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i am so dependent on this Earth.   

when it's not Soaked with Rain,  Cold.   Soaked again.  More Cold.   when i can kneel.

i didn't want to put anything here tonight.   I wanted to drink a glass of wine and go lay down.  And if it was too early to sleep,  then just lay there until enough time passed and sleep would come.   But here i am.   it's a Discipline  that is most times joy full but sometimes not,   the discipline being in that.   Both.   

the "world" is too heavy.   too disturbed.    and in this small sphere,  there is so much work needing done with a little girl,  a not so little but little enough boy that find themselves mother Less.   I go back again to the On Being with Christine Runyon.

i watch Jenny today.  Her interaction with Brinley.   So far,   Jenny's name to the kids has been New Nana.   Brinley has begun calling her Nommy    I watched her hold her today.   She's four.  big.  but Jenny held her,  Brinley wrapping her arms tight,  her face pressed into her chest,  Jenny adjusting her stance to maintain this.   Jenny is my daughter.  I watch my daughter.  Take her Place.  in her family.  For HER children.   for their children.   it's how it goes with animals.

Jenny's car has been down at the bottom of this Hill,  for a couple years now since one of the giant pine cones broke the oil pan.  It sits.  Next to my old loved,  so loved that words are dumb   Honda.   they sit together,  near  Carefree Way which is a private road to three "properites".   but also allows   access to opposite properties across the way.  Who use it.   When they came up today they saw that there was a Jack under her car.   To make a long story short,  there was an attempt to take the catalytic converter.  that failed because the jack sunk into the earth.   So at the end of the "visit",   they dug out the jack,  let the tires go flat which lowered it even more.   Took the battery that they could not charge on site and tomorrow they will air up the tires,  start up and bring her car Up Here.   

so.  stuff right  now is Full.  Too much so.  There's more.    I wonder how to do it.

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16 responses to “a lot of stuff”

  1. LaceLady Avatar
    LaceLady

    one step at a time. one breath after another. pauses when needed.

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  2. maria Avatar
    maria

    after read the story , i sit here … waiting .. to match toughts coming no focus just give a hug

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  3. Nancy Avatar

    There is no way to think it, only the doing. Big Love to your tribe Grace. xo

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  4. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    No answers, just as others have said, one step, one hour, one day at a time. Lately, the days seem so heavy…lifting takes a lot but lift we do, as best we can…love to la Familia; it holds…

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  5. Liz A Avatar

    lifting … literally speaking I can barely pick up two year old Ellis these days, let alone four year old Parker … but hugging, holding … those I can do … sometimes it’s all we can do and everything they really need … but oh, how much else is needed and how hard it is to do it all

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  6. Deb G Avatar

    Sending love…

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  7. CatherinE Avatar

    I’m glad you put something here. So glad. The world does seem so heavy. Every day a new chance to show up, to bear it, bear witness to it.

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  8. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    My friend lost her husband this morning .. another friend said she’ll be fine she is strong. As we go through life with all it’s difficulty and loss I know we’ll all be fine but dear Grace getting from the now to than is a hard and long if you’re a child road to travel. My heart breaks for the little ones that have lost their mother .. I’m holding you all and them in my prayers. At the end of the day your posts give me comfort.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    and some kind of faith

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. just the doing. yes.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    it gives a new sense to Stand and Face

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    her mother held her. like that. Jenny and her mother are similar in size and strength. i imagine a great sense
    of relief in being held by Jenny…helping her remember
    what she needs to as she goes now

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    twice today your words have GIVEN beauty…a new
    chance
    you say
    a new chance to show up. bear it. bear witness.
    Thank you. chance. a chance.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    love to the friend, to the other friend, to you as you
    hold one another. and your words have me remember…there are so many that have lost a mother…we are among them. This is comforting.

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