When I showed up at the Whole this Thursday morning I was greeted by the sight of burned books, busted plastic and torn apart flood lights. A little investigation shows that it was a car they were driving, there were two people that got out, but only one went over the fence and into the land. That person then commenced to toss a wheel barrel onto the greeters table, breaking it, tear off the flood lights from their mount and then smash in some of the art barns remaining windows. Oddly they left the other set alone. I guess once they realized they were Plexiglas and did not deliver a satisfying enough effect when broken they moved on to the glass bricks that were along the retaining wall. It was a short burst of destructive behavior, and thank the Goddess and other spirits that are watching over the land, the vandals did not go any farther into the land, or try to burn anything other then some books. They could have lit half the desert on fire.
So this is were I ask.....how many times does out sacred ground need to be defiled before we take its safety seriously? So many have tried to give there time and lives to living on the land to keep is safe, but every single one of them that I have talked to, and my own experience, is that there was little to no support from the tribe while they were out there. ?!?!?!!??!???!?!?!?! Support does not mean money. It is water and food, company every once and a while, propane and gas, etc.... And yet, as a fairly large group of people, we failed to do even that for our Guardian's. So what is it going to take for us to take this seriously? ...Perhaps when everything is burned to the ground by some bored teenagers we might figure it out.