Category Jonathon

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.

Rain

July 17, 2005 · by · in Benjamin, Birds, Cheyenne, Community structures, Jessica, Jonathon, Livia, Merilee, Peter, Residential buildings, Ruby, The land, Tracey · 1 Comment

We’re making daub to finish Peter and Livia’s cob house. I step in gingerly. I have to warm up to the idea of muddy feet. But then it feels so good–gritty, cool, squirting between my toes.

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.