Category: Stories
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Letter to the Settler Community During Hard Times
A chilly, windy, soggy few days. Birds are flocking the feeder. We participate in a few European-American dominated discussion groups, all of which have now moved online. In each I find that whenever I try to bring Native issues and experience into the conversation I am met with literal silence. Inevitably the conversation is immediately…
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Needs
Late afternoon and the sun has disappeared behind the clouds that are gathering in the west. Dark will come early tonight. The weather continues to offer mostly warm, dry days and cool nights, resulting in a very mild winter.
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Approaching the Solstice
Snow falling all morning, then cleared suddenly revealing bright sun and deep blue skies. We are more than a week away from the solstice still. Here in the northern hemisphere the December dark falls early, especially in stormy weather. Down in the village holiday lights are on full dis[ply, dramatically outlining most of the houses…
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A Gulf
Today is cool and dry, a sharp contrast to the weekend’s heat, humidity, storms, and flooding. This morning I joined a group of truly lovely people for breakfast. The group is loosely organized around liberal politics and is deeply grounded in the members’ caring about other people and the environment.
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