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yesterday it was the Button Bush.   Today,    it's here…..a  pic from Julian's  school's    Honors  Day    

Having turned a corner.    the verdict.   34 times.   Guilty.     I have been deep into watching all of it as it played out day to day.  I didn't necessarily want to be….but i was.    and  today,   i awoke      and first thoughts were of some     uhhhhh,    release?    there is an answer.   Guilty.          But then…………..Now,    we go.   it's aftermath and on,  into November.   and i will be caught in the same  intense degree of Witnessing.      But i'd  like to do that in a different way…..and i am thinking. 

I constantly say……….love……….i love                    because i do.    I love so much.   Not just like,  care,    but    Love…..with my whole self,   Love things.    I love      Trees,  rocks,  insects,  plants,   cloth,  pencil,   color,  wind,   Sun,   night,   a dog,   a cat,   Goats,    music,   humanity ,   lizards,   birds,   words ,   earth,   Earth                  i love         Humanity.   This Planet.   Whatever All That Is.                         Prayer…..i've never known what   prayer is,   if it   "works"   or      not      But what about,   what about just Going as if it might.   as if it might    "work"?     toward                   Love?

Metta.        seems so simple.   too simple.    but         also,  undeniably true………May we be safe.   May we be healthy,    Happy.   May we live  with Ease     

as it goes into  the "future",    these next months,    People in this country of the United States of America will       choose.     The 3 human beings in the pic here will live on with that Choice.     Ages 35,  14,   6  years.     For them,   the most immediate that i Love,   I will Pray.     my prayer is Metta.     for them,    for every single sentient being ,   and all we do not yet understand to be sentient.   All       ALL  human beings living in these  united states of any and every persuasion.    Every   Thing.      Metta.    I pray.

 

 

 

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12 responses to “love and prayer and living Life”

  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    I am staying quiet, as a way to re-group energy, but your words grace, this photo of la familia, has climbed into my heart and filled it with love, that already existed, but is even more now so I need to put down some words:
    LOVE…it is what we can give, it is what we can do, it is what is so needed.
    I went to Dee’s blog to see what she would say and left a comment yesterday.
    https://deemallon.com/2024/05/31/sistersinlaw/
    Guilty is a huge word, magnified 34 times, but because of who it applies to, my concern is that it may not change the trajectory UNLESS people open their eyes, their minds and most especially their hearts, to understand the meaning of my beloved Dad’s America – a meaning that these days, is perhaps naive but as an immigrant to this country, he felt that here in America, he was given a chance, an opportunity and by working TOGETHER, much could be achieved. This was the promise of my Dad’s America and he was profoundly grateful for it.
    He came to me in a dream/vision last night. (I was not going to tell of this because, well, it is part of my heritage and may not be understood by some but then I realized that all who come to windthread understand and accept that which we cannot easily define but is so deeply felt).
    I tell this because of what you posted above: of the simple act of giving love. As always comes, he was out in a field, smiling then he looked sad but also angry and he said never in his life would he think that a criminal would and could, run for President. He gave me these words in Spanish: “coraje and avanzar”, which mean courage and go forward and I will, and hopefully, we all will…

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  2. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Your words, grace, perfect! Love and Love to all in a context of moving forward, in hope, in daily life. I am putting more effort into understanding myself with more self kindness.. it spreads from within.

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  3. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    I’ve come back because I’ve just come inside the house from tending my potted herbs out on the patio. First harvest of thyme which I have tied in a bundle to dry. While I prefer to use fresh thyme in cooking, dried is good in some recipes.
    Today, June 1st, set up the cherry tomatoes in the Aerogarden, a “dirt-less” way to garden, a gift, that has taken some getting used to and I thought of Love: How I have always tenderly loved to get my hands in the dirt to plant and nurture and in return, receive nourishment. How this “dirt-less” gardening is becoming loved for having given us four months of wonderful heirloom lettuce in winter and hopefully, now will come four months of tomatoes.
    All of this has to do with keeping self open, heart and mind. As I brought water to the Aerogarden, I looked at my frig and on it: a photo of the nearly destroyed, but coming back to life beloved Banyan tree, in Maui. Next to the photo, a magnet from Maui Craft Guild, with words that I have held dear for over 22 years:
    He ‘ohu ke aloha;’a ohe kuahiwi kau ‘ole” which translates to:
    Love is like a mist; there is no mountain peak it does not settle upon.
    .

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  4. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    their gentle sweet smiles … I smile back

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  5. maria Avatar
    maria

    nice Peggy , the right thing we can /have to do , i feel you spread it , and it did my heart smile to

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  6. maria Avatar
    maria

    i love the dirtless way of garden , and the open mind and heart ” love is like mist….” it make my heart smile aswell

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  7. maria Avatar
    maria

    so i did to you liz

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  8. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Thank you Maria. i feel you smiling.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i love Us
    we are such Grand Grand Women

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    your Dad. my Dad, who i have adopted…unto myself….
    his Dichos as if he had/has a small pouch of them hanging from his belt…. to give us when we need
    for us. and for your Dad. we will. Stand and Face
    what we know to be True. we will have courage. and
    go forward.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    you have been this to / for me

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it all comes together

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