Friday, July 02, 2021
turn, turn, turn
Thursday, July 01, 2021
Summer again
Finally, another summer day. I took advantage of our first no-rain day in over a week to putter around the garden and prep for a picnic with Nu and AC--a wonderful former student who babysat Nu years ago. I was so surprised to learn that AC is turning 30. They grow up so soon!
One of this year's WGS guest speakers (KH) mentioned how they were doing social work because as a WGS student they'd been inspired by AC's presentation as a guest speaker--I loved that so much and enjoyed passing it on to AC.
This last year has been tough.
[Pic: Robin with cherries]
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
child
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
cloudburst
[Pic: Made it to Ted Black Woods with L this morning--before the downpour.)
Monday, June 28, 2021
Bhiksha
in these words
Knowing day will be done soon, gone
in cupped hands:
not an offering but an outstretched bowl
Sunday, June 27, 2021
feeling--recursive
--every time I send one
to you, sister
you demand to know where I am.
I'm behind the camera,
I travel back
with the sticky facts of tenderness.
What could ever replace
you reminding me
to burn like fire, like diamonds
the beloved coal of my body
hybrid, haptic, whole
[Pic: An indoors kind of day; the kids have to delink settler colonialism and Catan for me every time.]
Saturday, June 26, 2021
weather or not
Rain again today; lots of it! But we snuck some other stuff in there as well.
Met up with DD and TD who are visiting Lansing after 15 months for a walk outside and a catch up.
Pride Parade was rained out, but the kids and I went to Salus Center's open house and my gay babies got some merch to supplement the stuff they got at our in-home pre-Pride party yesterday.
I made "leftover rice" for dinner (rice from Indian takeout; bean and corn salsa + tomato, cilantro, and onion salsa from our pre-Pride-party's "rainbow nachos;" veggie sausage, seasoned potatoes, frozen veggies, a pinch of garam masala, and a couple of teaspoons of ghee... voila).
Then the weather alert system started going off on the radio and our phones, and tornado sirens started up too, so we all trooped into the basement (Scout and Huck anxious, Big A needing to sleep before work) for an hour and half of weather-mandated family time 😅😂.
[Pic: We found this highly apropos duo of national flags outside Salus! My parents were so delighted by this photo 😇.]
"The Chicken Daddy"
But they don't want to name any chicks yet because they "don't want to get too attached." That's too much reality for me.
The all-day and all-week rain has been unreal and disappointing. I'm nothing if not stubborn, however, so I've been sitting in the swing reading, drinking lemonades, and eating cherries anyway.
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
if it wasn't already clear...
Jackie Sumell's "A Solitary Greenhouse" asks us to imagine a world without prisons. The link has better photos and text.
From a walk through Beal Gardens.
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
"and it was all yellow"
Reentry
I think that was a solid vacation--it didn't feel "fake" to me at all. I had a lovely time, meeting people Big A works with wa...
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Friends and old neighbors shutting it down in honor of John Crawford. _
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I have the feeling that I’m going to succumb to the season and put out a list of resolutions soon. Just wanted to establish this heads up th...
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At had us pose for this pic up at Aunt R's place on Lake Huron so he could put it up in his dorm. "Don't tur...