My grandson goes to a wonderful preschool.  I just watched a video made by one of the classes. It’s called the Wind Chime Restoration Project.

At the entry to the school was a windchime that the parents and children loved ringing when they came to school and left.  One day it broke.  

One  class, the Opals, decided to fix it. The children drilled, painted, and threaded.  As one child put it, it took a long, long time.

The video contains each child’s words.  Words that repeated were, “I love you Wind!”

The wind chime became the voice of the wind for the children as they saw themselves as protectors of the wind and the chimes.  

Each child speaks of being very gentle with the chimes, and shows how to be very careful when touching them. The chimes are painted in different colors with messages from the children fluttering above them.

The video ends with the words of Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass.

We need acts of restoration not only for polluted waters and degraded lands, but also for our relationship to the world.