windthread

she chose 18  books.   There is no limit.    This is the first she wants to read.

the worst.  so far.    

nothing.

I tried to go look for……..glimmers of light….but it wasn't working.   I cooked.   Hamburger Delux and french fries.   Ate.   Slept.  There was caring for Goats.    Throwing ball for Minnow twice.    otherwise,   sleeping.   or,   lying there,   waiting for sleep.  Oddly,  the dreams are great.

i didn't think it would be easy.   but I didn't think it would be ……what it was…….     Had gotten an email from  PAWS  Promotion of Animal  Welfare Society,  a non profit  organization whose mission is to prevent animal suffering    the local HUGE animal  spay and neuter  people,   appointments months in ahead…..vaccination  days….a prerequisite of the spay clinic  and we WENT.  me and Minnow.   Arrived within the appointed hours .   Ten minutes in and ended up 3 almost 4 hours   later until we signed out.   First come first serve.   But 

but    the time I spent.        those hours….all the others in the two waiting rooms and on the chairs outside.   An unexpected  gift.   on   this election eve when the anxiety rolls high,   there….at this Vet Clinic….was all.  ALL.   kind.   Kind.   Friendliness…neighborness.    GOODNESS.     People having to wait.  Having to sit together    and talking and laughing and exchanging.   We were great.    We were people,  having to wait,  having to sit together,   talking and laughing,  exchanging and when that was finally done,  there was 8 minutes to make it to the Butte County Hall of Records

I like to go THE DAY   but because of this  dog stuff….there I was and I made it IN TIME

tonight,   I HOPE

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i don't know what to say.    it is a repetition from that image the other day on the tag.  i liked it so much.   Here,  on a card stock blank greeting card.   And I still like it so much,  maybe even more because it opens so much possibility.   

these two "magic ribbons"    acting as a kind of  uhhhhh,   frame?   for whatever might appear?   it could be anything,  inside two magic ribbons      ??????????????   and the space of the card….enough but not too much   small  drawings can be here   of things I might want to be held    by     two  magic  ribbons

just one full Rain Day.    Green.   green green and green   …..   all through the forest      my first thought was…Begin Again,  but then almost immediately I thought….no,    just    Continuing.    They have     Waited.   Still.   Still.    Waiting is not     gone.  They have Waited.    What is the lifespan of lichen,  moss?    "lifespan".    What is the lifespan of moss and lichen?

this is a branch I often lean against when I am caring for things at the Curry House…I lean against it and take care not to lean on the lichen    as  I did today       Are they    somehow singular and in Community?  or are they One?   Many more questions but this is a place to start.            

just two evenings ago.   Tonight,   dark.   Rain.

I thought of many things to say here.  but then,  just,    the words that Cynthia gave me….Gentle Day.    Yes.   Gentle Day.

go to Deb G's….Bee Creative…..her post….so Full and Soothing

a piece of cardboard.  pics glued.    it has traveled.    20 something,  maybe even 30…probably….30,   years.   the pics are from 3 beautiful small publications.      when I lived in El Cerro Mission or Los Lunas  and would drive to Albuquerque….at first for work and then later,  to the Food Co~op     i'd stop at the Airport…run in,   the information desk in Main Lobby   a shelf behind with pamphlets etc for visitors AND  these little    books.   like the size of paper back books,   Taos,  Santa Fe and Albuquerque  ART    Galleries.    Incredible pics.   I wish I would have kept one.  Alas.   But I have this.    to talk to me today about how long it's been since the black/white/black/white/black/white   has been in my life of Art.    that,   rising from somewhere as a child that I can't remember but know was there….those volumes of the Lands and People.   in them.   somewhere.   

one of the Janet Chairs.   The other is at B Garden.  

this one props the door open…wind….has been in place for months now.   Weather app says rain all night.   ok.   so it will be the first night of closing the door.   Janet Chair is released.  rain begins at 10.     the big transition.   Goats will have settled hours ago down at the curve in the road up….at Jack's corner.   When rain starts,  they will come….in the dark,  not their best time of day,  to shelter in the Rain House.   it has to happen.     

am trying to meet it with a different sense of Goodness.   it has to happen this way because of   ……..   because of planetary ritual.  For the months ahead,   Rain will seep and soak into this Earth…the roots of things.   Enough to ensure that life continues.  Not like N.Mex,  the summer Monsoons….the Ritual here is the Winter months of Seep and Soak.   The Oaks have waited.   Toyon, Pine,  Manzanita,  Rattlesnake Grass,   Madia,   Plantain,  mosses and lichen,  mushroom and fungus.  So,  tonight we Begin Again.  and I will try to find my place it it.