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visit from ryan

Last month David and I were able to spend several different days with our friend Ryan. He lives in Venezuela most of the time, but he came back to Arizona for a couple weeks. Ryan is a lot of fun to hang out with especially because we get to talk about revolutionary living. Before he left, he bought seed packets to plant in the community in which he lives.

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carpet is full of dirt

The neighborhood will have a dumpster this week, so David and I thought nothing would be more fun the week before I leave than to pull up all the downstairs carpet.  Not only did we not even bother to move the furniture out of the room, but we really don’t have a plan to put down new flooring yet.

We do have dreams of cork flooring though…

garden workday

Today we had our first workday for our community garden. It was a lot of fun and hardwork. We planted a lot of fall and winter vegetables, we dug out a space for a garden in the spring, and we overhauled the compost pile–whew!

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Moving rock…

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Tara brought Baby Shea…

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Baby Shea

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Adam was a working machine!

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Wendi showing us her wheelbarrow skills

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Brenda swears she always closes her eyes.

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Stephanie, Kellen, Kirra, and Kelli planting our food

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Craig and Wendi are bringing over the compost

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Good job from A-Z (couldn’t resist)

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Stephanie found a nail in the alley

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Kellen took a break from the laborious digging

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Finit…

it tolls for her

Madeleine Engel died on Thursday.

She was eighty-eight.

I knew this day would come in my lifetime…I loved her in a way a person could love someone they had never met, but read intimate thoughts from their writing.

She was a beautiful woman who taught me so much about relationships, love, art, faith…

“The artist, if he has not forgotten how to listen, must retain the vision which includes angels and dragons and unicorns, and all the lovely creatures which our world would put in a box marked Children Only.”