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Early morning i felt the urge to be InTouch with Wendy.  [Golden Levitt].   just a hello and Love,  and sent her an email.   Just that.  Within an hour,  received word back.  She is working again in the Studio,  and is collaborating with a boy who moved with his immediate family from Ukraine to Canada some 5 years ago,  who is "learning about war and the family has not heard from fifteen of their close relatives".   This morning,  at the Studio,  he wrote this.  She asked if she could share it.  He said yes.

Here in my awkward way

Protection                                                                                                                                                                                                                         a poem by Slav P.                                                                                                                                                                                                          age 11

I closed my eyes while I was so so so so so so                                                                                                                                                              scared.

I pretended I was in a hammock in the woods.  It was                                                                                                                                               very green.   It was very quiet.

I pretended that Grace's goats came to me,  snuggled                                                                                                                                               me,  lay under me.

I feel warm.  I feel protection.  I open my pretend eyes.  I                                                                                                                                         see the goat eyes.

I pretend I am sitting on the edge of their rectangle eyes.

 

I will see everything like a goat.                                                                                                                                                                                      you make your eyes rectangle                                                                                                                                                                                       and you can see things in a different way                                                                                                                                                                  to keep you safe                                                                                                                                                                                                               from all the bad noise of the world.

I hope one day to have a goat with me.                                                                                                                                                                         I will bring it to Wendy's place.                                                                                                                                                                                    I will make a soft pile for the resting of the goat                                                                                                                                                      on the magic feather cloth                                                                                                                                                                                            where it can look at all the stitching like I have                                                                                                                                                       for years.  it has magic.  because i now can make                                                                                                                                                    my eyes go rectangle.

only graces goats can know.                                                                                                                                                                                        all i have to do is touch the magic feather cloth.                                                                                                                                                       and maybe with goat eyes,  the world could be safe                                                                                                                                               again.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  I love this idea.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 do you?     

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

i sat.  my whole self swirling with sensation  i looked out the window,  the world was swirling,  i was swirling in it.                             Elizabeth Gilbert….that Intelligence….."it tries to find us in however we are most….that we can most find it".                                      I was found.   

After my breath returned,  I asked her if she could ask him if i might share his Poem here and he said:  "I read her blog.  so do my friends.  I would like it if she puts it up on her blog.  This feels good.

Slav…..Thank You for being you.    With all my Heart,  Thank you.      Wendy,    Everything……

                                                                                                                                

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                        

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12 responses to “Life on Earth”

  1. Liz A Avatar

    how good it is to be a part of something larger … or to witness that and imagine how one might go

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  2. Margery Avatar

    Awe is the only word I can think of. Healing…Healing…Healing… How it ripples outwards and spirals back again. Beauty. Grace, your gifts add beauty to the Cosmos.

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  3. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    grace, your heart is in every stitch, stitches that are infused with caring magic…
    Slav, your words have a magic to them for they help us see how reaching out, connecting by stitched cloth, by heartfelt words in a poem, brings us all closer to each other. Thank you for your poem.
    I am a friend of grace, and have seen and touched her many fine goats when she used to live in New Mexico. To have goat eyes is a way to see the world in a wider sense, to know that a place where caring can come from many places, is to feel connected and safe.

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  4. CatherinE Avatar

    I was rushing around and thought, let me give windthread a quick read… found this and whoa, hold everything. I feel like sobbing. The world needs so much, but here it all is, goat eyes and magic feathers. This web of worlds and words, the healing connection. Thank you for this poem and this awakening. Sending love.

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  5. Beth from Still Life Pond Avatar
    Beth from Still Life Pond

    This is so rich with the magic of connection. And the magic feather cloth is still doing its important work.

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  6. Mo Crow Avatar

    love this poetry of connection!

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  7. Nancy Avatar

    Rather speechless…surprised, not at all shocked at the connection made here.
    Slav~ Your poetry is wonderful and so telling us of what we cannot know. You are a writer, a communicator, with your own magic…not a sewn feather, or a goat’s eye, but your own magic through your thoughts, words, ways of seeing the world. Please consider to keep telling your story. I for one, want to listen.
    May you be well
    May the goats be well
    May Grace be well
    May we all, may our world be well
    xo

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  8. Faith Avatar

    This brought me to tears. How far the things we say and do can reach, touch someone else, and in ways we might never have thought.

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  9. dee Avatar

    Read the more linear verse first and I have to agree with Liz that this spreading of the lines adds to the import.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    we are all a part of something larger….it’s just how
    it IS

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    We have that ability…to ripple, spiral, Heal ourselves,
    our human selves

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    i am experiencing that more and more

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