Prompt. build yourself an appropriate protective talisman, lucky charm, or kitchen witch/guardian totem for your real~life garden, private interior realm, or a special corner of your home.
For inspiration consider what would best represent the vibe and themes that have emerged from the first half of our challenge's time/focus commitment.
Early in the still dark i read. I drink tea and begin marking time on the clock because i need to be gone from here today. But i got the flash light and got Tree Woman out of the drawer. I sit, holding Her. This image, from a large page of Natl Geo maybe 40 years ago? Back in Michigan. No…only maybe 35. She has migrated over the years from inside books, dictionary, folders, drawing notebooks, boxes of paper, books of family photographs. She's moved and moved. Been lost so many times and found as many. There was never a fear She would be Gone, it was just a matter of time till She showed up again. A lot of times i looked but couldn't find Her. Eventually, i decided that it was somehow purposeful. I'd always find her when i really needed her. The large photograph was telling of a man in some country in the Continent of Africa, i don't remember, who had built a platform high in a tree that looked like a nest. I can't remember why he did that. But this small part of that photograph was STUNNING to me….incidental to the story of the photographer, really, not even a part of it. But i have had her so long and with all the handling by me and by her Places she's been, the paper is worn thin and fragile. I found her most recently in that tub of paper things, down at Campsite B. The tub with the damp wrapping tissue.
it was She that came instantly to mind with : what would best represent the vibe and themes that have emerged from the first half of our challenge's time/focus commitment. I don't have anymore words for this right now. But when i finally made it back home, i got her and i got the scrap baggie and began going through. i thought i wouldn't be able to focus at all, but i could and did and got this far. To glue her down. To glue her down is ummmm, is ___________[something]. No word.
But i look at her here among the other pages so far and i think of that term KeepSake that Acey gave….KeepSake. KeepSafe.
Maybe She doesn't need to get lost anymore. Maybe i have arrived at a place where i can keep her safe and she can keep me safe. ? We are both old and thin from the wear and tear of time passing. Both of us will be compost in not too long. But in the meantime, we have work to do.
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