Thursday, October 24, 2013

Being Here Now

The girls played outside and sang and people sat and listened and and friends met up and Hank and May were there and it was like a dream in the chilling darkness and I remembered watching a lunar eclipse somewhere very nearby there, forty years ago. It was one of those times when time itself spins and it's difficult, if not impossible, to hold on to the present as the past is too much there.

Home to sleep under cave-covers, up to get ready for the boys to come. It will be a full day of them here and it's Jessie and Vergil's last day here and I'm not sure what they're doing but I'm fairly certain of what I'll be doing and it will involve snacks and stories and toys and dogs and chickens and watch this! and arms held up to me, hold me, and I'm not sure if it's a Power Ranger who will be here or a Hulk but a super hero for sure and his little brother, too, and I had no idea, twenty-nine years ago when I was one-day-before-married-to-that-very-tall man that here we'd be, grandsons, grown children, all the spinning life of it but instead was mostly worried about my dress, our vows (we had no idea what we were saying) the flowers, the cake, we had had four days to get ready for a spontaneous wedding, no idea that one day would lead into another, twenty-nine times three-hundred-and-sixty-five, today, this one, here we are and it's chilly and the boys are coming and the girls sang last night, sending sweet notes up to the skies to join all the other vibrations of sound, love, worry, joy, everything of humanity, good morning from Lloyd and we go on, the world spinning, sometimes we do too.

We do too and who could have known?

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  1. Beautiful spinning of the web --

    Sophie and I often listen to the Cicada ladies --

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  2. And on we grow.

    I love that Jessie plays the mandolin and bluegrass -it makes me feel a little connected to you all even more. I also LOVE that she is still performing with her friends, and is able to cherish still that musical part of her as she grows even further into adulthood. It's been a joy to watch.

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  3. Spin around, spin around, Mr. and Mrs. Moon. Happy Anniversary to you.

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  4. Sounds like a "hang on tight" kind of day!

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  5. Happy anniversary! That one day has wrought much magic...

    My husband & I wrote our own vows, but we had a LOT longer to plan things, which is good because my mother wanted a Big Deal & I was happy to let her plan it :)

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  6. Ooooh, this gave me goosbumps, a shiver of something incredibly sacred and true, the two of you, twenty nine years together, and so much good and wonderful life to show for it. Your shining girls and steadfast boy, your tender-hearted grandsons, oh Mary, you did this. You both did this. And it is beautiful.

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  7. and all that is to come....
    sometimes I wonder about what it will be like in 10 years or 20? I couldnt have predicted where I am now just 5 yrs ago. Life is so full of tricks and surprises. It's very much a magic show, full of treasures and sleight of hand.

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  8. Glorious, Ms. Moon. It all spun out so beautifully.

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  9. many blessings to your family on this most sacred of days!

    this is also our anniversary of becoming engaged!

    xxalainaxx

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  10. Sometimes it just takes that second and you realize that there has been a soul connection to another. It was like that with us.

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