A Little Housekeeping

We are knee-deep in spring, and I’m a bit late at doing some spring cleaning, both physically and mentally.

Post Covid Reflection

Unlike everyone else who was bemoaning lockdown, not being able to get out, do things, see people, etc., I was actually happy in my solitude. I had my kids at home at the start, but aside from them, I was content, ridding myself of the extreme burnout symptoms and finding ways to mentally heal.

Hostility Homegrown

One of the most wild things that I have been increasingly becoming aware of is the excessive xenophobia of our growers, not just in the US, but world wide. The xenophobia can be rooted in the ideas of “tradition”, racism, fear of “strangers” among other reasons, but the reaction is often hateful, threatening and can be downright terrifying.

The Need for Community

It seems like every day, the news is reporting on some new major systemic failure in our country. Housing, banks, jobs, food supply, roads, and bridges. Nothing has been left unscathed. In the last 5 years, there seems to be an extremely rapid decline of the nation

I’m Back

It’s been a while and a year or so. Things have changed even as they sort of stayed the same. It is the start of a new spring, and to be honest, it feels like the start of a lot of new.

Codex of Ethics

My father was not the best of people. I do question if he was as bad as my narcissistic mother made him to be to garner my devotion to her, but I do know there are things about him that weren’t at all okay in society. However, he did, somehow, manage to instill certain beliefs, traits and ideologies I have followed even to this day.