jenamalone

We love you.

For you I will make my skin impenetrable against the wind and the blackberry bramble. I will let it tear and bleed with grace and strength. I will take your pain and your fear and your skin bruised soft by falls and kiss them over and over again until you find your courage . I can not give you courage. I can only show you mine. You will decide for yourself how you will grow. I can only hold you in my arms for so long until they too become unnecessary to demonstrate what safety is . You will hold the imprint of our life together in your skin. You will lead me to my chair. And carry the weight of the world on your shoulders. You will carry my groceries. You will protect me from the wind and the sharp edges of your heartbreaks. You will be alone in a world full of chaos. It will be your choice who to love, how to love and how to let go of fear. All I can do is show you , my dear boy, what it is to be a human , in the long history of being human , on a planet at the edge of another collapse ,during the fall of an empire convoluted with so much hate.
I can only lead by example one step at a time. I can only show you how our history lives in our skin, the good and the bad and the ugly of it. I can only teach you rituals of gratitude and love and hope that the millionth time we greet the sun in awe, it sticks. There's only so much I can do for you until you must do it for yourself. I must let you go, as one day you must let me go. I believe in our story here on earth and here together. I believe in you. And I believe in the oldest thread of revolutionary truth, LOVE.
#heatherheyer #magnifytruth #magnifylove #raisingthenextgenerationOfhealers #mothersunite

Transformation//What a strange miracle you are. Gifting ease, hand in hand with maladies. Awkward, abrupt, abundant. You turn me into truth every time.

Reciprocity, a conscious woman's porn // Reading about companion planting like it's a romance novel. Amazing how each plant does what it does for its own growth ( self center growth) and as it happens ,when the individual flourishes so does the whole. #truelove #braidingsweetgrass

Self timer // only so much can be premeditated // the rest is for the birds

Let me grow // allow room to falter // a mothers work is never done

She / Portland / My Heart

I might have a 24 hour print sale before we move on Monday , as i have many mAny odds and ends prints and I no longer want to store them. eBay? Craigslist ? Instastory? I'm not sure whats the best, easiest, most efficient way of doing this? I just want people to pay what they like. Donate/ bidding based, enough for shipping and such. Would love to hear insight/ ideas/ feedback ?

The prayer position is one he naturally commands from me. Children are such great leaders/ teachers. I see all of humanity in his joy and in his impatience . His size demands tender care and kneeling in awe and assistance. Yes they grow fast. But we grow so slow it's nice to be reminded that everything is passing...into something else constantly. That there is no constant with children except that they will always change. And oh what an amazing lesson. To love what is there not what was.

Fixing our vanagon up to make her a small and wonderful temporary home. Driving north till we find affordable land to tend and grow on. Be it land we buy, land we communally own or land that is gifted toward sustainable stewardship. If you have any energy, insights or offerings towards our journey DM me. We love you. ❤️ Jena, Ethan and Ode.

Pre baby / post propaganda