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so,   we wonder.   Nancy…Pomegranate Trail. blogspot.com   and probably all of us.   Blogging is kinda old fashioned,  right?  i think so.    and i wondered again today…When Was It?,  that i decided to post every day?   and what was my reasoning   at that time?  

so i went to the Archives to try to find an answer and pretty quickly couldn't…got to 2/2013 and no answer yet and it takes a LOT of battery for that kind of thing  and i saw so much of the Other Life i had that quickly pulled me in to a deep nostalgia which wasn't where i was intending to go

i think i remember it as…..There's SomeThing.   Some Thing.  every day.   that is Beauty Full or just        noteworthy,       

and to honor that…to "say" it,   every day.  ????   Something like that?   

and i think….today….is this not still true?

this little acorn…interrupted….right outside the door …..              had it continued as it  "should",,  would be 3 times as big   but it didn't,  it fell for some reason      but,   just outside the door and i saw it first thing this morning

in it's Perfection

 

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14 responses to “same old same old”

  1. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Grace~ Okay, well I tried, but could not find it either! I attacked it by finding when I started reading/commenting, because I remember you talking about that. I may have missed it, but I did not find it in 2011 and some of 2010…but, I found so many memories and so much to treasure. Here are just a few snippits.
    That was fun, bittersweet and good. You were about the age I am now. ha
    xo
    4/26/2010 – reminds me of your dolls
    1/20/2011 – frayed sleeve
    Haha California! 😂 PS I’m real 😉
    https://windthread.typepad.com/windthread/2011/04/a-phone-call-from-chico.html#comments
    My first (?) comment:
    https://windthread.typepad.com/windthread/2011/05/the-time-being.html#comments
    Oh I SO, SO, SO remember when you stitched this ‘rain’!
    https://windthread.typepad.com/windthread/2011/07/rain-1.html

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  2. Yvette Avatar
    Yvette

    Did you look on your blogspot site?
    I remember first time I met you was when you drove the goats home in new Mexico…
    Also a reason to write the proces for your daughter
    You changed my life with your daily posts…really

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  3. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    I remember when you set up your blog; you and Nandas. You had found Jude and you said it was to help you document your cloth work. When did it become a daily posting? I think as you continued with this new way of cloth making, which to me has always been about story telling, the wholeness of your life simply became a part of it all. You, a solitary woman, wrote about the realness of your life, your family, especially the land in which you described yourself as a member of the lizard clan, a resident of the substation known as Polvadera. You wrote of the elements, the winds of New Mexico, your dogs, Fiona, your guinea fowl, Tomasina, your cat and later,the goats. you wrote of what you planted and nurtured on your land, the olive tree, the apricot tree, your flowers, your compost piles, that my husband used to lvoe to turn over when we visited. You shared the books that mattered to you, your Buddhism, your experiences before coming to New Mexico…In other words, you shared your life with us and often, it manifested itself in your cloth work. All of this became a portal to opening yourself to connection and reciprocity and so it goes to this day and we are all the richer for it…and knowing you as I do, do not make light of what I have said here, you have a hard time accepting a compliment and I do not give them easily so when I do, it matters, at least to me!

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  4. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    this was a fun challenge for my librarian-self … to find the source of your daily practice
    so I posed a series of search queries and slowly worked my way back to your original intention …
    https://windthread.typepad.com/windthread/2015/01/first-day.html (although this is not the first day of your daily blog practice)
    https://windthread.typepad.com/windthread/2014/03/three-hundred-and-sixty-five.html
    https://windthread.typepad.com/windthread/2013/03/31-days-a-full-month-of-every-day.html
    https://windthread.typepad.com/windthread/2013/03/living-is-wierd-saskia-van-herwaarden.html
    and I’m thinking it would be interesting, if typepad enables it, to set the ARCHIVES display so that the number of posts is displayed for each month … to show quite graphically how true you have been to your intention for more than a decade

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  5. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Looking back is always interesting in all the different emotions that come to the surface. For whatever reason you started blogging I’m just grateful you did … you helped open a world for me that continues to influence me every day in how I see the world around me. I see the smallest things in people … in places and things that fill me with warmth and wonder 😘 I’m grateful!!

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  6. Carol Gabbert Avatar
    Carol Gabbert

    Agreeing with Yvette, “ you changed my life with your daily posts”. I began reading sometime in New Mexico. I loved the art and the goats and the “old cowboy” days. You helped me through a difficult transition. When you moved to California, I moved with you and was familiar with the area of your new home
    Now, I binge read nights by someone’s bedside. I moved to Nevada, reassuring myself that if Grace could move herself and goats and dogs and kittens across the country, I really could survive one state over. Everyday you remind me to look closely, be present and feel my life as is speeds by, and I am grateful beyond measure ❤️

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  7. Beth from Still Life Pond Avatar
    Beth from Still Life Pond

    That last post in Liz’s links (thanks Liz!) is the one I was remembering. A year of science. I think I remember you also saying “and no BS” near this time. 3/3/13. Over 10 years ago. And here we are. If this is same old, same old may it continue. This is community in the best sense.

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  8. maria Avatar
    maria

    come back later , to tired now and it’s still dark outside 21.12 that’s the time on this moment

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  9. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    I love this comment Beth. Yes, if this is SO, SO…let it continue!

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  10. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Plus, I meant to say when I read about, thought about, posted about ‘winnowing’ I pictured your basket here…sifting through what is important 🙂

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  11. maria Avatar
    maria

    here i’m back 5.53 still dark but day is started ,
    sure a lot of flash backs by reading in the past of ” the windthread ” book
    and yes pulled back in nostalgia ; have not search to …. wath i remember me but smiled in grateful way , i read more and more “thank you grace ” in hundred time’s , like Marti says ” accept this , you was close by , we lived with you during the day in mimute moments and it helps me and a lot of commenters here ,
    This blog is the ” ONLY ” i come back time by time and why ?
    because there is food for the soul in daily life in honestly words in simplicity deep from the heart
    so BIG HUG and thank you ALL , who comment here aswell
    Thank you old fassioned blog family … i smile to al of you

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  12. Yvette Avatar
    Yvette

    I totally agree with you Maria!

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  13. Joanne in Maine Avatar
    Joanne in Maine

    Yes, I was already reading (for quite some time) when you packed up the goats….and headed to California.I found you from comments you made on Jude’s blog and I have been reading your words ever since.
    You sent me that special woven cloth so I could use it as the middle layer of small works….I still have some..one of these days you will actually buy and install a solar panel on the roof of your home and power things up…..One of these Days…I will get a new desk top computer…. who am I kidding- we will both never change.

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  14. CatherinE Avatar
    CatherinE

    I just started reading your blog regularly a few years ago. I love you and your writing. This look-back (thanks, Liz) has been amazing and enlightening. I want to read more of the past, but for sure I will stay focused on the present as you are teaching me to do.

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