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 Paula Gunn Allen

"We are the land… that is the fundamental idea embedded in Native American life… the Earth is the mind of the people as we are the mind of the earth. The land is not really the place (separate from ourselves) where we act out the drama of our isolate destinies… It is rather a part of our being, dynamic, significant, real. It is our self… It is not a matter of being 'close to nature'… The Earth is, in a very real sense, the same as our self (or selves)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210420-mental-health-healing-the-trauma-of-climate-change

The Past

I am ensnared currently, on the wheel of the past.

And the quote below is a good reminder,

to shake free of it.

"What I want to say is

that the past is the past,

and the present is what your life is, 

and you are capable 

of choosing what that will be, 

darling citizen." 

from Mornings at Blackwater Pond 

by Mary Oliver

"NOW when the time of fruit and grain is come,

When apples hang above the orchard wall,

And from the tangle by the roadside stream

A scent of wild grapes fills the racy air,

Comes Autumn with her sunburnt caravan,

Like a long gypsy train with trappings gay

And tattered colours of the Orient,"

from Autumn

by Bliss Carman

From 2014 trip home found on old memory card.

"What faint sweet song out of the turning years 

Is thine amid the myriad songs of earth? "

from The Hepatica

by Archibald Lampman