Category Death

Balboa

January 17, 2007 · by · in Balboa, Betty, Cathy, Cheyenne, Death, Healing-medicine, Janine, Jasmine, Jessica, June, Kami, Margaret, Merilee, Ruby, Sena, Spiritual practice, The twins · 4 Comments

How is it women of the village know to come? But they do, one by one, to sit with Balboa, with our memories of her childhood, moments of laughter and tears. We breathe. We are present, witness to her grief, sharing her sorrow.

Mira

January 14, 2007 · by · in Balboa, Beryl, Bettina, Betty, Books/authors mentioned in Ordinary, Cheyenne, David, Death, Edible plants, Healing-medicine, Jacob, Jasmine, Jessica, Mira, Orchards/fruit trees, Packer, Plants in Ordinary, Ronnie, Ruby, Sena, Spiritual practice, Strawberry Hill, The land, Trees, Village of Jasper · 3 Comments

Packer cut the log in half lengthwise and hollowed out the pith, then lined it with beautiful green and gray mosses. He must have climbed very high in the trees to get so much clean, new moss.

Amends

January 21, 2006 · by · in Books/authors mentioned in Ordinary, Cheyenne, Conflict, Death, food, Janine, June, Kami, Ordinary textiles, Ralph, Rose and Cheyenne's home, Tapestries/Quilts/Weavings/Basketry, The twins · 1 Comment

Everyone’s dreams can take wing if they get a little lift, Kami said.

Solace

August 19, 2005 · by · in Animal husbandry, Bonnie, Death, Jacob, Jonathon, Legends and lore, Merilee, Tracey · 1 Comment

Sometimes Bonnie picked an older child, or one of the adults. She would have no one but the one she ambled to when she saw the milkers coming. She would step close to her mark and shove her nose into their armpit.

Bonnie

August 17, 2005 · by · in Animal husbandry, Betty, Bonnie, Community structures, Death, Healing-medicine, Jacob, Jonathon, Marita, Noah, Spiritual practice, Work practices · 5 Comments

We find her in the barn, her head in Jacob’s lap. Animals roam freely on the hills behind Ordinary, coming to the barn only for shelter. Weakened by illness, Bonnie must have sought comfort.