tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9085926.post3196417247309401694..comments2024-03-28T02:44:22.875-04:00Comments on Hecate: Being in Relationship with NatureHecatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09291488568404382739noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9085926.post-37055880969175134992010-11-12T22:03:13.981-05:002010-11-12T22:03:13.981-05:00As soon as I started reading your post, I thought ...As soon as I started reading your post, I thought of <a href="http://unboundconfine.blogspot.com/2010/04/wherever-you-hang-your-hat.html" rel="nofollow">this one</a>. <br /><br />I just had a conversation tonight with a friend about how happy I am that my girls have this place. <br /><br />Peace.inahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13819730967573111539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9085926.post-40085322466390570582010-11-10T19:26:13.971-05:002010-11-10T19:26:13.971-05:00Moira, First, you have to ask the tree. Then, if...Moira, First, you have to ask the tree. Then, if it's ok, you can get these little "picture hangy thingies" at the hardward store. They are a small cloth square with a sticky substance on the back and a hook on the front. They're maybe a half an inch square. You attach it to the bark of the tree via the sticky substance and then hang the door on that. I know I'm not using technical terms; hope this helps!<br /><br />Josh, I hear you. We need more open space, even in our urban areas so that kids (and adults) can have a relationship with nature. Is there even a tree that she passes every day on the way to school or something? Observing the tree, drawing it, photographing it, feeding it, etc. can be a start, even though it's not the experience we had of running wild in the woods. Keep us informed on her progress!Hecatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09291488568404382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9085926.post-89289539526898854572010-11-10T18:09:42.346-05:002010-11-10T18:09:42.346-05:00I had a place. It was a small clearing in a swamp...I had a place. It was a small clearing in a swamp (at low tide-high tide it was underwater.) There was also a hidden, sunken garden that belonged to an unoccupied home. My younger daughter has/had a place here, also a space that is edge of water/edge of land. When I speak to her, it is sometimes hard for me to tell whether she misses me, or her space more (she is away at college for her freshman year). I tell her that I understand.Lavanahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14295089071497942411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9085926.post-47974795955468025652010-11-10T10:33:11.899-05:002010-11-10T10:33:11.899-05:00I know exactly what you mean. Yo reminded me that ...I know exactly what you mean. Yo reminded me that i have lost something and i need to get that back.<br />Brightest blessings,<br />Georginagreekwitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09666291801038882275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9085926.post-42066291195675137802010-11-10T09:29:38.990-05:002010-11-10T09:29:38.990-05:00I'm struggling with this, myself. When I was a...I'm struggling with this, myself. When I was a child my private place was in the woods behind our house, a tiny clearing that you had to crawl to get into. Briars had grown into a woven net all around the tree trunks and it was only against the ground that you could get in without being torn up.<br /><br />What for my daughter, though? Living in the metro area, no open woods, not even a yard to speak of. It hit me hard last year when, at the age of eight, I had to explain to her that a park doesn't mean just a place where there are rides and amusements. We go to local parks now on weekends, places where there are still little islands of quiet and green, muggy river banks and rough bark, but it's not the same when your parent is along.<br /><br />I worry for what is lost when there is no chance for her to wander under the branches on her own.Brannenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09258085317126669644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9085926.post-55739470543616241032010-11-10T03:55:46.554-05:002010-11-10T03:55:46.554-05:00Nice post and I love that poem! Im stuggling to pl...Nice post and I love that poem! Im stuggling to place this comment so if you get it twice, sorry. The fairy door in your garden how did you attach it to the tree? Im thinking of getting one but dont know how to attach it high up without hurting the tree.Moirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03248425760199196965noreply@blogger.com