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Good talk by Lyla June, a Diné woman and scholar, presenting the lessons her ancestors have to teach us about living with the land. Her crucial point: humans were meant to be a part of this world. We evolved here; we and all the species of the world are children of the same Mother. The solution to our environmental problems is continually bringing together humans and the natural world. Indigenous people around the world have living traditions handed down by ancestors who flourished alongside other beings. Let’s listen to them.





I received my micro.blog sticker today and I’ve added it to the side of my laptop shelf.

Stickers on the side of a black shelf

I have a shameful lack of knowledge about the history–and ongoing story–of Native Americans. Anyone have some documentary film recommendations?


This is a good example of my favorite type of Rhyd’s writing, and why I’m a paying subscriber. His political theory stuff is interesting enough, but I love it when he goes full-on pagan weird with stories from his life.


I encountered Gary Snyder’s phrase “we are the primitives / of an unknown culture” this week and it gave me that mind-opening feeling. I’ve left a tab open to do some digging into its context and meaning.


A little Solstice berry gathering along the Milwaukee Trail


So I’d like to visit some area cemeteries this summer and I’d like to mark them on a map app and maybe make notes. I’d also like for the app to be somewhat privacy oriented (which I know means “not free”). Any recommendations?