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  • just this

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  • still

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    here,  again today.    wanting to just stay.       so i did.        thinking how  all my life i have tethered myself to    Accomplishment.  

    i was wise enough that it was to Things i Loved.  But    tethered nonetheless    ……    to the Accomplishment.

    i love here,  how Plantain has chosen to live among these things.    the Plantain that heals.

  • the experiment

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    trying to think of what to call it,  the  Experiment,    with doing,         Today because the Sky gave so much water yesterday,   there was no need.   so i just did some housekeeping here…all hidden under a winters worth of pine needles and then this spring's  catkins and wet earth.   wiped them with a cloth.    and

    there was no hurry.

    it felt Good.     Thought about each one,   they all have a life before the Hill      and here we are now     and that felt Good.  i've never "taken"  time like this before.   

     

  • This THIS

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    RAIN

    BIG RAIN

    like,     really      big    rain. 

    the first rain day that there was                 no        let  up          at all.    i couldn't feed the Goats     Downpour.  on and on

    and i found this  Youtube

    i have no idea if you will be able to find this by what i put here…..????????    I so hope

    the Life Cycle of  a 17 year Cicada   DuPage forest    DuPage Forest Preserve District ecology supervisor Tom Velat

    this is SO   ME

    if i could have thought up,  imagined,   and created this video     OR    if i could have played the part of the Cicada      It would be the Crown Jewel of my lifetime    

    i could  watch this a zillion times a day and be delighted again and again     it is just so            me.

     

     

  • today, this planet. Earth

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    California,  united states   Hill    Vetch and Rattlesnake Grass  Bloooooooom.

    elsewhere        Indonesia.   an Orangutan suffered a painful wound to his cheek.    He chewed plant leaves known to have pain relieving and healing properties,  rubbed the juice on the opened wound then used the leaves as a poultice to cover his injury.  
    Repeatedly.   it healed.

     

    Brood 19 cicadas emerge.   Southeast United states 

  • sight unseen ….. until it is

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    right there….underfoot    a strip of Toad Egg cloth Tomato plant  tie.   Gone Feral.   

  • give your self to the Earth

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    bookmark photograph,  3 years ago      Colorado granddaughter when they visited California     Holding place in Sharon Salzberg's   Real Happiness

  • intoxicating

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  • so many Grasses

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    all kinds and they are coming to seed.  More kinds than  "usual".      So  BeautyFull in the wind,  like an ocean on the hillsides     and this plant….flower,  for the life of me.  i can't think of it's name….it's one of Marti's favorites…i bought it that first year  "for her"  at the Master Gardner Plant Sale     was quickly over shadowed   by this Daisy Bush      is only a couple woody stems of a plant….but always    at least one cluster of these so deeply red blossoms    and here,   with the grass     well…………………..

  • Emrie’s melon patch

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    in the company

    of the Pomegranate tree.    And all is Well.   That STORM,   that so so strange Storm of Friday night….the SUDDEN  violence of it….Thunder Lightning Hail   And i was hesitant to look on Saturday after the Meeting at the Well   

    today.    Some     How…….it was if nothing happened.??????    Not just the melons,   but all else,   tomatoes,  peppers,  cucumber,  squash     Every One.    and it was warm and there was SUN    and    

    such a Gentle Day