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  • November 29 2024 Work Party

    November 30, 2024 /

    This is what it looks like to be five.

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    March 19 2022 Work Party

    March 27, 2022

    October 28 2023 Work Party

    November 5, 2023

    July 25 2022 Work Party

    July 26, 2022
  • 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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    February 14 2026 Work Party

    February 15, 2026

    December 7 2024 Work Party

    December 8, 2024

    November 8 2025 Work Party

    November 8, 2025
  • June 1 2024 Work Party

    June 2, 2024 /

    We took a field trip this week to the main entrance of ƛ̕ax̌ʷadis Park for a special restoration work party in partnership with the City of Kenmore, Confluence Environmental Company, and Mid Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group. We worked in a wetland area on the peninsula between Swamp Creek and the Sammamish River to remove reed canary grass, yellow flag iris, and Himalayan blackberry so that native rushes, sedges, and willow can continue to establish themselves there. It was a treat to work in a different location and off the boardwalk and an honor to tend to a wetland. We’re looking forward to going back in three months!

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    November 25 2022 Work Party (three years)

    November 26, 2022

    November 9 2024 Work Party

    November 10, 2024

    July 8 2023 Work Party

    July 23, 2023
  • May 18 2024 Work Party

    May 19, 2024 /

    A song for you.

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    April 4 2022 Work Party

    April 10, 2022

    July 2 2022 Work Party

    July 11, 2022

    November 25 2022 Work Party (three years)

    November 26, 2022
  • February 17 2024 Work Party

    February 18, 2024 /

    “Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth’s treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal… To hope is to give yourself the future – and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.” ―Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark You help make my present not only inhabitable, but also joyful. Thank you.

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    December 17 2022 Work Party

    December 18, 2022

    September 11 2021 Work Party

    September 19, 2021

    July 8 2023 Work Party

    July 23, 2023
  • January 6 2024 Work Party

    January 13, 2024 /

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

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    June 14 2025 Work Party

    June 15, 2025

    March 16 2024 Work Party

    March 17, 2024

    March 23 2024 Work Party

    March 24, 2024
  • December 2 2023 Work Party

    December 4, 2023 /

    A song for you.

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    October 16 2021 Work Party

    October 30, 2021

    March 15 2025 Work Party

    March 16, 2025

    April 8 2023 Work Party

    April 12, 2023
  • November 18 2023 Work Party

    November 22, 2023 /

    “So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.” — Pema Chödrön

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    October 8 2022 Work Party

    October 12, 2022

    March 11 2023 Work Party

    March 19, 2023

    September 23 2023 Work Party

    October 1, 2023
  • 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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    September 7 2024 Work Party

    September 8, 2024

    July 22 2023 Work Party

    July 30, 2023

    April 23 2022 Work Party

    April 24, 2022
  • 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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    November 24 2023 Work Party (four years)

    November 27, 2023

    August 17 2024 Work Party

    August 18, 2024

    August 13 2022 Work Party

    August 13, 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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