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have been at Garden earlier in the day….figuring out how to extend the planting space and to plant the Walking Onions.   Also a new stone bed , planted  Cilantro.   Next Arugula.     It's hot,  so as i do these things and give water,  i squat.   for Four days now,  a very small lizard has appeared.   At first,  i thought a young one of the ones i know, because of size.    but then,  Being With more,  i think now this is a different Lizard and a fully mature one.   Yesterday was the longest of the Meetings.   S(he)They  stayed.   On the log,  just inches from my face,  my hand that held the hose.   Was very still and looking AT me,  UP at me.  There was eye contact.   I spoke and they stayed….listening,  looking into my face.   At one point,  i moved my hand,  in a Gesture of contact and S(he) disappeared behind the log  but only to come  up just on the other side of  my hand to continue the exchange.  Like with  the Goats,  i was the one to break the contact,  moving off,  to continue.  Today,  S(he)  was present again,  but fleetingly,  as if to acknowledge,  but also to say….don't expect too much.

i can't carry the phone,  camera,  with me as i do all this,  so the chance of a pic is limited…so i made this drawing.  The Being is smaller than depicted here..  A Very  Small Lizard.   and this,  with the Garden pen.   no fine line.   They have burnt orange decorative dots.

today might be the last of the 100 plus degree temperatures.  Maybe.   Forecast is for a few 90's and then DOWN to 80's.  If so,  Hallelujah

 

 

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19 responses to “Friend”

  1. Liz A Avatar

    I love our anoles … how they make eye contact and abide … curious and trusting

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  2. Mo Crow Avatar

    love seeing your hand as a canvas for this sketch!

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  3. dee Avatar

    What we did before the ubiquity of our cameras. I love that the image will be part of your days until it washes off. And the encounter was wonderful to read about.

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  4. jude Avatar

    i was thinking about the digital camera age, how it has changed us. how just the experience became not enough.

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  5. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Wishing the small lizard could recognize itself on your hand and actually climb aboard!! You may be a Lizard Whisperer!

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  6. Irene Avatar
    Irene

    This week we have had a bat visiting…he or she roosts on one of the stucco walls sheltered by the porch roof. It’s a tiny, beautiful thing. I did manage to make eye contact the other day…the poor thing was a little spooked, but didn’t move.

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  7. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    You draw the best lizards .. happy for you that some cooler weather is coming your way.

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    the “curiosity”….what IS that, really? like, Really?

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    i liked it. Writing on my Self. I might continue.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    ubiquity.
    ubiquity of so much. Thank you for this word.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    how just the experience became not enough….
    i want to think about this.
    how the experience became not enough….
    but then
    the ability to SHARE….to SHOW
    it is all so HUGE, really. HUGE in Neon.
    thank you for the words…. not enough………..
    they will help me think

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    if it could happen…that connection?, that Trust?
    this little one, a Human Whisperer

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    the bat….there was a local video for Butte Cnty of a Fire Truck…a small bat, clinging to the radiator as it drove through and came from the Dixie Fire
    your bat, there, i hope you both find something mutual to share..without fear and Otherness

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    lizards…still….their nuances. Soon. not yet today, the
    cool. it will come.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    the sound….Video request….i click yes accept
    and Emrie is there in real time saying there are Rain Drops at her house and as the conversation goes on, Rain Drops come here too…..Sharing. We share. we are miles apart, not far, but we share as RAIN gives small drops of hope
    Its strange. but also Beauty Full.

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  16. jude Avatar

    yeah, sharing is the PLUS part, trying to put that in perspective, to remember life on a different scale.

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  17. jude Avatar

    smiling, yes.

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  18. maria Avatar
    maria

    We share , we are miles apart , not far BUT we share as rain gives small drops .
    yes also beauty FULL
    love these words and all of you like raine drops

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar

    love this, Maria, that we all are like rain drops

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