Lotus Lantern Healing Arts

My kid’s school has a rich curriculum honoring the people of this land. They come home nearly everyday telling me about the Elders that have visited and the real names of the lakes and rivers (not the colonizer names for them). On Friday their school encouraged everyone to wear red shirts to honor missing and murdered indigenous women. This is a public school btw. Brings me some hope. I love this shirt original art . It’s such a beautiful image of a woman being held and protected by bear spirit.

My heart aches as I witness the destruction of our forests and with it this precious bird song. The earth keeps getting hotter and our compulsion to destroy seems unstoppable. I have felt mostly powerless as the machines came for our precious forest over and over again. (Leaving behind more of a fire hazard than the trees in their natural state.) Now we protect the wetland corridor on this land. On Monday I went to a community meeting about how the remaining legacy forests around us will be destroyed in June. We have few precious days to try and stop it. This watershed is precious and loosing these forests means loosing water for humans and for wildlife. Bri put swallow boxes up under our house and the has chosen us for their breeding ground. They swoop and fly and rest and mate and it’s incredible to watch. They give me the energy I need to keep fighting. Credit and Repost from
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Violet-green are the peacocks of the passerine birds… Gleaming in the light. Shards of colour swooping, glinting flight. I can only photograph them when they land. Grateful for this gift. A glance. #つばめ