Mother's day
for Olive and Willow
The root word
of kind
is ge-cynde
meaning natural, native,
inborn, originally with the feeling
of relatives for each other
We long for this now
so deeply
don't we? Ge-cynde
Ge-cynde, I reach
for the root of it
when my mother
asks Are you being kind?
this Mother's day
I lie in the cut grass
and cry of us
orphaned as we are
from our beauty
My darling family
my kind kin
have you noticed
that as the Earth
starts to give
up on us
we begin
to name our daughters
after trees
The root word
of kind
is ge-cynde
meaning natural, native,
inborn, originally with the feeling
of relatives for each other
We long for this now
so deeply
don't we? Ge-cynde
Ge-cynde, I reach
for the root of it
when my mother
asks Are you being kind?
this Mother's day
I lie in the cut grass
and cry of us
orphaned as we are
from our beauty
My darling family
my kind kin
have you noticed
that as the Earth
starts to give
up on us
we begin
to name our daughters
after trees
Bring back the heroines!
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| Where are the heroines? |
The text for this image is from the article Finalists Announced in NZ Post Children's Book Awards, you can read the full article HERE. Original Cinderella Creative Commons image is from HERE.
write the heroines back into your stories!
Taking Root - The Vision of Wangari Maathai
The breadth and depth of Wangari Maathai’s vision for our human family is so vast and deep I
cannot begin to condense it, but if you listen to her voice in this documentary
she will give you a glimpse at how far down she taps into our common ground. A
self described child of the soil her
vision is one truly rooted in the earth, and in the heartscape.
Wangari Maathai passed over in 2011 but her spirit continues to live on in the lives her life prepared:
in the millions of trees that took root from the Green Belt Movement she founded, and the in lives of the communities she empowered to plant trees to meet their own needs. You can read more about the life of Wangari Maathai HERE.
It is the people who
must save the environment, it is the people that must make the government
change. So we must stand up for what we believe in, and we cannot be
intimidated.
—WANGARI MAATHAI
numerous branches reach out throughout our lungs
If we will have the wisdom to survive
to stand like slow growing trees
on a ruined place, renewing it, enriching it
then a long time after we are dead
the lives our lives prepare
will live here.
—WENDELL BERRY
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