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the first pic was added second.    Late.    I'd set the second one here earlier        then drank some of the jelly glass of wine and with  my chin propped on my elbows at this Table,   drifted off to sleep             i woke…..OH!    and it was a reset     this is where I AM.    TONIGHT.   Thursday.    First pic.            Tomorrow the Plan being to go to the Garden Store and talk with her,  bring home some bags of supplements for this years B Garden.  That's tomorrow.   been planned  in my head  all week.  

We meet at the Well every two weeks.   This Saturday.         Thursday Friday          at the Well.            I am writing this so i don't get lost,  it's so easy to do somehow…..the reality of things being Intense,  but somehow just dims and is lost for another chunk of time  and i don't want that to happen with this.    It's been a moody week

in the days before the Saturdays  we meet,   Wendy sends an Email.   She says things.   About life.    About women.  About living.  About women living life.    This time,    she says:

"I  was remembering today,  a moment of my life when I lived in Canada.  ……I woke up very early.  Walked out the front door.  The sun was not up yet.   Just that dark blue  light that is neither morning or night…and it was cold.   I walked out a few  steps where large brown grasses were parted and steam rose from the bottom.   The deer had slept there.   Inside the long   wild grasses and the warmth i felt was like no other.   It truly had a pulse to it.  The left over   energy of the emerging deer.  The warmth of an  animal that size is as exciting to me as seeing a whale breech the surface of the water right next to your kayak

and she went on to tell of the recent earth quake and a seagull at her window and ended with

"Humbled like I said.  What is creating humility for you?   Where are you bending a knee?   Does  being humble rejuvenate you or make you feel small?   Does being Humble influence your capacity to be vulnerable? "

Wendy. 

and back to Here….to this moody week of partly me,  partly "the world",    partly things within  my family     this thing i have about Truth           how do you be truthful    how do i continue here in  this blog…..as in     What's it FOR……?      How i had awoken this morning to the thing of being  honest   and    very honestly,   i am                 sick of some things.    Stuff is hard.    ie:  since the hot water heater has broken i need to wash my hair in the kitchen sink.   i need to wash my hair to be presentable for our   ZOOM  at   the Well…..     and as with pic 1,   i woke to   Crow and battery powered lights and my hands smelled  like shampoo and the Elote sauce i had made later in the day….cilantro,  lime, garlic,  mayonaise and sour cream   and Minnow was Out…in the dark,  .down in the Doe Forest with her most fierce bark to Protect    and i looked here at pic 2 of the Glorious Plantain and how Minnow places her ball so subtly in the field of my attention,  what brilliant Dogness,   this     and    yes.   I AM sick of some stuff,  but yes too…..i am so beyond humbled.   

 

 

 

 

 

    

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11 responses to “truth”

  1. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    But it’s alright ma. It’s life and life only
    From Dylan and his song poem it’s alright ma. I’m only bleeding
    For some reason this tune came to my mind as I was reading your notes Grace.
    And another line.
    If you’re not busy living you’re busy dying.
    We’ve all been where you are. And still are where you are.
    Bad hair and all.
    Love you.

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  2. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Humility, vulnerability and finally, ego: Given the health issues that my husband has faced with over the past two years, humility and vulnerability have been my companions but this year, a change: As I became more comfortable with the “med-speak”, the 25 syllable scientific words used by some of the Drs. when speaking to us, I had had enough. From humility and vulnerability to a rising ego fueled by anger at being sometimes dismissed, I began to do research and brought questions and my findings to our appointments. I asked them to break down their language, and overtime, they did so, listened, began to ask us questions instead of pontificating and slowly and respectfully, a more caring health partnership has emerged. One other aspect to all of this besides, vulnerability, humility and ego; simply, gratitude.

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  3. jude Avatar
    jude

    Can your family not help you fix the water heater? Honest question.

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  4. Nancy Avatar

    Grace~ You have surly soldiered on through the ups and downs longer and with more…well, with more Grace than I could have, It seems one thing to dream it, another to live it and I tip my hat to you in the fortitude that carries you through. Perhaps there is always Truth held within Humility and Gratitude?
    I happened to watch this and when she gets to the part about the bedroom not being insulated and the corners possibly not meeting…I thought of you. This led to that word perspective again (I keep landing there). The way she has created a “home” (J. and I had talks about this the other day Home vs House), flaws, hard things and all.
    Like you in this way, which is just something I don’t think I have in me, so I am impressed.
    And then I return again to your place here, to comment or gather my thoughts or consider. I guess I land on my faith in you and the hopes that more ease returns.
    PS That white shell, each time I’ve scrolled past it…it looks like a diaper laying out in the grass – to which I thought: what babies does Grace know? Is this her place or will words about the state of our earth come next? But, no…I look again and see the shell for what it is (but still see a diaper the next times). Why do I see a diaper? Mmmm…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI3x-Xse4yA

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  5. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    I come here to be connected to warm wonderful smart caring knowledgable talented women and it never disappoints.
    I love washing my hair in my two bucket system… one fir clean water and won for dirty water. I filled water jugs in town today 1.00 gets me 6 gallons. P

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    thank you Donna for the Dylan…..just love this….
    we just be
    where we are and it’s all right
    love you back

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    speaking. listening. speaking more
    the key

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    of course they can. travel trailers are hard. things are hidden in tight small spaces.
    we need to find the guy who knows how to do these things.
    in the meantime….sometimes i am
    sick
    of
    it

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  9. Jude Avatar
    Jude

    You can get a portable propane tank less water heater for about 200 bucks. My son’s suggestion.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    this is night of Tuesday april 16 and i am reading
    this again…how do i want to respond? am not ready
    yet

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    dear and Best you….
    i love. like love. hearing these things.
    often when i am staring at my Circumstance….i think…
    what about Peggy? she DID DOES it. What IF
    for me?????
    what if I had done it? i still
    could

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