These are every where. never in any kind of cluster, often Near oneanother, but everywhere . Less than the size of a pea. I sat with this one today, off and on. Emrie came after school and among other things gave a report on the Painted Ladies. There are 9 of them. Ms. Johnson, her teacher, who she speaks of with such reverence, Ms. Johnson brought 9 chrysalis a while back. 6 Painted Ladies have emerged. they wait for the final three. Today she was able to be the one to place the orange slice in the new habitat. She asks Do you know how a butterfly tastes? i don't, i say ummm, they have a long thing, she interrupts and says That is the proboscis. But they actually taste with their feet…touch things, taste their feet and then if it's good, eat with their proboscis. I say Tell me the the whole story again and she does, with these new facts now, how they have provided a new habitat since the emerging. She uses all the terms pupa, chrysalis, cocoon, more i don't remeber. She is like a Saturday Morning Science show. Sure of her knowledge and taking pleasure in it. I look forward to First Grade.
i held my breath yesterday and YES the finding was FOR E. Jean Carroll. i breathe. but then at the end of the day hear that CNN has arranged a Town Hall with Trump for TODAY, ……the timing????? The amazement of this happening at all, let alone the insensitivity of the timing???? Don't watch but see clips on various places i do watch news, and most, i am left with the laughter of the audience.
so i sit here looking at this pic of today…sitting with the image longer, feeling what it feels like, all of it, May 10, 2023 and go back to NPR All Things Considered….the what often seems like the Easy Listening Channel, but go back because they told me again about Pando. Fish Lake National Forest Utah. Pando, latin for I spread. a tree, an aspen, quaking aspen tree, spaning 80 football fieds, weighing 6,000 tons. One single root. 40,000 "stems" , a project to record Pando's sounds
voice
I think that today marks 2 weeks of chewing up a plant leaf and pressing it on the toes of my left foot each night before i go to sleep. Chewing 2 small leaves and swallowing them each night before i go to sleep. and 2 weeks of progressively NORMAL toes, of very significantly cleared lung function. Plantain. First because it was one of the ingredients in the Heal All Salve that i can't get anymore but then thought…….It's only ONE ingredient, but it's what GROWS here, EveryWhere, Grows at B Garden, offers itself as i walk past day unto day, and i just DID it. and both those things, the only "health issues" i have, are maybe 80, 90% better, the toes , that had been ongoing maybe a year and a half?
i am losing hope for this country. that is my truth. i don't choose to imagine how it all might go. but the Hope i have in Children, in the Brilliance of this planet Earth is being FED day by day through more and more willingness to experiencce what almost feels like Magical Thinking….i am going back to it, magical thinking, there's other ways to speak of it and i will take the time to find them as i go. i need to. it's all i have to give in exchange.
windthread 
Leave a comment