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on the left side of the Janet Chair,  on the stones.   Enlarge and it will help.  some.   I spent a long time with  Garden this afternoon.  Earlier than usual.   Wanting to give water to the Pomegranate and Fig long.  Seeping deep.     So i sat.  Thinking.  This Titmouse came and bathed.   Much fluttering and splashing then up into the Scrub Oak to fluff and rearrange. Back to bathe.   Back to branch.   3 times.   And then  some very small bird   hummingbird size went about inspecting all the watered plants  touching its beak to stems and leaves,  the metal of the tomato cages.  Their eyes are so bright.    Watching all this it occurred to me how my grief might be so different from Jeff and the childrens.   My world is the same.   The death of T,  the great heartache  for Jeff and the children…..this is in "addition to".   It is now another ummm,  layer of Everything .    For them though,  so much has been torn away,  ripped off,  is Missing.   a Gaping space where she Was.   This…if it is true,   might help in the slow mend.   I will return to it tomorrow.   

 


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and just a slow More to the Tree.   Make marks.   Sit…..Look.   wait for more doing.  Just Go,  but slow.  Go slow.

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18 responses to “trying to feel fully. Slow. no hurry. fully the moment. and only that.”

  1. Nancy Avatar

    I think your words, read them and consider the way grief is different for each of us. Something I’ve known of course, but which felt different in the reading here today.
    I noticed the texture and color on the bottom of that tree trunk…just beautiful, as is the garden today. The Janet Chair, a wonderful space for slow. xo

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  2. jamie Avatar
    jamie

    I am so sorry for the loss in your family. No words of comfort have been forthcoming. Until today. Reading this post reminded me of that empty feeling inside when a loved one has died. A friend told me when I was grieving that the empty feeling can really be beautiful. It can be from the love, the pieces of yourself, that you have given to that person. You might not be able to feel her with you yet, shock and numbness can set in. But you can feel what you have given in love. It is very hard. I am glad you have each other to lean on.

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  3. Yvette Avatar

    Grace, I so much loved your sunflower description
    Turn the head to the good
    So much to say…..
    A long time ago since I was able to comment
    But just
    Love

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  4. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    The space where a wife, a mother, a daughter, a sister in law, a grand daughter in law, a friend, used to be…Jamie’s words about the empty feeling inside when a loved one dies are so moving.
    In time, memories will soften the edges of the space, the center, well I don’t know if it is ever fully filled …that little space left open, that space of grief holds, it has its place in our lives. What balances that open space is the strength and togetherness of family, it is balanced by the questions asked by young children and answered and most of all, it is balanced by love and kindness in all forms. Most of all, it is balanced by the fact that over time, our loved one is with us through our stores, through our memories and through, simply, their spirit.

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  5. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Meant to say in that last line, “our loved one is with us through our stories”.

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  6. Mo Crow Avatar

    (((Grace))) love the deep heart of your stitching the listening to the spirits of place on The Hill in this time of sorrow

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  8. Irene Avatar
    Irene

    Tree = Strength

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  9. Liz A Avatar

    how the tree holds … and to lose a part of one’s every-day-ness … this is the hardest loss I think, for the children

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes…we come to go deeper, don’t we. into the nuance

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    we will all learn Grieving with T. All of us. She will
    lead us.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    yvette, most loved Yvette
    you can put your words here again…o………
    LOVE

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    i don’t think it’s ever filled. But it softens.
    becomes gentle and Live able. And yes. They remain
    with us. T will always remain with us.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    the Hill receives sorrow

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. silent. Ever. HERE. Tree

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    we will come to know about this. We go

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  17. Liz A Avatar

    and having just been in New Mexico, I look again and see adobe in the center of the cloth

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