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[greenstorm]

I need to think very hard about how I struggle to connect impermanence and gratitude, and think of ways to honour and cherish things that don't involve permanence. This is revealing a gap there for me, because everything composts in the end. Why can I not honour gifts given me and also allow them to return to the earth?

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[yarrowkat]

i think of the sacred act in both Hopi and Tibetan traditions of sand painting. much care, devotion, and time is spent creating an exacting and beautiful art object which is then swept away or allowed to blow away in the wind, to release the prayer/energy. intentional impermanence.

[yarrowkat]

somewhere else recently you asked me if i like my changes all at once, or a bit at a time. and i just realized how clearly my life right now is an answer - i would want to say i like them a bit at at a time, but in fact here i am with a new love affair, and starting a press/side-business with terra, and planning all the plans about my upcoming new life - everything all at once. this dawned on me because i'm thinking of perming my hair - and i always change my hair when i need to change my life and can't. so here we are. cut off my hair in 2017; got divorced in 2020-21. curling it now maybe (and certainly coloring it this weekend, but that's monthly anyway), Mohrhardt in 2024-25. right in the pattern.