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  • April 12 2025 Work Party

    April 13, 2025 /

    It is always good to be with you.

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    May 18 2024 Work Party

    May 19, 2024

    Do Tires Belong In Wetlands?

    May 20, 2022

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    February 22, 2022
  • April 5 2025 Work Party

    April 6, 2025 /

    We took an excursion to the west side of ƛ̕ax̌ʷadis Park. It was good.

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    April 13 2024 Work Party

    April 14, 2024

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  • March 22 2025 Work Party

    March 23, 2025 /

    Mallards, American robins, Spotted Towhees. An otter, a salamander. Raptors, maybe red-tailed hawks? Willows staked along the south bank just weeks ago budding, osoberry, red elderberry, and snowberry becoming green. We reached the tree that a month ago seemed so far away, revealed a goat track hidden by brambles, pulled barbed wire out of the ground. A collapsing empire, cancer, hospice. These things cannot be left behind, but despite their presence, for a moment that stretches to hours, I feel ease.

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    April 11 2026 Work Party

    April 15, 2026

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    February 22, 2022
  • March 15 2025 Work Party

    March 16, 2025 /

    The best problem to have is not enough root slayers.

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    August 6 2022 Work Party

    August 7, 2022

    January 13 2024 Work Party

    January 14, 2024

    first baby trees

    December 4, 2021
  • March 8 2025 Work Party

    March 9, 2025 /

    You are a gift.

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    November 18 2023 Work Party

    November 22, 2023

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    February 11, 2023

    April 17 2022 Work Party

    April 23, 2022
  • 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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    May 3 2025 Work Party

    May 4, 2025

    April 4 2026 Work Party

    April 4, 2026

    November 2 2024 Work Party

    November 3, 2024
  • January 20 2025 Work Party

    January 21, 2025 /

    Love in action.

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    November 13 2022 Work Party

    November 24, 2022

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    February 22, 2022

    first baby trees

    December 4, 2021
  • 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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    August 17 2024 Work Party

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    January 28 2023 Work Party

    January 29, 2023

    April 23 2023 Work Party Earth Day

    May 7, 2023
  • 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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    September 7 2024 Work Party

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    March 27 2022 Work Party

    March 27, 2022
  • 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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    October 28 2023 Work Party

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6/20 Swamp Creek Habitat Restoration Project Work Party – 175th St/Swamp Creek South

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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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