You know when you think about going back and having the chance to do something differently? What would you do then that you aren’t doing now?
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They Gave the Indians Blankets Laced with Smallpox.
Photo from: Peter d’Errico, “Jeffery Amherst and Smallpox Blankets: Lord Jeffery Amherst’s letters discussing germ warfare against American Indians,” 2001, 2019. Accessed on October 19, 2019, at https://people.umass.edu/derrico/amherst/lord_jeff.html
Blessed Are the Trodden
Blessed are the trodden, with their faces in the dirt,
Who process what the rest refuse to see.
The thing most do not know
Is that without exception each must deal with their own shit–
Ain’t no way another can take your load.
Neither cash nor coercion can contract that labor out.
In Two Days, Tomorrow Will Be Yesterday
We Must Go Back
To the mending pile
To the kitchen garden
To canning
To home-cooked meals
Codependency
Codependency is the unspoken and largely unconscious agreement to tolerate and even help sustain another person’s continuation of not addressing issues and problems they need to address, in exchange for that person’s tolerance and sustaining of your own continuation of not addressing issues and problems you need to address.