gardenic radicant
of or relating to garden, roots as roots' roots / on collective acts of ceremony
when it is time, sunflowers uniformly bow their heads to the ground in grief and preparation to die, reminds me how Muslims bow their heads to pray … the delineations of death and prayer / learned this from a practitioner named Elia — i am flying Elia out from Berlin (along w more profound thinkerfeelers, soon to be announced) to facilitate ceremony at this year’s Activation Residency program for artist PaviElle French, and Activation Residency staff and partners.
i giggle when someone develops a habit of following and unfollowing me on instagram, now as an artist profile instead of a social platform, i polyculturafy social media happenings as ceremony, to add and remove, like a meditation, back and forth, life and death, social media then becomes a place of study and experimentation, a lab for a world possible through play
i like writing my paragraphs in run on sentences — a making where each word needs contact, where i take a pause to slack the pink gumminess of my mouth, in the study of my astrological orientation, i said yes to life through Leo energy, yes to sun service and in flame, needing to be set free all the while tended to at all times, from a distance like an anchor — without steady tending, fire can burn itself out and rage on like we know she do, when i am in deep bouts of care work, i need my care to not only be on lock but also, ceremonialized — 3 small to medium size square meals per day preferably cooked by me or someone who understands fresh food making, daily naps, 2-3 hours of sweat, resource relationships, 2 hours of sun, intentional rest and play, help with Charlie, many intermitments to creative riff, fire is exact.
I am in the dreaming phase of the garden. Wait to build the house, put something small up to have shelter while you talk to and study the land, love the land, make the garden the central feature and the house less primary …. i love design dreaming, i get a big thud in my heart when i’m in it — as promised, closing this week’s tardy newsletter with my journal entry from chapter 1 of care manual:
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to Care Ecology to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.