i opened the sketch book. it's been a while. and here was where i'd left off. Sat looking. Liking this. Very Much. and then, Out of the Blue, i wondered......what If?, these figures were animated. Like.....stood up, and began
Doing things.? What would they do? Is it possible that i might be able to draw that? as in repeat the drawing of this Entity i called Imagination in some kind of continuing way? "her", i know i could but.....Imagination? This is a huge question and i want to know more about it.....what does it mean that i'm asking?, could i possibly DO IT?
so i carried these questions as i went into the day....which was in the Garden. on the weekend i'd found some abandoned fencing that i'd been hoping for.....to make Trellis for the cucumbers and the lone Green Bean that came up from seed.....but it had been rolled tight and didn't want to straighten. And if i'd been someone else, i would have weighed it down on a place of level ground...maybe rocks?.......and stretched it square by square flat but.....i am not someone else, so i began the Struggle, trying to pound the Fence Staples in with a hammer, hold the first end in place long enough to stretch it a little without having it snap back into it's familiar coiled form and in that, decapitating, or totally ripping off the entire body of the seedling plants.....it's too much to try to describe. But at one point i thought.....too bad this is not some kind of TikTok or something....it would go Viral.....this old woman in deep challenge with fencing, not giving up not giving up and finally DOING IT by also tying string guy lines out from the top of the fencing , out to other staples hammered into the ground , with string... to ease the pressure 3 hours but got it done. Enough for today. Plants are safe. OR, i think so. and lesson learned.. I'd thought....no need to put up the trellis before i set the seedlings in, it takes them a while to reach vining .....because i couldn't find the fencing....but that didn't take into account the WILL of the fencing.....the vulnerability of the seedlings. Maybe by next year i will have learned that just pushing ahead isn't the greatest idea. go slow. To go slow. Mindfully.
and i've finished the above. Sit here. In the dark. there is this soft rushing sound of wind. Minnow is dreaming...her legs twitching, she makes small sounds..... go back to the beginning. Imagination. What would this Entity have been doing as i was deep into the struggle with the fencing? I'll close my eyes and see what comes....but right away, ........ there is no "speech".......Imagination, They, have no audible speech. They "speak" in mind image...transmission of images. mind to mind. and by gesture, by Doing. ok. but, wait! They do make some kind of humming sound. ok. enough for now.
