yesterday, trying to figure it all out…i thought…..DRAW it, grace….and went looking for a blank page in the notebook and
here it was. already. from August 4, 2021. To the question of Why 77th Year? i'd asked Self that question. What came was….
I will have arrived. Some Where. to where i've been going. that i will have become what i have been becoming. And, this is Truth.
i have done virtually ZERO plant dying since i've been here. it's time now. I'd like to do that. Slowly. Thought FULL y
Slow and thoughtful plant dyeing…your land has such an abundance of plants, bark, leaves, etc. to do this. I remember years ago being involved in a tree wrapping process. Six months later, faint but distinct markings revealed and it was such a gift. Always, it is such a joy to forage and gather and wait to see what emerges from a bundle, from foraged gatherings thrown into a pot with water, placed in a glass jar for solar heat. This process of alchemy is often for me, a meditative one for it soothes, can astonish, is comfort wrapped up in a communal process- cloth, land, offerings, self. I will look forward to your great reveals…
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Me too slow and small.
when I heard the news of child, I felt the circle.
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when Jude posted her “last sunflower” it reminded me of the sunflower that tried to bloom and set seeds in New Mexico … so I went looking and found her, in late 2014, when I had first started reading Windthread … watched from late October until your last post about her in early December
but as I was looking for her, I also came across the post about a drawing you made that reminds me of your drawing here, today … one that I have long loved …
https://windthread.typepad.com/windthread/2014/11/no-need-to-romantisize.html
it was a wonderful wander … and I am grateful for the time and care with which you have kept Windthread all these years …
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Speaks to me of holding…
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Me too
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“ i will have become what i have been becoming. ”
Worth thinking on. It lets me relax.
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I want to dye too. In my mind I make a big deal about it and keep postponing it. But when I just do it, it seems simple and always feels great.
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this is so joy-full to me – the colours and texture of the plants within the tomato cage ~ exuberrantally vibrant. I soak up the comments, in a cool morning (finally…).
response of my mind and heart to your writing of
“I will have arrived. Some Where. to where i’ve been going. that i
will have become what i have been becoming. And, this is Truth.”
I don’t have a great “way” with words, but my instant thoughts are that what you have been becoming is visible to yourself at 77. a magical number. Much like clear water that seeps and trickles out of deep rock, becoming a creek or creeks, or a river. “becoming” in my view, is continuous. Here and now, into the universe.
Blessing and thank you’s to all who gather here.
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I got lost in 2014 for a while (Thanks Liz 🙂)…which was wonderful and leaves me wondering: at any given point in time are we not who we have been becoming (up until that point)? I don’t know that that ends or changes at a certain point? I find it interesting to read the thoughts of others, which then become seeds for my own thinking. You have given me many seeds over the year Grace and for that I am so grateful to you and those who come here. xo
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this is to me, YOU. the mark making of Plant at request.
is also India Flint.
but, for me, YOU. you took it all IN…deep….into your Self and have been steadfast
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i don’t know what to say, really, …..
the news of child
it makes every Thing so much MORE and is so much Beauty Full, but… also so much MORE and so Intense
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i love you so much for your Librarian Ways….you and Marti, finding things i would never have the wherewithall to find
i am grateful for this, beyond and beyond the time and care you BE here
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and
just
holding
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yes. lets us relax. relax into what we ARE
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with the advent of the Camp Oven,
which also has two stove top burners i Can.
i had imagined so much, moving here, which ended up not being able to happen and i let it put me into a big Pause Space…maybe now….????
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love you SO MUCH
Becoming IS continuous…yes. it
IS
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Nancy…we seed each Other. over and over with such love.
We are all, such a Beauty FULL Garden
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For me that age was 40 (I have no idea why that age) and when I reached age 40 I realized I had become as I expected, but also I hadn’t. At some point it dawned on me that there is no end goal. It’s all about continuing, growing, changing–the process.
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but there’s a point..where you get the drift
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