Now We Know (Powerline) | High Hope Ranch and Fossil Rim
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Progress came crashing through the property line between High Hope Ranch and Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in the form of two clear cut swaths in preparation for an upgraded power line. Progress that is, for Waco, some 100 miles away from us, the end user of the electricity supported by the new, metallic behemoth towers now towering over our tree line. We knew this was coming last year and dedicated our 2017 Global Earth Exchange to the unknown impacts. This year, the work on our land was mostly done, so we blessed the clearing of the land, the cutting of the hillside, and the surprise extra lane that was built to move the equipment in to set the line. Our ceremony included prayers, intentions, creating the RadJoy bird, launching wildflower seed balls to begin healing the landscape and another bird and this quote provided by Tessa, our neighboring educator at Fossil Rim, on the first pole erected on our property: “All things by immortal power, Near and Far Hiddenly To each other linked are. That thou canst not stir a flower Without troubling of a Star.” Francis Thompson, English Poet To see the story booklet Sandy made of their event, cut and paste this link: http://www.radicaljoyforhardtimes.org/wp-content/uploads/High-Hope-Ranch-Fossil-Rim-GEx.pdf
Progress came crashing through the property line between High Hope Ranch and Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in the form of two clear cut swaths in preparation for an upgraded power line. Progress that is, for Waco, some 100 miles away from us, the end user of the electricity supported by the new, metallic behemoth towers now towering over our tree line. We knew this was coming last year and dedicated our 2017 Global Earth Exchange to the unknown impacts. This year, the work on our land was mostly done, so we blessed the clearing of the land, the cutting of the hillside, and the surprise extra lane that was built to move the equipment in to set the line. Our ceremony included prayers, intentions, creating the RadJoy bird, launching wildflower seed balls to begin healing the landscape and another bird and this quote provided by Tessa, our neighboring educator at Fossil Rim, on the first pole erected on our property: “All things by immortal power, Near and Far Hiddenly To each other linked are. That thou canst not stir a flower Without troubling of a Star.” Francis Thompson, English Poet To see the story booklet Sandy made of their event, cut and paste this link: http://www.radicaljoyforhardtimes.org/wp-content/uploads/High-Hope-Ranch-Fossil-Rim-GEx.pdf
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