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    • Mar 9

    As Death Arrives

    It takes a particular grace to pass on the first dawn of spring. A gentle bow, a humble farewell, to recede with the dying wave of...
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    kintyre
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    • Aug 3, 2021

    kintyre

    on the west coast of Kintyre where blood of our Mother swells with seaweed, our grandmothers' arms stirring cauldrons of ocean and...
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    on vaccination, cross pollination, and death practice
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    • Jul 28, 2021

    on vaccination, cross pollination, and death practice

    It’s vax time~! Aka, it’s time to address the unavoidable truth of our interconnection and regulate our nervous systems to be okay with...
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    on existential belonging
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    • May 2, 2021

    on existential belonging

    “That’s a nice stick,” I told my neighbour Andrea, on my way to the forest. She was on her way back, wielding a lovely stick cloaked in...
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    • Mar 15, 2021

    healing eczema wholly

    Eczema was always my warning signal - it still is. But I had to learn, over many years and a lot of work, to befriend these warnings...
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    on hara, flesh of the earth
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    • Mar 3, 2021

    on hara, flesh of the earth

    This 11 March marks the ten year anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. It was the first day of my exams at Oxford, and two...
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    it's winter now
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    • Dec 5, 2020

    it's winter now

    what's the world like now asked my father from his bed and my mother there next to him lying still, nearly dead it's winter now, i tell...
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    alchemising anger
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    • Nov 28, 2020

    alchemising anger

    What is your relationship with anger? My life has been characterised by it, except that until this year, I didn't realise it was an...
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    • Aug 16, 2020

    Politeness as violence

    Politeness Not only is an armour for cowardly individuals But an active colonial violence That has caused the collapse of families,...
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    meekness as violence
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    • Aug 13, 2020

    meekness as violence

    One atom bomb drops, And another. A nation defined in chaos Wounds that take Aeons to heal Generations of questions Hang In silence, we...
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    • Jun 9, 2020

    a rewiring

    audio version The privilege of contemplating privilege The privilege of education The oppression of education The privilege of oppression...
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    • Jun 2, 2020

    dismantling as individuals

    Tuesday, 2 June 2020 15:54 The words white privilege, antiracism, and white supremacy are being thrown around without a proper inquiry...
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    • May 31, 2020

    racism as a result of curiosity suppressed

    It is not enough to simply coexist. We must interact, engage, discuss. This will involve clashes and disagreements.
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    ancestral healing, as I understand it
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    • May 21, 2020

    ancestral healing, as I understand it

    We are individually unique combinations of our ancestors vibrating with an orchestra of frequencies. And yet we are simultaneously ancient.
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    symbiosis
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    • Apr 27, 2020

    symbiosis

    I spent one autumn on a rice farm in the depths of Kyushu's "hell" valleys where the land heaves with forces from the underworld, hot...
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    • Apr 17, 2020

    aquarian equinox, 2020

    written on 21 March 2020 ~ As dusk falls, the whole world, Navy and still, two short months,  and a century ago A mist clung to our...
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    311: in memory of past disaster and in celebration of present life
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    • Mar 24, 2020

    311: in memory of past disaster and in celebration of present life

    Nine years since the great mythical catfish writhed beneath Japan and engendered a roll of energy which life has been riding ever since....
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