MINUTE OF MONTH NO. 21 NOVEMBER 2021
Channel: Sarah Bay Gachot
Date: 2023-01-13

#minuteofmonth No. 21, November 2021. This month began in Georgia on the coast, in Darien, with day trips to St. Simons and Jekyll Islands. Then we parked the car in Atlanta and flew to Antigua, then a very small plane to Nevis, then exited the Caribbean through St. Kitts back to Atlanta, and another flight to Carbondale, CO, for Thanksgiving. This month angels kept trying to pull me out from the morass of my own scrambledness. "Oh, but what about/if ..." moments, despite being surrounded by benevolence every day — the visions of @gazpachot, sunrise, night frogs, breathable air, ocean, warmth, fluid movement across the land and sea, a shit-ton of rainbows — still finding ways to suffer in body and mind. Yes, I had traveler's gut the whole time we were in the Caribbean, something I blame on the general unease I felt in the place we briefly stayed in Antigua, where all that was celebrated and historicized had everything to do with colonialism, the wretchedness of it all summed up tidily in a history museum display of a series of felt nautical flags, dusty, tattered, and falling apart (the kind of neglect you often find in questionable history museums), that spelled out "England Expects Every Man to do His Duty." And this flurry of movement since October has turned me over into a place where I feel a bit lost, asking, didn't we just do that in the last place? But these angels in Darien, Nevis, Colorado . . . and I'm only recognizing now how gently they were winking at me, telling me to face the other direction — forward, inward — and so very much so when we reached my family in Carbondale. My uncle passed in October, and his presence was so fresh in their home. Everywhere. I've never experienced someone passing with such grace, with a unique message for all who loved him near and far. And to be surrounded by my family who are all pursuing some amazing things in the world of painting, design, olfaction, the culinary arts, and soul-diving healing — my father @hone_williams , sister @distant.planet.design , cousins @sleepingphoenixapothecary , and @thatdude_cancook , and my auntie @helenahurrell — she is the queen of all angels. Originally posted on: 
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