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the first Phillip of 2024         on the arm of the faux adirondack chair  at B Garden.    where i put my hand when standing up.  I could have squashed him.   But he sent out enough of an energy alert and for no known reason to me,  i looked.   Lo and Behold.

the first spring i was here there were MANY Phillips.   at the beginning,   there was the one,   that dangled down on a thread of silk from the Morning Tree and we all marveled.    Julian,  who would have been 8 i think?,   said    Oh,   it's Phillip.    and then on.  The many that year.   not so many since,   but always some.   all referred to as the Phillips.      The Phillips have come,   we say.   about a half inch….small,    but reassuring in that they come.   in a timely seasonal manner that says all is still sorta well.  or,   Well Enough.

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We Are The Great Turning   podcasts      Joanna Macy and Jessica Serrante

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8 responses to “gratitude for repetition”

  1. Nancy Avatar

    Phillip wears little white ‘flowers’ on his back 🙂
    Repetition is good, important even. It is how we learn. I think of the work babies…same thing over and over until mastered.

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  2. Deb Avatar

    A memory danced. I had a toad I named George. The pondside lawn became alive with toadlets so young they still had tails. I begged my father to grant the Georges a reprieve by suspending my chore of mowing for three weeks. I imagined they made him St.Charles who saved millions from me, the Reaper.

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  3. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    I listened and thought of the work to reconnect: who will we talk to about our planet, who will we listen to, how will we go about our days…it is ok to be sad, it is ok to want to protect fiercely for the future generations, our grandchildren and beyond AND it is ok to do whatever is within our power, no matter how small we think our efforts are because collectively, our efforts multiply around the world:
    After listening to the podcast, I went to a folder of quotes that has been with me for many years and found this from Joanna Macy: She writes of the Great Turning: “The essential adventure of our time, the shift from the industrial growth society to a life sustaining civilization. Restoration of land relationships pushes the turning wheel. Act on behalf of life transforms because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocity; it is not a question of first getting enlightened or sacred and then acting.As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.”
    At the age of 95, Joanna knows the work to reconnect is vital, never more important, never has compassion been more needed on so many levels…

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  4. grace Forrest Avatar

    for me…many things, over and over and still not
    mastered

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  5. grace Forrest Avatar

    it was True. St. Charles

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    Marti…Thank You so so much for these words…these
    heartfelt words just Thank You so much

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  7. Nancy Avatar

    And many I have come to understand I will never master them and that is okay.

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