Healing the Earth Wheels:

Prairie Restoration Wheel  •  Pipeline Explosion Wheel


Prairie Restoration: Franciscan Sisters of Wheaton, Illinois

Celebrating the Franciscan Sisters community's restoration work of a Midwest Prairie was the seed behind this large prayer wheel. Botanical illustrations of prairie plants such as milkweed and purple coneflower, animals such as fox, dragonfly, cardinal, and an extinct bison hidden in a sky of billowing clouds--remind us of the beauty and diversity found in our once vast prairies. People holding hands, doing a circle dance around the wheel's base represent the community of people who helped restore what our ancestors once believed stretched for an eternity.