The earth is our home, recent rocket-men notwithstanding, and we don’t treat it with the love and respect she deserves. We are known by our actions and our actions are informed by our words and our words manifest our thinking. I am working on a land acknowledgement that will become part of the forest, whether as prayer flags or as totem; thoughts into words into actions. I think of it as a gift that the forest will consume, leaving only story, only memory.