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the other place…the stenographer's pad or a facsimile,   and an average day is maybe 3 pages.   the writing becomes larger and less orderly,  arrows increase.   and i rarely go back unless looking  for a specific thing and then, ordinarily give up trying to find it.  

What if it is there all along and i missed it?  Keep Missing it…IT.     ?     i go from this.

 

in the Other Real,  Emrie  returned to school today after having missed the first full week of kindergarten because of Covid.   She didn't want to go back.   But….they brought ice today  afterward   and she said it was a GOOD day and wearing her mask,  gave a full if muffled report on it all,  only half i could understand but she was satisfied.   Satisfied with kindergarten.  Stuff was just OK.   I asked if they sing ,  if she sings there and she said…   Only in my head.   I'd asked Alyssia to tell Ms Johnson that i would like to offer additional materials that she might have on a wish list.    Any thing.  i'd like to provide what i am able.   Ms. Johnson's response was….she would really appreciate 28 paper bags.   grocery bags.   They are going to make books.

Jenny's man was here this morning,  down at campsite A by the big Gate.   His old dog Jesse has large tumors and increasingly didn't  know how to get to the door to go Out.  A leg stopped working last week.  He is 15.   The first vet we had came.  The one who didn't know how to work her ultrasound to diagnose pregnancy,  but did a gentle and efficient Putting Down of Cinderella and then Just Going.  She has changed her vet practice to only Palliative Care.   a death doula.   and she is Good.  I'd asked him yesterday if he would like company for this and he said no.   He came and dug the grave out in that meadow that will be near where he and Jenny want to build a house.  I think tonight how Jessie is there.   on his first night in his different form.

   

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6 responses to “ok. a pause and a beginning from here”

  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    “Singing in my head”…a measured response to being back in school, Emrie seeing and feeling clearly, her days…so good to know that she is over Covid and back in school.
    Jesse joining others on the Hill: the Hill, a living place, a sanctuary, a memory place: home for family in the fullest sense…

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  2. Liz A Avatar

    I too love that Emrie is singing in her head …
    your handwriting is wonderful to look at … the forming of the words, quite apart from their meaning

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  3. Faith Avatar

    Sometimes the writing is enough. For anything you know you might want to come back to, you could make simple symbols in the margins. For example, if this post were in your notebook, it could have, hmmm . . . a question mark next to the first section, a smiley face or stick girl (Emrie)and perhaps scissors to indicate crafts next to the second, and a dog next to the third. You’d make them what makes sense to you. Then if you’re looking for something, you’d not have to read through everything.
    I keep thinking I should do that, then I never do. But I rarely look for anything specific.

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  4. grace Forrest Avatar

    Jeff came today. Jenny’s man got home yesterday and late began to
    worry that the grave was too shallow. It is so HARD to
    dig
    anywhere here. There is ROCK. so he asked Jeff to come today and add more rocks on top, or logs, or anything. to keep it safe.
    He disappeared over the hill of C here and was gone maybe 2 hours, coming back, showed me a pic on his phone….
    it’s Beauty Full, Jesse’s grave. All manner of rock and small white stone. Jeff is Jeff. and he is Jeff. an
    artist, deep in his heart.

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  5. grace Forrest Avatar

    i love handwriting…sometimes it’s pleasure sometimes it’s a mess, i love it when it’s the same as drawing…but it’s
    never up to me…it’s how the hand interprets the day or
    …even…the moments

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    love this….love it a lot
    but…as in the post of this evening, just now, it’s
    that kind of thing i go back looking for, the variations
    on a theme, a sentence said one way and then another
    i go back looking for nuance….that holds the keys

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