thanx for taking good care of you over the weekend. It is an extraordinary winter here in the north not much precipitation and we have had some nice warm days
A Gma came out on sat to check on me and to supervise the help with organizing the house. One of the local pastors organized some guys to come over and help with moving furniture and boxes. Four guys and an elder from the hook and ladder firemen company here in town came over sat afternoon and they rearranged things so we could use the bookshelves and hutch, we also set up the dining room table and I've been going through boxes putting things away I think by christmas it will look quite a bit like a real house.
they were great guys cheerful and kind it was a great day then GMa D and I dug outside (well she dug) and we planted daffodil bulbs for the spring I put the ashes of one of my old dogs Story Teller with the bulbs while she was fixing the soil and the bulbs I sat on the ground and talked to the bulbs and to Story I told them about each other how he was a good boy who came from a bad home and always was kind and needed the beauty and softness of flowers he had suffered so before he lived with me that his mind cracked and we never could quite get it right before he passed away. Now he would protect the flowers and watch over the house and never be too far from me or the other dogs he would keep the bulbs for their long sleep and they would use his bones for strength while they grew and made a new beginning for the spring I asked the earth to hold them and comfort them together and the wind to bring water and clarity and when it was time the sun to draw them out together into a gentle future. It was a good day
an extraordinary day really to place love and care and community and healing both with the boys and the house and me and also the flowers and the earth and Story Teller what a gift it was for Gma to visit and to give of her time and joy a beautiful day
when we put things in the ground or build our day or lay out clothes or silverware or food when we make the bed or sweep the yard or settle each other int o the car that is the time to make the prayer for gentle care for telling each element about what is being done about who and what we are to tell how we enjoy that which is here for us the sunlight in the window the dew on the grass, the moon so bright watching over us as she travels through the night sky as we make our clothes ready let us wrap them in blessings of care and beauty let us pave each others paths with songs of love and thoughtfulness that any and all whom we touch or visit with or who are touched by any of the same earth and breath we are breathing that their hearts beat with kindness and joy that they see and emanate the steady care that keeps us every day
make the day one of care each action touches another each movement brings something that will be given away over andover again throughout time from your life to another on through the centuries Relatives that is how far your thoughts and your hands and the care in the simple work travels on and on
bless you relatives for taking care of you of each other of the earth of the water and the wind thank you for loving Story Teller his heart was so broken when I found him let us heal it by comforting the earth that he now sleeps in let us heal his heart by taking care of the wind that will brush the flowers he grows
let us again and again heal and love all that is and was
bless you relatives bless your hair your heart your hands in comfort your end of day thoughts and the time of laying aside all work to sleep bless you and your dreams and your night breath and the beauty that will greet you with the dawn bless you relatives
sleep well relatives
your in my heart and my caring arms
love
mary
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