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that small,  1  1/2" round  mold marked,  worn,  craftpaper/cardboard container.    Again….taken for granted as just being there and i forget what's in it.

 


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OH!   the pearl button…..Michelle's moon face drawing so distinctively and unmistakenably Michelle,  her signature   and some folded piece of paper

 


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which is her return address…..her  handwriting.   also.   singular.  Only.   Michelle.  i turn the button and on the back….a small brass saftey pin,  kin to all the others that i ordered and then poured out into this  basket……all this.,  years apart,   yet   FOR today.

i love you Michelle,   Thank You

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19 responses to “touching in”

  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Her drawing, her name and address, a hole in my heart. The last lines she wrote on her last blog post, Sept. 21, 2020, she copied Wendell Berry’s poem, The Peace of Wild Things:… “I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
    Did she know that she was a light in our world?
    http://mscomfortzone.blogspot.com/2020/09/toward-equinox.html

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  2. LaceLady Avatar
    LaceLady

    My life has been a tapestry
    Of rich and royal hue
    An everlasting vision
    Of the ever-changing view
    A wond’rous woven magic
    In bits of blue and gold
    A tapestry to feel and see
    Impossible to hold
    Lyrics from “Tapestry” ©Carole King.

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  3. LaceLady Avatar
    LaceLady

    The face on round card, reminds me a great deal of Fornasetti’s art.
    The safety pin on the back, that which holds ~ the obverse and reverse ~ “coin of the realm”. The round box, “holding Michelle”. Each item, including the sturdy round box – with a lid – remind me of a very old book: The Poetics of Space, ©Gaston Bachelard and others. two chapters I have read over and over: The Phrenology of Roundness, and Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes. A very old book (requires me to look up word definitions) translated to English. “Chests” as in boxes, some holding keys or requiring a key or keys. I’m a lover and keeper of boxes. Little things go in them, and when I get back to them, I get images and sensations of “moments”, some significant, some just prompting imagination. Small boxes full of small things prompt big and sometimes run-away imaginations, sensory and emotional responses. Wicked good, small boxes. Oodles of them.
    This round box held and holds “keys” for you, waiting. Ready when you need or are ready. Thank you Grace for this ~ just thank you.
    note: I had this in my post, but tapped keys too quickly….

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  4. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Love your words “I get images and sensations of moments”…

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  5. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Thank you grace for sharing a moment with Michelle. Her spirit floats among us.

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  6. Hazel Avatar
    Hazel

    Oh… this made me smile so big.

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  7. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Grace~ Oh, when I first see this pic, I think is this the Moon button and round box that I sent to Grace? I did send a Michelle moon to you Grace, didn’t I? Even when things blend together, Michelle and her uniqueness stand alone. I think of her often and often share her words: “Getting old ain’t for sissies”. (((hugs)))

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Nancy…so so glad you say this….i tried to remember how i got it,
    i knew Michelle didn’t send it but had no real memory of when and
    who sent it…i am unforgivable about things this way…a lot of my
    life is a blur but you saying this, the feltsense…yes, it was you.
    and the greatest thing is that you can tell me about the round box!!!
    I have LOVED this box…it has constantly been in this round Keeping Basket, all through New Mexico and on here just as we see it in the pics i’ve posted the return address from a mail from her…at one point i’d thought about just continuing sending letters to her…let them float into nowhere

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    and recurring and persistent presence of her was part of the
    urge for the Therapy Group
    that has become the Gathering at the Well….
    how it was so sudden…that she was
    gone
    from
    us
    how we can’t ever know. and to live Well and True until that time

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    so it is
    GOOD
    that she is with us now, in this Way.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes…that face

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it truly Does…she is Here

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    LOVE this beyond beyond

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i think no more than any of us do
    and that’s something to think about

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  15. CatherinE Avatar
    CatherinE

    The Poetics of Space! One of my favorites. I’m so taken with chapters 1 and 2 (about houses), that I somehow didn’t have “space” for the rest. I’ll have to revisit…

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  16. Saskia van Herwaarden Avatar
    Saskia van Herwaarden

    after reading this I’ve ordered this book you mention, look forward to reading in it

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  17. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    I only ‘knew’ her in the year before she died by her blog. I understand that many of you actually knew Michelle. You all feel her truly intimately.

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  18. Faith Avatar
    Faith

    The weird thing about Michelle being among us is that I feel her presence when you talk about her. I didn’t know her at all. I had only read her final post on her blog. After that I did go back and read a few earlier posts, but not her whole blog. I wonder if it’s the strength of her personality or y’all’s love for her. Probably both.

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  19. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    I have to think more…or blog research on my blog…but for now…I believe I had sent her the White Button at a time when she requested some buttons for some reason or another. Later she sent this one back to me, graced with her unique Moon face added.
    As for the small round box, again, if I remember correctly…I believe it was sent to me with something else in it, by my best friend’s youngest. She is the youngest of our 5 children, so the baby of the group. I don’t know what was in it…but it was so special, that I’d kept it. When I went to send buttons to Michelle, this white one fit perfectly! So, how could I not send them together?
    I really don’t know if this is a truthful remembering, but it’s the best I’ve got for tonight.
    Big Love. xo

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