Second picture was a group photo of the bund (earthen dam) we built as the (second or third) HDTS in Maliwada. Ed Shinn was the moving force toward using the HDTS workdays for a significant project. It was to be a “percolation” dam, collecting rain runoff and letting it percolate into the water table. The days were hot and the sun unbearable. We would go in the early morning and work — gathering and throwing rocks, gravel, sand, dirt — there was a shaded spot nearby where we went for lunch and a rest at the hottest part of the day, continuing on in the afternoon. At the completion, we had an evening procession out to the finished bund and a candlelight ceremony that included a reading from Kazantzakis. Very hard work. Jim Wiegel “…the long work of turning their lives into a celebration is not easy. Come and let us talk“. The Sunflowers. Mary Oliver
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A Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, July 21, 2022, 8:27 PM, James Wiegel via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: Second picture was a group photo of the bund (earthen dam) we built as the (second or third) HDTS in Maliwada. Ed Shinn was the moving force toward using the HDTS workdays for a significant project. It was to be a “percolation” dam, collecting rain runoff and letting it percolate into the water table. The days were hot and the sun unbearable. We would go in the early morning and work — gathering and throwing rocks, gravel, sand, dirt — there was a shaded spot nearby where we went for lunch and a rest at the hottest part of the day, continuing on in the afternoon. At the completion, we had an evening procession out to the finished bund and a candlelight ceremony that included a reading from Kazantzakis. Very hard work. Jim Wiegel “…the long work of turning their lives into a celebration is not easy. Come and let us talk“. The Sunflowers. Mary Oliver On Jul 21, 2022, at 12:57 PM, Frank Knutson via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net
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