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National Geographic  6/2020 issue    Gabriele Galimberti    portraits of people in there homes for the quarantine in Italy.   He placed two stands of photographic lights in front of a window outside a dwelling.   He retreated so the people inside could safely retrieve the lights.  Shouting through the window,  Galimberti directed the positioning of lights and people,  then made his photos.  Quarantine portraiture.

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This is Greta Tanini and Cristoforo Lippi …"normally live apart but found themselves together in the shuttered city.   "We prefer to remain in isolation rather than taking risks or endangering the health of others.", she says.

Some time back,  maybe a year or more?  i began to follow a woman,   Cecilia Mary Gunther,  a New Zealander who had married a man of mid-west farm people.  She became a farmer.  Determined to be organic and kind.  Raising cows, chickens, ducks and pigs,  feed for those.   Recentlly,  months,  she began working part time at a grain mill nearby for extra cash the farm needed.  This parttime turned into much more and really her life is now fulltime fulltime.   She used to blog daily but now every now and then.   Today,  said  "…create systems that are long term.  No more hunkering down and waiting.  Get busy.  Let's literally design our lives to create safe living spaces and inclusive caring practices that include all our neighborhoods."    I read the words and tho am not sure how to translate them to something i know,  they caught and held my attention.  I read them  several times.           The kitchensgarden.com    Nanette turned me on to her.

 

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12 responses to “yesterday or today….living collage”

  1. Nanette Avatar

    I think she had goats at the time. Her life is very different now. Good words.

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  2. Deb G Avatar

    Here Grace:
    https://thekitchensgarden.com/2020/06/28/39725/#comments
    Yes those are important words…also knowing what is your threshold. This morning the idea of thresholds is very much on my mind.

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  3. jude Avatar

    yeah, let’s get on with it

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  4. Mo Crow Avatar

    (((Grace))) love how you get on with it every day with your words and images of life growing on The Hill

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  5. Jacqui Avatar
    Jacqui

    As New Zealanders my people came from Scotland and England looking for a better life. They started as farmers even without prior knowledge, they adapted to what needed to be done. Work together for what needs to be done. The sense here is we are a team of 5 million people, we need each other, be kind, we’ll get thru this together. I think this call to our better selves is a choice to decide to be better, do better for each other including all the beings of the natural world. Somehow as a species we’ve forgotten we are PART of the picture, not the whole picture. Whether each of us chooses to listen, decide, act, will determine our own evolution. I agree with Jude learn to grow something. Tbe very act of planting a seed, is an opportunity to hold hands with nature, to engage with the positive power of change and transformation and of course learn to take care of yourself in the process.

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  6. Acey Avatar
    Acey

    Can i just sleep sweet and easy for a
    month or so before I have to get on with it?

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    i read her today..7/11/2020…everything has changed

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    i don’t know yet…it keeps shifting, sometimes to
    much

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s days later and i am still unsure HOW TO

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    sort of…but i need something still…direction

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    Jacqui…i watch your country and SEE this…long for that
    to be Here, but it is not. We are so incredibly
    adolescent

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    as long as you choose

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