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a very hard thing in the Michigan family.  Everyone had to fly there.  and that's not my story to tell   but i woke this morning to the reality of it    and was     afraid.     i lay there,  fully realizing.  and there was    Fear.     moments passed and then,  suddenly,

Metta.    Metta for    my     Self.     my self. 

i put this here so i don't minimize the experience of this as i move on into the days….don't minimize the beautyfully  clear  Lightness that came.   how i'd written that in the stenographer's notebook.   above.  And as i wrote,  it became more.  the Metta was about all hard things now.     how i took this photograph because photographs are real.   they are fact.    not memory or interpretation.   So i  can keep the experience here.  Like this.  so it stays alive.  real.

ADDENDUM  8/8

i knew i might regret posting this.   It comes across as cryptic and it isn't really,  it's just about something that Belongs to other people.   and i should have been more clear about the Fear…it was because everyone was gone.  That far away.  that i was here alone with any Evacuation  Order  that might come.  and that there was no way any of that could be changed.    Jenny is now back.   Alyssia returns Sunday.  

 

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12 responses to “journal page…………. Addendum 8/8/24”

  1. Beth from Still Life Pond Avatar
    Beth from Still Life Pond

    I’ve been working with the naming of emotions that arise with mindfulness. Something in that takes away so much of the intensity. Oh, that’s fear. Sadness… Okay. And letting go. It’s a difficult thing you all are going through… Love and more metta.

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  2. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    I’m sad for your family having to say goodbye to someone they loved .. it’s hard. Hoping they’ll find comfort in being together.

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  3. dee Avatar

    Sorry to hear, Grace. B for begin again is a powerful statement at so many junctures.

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  4. Nancy Avatar

    Beth~ So if I name it…? Mmmm

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  5. Nancy Avatar

    (((Grace))) ~ Moving through and beginning again…
    xoxo

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  6. Beth from Still Life Pond Avatar
    Beth from Still Life Pond

    Softly, kindly, without judgement. And then let it go. Worry. Anxiety. Whatever. ❤️

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  7. Dana Avatar

    Releasing the fear and then holding onto the lightness that followed it with a photograph. Releasing and holding…its like a dance.

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    softly. kindly. without judgement

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    can’t say much here….i am not a part of that anymore…
    not for 30 some years

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    no sorry
    B. yes. so many junctures. so many.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    to know that is Good work….

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    very much. like a dance.

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