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Terry Le Page
Oak Glen, CA
2023

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12 members of the Earth Listening Circles of the Deep Adaptation Forum visited places local to them and did an Earth Exchange, as part of a global collaboration to listen to wounded places.

A beloved retreat center about 75 miles from my home burned in 2020. The buildings and some trees around them survived. The “forested mountains” are gone. But life goes on.

12 members of the Earth Listening Circles of the Deep Adaptation Forum visited places local to them and did an Earth Exchange, as part of a global collaboration to listen to wounded places.

A beloved retreat center about 75 miles from my home burned in 2020. The buildings and some trees around them survived. The “forested mountains” are gone. But life goes on.

Oak Glen, CA

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