In Not a Nation of Immigrants, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz strives to look at the ever morphing population of the United States, to uncover the why and how of the mythology that pervades political discourse on American history. In part, Dunbar-Ortiz recognizes that the looming problems of climate change, polarization, and authoritarianism cannot be fought while sweeping the parts of our history…
A Winter’s Promise
A Winter’s Promise (La Passe-Miroir #1) by Christelle Dabos with Hildegarde Serle (Translator) September 13-22, 2021 Recommended by Deirdre a few years ago, downloaded at the time … finally getting around to it. The world splintered long ago. Floating islands, each with it’s own customs, magics, and spirit guardians. Ophelia is a young woman from a sheltered background, a peaceful…
things that happen in kitchens
The kitchen in the Pennsburg house was an addition from the 60s, as wide as the house and at least a third deep, it was giant. When we moved to Pennsburg, the floor was linoleum and the cabinets were painted the same sort of light gray-blue that you saw so much during the time period. A triple-wide farmhouse sink, cast…
No, uh, spark
I love a good revenge film, they’re cathartic and frenetic and steeped in this easy good versus evil existence that never exists in the real world. So … enter a very big haired blonde-ed Kate Beckinsale, add in some neon, some weirdness, and lots of the tiny kick ass woman. I’m in. Low expectations though. Jolt From the beginning ……
human or billionaire
We’ve learned so much about the world, about plants and animals, about the oceans and sky … about our history. Yet today, we’re embracing ignorance at alarming rates.
staggering
a tiny exploration of the staggering loss of life this last year
Juneteenth
On one hand, this is big. Like, really big. Most White people in the U.S. didn’t know about Juneteenth until a few years ago … or maybe still don’t know? Sharing knowledge of history is powerful, sharing the realities of slavery and its legacies, celebrating the “end” is powerful. Particularly for our children. White kids need to know that legal…
water is also a verb
This phrase is the title of an essay in All We Can Save. It lives in the Nourish section of the book, nestled between “Black Gold” and “The Seed Underground.” “God is change,” claims Octavia Butler. “Water is in constant flux,” says Judith D. Schwartz. It’s not like we didn’t know things were changing. The land knew. The animals knew.…
An elegy
Democracy isn’t a state of being, it is a process. To be democratic, to live in democracy, is to participate boldly with our neighbors in the collaborative decision making that is governance. We’ve seen many instances in the last 40 years of anti-democratic movements gaining momentum. But we have to ask ourselves, do we truly want to be a democracy?…
The Nature of Desert Nature
Ostensibly, editor Gary Paul Nabhan’s collection of friends’ essays, The Nature of Desert Nature is about the desert. Rather … it’s human nature that we encounter delving into this collection of essays. The writers reminisce on their own beingness as they encountering one specific desert: the Sonoran. The Sonoron is the desert covers vast area in the Southwest United States…
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