writing – Climate Wary Homesteader

Thoughts on Indigenous

I am not indigenous. My ancestors came from other places. But recent reading made me think about the whole concept. Googling tells me this: “Indigeneity is a term that refers to people or objects that are native to a certain region or environment. For example, Native American nations and Aboriginal Australians are considered indigenous. IndigeneityContinueContinue reading “Thoughts on Indigenous”

Can I Trust This?

I’ve heard it before. “You can live here as long as you want.” Usually comes when someone realizes how useful to them I am. “Help take care of so and so” “Till death do us part” “Help to buy this land” “Help maintain this place, develop it” It’s from people I once respected and gaveContinueContinue reading “Can I Trust This?”

Get Them While You Can

Climate change, regime change, and preventable illness. I can’t tell you how many times a day I hear around this area that scientists and Doctors are fake and out to harm people. As someone who has a degree in the sciences it’s rather insulting and also false. Why would we spend our whole lives tryingContinueContinue reading “Get Them While You Can”

Cheap Milk and Silent Screams (read my response below this powerful poem)

by Heide Brandes they’re dancing in the streets tonightcelebrating someone else’s painlike hyenas drunk on blood and fearwhile the milk goes sour in their refrigerators the television blares about savings at the megamartand nobody remembers how to grow their own freedom anymorethey revel like gloating goats, shittingand prancing on expensive things like rights, equality andContinueContinue reading “Cheap Milk and Silent Screams (read my response below this powerful poem)”

Navigating Family Trauma: Reuniting with My Incarcerated Brother

Today, my youngest brother pulled up the gravel driveway and parked his 30 year old red Nissan S.U.V. next to my 2016 Nissan rig. His big foot tire cover matching my big foot bumper stickers. I haven’t seen him in 5 years. The gritty details is his story to tell but it was traumatic theContinueContinue reading “Navigating Family Trauma: Reuniting with My Incarcerated Brother”