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i know i am always Exclaiming about things…using those words…Brilliant, Stellar, Extraordinary, Beauty FULL,  Unbelievable and on and on.   It's how i talk.   Because it's how i FEEL,  experience things….in bursts of Happiness,  Delight.

But today….how can i tell it?   How can i impart the profound FEELING i had upon the appearance of………………THESE.

i was turning out the soil from the grow bags and landscape pots into the new fake raised bed.   My whole self was kind of just mindlessly humming along and suddenly!!!!…..the first one WAS THERE and moving FAST….surprised and wanting to FIX it's sudden startling exposure……i reached down and cupped it in my hand and it flipped out and for a few minutes i couldn't find it but then did and picked it up again to set it gently into the soil….it had calmed,  i assumed  had become intent on it's well being and focusing .   ?    I sat on my heels a while,  just calming myself.  Breathing.  Realizing what had just taken place.   I got another landscape pot and turned it out,  and there,  ANOTHER.   Search for the first and ….this pic.    then take them back….Thank them,  Say Metta,  for them,  for me,  for this Place,  for All of Everything.    I had just read that poem about worms,  made the Cloth honoring them ,   and here,  today…..WORMS.   

the old man i used to take my tools to for sharpening in N Mex….he told me,  when i lamented about no worms in the desert….he said no.,  no grace,   they are there.  They are Everywhere on this planet.   You need to call them.  You need to make it right for them.   They will come.

so….playing it by ear here,  in this granite garden of B,   i have just done all i could imagine doing.   I can't dig into the soil with a shovel.   The rock and stone don't allow that.   So i have brought buckets and buckets of  manure and feed scrap,  layered it on.  Making small planting holes for things OR planting in pots.   And as i emptied those landscape pots i saw that the roots of some of the plants had filled them and gone through the drain holes to dive into the stone earth below…where the roots must make their way in the crevices between to find LIFE that they need 

How it Goes.   Trying.   

These two worms….so vibrant and ALIVE and ,  well,  so vibrant and ALIVE….they are like a Kiss on the forehead….a YES

a Yes,  grace,  keep going.   It's Happening.   Keep Going.

and then…now….late in the evening as i write this.   That thing about the Intelligence in the Universe…wanting to communicate with us,  "in however we can most find it"…Elizabeth Gilbert…..    How could this be more perfect?

double click the pic.   They are Glorious

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13 responses to “un expected J O Y”

  1. Nancy Avatar

    Their colorations 🙂

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  2. Joanne in Maine Avatar
    Joanne in Maine

    When I am in the Garden, I “feed” the worms cardboard. they love the stuff.
    I lay it down and then add bricks or soil to keep the cardboard flat- not flying in the wind.
    Or if I have compost, leaves etc I cover the cardboard with that. Next year, it’s all gone.
    Another thing they LOVE is used coffee grounds. Starbucks or any coffee grounds.
    When I moved to this space inMaine- soil was yellow and acidic- no organic material.
    I had to build it. now you can dig with hands- no need for garden tools..

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  3. grace Forrest Avatar
  4. grace Forrest Avatar

    go back out there…hang out with them

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  5. Liz A Avatar

    when first we met in 2014, considering weave … how compost was our common ground and Underlying Order the cloth that whispered its truth

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  6. CatherinE Avatar

    We brought a bucket of our garden soil – containing worms and probably other lives – to our cousins when they complained about no worms in their garden. I really love seeing them. When we’re out of the deep freeze here, they will move forward the surface again and I’ll go hang out with them, following your example!

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  7. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    We used coffee grounds in our worm pit. They loved them. They came by the thousands or so I remember.. i was young and we dug them to fish with. But I loved just playing with them and marveling at their squirming lively bodies! Which end was the head? Where is their brains? My friend told me just the other day she wants to come back as an earthworm, they eat nonestop.. and Something about having sex for a month.. I will have to research that!

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  8. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Heaven and earth .. absolutely beautiful!! My favorite thing in spring was transferring my compost to the gardens.

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  9. victoria Avatar
    victoria

    Well, you are doing all the right things to pull those worms in. The manure and food scraps make a great start and shredded leaves too added to the raised bed will just make it better and better. Good topsoil added will be helpful as well. I always rake my leaves into piles and shred them with the lawn mower some get added to flower beds right then in the fall and the rest are composted in piles and dug in when planting things and digging new beds in the spring and summer.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    i think compost is a common ground for many of us…and isn’t that just SomeThing?….compost

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    for most of my life i took them so much for granted…it
    took Desert and then here to change that

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    Heaven and Earth…yes. Heaven/Earth

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    here on this Hill in N California, the leaves are….? well, different. and on these acres, you would not rake them. and the Goats Eat them. They are Food. But compost…isn’t it just a JOY? Just such a JOY?

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