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Trusting We Matter to Our Siblings
Over the next few weeks I am visiting west and southwest US reserves, ceded, and unceded landscapes. The western viewscape easily holds my attention for hours. Yet, while driving, I am bound to turn to the radio.
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Beloved Creation
Quail are a good measure of the day’s cold. Each evening a covey settles in the wild willows west of home near the cattle’s water trough. During summers height they sometimes don’t make it back from the wonder of a day’s wandering and instead roost in the bramble of a long-abandoned irrigation ditch. Walking by them on a…
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Becoming Place
When talking about US racism the words colonialism and assimilation are often used interchangeably. Fair enough. After all, the goal of State colonialization is that people, all people, integrate State values as their own. Oppressed and privileged alike learn to accept US ideology, laws, values, and religion as if they are natural. Colonialism is the practice of assimilation—subtle and forced.…
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You—We
clouds held predawn,siblings no longer, sky and earth, become one. before light of distinction imagination unbinds. You. were there. sibling, friend, one of ground,one of sky,bound by ancestors,freed by family. solstice, the fifth season,unfetters the mystical,existence becomes singular. We.are one. imagination is truth,friendship is kinship,siblings one.
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Peace?
Years ago, Katherine introduced me to the concept of negative peace. In the middle of her work at Trinity College in Dublin, she Skyped to talk about Johan Galtung’s concept. The idea of peace being negative or positive had never occurred to me. In simple terms, a negative peace is the absence of violence. Think of a cease fire…
Chewing the Cud 