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alyssia had sent me a copy of this book  years ago.   i didn't read it.  took it  to the Library Book Sale.   First,  it's fiction,  but second,  it's dystopic fiction…….dystopic.   She handed her copy of it to me the other day.  Didn't say anything.

They took down the road blocks yesterday.  We all went.   There are a  zillion small stories that i just can't tell right now.  But Hill was there.  Just as we had left Her but covered in ash with some  foreign  fire blackened leaves that had blown in from Somewhere Else.  As i type that, i think….and probably,  many seeds.  I gathered some  things i'd left behind.   They watered the Plumcot and Asian Pear.  The grapevines.  Loaded up the big mower,  weedwhacker etc .   I gave water to the Gardens after 4 days of  none,  the Malabar Spinach had grown and is beginning to flower.  I'll go back today if  the roadblocks are still down and see how things faired…..the limp ones.  Avacado a little worn,  but   John Lewis,    John Lewis  was BRIGHT and PERFECT….Ash must slide off her slick leaves.  There is a change in Wind forcasted for the next 2 days that could be beneficial for the mitigation  or not.   No way to know ahead of the fact.  Wind is like that.  What i know and what i said to both Jenny and Alyssia is that i need to assume that this is now how it is.   That it is possible that even in THIS fire season,  we may need to repeat.  I want us to figure out how to get a larger horse trailer.  One that can hold all the Goats.  They have them that have dividers inside….bucks separated…room enough for Talkie and Puppie's travel crates.   Would reduce the time and stress it takes to Load.

Love to EveryOne,   to All of US.  Love and Love and Love.  and then,  more.

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  1. Linda Avatar
    Linda

    Octavia Butler is amazing. Glad you got another copy…
    also glad the Hill is safe for now. So much smoke here we can’t go out at all and I just keep thinking of what it represents. So many trees, homes, lives destroyed. It is heartbreaking. Thinking of you and yours…

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  2. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    Oh, Grace. Did you get my texts? Are you able to get service? Can we bring a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. at all? Or do anything?

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  3. Kristin Freeman Avatar
    Kristin Freeman

    Just to hear your voice in your words, dear friend, warms my hopeful self. My heart aches for so many friends who’ve lost their homes near Happy Camp and in Phoenix and Talent Oregon. Blessings that your family and animals are safe. Continue to send prayers for your land to be spared. If new seeds are arriving, May they bring beautiful flowers and perhaps a fruit tree or two to spring forth after the winter.
    Love and love and love.

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  4. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    How is it that a broken heart can burst with joy at the same time .. joy in that you are here. Knowing that you are surrounded by your family is beyond joyful expressions. The land burning .. fleeing animals.. homes lost .. people lost. It is all heartbreaking.

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  5. Jan Rowan Avatar
    Jan Rowan

    I am so glad you actually got to “be” on your hill for a short time…..for connection and reconnection. I understand about the book….I really like Octavia Butler but the book was too hard for me to read all the way through…your forward thinking sounds important…..if we are to stay here then we live according to the way the earth is showing herself now…..we still have much to do here…..Loading up once with all your animals sounds very wise….all will be safe….all will be well……I just remember bits and pieces the times we came back to our burned land…..mostly I remember the gratitude and the handprint of the fireman On the wall who was able to get inside my house To check things…..I left the handprint there for a long time…….love to you….

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  6. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    The simple act of you and family being able to get to the Hill, being able to give water to what has held, what continues to grow in your garden, John Lewis, Malabar spinach, the Asian Pear, the Plumcot, and all that continues to grow within the wall garden…somehow reading of this, brought tears and the quiet understanding of seeing how this seems to bring a bit of balance to what has and continues to be going on…

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  7. Acey Avatar

    Love that Alyssia brought this into your life. Twice. Am reading Parable of the Talents right now. Am sad and bereft she didn’t get a chance to write the one I really would have devoured: Parable of the Trickster. But she speaks of it so I’ll read those lecture transcripts once I finished Talents.
    actually thought of Alyssia a LOT while I was reading the one she keeps giving you.

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  8. jude Avatar

    I knew you would find the hill ok. Seemed as if you would get through it. This time. Nice to find you here, going. Wind. Thread.

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  9. Angela G. Shipley Avatar

    Grace, love and hugs and continuing to hold you all in the light. May you and yours continue to be safe, may you and yours continue to be well. Love.

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  10. sarita Avatar
    sarita

    Grace, glad you got to visit The Hill, give your gardens love.
    Sending peace, love and hugs..♡♡

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  11. dee Avatar

    Sheesh the uncertainty. parable of the Sower, when I listened to it ten or twelve years ago, seemed as though it could happen “ten minutes from now.”

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  12. Nancy Avatar

    Ah, a quiet smile and an exhale of relief for The Hill and all of you. I read parts aloud to J. The Hill okay, John Lewis okay…attitude more than okay.
    I don’t know this book/author, but it seems we are all book posting right now 🙂
    Be well

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  13. jamie Avatar
    jamie

    So glad that you were able to go back to the hill and that She was well. I have kept up with Cal Fire and and the maps and it looked like you were on the edges of evacuation and fire. But edges by two miles is frightening. I give you and Alyssia lots of credit to be able to handle the goats and pack up and drive out. I saw a video that night taken from RT, 162 and Forbestown Road. It amazed me how calm the people who were there were. As calm as you sound now. So it makes me think/wonder about trauma, PTSD, and how all that comes together. Does any of this fit what you were reading? Are you aware of your vegus nerve? I am still reading Braiding Sweetgrass because My Grandmother’s hands hasn’t arrived at the library. Let me know when you are up for email. Also I am sending something to your PO Box.

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  14. Michelle Slater Avatar

    Blessed Be! This is the best news today. I want to help you get that truck that will house all if you will let me. Let me start a go fund me when you find what you want and the price. You have Many friends who would like to help too.

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  15. Acey Avatar

    I smiled because in My Grandmother’s Hands the vegus nerve is described as the soul nerve. It knocked me out so much I stopped reading to email grace in my excitement …

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  16. Deb G Avatar

    This all good… And yes, I believe you are right to think of next time. I keep thinking about when it might be the first time.

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  17. jamie Avatar
    jamie

    I looked at the prices of some used on facebook and in Northern California. I will definitely help out. We all need each other.

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  18. sarita Avatar
    sarita

    Deb. it is the most terrifying, unimaginable event you could go thru…a rolling event, it just keeps going. I pray no ragmates have to go thru it. My whole state is on fire, my town is wiped of the map.
    Everyone needs to pray hard, to whomever you pray to, for dearest Grace that this passes soon and she is able to get back to her Hill permanently, soon.
    Actually, pray for us all. Our Blessed Mother is crying out, we have abused the gifts of land and wildlife. It is a time for healing, for all.
    Also, I will contribute to truck fund. Let me know how, when.
    teagypsy@pm.me.com
    Blessings to all ♡
    sarita…in oregon

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  19. maria Avatar
    maria

    wish you all healing and the power of hard work , we see the same moon , the same sun ,maria in Belgium

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  20. carol Avatar
    carol

    Pleas
    und Account begins, will help

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  21. cynthia Avatar
    cynthia

    Oh Grace..so glad to find you here..there..I knew I was holding breath in..but did not know how much until this wonderful moment..and also in on the funding..xox much

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  22. Liz A Avatar

    life-giving water … may there always be enough … and may those who receive it remain safe

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  23. Nancy Avatar

    Sarita, I’m so, so sorry for all you have gone through. Take care.

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  24. Deb G Avatar

    Sarita, I too am so sorry to hear what you’ve been through. Yes, we all are at risk, if not of wildfire than something else….

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  25. grace Forrest Avatar

    the Forests
    the Forests

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  26. grace Forrest Avatar

    laura, i did and i think answered?
    there is nothing to DO in these days…just wait

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  27. grace Forrest Avatar

    this will be an Interesting spring

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  28. grace Forrest Avatar
  29. grace Forrest Avatar

    i cry so easily now…and this
    handprint on the wall
    the FireFighters are so BEYOND anything imaginable
    their determination is unreal
    i don’t know if i can continue with the book…very
    hard for me

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  30. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s what we can do…Show Up…Keep going
    if balance fails, try again

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  31. grace Forrest Avatar

    the Trickster…the lecture transcripts..if you could
    link?
    it is unnerving…how i see Alyssia as i read

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  32. grace Forrest Avatar

    going. Wind. thread

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  33. grace Forrest Avatar

    these words Float us

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  34. grace Forrest Avatar

    sarita…we All live on our peace and love and hugs..
    Thank You

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  35. grace Forrest Avatar

    takes place in 2024

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  37. grace Forrest Avatar

    every evening at 6p there is a fire update with
    CalFire Butte County Fire, meteorologist etc 5 of
    them
    they are There in the Fire all day and there at 6p Live
    to tell us how it is
    Such Respect and Gratitude i have
    PO Boxmight not be reliable for anything other than
    letter mail. Deb Lacativa had a nightmare

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  38. grace Forrest Avatar

    Jamie …yes. the SoulNerve

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  39. grace Forrest Avatar

    oh…dear You…
    no…we will need to find a way. and we will.
    But love to you for your bighearted thought

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  40. grace Forrest Avatar

    we do need eachother…but for now, the love and
    the words are very much enough

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  41. grace Forrest Avatar

    not now….someday maybe, if we burn, but not now

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  42. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. this is how it is now.

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  43. grace Forrest Avatar

    Sarita…yes. Pray however it is we Pray…for ALL
    for Wisdom in Facing What is Happening to this Earth and
    how to Stop the cruelty being purpetrated. We CAN
    find ways. We MUST find ways.
    My LOVE to you and your Beauty Full Oregon. I lived
    in Horton once upon a time.

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  44. grace Forrest Avatar

    Our moon, Our planet Our Love

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  45. grace Forrest Avatar

    no funding now….not needed, but Love is.

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  46. grace Forrest Avatar

    the Flow needs to be strong

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  47. grace Forrest Avatar

    sarita…it’s Wednesday morning…i just tried to email
    you…didn’t go thru?
    teagypsy@pm.me.com?????

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  48. Acey Avatar
    Acey

    the way I got into suicide prevention/risk assessment was through firefighters and how moved I was by them specifically in the wake of 9/11. Set my whole ‘adult’/professional world in motion so I understood an actual healing and healers’ purpose.
    can’t even go there in all of this. cannot even.
    i love those people. Somehow I often feel they are ‘mine’ although I’d do nothing of the sort myself because that’s just … so much of everything it take.

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  49. Acey Avatar
    Acey

    I saw her being in this book within the picture you’ve shared twice so far of her sitting in the white chair talking with a slight smile on her face – looking at something off camera as she speaks. I said out loud oh look there she IS. and then the second time there she is ‘again’.
    was wild. Couldn’t imagine how in the world I’d ever explain it to you and what you would make it but now here we are.

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  50. jamie Avatar
    jamie

    I watch every night – 9:01 eastern – and have been amazed at the professional, compassionate, educated, informed presenters and presentations. They are excellent communicators of what is happening and they listen. Such wonderful human beings. I tell my son and other friends to watch. What can be learned from them.

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