“I want to tell the story that Clay told me once, about how he learned about normal magic. You know, love and rebellion.”

rose

“By my count at least 40 insects feed often or exclusively on North American milkweeds in the summer:” butterflies, moths, beetles, and more.

dahlia

“I have encountered anarchists who have knee-jerk reactions to any forms of nationalism… Anarchists who criticize those committed to Indigenous distinctions too often condemn in ways that are deeply complicit with settler colonialism and its genocidal logics.”

Today is the start of International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners! You can find an anarchist prisoner to write a letter to at PrisonerSolidarity.com #anarchism #prisonersupport

“Those who are least responsible for climate change are often the most impacted and burdened by it.”

A bumblebee visits my herb garden 🐝🌱

“‘Hope is not a waste of time. Hope is a discipline’ Aloe said… She’d never thought of hope like that - as something serious and deliberate instead of something wishful and desperate.” 📚💙

The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food by Joseph Tychonievich and Liz Anna Kozik

Monarch butterfly on swamp milkweed. Milkweed is the host plant for the monarch and the butterflies survival depends on the plant.

“For millennia, Jews have been a diasporic people, making our home in nearly every civilization… A world where Jews are free to live as we please must of necessity be a world where walls and borders no longer limit full human flourishing.”

While finishing this book this morning I saw two butterflies in the small front garden, including a monarch, since the swamp milkweed just started blooming 🌱

Herb garden (top left to bottom right): marjoram, basil, thyme, oregano, peppermint, flat-leaf parsley, curly parsley, and lavender

Starter Vegetable Gardens: 24 No-Fail Plans for Small Organic Gardens by Barbara Pleasant

Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen & Girlbosses Against Liberation by Sophie Lewis

The Midwest Native Plant Primer: 225 Plants for an Earth-Friendly Garden by Alan Branhagen

daffodil

“We can finally start really thinking creatively about who we are in this universe, who we wish to become. Nostalgia is a toxin for that expansive visioning that needs to happen. We need to be done with nostalgia.” #transrightsreadathon

“I believe that evil can come in quiet places; that it is perpetuated by complacency; that complacency might be yours, if you choose, now, not to act on what you know”

The Barrow Will Send What it May by Margaret Killjoy