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the weather "app" on my phone.   It tells Every Thing.   But what it tells most is an hour by hour forecast.    I can look.   The day is forecasted 100% chance of RAIN  but this Weather tells me that there are windows in this.   What the windows mean to me is that this is when i will be able to FEED the Goats.   When the Goats will be able to eat their feed.   and today,  when i had enough time to go fill the propane tanks down at LakeSide,  be back and still enough time for the evening Feed.   This is just so FINE.  I don't know how to say how really GREAT this is.   You wouldn't know.   Unless you needed to do it.   But it's Huge.

and then…there's the Funeral arrangements.   T.   her body.   Her body is still at the hospital morgue.   T.   still there.   There was all the negotiation with a Funeral Home,   with T's mother.   This much money for this much "service".   Jeff not doing well with it.   and in the last month or so,  i'd thought about a credit card i have.   For months there has been no balance.  i'd paid it off.  the repairs to the Honda car in hopes of becoming California compliant.  But recently,  i thought…eeee,   what if you never use your credit card?   and today those two met.   Just use the card.     Which i was "given" totally by accident because i ordered stuff from Garden's Alive and they had an offer  Pre Approved and i got it,  even when my own bank could not give me credit based on my income.  It's been over 10 years.  So today…for T.   For Jeff.  For Sanity.

and the best for last….as i was leaving,  CareFree Way,  onto Old Olive,   i saw

i saw

on my right the image above….These BUSHES or SHRUbS    neither word is enough for what they ARE,   these Plant Beings.

Never in these 4 years have i seen this…they are Glorious.   Fiercely Alive and Vibrant and…..BLOSSOMING!   BLOSSOMiNG! Zillions of blossoms…..???????????     the Rain,  having cleaned the leaves that look to be like Holly???????????     There is a thick clan of them,  just near the road where CareFree meets Old Olive.    Had this happened before?    I don't know.  But i do know that i witnessed it today and i mark it.   As a miracle of this Earth.   How so dry and dust covered for months can,  with just Some Rain,   BLOOM   and  i am also grateful that maybe i finally have become able to release Self from the confines of mind…and really See…..really See.   

 

 

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17 responses to “a once in a life time day”

  1. Nancy Avatar

    I ZOOM in…and yes, ZILLIONS of them! Wow! I wonder what they are? But they certainly loved the Rain 🙂
    I can’t think of a better, more emergency, time to use your credit card. It must have felt like such a relief. Sending love. xo

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes..so much. it’s all What It IS. all of it. The blossoms, the relief of RAIN, the relief of release of MONEY. it’s crazy. but it works…in the moment and yes. it was felt as such relief. Allowing everything to go. Go forward into the Next.

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  3. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Sat with this image for a while; sat with how there is always a way and it came to me that the blooming bushes released their gift right when you released the $ worry for dear T’s funeral: Some might say that the bushes were in bloom before all of this but with so much going on, were not noticed. Me, I would say that Spirit recognized a giving heart and came when it was most needed…

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  4. Liz A Avatar

    oh Grace … all of this … it is everything

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  5. jude Avatar

    just looking at them brings the feel of perfume.

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  6. Hazel Avatar

    Love how you share the glories of your world, how your card has become a gift to you and yours, and mostly how you share love. oxo

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  7. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    To be there for each other is everything .. you have proven over and over again how much you love your family. The earth is celebrating this love by giving back .. paying it forward as they say😘love to you dear sweetheart!!

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  8. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Weather.. hour by hour… Life’s challenges.. minute by minute. These flowering Bushes.. brings chaos to its knees.

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  9. Faith Avatar

    How glorious!! I like, and agree with, what Marti said. They might be false holly (osmanthus heterophyllus) which is a profuse fall bloomer.
    Never needed it, but I now appreciate the hourly forecast.

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  10. Nancy Avatar

    “brings chaos to its knees” ~ Such a great phrase 🙂

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    the Plant Being said YES.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    i didn’t think to sniff them. Emrie would have

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    the motto for the kids from their kindle people
    Sharing is Caring
    Teamwork gets it done
    we go, and go more. and Notice, along the way.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    it was. those blossoms, like a celebration.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    i like that….chaos to its knees…in prayer

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    that hourly…is just so beyond great for me. This time around the CIRCLE, having surrendered to what is so much MORE than my own desire and pleasure, surrendering to the workings of this Earth, as It cares for Its Self
    i love the technology of it, smile as i watch it change within hours, it’s alive in its own way, responding

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