Karen Pardini, matriarch of the Grandmother Land (often depicted on Planet Waves), with her dobermans Suki and Katya. Karen is a midwife who has delivered about 2,000 babies, an EMT and a leader of the Eagle Valley Search Dogs, a search and rescue team that trains on her land. She is one of the Capricorn Moon women in my life. Photo by Eric Francis. (Note, our senior syntax correspondent, Carol van Strum, noted that I am alleging in this caption that Karen 'delivered' all these entities -- babies, search dogs, a rescue team and an EMT. This is not fully true, but in an abstract way true enough, and a great image, so I will leave it as written.)
This photo becomes more and more powerful each time I look at it.
She’s an intense woman, but friendly and dependable. Karen and I have had to work out our personality wrinkles here and there, and have continued to be good friends, growing into family, over the 16 or so years we’ve known one another. She is one of the Cap Moon types where people arrive in her life with an unusual degree of loyalty already in place, and offer her their sword. Protection of the land is a community endeavor. Here is one of my articles about how that has worked:
The other day I made reference to royal scams perpetrated by major environmental groups. This would qualify: a scheme by Mohonk and the Open Space Institute to steal the land of locals surrounding Mohonk and “preserve” it by means such as adverse possession.
This article was published before I was taking photos; the one used is a stock photo. The article took me four months to write, with the help of Parry Teasdale, then my editor at Woodstock Times.
I’m scared of her…. I guess that is why she was called to protect the land?
[my sister is capricorn moon…]
I don’t write as well as me – yet. :-))
I’m a Capricorn moon woman, lived on the Grandmother Land, am of Italian ancestry and am gluten-free…..but I don’t write as well as you. Yet.
Yikes. That’s quite the runaround.
This photo becomes more and more powerful each time I look at it.
She’s an intense woman, but friendly and dependable. Karen and I have had to work out our personality wrinkles here and there, and have continued to be good friends, growing into family, over the 16 or so years we’ve known one another. She is one of the Cap Moon types where people arrive in her life with an unusual degree of loyalty already in place, and offer her their sword. Protection of the land is a community endeavor. Here is one of my articles about how that has worked:
http://planetwaves.net/pirates.html
The other day I made reference to royal scams perpetrated by major environmental groups. This would qualify: a scheme by Mohonk and the Open Space Institute to steal the land of locals surrounding Mohonk and “preserve” it by means such as adverse possession.
This article was published before I was taking photos; the one used is a stock photo. The article took me four months to write, with the help of Parry Teasdale, then my editor at Woodstock Times.
I’m scared of her…. I guess that is why she was called to protect the land?
[my sister is capricorn moon…]
I don’t write as well as me – yet. :-))
I’m a Capricorn moon woman, lived on the Grandmother Land, am of Italian ancestry and am gluten-free…..but I don’t write as well as you. Yet.
Many. Mom, lovers, Karen – and a good few men. Christopher McGregor, for instance, who lived for years on the Grandmother Land.
capricorn moon women?