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on September 21, 2020

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Happy Autumn Equinox!

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Jennifer SassaniSeptember 22, 2020 at 7:25 PM
To you, too, Laurie!!!

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Walk 6 - Earth Fan

Earth Fan A Time Travel Experience through Scent The Earth Fan staves (bamboo sticks) were soaked in a simple steam reduction of leaf tea. I am hopeful the fan staves will retain the scent and when the fan is used the scent will be released and amplified. This is the scent of Earth herself. Tanny, robust hummus tea and a deep, warm brothy mix of mushrooms and leaf yeast. L eaves naturally fall to the ground, to the Earth, and begin the process of decomposition into leaf matter and eventually, with time and all the alchemical processes of nature, become nourishing soil that sustain beautiful natural spaces to enjoy and to contemplate all that Mother Earth gifts us. Studies show that babies recognize the distinct scent of their mothers’ breast, this being their primary source of nourishment and feelings of security and well-being. Mother Earth is our common Ancestral Mother. When you use the Earth Fan, fan your face and inhale deeply several times to re-connect your l...

Walk 4 Image and Sound

Image and Sound Lovely sunlight on the trail today. To my left was a rough stone wall covered in all manner of mosses and lichen. I found a caterpillar traversing it and watched it inching along. To the right of the trail was a stream, that I visited on prior walks. The sunlight was amplified like a magnifying glass as it dropped off the tip of a leaf. I captured a bit of the Bubble Dance I mentioned last week too. Caterpillar Climbing Wall Stream with Leaf Bubble Dance (I returned to the edges of a little stream, possibly spring fed, to make a few recordings and played with recording at different locations along it capturing different voices as it flowed over and around, spilled down here and dripped there, and pooled in areas forming bubbles. Bubbles appeared and disappeared, small bubbles joined to make bigger bubbles, all of them bobbing and jostling, sidling and shimmying, doing a spell-binding Bubble Dance.)

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