i took the cloth measuring tape there.   so close to 12 ft in circumference,  we'll call it twelve feet.   Once it was a seed,  just one,  from one of the pineapple sized pine cones.  Gray Pine,  Foothill pine. Pinus Sabiniana.    They tower over Everything and sway with Wind,  Shushing the day with their…

I want it here.  For Emrie.   I haven't put a pic because there is always so much stuff around,  so today i dragged all the stuff around back where it's  unseen.  like her plastic pool.  Toys.  the gallon jug of bubbles.  Stuff of the days as they go.  But to me,  unsightly.    and this…

just like this…..there were both butterflies and Birds….so many Birds,  the elegant slate blue with cream and amber breasts.  I know now this is a migratory corridor.  I would not have been at all surprised if one lit on my head.    This Cloth is in the Shop.     in the forest,  afternoon,  Wind…

how many years has it been?   I did the math.   The first  Garden was one tomato plant and a maybe 3×6 strip of zinnias.  I was 21.  Out the back door of the apartment.  Since then,  almost every year.  and at the end,  or here,  what might seem to be the end of the Growing…

there is rarely a WhOLE day to Devote to one thing,  one activity,  one focus of the intention to Do.   Days are fragmented for the most part.  Some of this,  Some of that.   Maybe my whole life will be that way?   In between so many things,  i am continuing to be Ready for the next…

  it seemed to have been Gone.  No trace.   But with just a few,  some ,   drops of Rain,   it begins.   Just so few drops of Sky Water.  and the whole Other World begins to Be.   How long has this happened?   Hundreds,  thousands of years?   this is my third year here.   Three years.  so little …

i'd thought it would be very soft and Peace Full.    quiet.   But…not.   as it went,   what was   "called",  it is uhhhhh,  well,  very Active.   Color here is not true.  The red in the middle is Very Red

i didn't think i had the energy for this,  but it seems i have .     …some…. Alyssia returned to the Permitting Office today.  She's been many times before over almost 3 years….but today asked SO many questions and i guess in the right progression,   (maybe she just wore them out)   they agreed to  issue…

my bed. no war outside.   no unrest.   quiet.  Peace FULL., just before Light.   I wake.  The  sheets,  the pillow case,  the quilts.    I am so grateful for my bed.     only this many walnuts.  In the past,  i would steep them on the wood stove.  Sometimes even steep them OutSide.   I am afraid…