Category: First Nations
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The Rising Waters of Rebirth
The warmth of the weekend has given way to a definite chill. After a couple of days of rain and snow melt the rivers and lake are in flood. What, a few days ago, were fields, are now covered by water and for the second time in a decade we face potentially record lake flooding.
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Rising UP: Where Disability and Colonialism Meet
It has been quite a while since I last posted. Much of our snow pack has melted, the days have lengthened considerably, and the outside world shows signs of awakening to spring. In the sugar bush, the maple sap has been running intermittently and here and there farmers have begun to boil. A couple of…
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Thanksgiving Day 2018
Today is Thanksgiving Day here in the U.S., another of those complex holidays with dubious histories rooted firmly in settler imagination. The day is frigid, a deep snow pack and north wind adding to the pervasive chill. There are rabbit tracks near the house and the occasional determined bird flies by the window. The early…
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Initial Conditions, Part Two
Two days of heat; yesterday set another record high for the date. Today is a tad cooler although tomorrow may again challenge records before a taste of early autumn arrives for the weekend. In the woods, there is a slow, steady increase in reds and yellows among the deep greens. The rivers and lake are…
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