This was the first storm of yesterday. Today, July 4, as of 10:27 a.m., day 1,002 of the Gaza genocide, there are 681 active fires burning across Turtle Island. Send news of the end of empire from where you live.
Life is eccentric, thanks be. Remember when I snapped a picture of this being on the ceiling under the train tracks, and puppy Lulu, hearing a train rumble, bolted? This too will be gone quite soon, and I shall miss it. And it goes without saying, so to say — we're still here.
You know what we celebrate? Being alive to witness the end of empire! And Jane Gardam's Crusoe's Daughter — re-found in the Vista library! And this girl, Olive Palestine, our own feline angel come from the park!
250 years later, and what have we got? A global genocidal rogue military industrial complex and an audacious perfidious oligarch in the park.
Reading Paradiso 17 with Olive Palestine, day 1002, independence day.
Today, and every day, we celebrate the resistance, and say We are not America, and we mourn the victims of the American empire, everywhere.
Today we celebrate the flowers that grow on stolen land.
