The United States and the global community recognize your absence as a pivotal leader in the realm of freedom and democratic values.

They've got you worried
About what's in my pants
Or in others' papers
So you won't worry about
How they use you
To line their pockets
Or crown their heads

They don't care much about their own hate
They care about what your hate can do for them

Removing people from their lands "for their own good," "for their safety," "to a nicer, new place." That's exactly what some people in Oregon were saying in the 1850s when they sent my ancestors to reservations. That's also what the president said today.
Please notice if you haven't already.

There should be a ban on resealable zipper packs with misaligned zippers.

Astoria today

Caught the sunrise this morning. Taken from my bedroom window.

Cranberry & Sprite with rosemary for garnish. According to my partner, it "gives the illusion that everyone is having fun".

A Carcassonne game piece wears a hat made of sweet potato chip. 2014.

Sunset during wildfire season, taken 2020 ish

It's supposed to say "Fall" but all I see is "Fail".

Transgressors, an all-Indigiqueer art exhibition and follow up to My Father's Father's Sister: Our Ancestor Shimkhin, opens 12/13 at Chachalu Museum in Grand Ronde, opening reception 4-7

Depiction of White Cindy by Steph Littlebird
More in alt text and at Chachalu.org
#indigenous #twospirit

Aurora Borealis from a viewpoint on Hwy 26 West of Portland, taken May 2024.

Sunset at Cannon Beach, OR circa 2014.