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  • 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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    December 11 2021 Work Party

    December 12, 2021

    Watering Our Baby

    July 28, 2022

    March 16 2024 Work Party

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  • November 9 2024 Work Party

    November 10, 2024 /

    U.S. Navy Reserve members from all over join us. The large branch of a horse chestnut tree comes down, taking two folding handsaws with it. Baby conifers uncovered, trash exhumed. So many gifts, so much grace.

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    January 16 2023 Work Party MLK Jr Day of Service

    January 22, 2023

    November 4 2023 Work Party

    November 18, 2023

    May 18 2024 Work Party

    May 19, 2024
  • October 26 2024 Work Party

    October 27, 2024 /

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    November 29 2024 Work Party

    November 30, 2024

    January 8 2022 Work Party

    January 8, 2022

    August 12 2023 Work Party

    August 12, 2023
  • 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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    Four years

    November 25, 2023

    March 22 2025 Work Party

    March 23, 2025

    November 2 2024 Work Party

    November 3, 2024
  • January 6 2024 Work Party

    January 13, 2024 /

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

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    December 11 2021 Work Party

    December 12, 2021

    Four years

    November 25, 2023

    three years

    November 25, 2022
  • December 16 2023 Work Party

    December 17, 2023 /

    Mulch pile in the perfect wrong spot, ingenious tarp wrapping canes, joy traveling on air. Found objects leave stories untold; in the mystery, room for possibility, for magic. Root balls fat with the sun, rafts from here to the road, from here into the unknown. In this moment, with people unsheltered, with a climate collapsing, with bombs falling, with opposition to compassion, with apathy, here also is your joy, your persistence, your care. Here is the beautiful, painful messiness of it all laid bare. Here is life.

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    February 4 2023 Work Party

    February 11, 2023

    April 23 2023 Work Party Earth Day

    May 7, 2023

    July 8 2023 Work Party

    July 23, 2023
  • November 24 2023 Work Party (four years)

    November 27, 2023 /

    This is what it looks like to be four.

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    September 25 2022 Work Party

    October 8, 2022

    January 16 2023 Work Party MLK Jr Day of Service

    January 22, 2023

    October 12 2024 Work Party

    October 13, 2024
  • October 28 2023 Work Party

    November 5, 2023 /

    The first trees of this planting season are in new homes, tucked on the east side of Swamp Creek before it bends to find the Sammamish River. Douglas fir, Western hemlock, Grand fir, and Sitka spruce removed from pots, roots unbound and draped over mounds of soil in deep holes, rocks sifted and piled nearby, compost mixed with the earth we found and pressed firmly down. Gentle tugs at the base of 30 trunks confirm they are all securely tucked. One tree in not quite the right home. We decide to move ki a foot over, safely out of the way of passing wheelbarrows full of Himalayan blackberry and English…

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    November 24 2023 Work Party (four years)

    November 27, 2023

    April 1, 2023 Work Party

    April 6, 2023

    June 8 2024 Work Party

    June 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 3 2023 Work Party

    June 11, 2023

    August 10 2024 Work Party

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    January 2022

    January 16, 2022
  • March 6 2022 Work Party

    March 17, 2022 /

    Grey shifts blue. Beautiful earth, beautiful people. Belonging.

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    July 29 2023 Work Party

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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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