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Bending Gates and Bending Wills or High Tailing It
January 18, 2015 Last October I picked up a number of weaned steers. They came from an Angus herd, raised on grass, and certified natural. Just the animals I look for to bring to the farm. I trailered them to the farm and unloaded into the holding corral where they would stay for the next…
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Table Across the Street from the Reservation School
January 11, 2015 Preamble Sitting, at the southwest table. The Cougar Den is the only gas station restaurant in town. First bell rang ten minutes ago. He sits, black cap backwards, at the opposite wall table, two in front. She walks in, shawl dances around her, as wind gusts through shutting door. A glance across…
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Engaging Justice Prior To Movement Status
January 4, 2015 When speaking about the Christian Doctrine of Discovery and asking folk to consider if their life-ministry-vocation is to help the movement by raising their communities awareness of the CDOD’s structural injustice, a question sometimes asked (perhaps it isn’t as much a question as it is a comment), “what movement?” I think we…
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Coffee and the Art of Inattentiveness
December 28, 2014 5:15am, the morning after Christmas, and I am standing outside a McDonalds. Waking this morning in a home away from home, I negotiated pass bodies scattered on the couches and floor finding my way to the kitchen. I figured I would have a cup of coffee and write for a while. Looking…
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Patchwork
December 21, 2014 Sitting at a table in the southwest corner of the Cougar Den I watch youth arrive. The Cougar Den is as close as it gets to a restaurant in White Swan—a gas station with a grill and a few tables. Across the street from the middle and high school, youth get off…
Chewing the Cud 