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very early,  i listened to Episode 4  of  Joanna Macy"s podcasts:  There is No Future if We Go Numb    so grateful to her for her HONESTY   her Fearlessness to be REAL in the fullness of , the ALL of what it means to love this Earth….LOVE this Earth   and sitting with this and sitting with the subsequent flow of my What If…..  What If it might  also be TRUE that the Glorious Mind of the Universe is watching………………………….

and through the screen door,  at an angle i saw a shape, a form,  out there….sailing,  fluttering,   hovering,  spinning

was it a bird?,   a moth?,   a butterfly?   ??????????????????    i  could not identify the form,  the movement…..???????

I thought   …………….What if it is a VISITATION     ????   ???       the Universe.    saying       yes,  grace,        Yes.                                    i went  out and approached it….it continued        and then…..came low enough….in front of that horse trailer……    a leaf.          Suspended  somehow by some absolutely invisible thread….a web thread of something…..       i could not see    could not see no matter how hard i tried to look,   could not see the web thread

it was 93 degrees today.   All the GREEN is browning,  the grasses have set seed.   this evening,  the first of the odd sound alerts from the Fire app.  of this   season.     5 acres becoming 25 in 11 minutes    not far away    Spiral.     it is a  Spiral

 

 

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8 responses to “the All that it is”

  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Fire alerts already ! It’s as if you stop for a moment to catch your breath, going from heavy rain, now to fire danger…I checked news and it said mandatory evacuation for the fire area in Butte County last night and then changed to evacuation warning.
    How the need to stay alert and focused now begins to be part of the every day. How I imagine the body tenses as it readies itself for what could come. I think of this never ending alertness, how it dons us like a cloak, a caregiver cloak: readying us to protect and care for what is so dearly loved, whether a family member, our animals, or plants and trees, our friends or our dear Mother Earth.I know you are in this readiness zone grace after having lived here in CA now since 2017 but still, I wish you some moments of worry free flow, if possible…

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  2. Liz A Avatar

    the spin … how it can disorient

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  3. Beth from Still Life Pond Avatar
    Beth from Still Life Pond

    I’ve been somewhat reluctant to go to this 4th episode. Listening to these seems to require a certain… strength of spirit? I sometimes am depleted in that. This seems to be Joanna’s swan song though and I need to be with it. From flood to fire for you. Oh, and the 13 year cicadas here… Just an amazing force of nature. There are suddenly hundreds of them. 13 years underground…

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  4. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Ever changing .. in the blink of an eye!! We’ll all just keep doing the very best we can … doing what we can to feel safe!! I hate that you already now have to worry about fires and yet I know you’ll just keep going .. like you do. 😘

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  5. CatherinE Avatar

    I hope the alerts do not send fear into your nervous system every time they go off. Yikes. The other day, a thought popped into my head… What if we decided to trust the human species? I immediately wanted to say No Way, but … what if?

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    Marti, as i am Practicing living in
    the present
    this present moment the Now
    Salzberg and Tolle
    i am more and more just ok. there WERE moments….last week and the week before

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    it did….i could not identify what my eyes were telling me

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    this is interesting….i am willing to
    trust
    other species
    maybe?
    i could?
    trust Us? but….we are so conflicted…what about that?

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