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the rest of yesterday.    it stormed all night.   and this morning,  i went back to yesterday morning.   and first to this.   i'd mentioned it before,  that there was this one place…a space…and that i knew that whatever was supposed to go there would appear.   thinking only,  it would be a fragment of cloth.   I imagined it being brightly colored.   ?

 

 


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but    no.   this cocoon is the Exact size.   is

IT.

and after i spent some time with this,  suddenly one of my occasional manic  moments rose up and took off on its own.  I thought of the 5 minutes with Trust.  I thought of US,   all over The Place in our own 5 Minutes and i suddenly saw it as a Story.  A true story.   I saw all of us as characters ,   like our own chapters…each who we are…each experiencing this time and this need for Trust in our own way,  our own lives.  and it just took off from there and i imagined writing a Story,  of a world leaning into dystopia,  these women  coming from a time when dystopia WAS an imagined story that we thought not possible and finding ourselves    every Thursday,  merging intention and heart for 5 minutes in just our own sense of Trust…in common only the Word.  Trust.  which is enough.  And it was glorious,  all the things i imagined for this story and as i was walking over to B Garden Alyssia called and i blurted it all to her,  one running sentence,  hardly breathing,  and she laughed and said Write It and i told her i could not possibly,  i do not have what it would take,  but that i would write its skeleton,  its bones and SHE someday could write it.  And today so much is forgotten.  actually,  a lot was forgotten almost as it was imagined.  But it was  BeautyFull and energizing.    The cocoon holds it.

   

 


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Jan,  up near Redding  sent me this book this week.   Writing that Story,  i would need HOURS AND DAYS  AND MONTHS of research.  But

this is where i would begin.   I want to LEARN what is in it.  Not just read about it and go on….i want to LEARN it.

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20 responses to “a true story”

  1. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    I think that you would be a perfect poetess for this story.

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  2. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    It is a story, that goes back further than me.. a thread holds us all together, words bound up in thread.. yes, maybe our own cocoon. I listened to On Being with Krista Tippet this morning titled The Future is in your Mouth.. I listened half awake in my early morning grogginess.. and had so many thoughts and excitement bubbling just below my wakefulness.. I wish I had a tape recorder to utter my own thoughts as I could not rise and find a pen to jot them all down and even if the pen were handy my thoughts tumbled too fast.. and now i hope maybe I can relisten and recapture even some of those thoughts.

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar

    (((Grace))) love how the cocoon is a safe place for transformation, for metamorphosis to catch & write the true story of Trust and Us for posterity, for this moment in time

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  4. jude Avatar

    you have already begun.

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  5. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    What a special book; Tending the Wild. Tending is such a good word, it implies a depth of caring and I think of the word tender. How it applies to the land, to what we grow, to how we grow, to how we care for each other.

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  6. Margery Avatar

    Dearest Grace — What a wonderful Flow over the last few days. The Universe is speaking, and you are answering!

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  7. Irene Avatar
    Irene

    Yes, you have begun; that is the hardest part (I speak as a retired writer/editor). The rest of the story will follow. Put down your thoughts as they come to you; don’t worry about making a whole work. Trust yourself and your feelings.

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  8. CatherinE Avatar

    A wonderful story, held in a cocoon.

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  9. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Grace if you haven’t already read the shiborigirl post from today. So interesting that I would go from your post to hers. I’m telling you no to second guess yourself .. not one of us should really. I think you’re amazing .. actually I KNOW you’re amazing. It always makes me very happy when you write about it raining .. that is always such good news.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    ah, Laura, it could be a glorious story…you
    would need to be a chapter

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    we are FULL of things, aren’t we. just Full of things…

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    i wish i had what it would talke

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s just an imagining

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    i am so so looking forward to IMMERSING self IN it

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s almost a song

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    i’ll do something…for Alyssia to carry forward…or,
    maybe Emrie. Who knows.

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    isn’t that a beauty FULL word…cocoon…i like how
    it feels in my mouth

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    begin your Chapter, Tina….

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  19. Mo Crow Avatar

    you are right here!

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