The Safety Pin Cafe : We Weed Walked!

Saturday, July 19, 2025

We Weed Walked!

Our first Weeds Walk was perfectomundo. It was the hottest day of the season so far but my broad brimmed hat and beautiful Pamoja Flower Power coverup were so helpful. Picture it? Okay

My family from Kipahulu in the island of Maui showed up for the inauguration. My mo’opuna Carter and I walked, chatted and played games to connect moku to moku and heart to heart (island to island and heart to heart).

We have a virtual La’au lapa’au story growing and the spider 🕷 throws the net in so many ways:

The internet

The Spider Man outfit Carter is always wearing

Ku’uku’u the cosmic web maker

Carter and I chanted E Ho Mai

Pete and I chanted Mai ka nuu i akea

Beautiful on purpose! All right! Aloha no!

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"we tell it slant"

We're not social realists, we're fantasists. We tell the truth, like poets, but we tell it slant -- we clothe it in symbol, archetype, and metaphor. But if we are to write or illustrate fantasy well we must do the work of understanding the classic tropes we use as best we can. Through reading. Through research. Through curiosity and sensitivity about lives and traditions far different than our own. Through building a relationship to the wild wherever we are. Know the place and the land on which you are rooted, and then move outward from there. - Terri Windling

THE SAFETY PIN CAFE'S MISSION

From the original medicine story The Safety Pin Cafe, its "Introduction" is the foundation upon which we offer what we know:

"We cross borders without regard, ignorant or arrogant of the protocol native to the transitional spaces that take us from this place to that place. Traditions remembered and practiced would maintain and pass along the right things to do, at the right time, and in the right frame of mind. Have we all become wanderers with passports un-stamped with the memory of teachings from the Ancestors and Nature? There are rituals to remember and common magic to induce respect and reverence for the beings and places that share this planet."

"When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically. In this context the proponent of an activity, rather than the public, should bear the burden of proof. The process of applying the precautionary principle must be open, informed and democratic and must include potentially affected parties. It must also involve an examination of the full range of alternatives, including no action." - Wingspread Statement on the Precautionary Principle, Jan. 1998

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We Weed Walked!

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