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  • March 8 2025 Work Party

    March 9, 2025 /

    You are a gift.

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    April 23 2022 Work Party

    April 24, 2022

    Four years

    November 25, 2023

    June 24 2023 Work Party

    July 15, 2023
  • January 25 2025 Work Party

    January 26, 2025 /

    Crisp cold bright blue sky. Himalayan blackberry canes cut. Reed canary grass trimmed. Tree climbed. You hid. You were found.

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    September 25 2022 Work Party

    October 8, 2022

    March 9 2024 Work Party

    March 9, 2024

    August 28 2021 Work Party

    August 28, 2021
  • January 20 2025 Work Party

    January 21, 2025 /

    Love in action.

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    April 23 2023 Work Party Earth Day

    May 7, 2023

    September 9 2023 Work Party

    September 10, 2023

    March 3 2023 Preparing for Planting

    March 3, 2023
  • January 11 2025 Work Party

    January 12, 2025 /

    “Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. The trick to doing this is to stay with emotional distress without tightening into aversion; to let fear soften us rather than harden into resistance. We cultivate bravery through making aspirations. We make the wish that all beings, including ourselves and those we dislike, be free of suffering and the root of suffering.”–Pema Chödrön, Comfortable with Uncertainty And a song for you.

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    October 12 2024 Work Party

    October 13, 2024

    December 11 2021 Work Party

    December 12, 2021

    April 5 2025 Work Party

    April 6, 2025
  • December 29 2024 Walk

    December 30, 2024 /

    Restful solitude, nourishing until the days wear into claustrophobic sameness. Glass door. Rain. Tea. Chair. Keyboard. Caretaking. Glass door. Rain. Thoughts pile up, crowd worn tracks, dress themselves up for disturbing nighttime scenes. I sleep for a day, stumble into an anatomy of melancholy, wonder if the tech billionaires have found a way into my busy brain. Still rain. Still genocide, still oligarchy, still authoritarianism rising, still greed and profit and planetary destruction, still not enough affordable housing, still a sixth mass extinction, still all the suffering I cannot control. I don’t want to move, but I do. I go outside, walk through the seasonal stream, across the swampy field.…

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    June 3 2023 Work Party

    June 11, 2023

    January 3 2026 Work Party

    January 4, 2026

    December 11 2021 Work Party

    December 12, 2021
  • December 14 2024 Work Party

    December 15, 2024 /

    The last work party of 2024: We excavated trash, dug Himalayan blackberry roots, pulled ivy, rooted up herb Robert and foxglove. We tucked in baby conifers with blankets of mulch stitched in rings, the Western red cedars in particular need of this tender care under climate change. We felt the wind rush around us, watched a murmuration twist and turn above us. We found a tiny Garry oak pushing out of the ground from an acorn planted on the winter solstice one year ago, put a kite in the air for a fleeting moment, brought a whole vibe. We made space, for the trees and for each other. We arrived…

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    February 24 2024 Work Party

    February 25, 2024

    October 12 2024 Work Party

    October 13, 2024

    January 2022

    January 16, 2022
  • December 7 2024 Work Party

    December 8, 2024 /

    A song for you.

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    July 1 2023 Work Party

    July 15, 2023

    July 13 2024 Work Party

    July 14, 2024

    December 20 2025 Work Party

    December 20, 2025
  • November 29 2024 Work Party

    November 30, 2024 /

    This is what it looks like to be five.

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    July 2 2022 Work Party

    July 11, 2022

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    March 17, 2022

    July 22 2023 Work Party

    July 30, 2023
  • November 23 2024 Work Party

    November 24, 2024 /

    Thirteen loppers, 11 clippers, 10 root slayers, five little shovels. Four hundred harvested and supplied willow stakes, 116 potted plants laid out by the maintenance contractor. One snake skin, three copies of The Serviceberry, four steady goat feet. 105 Scirpus microcarpus, an unspecified number of harvested willow whips, an uncountable blanket of red cedar seedlings huddled under tiny rectangular skylights. Two fleeting moments of rain, so light it barely whispered. Three hours well spent.

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    May 18 2024 Work Party

    May 19, 2024

    January 22 2022 Work Party

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    January 25 2025 Work Party

    January 26, 2025
  • November 16 2024 Work Party

    November 23, 2024 /

    Steady rain. Muddy earth. Thank you.

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    October 30 2021 Work Party

    November 3, 2021

    January 19 2025 Work Party

    January 19, 2026

    July 25 2022 Work Party

    July 26, 2022
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"We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations."
― Pope John Paul II

“Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

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