Interim Tangled Wires_086

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A scrapbook page featuring a photograph of a tree and handwritten notes discussing proactive steps and a quote about planting a tree.

Title: Interim Tangled Wires_086
Alternative Title: Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
Creator: Karen Blessen
Date: 2020
Description: The page is part of a scrapbook or journal. On the left side, there is a photograph of a tree with branches extending over a fence. Overlaid on the photograph are white rectangular pieces of paper with the text "THE PLANTING OF A TREE IS A GIFT WHICH YOU CAN." The right side contains handwritten notes discussing proactive steps, including calling an insurance company and contacting a landscaper. The handwriting is in cursive and appears to be in a spiral-bound notebook.
Identifier: 003_070620-081620_interim_tangled_wires
Dates Completed: July 6, 2020 - August 16, 2020
Keywords: Tangled wires; Woodpecker; Trees; Beauty; Destruction of nature; Parent-child responsibilities; Let Me Walk in Beauty; Lakota Sioux; Chief Yellow Lark; Public Parks; Trust for Public Land; Creative process; Flowers; Loss; Black veil collage; Covid-19; Candy Dickenson Becher; Drop metaphor; Gretchen Dykstra; Double mastectomy; Dream of parents; Breast cancer; God laughs at plans; 29 Pieces planning; Cardinals; Cardinal collages; Sibyl Dana Reynolds; Institutional breakdowns; BLM; BLM collage; Parental meditations; Potatoes and pride; Life stages; Gretchen’s kimono; Friendships; Past and present; Neighbor tree dispute; Manifest or dissolve; Contagious grace; Commodification of beauty
Transcription: Left Side:
THE PLANTING
OF A TREE
IS A GIFT
WHICH YOU CAN

Right Side:
are proactive steps I can take?
A. Call our insurance company. I did that and was told that this is something for a litigator. They are running on Rico system. Harmful for us. I will have to go to another landscape plan.
B. I called Vicki Miller for counsel. She asked the news to Michael who called me.
C. Gretchen called and went into overdrive. Said to call 311 (wa had yesterday) contact our city council person. I wrote to called and Blewett. Within 10 minutes a building inspector was here.
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Is Part Of: Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
Relation: Image Gallery