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October 2009 
What are you saving?
Posted on Nov 19th, 2008
by 
Farland
Farland
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for November 16, 2008:
I am always collecting rocks I love the feel of their weight when I carry them I love to be in rocky places more than green ones. I spread them out in front of my cabin like a garden that needs no water. I love the finding and carrying more than the having. I have a pair of old old polar bear paws I bought for twenty-five cents each from Orville Paye a junk dealer in Saranac Lake New York. I have saved them kept them for 20 years there are so many things that pass through my hands and go on to other places but those paws.
I like to save up in my mind the anticipation of being in Utah at my cabin when I am not there I keep big empty spaces inside me that I can fill with all kinds of lovely potentials and they feel good inside on their own not even needing to be realized. I don't save them for long I let them go after awhile or they turn real and move out like breathing.
I like to save up in my mind the anticipation of being in Utah at my cabin when I am not there I keep big empty spaces inside me that I can fill with all kinds of lovely potentials and they feel good inside on their own not even needing to be realized. I don't save them for long I let them go after awhile or they turn real and move out like breathing.
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I love collecting rocks too; or river stones. It's been so long since I've been able to do it, though! So I buy crystals instead.
I notice you don't stack them. I love when I go hiking and find a stack magically balanced and waiting to be found. I think there's a name for those stacks which I've forgotten, but it's a very nice thing.
I like to save up my anticipation too. That's what it's for, I think.
Cairn, I think, Jeannie. I save rocks too.
oh Laura, thank you, that itchy spot in my brain feels better now!
My brother stacks them I think he has a facebook group for cairn builders. I pick rocks for their colors and singular shapes and esp ones with holes in them or patterns so no stacking.
Rock People are a delight to collect and stack up as high as possible. Rent the movie, The Long, Long Trailer with Lucy and Desi to see their rock collection. In the past while hiking, my particular group of monkey wrenchers would always pick some poor sap as a target and at every rest, another rock or two would be snuck into their backpack unanounced and unknown. Tee-Hee! I want to go out to see the rocks that move along the dry lake bed on their own. I think it's in Nevada.
I am then my own monkey wrencher. Carrying rocks, being weighed down that way makes me feel more grounded when it is happening and then this wonderful feeling when I put down my pack of almost floating away. What kind of trailer is it that is so long? George I almost needed you tonight my car lost it's charging power lights dimmed then died then car sputtered and did the same but by then I was out of Pitkin County.
Yes, putting down the pack at the end of a long day is quite the feeling. Reminds me of a story I believe was in the Tao of Pooh. A young man heard about a very old wise man that had reached enlightenment. He found him trudging along a dirt road bent nearly double by a huge sack he had on his back. The young man asked the old man if he could tell him what enlightenment was like. At that, the old man put down his huge load and stood tall with his arms outstretched to the skies with a huge smile on his face. The young man than asked the old man as to how it was to use the enlightenment, and the old man grunted the huge sack to his back, bent into the load and trudged off.
Yikes, as to your car! Hopefully, it is something simple.
The movie is about Lucy and Desi on a honeymoon pulling a very large camping trailer. At every spot, Lucy spots and collects a rock or two, all through the movie. You can guess what happens eventually when they get to the mountains!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047191/ A classic Minnelli movie.
Thank you so much for the story! Yes that is what I mean. Say hello to Dawn for me maybe at 2 am.
Alternator, that's what I'm saying.
Stacking rock people - George, collecting and stacking almost any sort of people sounds entertaining. I'm going to put it on my list of goals.
I'm a little tiny bit jealous that you all live/work somewhere near each other and George can say hi to Dawn at 2am (say hi for me too), but I am very grateful for the internet. Dawn, if I wake up in the middle of the night I'll look for you.
We do live close by, but see each other all to infrequently.
Robert Fullghum, Eveything I Need to Know… has a fun stacking game. He has a group play musical chairs, but instead of being “out” if you don't get a chair, one has to ask if you can share a chair with some else. This gets to be great fun and involves a lot of cooperation as the chairs get fewer and fewer and the stacking more and more complicated! The game is over when everyone is stacked neatly on one chair and all are winners! As it should be.
As far as diagnosing your car, Farland, I can look under the hood and let you know if the engine is still in there or not. That's about it. Sounds like a job for Adam!
Perhaps Adam could fix up a nice bus and we could travel the states picking up, visiting and dropping off Gaia friends a la Ken Keesey's Magic Bus Tour. Hmmmm.
Honda, heal thyself! I love my ancient car. I went down with tools to remove the battery so I could charge it up enough to get the car to the mechanics and low and behold it started right up and drove! I will still take it in to figure out what happened but no limping or towing. And Adam is in Alabama this week. Wasn't one of the Gaia questions this week about what needed healing? Maybe my car used some of that medicine.
Farland, after I read this blog yesterday, I drove up into the hills to an Artist's Way meeting with three friends, walked in and shared this rock story with all of them. Especially because one of the women there reminds me of your energy. Then I said, “I want to be Farland” and we all laughed. But seriously, your energy feels so grounded and beautiful from the weight of all those rocks. It's so cool that you love the carrying more than the having. Thank you thank you for sharing yourself with us.
Yeah, Centria, I know what you mean. I have rocks lying all over my house actually. there are hunks of jasper and quartz crystal and hematite and just plain river stone. Farland, I have an old Honda too. what a workhorse it's been. what kind of car do you have? I doubt it, but maybe I can help.
It is an 86 civic two door hatchback dirt colored. It fixed itself so far thank you what do you have/ Oh the rocks we can't be talking about them much more they will be buried under snow and time to leave those thoughts til spring and not be pining and they get so cold now I love how warm rocks can be even after the sun sets in Summer. It's polarbear paw time.
well, mine's a 2001 civic lx. a little battered. 164 k miles on it and it runs great. i'll keep it till it won't run anymore. i'm curious about how many miles yours has on it, if you know.
i was looking for rocks on my walk this morning. I knew I should be looking around me at the beauty and the trees but I wanted to find a rock. I have a collection of rocks on my mantle. stones. I like that word. the smooth round ones. I want to cover the whole thing one day with just rocks. I always liked rocks since I was little for some reason they reminded me of Hansel and Gretel and finding their way in the woods.
Our rocks here are cold for the winter, only the dark ones warm up now even during the day. They're (they, not the rocks, they the weather predictors) saying snow storm today and part of me hopes so but I want Adrian and Chandini to be able to get here for thanksgiving and Krissy to be able to get home from Morganton and then it could snow. But apparently it isn't up to me.