Memory game. Monopoly.

 Are elites accountable to democracy? Pffft.

I had a conversation at the window with a fellow resident, about how long the Obamachron's been building, about how he cut all the trees, wondering whether the womens circle stones would be returned, as likely as the trees, we agree. Then they say i still like Obama, I always will, and I say Not me, he's a murderer and a liar, he's nothing like what he claims to be. Well, that's true, they say, but we could have a long conversation about it someday, and I say but it would go nowhere. I talk to the washtub oracle, I know I'm not a nuanced thinker perhaps, maybe there's a bigger picture, and I admit there probably always is, but I also know neoliberalism is destroying our world.

P.S. I will greet the next meeting with curiosity. I'd be happy to do a p.s. about the good Obama has done, that I may have failed to perceive. 

i live a moment vicariously, not precariously, tree climbing with james. i was always up in the trees. i grew up in the trees. the trees were my friends. when i was thirteen living in villa dark i got high and sat in trees listening to the wind and the spirits passing through me. every time i see a kid in a tree i feel joy in my old bones. and when i hear the wind in the pines i float above my body.

 

love graveyards and sanctuaries. places we belong are nestled in every where. we may die but we can't be killed. we may be killed but we can't die. 

 There are deer in the graveyard alongside the nature sanctuary. The deer hop back and forth over the fence. Coyotes eat some deer. My great grandparents' bones live in the graveyard. Dad's grandparents' bones. It was dad's death day yesterday. We celebrate in a way with the deer and the red tailed hawks and the ducks and geese and everything goes on while the rest of the god blessed world outside the sanctuary/graveyard endures hypernormalization, environmental destruction and genocide.

P.S. Kelly informs me that coyotes scavenge, and eat small rodents and berries and such, but they don't kill deer. The deer the coyotes were accused of killing probably just died. Thank you for the correction. I write in haste, but I'm grateful to reflect. We're learning about coyotes in the city though they've been studied for years. The coyotes moved here as their habitat is destroyed, and they have brilliantly adapted and learned to survive and become a vital part of the ecosystem in the urban wild.

 This red tailed hawk was hanging out by the entrance to the nature sanctuary greeting folks.