Category Jacob

Children playing and gardening - Grattan School mural

Tomatoes

October 1, 2011 · by · in Edible plants, Elizabeth, Farming/Gardening in Ordinary, food, garden produce, Jacob, Landscape architecture, Roads and paths, Ruby · 2 Comments

I nip into the skin, peeling it back a bit with my teeth so as not to lose a drop of the juice to the ground, then sink into a big bite. Still it spurts. I suck quickly to get as much of the juice as possible, slurping unabashedly. Read more …

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.

Dance

September 15, 2006 · by · in Birds, Celebrations, Cheyenne, Insects/Crawlers/Creepers, Jacob, Janine, Jonathon, Music in Ordinary, Ordinary reptiles and amphibians, Ordinary textiles, Portable structures, Wild animals · 7 Comments

Dusk is settling to dark on this cool September eve, and the first star hangs low and bright in the sky, twinkling with the cheery strands we’ve stretched high above the perimeter of the dance floor.

Red

January 16, 2006 · by · in Animals in Ordinary, Aunt Rind, Birds, Field crops, Jacob, Jonathon, June, Kami, Marita, Mary, Native plants, Orchards/fruit trees, The land, The twins, Trees, Wild animals · 1 Comment

Momentarily lucid, I smell scat–fox. Where? I raise my head, but the tears come all the more. Alone here on the open hills, I wail, and on the in-breath, that scat again.

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.

Jacob

July 12, 2005 · by · in Animals in Ordinary, Cheyenne, Healing-medicine, Jacob, Jonathon, Marita, Ordinary reptiles and amphibians, Wild animals · 3 Comments

Almost always there would be tracks–sometimes it would appear an entire flock of quail had circled him. Others, we would see the tracks of a coyote or wolf, and sometimes a mountain lion.

Gifts

July 1, 2005 · by · in Cheyenne, Jacob, Janine, Merilee, Murgatroid, Paintings/Mixed media, Spiritual practice, Tapestries/Quilts/Weavings/Basketry, The land, Tracey, Wild animals · 3 Comments

Janine has woven the greens, browns, and yellows of the hills, the muted colors of the woods on one side, and the brilliant splotches of the flowering meadows in front. I can smell the rich moldy soil of the woods underfoot and the crisp drying grasses in the summer heat.