(Poppa Jump is a chipmunk.) “I would that our ‘people’ felt some awe when they came to thin or let light to some grove…” House Warming – HD Thoreau “You don’t have to agree, Kick,” says Poppa. “Just recognize that Izzie’s family does things differently. And that’s good, cause it can help us adjust our …
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Ixi Helps Linger
Ixi is a black widow spider. Linger is a pygmy mouse. “…the de-population by cholera and small-pox is ended by drainage and vaccination; and every other pest is not less in the chain of cause and effect, and may be fought off. And, whilst art draws out the venom, it commonly exhorts some benefit from …
Groundhog Rides
“Know by habitation” Ralph Waldo Emerson Nut Jump is a chipmunk. “Okay, you’re trying to get up mountain, too? Maybe we can work together Groundhog,” I say. I point up mountain. Then I make my fingers walk. The groundhog nods. “My brother, Jack, broke his leg. Would you carry him?” I point to the groundhog …
William
Momma likes WS. Momma Jump is a chipmunk. “Go to your bosom: knock there, ask your heart what it doth know. “ William Shakespeare ” So, do you believe all stories are true?” asked Momma. “No. Cause one chipmunk can believe one way, another another way. Can both be right?” Nut questions. “And what of …
Nut agrees with Emerson.
“Nature- an appendix to soul…” Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature Nut Jump is a chipmunk. Nut sat on their stream side stoop. He watched the water flow over the pebbles and sand.
Toe That Line
Nut Jump likes Henry David Thoreau. “To stand at the meeting of the two eternities, past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.” Economy Henry David Thoreau Nut held onto the twig with all four clawed hands. He put his nibbling teeth about the apple stem and chewed. The apple …
Crawdad War
by Poppa Jump [Poppa is a chipmunk.] In the run of the stream, under a limestone shelf, a red antenna waved. I crept there, let my tail wobble down, like a furry worm. A crawdad pounced and with its claw bit. I was shackled to the thing. I screamed, “Ay ya,” and smacked the head. …
Houses
“And as for our home – that is comfort. It crouches under the rooted knees of a pine. Our room is the size of a cat. The walls are inlaid with white, yellow and rose quartz pebbles. These pebbles reflect the light of the fire in fireplace and little pine pitch lamps on our sliver …
Momma Jump Reads Thoreau
Momma Jump is a chipmunk. “A straight old man…took his way… full of incommunicable thoughts… His fishing was not sport… but a sort of solemn sacrament and withdrawal from the world. “ HD Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers What is this life? What is conciousness? What is the process of going? …
Poppa Jump reads Emerson
“What if they eat clouds and drink wind they have not been without service to ‘the earth’” RWE The Transcendentalist Children, work in line with the earth’s emotions. If it is snow, talk to the crisp flakes. And for fog, walk quiet and quick. Be in it.
