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Radical Joy Revealed
December 20, 2017
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Radical Joy Revealed is a weekly message of inspiration about finding and making beauty in wounded places. We hope you'll enjoy these doorways into places that are both familiar and surprising, and we welcome your suggestions, stories, and photos. Click here to subscribe.
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A Christmas tree glitters on the wildfire-scorched land of Tricia Woods, Santa Rosa, CA. Photo by Alvin Jornada/The Press Democrat
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Christmas Trees Rekindle "Home"
in a Burned Place
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On a plot of bare, charred earth, surrounded by the skeletons of burned trees, a Christmas tree glimmers in the darkness. It rises up, a symbol of hope and resilience, where Tricia Woods's home in the Coffey Park section of Santa Rosa, California stood before the neighborhood was engulfed by wildfire last September.
Woods and her family also helped their neighbors, May Salido and her three children, decorate a tree in the place that used to be their home. "It feels more like home now," said May Salido.
After the tree was in place, 12-year-old Maelani Salido, did a dance around it.
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Maelani Salido dances around the Christmas tree in her burned front yard. Photo by Alvin Jornada, The Press Democrat
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Radical Joy for Hard Times
is a global community of people dedicated to finding and making beauty in wounded places. Reconnecting with these places, sharing our stories of loss, and making acts of beauty there, we transform the land, reconnect people and the places that nourish them, and empower ourselves to make a difference in the way we live on Earth.
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