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i sat staring at that first released photograph from Webb telescope….. mesmerized,  leaning forward into it,  leaning back,   to distance from it.   i woke this morning to repeat  and looked for this ….threaded the needle with Deb's thread and finished the butterfly's antennae    retreating   into a small cloth about seeds and cocoon,   genetic codes of flowers and leaf  and stem.   old torn cloth.   scrap.   cloth.  collage.  

there is just SO MUCH right now…so so much to take in,  to Be With,   and then,   Be.    Place self somehow IN it and turn slowly to see what surrounds.   I watch MOON rise this dusk into dark,  a plain moon tonight,  after that telescope image….a plain   round   luminous   glowing   Reliable moon.   a Reliable Moon.  a Moon that can be trusted.  it feels so personal,  Our Moon.   the planet earth…what we have named it*…the planet earth,    in the midst of IT ALL….we look "out",  but we are also IN…….all that we know being not much at all but

all that we know   

*and i think…by this…."we",   this culture,   american european,   our name   When there are so many Other names of other peoples that i don't even know and who all call the ground they stand on Home         Oy….all this,  so Big.

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12 responses to “retreat. refuge.”

  1. Deb G Avatar

    The pictures are just beautiful, spent some time with them last night. Was up early enough to see the moon before it set. Always, always magical and reassuring…

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  2. Liz A Avatar

    we are stardust …

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  3. Margery Avatar

    YES. You’ve said it well. Amazing to realize that we humans are each (just like each plant, animal, stone, breath of wind…) an integral, participant in something too big for words & so very very beautiful. And the Beauty is in the interconnectedness — as Thich Nhat Hanh says, the InterBeing.

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  4. Hazel Avatar

    Your antenna hold the spirit of those amazing photos… so tiny full of something bigger than can be imagined.

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  5. grace Forrest Avatar

    was felt….FELT..on this night as …..Our Moon

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    that’s some Thing to think, isn’t it….

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    but part of. part of.

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s all making more and more
    SENSE. Becoming more and more
    REAL
    experientially

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    and each is part of the other, right? somehow…each
    is part of the other

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  10. Nancy Avatar

    “Buck moon”…this came on the news as I was reading here!
    https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/46855602/julys-buck-moon-may-light-up-the-sky-in-a-particularly-big-way
    Such comfort in the reliable.

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