last night was the reading to launch the cathy book and magus book.  people came here afterwards.  I had small children in my apartment for, I think, the first time ever.  magus’ kids. 

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tree planting was more witnessing than work.  there were too many people there.   I did get to swing the pick axe a bit.  the whole thing was odd in several ways.  right by the water in southwest.  100 feet from a pier.  on the grounds of a large co-op complex, no doubt expensive.  why were volunteers doing their landscaping?  b/c there is apparently no short-term profit motive for augmenting the existing canopy on their own, and they have the land.  some owners participated.

I arrived and stood around with others.  then they put us in teams.  then we dug holes and planted trees.  my team planted two.  the first one was a slow dig.  hard ground with lots of big rocks in it.  though it would have gone faster if we had a team of three rather than eight. 

I was probably there for 2 1/2 hours and did 1/2 hour of work.  lots of old folks.