{"id":45,"date":"2019-03-30T15:56:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T15:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiralenergy.climateactionchildhood.net\/?p=45"},"modified":"2019-03-30T15:56:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T15:56:48","slug":"a-squirrels-provocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiralenergy.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/2019\/03\/30\/a-squirrels-provocation\/","title":{"rendered":"A squirrel\u2019s provocation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

October 18, 2018 – by Sarah Black and Meagan Montpetit<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this clear, crisp fall day in the\nWoodland Cemetery the children explore the fallen leaves, bright colors, and\ncool air. While most of the children have gravitated to a large pile of crunchy\nleaves at one end of the green space, L pulls my hand toward a familiar stump\ncloser to the road.  In the summer, this\nstump used to be a tall tree, too wide to wrap your arms around, it is now a\nflat stump the children continue to return to; climbing, jumping, sliding,\nexploring the bugs under the bark. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This morning the stump offers L and I a new provocation; there are cracked shells of nuts and acorns left in a small pile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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L sees these shells and begins asking\nquestions as he climbs on top of the stump, sitting beside them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow\ndid these get here? Did they fall from that tree and break open?\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I answer him saying, \u201cIt looks like a\nsquirrel might have sat here and ate a snack\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA\nsquirrel did? Where did he get them? Is he coming back?\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

L\u2019s mittened hand gently prods the nuts, moving them around, and looking up into the tree beside us. Perhaps looking for the satiated squirrel that ate the nuts and left the shells. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

L\u2019s mittened hand gently prods the nuts,\nmoving them around, and looking up into the tree beside us. Perhaps looking for\nthe satiated squirrel that ate the nuts and left the shells. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThere\nare squirrels at my grandma\u2019s house\u201d <\/em>he tells me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMaybe your grandma is actually at the\nsquirrel\u2019s house\u201d This thought makes L laugh and simply reply \u201cno, its my grandma\u2019s house\u201d<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

L\u2019s laugh implies to me what a ridiculous\nthought it is, that us humans are the ones out of place and are invading the\nliving spaces of the local animals and plants. His confident reply that it is\nhis grandma\u2019s space and not the squirrel\u2019s space makes me wonder about whose\nspace it really is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can L and I think about the cemetery space that we are currently in? Are we visitors to this green expanse, pests and annoyances to the resident plants and animals? Or are we the one\u2019s<\/g> accommodating the presence of these more-than-humans in a space that we have sovereignty<\/g> over ?<\/g> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We wonder about our relationship to this place that we have been visiting for so long. We think about ways that we can shift from notions of ours versus theirs. What does it mean to be in relation to the cemetery and its more-than-human inhabitants.<\/g> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

October 18, 2018 – by Sarah Black and Meagan Montpetit On this clear, crisp fall day in the Woodland Cemetery the children explore the fallen leaves, bright colors, and cool air. While most of the children have gravitated to a large pile of crunchy leaves at one end of the green space, L pulls my … Continue reading “A squirrel\u2019s provocation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiralenergy.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiralenergy.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiralenergy.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiralenergy.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiralenergy.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiralenergy.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/spiralenergy.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiralenergy.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiralenergy.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiralenergy.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}