Pa Ma Has master basket weaver
Southern Miwok 1933
in front of one of these Foothill Pine
seeing it for the first time…and i misrepresented it with words…it's a cabin, not a summer home. and what i'd not understood is the expanse of lakefront. there is a beauty Full video i wish i could bring here, of her small self, squatting as she makes these marks, small self, the expanse of shore, the expanse of Lake Michigan
so….it's April 22, right? isn't it? i check/checked again and again…..thinking i must be making some mistake, but yes, it is. the one day of the year we have decided to call Earth Day
i woke thinking to check it out and going to look, the news feeds, finding
nothing.
even my beloved NPR only until the second to last segment of All Things Considered
NO MENTION
Earth Day
as i type this, they are flying. Alyssia, Jenny and Emrie….to Michigan. to meet with their father/grandfather's wife, travel to Cheboygan where they will take a ferry to Lake Michigan's Beaver Island, to the summer house there, settle matters for it's sale.
we wait here. Julian opted out. Uncle Jeff and aunt Jazmine next door in the little yellow house. we'll hold down the fort(s). 10 days. figure it out on our own. I wish they didn't go.