PHOTO PROMPT © Bradley Harris “It’s the same each time. I’m standing at the top of a green hill, scanning sky and water. I sense the endless emptiness in it, but I have to run towards it or I will be dead from whatever is crashing through the underbrush behind me. I plunge down the…
Author: Lisa or Li
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dVerse — Poetics — Follow the Crumbs
My empty gut in echoed hunger rests in burgers dripping with grease; recall the pangs of when much younger. The crumbs always lead me back home with dry white toast and margarine, big orange blocks of surplus cheese, macaroni, and mushy green beans. The crumbs always lead me back home. German Chocolate cake from a…
Movies, Movies, Movies! #113 – January 11, 2022
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! Four of today’s selections are from 2020 or 2021, which is pretty unusual. The 2021 ones may be contenders for the end of 2022 best of list, as they were watched too late for 2021 list. Every Breath You Take (2021) original title, “You Belong to Me”…
dVerse — Quadrille Monday #143 — Breathe
Rising, skeleton grey against white winter weak bulb, appetites spring. Memory’s green sprouting raiment soon-kept promise – songs on birdwing. To blue drowns, tickles toes and sands as tired bellies flop jumbo towels. Then orange, now brown clowns skip; seasonal powders circled; muse’ fragrant palettes. top image: “Four Seasons,” by Yvonne You De Jackson (aka…
Indian Child Welfare
image link I’ve been thinking about the overview video I watched yesterday from Turtle Talk. I took a few notes as I listened and hope I got everything straight as I wrote it down. My notes: In 1978, the US Federal Government enacted the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA.) At that time 1/3 of Indian…
Doodads — Bird Sunday
It’s been a sunny but very cold day, with bitter winds. Sitting inside in the warm on a cushy couch, I was able to snap a few pictures of birds that variously perched in one of the apple trees while waiting their turns at the bird feeders. The way they fluffed up shows you how…
Fletcher, Fort, and Singel: “Defending the Indian Child Welfare Act” — Turtle Talk
For anyone interested in learning more about the mission and activities of the Michigan State University’s Indigenous Law & Policy Center, this one-hour video gives you a very good look at who they are and what they do. It’s important. The issues span generations and across the United States. Indian Child Welfare Matters! If you…
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