Because the grove destruction was to take place over a 2-week period, I did several GExs. The first one was the most remarkable. I picked up some broken cane sections, broken flower pot and other yard garbage, and made a very stiff bird.\u00a0 I was feeling very critical of my bird, how brittle it looked, when I noticed something odd in a pile of yet-to-be-removed debris. At first, I thought it was a moldy puffball but when I lifted a little flap of fuzz it became an old stuffed bird toy! I have no recollection of it ever belonging to my now grown daughter or our dog. It must have lived in that grove for a very long time, so much softer and more alive-looking than the GEx bird I had just laid out!\u00a0 Somehow it was amusing and made me feel better about not needing to feel so utterly responsible for what happens there.<\/p>\n
The ground had been 100% moss-covered before, to my happiness, and it was very stressful to watch that be ripped off. I just want the moss back. But in the meantime, I knew I had to plant something affordable, so that my white dog would not come in all muddy after every rain, so with regret I had it reseeded with grass, and did another GEx. Again, the old bamboo was all there was to make my bird from, but the brilliant little embroidered flag and the memory of the stuffed bird gave me hope that the currently barren site will come back to something beautiful and peaceful again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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