and when unloading the week's groceries from the Honda hatchback, i looked at all the other stuff in there, a kind of mobile closet and the New Mexico Magazine from October (old CB subscribes) caught my eye. Cover story was about the Best Burritos. So when in house, i leafed through and this:
notice the Mend
then the Cover Photo for the next article...from the Sandia Wilderness, overlooking Albuquerque.
NM Mag has lost its Realness over the years and is kind of a Sales Magazine but i liked things about this article on wool. It spoke of different workers of wool in NM , about a ranch in Tierra Amarilla where 1,000 sheep awaited a crew for spring shearing. The crew is from Colorado. 4 men. 2 Morman and 2 Amish and Fig, an Australian Shepard. And then, the one i know most about, Mora Valley Spinning Mill . If i were to ever leave this Place, i would want to go to Mora. Where there is really Nothing. But there is a Spinning Mill. Mora.
But what i was noticing, when looking at the pictures is the emotion that arises in me about Herds. Herd Animals. People and dogs that "work them", the close bond between human/sheep/dog. The almost primitive motion of herding, shearing, spinning, weaving. It's very very Strong to me. And i am just sitting here as Sun touches that Rim and thinking about it. How i feel such Love for Herds. I am glad to feel this love and really, don't need to "think it through"...i just feel it. and it's very very Good.
A LITTLE LATER, reading the Email thing, i am aware of the aroma of the Buck Goats rising up delicately from my hands in my lap. I have been back to giving them peanuts in the shell in the evening, speaking to them individually, using their names with each peanut, in hopes of making it easier to separate them out and load them , TenZen and Sonny Ray, when the day comes soon. What the fragrance is, is only from their lips on my fingers as i give the peanut, a musk. Buck Goat Musk. and i think how i don't mind it at all. How i actually find it good and uhhhh, good and well, Real. It's what they have to Offer in this world. Their scent. which they hope will Attract.
Jan the Dog Trainer who will be "using" TenZen soon says she would not Ever keep a buck. But then, she NEEDS a buck. There needs to be a buck somewhere for her to Use. Yes. Here. TenZen. and then, Sunny Ray for Kelly. Who has Magic and Barbara. Yin/Yang inseperable. No matter our Opinions. Hmmmm.
