Maker of Rich Women

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Inspired by Robin Wall Kimmerer's story of Franz Dolp's 40 acre reforesting his homestead with Western red cedar trees, which, if I remember correctly, have a First Nation name that translates something like "maker, or mother, or mother-maker of rich women" because of their unusual domestic commodity value when cooperatively harvested and planted.

A ballad for Franz Dolp His exercise was forestry His initiative was art. He painted his forest in trees, composing four seasons of song. He searched his right balance of trees revising rhythms for harmony's poem, Mothers of Deep Rich Women. A writer of therapeutic forests written in trees with good roots. Franz was a poet rebuilding with forests, artisan trees forming long-healing words.

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Sharon Gulley

Date: 7/11/2017 12:05:00 PM

A very lovely Prose-Poetry write Gerald, enjoyed reading it. Sharon

Gerald Dillenbeck
Date: 7/11/2017 4:19:00 PM

Thx so much for saying so. GD