provide food.   I give Water.   Tay,  as last night,  keeps us                                                                                                                                                                                                               Safe.  

This Hill.   Not Portland.   So simple, the equation here,  not Portland.  

 

 

 


 

 

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7 responses to “together”

  1. Michelle Slater Avatar

    Thank your stars it’s not Portland.

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  2. Joanne Avatar
    Joanne

    What once was so lushly green……….
    Don’t add- I think of that when people ask why we don’t get another dog. Don’t add.
    Each day I seem to need less, do less, want less. The real lesson of the Pandemic.

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  3. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Your Hill, Safe, not Portland and equally, not New Mexico…
    Yesterday it was announced that from 25-35 fed agents will come to Albuquerque as a way to deal with the “violence” in the city…I hang my head in anger, frustration and sorrow because I can wee what is coming…
    How we in New Mexico will move from the “Land of Enchantment” to the “Land of Enforcement;, how Albuquerque could very well become Portland…all of this because the sheriff of Bernalillo county couldn’t cope so took himself to DC to ask for help from “operation legend” founded by someone who is a legend only in his own mind…
    Senator Heinrich of New Mexico has called on the sheriff to resign…
    but if he doesn’t one more reason to VOTE in NOV.

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  4. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    See not wee!

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  5. Acey Avatar

    I experience a great deal of cognitive dissonance too. Not just in the Other sense but in terms of how my daily life goes. It helps me understand why so many americans/people in general are absolutely certain that their personal experience is the experience.
    Also really happy you expressed more detail about your wariness of loving things/people/animals/plants. It was wonderfully nourishing to understand the roots of that. What I had assumed in the absence of knowing was a lot more reductive [zero footprint/virtue refinement] and ultimately incorrect.
    This is a crucial aspect -as you know – to putting flesh, bone, and soul to words on a screen.
    Also what you said of a spiritual nature helped me understand your particular version of writing ambivalence a lot more concretely. Which in turn may provide info I can use in understanding my own.
    it is good to know more of the specific landmarks along the river that your heart feeds. So so good.

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  6. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    What jumped out at me was all the pine cones … I marveled at how huge they were the first time I visited my sisterCaroline in Grass Valley. Also how you and the goats the plants nurture each other by giving love and caring … we do here for each other. My heart is broken with the latest news out of Portland and NM .. November cannot come soon enough. Thank you all for giving me this space to come and hear the thoughts and emotions that you all share here … it helps.

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  7. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    I come here to the Hill for peace and tranquility and grace and goats and love and community.

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