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Whitewashed Hope
A message from 10+ Indigenous leaders and organizations
Regenerative Agriculture & Permaculture offer narrow solutions to the climate crisis
Introduction
Regenerative agriculture and permaculture claim to be the solutions to our ecological crises. While they both borrow practices from Indigenous cultures, critically, they leave out our worldviews ( Read more... ) -
Fight back against NSA surveillance!
I can't figure out how to get the banner to show up, but fight back anyway!
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You all like to say we want to take away your guns
In my case, you're right
If I could, we would all wake up one morning
And all the guns would be gone
Just disappeared
Like a Twilight Zone episode
And nobody could make any more of them
And we would never again
See 20 children's parents crying
At Christmas -
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Ideas wandered around my brain last night as I was dropping off to sleep. This is good. I should have time to write tomorrow and now I know my mind is playing with it ( Read more... ) -
Aha!
I found the not-quite 1000 words I wrote on The Citadel in 2007. It's not bad, but I realized I had no idea where it was going and what the plot would be - that's why I stopped. I realized as I was falling asleep that I need to switch my mental frame from "hiding from the bad guys" to a more Robin Hood approach, with a sprinkle of V for Vendetta ( Read more... ) -
Ideas
I was thinking about someone who has odd dreams and then slowly realizes she's actually jumping into other people's lives when she dreams. At first, she's just a viewer of their lives, but gradually finds herself able to influence the people she's viewing ( Read more... ) -
Days of the Dead
I woke up thinking about my godfather, my cousin Butch. I didn't know him well, but he had a tough life. He was raised Catholic, but he was also gay. He tried to commit suicide and, in coming to see him in the hospital, his mother, brother and grandmother died in a car accident. That guilt haunted his entire life. When I met him as an adult, ( Read more... ) -
The wheel has turned again
November has come again. There's a bit of a chill in the mornings and at night. Kids came and got free candy from me and now we start thinking about Thanksgiving and Christmas and a New Year. Perhaps I'm crazy, but I signed up for NaNoWriMo this year. Let's see if I can at least write *here* every day ( Read more... ) -
Jenny has the right idea
"So instead of pressuring the government to just DO THEIR JOB I’m going to instead write about a few things that we can do to pick up the slack they’ve left behind."
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Dreams
I had an odd dream over the weekend. I was in my mom's parents' house. I think mom and grandma were there, plus other relatives I didn't know, including my grandfather's mom (who died before I was born). My grandfather was "back" but it didn't look or sound like him. I was very upset and ran outside to the small plot grandpa gardened, crying ( Read more... )