Irene Abby

I just heard somebody THE OTHER DAY talking about weeds and how we don’t like weeds

I was doing a lot of READING

I DISCOVERED that something

I had been PULLING OUT turned out to be Oxi-Daisies, those white Daisies with the yellow centre

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I said to myself: WHY am I pulling these out?

I think our definition of a weed BEING SOMETHING that is growing where YOU DON’T WANT it

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I know EVERYBODY in New Denver

Yes, I GOT TO KNOW quite a few people.

I didn’t know what part of town to live in and I really didn’t have TIME to read

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I really didn’t know what I WANTED

And, I don’t know, everything is CHANGING so fast

And I think that’s TRUE

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I was talking to her about why we shouldn’t be CUTTING down all those trees

I just hope they wake up in TIME

So I just HOPE

I mean DESPITE some other things they’ve always kind of stuck to that

Well, ya, I mean it’s GOOD

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But I think all war HAS TO BE ABANDONED

I don’t think we’ve got enough steel in the world to go on, making guns ALL THE TIME.

Citation: Moore, Niamh, “Oral history interview with Irene Abbey Day 2 (audio recording and transcript),” Clayoquot Lives: An Ecofeminist Story Web, accessed April 26, 2023, https://clayoquotlives.sps.ed.ac.uk/items/show/157.