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i set Out from this Hill.   still….a big deal.    Had things i wanted.   Ginger root.   a  small shovel.   Cilantro Seed.   The mail with my ballot for the recall vote of Newsome.   Got all of it.   

not being sure why,  i took a stack of National Geographics.   part of the divesting process for Evacs.   I ended up stopping at the Library just this side of the hardware store where i was headed.    In keeping with Nancy,  pomegranitetrail.blogspot.com,  with her love medicine bag mission,   i thought to just put the N Geo s somewhere and the somewhere was one of the cement benches that line the Library sidewalk.  During the time of Acey's Collage~ing,  i'd taken some pages for images.     There's always street people,  homeless people at those benches.  Maybe they would enjoy?  After buying the exact shovel i needed,  driving back by….they were gone.   Maybe 20 minutes.   Good.

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16 responses to “how it goes”

  1. LaceLady Avatar
    LaceLady

    Ahhh, Grace. the library. a hardware store. a grocery store. since December 2019, these are the primary destinations for Mr. and Mrs. BaggyPants. when I travel to a new spot on the “map”, these are the first spots that I explore. they say so much about the people who live there. Basic needs, of that place and it’s people.
    “Good”. so “GOOD”.
    Nancy’s blog refreshes my soul, these days of “social distancing” and kerfuffles beyond description. I’d bookmarked her “medicine” posts, so offer up a tiny url to those posts specifically: https://tinyurl.com/ff7bhxdm

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  2. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    it’s good to be back to typepad comments … and how heart-warming to know the National Geographics so quickly found a new place to be …

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  3. jude Avatar
    jude

    yes. Good.

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  4. jude Avatar
    jude

    yeah disqus was weird.

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  5. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Nancy gives comfort via the CMB’s, you give the world all wrapped up in pages…gifts so good for the spirit. I donate magazines to our library because they have a free cart. At least once a month, I bring home treasures from the cart but how wonderful it would be to be walking along and find them on a bench, hanging from a fence, etc…

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  6. Beth Avatar
    Beth

    Ahhh… I’ve blown in the open window. (((grace))) (((et al.)))

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes…it was a brilliant idea and i love following along…seeing them waiting in Place…making up
    stories about being found…just love it a LOT
    love that you did this

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i thought maybe one or two would be gone…but All. and
    who knows what their life will be now

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Good feels
    really
    Good, lately

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes…i wanted them to be just There for the Taking….
    some of the people are accompanied by complex carts…all
    their stuff…i don’t know if they feel ok about going IN
    and leaving it all OutSide? so this would accommodate that.
    When i went through a gigunda bag of clothes in that back
    room this morning…there are pants that Jenny and Alyssia
    have brought me now and then that are Like New and some NEW
    that are too big or just not comfortable…there’s two pair
    of really great black jeans…but they’re stiff….i can’t do stiff…i guess, too new….
    and i’ve thought about putting them in one of the nice paper bags from Lakeside with Please Take written on and leaving maybe outside of that Laundromat closest to the main drag???

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    o hey Beth…..glad for the breeze that brought you, glad for the open window and GLAD for YOU!

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  12. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Aw, well isn’t this sweet to know! I never really know most of who pops in over on the trail 🙂 These Community Medicine Bags have been saving me these days. I’m glad my space refreshes you during this time.
    Grace~ Yay! What a fun thing to do. The stories in the doing are so fun. Who picks it up? Why? What happens next?
    I think we could all use some lightening and brightening these days. xo

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  13. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    Laughing…here catching up and didn’t even realize you had switched back to Typepad comments until I read Liz’s comment, even as I am reading along. 🙂
    Good to share the gift of things to read….

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  14. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Feeling your Joy and sense of rediscovery in Shopping your own stash! Nat Geo’s are someone else’s treasure now! Jeans to me are stiff too and I live now in colorful patterned leggings. But they make them look like jeans too. But not useful cloth in their afterlife.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Share….that word has new meaning to me today…
    Saturday

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    leggings. Winter for me. Now they are too HOT….
    but they have their place and i love them too. Just so
    much to be aware of….to find place enough For. Good
    that we Try.

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