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I'm going to try
something new tonight,

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and it involves this
little thing here.

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I think I did it.

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This is called "One
Adobe at a Time."

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"We coiled each row
with mud bricks,

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lifting, measuring, shaping
one adobe at a time.

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This earth vessel rounded into
rooms we raise our children in,

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staggered bricks of
straw mud and sand

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like the Towa before us who
sculpted their own shelters

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upward, in basic uneven
layers one adobe at a time.

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In our vessel
there are thousands

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of adobes anchored to a
solid bed of concrete,

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evenly distributing the
weight of wall 17 feet high.

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My husband designed our
cradle of packed earth,

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keeping with the adobe tradition
of simple wavering lines that

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move quietly, curving in and out
of rooms one after the other.

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Plastering, molding, and
repacking an endless supply

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of bricks until
our mud shell stood

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upright, massive and invincible.

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Sounds easily surrender
to walls absorbing

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the details of our lives.

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Coughs from sick children,
romantic whispers,

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and heated debates all digested
into porous layers of mortar.

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I shake my head, thinking only
Mother Earth would permit such

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a burden, allowing us to dig
foundations into her skin,

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and for giving us the weight
of tons and tons of mass,

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yet holding us safe and steady.

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Our vessel made from
her brown solid skin.

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Earth mother, giving all that
she is one adobe at a time."

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[APPLAUSE]

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