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if the morning…before light…could last…just a little…longer       this Shadow

this weekend moves toward mid week of 110 degrees.   I learn how to do this.     Because  temps will only rise in the foreseeable future,   i went this morning for dog/cat food,  Talkie's meal worms,   Wine for me.   We are Ready.

there is almost a hypersensitivity.   i spend much time looking up at the tips of the tree branches…where they are There…in the light of SUN as it moves through    "the sky"   watch as leaves let go and spin down.    On the way to town,   the men in the heavy equipment doing some great project with Olive Hwy,   their long sleeved shirts,  Vests,  Helmets,  steel toed boots….like the branches.   I drive past a person sitting hunched on the curb.  Like i sit.  squatsit,  leaning forward,  but he is in a world of his own under this SUN,  sitting on the curb,  head bowed down,  his index finger ….tapping.   tapping  the back of  his neck

there was a tomato worm.   i wondered…and there it was.   So fine a tomato worm,  child of a Hawk Moth.   and i plucked  it off and flung it to Talkie who looked at it with one eye and declined and there it was…. and tonight,  a night later,  i still feel the grief of that in my gut….how it all happened so fast.   I need to find some kinds of native Nightshade and plant it…so i can transport the inevitable being from "my" tomato 

i wish there was a blog out there,  somewhere,   of  someone who lives like i do.   

 

 

 

 

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17 responses to “learning how”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    ((( Grace))) love your observations from The Hill!

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  2. Liz A Avatar

    Grace … I do believe there is no one else quite like you in all the world

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  3. CatherinE Avatar

    There are people like you who wish there was someone who lives like they do…I’m one of them! We are hosting garden tour today. I want to convince everyone who comes (if anyone?) to live like we do. I was going to handout my homemade mustard and ketchup recipes (reduces plastic use), but decided to keep it simple. I learn a lot from your blog. PS Sam found a tomato worm in our orchard. Don’t know why he/she was there and not on the tomatoes.

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  4. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    I do know that there are enough similarities from some of the bloggers that you read, to find a kinship, if not a totally similar life… we each learn and grow from each other.
    Last week, I took out my 3 tomato plants, it was time, they were barely producing, leaves were turning brown, wind had knocked 2 of the 3 pots to the ground, several times. I did manage to save about 8 tomatoes so hopefully they will ripen. We had some tomato horn worms and Rich is good about picking them off, me I am squeamish so I don’t touch them although I find them eerily wonderful to look at. Anyway, that morning, I had removed the tomatoes, cleaned the dirt from the pots, chopped up the stems into manageable lengths, had them in my bucket to dispose of later. In the afternoon, when I stepped outside my front door, there on the patio floor was a horn worm about as big as my pointer finger, inching its way along, looking for tomatoes. I grabbed some of the tomato stems that I had cut that still had a few leaves, took an apple branch that I had in my basket, picked up the horn worm, placed it on the tomato stem and took the whole thing out to the backyard…

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  5. Joanne in Maine Avatar
    Joanne in Maine

    Here in Maine- where we have only 1.2 million souls living on a GREAT LAND MASS- people are few and far between……..the natural state of Being- is alone. It was hard for me having lived in Chicago before here. I felt completely OUTSIDE of human life….. now. I am used to it.

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  6. Deb G Avatar

    Sending love, thankful for what you share…

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  7. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    I will never forget the first time I met a Hawk Moth.. so interesting. why must they like tomatoes??!! Interesting that Talkie did not jump on it! Defend your food, I believe it crawled off and lived. It is very hard to see other humans not in as comfortable environments as our own. I believe in community centers where help can be given in safe environments. Questioning on a daily basis what the rest of humanity endures sure keeps me humble. And to marvel at the beauty of twigs shadows on the ceiling makes my heart swell because simple beauty is So much more.

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  8. Nancy Avatar

    Grace~ I somehow felt really connected to that last sentence of yours, which I took to mean (especially after reading your ponderings on communication)…took to mean if there was someone who lived like you did, so that you may learn from one another or so that you may put forth your thoughts or questions and they would say Yes! I know just what you mean! I understand you…us.
    Perhaps that is not at all of what you meant, but instead something I think at times…someone who could know my long days, with commutes and so on…who would just get me in my day-to-day life & be able to share, compare, teach. That level of sameness, of understanding makes communication easier (I think).
    But, I also agree with Marti, in that we all offer pieces of ourselves that are richly embraced and welcomed by some others…an exchange…even in our different lives. xo

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    love that you are Here

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    i think there ARE….how can i find them?

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    how we FIND eachother….like how the Hawk Moth finds the
    Tomatoe????? but sometimes…doesn’t…i love that it was in the orchard, but oh, eeee, for it……Some mothers.
    yes…handouts…but keeping it simple, too.
    I LOVE you TELLING these things

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    BLESS YOU!…..they are so Sincere,
    I was telling Jenny my Guilt about the one here and she and
    her humor, said maybe i could find or, if not, establish a tomato worm sanctuary

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    for most of my adult life, i’ve chosen alone.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    circling love back. just trying to
    understand

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    Endures. such a good thing to question.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    “who would just get me in my day to day life”
    Nance…i love this response. it lends a beauty Full light to
    Pomegranate Trail
    Love and Love to you, dear you

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  17. Nancy Avatar

    I love that you call me (nickname) Nance…a level of friendship I treasure. xo

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