9 January 2010 – Joanne Merriam

For the sake of freedom, we must be willing to forsake our liberty.

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Yellow Cake from Nick Cross on Vimeo (via).

Stupidity helps.

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Read “How to Uproot a Tree” by Jennifer K. Sweeney (from the 2009 James Laughlin Award-winning book How to Live on Bread and Music).

Yeah

This is why they all think we live in igloos.

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I’ve had about twenty conversations like this in the past two days: Tennessean (shivering in their insufficient winter gear): Are you warm? Me (in my

I acknowledge that I live in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq nation. This territory is covered by a series of treaties of peace and friendship which recognized Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) title and established rules for an ongoing relationship between nations. We are all treaty people. The stories of First Nations peoples have been told in Mi'kma'ki for centuries, and I commit to holding space for those stories to be retold. Moreover, as a guest on this land, I affirm that I have a duty to be mindful of my environmental impact and to reflect on and hold colonial systems accountable.

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Day: January 9, 2010

For the sake of freedom, we must be willing to forsake our liberty.

Stupidity helps.

This is why they all think we live in igloos.