Saturday, June 8, 2024

Gathering for healing and gardens

Sometimes, just showing up matters.

It was a beautiful day for a National Gun Violence Awareness Day event at Martin Luther King Memorial park

It was also another needed Remembrance for Amarr Taylor Paine, who was shot outside Garfield High School on Thursday.

RantWoman did not really track all the speeches beyond many longstanding neighborhood connections and fierce urgency about ending gun violence. RantWoman did enjoy dancing by an all ages group from the Central Area Senior Center.

Enjoy the video.


The video does not say much about RantWoman's favorite takeaway: information about the Clean Green Farm and Market.



RantWoman has been a little afraid of CSA's because she knows people who get more food than they can use. The Clean Green CSA provides boxes in 3 sizes at 3 prices. The $15 / week single person price sounds like a bargain and doable for RantWoman's budget. Plus, although some of RantWoman's neighbors admit to not liking vegetables, RantWoman thinks that any surplus from her house can feed some neighbors.

Who knows? Maybe RantWoman will also decide she needs some dirt therapy and sign up to volunteer!


And for more connections check out Seattle Parks and Recreation


PS. One person asked RantWoman whether anyone close to her is a victim of gun violence.

RantWoman gulped and realized it has been 20 years since a very suicidal friend who should not have been able to buy a gun shot himself.

Plus an atmosphere with a lot of gun violence is bad for everyone.

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