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so much could be written here this night.   Too much.   My head…Heart….are overflowing.   and the rush of it all continues.   So,  i finally said to self this evening…ok….What ….can i DO  to relieve the pressure?   i already knew…just small ordinary things…sort through the red tool box…take out  what is not loved,  the duplicates…make room for what IS that has no place to be.  Clean the kitchen where just earlier i had knocked over the bottle of sweet and sour sauce onto the  sink rack of clean dishes.   Make order of the bench seat across this table from where i sit,  the things that i'd readied for loading into the vehicle,  the most basic of what i NEED.  Order them enough so they can stay there for the next months.   Every year it changes.  So few things i NEED.   So much i Want and then…all that i Love.  

and it occured to me that i could get a car top carrier.   there's a rack for it.   Put those Love things there…ahead of time…like soon.   and leave them till Rain comes in winter.  For instance…the two tins of beads and buttons that are down in the storage tubs at B.   That for 3 years now i've said i'd Leave.  But somehow,  this morning i thought that i don't want to.  Leave them.  The pink wool blanket and extra old GOOD scratchy cotton sheets.  Some clothes that i never wear but that have such meaning…i'll never wear them…they don't fit this life…like the Morning Thing i made in Jude's Contemporary Boro….i love it.  and for reason.  there's only One of It in the Entire Universe.   

and anyway,  on and on.    I'll hook into the Buy Sell Trade Face Book page for Car roof carriers….begin watching.  

Alyssia and Emrie came at the end of the afternoon.   I met them down at the Big Gate,  me and Tay.   We did the Creek.  Emrie just Going…IN….,  me,  easing in   Alyssia watching over us.   The Current is swift and strong…it's Full now and Emrie wore her waterwings and was carried over and over,  bobbing along like an oak gall,  a leaf or twig  to where the barbed wire fence is that divides the land…back back up to the culvert to float again.  Over and over and then we walked the other side  up and up to where the small trees and bushes now prevent us from going through…have overgrown….that side there is a swath of a kind of water plant..like sea weed,  like what you buy to put in your aquarium for your guppy babies to hide in…it looks ominous…thick and wavery but Emrie reached in and brought some up and it's 

lovely.   feathery.  magical that it lives and grows under water.   She has no fear or hesitation.   The creek is full now.  If it goes down some over the months,  she wants to go from one side to the other, under the road,  through the culvert tubes.  She has no fear or hesitation.   What is that like,  i wonder?  Water is her other world.  

the pic is of Tree Woman.   from maybe 40 some years ago.   who i collaged in this way during Acey's Collage Challenge.  It's been on the wall to my left since.  I want/need/love.   took it down and it's in the drawing book.   on the bench.  Ready 

 

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15 responses to “need ~ want ~ love”

  1. Liz A Avatar

    when we first moved to the Hill Country house there was a significant wildfire risk … so we sent family pictures and the house plans to my daughter’s home in Austin and I honestly didn’t much care if anything else burned
    ten years later and we have made so many things that hold meaning and memory … the blog holds them and their stories, but these days I would care if they were lost to fire

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  2. Deb G Avatar

    I was reading an article about wildfires in our area, about clearing trees that are within 100 feet of your house and thought…that would make this city treeless. And then remembering an article about the studies of trees in urban areas to help with a variety of things, that our cities are more healthy when there are trees. All of this has me thinking of need, want, love too.

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  3. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Brilliant idea Grace .. some treasured are meant to keep safe. For me it’s my paintings / art works from my family and friends. I’ve made sure that all my dad’s grandchildren now have at least one of his paintings. My own grandchildren his great grands came and each picked a favorite from my collection. I can see Emrie some day holding that treasured jar of beads and buttons that once belonged to her great grandmother Grace. Her heart will sing!

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  4. Saskia Avatar

    hahaha, that’s me grinning, although of course having to flee at a moment’s notice is no laughing matter, but the fact that you have managed to categorise into ‘need want love’ is itself praise- and smile-worthy
    I remember when we were sorting through our parents’ stuff last year how surprised I sometimes was at the things I ‘needed’ to keep….
    I’m by no means a minimalist and would definitely get a roof-car-rack

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  5. CatherinE Avatar

    Roof car rack sounds like a good solution that would give you more “breathing room” for things you love. A friend gave me a different attitude about my stash. I was thinking of it as unnecessary excess but she said it was indispensable to an artist. And yes, there are things I love.

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  6. Nancy Avatar

    Deb~ And I have been hearing stories that report of a Lack of trees in poorer neighborhoods. So, once again, these residents Don’t get those benefits that trees provide.
    So complicated.

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  7. Nancy Avatar

    I need so much less, so much. Just the things to function (bill book, paperwork) and connect (phone, computer) and use (clothes, meds etc).
    The things I Want & Love grows smaller with time, as I figure what I could and could not live with/without. As with anything, things shift & change, so I guess it is good to reconsider from time to time.
    There will be no one who wants/needs anything more of mine when that time comes. xo

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  8. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    You know I am available. Xoxo

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    it makes me a little crazy.
    sometimes it’s my pyrex

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    100ft is too much

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    i have no idea. What she will “hold”….????

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    isn’t it? isn’t it crazy and WonderFull what we need
    to keep????????????

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s on going, today…Wednesday….i cleaned the Altar. What will i leave there?

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    Alyssia already has so much.
    All this, now, is just me wanting me

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    Laura…you are Close. COMFORT and a place to fall in this

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