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some conversation while placing stones.    Me :  something about Tay    …  is        Emrie :  was,   Old Nana.  she is dead.     i am stopped….in my tracks.  Was….Is…..   and i say no.   Is.   for me,   Is.       Emrie:  maybe she is deciding.

for me,   is.

These last nights i have talked  to Kay.  Phone.    i have talked about her here before.   She who taught me to draw.    Who i partnered with with the book store till i bailed.  Who i studied with some years.   Who taught my son to draw.   Who introduced me to all manner of things.   Kay.   Kay Gould Caskey.  back in Michigan.   and Kay,  who receives conversation with ones  who have "crossed over".   not by her own choice, in the beginning,    but because she was  chosen.   her work.      for 30 some years i have known of these exchanges with people,  here and from the "other side".   i KNOW them to be real and true.   i have not felt the need to "go there".   but i know.  because of her.   She is Beauty FULL and Brilliant and taught under the ….i choose this word.,  it's not her word,  …under the beauty full umbrella of 

Metaphysics

Wikipedia

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality;  the first principles of being,  identity and change,  space and time,  cause and effect,  necessity and possibility.

Metaphysics studies qyestions related to what it is for something to exist and what types of existence are there.

Metaphysics seeks to answer,   in abstract and fully general manner,  the question of:  what is….It….that exists,  and what …It..is like.

That first evening then night "without" Tay.   I felt this Horrible Emptiness    from my scalp down.   Through my face and whole body to my pelvis….Emptiness and off and on that emptiness felt filled with some thick substance.  i thought…how can i live?

Kay said…watch for her.   she will come.   

I have been the handmaiden of Qualifiers  always,   over and over,  always.   I am letting them GO.  I feel like this is the opportunity of a lifetime,  MY Life Time which now is clearly finite.   I am ready.   Tay and I learned eachother,  learned  Love for these years together in such a total way that this Hill has given.  required.   We will continue.   That sense of horrible emptyness has become a sense of OPEN NESS.  and that's all i need to begin.   

 

 

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36 responses to “is”

  1. Yvette Avatar

    She will come
    Blaf came to me when I stopped wanting to be dead.
    I don’t fully understand your writing but Tay, she who loves, will come back!
    Grace I feel you

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  2. Margery Avatar

    I have no words for what I am feeling for/with you, Grace. I, too, have lost beloved ones, and I know they continue to be with and to shape me. The gifts of Love do not end. Tay will forever live in you and all who loved her, even those of us who met her only through your generous, loving words. The transformation of Emptiness to Opening is yet another gift of the Love you and Tay share. And now, in your words, you & Tay pass on that gift. Love is like the universe — ever expanding, ever deepening. Tay is not “gone.” Love & hugs for you, Grace, in this time of loss and transformation.

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  3. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    How you give to all of us in this time of empty/openness. You fill us with wisdom, from Kay, from yourself, from the essence of Tay, who taught love in so many ways…if it can be said that a gift has come from a death, then this is it- how to accept the hollow, the empty, acknowledge it and then, know that it will be filled again. Simply, love never dies, never leaves us…

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  4. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Tay Is. So glad you talked with Kay. I love how you go deep and research words and meanings and I learn from you and others here to embrace each day with more knowledge. Embrace the grief. Tay deserves to be mourned.

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  5. CatherinE Avatar

    one of your words above:
    qyestions

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  6. Liz A Avatar

    at my age of 66 years, death has separated me from many, but I have sensed the presence of only a few of them … my mother, her mother, and her mother’s sister … and this seems right to me, that there are those who remain close and those who drift away, perhaps because there is a stronger bond for them with someone else … and I say this because the bond between you and Tay is without equal … believing that she will come
    and I wonder … with whom will my spirit abide some day?

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    typepad unresponsive…won’t let me fix

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  8. jude Avatar

    yes, making the space to hold.

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  9. Beth from Still Life Pond Avatar
    Beth from Still Life Pond

    Feeling all of this so deeply with you. There is such a tenderness in opening at a time when the natural tendency is to cave in. Love.

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  10. Beth from Still Life Pond Avatar
    Beth from Still Life Pond

    I think Catherine is seeing the word YES inside questions.

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  11. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    How very movingly said Liz; the belief that a lesser presence possibly has to do with their being needed elsewhere. There is comfort in this for me as I have wondered, over the years, about the fleeting presence of some whom I have loved…

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  12. Deb VZ Avatar
    Deb VZ

    I have no adequate words.I’m so sorry for this loss. May Tay always be by your side.

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  13. maria Avatar
    maria

    you can’t lose wath isn’t yours , we just lose the excistence of the living body , the spirit (soul) is unated with the all wath is and go on ….

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  14. Joanne in Maine Avatar
    Joanne in Maine

    My Riley is with me every day…..in spirit. I can sometimes feel his body resting against my leg.
    When I need him most……

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  15. Els Avatar

    They always come, Grace, when they were loved so deeply

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  16. Catherine E Avatar

    You’re right, Beth! Thanks for clarifying, I thought it was such a good word for when you have questions but really feel sure.

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  17. Catherine E Avatar

    Sorry you had to fight with Typepad. I should have said I love the word just the way it is, like a sign that you know Tay’s spirit is with you.

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  19. Margery Avatar

    I might better have said “pass on”

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  20. Saskia van Herwaarden Avatar

    Emrie’s response says it all ‘maybe she is deciding’ love

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar

    Yvette…we feel Each Other.
    We always have. always will

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar

    love is like the universe…ever expanding
    yes…this is so and to be OPEN to learning….

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar

    love never dies
    love
    is
    love
    creates, from life and from “death”

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar

    to embrace all that Living gives….to truly accept
    as
    learning…the opportunity to Learn

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  25. grace Forrest Avatar

    it all was a smile, really

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  26. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s a Beauty FULL Wonder

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  27. grace Forrest Avatar

    happy
    birthday
    jude
    i hope it’s the best yet

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  28. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes….i thougt…..later. Later i will see about this
    Opening, for now i will collapse
    but right away, i knew that only Opening must be….no
    time to waste….so much, so uuch offered,
    Tay waiting

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  29. grace Forrest Avatar
  30. grace Forrest Avatar

    to understaand the depth of it

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  31. grace Forrest Avatar

    Emrie IS open ness

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