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If I had two
��Pent Oak or scrub cotton woods close to brook or stream
in a low laying spot of some shade and a cool prevailing
breeze that could blow unobstructed through the two.
��The combined need of wool and meat and water for washing
fleece and
self and dog would be found and found convenient in the
wood and good flow of the river flowing full time through
that place where those cotton wood and black oak grew to
more stature than is their norm in an arid clime, and would
allow those churro to graze and fatten and multiply under
their protection and that of the shelty dog and so give
them no cause to wonder, fat from that place.
��Fat also dripping down from mutton fixed to a spit over a
slow flame on
an outdoor fireplace to stay handy to tending and stay
hunger for that dog and the weaver at loom of loom's wood.
��"Loom's Wood," is newly named from old forgotten names,
after enough days of new people
passing to become aware of what is contained within that
wood for enough years of those days and enough of those
people passing and stopping in on that weaver, shelty dog
and that hogan, those churro under those cotton wood and
black oak growing along the bank of that babbling river
coming from deep under, to bend through this wood.
��Stopping out of curiosity at first, but then time passes
as time does
and so bonds are made and friendships with some of those
stopping by are made as well as other relationships that go
deeper than casual friendships, and also some that are much
less than friendships.
��So leaves fall and time passes and new leaves grow to
replace what has
fallen to the ground and then they also fall in their time.
��Still, all that
dwell in that place seem not to notice the steady marking
of the passage of time. ��Within each minute of that passage is a
sameness, each to the next and
yet another thing is also contained within, that is just as
real as the march of those cycles of time and the sameness
of each of those cycles, and a thing that is almost its
opposite, in that it is change. ��Change is contained
within each of those seconds that trickle past that
hogan's door and that wood there on that bend of the river.
��It is because of this or in spite of this that the weaver
has affixed
the loom permanently to the living, growing bodies of those
trees in that wood. In spite of this or because of this
that the weaver has chosen this place among the trees and
in their company to try to create a thing of simple cloth
to outlast himself by days or years or lifetimes.
��A recorded message of how well that weaver has learned
the teachings of
the loom. For it is only these lessons that are granted to
those with the endurance and forbearance to learn that
holds true value.
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