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part of me watched this cloth all day

 

 


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she brought them before light,  5 something,  sleeping children from car to sleeping children in my bed.  Off to drive a Uhaul to Sacremento or somewhere…a fundraising for Paradise

 

 


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Emrie wanted to go look for her.  We walked  all the way down the Hill road,  all the way back up.  Some kids hold up their arms,  say Up.  Emrie walks.   The Goats came.  Talkie and Puppie.  Julian,  his pre prepubescent self, slept.

it's almost dark again,  Sun rolled across the sky,  Emrie finaly conks out.  I am left to continue watching that cloth.  

Somehow i read that all displaced children from Paradise will attend the Oroville Bird St. school together.

an organization called Cultivating Place,  conversations on Natural History and the human impulse to garden  is gathering things like gloves,  hand pruners,  something called Root Pouches. Knowing it's too soon,  they are thinking that people might just keep them in a corner of whereever they find themselves,  to remind them that things will change.

Alisa Golden on lichen…."it cannot be cultivated"

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15 responses to “childKeeping”

  1. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Sounds like a good day .. a day where you were needed and able. A day filled with hope that things will get better in time. A just going kind of day. Sounds like a good day ..

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  2. Vicky Davis Avatar
    Vicky Davis

    she will always remember, walking with goats, dogs, a chicken and one of the women who love her.
    i am glad they are keeping the children all together for school. enough has been taken from them.

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    “Why We Garden- Cultivating a Sense of Place” by Jim Nollman
    he puts this round of change into an interesting perspective, that we are moving into a biocentric world view- a life centred point of view, to quote,
    “We are starting to sense that human beings are no longer at the centre of the Earth’s purpose. Our species is, rather, one integral aspect of the greater interdependent network of nature.” (p101)
    By moving into a biocentric world view where the whole planet is sentient we have to look after our planet not exploit her!
    Another interesting thought this book puts forward is if we could only make every decision like the Iroquois tribal governments did we wouldn’t have nearly so many problems! to quote again,
    “Whenever the six nations of the Iroquois confederacy held a council meeting, they first took a moment to invoke the presence of the seventh future generation. Thereafter, any vote among the living council members also included an equal vote cast for the needs and dignity of those who would live a hundred and fifty years to two hundred years in the future. To the Iroquois the rights of future generations never became an issue of policy because they were, instead, the actual context of policy. As Onondaga elder Oren Lyons has observed,
    ‘When we walk upon Mother Earth we always plant our feet carefully because we know the faces of our future generations are looking up at us from beneath the ground.’ ”
    I interpret this idea of the future generations as not only the human generations but all the animals, plants, rocks, soil, insects, etc.. in other words we simply must consider the future of all the “10,000 things” that make up life on earth

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  4. Michelle Slater Avatar
    Michelle Slater

    (beautiful offering from Mo)
    Oh Grace, so precious are the “10,000 things” and all the dear beings herein, I’m speechless. These three photographs speak eloquently in ways I’m hard put to find words for.
    Onward then, to the cloth!

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  5. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    I am behind in reading your blog and sometimes have to read several posts at a time. This response is to your last two posts. I love to hear that Alyssa is involved in helping with a fundraiser. And to know you are a part of that by being able to give her children a wonderful day while she is away. To grieve over stuff, that funny little word, Stuff, it’s memories… is so deep to so many of us. This technology that has brought your blog to me and the blogs of so many wonderful people, has also brought me You Tube.. and I watched a mans vblog, Jamie, of “Enigmatic Nomadics”, who has a most generous heart and gathers funds so he can give people vehicles to live in. He is at the Gridley Fairgrounds now working with local people and asking all his you tube followers to donate to this cause because without a car, its hard to start over. He did an amazing interview with a local woman who is volunteering her time to help people get very basic stuff and tend to their needs. So it struck me how wonderful people want to give items to garden with and cloth to make quilts etc.. but if all you have is a tarp over your head… the reality for a lot of people is that stuff will be down the road… when they can get down that road. I urge people to go check Jamie out, just the two weeks before he arrived at the fairgrounds he held an event in the desert where people living in their vehicles could come and he gathered people to give their skills to help with building beds in them and putting solar on their roofs. He was able to donate to a woman in a wheelchair better batteries for her wheelchair and solar panels to run them, and another person who came to the event to donate his time and skills had only a tent and a bicycle, Jamie’s tribe raised money so he was given a car to live in.
    I am so sorry to ramble on, I am so overwhelmed by people’s love and need to be involved in any way they can. Everyone has to pick and choose their charities, but know that whatever you do counts so much.

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  6. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Ps.. I love my stuff.. and when I read an article about the women getting donated cloth and sewing machines and thread and needle, what struck me was how they Petted the fabric and that touched home to me. Yes, I pet my fabric.

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  7. dee Avatar
    dee

    When I was gardening with elementary school kids, I embraced this notion of “biophlia” — that humans are hard wired to spend time in nature and when we don’t we suffer —as a way to counter a culture that over prized the intellect and external achievement. how different is the combination of biocentrism and planning for the seventh generation and the increased amount of urgency brought on by climate change (so much so in the intervening 15 years). Not contradictory ideas but an important shift of perspective. I gathered tiny gardening gloves and little rakes and planted pizza gardens, colonial gardens, celebrated earth day by looking at worms and ants. The vision held by one saying, “set these things aside” is touching. As is the web of relationships in your day.

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  8. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    to see the gentle quiet of two sleeping children … the presence of cloth awaiting its becoming … I will carry these images with me today

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    a totally Good Day. Very grounded. Very Grand.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it has great meaning. They moved the regular students of the Bird St school to another school. It was a thought FULL thing to do. Now the children, K through middle school. All together. I cannot imagine what these children are working through.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    BioCentric. the 10,000 Things
    thank you…these words

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yup…the Cloth. on my knees in gratitude to the Cloth

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    HOW GREAT, peggy, that HE IS AT GRIDLEY!!!!!! OH YAY!!!!
    and hallelujah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Beauty. we can make Beauty, can’t we.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    they do usual older brother, baby things, but the
    underlying energy of it all is captured here. The love.

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