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we'll see how this post goes.   Internet in and out.   But here we are.   Cloth and me with the Our Lady of Guadalupe candle brought from New Mex those years ago,   incense.   and the most important,   the 2022 Butterfly Calendar.    I'd thought i missed the "window",  but there on the almost totally bare shelves of the seasonal isle at the Dollar Store…oh,  there.   There it was.  There were Puppies  and Kittens and my heart stood still…but then………there it was.  As if Waiting.    The Dollar Store are the best.   Perfect for writing the year on.  i love them and they are $1.   and i have done this for more years than i know…way over 15,   each New Year's   Eve,   sitting with the pages of the year gone by.   Slowly going through,  thinking,   and noting on the new one things that need to be referenced in the coming year.  Birthdays.    Saying Good Bye Days now.  People are dying during  last couple years.  Everything is recorded on the Calendar.  Jenny and Alyssia will say….Go Look on the Calendar….for when we….. dewormed them or trimmed hooves,   when we began a different feed.   There are many milestones for Emrie.   for the Gardens,  this Hill.   I love the  going back.  slowly and bringing forward all that might apply in 2022.   and it's particularly interesting this time because who knows?,  what might apply?   Everything is so ify.   

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25 responses to “12~31~2021 Eve”

  1. maria Avatar
    maria

    a good thing that we don’t know it , but sometimes we feel it .
    the maggod become a butterfly
    we have just to live it , to give it the love and to look in our own mirror ; that is what i wil do in 2022 i love the picture of that number , 3 swan around the circle of All of nothing , what is the point of view ,
    Grace and all of you , wishes for a genial Year !

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  2. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Into the new year, I step outside and it is so cold and more is coming, snow and high winds are coming. Inside, our home smells of cinnamon apple goodness, a wonderful way to welcome the new year with the gifts of the apple tree that we found when we moved here. I have baked an apple crisp that wee will enjoy with Greek honey yogurt for breakfast this morning.
    As we go into another year, I hold onto the simple fact that we are not alone for no matter where we live, we go into this time of yet more uncertainty, together. My strongest wish for all is that you each find something from your homes, your land, that feeds your body and nourishes your soul.
    Didn’t make it yet to my local library to get my calendar for 2022; I love their calendars because they are created by members of the local Senior citizen group here, all photographers. Each year they choose a different New Mexican theme. Last year was desert gardens, the year before, gate doors…meanwhile, I have my husband Island calendar to look at until next week.

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  3. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    well, I will say that I hold true to form with my typos. Going to blame it on the fact that I had tea instead of strong coffee this morning! Meant to type we instead of “wee” and “we go into this time of year with more uncertainty” instead of “we go into this time of yet more”. Also meant to say “husband’s” instead of husband calendar…jeez! am I even awake?! think I should wish for more slowness and clarity when I type comments! Apologies.

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  4. jude Avatar

    Happy New Year Grace

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  5. Liz A Avatar

    I did wonder a bit at “husband Island calendar” … may we find laughter and joy in the coming year, even if only in the wonder that is autocorrect … ha!

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  6. Liz A Avatar

    looking back before going forward … may you find much joy in both

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  7. Linda Avatar
    Linda

    Happy New Year Grace… may we all have a healthy year.

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  8. Saskia Avatar

    happy new year Grace

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  9. Deb G Avatar

    Always love this tradition of yours… Happy New Year

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  10. Joanne in Maine Avatar
    Joanne in Maine

    I have my new page of the desktop calendar where I write, draw or paste down images I collect from magazines, newspapers etc. I even have a cartoon for today- about making resolutions. All very artful and lovely to look at.
    We also have the wall calendar we check while eating breakfast. To see if we have things to do, places to go. Doctors. Dentist. Eye Doctor. Car Tune ups. Birthdays. I used to write down weather. Just to fill space.I forgot to write down the grass seed project last year. Or first snow. Last snow. But it’s here on the desktop calendar. Under the keyboard.
    Happy New Year.

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  11. Irene Avatar
    Irene

    Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and productive new year.

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  12. Nancy Avatar

    Happy New Year Grace! I think of you and this ritual every year. Years ago, when we first met, I adopted this ritual of yours, in my own way. So usually, on the eve or New Years Day, I sit and remember and plan while transferring birth/death dates, dr phone numbers, date of last (fill in the exam type) and so on on my little Hallmark datebook. I have used them since early 1970’s! Somehow though, the meaning has become deeper in more recent years, since I now think of you and our community here as I do this small thing.
    Big Love and wishes for a good year.

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  13. Yvette Avatar

    Love and togetherness
    Heaps of hugs

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    calendars are so strange, but so comforting
    like quilt squares

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    and you…Dear and Best You

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. that we Be Well

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    and so much Back to you and all your Beings

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar

    a good and kind New Year to you

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar

    Productive. YES. productive.

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar

    i love this, that we share this doing

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar

    Yvette, Yvette, HEAPS

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  24. Nancy Avatar

    Me too Grace 😍

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