Pretty cool that the number of poor kids fell by 10% over the last decade!
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In Defense of Our Overgrown Garden BY MATTHEA HARVEY Last night the apple trees shook and gave each lettuce a heart Six hard red apples broke through the greenhouse glass and Landed in the middle of those ever-so-slightly green leaves That seem no mix of seeds and soil but of pastels and light and Chalk x's mark our oaks that are supposed to be cut down I've seen the neighbors frown when they look over the fence And see our espalier pear trees bowing out of shape I did like that They looked like candelabras against the wall but what's the sense In swooning over pruning I said as much to Mrs. Jones and I swear She threw her cane at me and walked off down the street without It has always puzzled me that people coo over bonsai trees when You can squint your eyes and shrink anything without much of A struggle ensued with some starlings and the strawberry nets So after untangling the two I took the nets off and watched birds With red beaks fly by all morning at the window I reread your letter About how the castles you flew over made crenellated shadows on The water in the rainbarrel has overflowed and made a small swamp I think the potatoes might turn out slightly damp don't worry If there is no fog on the day you come home I will build a bonfire So the smoke will make the cedars look the way you like them To close I'm sorry there won't be any salad and I love you

Thinking about gardens...

Down on my knees testing notes with my teeth, always knew a day’d come I’d put my wings out and fly.

Nathaniel Mackey

If you read cursive, the Newberry has a job for you. The Newberry Library in Chicago is scouting transcribers to demystify its handwritten collection. As Dan Kelly wrote in yesterday’s Chicago, the archive’s hunt for “living Rosetta…

Cursive readers, it turns out, are assets at the library.

🚨 Christina Koch has officially become the farthest any woman has ever traveled from Earth

#alzheimers #dementia #caregiver #caregiving #eldercare #community

Mom’s saying awful things after moving into the assisted living facility. It’s so hard to hear those things—but she has Alzheimer’s. For others who have spent time with loved ones with Alzheimer’s, how do you cope with this? I feel manipulated but also know she can’t control this. It’s a disability.

I need community around having a parent or loved one with Alzheimer’s, especially folks who have had to navigate the transition of moving that person into a care facility. I’m desperate for support from folks who know the experience. How do I make it easier on her?

I Tried to Write a Poem Called “Imposter Syndrome” and Failed The way that the sea fails / to drown itself everyday. And entendre alludes all those not listening.

a poem, because i remembered it and needed a gut punch:

poets.org/poem/i-tried...

"my imagination (nee anxiety) has bad brakes and a need to stop sometimes"

read this in 2020 and had such a visceral reaction i immediately scrawled it on my whiteboard.

#poetry @emdashphillips.bsky.social

I’ve been conducting an experiment. I’ve left a copy of my last book Nonbinary Bird of Paradise outside. Today: a slug on “Arcadia.” Next I’d like to inoculate it with mushroom spores.

I was delighted (truly) today to be told my wooden stud earrings look like Advils and that my hair is looking like my birthday twin David Hasselhoff’s—compliments both.

Sunday morning, in full recovery mode: with AN OPTIMISM by Cameron Awkward-Rich

End ICE Cooperation in North Carolina Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

I just signed this petition, & you can too!

"We, the undersigned North Carolinians, demand our state government end all cooperation with ICE. This federal agency systematically violates human rights, tears families apart, and spreads fear in our communities."

c.org/L8wnhYbhDP

A book titled Green of All Heads with title on a white band at the top with a green tinted photo of what appears to be rocks with the authors’ name Aracelis Girmay overlayed in white

Up early, with my coffee, & starting to read GREEN OF ALL HEADS by Aracelis Girmay, truly one of my favorite poets

Misogyny is Dysphoric for This Enby Misogyny is horrific, defeating, dehumanizing, and traumatizing when you are a cisgender woman.

My new post on Substack: "Misogyny is Dysphoric for This Enby" open.substack.com/pub/themossb...

“but it also sets a dangerous precedent for firing based on the homophobic beliefs and bigotry of so-called ‘journalists’ recording professionals undercover.”

I wrote: “I’m a UNC System faculty member who identifies as queer and I know how important Jae Edwards’s work to protect and uplift the lives of LGBTQIA2S+ students at NC State was! This removal not only impacts Edwards and the tremendously important and absolutely essential work he does,…”

Reinstate Jae Edwards Now! Mr. Jae Edwards was separated from his position as the assistant director at NC State’s LGBTQ Pride Center less than 24 hours after the right-wing group, Accuracy in Media (AiM), posted a heavily edit...

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Reinstate Jae Edwards Now!.

Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...

you’re in her dms. i’m in the bottom of her purse. i’m seventeen half-used chapsticks. we are not the same

Protect Academic Freedom, Vote No to Revising The Code The UNC System Board of Governors will vote to amend the UNC System Code with new restrictions on academic freedom at its February 26 meeting. The Board of Governors plans to rewrite the very definiti...

I just signed the @ncaaup.bsky.social petition calling on the UNC Board of Governors to Protect Academic Freedom, Vote No to Revising the UNC System Code.

Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...

P.S. Testosterone also just so happens to be a treatment for my chronic condition Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Win win!

But if there are any other nonbinary or agender people out there who think HRT is only for transitioning into the binary & therefore they can’t do it or won’t qualify, please talk to your (gender-affirming) endocrinologist or other specialist!

I also told her that it is so affirming to be outside of the woman/man dichotomy & that this LEGITIMATE MEDICAL CARE helps me achieve that peace with my body, which therefore improves my mental health. I’m also writing about it, so I’ll have smarter things to say on down the line.

We don’t talk enough about nonbinary transition. It’s been about a month since I’ve been on low-dose T, & I feel SO good on it. I told my partner that I feel better than I have since before puberty.

I seek and desire Sappho translated from the ancient Greek by Bliss Carman I seek and desire, Even as the wind That travels the plain And stirs in the bloom Of the apple-tree. I wander through life, With the searching mind That is never at rest, Till I reach the shade Of my lover’s door.

I’ve been working SO much. Trying to find moments to just rest & so, this morning in bed with my coffee, I am starting KIN: THE FUTURE OF FAMILY by Sophie Lucido Johnson.

#fungifriends #mushrooms #mycology #nature #fungi #biology #photography
I’d given up hope of finding any this winter. Pleurotus ostreatus (Oyster mushrooms) yesterday.

Another shot from yesterday's Misty morning hike on the Arbutus Ridge trail in Goldstream Park.

#yyj #nature #lush #forest #flowing #photography #vancouverisland #WestCoastBestCoast

An iconic species is declining in Glacier National Park Researchers found Glacier National Park's mountain goats have declined by 45%.

Mountain Goats? Noooo!

An iconic species is declining in Glacier National Park www.sfgate.com/national-par...