i am here, to make the Post for today and phone rings (or whatever it is, the sound, of this cell phone) and it's a California # i answered and it was a survey. with a very tired sounding young woman wanting to ask me questions about the upcoming Vote. As it went along, and i let it go along because of how tired she sounded, it became clear that it was information seeking for candidate Mike Bloomberg who i have paid ZERO attention to so it became complex, my answers to her, too many words i had and she would say, i understand, but then give me the possible answers list again and i'd pick one. Got more vague as it went on. We got to racial identification and i went on a while that though i am caucasian, my entire family is not, and so i do not identify with caucasian and she said I understand and went on to the next quesion of education and then to income level
and i spent the day, just Jenny and i, she bringing the chain saw to work on the downed trees and that's a whole story there, that i seem too tired to go near, but we worked to cut and stack branches so i can burn them in the burn barrels, which are a whole OTHEr thing i'm too tired to give words to And at some point, i remembered Mo's suggestion and gestured with my lips like the Native People do in New Mex to the Daughter Quilt hanging there ….i said it was suggested that i ask her how she might want it finished. She kept cutting and then said, laughing, You never finish anything. But followed that with
You know what i would Really Like?..She would like a Drawing. She gestured…maybe 2ft wide x 3 ft long, or more, she said. She'd like a DRAWING of all the things we know on this Hill, the trees, plants, birds, insects, reptiles, mammals, she wants their life cycles included as in the old Natural History drawings of flora and fauna. That's what i'd Really Like she said.
My kids are blunt. They are Honest. I raised them that way. So. Here it is. She followed up, a few minutes later with…
That's what i'd Really like.
and there we have it.
we found a lot of Turkey Tail. There's more to this. but enough for now.
I really love her. And slowly, so so slowly, she's letting me.
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