Story Info
Story Info
Dianne Monroe
2012
Type of Wounded Place
Story & Experience
About 15 people gathered at the Laguna de Santa Rosa to co-create a Ceremony Offering Acts of Beauty to the Wounded Waters of our World. The Laguna, was once a lush forest area, reduced to 8% of its former size, used as a sewer and dump, now being partially restored.
The ceremony began with shared words of sorrow, for the Laguna and other waters, especially the waters of the nearby Pacific Ocean threatened by the still-continuing Fukushima disaster. Participants then wandered the nearby landscape, gathering things from nature that had fallen to the ground. As a group, participants created natural artworks from these materials and wove them into the guide-rail of a small bridge crossing the Laguna, to create one encompassing offering of beauty. We then gathered on the bridge by our collaborative eco-art to offer the water words, poems, dances, songs, music and chants of love, caring and hope. One woman, a musician, brought an instrument called a halo, offering us and the water a beautiful song, as part of the opening and as the closing of our ceremony.
About 15 people gathered at the Laguna de Santa Rosa to co-create a Ceremony Offering Acts of Beauty to the Wounded Waters of our World. The Laguna, was once a lush forest area, reduced to 8% of its former size, used as a sewer and dump, now being partially restored.
The ceremony began with shared words of sorrow, for the Laguna and other waters, especially the waters of the nearby Pacific Ocean threatened by the still-continuing Fukushima disaster. Participants then wandered the nearby landscape, gathering things from nature that had fallen to the ground. As a group, participants created natural artworks from these materials and wove them into the guide-rail of a small bridge crossing the Laguna, to create one encompassing offering of beauty. We then gathered on the bridge by our collaborative eco-art to offer the water words, poems, dances, songs, music and chants of love, caring and hope. One woman, a musician, brought an instrument called a halo, offering us and the water a beautiful song, as part of the opening and as the closing of our ceremony.
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