Their raffle will be raising money for Bags of Love Eugene, a nonprofit dear to my heart as someone who has experienced homelessness.

If you haven’t been to Caffé Pacori, you are hereby obligated to go check out the coolest coffee spot in Eugene!

As always, I will have tatreez patches at my booth with all sales going to my friend Dua’a in Palestine.

I am so in love with our community here in Eugene, and how quick we are to step up in times of need. Looking forward to the conversations I’ll have with you lovely folks this month!

Maybe someday I can visit my ancestral home and ask my ancestors for answers themselves. Until then, I will feel adrift and Samhain will challenge me to dig ever deeper.

I’m no-contact for personal reasons, and don’t have anyone to ask questions of. Having to scour through the internet only to find rampant misinfo and dead ends led me to tears last night.

The internet is full of copy-pasted paragraphs with no citations, and to my display, misattributed AI generated portraits. Our castles are now tourist attractions. There’s a lot of grief in being from a family that carries Celtic names but has long been separated from our lands and culture.