The Mural Project

Education Secretary Ellen, Some of us on the EarthCare Team and also the Transport Solutions Committee for special projects are wondering and, frankly, hoping Your green STEAM students and teachers might research, design, and help residents paint a historically accurate AND polyculturally exquisite series of murals On our two-tiered upper, more transcendently hopeful, and lower, more historically faithful, retaining walls After our crumbling concrete parking pads and steel-framed industrial artifacts are hauled away with respect and gratitude for future repurposing Our Transport Solutions and EarthCare Elders hope to use this transitional moment to divert water runoff to north and south bermed and graceful descent down toward our sacred RiverGaia, rather than continuing to run race to disgrace our wet unhealthy basement Thereby diverting soiled water stains from historic runoff narrative face retaining walled epic paintings, perhaps combined with etching, to tell a true and beautiful tale about this sacred place where we live and work, garden and enjoy our EarthCare classroom residence, inside and outside As did indigenously wise Elders before us And RiverGaia learned Her future shape and flow from ancient predative cold relentless icey white glaciers, As will future natural construction and deconstruction regenerators, Thermal students of green STEAM polyculturing Elders, including co-invested us Learning new Truth and old Beauty Stories Of how EarthCare givers and health-care receivers survived mistrust to compassionately, nonviolently exquisitly thrive together more better when less apart.