"to slow and begin to touch the edges of grief," digital photo manipulation., dimensions variable.

The shores of cayuga just north of Chonodote, an 18th-century village of the Cayuga nation of Iroquois Indians.

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Chonodote – what is now the modern day village of Aurora, New York.

Chonodote – earlier called Deawendote, or 'village of constant dawn.'

Chonodote – what was known by the American Army as Peach Town for its orchard of over one thousand peaches.

Chondote – destroyed on September 24, 1779 by troops under the command of William Butler of the Sullivan-Clinton campaign.

"As remorseless as a cannon shot, the axe leveled every tree though burdened with loads of luscious fruit, and the freshly ripened corn was gathered only to be destroyed. At 10:00 o'clock AM the torch was applied to the dwellings, and as such, the crackling flamed lifted their fiery heads over the scene of havoc and destruction."

There are fewer peach trees here today in 2020, far fewer, but from those who still reach their slender leafed limbs skyward one can find great medicine. An old southern remedy for grief, they said.

For grief.

To slow and begin to touch the edges of grief. The edges of the villainy of war. This war.

This war.

This war.