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arranging Its Self   from these last days.

Components.   Jude talks about components.   Like a symphony .     but….no….symphony is to BIG,  too Loud.  Too Much.    What then,  like what?    Sym is the Greek root for same,  with,  or together.   A Sym.   a Sym of things long loved,  New,  and Still yet to come.   That small weaving at the top,  Jude Hill.   That i have loved and used as small altar cloth for specific and particular needs.  over years.   i need to re write those words of   Padraig  O'Tuama   that are here,  on the index card.   re write them for here because that card is the one that needs to be folded in my pocket until it is memorized.  

this morning,  just before light there was a SOUND.   Utube   Scream of the Red Fox.    a single sound.  once.   the Owls are back…their migratory circular event…i thought….not a Red Fox,  but Puppy.   I thought Puppy bit the dust.  But no….later,  as i had asked Jenny and her man to stop at B Garden on their way up,  which they did,  and as we sat there in the plastic adirondack  chairs ,  Puppy arrived.     and i'm going to say this,  about Jenny,  here.   She's not much into sitting.   She likes to DO things.   But because it was such an intensely BEAUtY FULL mid afternoon,  after all that HEAT,   such a wonder FULL gentle day….we sat and she indulged me with conversation that i wanted to have,  with questions,  that pushed her.  About family.  About Voice.     about a Lot.   I had to keep repeating….. " i am working on my End Game" …..so i need to keep asking.   And Cynthia,  in the background,  whispered….Gentle Day.  and it was.

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6 responses to “This.”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    (((Grace)))love the beauty of your Sym on this beautiful spring day here in Sydney. This morning I woke up needing to walk at dawn in the hope that an old board I had noticed in the street was still there, it was and will work! magic happens when we take the time to listen

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  2. Cynthia Avatar
    Cynthia

    Oh a gentle day here as well..Alan’s 74 th birthday..and after a week of gray and humid days it was so appreciated.. we visited a much loved nursery/garden tucked right into a rift in a granite mountain .. to pick out some plants for the continuing healing of much abused land and for the simple ridiculous joy of swinging on a huge swing that is suspending from a massive oak with stretchy connections that sends you over a small stream and the garden below…Alan is tall and a truly well fitting swing is uncommon..and later as we sat outside we realized that we would have loved this day just as it was at any point in the last 50 odd years..how different the conversation was but the joy of the day was immense.. a day full of such gratitude..A very gentle day much love Grace

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  3. Deb G Avatar

    Funny (in the coincidental way), I have been considering “sub.” Subconscious, submarine, substrate…things beneath. Layers.
    Glad Puppy is okay.

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  4. jude Avatar

    I feel good about you and Jenny . Sitting. Talking. Pushing.

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  5. maria Avatar
    maria

    The right words for ” THIS”

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  6. Faith Avatar

    Words again. When you explained that ‘sym’ was ‘together’ I immediately thought ‘phone’ is ‘sound’ so ‘symphony’ is ‘sound together’ (makes sense) … and wondered what ‘cloth together’ would be. So I looked up the Greek word for cloth and came up with ‘sympani’ (symPAni)(though maybe not to someone who actually knows and speaks Greek). [Which kinda made me laugh, because ‘pani’ is the Urdu(my husbands mother tongue) word for ‘water.’]

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