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still trippin

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still.    an extreme analogy yesterday….

if i saw a hummingbird,  knocked to the earth  mid flight by a great wind          would i think    Oh,  drop it in a pot with some cloth…see what color comes from it   ??    No.    it's a living bird      and it felt/feels the Same,   with this Lichen     Living Being(s)  I had not understood or even imagined that before.    

and the thought this morning as i continued looking,    being with it….     where can i       keep     it?    Bring it in?   put in the basket?    Hang on the wall?   Make it a shadow box?       Same analogy as the hummingbird…would i try any of these things with a windfallen     bird?     No.     Life is Life       and i know so little.      I will take the stick  down to OOna's grave.   It's just near the tree that i think this twig fell from.   can   Continue   there.    and i can  watch there.  As it Lives.   

 

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8 responses to “still trippin”

  1. Margery Avatar
    Margery

    Grace, these last posts & responses have given me so much to think about and today’s post resonates with last night’s dream. I can only say Thank You.

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  2. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    I tried to create a “lichin farm” when we were in the Hill Country … gathered the windfall and set it out along one of the trails … but the wood decomposed and the lichins eventually returned to the earth with it … the lichins did not thrive as they did when the branches were still on the trees

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  3. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    that would be “lichen” …

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  4. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Grace … I love the way you think!! I love the way you feel … as always leaving me with so much to think about and learn.

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  5. jude Avatar
    jude

    yes, and these kinds of things really bring us back to want and need. And what sustains us, we will eat the onion, the wild garlic, yes? We do not need to dye cloth. And if we do, we can choose how.
    Which reminds me why I love to eat dandelion greens and plantain, they keep coming and I do not have to kill the plant.

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  6. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    This topic was an important part of two of the pigment making classes that I participated in…honoring what we are working with. Considering the purpose of what we are making.
    Every plant that I might make pigment with I consider individually. With the lichen…everything that I have learned is that it dies after it is no longer attached, so as Liz said, it will compost. So I will dye with loose pieces that I find, or branches…but I would not cut a branch or pick lichen off of a living branch with the intent to dye with it.
    And some might say, we harvest other plants so why not the lichen? Lichens are very slow growing. For me it is important to honor that.

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  7. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    Near Oona is fine. Find some more to keep you company, like a treasure-not to own, but to accompany you.
    Xoxoxo

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  8. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    I never dyed with rock lichen, having read it that it is even more slow-growing and longer-lived than tree lichen

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