Everything is coming to a head. 

 The danger is that the systems now coordinating us don’t answer to biological needs. They don’t get tired or hungry or lonely. Yet they increasingly regulate the behavior of beings who do. In short, we are losing our own agency to parasites: systems that simulate agency while feeding on ours.

Melanie Challenger 

People don't want greater America, greater Israel, neoliberal colonialism. People are disgusted by the Zionist occupation, of continuous war and genocide. People are desperate for justice. People are sick and tired of the evil empire. 

 i keep swimming. 

 I go back to see the grasshopper missing one back leg and I see them still there, and see that they are still mobile, hopping with one back leg. I see that grasshoppers have been around for around 240 million years. 

 It's indigenous people's day on turtle island, or columbus day on the imperial land grab. We came from elsewhere, even if we're a late generation of the occupation, but I think at this time we need everyone to be indigenous and resist the genocidal empire, because anyone in their right senses wants to continue life. We can't become indigenous to an occupied land by gaslight, but if we love the earth we must in a deep sense become indigenous to it. 

I brought some stones and Trudy's angel back to the lake. Then three girls started skipping stones and I imagined them finding the angel and pocketing it or perhaps skipping it. But the angel was left for another receiver, another day. For the gift of the angel i received this moon D.