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how interesting.   Since i tried to post the link…yesterday….typepad is now in spanish.  ???????   yes.  spanish.   So…i don't know the words,  like Borrodor and Guandar,   i just know by Sense,  by Touch,  by some kind of spacial sense and touch of what to click on.   

but here we are.   This Altar.   this Coyote Basket that Joyce Tinkham made so many many years ago…i keep trying to find her,  Joyce,  and not yet…i haven't   but this basket which holds different things on going….during Fire Days,  it changes,  During Fire Days………..do i Take it?   Do i leave it?….to act as some kind of SAFE for this place?   How could this woven twine basket make SAFE?    Always inside are my two childrens  Tooth Fairy Teeth.   Their teeth.   Other things change but their teeth remain in the little plastic orange treasure chest our beloved dentist gave us,  firmed up with a rubber band.

 

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18 responses to “Everything is already Here.”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    (((Grace))) I just finished reading The Overstory by Richard Powers again… for the third time… such an important book, it weaves with your story of what you are doing where you are living there on The Hill, so clear and beautiful for the Now we are In
    namaste

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  2. jude Avatar

    when my dad had a stroke, I remember meeting my mom at the hospital and the first thing she said was “I wasn’t ready for this”. Is the only real ready a frame of mind? I was asking myself that last night. And if so, grace is ready I said to myself.

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  3. Liz A Avatar

    I read this article in the NYT yesterday …
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/business/wildfires-goats-prevention.html
    the gist of it (because there might be a NYT paywall that keeps you from reading the full article): a goatherd in Colorado travels with her 200 goats … she leases them to property owners, and in some cases the BLM, to clear ladder fuel which mitigates the spread of wildfires … the goats eat their way through a section of land at a time, enclosed by an electric fence to keep them from wandering … some jobs take a day to complete … others have taken as long as 6 months
    as I read this, I thought “Grace’s goats have made the Hill safe”

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  4. Liz A Avatar

    P.S. and yes, I know that the worst wildfires can also spread through the tree canopy … so being ready, still sadly needed

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  5. Joanne in Maine Avatar
    Joanne in Maine

    Our printer has switched itself to Slovakian or Croatian. We can’t get it to return to English so had to look up the commands and translate them. It’s like technology is turning on us.

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  6. LaceLady Avatar
    LaceLady

    Thank you, Liz. I will send her my copy – the firewall thing indeed. It is a tremendous article.

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    or encouraging us to become planetary citizens

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  8. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Oh Grace I believe you are just about ready for whatever life puts in front of you. I pray I’m right about that.

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  9. Faith Avatar

    Oooooh, I LIKE that thought.

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  10. Faith Avatar

    Because curiosity, and words are a challenge to me: “Draft and Saving” is what “Borrodor and Guandar” means.
    guardar=to put away, to save
    borrador=draft, eraser
    I like your altar and wonder what the bird sees.

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  11. Deb G Avatar

    Sometimes that’s the best way to know…by touch, by sensing.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s right here. i will begin again.

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    i think your words are True. a frame of mind.
    i am beginning to earnestly be ready.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    they Have. There are still…maybe a hundred years of
    branches, fallen trees. Fuel. We work. Some by Some.
    But the Goats…creating defensible space…yes. SOOOOO
    much

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    i pray you are right, too

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    i love words. borrador…draft, eraser
    i thought…your question, what does the Crow see?
    am thinking.

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s the way it happens for me, best or not.

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