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the 13 Giant scrap bags that reside on the bench across the table from me……this morning before light outSide,  by the light of the flashlight,   they somehow reminded of my childhood Creek…how so many things had private lives in it's depths with the flash and glimmer of flowing water above

 


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then, just to the side,  i saw how some scraps had arranged themSelves into the form of  a lizard…the kind of origami like shapes that Jude taught us  

and then the bags,  in their translucent state,  no longer Clear,  but well….translucentish ,  how that is their own certain kind of beauty and went on to remind me of the amniotic sacs that kid Goats come in…slide through to This Side,  how the mother breaks them and clears them away.   and all that went on and that this was the morning of the Camp Fire,  3 years ago that decimated Paradise, California.  Took the lives of 85 human beings and untold lives of other Beings.   

And then,  morning came.  Light.  and soon,  there was SUN.

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12 responses to “my companions”

  1. Nancy Avatar

    That lizard that came to call!
    I thought of you when we saw the lizard yesterday.

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  2. Liz A Avatar

    fire and water … light and life … how we might simply look at the world around us, how much better when we truly see

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  3. Deb G Avatar

    This morning, still dark, a train is coming through at the moment and the wind is howling.

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  4. CatherinE Avatar

    Teaching me the certain kind of beauty in plastic bags. I kind of hate them, but really they are a remarkable thing, now more precious because I try to avoid bringing new ones home.

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  5. grace Forrest Avatar

    they are So Much here right now and the Skinks, Frogs

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    waiting to be accepted and seen as Self So much.

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    Wind takes it to a whole other Place

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  8. Patty M Avatar

    The bags seem to form am immer world. You’re showing me the world where lizards
    come alive like the framed lizard I see as the sun rises (an hour later since Sunday). Your mind includes all of the creatures you share with us… and their qualities shower blessings on us all. Thank you for all of this,
    my friend.

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  9. Patty M Avatar

    Another thought…scraps are selves left over from our making. No wonder
    we love and keep them. Sometimes they can save us. xoxo

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    it was not easy, to move the cloth scraps, fragments into these 13. 18×24 inch bags. I was worried they might suffocate. Back in New Mex i had shelves. I had many Bolga Baskets I had a design wall.
    i thought that space was small, and it was, but nothing like what is Here. and i tried. the baskets here.
    But then….after 3 Evacuations for FIRE, i changed it. These. There are 13 of them, These, maybe i could LOAD, Fast, while loading the 17 Goats, chicken cat dog. Maybe this way i could take the cloth?
    so all summer, they were READY, this way. But i began to appreciate how, just across this small table, they were There, looking back at me. How i could SEE the scraps inside, how they could talk to me this way.
    I do not like plastic either. But how it is is how it is.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    as your Cloths shower Blessings upon me, Patty….
    the Flow

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. they Save me. Over and Over and Over day unto Day.

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