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  • beginning

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    the tiny PurplePinks

  • pleasure

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    the things themselves and then the things together.   just stuff on the foot of the bed.   the Boro book,  my new levis from Goodwill,  the Tina quilt,  a plastic shopping bag

     

  • liminal moment

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  • no words yet

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  • Arnica montana

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    i did something to my back this last week.  pretty much everything but sitting still was(is) painful.   i thought it would just go away if i took it easy but it wasn't.    In the past,  anything muscle would have immediately gotten Arnica Rub…a cream.   i've been so fortunate with this body,  it hasn't been often..maybe 4 times in my life?  once for sciatica,   but enough to know it works.  Not this time…it's mid back and i can't use topical,  can't reach   i ordered the Oral and first time,  the Boiron Homeopathic.  

     in the past,  words were enough.   But how it is lately,  it's pictures i want  and so…..   this one is from Wikipedia.  with the words….    Arnica is a genus of perennial, herbaceous plants in the         sunflower family         Wouldn't you know??????   I started it yesterday.    

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

      

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • just this

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    Everything.   the  Face of Life.

     

  • and yes. also,

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    Thistle.    the thistle that i know,  that has been so present in Nogal's forest…..there are some     OUT        and what do i mean by out,?,    ….   in expanded areas where it has not grown before,   extending out.   This one is down just away from the feed shed  .  it's the only one there.   but up by the resting chair,  i counted 3.  They begin as very small tight flat rosettes,  leaves the size of this sprigs of whatever it is that grows in profusion there ,  then rapidly growing  when conditions are right as i guess they have been in these last days.    The choices Plants make.   i like thinking about this.

     

     

     

     

  • new

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    by the resting chair.  a few of these,  was going to count them today but it was cold and there was strong wind.    not many.  this is outside Nogal's old forest  that's been closed and all the thistles have grown.   so at first sight i thought the thistles were moving out which would have been interesting but even more,  this.   It looks like a dandelion,  yes?   but then i search and there is the  Sow Thistle.   ????    Good work for these last coldwet days.   Good to wonder,  how they might have arrived up here???   Either way,  greens are edible.   Will have to wait for a bloom

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • making the final choice

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    how wonder Full if i had a vast field with room for All…..

     

     

  • out of nowhere

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    early afternoon        and out of that nowhere,   a small dark cloud directly overhead with    HAIL,  pea size ….the Goats didn't know  where to run    Hail.   a few minutes and then,  as if it never happened.     and how it is on this Hill,   just down on the other side,  the Meadow side,   it truly     was      like it didn't happen     'because it      didn't.    Plumcot continued with ease.