Dave

  • 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… Continue reading

    Beloved Creation

  • 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,… Continue reading

    Becoming Place

  • 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. Continue reading

    You—We

  • 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… Continue reading

    Peace?