Listening with the animals the silences hunted hearing this waking the animals enter myth-time do their magic emerge changed a whimper a lawnmower whirr a laugh gift and forgift animal appearance in profile in disappearance outlining the shadow dance and the heart of who you are — viewer of this world becoming.
ABOVE
Details above of four new outdoor murals. These expansive artworks unfold through time — please do visit, rest in place, listen.
— Mural by Esteban Camacho Steffensen. Willamette at 27th, north wall of Arriving By Bike, sponsored by 350Eugene.
— Mural by Susan Applegate and associates including Kalapuya elder and consultant Esther Stutzman. Westmoreland Park, east wall of the Dr. Edwin Coleman, Jr. Community Center.
— Mural by Kari Johnson. Lane Community College, east wall of the Center Building. (Also, detail below.)
— Mural by Ila Rose. College Hill, Eugene, south wall of a private residence.
We are all here to serve each other. At some point, we have to understand that we do not need to carry a story that is unbearable. We can observe the story, which is mental; feel the story, which is physical; let the story go, which is emotional; then forgive the story, which is spiritual, after which we use the materials of it to build a house of knowledge.
— Joy Harjo, in Poet Warrior: A Memoir (2021)
Bears are amused by the concept of reality. They sit around imagining they are real, and they laugh.
— N. Scott Momaday, The dark amusement of bears, a poem in Dream Drawings: Configurations of a Timeless Kind (2022)
