It was Monday Juneteenth. We went to the public park in Keene that is Ashuelot Park, as the Ashuelot River flows through it on its 64-mile journey to the CT River. There were many more people out than a usual Monday. We arrived at the designated spot and set up: laying a large tree cookie from a CO Blue Spruce cut down at Jean’s old house on top of a granite very short post, to create a surface. Jean then began to lay out the colorful rocks with words on them. The flag was flying on the cookie, using an opened coat hanger as the U-shape. Renée then read the UN Environmental Sabbath poem prayer – we stand with the Earth and with Each other. Then she played a variety of Indigenous women singing a water blessing song. Most of the women were Algonquin – Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe, and one from the west coast. People passed by, some curious, others intent on what they were doing, yet all positive. Jean and Renée made a few sample messages with the word rocks and then felt we had come to the end of the ceremony blessing the water and inviting people to engage with it in a fun way and moved to a different spot with an expansive view of the river and sat, quietly reflecting and enjoying – the water, the birds, the trees and grasses, the sunshine.