Today
Let us start with a laugh from Al Gore on global warming via my friend, ecological artist Susan Steinman: http://tinyurl.com/elyd9.
Laughter makes the serious stuff palatable again.
I planted a white and red columbine on my dog's grave. It is accompanied by yellow pansies a friend gave me for her. White for Justice, red for Introspection, yellow for the Illumination that comes at the point of welcome, at the entrance to my home. The grave is in the North West section of the garden I made. That is the uplands riparian zone and watershed for the Ghost Nets project. It was originally modeled on my interpretive understanding of the Native American Medicine Wheel. It is a site for me to meditate on "Giving Back" to life in general.
Planting the flowers on her grave made me think about the nature of love. At the end of her life, my dog, who had been the most devoted animal I have ever had, was frequently in withdrawal, as tho she had had enuf of responding to the world around her. I did not take it as a rejection but it was still sad and painful for me.
It was instructive about how ever close the affinities, there are always profound differences that must be respected. And that, perhaps, is the essence of love she had to teach me.
I also completed what will be my contribution to the memorial for my friend, Allan Kaprow. I read it to our mutual friend, Tony Ramos, who is now a successful painter in Paris. I told him I felt inadequate to what needed to be said about Allan Kaprow. Had I been an adequate friend or student? He replied that it was enuf that I had been his friend and that in friendship, we are always each others students. Furthermore, I should stop "fatigueing" the salad as they say in France.
Finally, I completed a report on the workshop I had attended last month at Wood's Hole for greenmuseum. The workshop was attended by fourteen scientists from eight countries. The New England Workshop on Science and Social Change was organized by Peter Taylor. 2000 words later, I concluded that it had helped me to examine, "how to bridge differences towards more successful restoration work as an ecological artist ." The bridge I'm trying to cross is the one that spans global warming, a very long span that requires more than good ideas.
As I have learned from each of my dogs and from Native Americans and all the friends I have been blessed with.
I suppose the Justice part of my meditation today is about valueing the heart and spirit of everything I encounter as I cross the global warming bridge. The Introspection is in examining my own heart... without fatigueing my salad. The Illumination and welcome is for all the differences I know I have yet to encounter.
If it is true that at the heart of all environmental problems are the human ones, then I will need a lot of that Illumination to welcome into my heart... millions and millions of pieces of the puzzle that are all the beating hearts of the world and a few good laughs for what might have been (thank you Saturday Night Live and Al Gore) about our oresent "climate change" crisis, as the administration prefers to call it.
Laughter makes the serious stuff palatable again.
I planted a white and red columbine on my dog's grave. It is accompanied by yellow pansies a friend gave me for her. White for Justice, red for Introspection, yellow for the Illumination that comes at the point of welcome, at the entrance to my home. The grave is in the North West section of the garden I made. That is the uplands riparian zone and watershed for the Ghost Nets project. It was originally modeled on my interpretive understanding of the Native American Medicine Wheel. It is a site for me to meditate on "Giving Back" to life in general.
Planting the flowers on her grave made me think about the nature of love. At the end of her life, my dog, who had been the most devoted animal I have ever had, was frequently in withdrawal, as tho she had had enuf of responding to the world around her. I did not take it as a rejection but it was still sad and painful for me.
It was instructive about how ever close the affinities, there are always profound differences that must be respected. And that, perhaps, is the essence of love she had to teach me.
I also completed what will be my contribution to the memorial for my friend, Allan Kaprow. I read it to our mutual friend, Tony Ramos, who is now a successful painter in Paris. I told him I felt inadequate to what needed to be said about Allan Kaprow. Had I been an adequate friend or student? He replied that it was enuf that I had been his friend and that in friendship, we are always each others students. Furthermore, I should stop "fatigueing" the salad as they say in France.
Finally, I completed a report on the workshop I had attended last month at Wood's Hole for greenmuseum. The workshop was attended by fourteen scientists from eight countries. The New England Workshop on Science and Social Change was organized by Peter Taylor. 2000 words later, I concluded that it had helped me to examine, "how to bridge differences towards more successful restoration work as an ecological artist ." The bridge I'm trying to cross is the one that spans global warming, a very long span that requires more than good ideas.
As I have learned from each of my dogs and from Native Americans and all the friends I have been blessed with.
I suppose the Justice part of my meditation today is about valueing the heart and spirit of everything I encounter as I cross the global warming bridge. The Introspection is in examining my own heart... without fatigueing my salad. The Illumination and welcome is for all the differences I know I have yet to encounter.
If it is true that at the heart of all environmental problems are the human ones, then I will need a lot of that Illumination to welcome into my heart... millions and millions of pieces of the puzzle that are all the beating hearts of the world and a few good laughs for what might have been (thank you Saturday Night Live and Al Gore) about our oresent "climate change" crisis, as the administration prefers to call it.
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