New year, new garden

This year’s garden is amazing! All the soil additives and treatments have paid off amazingly! This is the purple bok choy, beet leaves, and peas that I harvested this morning for an Asian salad later today. The lettuce is still going strong, being shaded by the rutabaga and beet leaves. The potatoes are flowering, andContinue reading “New year, new garden”

The long fall

It has been a long while since I last wrote. So much has happened.

Conscientious objector

Back when Hobby Lobby won its bullshit case in the Supreme Court, I read an article written by a Jewish journalist who discussed the main issue with the case Hobby Lobby brought to the court. They claimed to be a “conscientious objector” and, therefore, wanted the law to change to fit their beliefs.

To Better Friends

Have you ever just written someone off? Like, a longtime friend that you’ve talked to for a long time, and then you wake up and realize, “Wow…The only person we talk about is you. Your situations, your events, your sexual whatevers, your philosophy, etc. 95% of the conversations we have are about you and I’m kind of tired of hearing about you.”?

Speak Your Truth with Love

A person who I follow on social media made a post about her 80 yr old friend who had found her “One True Love”, however, he had a girlfriend and was into polyamory. She proceeded to speak extremely poorly of the guy, inferring the reason for his crappy behavior was due to him claiming he was polyamorous.

Scarcity

I remember when I was little, my mom would take me and my sister to the local grocery store. This was back before the huge strip malls and corporations had built their headquarters just down the road, and there were strawberry fields and orange orchards as far as the eye could see.

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