tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23510184663693375332024-03-27T23:29:59.641-07:00tonic wildI tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world. ~Mary OliverMary Silwancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17022716351722177526noreply@blogger.comBlogger106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351018466369337533.post-46105452328634635482023-04-25T08:03:00.002-07:002023-04-25T08:03:42.255-07:00<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><b><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU-hB9hSlP3E4q60duFU98iRtPwPI7-TR-JQOTpPmlYes7TSckE6C_MyuhiFv6NXauLwG2Vvgx2x6yk4qv60rMReIIYWbCG69188ucTfZ5sB2TkCYnNSoy7aW0J-pjt1U0GQnT54WDsFwUR2tMWuZ8ZEpNeHDWqiV8jyMinM_4B_2dct7h9ZEaHnPf5g/s1000/image.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1000" height="545" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU-hB9hSlP3E4q60duFU98iRtPwPI7-TR-JQOTpPmlYes7TSckE6C_MyuhiFv6NXauLwG2Vvgx2x6yk4qv60rMReIIYWbCG69188ucTfZ5sB2TkCYnNSoy7aW0J-pjt1U0GQnT54WDsFwUR2tMWuZ8ZEpNeHDWqiV8jyMinM_4B_2dct7h9ZEaHnPf5g/w726-h545/image.png" width="726" /></a></div></b><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> I've moved! </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Please visit me at</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b><a href="https://www.marysilwance.com/"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">https://www.marysilwance.com</span></b><span style="font-size: large;">/</span></a></p>Mary Silwancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17022716351722177526noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351018466369337533.post-38162282973106502632022-01-28T19:48:00.005-08:002022-01-30T09:54:54.180-08:00I think of baptism<div style="text-align: left;"><img alt="soak-pans - CV Water Counts" class="n3VNCb" data-noaft="1" jsaction="load:XAeZkd;" jsname="HiaYvf" src="https://cvwatercounts.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/soak-pans.jpg" style="height: 333px; margin: 0px; width: 500px;" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">each time</div><div style="text-align: left;">I leave pans</div><div style="text-align: left;">to soak </div><div style="text-align: left;">I think of baptism</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">it is morning </div><div style="text-align: left;">and last night</div><div style="text-align: left;">I did not want </div><div style="text-align: left;">to wrestle and scour</div><div style="text-align: left;">stubborn stuck bits</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">so I left the pan</div><div style="text-align: left;">in a sink full</div><div style="text-align: left;">of sudsy water</div><div style="text-align: left;">in the dark kitchen</div><div style="text-align: left;">to sleep</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">now</div><div style="text-align: left;">the stuck and stubborn </div><div style="text-align: left;">bits do not </div><div style="text-align: left;">put up the fight </div><div style="text-align: left;">they had in them </div><div style="text-align: left;">when they seemed unyielding</div><div style="text-align: left;">intransigent </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div>--they wash away easily</div><div><br /></div><div>and I think of being</div><div>dunked in the river</div><div><br /></div><div>the hopeful lined up </div><div>in the hot sun waiting</div><div><br /></div><div>their stubborn bits</div><div>already mellowing </div><div>at the promise of how</div><div>water dissolves our edges</div><div><br /></div><div>since we are mostly water</div><div>on a planet mostly water</div><div>so much of it salty</div><div><br /></div><div>and how much depends</div><div>on the salt water flowing </div><div>down my face</div><div><br /></div><div>washing away the </div><div>stubborn stuck bits</div><div><br /></div><div>the ocean I carry inside</div><div>ready to baptize me </div><div>into the world's ocean</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Mary Silwancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17022716351722177526noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351018466369337533.post-53056725072689177732021-12-23T07:57:00.005-08:002021-12-24T03:39:36.131-08:00Divine Will<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhucqNcWHxfv8QB-W_VfSerVc6IQ-x0X1JFK9FdLpPE5IL-xjx5hqzKtSocpfE-gWAv7TNu5KIqp0g_fzJP_HloU14uxcbI-tcF1gARFhCXO_I277gU1MIRvWHCo8QOYM1QbUMPprRIG7ypVAGaR-wrvUU6MCKz6sWYP93I6AZRORHREQ7C-u3cvPB1rQ=s3356" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3356" data-original-width="2565" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhucqNcWHxfv8QB-W_VfSerVc6IQ-x0X1JFK9FdLpPE5IL-xjx5hqzKtSocpfE-gWAv7TNu5KIqp0g_fzJP_HloU14uxcbI-tcF1gARFhCXO_I277gU1MIRvWHCo8QOYM1QbUMPprRIG7ypVAGaR-wrvUU6MCKz6sWYP93I6AZRORHREQ7C-u3cvPB1rQ=s320" width="245" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My daughters requested a real Christmas tree.</p><p>We have a perfectly serviceable fake tree in the basement already decorated with colored lights, jewel toned ornaments and slivered in silver tinsel. It was a gift from a friend moving, eager to travel light. And you know I prefer used goods-even cast offs-over newly manufactured anything.</p><p>But a real tree? </p><p>Here's my dilemma. What ecosystems were exterminated to plant acres of fir, spruce and pine? What chemical inputs were required to force it to grow into marketable shapes and sizes? How far did it have to travel to get to a store near me? What chemicals were used to keep it fresh? Was it shipped in refrigerated trucks like fruits and vegetables? That all seems ecologically obscene when we've been averaging 50 degree weather this December in Missouri.</p><p>Besides, what will I do with it after Christmas? If it's loaded with chemicals, I don't want to compost it or toss it in the backyard for critters to nibble on. I don't want it decomposing near my garden beds and I definitely don't want to landfill organic matter. </p><p>Finally though, with Christmas barreling toward me faster than I'm ever prepared for, I caved and went to a nearby nursery. I found one that was just right. Well, just right in a Charlie Brown Christmas way: small and spindly. It shivered in a corner with another scrawny scrap of a fir, reminding me of myself and a friend in grade school, the leftover kids who never got picked for kickball.</p><p>I took home the discounted, desiccated tree to decorate. When my girls were little we cut holiday cards into strips to made a chain. This long homemade garland and tiny white lights seemed a perfect adornment for the gangly fir. When finished I sat in the darkened living room enjoying the Charlie Brown vibe, white lights gracing the room with a soft glow. </p><p>Then I remembered.</p><p>To secure the tree, I bored screws into four sides of it, shredding bark in the process. Trees feel. They have families, form diverse communities, take care of each other. I imagined rows upon rows of firs just like this one in monocrop plantations across the country. Indentured. Trees bred to be consumed. Then discarded. </p><p>Even my environmental concerns about a live tree regarded <i>it</i> as an object; without the sentience Indigenous peoples have always revered about plants and animals that science is just now beginning to recognize. I felt disconnect between the <a href="http://tonicwild.blogspot.com/2021/12/land-acknowledgement-sacred-ground.html"><b>land acknowledgement</b></a> ritual I'd recently created and the Christmas ritual I'd just participated in. </p><p>To force a being to grow in unnatural conditions, kill her then artificially keep her 'fresh' to adorn and display her for one's enjoyment to eventually discard her, is a sacrilege akin to pornography. A tree is a living being with a right to her own life. </p><p>Not only does the common Christmas refrain, "glory to god in the highest and on earth peace, goodwill toward men," exclude certain people, it discounts nonhumans. Those who fall outside the scope can then be othered: dominated, abused, used, enslaved, marginalized, even killed for the 'glory of the most high.' Progeny of this god-Judaism, Christianity and Islam-have littered history with those they've judged underserving of good will. The legacy continues as good will is still not extended to all beings, let alone all humans. I wonder at the self-serving demarcations, this fabricated scarcity, as though there's a limited supply of Divine good will, as though Sacredness doesn't pulse and shimmer in every speck of Earth. </p><p>This startles me. If Divinity is the fabric of everything, why don't our Christmas traditions reflect that? Why participate in rituals that even subjugate other beings? What's more, these traditions-the trees, lights, decorations, overindulgence of food and presents, grand religious services-rely on extractive practices that not only don't foster good will or peace on earth but actually jeopardize others to provide material accouterments for the holiday season. How does that honor the Divine? </p><p>Should we not pause such celebrations, such rituals, until we upend systems of oppression? Couldn't our traditions create systems that honor the ever-presence of Sacredness instead? My entire life I've been told it's not that black and white, not an either or. We can celebrate while we pray for those suffering. Maybe adopt a family, volunteer, donate. I'm weary of this equivocation. Inequity, marginalization and suffering flourish, not peace on earth and good will. If the Christ child was supposed to be revolutionary, it's not working. That miracle is simply pimped to uphold oppressive, marginalizing systems while a few get to feel virtuous for their charitable deeds. Is this what the Divine calls us to? </p><p>How do we endure Holiness being tortured, trafficked, caged, incarcerated, raped? How do we celebrate the Sacred while species go extinct? While the number of refugees, human and other, increases? While millions, human and other, go without food, water or shelter? Maybe we gaze heavenward to seek Divinity in order to avert our gaze from what we're doing here on Earth to each other and to ourselves. </p><p>To be complicit in the desecration of Earth and Her Beings, to deny the Sacred in its wondrous ubiquity means we first learned to deny our own Holiness. 2021 has been a journey toward my inner Divine, which means it's also been a journey toward understanding Divinity as the fabric we are each knit from. Which means we ourselves and all we come in contact with are holy beings, deserving of reverence.</p><p>The anemic fir in my living room bolted to a tree stand is propped up on a plastic yellow milk crate hidden under a snowman tree skirt to give her height. It is time for new rituals. Let's develop traditions to honor the Sacred within and in every being so we can authentically manifest good will toward each and every being. Indeed, Divine will. Then we'd have a chance at peace on and with Earth.</p><p><br /></p>Mary Silwancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17022716351722177526noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351018466369337533.post-82033966247767679832021-12-08T15:12:00.014-08:002021-12-29T04:53:33.479-08:00 land acknowledgement: an embodied practice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSLXX5Nbiad0dureTkNxRHNoiY2pwM_aMNIVCH-RuSQycrxzKWmg3rfUwbynZyLgeuU-HR47ODe2TjYi3Vv2N3zEaqgHtcNZvXpRs7td5eusLHUdcoNcQ0gh7JXuj1Ncfwc9QTAbx6O0sLRZCB68VxNVOWsmLoXFMBhD_aDdtE8GlMG_zeRsFW9CuqMQ=s1334" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1334" data-original-width="1156" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSLXX5Nbiad0dureTkNxRHNoiY2pwM_aMNIVCH-RuSQycrxzKWmg3rfUwbynZyLgeuU-HR47ODe2TjYi3Vv2N3zEaqgHtcNZvXpRs7td5eusLHUdcoNcQ0gh7JXuj1Ncfwc9QTAbx6O0sLRZCB68VxNVOWsmLoXFMBhD_aDdtE8GlMG_zeRsFW9CuqMQ=s320" width="277" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;">I wake up at dark early and do my routine. I set the kettle to boil, get tea ready.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I go outside then step off the porch to stand barefoot next to my first garden bed. I begin my gratitudes: thank you Earth for my life, thank you for my daughters, garden, family, friends; I go on and on, listing. I thank the cardinal flowers for the hummingbirds that love them, the parsley for hosting swallowtails. I inhale and exhale deeply, mindful of my dependence of clean fresh breath for vitality. </p><p style="text-align: left;">I thank the wind for blowing, welcome its caress. If I hear birds, I thank them for their song, a different sort of caress. I thank each season for the gifts unique to it. I thank the dark for what it brings to light. I thank the trees next door, across the street; the ones I have daily relationship with. I thank the stars, moon and clouds, whatever is in view at the moment. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Sometimes it is so cold, I do this fastly. Sometimes I linger. Either way, I breathe and root my feet into my Mother, kiss the ground through my soles, yes through my soul, to feel Her embrace. I ponder the thousands of species that have slithered, crawled, flitted, flown, climbed right here through the centuries. I recognize my eventual return to Her. Gratitude wells up for what She provides; indeed for Her divine and dependable abundance for all beings. She is home.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I wake up at dark early to practice a new routine. </p><p style="text-align: left;">In this daily ritual I acknowledge the trauma of settler colonialism; acknowledge the ingrained paradigm of supremacist capitalism within myself; acknowledge our capacity for direct relationship with Earth, our birthright as humans-from the Latin, <i>humus</i>, meaning Earth. </p><p style="text-align: left;">It is simply not enough to acknowledge the past here on this continent while globally, presently, Indigenous peoples are increasingly threatened by extractive capitalism. As the number of Indigenous defenders murdered rises yearly, as globalization interferes with more Indigenous cultures in their symbiotic relationship with Earth, we must take land acknowledgement into the present and future tenses as well as into our own past tense; we must embody it.</p><p style="text-align: left;">We too, once upon a time, were indigenous to a land, a culture, a people that understood ourselves as of the land which sustained us. I want to remember what was hardwired into my being centuries ago. When I stand barefoot in the midwest, I imagine a blood ancestor barefoot in the mideast also paying homage to our divine Mother; I imagine other ancestors who may have stood on this very spot to pay homage, a chorus across time, geography, and lineage. A chorus that undoes the distance-and delusions-of supremacy, colonialism and capitalism. The delusions that keep us from right relationship with Earth.</p><p style="text-align: left;">A line from ee cummings comes to mind, "here is the deepest secret nobody knows..."</p><p style="text-align: left;">And yet we do know. The land upon which I live doesn't belong to me. Just as the squirrels nesting in the honey locust next door don't own the tree. That is a capitalist approach to Earth. By acknowledging, instead, we belong to Her, we recognize the covenantal relationship at the heart of belonging. To make acknowledgement be about ownership is sacrilege, like pinning a swallowtail to a board. Let us emancipate acknowledgement from the performative gesture of colonizers. </p><div><p style="text-align: left;">I wake up at dark early to embody a new routine. </p></div><p style="text-align: left;">When I finish my gratitudes, I become quiet; offering silence, listening, as hospitality, as space for the deepest secrets, my own Indigenous relationship with Earth, to sing within my blood. Yes we do know. Those sacred routines are dormant within us, waiting to be acknowledged. </p>Mary Silwancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17022716351722177526noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351018466369337533.post-91741078255635651842021-11-25T05:44:00.004-08:002021-11-26T05:09:00.134-08:00the grammar of animacy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-mOpC7OtntvgGzFA45KOo96tvk8GyFODjrbUXcBbIKXTsigob2JIAddSlg-RMTm0mjmqvgkf20pmlnr_CQlvrA8S0Oa1ylMGFNogy2T2spRJPc8gb0EcUTTWzVdxZpHhNgp2Lsmo8kxHW/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="768" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-mOpC7OtntvgGzFA45KOo96tvk8GyFODjrbUXcBbIKXTsigob2JIAddSlg-RMTm0mjmqvgkf20pmlnr_CQlvrA8S0Oa1ylMGFNogy2T2spRJPc8gb0EcUTTWzVdxZpHhNgp2Lsmo8kxHW/" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">1.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> verbs populate</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Indigenous languages</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Everything</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>animate<span> <span> </span>sovereign</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>English is a language of nouns.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Most every<span> thing</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>inanimate<span> <span> </span>unsovereign</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>to be acted upon</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>by a shallow pool of</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>verbs</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>Indigenous</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>children were abducted</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>from their families</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>imprisoned</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>in boarding schools</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>beaten bleached and baptized</span></div><div style="text-align: left;">into white names<span> raped</span></div><div style="text-align: left;">to match the white</div><div style="text-align: left;">Jesus they were </div><div style="text-align: left;">to worship</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">their hair cut like Samson's</div><div style="text-align: left;">their mouths scoured</div><div style="text-align: left;">when they wept</div><div style="text-align: left;">in their native tongues</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> the gibberish of savages</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> needing salvation</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> I have been to churches</span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> where they spoke</span><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> in tongues</span><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> eyes closed,</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> pale faces</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> beatific</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>It was the Indigenous </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>come to possess</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>the descendants of</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>boarding school teachers</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>for their pious work</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>choking children</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>beatific</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>2.<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> I spoke in tongues</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> one religious fall</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> on the heels</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> of a sinful summer</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> though he could not </span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> interpret my utterings</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> gibberish </span></span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> if you listened</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> long enough</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> the pastor vetted</span></span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> my glossolalia</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span>in the land of brown Jesus</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span>during an ancient century</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span><span>invaders severed</span></span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span>my people's </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Indigenous tongue</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span>their language<span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>rough dungarees</span></span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span>that scoured our soft bodies</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span>stiff boots that blistered</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span>our mouths until</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span>their pious gibberish</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span>became our glossolalia</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> eventually I ran </span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span>out of faith</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> left piety</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> by the side </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>of the road</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>when language possess you</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span>what happens to animacy?</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span>what happens to sovereignty?</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>3.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> When.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><br /><p></p>Mary Silwancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17022716351722177526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351018466369337533.post-6790483825156349622021-11-01T15:34:00.002-07:002021-11-01T17:53:08.790-07:00what will be<p></p><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwv1uPb4qzamsCiZybmk1Ii_7fWraFtA1CUX2y62SsvI7H4G-Nwzo2StbKblKzuvr6X0T4LBMhSZ7IcVsAho5wOkXf86Mq5__XbsH8KRp5I8WLy7OQo79Gl8AL8vvL7YNjYpKlEUDCIs5J/s3264/20141026_080153.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwv1uPb4qzamsCiZybmk1Ii_7fWraFtA1CUX2y62SsvI7H4G-Nwzo2StbKblKzuvr6X0T4LBMhSZ7IcVsAho5wOkXf86Mq5__XbsH8KRp5I8WLy7OQo79Gl8AL8vvL7YNjYpKlEUDCIs5J/s320/20141026_080153.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">November</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">has already</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">made husks of</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">what once was</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the sky charcoal streaked</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I work fast</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">against the nearing dusk</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">releasing wilted plants</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">stems collapse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">withered fruit, now tombs</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">for cutworm, roll away</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">tired soil soon tucked under</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">sheets of russet leaves</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">my beds readied</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">for hibernation</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I pause</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">cheek on rake</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">wood worn smooth</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and want</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">my own gestation</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">deep silence</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">to swaddle me</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">stretch womb wide</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a season of my own</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">making from what once</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">was cells inchoate coalesce</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">in increments of self</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">gathering already</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">to ripen into</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">what will</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">be</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #888888;"></span></p><div><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /></div></div>Mary Silwancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17022716351722177526noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351018466369337533.post-16539018670882940622021-09-29T10:22:00.001-07:002021-09-29T10:25:15.435-07:00of being<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1uzBHeoj9-dkUhSF3yVy6yXvQMbEgcIwus4qF6KQK59rYxViD43P41mlStTnYF4-DNjidkrG6TB6oC0hhjYkmSjyFG1WHHfGwquCb7Gez6McJdcThAnQqqpUZ4FNfDFF3brZsY9617hKq/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1367" data-original-width="2048" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1uzBHeoj9-dkUhSF3yVy6yXvQMbEgcIwus4qF6KQK59rYxViD43P41mlStTnYF4-DNjidkrG6TB6oC0hhjYkmSjyFG1WHHfGwquCb7Gez6McJdcThAnQqqpUZ4FNfDFF3brZsY9617hKq/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGGukXHfNEdCNCOq8zrwq4rW_FXBQHJTdbRHzhJvuaDAujoHOhW8HEFtognr5w5owBjfZswKxB9CvpeDwoY1054p-ma1nBIkozXcYzsnkCV1nQbpz9YbIYt9R-XfLKk0SDU-35OIqN_Bi8/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="713" data-original-width="540" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGGukXHfNEdCNCOq8zrwq4rW_FXBQHJTdbRHzhJvuaDAujoHOhW8HEFtognr5w5owBjfZswKxB9CvpeDwoY1054p-ma1nBIkozXcYzsnkCV1nQbpz9YbIYt9R-XfLKk0SDU-35OIqN_Bi8/w485-h640/image.png" width="485" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Mary Silwancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17022716351722177526noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351018466369337533.post-77317201239822235912021-09-06T07:12:00.002-07:002021-09-06T09:25:30.930-07:00I will tell you <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPd3Tc-q2rezOYI0bRQC_CzpmkFuT8Ty3SA0wbQmLQZ6bH4z7Kx0MZLwTRiu_-YT5OGc46YTZV5J58_0kdsK4mEi6axrqYex0LSSkxFj6WP5IDO_Evsg8dI2BkgjuJTXG5aieiMrd83s1n/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1407" data-original-width="2048" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPd3Tc-q2rezOYI0bRQC_CzpmkFuT8Ty3SA0wbQmLQZ6bH4z7Kx0MZLwTRiu_-YT5OGc46YTZV5J58_0kdsK4mEi6axrqYex0LSSkxFj6WP5IDO_Evsg8dI2BkgjuJTXG5aieiMrd83s1n/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>(Of All Mammals, Elephants Have the Strongest Sense of Smell)</i></p><p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I will not tell you</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I did not take </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">the clothes to Goodwill</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">like you asked</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I will not tell you</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I unravel instead</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">every piece of clothing</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">rolled and bagged</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">evidence of the Montessori</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">training that taught</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">your once tiny hands</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">such tidy habits</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I will not tell you</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I lift each</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">to my face:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span> first concert shirt</span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span> fan girl apparel</span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span> swag from school sports</span><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span>each a sacrement</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span>of who you have been</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span>I will not tell you</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span>I inhale your shirts</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span>to receive</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span>the blessing</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span>of you</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span>each one anoints me</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span>with you</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span>now so far away</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span>in a city on a campus</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span>in a building</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span>in a room with</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span>another mother's</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span>daughter</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span>I will not tell you</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span>after the ten months</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span>you mermaided</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span>within the ocean</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span>of my belly</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I could not be</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">away from you</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">not for a moment</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I will not tell you</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I slept with you cocooned </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">in the newly hollowed</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">curve of my body</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">breathing in your exhalation</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">as though I were your tree</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I will not tell you</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">any of this or that</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I am melancholy</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I will not tell you</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I am often lost</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">in your absence</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I will not tell you</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I wonder</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">if your scent</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">the ambered</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">aroma of home</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">--will vanish</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">*</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I will not tell you</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">because I am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">a mammal</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">in modern captivity</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">trained to leave wailing</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">babies in pastel cages</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">trained to celebrate</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">each contrived step</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">taken away </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">trained to hand my young</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">to a conveyor belt</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">of strangers</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">to seek stickers and stars</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">to learn that worth </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">is something earned</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">not your birthright</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I will not tell you </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> because we </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">are not elephants</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">living in clans</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">guided by matriarchs</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">to thrive</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">as ourselves</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I will not tell you</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I pace the house</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">nuzzling your shirt</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">like a lonely elephant</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">cow caged in a zoo</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">*</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I will tell you </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">instead</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">of the adventures</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">you will have</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">my mighty mermaid you</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">in the world's ocean</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I will tell you </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">instead</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span> </span>I am here</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span> </span>I am here</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span> </span>I am here</div><i><br /></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div></div><i><br /><br /></i><p></p>Mary Silwancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17022716351722177526noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351018466369337533.post-29454732320896142662021-08-15T14:05:00.003-07:002021-08-15T14:05:30.091-07:00tomato tar<span id="docs-internal-guid-91a984b5-7fff-a167-dd2b-2b4a99206868"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: 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font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">in my stained hands </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">cupped</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">like a chalice</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I hold a tomato </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">blush toned</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">heart shaped</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-258a999e-7fff-8fde-3b89-9df68f1d916f" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">harvesting</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">in the high tunnel </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">where vines trellis</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">tall then cascade </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">down the other side</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I work for a farmer</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">fond of obscure varieties:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Green Zebra striping into</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">chartreuse and lime when ripe</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Garden Peach, a fuzzy yellow</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">ping pong ball </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Chocolate Chestnut</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">which tastes like neither</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">nor smells like tomato</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">and how are tomatoes fruit</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">like peaches</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">that dribble juice </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">down my chin </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">but not like blackberries </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">which don’t blacken my fingers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">but stain them </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">red instead</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">if it does not match the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">color </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">shape </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">smell</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I expect</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">how do I </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">recognize it </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">this heart shaped one</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">construction paper pink</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">like a Valentine </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">nothing like</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">the chambered muscle</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">pulsing in my chest</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">cupped in white ribs</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">a different sort of chalice </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">what does either </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">have to do </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">with love</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>but </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I am not</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">writing a love </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">poem</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">besides, how does</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">the accretion of yellow </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">dust from tomatoes</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">tar my hands </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">then cascade </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">green in water </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">which is </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">oh so </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">clear</span></p><div><br /></div></span>Mary Silwancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17022716351722177526noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351018466369337533.post-31504341996194218722021-08-01T15:41:00.001-07:002021-08-02T04:53:47.931-07:00doctrine of signatures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Who are we</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">to deem You</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">invasive?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">We, the humans who</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">don’t restrain ourselves <i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">overstep every ecosystem</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">to satisfy whim</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> restrain You from inhabiting a wood.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">We, who</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">trash handy plantain, dandelion, purslane</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">trash intact habitat </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">for junk food and trash</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">trash Your berries as junk.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Who</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">carpet creation with concrete</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> choke green photosynthesis with grey paralysis</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> to outspread our paths and palaces</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> fear Your presence as aggressive.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Humans who</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">through scientific prowess</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">menace kith and kin</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">with extinction</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">extinguish Your migration.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">We, the humans who</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">hack the yielding hips of Earth</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">explode Her breasts mine Her arteries</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">for our addictions</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">stymie Your vining through poison munitions.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 3in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Who we are</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 2in; text-indent: 0.5in;">cannot fathom</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">what Earth is unfurling.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 2in; text-indent: 0.5in;">May be</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 2.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Honeysuckle</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> <wbr></wbr> metaphor a mirror</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> <wbr></wbr> a reflection we refuse</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 2in; text-indent: 0.5in;">to reflect upon.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> <wbr></wbr> May be</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> Honeysuckle</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> <wbr></wbr> afflict a thicket with antidote</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> <wbr></wbr> for the plagues we inflict</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> <wbr></wbr> upon each Other. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> <wbr></wbr> May be</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 2.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Honeysuckle</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> <wbr></wbr> serve Her purposes—</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 2in; text-indent: 0.5in;">emissaries on</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 2in; text-indent: 0.5in;">reconnaissance.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 2in; text-indent: 0.5in;">May be</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 2.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Honeysuckle</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 2in; text-indent: 0.5in;">are decomposing</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 2in; text-indent: 0.5in;">this </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 2in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Now.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 2in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Maybe</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 2.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Earth wants</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 2in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Her biome</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 2in; text-indent: 0.5in;">we call home</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 2in; text-indent: 0.5in;">to become</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 2in; text-indent: 0.5in;">fallow</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 2.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> for</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 2.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> what </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 2in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> may</p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">follow</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div></div><br />Mary Silwancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17022716351722177526noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351018466369337533.post-37807755906443944882021-07-18T15:56:00.000-07:002021-07-18T15:56:17.753-07:00spinning self<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEMG15Ualx0BbNN1BhCL-SM8E5l2P9m58nyTWgh5BnTDdax6sZRJcytaNwM2aRWtPnHNN9F4extUkqaAZxi_wDMN-b1KQZrp8j7KkzIK7W_cDizOKWUl_kiVyY5USECc8xa9AkhBnONjaU/s2048/IMG_0372.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1850" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEMG15Ualx0BbNN1BhCL-SM8E5l2P9m58nyTWgh5BnTDdax6sZRJcytaNwM2aRWtPnHNN9F4extUkqaAZxi_wDMN-b1KQZrp8j7KkzIK7W_cDizOKWUl_kiVyY5USECc8xa9AkhBnONjaU/s320/IMG_0372.heic" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;">I want to be a spider</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start; text-indent: 0.5in;">make home</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;">wherever I land—</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;">trumpet vine, clothesline</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;">rafter, corner, catalpa</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;">Canada, Kentucky, Kathmandu</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start; text-indent: 0.5in;">spin</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">self into </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">silky rhyme scheme</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;">of geometry to discover</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;">my body’s poetry</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start; text-indent: 0.5in;">shimmer</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;">in Sun beams when</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;">they greet me in Forest</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;">and melt into Shadow</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;">when I want solitude</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start; text-indent: 0.5in;">savor</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;">whatever comes my way</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;">trusting its nourishment</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;">trusting I seize</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">what I need</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"><span> </span>and when Storms</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;">endanger or <span style="font-size: 12pt;">destroy </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">what I </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">embody </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start; text-indent: 0.5in;">may I leap into</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;">the unknown</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;">knowing</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;">I always </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start; text-indent: 0.5in;">catch</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: start;">myself</p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Mary Silwancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17022716351722177526noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351018466369337533.post-25125834952097981562020-09-22T08:49:00.009-07:002020-09-22T15:08:11.606-07:00sunflowers and selfies<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyBMvw3V4j_zEJO8upWUzDKnNVba3Q8JmSHhjYZeTi9N5leaDkND8LgF83QUtGyibl8a_H7w4bL5Un0imKb-0neTuUoOlJeZCMWICG7O0hkqz-mvdZ1Lohml-T8_jukuhQ4D0O5fdt0eYI/s1994/20200921_184241+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="1994" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyBMvw3V4j_zEJO8upWUzDKnNVba3Q8JmSHhjYZeTi9N5leaDkND8LgF83QUtGyibl8a_H7w4bL5Un0imKb-0neTuUoOlJeZCMWICG7O0hkqz-mvdZ1Lohml-T8_jukuhQ4D0O5fdt0eYI/s320/20200921_184241+%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />To catch the 7:04 sunrise, we left in the early dark. Along the forty minute drive, we savored hot coffee and morning stillness while alert for deer. As the cityscape unraveled into countryside, we felt ourselves expand. The dawn revealed sheer white sheets of mist over fields of late soybean, speckled golden brown. At times skunk peppered the cold air.<p></p><p></p><div>For weeks, friends had posted pictures of themselves on social media in a sea of sunflowers. Their smiling faces peeked up at brown seedheads bigger than basketballs, their toddlers shaded under petals like little elves. Based on their pictures we imagined acres of sunflowers, their splendor magnified through the rays of the rising sun. But when we turned down the final rural two lane road to our destination, we felt underwhelmed. Then, disillusioned.</div><div><br /></div><div>Indeed there were acres of sunflowers. I glanced around and noticed smiley faces and hearts in some of the flowers' brown faces. Seeds deliberately pulled by humans. This felt disrespectful, like a mutilation. Why assert, mark territory in this heedless way?</div><div><br />As we approached the fields we sought a path, not wanting to disturb or trample vegetation underfoot. But the ground was hard soil without mulch or weeds. Maybe a stray morning glory vine or bindweed, but it was mostly barren. This field of gorgeous sunflowers typified industrial farming. This was monoculture. Of course it was. What did I expect?</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Monoculture is the agricultural practice of producing or growing a single crop, plant or livestock species, variety or breed in a field or farming system at a time.</div><div><br />Monoculture is destructive. It hinders beings from living where and how they're naturally inclined to, as multi-species ecosystems. Healthy ecosystems present a pluralistic population that cohabitate in mutually beneficial, self-sustaining ways. A mono-crop field, in this case for sunflowers, requires intensive chemical intervention. Because the inputs to maintain an artificial habitat for a target species compromise that habitat, more chemicals are required to support the species, which degrades water, air and soil. </div><div><br />Our ecological collapse and extinction crisis are driven in large part by monoculture. How can I celebrate this albeit stunning instance of it, knowing it is the brainchild of practices that ruin habitats for living beings?</div><div><br />I stood on the cracked bald ground, a haze obscuring the sunrise. I felt sad. What is monoculture but the elevation or separation of a species, breed or genetic strain at the expense of others? At the expense of the collective good? I know this seems a stretch, but glorification of monoculture is connected to ethnic cleansing, racial profiling and race based subjugation that have devastated people the world over. Besides, there is little life for these sunflowers shivering in the morning cool when you think about what life could have been if they existed in a prairie or plains ecosystem with the other plants, critters and insects that make up their natural family. Were they lonely?</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>In case you want to dismiss my question as anthropomorphic, remember that the science which once claimed certain races couldn't feel pain and were intellectually inferior created monoculture farming, is also the science now 'discovering' plants communicate and in their own plant way, form community. </div><div><br /></div><div>A truth long known by peoples who honored belonging to mutually beneficial pluralistic ecosystems. </div><div><br /></div><div>But if you're just there for the selfies and hoped to catch the sun shimmer on the green, yellow and brown bodies of sunflowers, none of what these beings actually need--matters.</div><div><br /></div><div>That's how supremacy works.</div><div> </div>Mary Silwancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17022716351722177526noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351018466369337533.post-53008470739691975192020-08-26T18:26:00.105-07:002021-11-27T14:55:16.364-08:00a case against EVs<p><span style="font-family: Cambria;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2019/12/19/children_t750x550.jpg?d885fc46c41745b3b5de550c70336c1b382931d2" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="670" height="285" src="https://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2019/12/19/children_t750x550.jpg?d885fc46c41745b3b5de550c70336c1b382931d2" width="429" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Over the last twenty years my
decision-making has been increasingly haunted by the ways extractive
capitalism foments injustice and ecological collapse. When my
old car finally died, I searched for a vehicle that
was produced more sustainably and justly than the current system of extraction,
manufacturing, shipping and disposal provides.<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><o:p> </o:p></span><span>Like many environmentalists, I am intentional about living lightly
on the planet. That is, I purchase little newly manufactured goods and
repurpose, reuse and share instead. Therefore,</span><span> </span><span>I wanted a used manual transmission EV.</span><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I was not prepared for car shopping.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I found, instead, vehicles with an array of technological
advances: cars that self park, slow down when too close to other vehicles,
virtual bumpers, keyless fobs that communicate with the vehicles they're paired with. </span>And, individual built-in screens for passengers.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And wow, the amount of information the dashboard offers. MPG, tire
pressure, outdoor temperature, oil pressure, engine temperature. Cardinal
directions are pretty much irrelevant with built-in navigation to your
destination. You can listen to anything from anywhere on the planet. You can
even heat and cool your butt or the butt of whoever is riding shotgun.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There are so many buttons: start the car, shift gears, open
windows, stream audio, park, and warm butts. Oh and steering wheels aren’t just
for steering any more. Buttons there too so you can control amenities without lifting your hands off the wheel. There’s even a button to warm the steering
wheel. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unfortunately at the time, EVs didn’t come in a stick. So I got a five-year-old EV, base model, with the least amount of
electronic bells and whistles.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I came away slightly elated. </span>At least I wasn’t trafficking in all the fluids of an internal combustion engine. At least I could charge this car at home and not rely on gasoline. At least it was a step away from fossil fuels. And, if I got solar panels, then I’d be as fossil fuel free as possible. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">I also came away deflated. I wanted a vehicle produced with less harm to my planetary housemates of all species.
Is all that technology or EV vehicles themselves possible without extractive, unjust, unsustainable processes?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">I became even more deflated after doing some research.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">*I wanted to know the total number of vehicles ever produced: we
don’t know. But we do know the number of cars produced <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/cars/"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">yearly</span></a></b> steadily increases to upward of
70,000.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>*I wanted to know what
happens to spent tires. Did you know yearly the US alone generates 246 million
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/car-technology/a22553570/waste-tires/"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">tires</span></a></b>?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>*Although vehicles are
largely <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.thebalancesmb.com/auto-recycling-facts-and-figures-2877933"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">recyclable</span></a></b>
(80%), I could not find information on the percentage of a new vehicle actually
constructed from repurposed materials.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>*While modern vehicles have
between 30-100 electronic features, there was zero information about what
happens to automotive E-waste. Further, the relevant articles were at least <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3908467/"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">five</span></a></b> years old.
Are the extraction and disposal of electronics components in EVs more
sustainable and just than conventional <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://time.com/5594380/world-electronic-waste-problem/"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">E-waste</span></a></b>?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>*Since I bought an EV, I
wanted to know the extraction impacts of lithium ion <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lithium-batteries-environment-impact"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">batteries</span></a></b>. Does
the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/journals/the_supply_chain_for_electric_vehicle_batteries.pdf"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">process</span></a></b> follow
the pattern of oil, coal and natural gas? That is, does it destroy the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2018/02/28/the-cost-of-cobalt/"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">local</span></a></b>
ecosystems and economies as those industries do? Are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/03/amnesty-challenges-industry-leaders-to-clean-up-their-batteries/"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">materials</span></a></b> mined
through slave or child <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/green-battery-revolution-powering-social-and-environmental-risks"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">labor</span></a></b>? Is there a connection between <a href="https://www.unpublishedzine.com/activism-2/man-camps-and-how-they-are-contributing-to-the-mmiw-crisis"><b>MMIW</b></a> at the extraction sites of the EV industry as in the fossil fuel industry? Is there
a connection between Bolivia, Chile and Argentina becoming lithium sources in
the global economy while Latin America becomes increasingly more lethal for
land <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/08/latin-america-saw-most-murdered-environmental-defenders-in-2018/"><b>defenders</b></a>?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>*What about the cobalt sourced
from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-50812616"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">DRC</span></a></b> known for its poor human rights
record:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="background: white; color: #3c3c3c; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="background: white; color: #3c3c3c; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shockingly, 40,000 children are estimated to be employed in artisanal
mines in southern DR Congo...</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="" style="background: white; color: #3c3c3c; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> -- reveals that human rights abuses
are widespread in the sector and can occur within both industrial and artisanal
mines...the country is rated "extreme risk"
for child labor, modern slavery, trafficking and occupational health and safety</span></i><span face="" style="background: white; color: #3c3c3c; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>*Finally, in regard to an EV,
what is the total <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://autovistagroup.com/news-and-insights/conflicting-reports-carbon-footprint-evs"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">carbon footprint</span></a></b>
if its components are extracted and processed from all over the world? In fact,
what are the water, air, and soil footprints of producing these vehicles that
are supposedly better for the environment?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>What became apparent as
I went down the car industry and EV rabbit holes of research is this: electric vehicles
emanate from the same shortsighted paradigm of the fossil fuel industry. </span>That I could not find data on
the entire lifecycle footprint of an EV is evidence that this solution still comes from
the mindset of externalized costs. In other words, we are willing to ignore the
true, complete cost of EVs so some individuals can feel like they're doing good for the planet. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Actually that’s why I bought
an EV. I wanted to feel like I was doing something good for the planet and its
inhabitants. I wanted to trust that EVs were a truly clean solution to the
dirty fossil fuel industry. They are not. EV are not produced more justly or
sustainably than vehicles with internal combustion engines; a criteria for my car purchase. </span>With my EV, I am aware that I have not changed systems by my individual action. Actually, consider the vast amount of precise minutiae vehicles offer drivers as metaphor for our hyper self-focus. All I've done is bought into a green version of extractive capitalism, which is still all-about-me-ism. It grieves me to participate in systems that elevate my self-interest over the wellbeing of Earth and her inhabitants. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Green solutions derived from extractive
capitalism are another manifestation of <a href="http://tonicwild.blogspot.com/2020/01/climate-change-mitigation-list-check.html"><b>supremacy</b></a> in the
Environmental Movement of the Global North. </span><span>Environmental supremacy
justifies </span>ecological apartheid, <span>ecosystem destruction, </span>species extinction, <span>unjust labor practices, the disintegration of
local communities and cultures, sacrifices the health, safety, well-being of some of our planet-mates for
the ‘greater good’ of reduced carbon emissions</span><span>. </span><span>Particularly egregious as we know electric
vehicles are, by their nature, an unsustainable solution just as dirty as fossil
fuels. Perhaps they’re spiritually dirtier than fossil fuels because they are
touted as clean by those who know full well their true cost. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>This notion of one's personal environmental piety within flawed systems is a part of the false narrative of supremacy. Like the amenities of modern vehicles, focusing on one's individual actions, channels one's gaze on oneself; as though one's actions and choices exist only within one's siloed bubble, within one's vehicle. To advocate green individual choices for a handful of the world's population at an unknown cost to other beings and their homes worldwide, is a form of supremacy. That the extraction and processing of raw materials happens in parts of the world already precarious geopolitically, societally and with little access to basic resources, make that supremacy criminal. Consider too that </span>ecological disruption most severely impacts those already marginalized. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">At the brink of extinction, EVs hardly answer what we are called to.</p><div><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">What we are called to is atonement for our
reckless regard of the elegant intricate interconnected ecosystems that our
lives are literally dependent on and we are arrogantly ignorant of. We are
called to lament the damage we have done to ourselves and other beings,
including Earth. We are called to reckon with our hubris, in the forms of species supremacy and within that, white supremacy. We are called to stop operating as though any being or part of our home can be sacrificed.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;">We are called to care deeply about the safety, comfort, and well being of others, not just ourselves. We are called to a radically deeper, wider, more profound understanding of
what it means to be each other's keepers and planet-mates in this sacred home
shared with nearly 9 million species. We are called to develop a new
relationship with our earth and all its inhabitants. <span>This is a divine opportunity to radically reexamine every aspect of how we live rather than adopt strategies to maintain a </span><a href="http://happyplanetindex.org/countries/united-states-of-america" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><b>failing</b></a><span> </span><span>way of life.</span></p><div><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal">Maybe if we pulled ourselves away from
the buttons and screens in our cars, from the incessant noise regarding our individual wants and needs, our individual piety, we’d realize that.</p>
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under the shade of a tree across the street. It’s an unfamiliar vehicle but it’s a
familiar occurrence: someone’s lunch break. The windows are usually up on the
idling car and the person is usually staring at their phone. I near the car
in time to see the driver roll down the window just enough to flick a cigarette
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In the ninety minutes I’ve been walking I have seen enough fireworks debris to set up my own explosive-free
display. I’ve crisscrossed sidewalks to avoid what I consider militarized lawn
care. And now on my block, a person litters. I have the urge to pick up her
cigarette butt and knock on her window. But Rona stops me. Instead I tear a
leaf from my neighbor’s redbud and scoop the butt with it. When we catch each
other’s eye, I resist the urge to scrunch my face and wag my finger, like the
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Then I realize it doesn’t matter. I mean, what difference
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And what kind of society creates work environments where people
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As I enter my house holding the butt in the leaf, I wonder
what the woman thought. Was she angry? Embarrassed? Did she have a gun to pull out if she was either? Did she care? What was
happening in her life that made sitting in her car for lunch in a strange
neighborhood the choice for today? <o:p></o:p></div>
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The environmental movement sure taught me a lot about what
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in habits, rituals and systems that harm us. And each other.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Maybe it’s no accident the redbud leaf is shaped like a
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<br /><em>Mary:</em> If my day wasn't weird enough yesterday, I have a story for you two. A woman I know via environmental stuff called me Friday to let me know that a shamanic practitioner friend of hers created a shielding powder for POC to sprinkle around themselves/their cars and homes to protect them from racism. She was offering 10 people this powder for free and my friend thought of me. The friend said this wouldn't change systemic racism but it would keep individuals safe. What does one say to such an offer?<br /><br /><em>Dawn:</em> I love the shamanic racism protection powder, because not too many things leave me speechless anymore. It's a writing prompt on steroids. You could go in so many directions---magical realism! Humor. Political satire. Sci Fi. Fantasy. Dystopian fiction---who are the ten people who get the powder (why is Mary one of them?) and what happens to the rest of society? A nature story--what are the plants and herbs that go into making it. Which of course leads to cook books! Racism Protection Powder is the best thing I've heard all week. Thank you!<br /><br /><em>Mary:</em> Thank you for making me laugh, Dawn. It might tickle you further to know that the Powder was offered by white women. To be fair, I want to be open to diverse spiritual practices and experiences and not impose my judgement, biases, stereotypes and fears onto a potentially powerful/redemptive other worldly experience. But yea. Um, what? And I think I got the golden ticket because the environmental gal and I had a conversation the day prior to George Floyd's murder so I was on her radar.<br /><br /><em>Dawn: </em>Oh joy! There's a whole other angle to the story...white privilege! Because white women had access to Racism Protection Powder even before people of color did!<br /><br /><em>Jessica: </em>This is the weirdest email to come home to ever, and my brain doesn't know what to think.<br /><br />Dawn, your writing prompts are straight up genius face, because yes so many questions are invoked by the introduction of such a magical powder to the universe. But then it makes me think of the book [<em>The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women </em>by Kate Moore] where they sold Radium as a cure-all, but really it gave everyone radiation poisoning and they died the most horrible deaths I've ever read about, so I'm gonna say my initial inclination is I don't trust it...<br /><br /><em>Mary</em>: I don’t usually write about this stuff, but here goes:<br /><br />The shamanic practitioner from upstate New York created a powder my friend, who I want to now refer to as an acquaintance, offers me. It is the morning of the first of many days of protests after the lynching of George Floyd, the latest lynching white Americans are-yet again-shocked by. The Shamanic practitioner from upstate New York has created a powder that POC can sprinkle on their bodies, their cars, their homes, to protect them from racist acts. She is offering the first 10 vials of the POC Protection Powder for free, and my friend, I mean acquaintance, wants to know if I want one.<br /><br />At first I am confused. Why is she offering this to me? I’m Coptic. Which is to say, I am Egyptian Orthodox. Which is also to say, no one in the Midwest knows what that is. And, like other Egyptian immigrants I know, I’ve spent most of my life striving for whiteness. If we can’t fully be who and what we are, we seek assimilation into the culture that seems most ‘successful.’<br /><br />It’s only recently I’m coming to understand myself as a brown woman and understand I’ve always been seen as such. Hence the offer of POC PP. So I do what I have also spent most of my life doing when white women say things that make me uncomfortable: I respond deferentially, almost obsequiously.Told myself, she’s trying to help, she thought of me. Told her I’d think about the POC PP. I thank her. Repeatedly. But in my mind she shifted from friend to acquaintance. And she won’t know because that’s something else I’ve always done: take that slap of ignorance and use it as a slab of concrete for the wall between us.<br /><br />I want to believe in Shamanic work even if it is done by white people. So I try to imagine POC sprinkling this powder in their beds, shaking some in running shoes, slapping it on necks like aftershave. I imagine it in a bag of skittles or on the couch when playing video games or used as seasoning at a BBQ. I try to imagine this powder snowing on red, yellow, brown and black bodies in ghettos, reservations, cages and prisons, freeing communities.<br /><br />But the Shamanic practitioner from upstate New York provides this unnecessary disclaimer: <em>it will not dismantle systemic racism.</em> <br /><br />Yea. Obviously.<br /><br />It’s made to be sprinkled on the wrong people.<br /><br /><em>Dawn</em>: Mary, whoa! Your conclusion blew me away. You're right, of course, absolutely. I was nodding right along with you through the part about responding deferentially. I do that, too, and after my deferential response, I'm pissed at myself. It's embarrassing to admit.<br /><br />I appreciate your collecting your thoughts about the shamanic "gift" and expressing things so clearly. I'm sorry that one of the casualties was your friendship. And thank you for calling the crime by its true name--the lynching of George Floyd.<br /><br />Mary and Jessica, you two are my safety zone.<br /><br /><em>Jessica:</em> Mary, you're such a good writer. And I feel like maybe the email was written without a ton of editing or revising, and it needs none. Because it's phenomenal. The way you lead us through every aspect of it to the straight up correct conclusion is genius. <br /><br />Dawn, I've never thought about the word lynching until you did a <em>Color Eater</em> edit one week. In the burn-her-at-the-stake scene I had used the word lynch, and you corrected me. That was the first time I realized that your experience of the word & mine were two completely different things.<br /><br />This powder thing is the perfect example of white people f-ing it up. This is us saying, let me fix <em>your </em>problems for you, be the white savior, and I'll feel better about the situation. All the while we never stop to examine what is inherently flawed in our thinking and how we're playing a part, and we're the ones who need to change our behavior.<br /><br />As your spy to the inner working of the behind the scenes white world I want to let you both know that in the past 48 hours I have had conversations about race with 6 other white women. I cannot think of any other time in my life I have actually had conversations about race with white people. I remember my mom telling me not to use the n-word when I was in elementary school, but that is honestly & entirely the white social race conversations I can remember. So it feels like there's a waking up behind the curtains that you may not have access to. I feel like the conversations are the tiniest first steps, and that gave me some hope. I hope by sharing this with you it gives you a little bit of hope too. <br /><br />I know a lot more than talk has to happen, and there's sooooo far to go. But the fact these women are even attempting to find the words to have these conversations means they're also practicing hard conversations so when we go into rooms of all white people we can say the things that have been unsaid for too long.<br /><br /><em>Mary:</em> Thank you, Jessica and Dawn for your affirming responses to my essay. It is hard for me to justify weaving my experiences as a brown person into the narrative of American culture since I don't fit into the standard identity categories. Jessica thank you for the heartening glimpse behind the curtain. May these conversations be ongoing beyond the current crisis.<br /> <div style="text-align: center;">
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Things We’re Learning.</h1>
<br /><em>Mary: </em>I’m learning that once you begin to peel back supremacy you see how deeply ingrained it is within yourself and society. There is so much pain, loss and disillusionment upon waking up to it. But here’s the thing about that. Your personal story is intimately and uniquely intertwined with the larger societal story. As you discover and reflect on your internalized stuff you see how you uphold supremacy within and without. I try to be curious and present to where I’m constricted, blind, afraid, resentful, angry and ask why. This is where I get to evolve. Since it’s taken centuries to build these constantly influencing and unconscious ways of thinking and behaving, it’s going to take a long meticulous and mindful time and engagement to construct a pluralistic society. We cannot dismantle racism from without until we dismantle it from within.<br /><br /><em>Dawn: </em>I’m learning there’s no escape from the outside world. I’ve turned off the computer, locked myself out of the internet, and left the television room when the news comes on. Under quarantine, I don’t have to leave the house at all. The racism quagmire of the country gets in, anyway.<br /><br />Since hiding is not possible, I’m learning to choose the manner in which I respond, and it’s different every time. Sometimes, I write. Last week, I signed a petition and donated to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://jessicaconoley.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D065fc0d032eb8ab36298762de%26id%3D9b55cff32e%26e%3Db55a8f0e10&source=gmail&ust=1592049604518000&usg=AFQjCNHBrfMyhFX6-id4ped11-lo_nD6Kg" href="https://jessicaconoley.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=065fc0d032eb8ab36298762de&id=9b55cff32e&e=b55a8f0e10" style="color: #726a95;" target="_blank">ColorofChange.org.</a>Yesterday, I responded by deleting an email from someone giving me advice about how to respond.<br /><br />Finally, I’m learning that my sense of urgency has waned.<br /><br /><em>Jessica: </em>White culture unconsciously taught me it is rude to have conversations that make people uncomfortable. Conversations that impact change are going to make you uncomfortable, and by participating you are likely going to make other people feel uncomfortable. I feel like I’m “doing it wrong” every time I open my mouth in race based conversations, but I won’t figure out how to “do it right” unless I practice.<br /><br />And, if you don’t know what to say, that’s okay. LISTEN. We (white people) have had the floor for a hell-of-a-long time. It’s our turn to listen and learn.<br /><br />I found the book <em>Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race</em> by Debby Irving to be really enlightening.<div style="text-align: center;">
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Mary did rewrite that essay, and it’s fantastic. Read the polished, fleshed out version of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://jessicaconoley.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D065fc0d032eb8ab36298762de%26id%3D3eb1f3a1e6%26e%3Db55a8f0e10&source=gmail&ust=1592049604518000&usg=AFQjCNHElEPxFkJcmyXwu6QR0C6obU1Dzw" href="https://jessicaconoley.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=065fc0d032eb8ab36298762de&id=3eb1f3a1e6&e=b55a8f0e10" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #726a95;" target="_blank">White Pow(d)er</a> on her blog.<br /><br />Read Mary Silwance at: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://jessicaconoley.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D065fc0d032eb8ab36298762de%26id%3D7b3b03eb0f%26e%3Db55a8f0e10&source=gmail&ust=1592049604518000&usg=AFQjCNFUoSMC12AoIdnC3t3LC5JjWCxfnQ" href="https://jessicaconoley.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=065fc0d032eb8ab36298762de&id=7b3b03eb0f&e=b55a8f0e10" style="color: #726a95;" target="_blank">http://tonicwild.blogspot.com/</a><br />Read Dawn Downey at: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://jessicaconoley.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D065fc0d032eb8ab36298762de%26id%3Db4e6329320%26e%3Db55a8f0e10&source=gmail&ust=1592049604518000&usg=AFQjCNGkhhv3nRxq9fi2Y0tjaBcTRHApAA" href="https://jessicaconoley.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=065fc0d032eb8ab36298762de&id=b4e6329320&e=b55a8f0e10" style="color: #726a95;" target="_blank">http://dawndowney.com/</a><br />Read Jessica Conoley at: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://jessicaconoley.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D065fc0d032eb8ab36298762de%26id%3Dcbf7a1651b%26e%3Db55a8f0e10&source=gmail&ust=1592049604518000&usg=AFQjCNFXCVomRCKSvcZ0Yeh6yt6fUzasMw" href="https://jessicaconoley.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=065fc0d032eb8ab36298762de&id=cbf7a1651b&e=b55a8f0e10" style="color: #726a95;" target="_blank">https://jessicaconoley.com/</a></div>
Mary Silwancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17022716351722177526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351018466369337533.post-36848503766412172822020-06-12T05:15:00.000-07:002020-06-16T11:19:13.297-07:00White Pow(d)er<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Shamanic practitioner from upstate New York created a
powder that my friend offers me. It is the morning of the first of many days of
protests after the execution of George Floyd, the latest lynching white Americans
are-yet again-shocked by. The Shamanic practitioner from upstate New York created
a mixture POC can sprinkle on their bodies, their cars, their homes, to protect
them from racist acts. The first ten vials of the POC Protection Powder are
free and my friend is letting me in on this free-for-a-limited-time-only protection.</span></div>
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At first I am confused. Why did she think of me?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m Coptic. Meaning, I am Egyptian Orthodox. And, like other
Egyptian immigrants I know, I’ve spent most of my life striving for whiteness. Since
we can’t fully be who and what we are in the US, we assimilate into the culture
that’s most ‘successful.’ In that pursuit, like many Middle Easterners, I’ve
disassociated myself from POC.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s only recently I’m coming to understand myself as a
brown woman and realize I’ve always been perceived as such. Hence the offer of
POC PP. At first I relish the acknowledgement of my brownness. But it is
fleeting. She categorized me-a supremacist habit, no? I’ve not shared my
experiences or reflections about my ethnicity with her. Why does she get to
make an assumption about me? OH. She thinks I might be in constant jeopardy. I am. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But not in the ways she assumes. <o:p></o:p></div>
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To be Coptic, an immigrant and American means to tread in
the ocean of ambiguity. I am pulled by the undertow of internalized supremacy
while the unmet hunger for belonging crashes over me, each wave a reminder that
I am not black, white, Latinx or Asian, the known identity harbors in the
Midwest. Since Copts are a persecuted minority in Egypt, even the Middle
Eastern harbor is fraught; I have internalized the antipathy toward Muslims
common in the Coptic community. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I respond as I have most of my life when white women say things
that make me uncomfortable: I answer deferentially, almost obsequiously. Tell
myself: she’s trying to help, she thought of me. Tell her: I’d think about the
POC PP. I thank her. Repeatedly. Numbly. But in my mind she shifted from friend
to acquaintance. And she won’t know that because that’s something else I’ve
always done: use that slap of ignorance and my discomfort as a slab of concrete
for the wall between us. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I try to imagine POC spraying protection powder in beds,
shaking some in running shoes, daubing it on necks like aftershave. Maybe in a
bag of skittles or on the couch when playing video games or used as seasoning
at BBQs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I try to picture Indigenous women
combing it into their hair; children at the border nestling with it on concrete
floors under sliver blankets. I imagine it swept in the halls of schools in
prison pipeline zip codes. I try to imagine this powder snowing on red, yellow,
brown and black bodies in ghettos, reservations, cages and prisons, liberating entire
communities, countries even. How much POC PP is there? <o:p></o:p></div>
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I want to believe in Shamanic work, even done by white people.
But the Shamanic practitioner from upstate New York provides this unnecessary
disclaimer: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">it will not protect against
systemic racism.</i> <o:p></o:p></div>
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Yeah. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Obviously.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Look who created it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "" "times" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">It is time to turn the compost. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "" "times" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Underneath the rotting vegetables, coffee
grounds and grass clippings, rich soil has been forming for years.
I <span style="color: black;">untwist the ends of the hardware cloth to reshape
the cylinder anew next to where it used to stand. Once I have created a new
cylinder, I will transfer the contents from the old compost pile into it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "" "times" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Decomposing organic matter
is the aromatic harbinger of the growing season. This year, my task corresponds
with the backyard neighbor’s blooming Nanking cherry, infusing the compost
stink with sweetness. Spring 2020, however, Covid-19 weighs heaviest in the
air.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "" "times" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Tears well as I work,
listening to the news: <i>those incarcerated, detained, caged have no
chance of avoiding infection in crowded, unsanitary quarters; the
disproportionate death toll on African Americans; the rise in domestic
violence; the rise in livestreaming child sexual abuse; medical personnel in
trash bags like lambs to slaughter. One person every 47 seconds dies of
Covid-19</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "ms 明朝"; font-size: 13.5pt;">…</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "" "times" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Gardening anchors me,
provides a physical outlet for my grief.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "" "times" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I scoop broken eggshells,
slimy cucumbers, black banana peels with my pitchfork into what will be the
bottom of the new compost pile. I transfer sheaves of paperboard and brown
leaves, the wilted loops of squash and sweet potato vines, the plant carcasses
from a black thumb neighbor, still in the shape of pots. The compost bin holds
what we no longer need or want, what we’ve neglected, allowed to spoil.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "" "times" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">It is full of our refuse.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "" "times" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Waist high, my bin is also
full of insects, worms and sometimes mice. By the scatter around the bin, I
suspect other critters visit the Compost Buffet. Round the clock and round the
calendar, various beings thrive on what we consider waste. I convey them to
their new home on my pitchfork as they wriggle and writhe, their discreet
hidden lives suddenly exposed. In this way compost provides community—a
mutualistic ecosystem where everyone needs are met.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "" "times" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Soon my backyard neighbors
come outside to do their own work along a fence line we share. The next door
neighbor steps out onto her back porch to say hello. A dear friend wrangles a
large, persnickety stump out from where I want to add another vegetable bed.
Mindful of keeping each other safe, we maintain distance. </span><span style="font-family: "" "times" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I am grateful to see them; in this singular moment, we are
each well. Compost is community for me too since I share my bin with
neighbors. Their scraps and trimmings participate in becoming. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "" "times" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">That’s what a compost bin
is mainly full of: becoming.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "" "times" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I scoop Dan’s adventure in
vegan flan and remnants of Pat’s haircut into the new pile. <b><a href="https://www.the-compost-gardener.com/decomposers.html"><span style="color: blue;">Thousands</span></a></b> of decomposers shelter and
feed here while the alchemy of time, weather and their refuse transform into
soil.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "" "times" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Soil nurses the various
seeds I gleefully buy when trees are still bare, nourishes the transplants I am
determined to find room for like unexpected guests to the dinner table. Last
year’s decomposing tomatoes become a crucible for this summer’s tomatoes. Soil
is the soul of becoming.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "" "times" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Soil arises from the carcasses of what
was, allowing what is to become what will be. I continue my work, inhaling
the mixture of rot, Nanking Cherry and the specter of pandemic. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "" "times" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Covid 19 is the <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2020/4/16/peter_daszak_coronavirus#transcript"><b><span style="color: blue;">result</span></b></a> of humans encroaching on habitats
and ecosystems to satisfy unreasonable wants through a callous, ignorant
orientation toward our earth and its residents. As the pandemic spreads,
inequitable, long crumbling institutions acutely reveal the devastating gaps in
social safety nets through which people plummet, suffer and die.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "" "times" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">To sustain capitalistic
avarice and the systems that prop it up, would be like expecting black peels to
provide bananas, wilted vines to produce fruit. They simply do not hold what we
need. What was, must be discarded for the rot it is. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I think of <b><u>A<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca"><span style="color: blue;">rundhati Roy</span></a></u></b>’s words:</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "" "times" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The pandemic is a portal</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "" "times" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <i>between one world and the next. We can
choose to walk through it dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our
dead ideas and our dead rivers. Or we can walk through lightly ready to imagine
another world. And ready to fight for it.</i></span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "" "times" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">"We" is a
critical component of how we imagine another world. This liminal time confirms,
once again, thriving</span><span style="font-family: "" "times" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> or surviving don't happen through
solitary effort. Similarly, I do not produce veggies on my own: my
neighbors' refuse, decomposers, my friend's muscle, the gift of time, seasons,
sunshine, rain, mulch from </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="https://www.missouriorganic.com/?gclid=CjwKCAjwp-X0BRAFEiwAheRuixXs2Pu2jRpT2xHGe6YHgI4eyKC8EBLbrDOrQRKmD_BD6iRiP-yVuRoCKjwQAvD_BwE"><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt;">Missouri Organic</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family: "" "times" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">, seeds, transplants and chicken manure from </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="https://kccg.org/"><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt;">Kansas
City Community Garden Center</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family: "" "times" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">,
gardening lessons from friends and neighbors all go into my garden beds to
provide squash, garlic, potatoes, arugula, carrots and so on. We walk
through this portal together or not at all. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "" "times" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">For a gardener, dead things
have value. Through purposeful release in an intentional container, through
microscopic parsing, through the alchemy of time and community, rotten things
transmogrify. During this season of distancing and few distractions, may the
thousands of us who have the privilege of time, income and true shelter, become
decomposers. Let us shred the carcasses of hate, dead ideas, moldy
institutions. Let us make rich soil from what was. Amidst the stink of rot
and death, what sweet hope wants to bloom like my neighbor's Nanking
cherry? We carry the seeds of what the world can be: a mutualistic ecosystem
in which the needs of all beings are met.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">My February calendar picture is of
two Gentoo penguin chicks. One bird seems to have its wing around the other.
That one also looks squattier than the taller, thinner one. Is it
self-conscious the way I was around my tall, thin friends as a youngster? The penguins
look like they’re pursing their bills like my daughters and their friends pucker
when taking selfies. Will they take a bazillion more to get it just right,
before posting? Is the light hitting? It’s easy to see the penguins through a
human lens, so accustomed are we to anthropomorphizing nonhuman beings.
Remember pet rocks or the movie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Zootopia</i>? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">I realize I know nothing about
penguins. I suppose they have the same needs: food, water, shelter, community
but are we always self-referencing? I stare at the penguins and wonder if I can
see penguin in myself. They are alien and have nothing to do with me.
What's more, I don't want to connect to them. I have better ways to spend my
time than to understand penguinness. My perception has not been
trained to do this and my imagination fails. I can't get past my
anthropomorphism. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">We are told the road to empathy is
to see ourselves in the other. Yet we other the other so we don’t have to be
empathic: Indigenous people are savages, black people are subhuman, women are
inferior, transgender people are an abomination, and so on; insert prejudice
here. This allows us to select who we will treat humanely. Has not
every <a href="http://tonicwild.blogspot.com/2013/10/holocaust-part-1.html"><b>holocaust</b></a> hinged
on spurious distinctions between us and them?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
As an Egyptian, I grew up with prejudice against sub-Saharan Africans as well
as African Americans. I was admonished to straighten my hair and stay out of
the sun so I wouldn't be mistaken for a black person. As I work to address this
inherited bias, sometimes I am confronted with my knee jerk racism: </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">They are alien and have nothing to
do with me. I don't want to connect to them. I have better ways to spend my
time than to understand blackness. My perception has not been trained
to do this and my imagination fails. I can't get past my prejudice.</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">I wonder if a truer road to
empathy might be to learn the other so that distinctions are honored.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">There are 195 countries, each with
myriad cultural pockets, over 6000 languages and nearly nine million species </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">on our planet. Nature itself is
systems filled with myriad beings synchronized with each other’s distinctions
to survive. Dignifying others based on similarity fosters ignorance and
foments an increasingly shallower pool of who or what we dignify. It’d
be like extolling only blue when the planet is a giant crayon box. This
vast and minute variation is a testament to the sacred creativity manifest in
our common home.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">If my regard of Gentoo penguins
stopped at my anthropomorphism, what I projected onto them based on what I
perceived as similar, could I know what they specifically need to avoid
extinction? Only by becoming familiar with their uniqueness can I properly
value and thus advocate for their wellbeing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Before I turn the page to March, I
look up the definition of leap day: </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Leap days
are extra days added to the calendar to help synchronize it with
Earth's orbit around the sun and the actual passing of seasons. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">If my regard for
sub-Saharan Africans and African Americans remains entrenched within the
othering lens of prejudice, how can I value and honor the cultural needs and practices of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px;">sub-Saharan Africans and African Americans?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">There
are humanitarian crises at borders worldwide, millions in refugee camps as
well as caged; and nonhuman beings, like the Gentoo penguins,
are increasingly endangered. Empathizing with only who or what we
regard as similar jeopardizes who and what we regard as dissimilar.</span></div>
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comes at a time when we need to catapult ourselves to a level of empathy that
requires awareness of and response to distinct needs. We are in peril. Our collective
survival requires us to leap into synchronicity with who and what we regard as
other. We need each </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">other. We need each others' distinctions. We need the humility that comes with not centering ourselves. We don't have extra days to count on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">A friend sent me
this. I didn’t solve the riddle but it inspired a poem and reminded me of why I
didn’t like math class. Although it was satisfying to swap out </span>the right numbers for <span style="font-size: 12pt;">letters to solve for x, it also felt like an illusion. What did it actually
solve?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I didn’t like math partially because I was a nihilistic, angsty teen. I wanted things to make sense
and it didn’t make sense to be excited about solving problems in the abstract
when the real world seemed riddled with problems: injustice,
inequity, war, disease, rape, slavery. Catastrophic things happened to innocent
people constantly. It just didn’t add up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I think about this
in terms of climate change solutions. Variable A produces B emissions. In order
to maintain a habitable planet, variable A emissions need to decrease by X. In
theory, this makes sense. For example, if current <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/26/cold-economy-cop21-global-warming-carbon-emissions">refrigeration</a> methods emit
100 gigatons of HFCs (worse than CO2) and we need to get to zero, we plug technological changes into the refrigeration equation to get there. But this is an
abstraction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">When we focus on
manipulating variables to achieve a particular outcome, those variables are
regarded as a given; we don’t question their existence within the equation. In
the real life application though, we must interrogate variables.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Why does refrigeration <a href="https://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank"><b>top</b></a> the list of climate mitigation strategies for </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://tonicwild.blogspot.com/2019/09/where-are-environmentalists.html"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">EGN</span></a></b><b style="font-size: 12pt;"> </b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(Environmentalists of the Global North)?</span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Refrigeration
became an integral part of the lives of some starting in the early 1900s. For nearly 600,000 years, humans lived without. Further, according to a
2018 IEA <b><a href="https://qz.com/1285836/the-people-living-in-the-hottest-places-on-the-planet-are-the-least-likely-to-have-air-conditioners/"><span style="color: purple; text-decoration: none;">report</span></a>,</b> the
300 million people living in the US consume more energy for cooling than the 4
billion people living in all of Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia
(excluding China) combined. Meaning, the majority of humans live without refrigeration. Either do the other 8.7 millions species we share the planet with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Don’t get me wrong.
I think ice cream is as necessary as water, sometimes more. Frozen pizza is
manna on some days. And of course I turn on my air conditioner when it’s
sweltering outside. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">We are swiftly losing the
ability to feed ourselves because of what we’re doing to soil, water and climate and other species. Worldwide access to potable water is jeopardized. We continue to degrade air quality. Why are we invested in revamping a variable that serves only a fraction of the world's human population and no other beings? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">We even </span>sometimes <span style="font-size: 12pt;">compromise
soil, air and water with our solutions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">HFCs are the
industrial chemicals we adopted as a 'solution' to the previously used ozone
depleting CFCs and HCFCs. We plugged in unknown entities into the
refrigerant equation and claimed we solved for X without thorough testing. Now we're scrambling to clean up the mess HFCs cause.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Given the
amount of HFCs refrigeration vomits, the material resources required and the
ethical issue of disposal, we should question whether refrigeration is
even compatible with a habitable planet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Now that I’m a nihilistic angsty old woman, I am still leery of fabricated equations and solutions because in </span>order for equations to work, you must ignore some variables while privileging others. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our modern lives are built on economic equations that favor some who, what and where over other who, what and where, which become externalized costs. </span>This reminds me of how Nazis used the word <i>solution. </i>There was a methodical abstraction in the execution of their solution, too.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Similarly, outside the purview of the refrigeration equation are the environmentally hostile and xenophobic government regimes surfacing worldwide during this ecologically dire time. We simply cannot ignore how they endanger nonnegotiable variables-air, water, and soil- for all as well as actively sacrifice lives. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Externalized costs mount outside the purview of economic equations. </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">It's why parts of the world suffer habitat and cultural destruction from extractive and manufacturing practices which fuel species extinction and create desperate people vulnerable to slavery and are ultimately rendered homeless. </span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Consider the United States' decades long economic equation in Latin America and</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> why there's a '<a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2020/2/7/hrw_report_el_salvador_deportations?fbclid=IwAR1aPKpGM6SlGHfRVOdKXy6-BNUz-Dhquhaj4phiAZ9J71KcqODVfEPcKgM"><b>crisis</b></a>' at the southern border of this country. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I’m reminded of the oft quoted definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. So here we are using equational thinking to solve the problems equational thinking ignores. <o:p></o:p></span>Remember HFCs?</span><br />
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">With this legacy, do we have proper
regard for where the technological components come from and are manufactured to
produce ‘greener’ refrigeration? How will our solutions impact air, water, soil
and living beings? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the face of imminent extinction, who, what, where does better
refrigeration serve? Who, what and where bear the externalized cost of my
beloved ice cream? </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Will some who, what and where be externalized as collateral damage for other who, what and where?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Arguably there’s a worldwide appetite for refrigeration, explaining why it’s foremost on the <a href="http://tonicwild.blogspot.com/2020/01/climate-change-mitigation-list-check.html"><b>EGN</b></a>'s</span><b style="font-size: 12pt;"> </b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">agenda. Before refrigeration, people worldwide practiced food preservation and built structures in ways that fit cultural, regional, seasonal rhythms using the materials gifted to them by their particular habitat. I suspect they weren't nearly as wasteful and casual about what they worked to harvest, butcher, dry, pickle and so on, as we privileged few with our full fridges. I suspect too that shelters were built in ways more sensible than our thinly walled structures reliant on HVAC. Would <a href="http://tonicwild.blogspot.com/2018/05/cmon-everyones-doing-it.html"><b>lawns</b></a> continue to be the most irrigated crop in the US without refrigeration or would we become more realistic, regional and seasonal in our dietary expectations of the planet? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Of course giving up refrigeration is disorienting. </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">But our building practices and food industries are incompatible with a habitable planet for all beings. R</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">etrofitting refrigeration enables the unsustainable global food system. Refrigeration enables extractive practices complicit in habitat destruction. </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">Refrigeration enables externalized costs.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Refrigeration enables a dysfunctional, unjust and destruction relationship with our planet and its inhabitants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Are we invested in maintaining fundamentally flawed industries or protecting earth's systems? We can't have both. The equation for all species' well being doesn't allow for both.</span><br />
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Instead, who can we be, what can we learn about ourselves, our habitats, cultures, histories, food and structures? Where will our inventive reimagining lead us if we start with the premise that a<span style="font-size: 12pt;">ir,
water and soil are the ultimate nonnegotiable variables? </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are called to transcend the artificial, abstract and destructive limitations of equational thinking to</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> find solutions that benefit every living being. </span>Herein lies extraordinary opportunity to evolve new systems. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Refrigeration doesn’t add up.</span></div>
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Whenever environmental issues are discussed, overpopulation
comes up. S<span style="font-size: 12pt;">pecifically, educate brown and black females in the Global South to
produce less offspring.</span></div>
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This is painful. It disregards the sovereignty of brown and black females who look like me and live in the part of the world I come from. It also sidesteps the issue of overconsumption by the Global North. Specifically, Americans. </div>
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Since we tend to think of consumption as the purchase of
material goods, we don’t see how it’s manifest in other forms or how pervasive
it is. Entertainment, recreation, sports, fitness, travel, pets and pet care,
amusement parks, water parks, cruise ships, skating rinks, lawns and
landscaping, housecleaning services, horse and car racing, delivery services, refrigeration,
health and medical care, escalators, elevators, work and school commutes, beauty
salon and spa services, renovation, remodeling, plastic and cosmetic surgery, washing
machines, dryers and so on are normalized forms of consumption. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Unless you’re desperately <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/dec/15/america-extreme-poverty-un-special-rapporteur?fbclid=IwAR0FMYsc9w1KJCA3P8vtJhlDqSJge-t6gtaQauhwAr0hraPxwuVjQ00unoQ"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">poor</span></a></b>, many
Americans live like a friend I recently visited. His beautifully decorated four
bedroom, 2 ½ bath home holds at least two flat screen TVs and two personal
computers. He and his partner sport smart watches and fit bits. Since they both
love gadgets, their cats drink from a gurgling fountain while the food
dispenser and litter box are automated. One of their cats recently suffered
kidney failure and requires daily dialysis. <o:p></o:p></div>
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They each have their own vehicles as well as a motorcycle.
They live in a house with a fenced in yard and a two-car garage full of toys:
canoes, bikes, fishing and camping gear. When the weather is inclement they go
to a gym to run, cycle or swim. They frequently travel for triathlons and
vacation in other countries. Cleaning and landscaping services keep their green
lawn leaf and weed free and their home spotless. For most Americans, this seems
normal and desirable. <o:p></o:p></div>
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All of this requires a tremendous amount of materials and
energy. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In fact, the average US citizen <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-how-the-american-lifestyle-really-compares-to-the-rest-of-the-world"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">consumes</span></a> </b>17 acres of resources to everyone else’s 7. We even consume more calories. If everyone on the planet lived
like Americans, it would take over four planets to support us all. </div>
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Yet whatever strategies Environmentalists of the Global
North (EGN) come up with involve greening our opulent lifestyles. For example,
on the micro level, use an energy efficient dishwasher then on the macro level,
advocate for green technology to run said dishwashers. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We don’t, however, question these fundamentally
unsustainable, unnecessary machines. Nor do we address the massive sports,
lawn, fitness and entertainment industries or our increasing appetite for any
of the aforementioned; all of which are uncommon in countries whose
populations we want to control. Even though they are childless, my dear friends, mentioned earlier, do not live a lifestyle the planet can support. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">To advocate for solar panels to power automated litter boxes in the Global North yet </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">urge citizens of the Global South to diminish their actual, literal </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">existence</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> is a form of supremacy.</span></div>
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Consider the tactics aimed at reducing carbon put forth by
the popular,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> <a href="https://www.drawdown.org/"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Project Drawdown</span></a></b>. They focus on greening or
retrofitting transportation, energy & city infrastructure with telecommuting, <span style="font-size: 12pt;">wind
farms and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">rooftop gardens, for example. It’s quite startling to read through categories –energy, transport, buildings, materials—then to run into the category, women and girls.</span></div>
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To regard females as something to retrofit, along with
refrigeration and insulation, is a form of supremacy. It is a form of green
washing and even virtue washing to suggest that this agenda is about empowering
females.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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To be clear, of course I want women and girls to be educated. Parity
is a perennial issue for females. But let’s educate females because it is their right to be educated. Let’s educate females to have full
sovereignty over their lives. To educate girls and women so they don't produce offspring is no different than forcing women to produce offspring. Both fit someone else's agenda if the desired number of offspring isn't the woman's intention. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Moreover, since women and girls are </span><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43294221" style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>disproportionally</b></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> impacted by ecological collapse, empowerment-for women's own needs in their own context </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">-is vital.</span></div>
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We feel entitled to speak into unfamiliar cultural and
religious contexts to promote family planning but seemingly turn a blind eye to
in vitro fertilization, surrogacy, fetal surgery or NIC unit heroics performed
here--yet more forms of consumption. If indeed, overpopulation is at the crux of
our ecological collapse, then are environmentalists protesting at
fertility treatment centers on Fire Drill Fridays? I saw no mention of addressing the fertility industry in Project Drawdown or other climate change mitigation lists put forth by EGN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Besides, here in America, the equal rights amendment hasn’t
been ratified, the maternal <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://hbr.org/2019/06/the-rising-u-s-maternal-mortality-rate-demands-action-from-employers"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">mortality rate</span></a></b>
is rising, access to family planning is under siege, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/unicefusa/2018/10/29/what-you-need-to-know-about-child-marriage-in-the-us-1/#eaae04756897"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">child marriage</span></a></b>
is a thing and there’s still a pay gap. In fact, the US ranks 51 of 149 countries in terms of <a href="https://wallethub.com/edu/best-and-worst-states-for-women-equality/5835/"><b>gender equity</b></a>. We could use a little female empowerment
in our own backyards. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It is form of supremacy to ignore what you need to fix but busy yourself ‘fixing’ others. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It is also in keeping with America and its allies’ geo-political pursuit of empire: virtue washing (fight for freedom and democracy) to support an unsustainable lifestyle (exploitation and extraction of resources, labor and energy). It begs the question, what are EGN really after? Preserving the lifestyle of the Global North or fostering a habitable planet for all living beings? </div>
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If EGN are invested in education, then let’s make a
concerted effort to retrofit America’s educational system since the US has the
highest percentage of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/07/us-hotbed-climate-change-denial-international-poll"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">climate deniers</span></a></b>.
Along with transport, energy, food and city infrastructure, let’s tackle the Department
of Education. Let’s <a href="http://tonicwild.blogspot.com/2019/12/lingua-franca.html"><b>teach</b></a> the millions of children, female and male, in America
to be ecologically literate so that we can have a livable planet. Maybe then Americans and other Global Northerners will learn the impacts of consumerism that disproportionally <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/09/19/report-there-40-million-slaves-worldwide-most-women-and-girls-report-40-million-slaves-worldwide-mos/680632001/"><b>endanger</b></a><b> </b>females worldwide. Maybe ecological literacy would empower us to consider sustainable, equitable lifestyles that do not require the erasure of brown and black people.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Maybe the infrastructure that needs to be retrofitted is the
supremacist heritage of the EGN.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I recently read a terrific <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/dawnldowney/posts/10218868826943177">essay</a> </b>by a friend about a Secret
Santa exchange at work. At first she was super Scroogy. In her words, she had
resigned from the holiday frenzy years ago, the stress shadowing the anticipated
joy.</span></div>
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But then she got caught up in the fun. She discovered
details about a long time co-worker she would not have known had she not
randomly picked this woman’s name. Stealthy gift-giving became a gratifying
challenge. She thrilled at her colleague’s surprise, which inspired more giving.
My <a href="http://dawndowney.com/index.html"><b>friend</b></a> ends her tender story with this image: the two of them, after the reveal,
knee to knee, in rapt conversation at the holiday party. Secret Santa connected
them in way that may not have otherwise happened, the spirit of the holidays
outshining the stress that had eclipsed her joy in previous seasons.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This captures what a Secret Santa exchange
feels like: sleuthing, seeking perfect gifts, surprising the recipient,
feigning innocence at their surprise. And conversely: finding gifts at
unexpected times and in unexpected places. All that generosity wrapped in mystery.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I cradle my thoughtful friend’s experience in one palm. I
cradle, in the other, what I know about the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://storyofstuff.org/"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">things</span></a></b> that preoccupy us during the
holidays: food, lights, travel, festivities, gifts. Did you know 99% of what is extracted, manufactured, shipped and purchased is trashed after six months of use? That singing flowerpot, the glow in the dark toilet bowl, the bluetooth hairbrush, even the cute sweater—all of it, junked.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I hold these both as I
navigate my own holidays: decorate, cook, bake, send cards, buy gifts, wrap
gifts, attend parties. Also, if you have kids like me, multiply these
expectations by the number of offspring. Also, find meaning in it. </span></div>
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I struggle to
find meaning since the holiday rituals seem overly focused on
consumption. Did you know the average American consumes <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://storyofstuff.org/wp-content/uploads/movies/scripts/StoryofStuff_FactSheet.pdf"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">2X</span></a></b> more today
than 50 years ago while happiness continues to <span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://worldhappiness.report/" style="font-weight: bold;">decline</a>?</span> In fact, Americans' life <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/drugs-guns-despair-america-killing-americans-191210154703005.html?fbclid=IwAR3mHWnbLg-_zQmv_R8VOk9-3clpvDnA6JvlV1m_O7GE23nDFueSaset79g"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">expectancy</span></a></b> is
also in decline as a result of several epidemics: guns, drugs, obesity and
despair. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Think about that. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The United States is roughly 5% of the world’s population,
consumes 30% of its resources and produces 30% of the waste yet Americans are in <i>despair.</i> <o:p></o:p></div>
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What are we doing? Why do we keep doing it? And why do we
start doing it earlier and earlier. Because of what I know about the ecological and human cost
of our voracious yet unfulfilling consumption, I too want to resign from the
holidays.</div>
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I write this during the night, December 21, our shortest day in
the northern hemisphere. Holiday lights flicker along my street. It seems like every year
more people put up lights; maybe in the words of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://greensideup.ie/tag/poem-by-susan-cooper/"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Susan Cooper</span></a></b>,
‘to drive the dark away…burn beseeching fires all night long to keep the year
alive...’ <o:p></o:p></div>
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I wonder at the lights. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">How we beseech them to dispel darkness of all forms. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">How
our longest night is longest day in the southern hemisphere. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Indeed, too, how the global North is inexorably linked to
the global South, where the production of things that dazzle for barely six
months darken other lives with an existential threat. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">May we understand how our own insatiable hunger for more things to dispel our darkness, spreads darkness. </span></div>
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As days in the northern hemisphere lengthen, may too our
understanding of our connection to those whose days we shorten beyond the
earth’s rotation, for our fleeting wants. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">May we seek to understand their need like my friend learned
her coworker’s wants. May we too provide for the wellbeing of the other, the
stranger, who does not need to be among us for us to do so. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">May we consider how
our lives, not what we purchase, can be Secret Santa. May we be knee to knee, in rapt communion with the unexpected, the unknown. The other.</span></div>
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During the holidays, I miss the stars. The constellations beyond our garish displays, beyond our garish busyness. Quiet steadfast light mapping darkness toward joy and
peace. <o:p></o:p>May we find our light, 'as promise wakens in the sleeping land.'</div>
<!--EndFragment--><br />Mary Silwancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17022716351722177526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351018466369337533.post-12329527733350766202019-12-10T05:36:00.002-08:002022-02-11T08:55:41.471-08:00all that glitters<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">I woke up to environmental stories so contrasting, I want to tear my hair out.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 21pt; margin: 0in;"><a href="about://"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Image result for Firmino Prexede Guajajara and Raimundo Guajajara"" border="0" height="240" src="blob:https://draft.blogger.com/1dfc0627-800e-4bfa-80c8-0ffdf61e7abf" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_1" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">One was an article from <b><a href="about://"><span style="color: blue;">Parents</span></a></b> magazine about glitter. Scientists worldwide want to ban it because it harms marine life. Glitter, like microbeads (which have been banned in the UK), is mistaken for food and eventually impacts ecosystems and the food chain. I found this phrase bothersome: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 21pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">these particles are now being found in seafood meant for human consumption.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 21pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">There is no such thing as ‘seafood meant for human consumption.’ There aren’t species named seafood swimming around waiting to be consumed by humans. Nope, they don’t exist, aren’t meant for, our consumption; they’re just living their own lives and we happen to find them tasty. Just as you and I exist for our own reasons and are not meant to be landfood for lions.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 21pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">But that phrase wasn’t as bothersome as this passage:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 21pt; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">not all hope is lost for the glitter obsessed. BBC reports that eco-glitter, made from eucalyptus tree extract and aluminum is the latest groundbreaking alternative to the highly popular microplastic</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 21pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">Thank goodness for science. Now we have eco-glitter. Double thank goodness koalas are functionally extinct because they won’t need eucalyptus and we can use it for glitter. Indeed, all hope is not lost.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 21pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">Most bothersome was this:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">By avoiding products that maintain microbeads and replacing your classic glitter with its biodegradable counterpart, you can take pride in making a better world for your kids to grow up in.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">Classic glitter?<br /><br />So many things wrong here. One, aluminum is not biodegradable. Two, replacing one product from extractive capitalism with another product from extractive capitalism is not a solution. Banning glitter and microbeads entirely would be a solution. Three, replacing one unnecessary thing with another unnecessary thing isn’t something to take pride in. Four, if you are taking pride in glitter, it won’t make the world a better place; it'll just make you feel better. Not the same thing at all. Five, to couple eco-glitter with making a better world, is unethical rubbish.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">Do I sound angry? <br /><br />I am heartbroken; it sometimes comes out as anger. 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I live between the circles of a non-intersecting Venn
diagram. One circle contains environmental knowledge. The other is consumer
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Recently, I attended a parent meeting for the Montessori
Model United Nations program my youngest is participating in. We discussed selling t-shirts to fundraise and the tri-fold displays kids take to the conference.
Thousands of students from all over the world converge onto NYC with these tri-folds. When my oldest attended, we were too busy to savor
the displays and after the conference, her tri-fold foam board sat in my
basement for three years until I threw it away. <o:p></o:p></div>
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When my middle daughter participated, I spoke in
Environmentalese about the tri-folds and t-shirts. Since the MMUN topics
include slave labor, deforestation, drought, water pollution and economic
inequity, we had an opportunity to make real life connections between how what
we global northerners consume is intertwined with the people, issues and
countries our students will research. Maybe we should bypass the tri-folds and
t-shirts—products of slave labor that contribute to drought, water pollution,
deforestation and economic inequity.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This year I was mute, knowing Environmentalese would fall on
deaf ears, again. Of course parents are excited to see their students display
their knowledge on tri-folds. Of course Clifton’s dad wants to see his artistic
son’s design on a t-shirt. Of course we are super proud of the MMUN program and
want to promote it through t-shirts. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The two non-intersecting circles of the Venn diagram
represent two languages, two cultures, that don’t speak to each
other:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Environmentalese— Here’s the environmental <a href="https://www.wri.org/blog/2017/07/apparel-industrys-environmental-impact-6-graphics"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">footprint</span></b></a> of a t-shirt. Do you know a
single t-shirt requires 700 gallons of water and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/7943/making-your-t-shirt-a-journey-around-the-world"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">crisscrosses</span></a></b> the
globe to get to you? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Consumerese—Let’s get t-shirts made for every occasion. And
season. And event. And in every color. For everyone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Like all languages, Consumerese is passed on by family and
culture. In the world of Consumerese, what we want and need materialize as
goods and services, as commodities. Our homes, communication, education, food,
beverages, entertainment, recreation, celebrations, life events (weddings,
births, deaths) and healthcare are forms of consumption, not the result of our <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">direct</i> personal industry. Common words
you hear in Consumerese are ‘cheap’ and ‘convenient,’ because satisfying the
immediate desires of the Self is primary. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Since language shapes our ideation and therefore perception and understanding of the world, Consumerese determines our
relationship to our planet. For example, take the term, ‘pest control.’ Pest is
a vague, elastic word for an irritant. To name other living beings sharing our
ecosystem, ‘pests,’ justifies our desire to kill or ‘control’ them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Do we know about the <a href="https://www.intechopen.com/books/toxicology-studies-cells-drugs-and-environment/impact-of-pesticides-on-environmental-and-human-health"><b>impact</b></a> of pesticides on health, water,
soil, air? Do we know how pesticides originated? Have there been long term
studies on groundwater impacts? Indeed, do we know anything about where what we
consume comes from or goes to? Are we aware of who and what is effected along
the way? If not, why?<br />
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Consumerese, as a language and as a culture, doesn’t delve into these questions unless it can turn the answers into yet more untested, unquestioned commodities. Of course those who speak Environmentalese know and try to share this knowledge but their efforts fall on deaf consumer ears. The tagline for one pesticide company, "outside is fun again," is a dominant language in my neighborhood, not 'go native' or 'food not lawns,' Environmentalese taglines.<br />
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When I worked as an environmental educator in an <a href="https://www.greenworkskc.org/"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">after school program</span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">,</b> I taught Environmentalese: how our everyday lives intersect with ecosystems and people worldwide:
how built infrastructures impact natural ones. We examined energy systems, food
systems, vehicular infrastructure, air quality, trash and recycling infrastructure
and more. Understanding what undergirds our modern lives should be basic
knowledge, basic environmental literacy, for everyone. But everyone I know outside the environmental movement, seems content with Consumerese. Most of us, like the parents mentioned, speak Consumerese.</div>
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Don’t get me wrong.<br />
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We’ve always consumed from earth for our
necessities and desires. But we’ve crossed to sheer <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.monbiot.com/2012/12/10/the-gift-of-death/"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">exploitation</span></a></b> to
serve fantasies which have become normalized. From year round fresh fruit and
flowers in the Midwest to massaging recliners to wristwatches that turn on ovens, Consumerese is the lingua franca. This language and its culture is driving <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>us and other
species to extinction as well as driving ecological collapse.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Unfortunately the speakers of Environmentalese and Consumerese do not
intersect meaningfully or understand each other. What we see instead is the equivalent
of Environmentalese sprinkled into Consumerese as in, “here’s five things you
can do to save the planet.” Or Consumerese sprinkled with Environmentalese as
in, buy metal straws. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But according to scientists the world over, we are in ecological free fall. Despite the efforts of those in the
Environmentalese circle, the Consumerese circle continues to grow, untouched by
environmental efforts that aren't commodifiable. The circles aren't converging.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If we have any chance of saving ourselves we must create a
new language to bridge the chasm between Environmentalese and Consumerese. It
must be a language rooted in earth literacy. A language in which we are fluent
in our understanding of ourselves as earthlings part of a global community with
other earthlings. Earthlings, subject to the limitations and rules governing
the natural ecosystems on which we are utterly dependent. Our earth-based
language must be facile enough to widen our understanding of ourselves, others
and the inexorable ways we are interdependent on our earth. <o:p></o:p></div>
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How do we create a new language, thereby shape a new
earth-based cultural paradigm? How do we create a lingua franca based in ecological literacy?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Think about it. In America alone, there are 40 million
families. <o:p></o:p></div>
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* 55 millions <a href="https://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/education-statistics/index.html?fbclid=IwAR0C26N0V1EJXD0_hXdMqTHMsANF3jMjgdoDg_JKxBR7WLrNiqkpUWlrWu0"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">students</span></b></a> <o:p></o:p></div>
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*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>being educated in
133,000 <a href="https://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/education-statistics/index.html?fbclid=IwAR0C26N0V1EJXD0_hXdMqTHMsANF3jMjgdoDg_JKxBR7WLrNiqkpUWlrWu0"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">schools</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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* employing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6.2
million people in the educational <a href="http://www.maciverinstitute.com/2014/08/non-teaching-staff-soars-fordham-report/"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">sector</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Imagine.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We renovate the educational system.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The spine of K-12 curriculum becomes ecology-based. All
subject area curriculum and extra-curricular activities emanate from that
spine. School personnel--from maintenance to cafeteria workers to board members
to coaches to school nurses and security guards--are also educated so they can
connect their vocational habits and choices to how those draw from and impact
our ecological worldwide web.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We no longer marginalize study of how we interact with the
natural world by containing it in an after school club, a one-off field trip to
test water quality or dump it on the science teachers to squeeze into a six
week unit. So in a sense we no longer marginalize the natural world. That is the Consumerese mindset; let’s consume some green experiences for a unit.<o:p></o:p></div>
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From working in the environmental field, I saw firsthand that siloed
lessons didn’t take root. For example, how useful is it to teach a group of
twenty kids the ills of Styrofoam while Styrofoam is ubiquitous in schools? But
imagine if the 55 million students and six million educational employees understand Styrofoam as the costly <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://saferchemicals.org/2014/05/26/styrene-and-styrofoam-101-2/"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">toxic</span></a></b> that it
is rather than as merely a cheap commodity via Consumerese. We would get schools back on durable trays. One person or twenty personally foregoing Styrofoam doesn't stop the production of Styrofoam--what ultimately needs to happen. But 55 million students schooled in Styrofoam can take down that industry and generate a more sensible one.</div>
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Imagine those students as adults working in the
restaurant, hotel and hospital industries; anywhere we now see Styrofoam. They
would be empowered to not only push manufactures to create more environmentally
sensible products but they themselves will be more environmentally sensible
manufacturers. This is because they would have been immersed in an
earth-based language and curriculum that gave them tools, community and support
to imagine and manifest a different reality.<o:p></o:p><br />
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So instead of telling people what they should or should not
do as those who speak Environmentalese do, we teach the why. We follow
the strands of why to include the myriad injustices embedded in extractive
capitalism. We examine externalized costs and who, what, where pays them. We
look at the geopolitics that enable destructive systems. We look at
stories, struggles, conflicts, history and art of people worldwide impacted by
Consumerese. This way, every discipline speaks into the creation
of a new earth-based language. <o:p></o:p></div>
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For a new earth-based paradigm requires the aperture of all
subject matters. We need everything in our educational toolbox to respond to
our ecological collapse and craft new systems. That isn’t the job of science,
one tool, alone. Science can’t determine if its progeny is worthwhile, ethical,
sustainable, detrimental, or just. Science after all, gave us Styrofoam,
massaging recliners and pest control. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But history, art, music, economics, government, physical
education, language arts, psychology, philosophy, religion must together shape the new earth-based language we desperately need to create holistic,
integrated paradigms that take into account the needs and rights of all living
beings. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Learning a language is transformative. We don’t know how
various subject areas will evolve as they reorient themselves to be earth-based.
We don’t know how we as a culture will evolve from Consumerese to earth-based. We don't know yet what industries will fall and rise as a result of deep, full spectrum inquiry. <o:p></o:p></div>
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What I do know is Environmentalese and Consumerese are communicating insufficiently for the dramatic task at hand. Just this morning, I read yet another <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.kcur.org/post/its-not-too-late-5-things-you-can-do-curb-climate-change-kansas-city?fbclid=IwAR1J_wV644ve_GbClWL3rENK1_yHcc_QgUV9trwfXmP5_cANEQCzGjeiQ9A#stream/0"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">article</span></a></b> about individual actions to stop climate change with the same tired solutions-drive less, eat less meat-that are statistically <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2017/jul/17/neoliberalism-has-conned-us-into-fighting-climate-change-as-individuals"><b>ineffectual</b></a>.<br />
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Again this is Environmentalese sprinkled into
Consumerese without context, without a depth of understanding or push for the
systems change necessary to actually move the needle on ecological collapse. It
is akin to me feeling good about myself when I say <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gracias</i> to a Spanish speaker. That doesn’t make me fluent in
Spanish. Personal environmentally piety within earth destroying systems is tokenism.</div>
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We are dangerously beyond that.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times";">We have put our lives and the lives of our children at stake
with our Consumerese and environmental illiteracy. As we can see from erratic,
dramatic weather events, species extinction, drought, flooding, fires, our
earth is speaking quite clearly. It is our ethical imperative to create an earth-based language to respond. We need the paradigm shift that comes when one is fluent in another language. </span></div>
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Today I lived in the kind of world I want. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The new neighbors asked me to help transform some of their
yard into native plants. I felt intimidated so asked other neighbors and
friends to help. Two friends who couldn’t participate, donated plants and
offered tools including a wheelbarrow. Another friend stopped by in the midst
of his busy day to encourage us. A neighbor who didn’t know the new neighbors but
is an extraordinary gardener, showed up with tools, plants and a cheery
disposition. Another friend brought tools and expertise regarding plant
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At first the task seemed insurmountable. Eradicate grass,
move rocks, pull up invasives then figure out where to put all the donated
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bagels and muffins, through the joking, digging, dividing, planning, a garden
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Rocks became a meandering border sprinkled with lambs ears.
Joe Pye and Big Bluestem sentry the back, tall phlox flank the side
fence, flowering quince claimed a spot in the opposite corner. Mint, rosemary
and oregano bask in a sunny patch closest to the kitchen door. Spirea settled
by the garage. Milkweed seeds found crevices throughout. Cardboard covers the patches cleared for next time.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Then, an open air lunch on the deck with
champagne and Chinese. Getting acquainted now over Kung Pao instead of poke
weed, we admired our work; astonished by what we created in just a few hours. A
handful of people through shared tools, shared beauty, shared knowledge, shared
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Why this poor picture that doesn't capture the details? Because it is imperfect, reflects us. Captures a work in progress, reflects community. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i>Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.</i> ~Margaret Mead</span>Mary Silwancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17022716351722177526noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351018466369337533.post-24244875325713593812019-10-03T22:21:00.000-07:002019-10-05T13:46:30.170-07:00I can't even with this.<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: large;">This checklist is played out, environmentalists. WTF. How can the people who scream science all the damn time peddle this shit? Are you not down with math or logic? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">First, the title: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Climate Change Mitigation Checklist</i>. You know what I use a checklist for? Groceries. Camping supplies. To help ready my daughter for a sleepover. But let me get this right. We live in a time of unprecedented drought, violent AF unnatural weather events, some countries under threat of being submerged, the populace of other countries walking thousands of miles away from native lands rendered inhabitable because of climate change, increasing numbers of environmental defenders killed (four per week in 2017), and you have a checklist. Yes, please hang your laundry to dry. Check.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Are we defining mitigate in the same way? Because this simply doesn't add up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here’s what’s offensive about this list: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One, who can afford to buy carbon offsets, switch to a 100% carbon free electric company, replace appliances, buy an EV, buy seasonal and local food, live close to work, get solar, get rid of lawn? Who has time to hang laundry, pester politicians regularly, use a scythe, snowshoe to work?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It takes privilege to fulfill this checklist-time, money, resource, access. Further, it is a vapid, insensitive list when you consider that those most vulnerable and have been suffering for decades from climate change don’t have a fraction of the things on the damn list in the first place to change. People in the global south are literally fighting for their lives while global northerners fight for their way of life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Two, remember when women were given tips to avoid rape? Walk with your keys between your knuckles, take a self defense class, drive with a cut out of a man in the car, don’t leave your drink unattended, wear modest clothing, don’t jog at night, get a dog (or a recording of one) if you live alone, carry mace, avoid certain places at night, etc. We can see how well that works for women. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is </span><span style="font-size: large;">environmental patriarchy. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Global companies, banks and governments Epstein and Cosby the planet and its inhabitants but you suggest I attend a protest. Tell me again how that mitigates systemic exploitation? Just as those 'protective' measures do not stop women from being victimized by predators, reusing my grocery bag won't mitigate climate change. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: large;">I am not interested in actions that maintain environmental privilege and patriarchy. </span></div>
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