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  • March 8 2025 Work Party

    March 9, 2025 /

    You are a gift.

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    August 10 2024 Work Party

    August 11, 2024

    November 13 2022 Work Party

    November 24, 2022

    December 11 2021 Work Party

    December 12, 2021
  • 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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    March 27 2022 Work Party

    March 27, 2022

    June 7 2025 Work Party

    June 8, 2025

    July 16 Work Party

    July 24, 2022
  • 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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    January 8 2022 Work Party

    January 8, 2022

    July 20 2024 Work Party

    July 21, 2024

    February 17 2024 Work Party

    February 18, 2024
  • November 29 2024 Work Party

    November 30, 2024 /

    This is what it looks like to be five.

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    September 23 2023 Work Party

    October 1, 2023

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    December 4, 2023

    November 16 2024 Work Party

    November 23, 2024
  • 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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    March 15 2025 Work Party

    March 16, 2025

    February 28 2026 Work Party

    February 28, 2026

    October 16 2021 Work Party

    October 30, 2021
  • 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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    March 4 2023 Planting Work Party

    March 5, 2023

    June 7 2025 Work Party

    June 8, 2025

    May 18 2024 Work Party

    May 19, 2024
  • May 18 2024 Work Party

    May 19, 2024 /

    A song for you.

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    November 23 2024 Work Party

    November 24, 2024

    March 14 2026 Work Party

    March 15, 2026

    November 2 2024 Work Party

    November 3, 2024
  • 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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    November 13 2022 Work Party

    November 24, 2022

    March 3 2023 Preparing for Planting

    March 3, 2023

    November 28 2024 Work Party

    November 28, 2025
  • January 6 2024 Work Party

    January 13, 2024 /

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

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    Four years

    November 25, 2023

    April 8 2023 Work Party

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    December 13 2025 Work Party

    December 14, 2025
  • December 2 2023 Work Party

    December 4, 2023 /

    A song for you.

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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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