Reflections
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Quiet Talk
Three of them sat around the afternoon fire talking. Sometime ago he had taken a thirty-six-inch tractor rim and set it in the ground. As the two of them talked he watched the fire. Noticing that as the rim heated, the ground around… Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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,… Continue reading
Chewing the Cud 