And, of course, no Earth Day would be complete
without a few revolutionary tunes from
those amazing Raging Grannies.
A highlight of the day was our Earth Walk,
a guided tour past the sign posts
of Earth's history
and into more recent times.
How short a time we've been around
since the extinction of dinosaurs.
And shorter still our apparent role
as the "dominant" species.
Following our guided Earth Walk, each participant was asked to pass through the "Peace Or War Arch,"
a remarkable art project that was done under the creative leadership of local artist Deborah LeSeur. Several arch segments are now in a gallery show at
the Quicksilver Mine Co. in Forrestville, California.
One by one we took our turn.
As each of us passed through the Arch, we declared
our wish, our prayer, our hope for the future of Earth.
"The elders were wise. They knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; they knew that lack of respect for growing, living things, soon leads to lack of respect for humans, too."
"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across
the grass
and loses itself in the sunset." Blackfoot Warrior
"We are not human beings here on Earth having spiritual experiences, But spiritual beings here to have Human experiences." Chief Bill Burke, Umatilla
"I am going to venture that the man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures, and cknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization."
Chief Luther Standing Bear - Lakota Sioux: died in 1937
After we had all brought our intentions
through the Arch of Peace Or War,
the drummers reconvened and we all joined hands
in a Circle of Hope for Healing and Peace.
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