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there's no way possible i can tell this.   it's so There in my head,   there is so Much of it,  pages in that steno pad  and it's keeping on coming.  But just to MARK it….to mark it Here,  this day, at the beginning of All the Rest.    as has been said…that 77th year…What was/is it?  and no real good answer.  for me,  let alone  to speak about,   but for what ever reason it is all now becoming clear and truth is,   it is SO

simple

i find self wishing i could have one final appointment with my psychiatrist of years ago…an Epilogue…he would enjoy it.  I can see his eyebrows rise,  his faint smile.   

so because there's so much,  i want to just place mySelf here at this Point.   Because in a way i am already no longer there/here.  There was a conversation with Jan the other day  that addressed none of this but somehow gave me the Key.   Her words were:        "I am learning how to walk this path"  and though we were talking about similar points in life,     those words instantly Rose Up and i saw them to be the naming of the Key to  "it".     and i saw that 77 somehow was a point of self absolution.    To make a lifelong story short,  i always was diligently On My Way to   "by then,  i will  have gotten somewhere".    I always loved,  since childhood ,  photographs of old women….staring at them….thinking,  by then,  i will have gotten somewhere.  And  i subconsciously gave that by then time to be 77…(more childhood story weaves in,  7 being a critical year in my life,  …..Surely, by 77  i would)

well,  guess what, grace

you're there.   you're

Somewhere.

and i have this huge Smile.    i'm Somewhere.    i AM.    

and it's quite Wonder Full    

i'm a pixel.  *

*  Peggy Mc G    Thank you,  Peggy

Thank you, Jan.   

and i will learn how to walk this path

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21 responses to “a Very Big Day”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    this is so beautiful, your path is you, as Ram Das said all those years ago Be Here Now

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  2. grace Forrest Avatar

    am glad if it made even a little sense
    so hard to tell
    yes…Ram Das…and ALL the threads are vibrating, how they all have woven into me

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  3. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Love this! It is You! Love You!!

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  4. Mo Crow Avatar

    this poem resonates:
    To bring my attention
    to the present moment
    is a major accomplishment,
    and to stay here for more
    than a breath takes all my focus.
    But here I am, sitting in the
    midst of life unfolding,
    not turning away, not blaming,
    not wishing things were different,
    just being with what is.
    – Danna Faulds, Right Here

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  5. Deb G Avatar

    Much love Grace. 🙂

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  6. dee Avatar

    You you and you. Here here and here. We are the beneficiaries of your walk thru time. The idea of an epilogue with a therapist made me laugh out loud.

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  7. CatherinE Avatar

    Sending Much Love to you – and I will continue to walk trails in your honor!

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  8. maria Avatar
    maria

    grace ” just being with what IS … breath , trust , faith , are the lights on or pad ,
    give us vision
    IS the love we share
    is the love between us
    the connecthing thread stich by stich
    a stap forward and two , three backward … on and on

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  9. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    What you seem to do best is .. spread love.

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  10. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    Somehow, Dee always says what I’m thinking.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    add one last line
    and being so glad for it All

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  12. Mo Crow Avatar

    (((Grace))) I love you!

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    wouldn’t it be Great though???
    it was when i was still working at the Psch Hospital…all that was offered to staff at a very generous sliding scale, encouraged. It was the thing to do. i was around 40 and my father died. he was in minneapolis with my brother by then so not even in my day to day. But really…i was relieved. And didn’t know how to see that. It turned out that the reason, the presenting reason you choose to begin therapy is often not what you end up working on.
    at the time i was assigned him as therapist i was heavy into reading The White Hotel DM Thomas. He was fond of Henry James. There were a certain number of visits. Our last one, us sitting there across from one another, a lot of silence. And time was up. and he looked straight at me and gave me a quote from James….”there are tears in things”. I said….
    that’s it? his eyebrows rose and there was a faint smile.
    He was right. and there is So Much More. I’d like that
    last appointment again, now.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    i understand some what that means to me now, you and your trails, your world there
    will write more about that as it comes

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    how it is in the Somewhere, yes. i think there is no forward, no back in the Somewhere tho…it’s all somehow the same

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    as YOU do, Tina. WE.

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    i love you back Mo.

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  18. Nancy Avatar

    Thank you Mo. “just being with what is”…later I will copy this one down.

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  19. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    I wish you could have that.

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