Pete and I are still here. Behind the scenes of The Safety Pin Cafe, we have continued our journey, pausing often and find ourselves rooted in places we love. In fact, we are comfortably sitting in couches in the Reading Room of the community space called Pamoja Place. The occasional car passes along on Camano Avenue and I hear it through the open window as I write. Pete has a copy of The New Yorker in his hands.
We are practicing being kupuna-in-residence here. Over the years of healing from the trauma of our flight from O'ahu more than 15 years ago, we have experienced many places, and possibilities. The creation of The Safety Pin Cafe, both the medicine story and this blog, were the first commitments to make Art from pain. It's a process and there are many templates.
These few paragraphs are the newest seeds for planting a perennial.
How to grow a perennial
Year One: Sleep
Year Two: Creep
Year Three: Leap
It's Year Three. I'm imagining the flower growing stronger together ... with the community that grows here at Pamoja Place now.
Ku'e e Safety Pin Cafe.
... to be continued
