🌱🚨planting emergency at Dundas W Subway Station, 2 pm today🌱 A kind neighbour gave us a carload of Black-eyed Susans for the station’s garden. Dug this morning, yellow & cheery AF🌼 C’mon out to plant & take some home, too🌱 #Toronto

Does anyone else think about this meme at least once/day? I believe we have all the resources & more to feed, house & care for everyone. I believe in human rights, freedom of expression, & equality. Which makes me the radical left, like Mr. Rogers & Sesame Street

Wow, Toronto Public Library is showing over 1000 holds so far.

Two words I’d like to see in greater use: traitor and treason. Let’s call it what it is. Not just from history books or old novels or spy films anymore.

Sending strength & love to you today💕🌹💥🩷⚡️ This is a marathon, not a sprint. Please remember to put the phone down, talk with a friend, get outside (cold here, tho!), and look after you🌺

A.R. Ammons

Epigraph for Chapter 4, How To Build Power Together: “We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.” —Bayard Rustin

While we’re all wondering what to do about *everything*, please check out Indivisible’s inspiring grassroots organizing work if it’s new to you. They’re in the US, but the same principles apply in Canada & elsewhere. Community-building works—that’s why the alt-right/convoy does it. Book from 2019.

Writing six books at once, can’t get it together to write a simple intro post. Like most of us here, I’ve signed up to fight fascism—but weird poems, plants, music, & art keep me going. This stack of sketch books, journals, & files on top of a photo box is pretty much my life right now. Also, hi!

Only bc I’ve been obsessed with pawpaws since 2013 or so, I can tell you that this sort of headline about them has been recycled probably every year since then😆 this is my wee backyard pawpaw forest