parenting

Pre-Holidays Workshop
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Pre-Holidays Workshop

Next month, rather than planning a 3rd Wednesday afternoon Craft Crossover (especially because the 3rd wednesday is the 25th) I’m cooking up something else instead. I’m trying doing 2 different times, one in the afternoon and one after my kid’s bed time. I hope that y’all will join me to explore and practice tools and…

A montage of garden images, with close ups of chard, peas, a sunflower, and a young person learning about fermentation.
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Seeding, Weeding, Feeding, and Putting Up

I’ve grown these flowers, these vegetables, and this child, from tiny little seeds.  While the seams of society are ripping open, and the horrors of systemic racism, police violence, predatory tendencies of capitalism all are cast into the bright summer solstice sun, we have spiritual and political garden work to tend to. We need to…

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Parenting at Pride

An open letter to parents (especially cis{not trans} gendered and/or straight parents) considering bringing your children to pride, Pride is a cultural festival. It is a festival that comes from a culture of struggle, of resistance. Our culture, queer and trans culture, pride culture, is a beautiful and exciting rainbow sparkle fest, but also has…

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If the transparent sees their shadow? Will revolution come in an early spring?

I’ve been relatively silent in this stream for a number of months now. Huge changes unfolded over those months, including important perspective shifts and closing of chapters that had served their time. There has been grief, transition, experimentation, re-starting and stripping down to the basics.   I spent a period of time putting a degree…