May 1, 2012

My Love Affair With Garbage

Tara Woodard-Lehman, Huffington Post

It started off, just a bunch of garbage. Literally. I stared down trash heaps and recycling bins and meditated. I prayed in salvage yards and next to garbage bins and even trash cans. And when I did, something welled up in my throat, something erupted from down deep in my belly; a fire shot up in my bones like the prophet and I knew I couldn't help but do something. I had to act.

Create. Re-create. Renew. Recycle. Reclaim. Restore. Redeem.

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