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i need to do something different here.   it needs to be just journaling for a while.   Random.  as it comes.  No explanation.   Not sure how that might go.  or not.   

I woke at 3 something…still dark…a soft soft breeze at the windows,  dark still,       dark at the screen door and i lay there,  barely  "conscious",   eyes open tho and aware that i'd woken up from sleep,   and the  …..thought…..words…..came,      This is a great life.        softly,  those words,  soft words,  like just breath….that light…    but very clear and certain.        this is a great life.   and i smiled.    and within  moments,  the concerns and requirements of the day ahead appeared.   But they had different weight,  different meaning.   very different.  

this is a great life.     where do these words come from?

same place as the Sun Flowers asking      Why aren't we enough?   

so i don't know.    But something is taking place.   Of its Own accord.   I am to:   notice       I am to:  Let it in

and this is enough to say here for now.   

above.   the Walnut trees on the road to Gridley.   that first year when we evacuated and i stayed two weeks at the Fairgrounds with the Goats,  but then…Rain came so i came back to town.  But drove that stretch of road and saw a

walnut tree

there are more than one,  i see now.  Not sure how many…it's difficult…always a vehicle coming up from behind and the speed limit is not one for slowly looking at trees…

but more than one,  more than THAT one tree that has remained in my heart.   and they are full.   laden.   i will return in the next weeks to find them fallen.   Yesterday,  i picked some.    Will put in the cast iron pot.

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20 responses to “no context…????? soon”

  1. Judy Martin Avatar

    it is a great life
    love your journal posts xo

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  2. Liz A Avatar

    perhaps it is the change of season, but I woke up thinking it’s time to change up my blogging a bit … something in the air I suppose
    and I started reading the Parable of the Sower after reading about the Parable of the Talents here … so very dark a tale that I woke in the middle of the night thinking about it, visualizing far more than I wanted to … then decided to return it to the library rather than read any more … at least for now

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  3. Deb G Avatar

    I have checked it out twice now, can only read a little at a time. It’s going to take awhile.

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  4. Deb G Avatar

    I will need to start watching at my local tree, probably the last year I will have access to it. For the me there is always something that holds your blog together…life, how one might live. Even when things random, there is always that.

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  5. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Grace that you bring your everyday to life here sharing with all of us had been a gift. Is a gift!!!

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  6. Nancy Avatar

    Grace, you’ve reminded me that there is a walnut tree down the road a ways, Mentryville. Perhaps we can check it out and see if there is access…
    My just done dye experiments have inspired me to continue some more.
    Your space here always feels like a journal…a journal of you life! Journals can hold anything and everything…yours, no rules…I enjoy how free you are with that here.
    Yes, a good life.

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  7. Faith Avatar

    Obviously, there’s a mature walnut tree near us. So far this summer, I’ve pulled put 16 squirrel-planted walnut trees from my garden and pots. I noticed more to be pulled the other day. My neighbor finally cut down the one that was breaking the wall between our yards (and shading my garden). The squirrels spent a lot of time in that tree, but I never saw fruit. Neighbors across the street are letting one grow. Since I haven’t done any dying, they are naught but weeds to me. But I’m impressed at how green they are in such a hot dry place.

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  8. Nancy Avatar

    I showed J. the walnut tree pic…he smiled and said how good the leaves smell when crushed between your fingers!

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  9. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Walnut trees…a few here.. butternut trees more so.. I am waiting for them to start falling and will gather some to throw in a pot too.. a big experiment! I have a cat in my lap as I read your blog tonight. And Storms again predicted.. third night in a row for lightening and wind.. the tiny but huge moments that make life Grand!

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    oh, Smile to you, Judy who is now back Home
    Love

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    not easy. but i’m glad i finally did. Stand and Face
    thing.
    it’s not pretty but is so similar to what we see today.
    What will come, will come.
    it’s been a while now and reading your words i wondered
    how i might respond to them because of being glad i finally DID read both books…
    i won’t go looking for any more dystopic works
    these two, enough
    and these two….i came away. Thinking of the world Emrie will live. The world we Give. I will be gone then.
    What i came away with was that human beings are
    resilient. we adapt. we go. we deal with what we are given by those that come before us.

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    last year access…Why?
    re blog, i don’t now.

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    oh, Tina. i wonder.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    wondering. we’ll see. i want to be freer.
    and it is.
    it so much
    is.
    a good life.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    i like that you showed him
    and that he Knows this.
    it is pungent.
    when i picked these few, the scent gave me memories and
    imaginations. it’s powerFULL.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    many things remain GREEEEEN
    i was surprised at their size and well being….they did
    not seem daunted by the challenges.
    i know it can be an
    uh, issue,
    but the picture in my mind of squirrels planting trees
    brought such a smile,
    do some dying. it will help.

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    O…you have your
    Cat.
    as storms gather
    i love the picture this gives me. TELL
    about
    cat

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  18. Liz A Avatar

    “so similar to what we see today” is what made the book so frightening … too believable, as so much dystopic writing is these days … the prescience of the authors … how did they know?

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  19. Deb G Avatar

    It’s not along a road where I can walk by and pick them up and I might not have permission next year. Changes…

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  20. Nancy Avatar

    He Knows much, teaches much.
    I show him more and more these days

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