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  • May 18 2024 Work Party

    May 19, 2024 /

    A song for you.

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    October 8, 2023
  • April 28 2024 Work Party

    April 29, 2024 /

    Earth, the third planet from the sun, is our home. I am glad to exist here with you.

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    January 27 2024 Work Party

    January 27, 2024

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    January 8 2022 Work Party

    January 8, 2022
  • January 27 2024 Work Party

    January 27, 2024 /

    We whisper our worry about displacing neighbors who have found shelter behind blackberry brambles not many blocks from where anger shouted away the possibility of permanent homes for them. Rain. We do everything we can. We clip, dig, call, write, lay down cardboard, haul mulch, bare hearts, show up, plant trees, hold on to hope. It is what we can do and it is not enough this time. Everything comes tumbling down, grey clouds settle in. Rest. The world will be reordered and then we will start again.

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    October 16 2021 Work Party

    October 30, 2021
  • January 6 2024 Work Party

    January 13, 2024 /

    So many hands. So many hearts. So much healing. I love you.

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    May 6, 2023 Work Party

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    March 27 2022 Work Party

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    March 9 2024 Work Party

    March 9, 2024
  • October 7 2023 Work Party

    October 8, 2023 /

    First meetings. Tree branches swoop to make swings. The forest swallows children, spits them out. A cardboard brigade. Small feet stomp mulch. The children become lost to the creek. You arrive. We begin as we left off, the mulch pile moved, canes cut, root balls dug. Pill bugs and spiders scrabble over rick, dark earth, a dear long-toed salamander travels from glove to arm on ki‘s way to safe shelter. Canes moved by clipper, the last ripe blackberries of the season foraged, a heavy chain pulled from the brambles, a crushed frying pan declared non-native. Our time together inevitably comes to a close and most of you have ridden away,…

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    June 18 2022 Work Party

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    May 3 2025 Work Party

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  • September 23 2023 Work Party

    October 1, 2023 /

    Digging blackberry regrowth, felling English hawthorn. Gently tending to trailing blackberry and a baby sword fern, whispering with an adolescent Western red cedar. A thin layer of compost, a generously overlapped layer of cardboard, a thick layer of mulch. Some cardboard left bare, puddles gathered. Young people with heads together, talk babbling over talk, laughter, connection, so much love bouncing from you to me to root slayers to conifers to cottonwoods, everywhere, then rain. Light at first, then heavier, it soaks us, pelts upturned faces, drips from leaves, soaks into soil, seeps into roots, grows us, grows everything.

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    March 23 2024 Work Party

    March 24, 2024

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    April 24, 2022

    October 30 2021 Work Party

    November 3, 2021
  • April 1, 2023 Work Party

    April 6, 2023 /

    A song for you.

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    May 14, 2023

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    November 28 2024 Work Party

    November 28, 2025
  • February 4 2023 Work Party

    February 11, 2023 /

    “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” –Desmond Tutu Thank you for being the light, my dear ones, and a wellspring of hope.

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    January 19 2025 Work Party

    January 19, 2026

    October 16 2021 Work Party

    October 30, 2021

    April 5 2025 Work Party

    April 6, 2025
  • June 18 2022 Work Party

    June 20, 2022 /

    I am grumpy. I am grumpy about the parking lot. I am grumpy that I am grumpy about the parking lot. I am grumpy about the leaked motor oil shining iridescently in puddles on the seasonally wet field. I am grumpy about the proposed development a stone’s throw to the north. I am grumpy that the plans have changed and I don’t know why or how. I am grumpy about the flooding. I am grumpy that not even my phone can distract me, that it points my attention to the hundreds of unsheltered humans who have died in the extreme heat. I am grumpy about the heat, that all those…

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    April 12 2025 Work Party

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  • April 4 2022 Work Party

    April 10, 2022 /

    The knotweed has awakened. Buoyed by spring birdsong, we dig it with renewed vigor. Every two weeks, forever, or maybe for ten years. Until we have made whole what has been broken. This is the collective work of right now. Thank you for showing up. Until next time.

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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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