spring is lovely, with its sudden showers and the pleasure of lengthening days but as it pulls me toward summer already i long for autumn when heat and long days gently linger and evening chills begin to fall when my pace slows down after so many miles traveled and there is rest, and calm, and … Continue reading shoulder seasons
Tag: Outdoors
essential
you may not notice how i take you with me everywhere fold you up carefully and tuck you close to my chest you come with me even when you don't you lighten every load i carry
you stand on Ohlone bones
every where i go i see names that echo those who came before, those who were displaced, those whom street signs and plaques seek to honor while our appetite for fuel pollutes the land we revere them for revering we mythologize and romanticize the love of land, of nature, while also killing it modern American … Continue reading you stand on Ohlone bones
the world they think they made
they exiled us from the lives we knew dropped bombs in our jungles laid land mines in our rice paddies forced us out of our cities made us trade thatched roofs and villages for stucco buildings and suburbia and then they try to sell us their wilderness experiences they complain that we neglect to access … Continue reading the world they think they made
narinda heng 