#màxkwim

[dots3a]

I am going to plant butter malàxkwsita alongside the màxkwim that is about a foot tall already.

My youngest child planted a tehim seed last year and the little bush now has three berries developing on it alongside several more flowers. 🧡

We have sugar snap malàxkwsita growing in two separate beds and a variety of malàxkwsita (burgundy, Cherokee wax, asparagus, I think?) in pots on the porch.

Glad to have followed my intuition and planted a little early this year. We will see if I still feel that way next week after the threat of frost passes.

#garden witch #lenape #food is medicine #màxkwim #malàxkwsita #backyard gardening

[dots3a]

This morning I had an e-mail exchange with the office of Senator Budd because he responded to my pleas for a ceasefire by telling me he's going to "continue to supply lethal aid" to Israel and then that i should not use e-mail templates if I want to engage in discourse. He said if I had seen what he saw on the October 7th tapes, I'd understand. I have seen hundreds of dead bodies caked in dust and blood. There is nothing you could show me that will change me into someone who thinks dropping bombs -- on anyone -- is a reasonable solution to anything.

I walked outside and the backyard is filled with blooming violets, daffodils, butterflies, various types of bees, and lady bugs. I saw my first wild strawberry flower of the season. The màxkwim has begun to sprout. The strawberry my youngest planted as a seed last year surprised me with flowers already. Each of the berry saplings I gifted myself for my birthday last July has new growth, they seem to be thriving in their new homes.

I am not getting better at straddling these two realities. I cannot sit next to the garden beds without carrying the people I've seen suffering in Palestine heavy in my heart. I can't water seeds that will hopefully grow into something my children can eat, without feeling acute awareness of the illegality of collecting rain water for Palestinians, whose children are starving to death to the sound of gunfire and American bombs -- Israel owns the water that falls from the sky, according to Israel.

I do not understand people who are able to carry on as usual. I do not understand people who are not moved to even the smallest actions of resistance. I do not understand the acquiescence. The acceptance of what is clearly unacceptable. The nonchalance of it all.

I wish there were quiet moments of peace in the dawning spring in Palestine, with children happy with their families among the flowers. I will continue to work towards that future in any way I can. I hope more will join those of us who cannot look away.

#words words words #ceasefire now #uplift palestinian voices #speak up for palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #free free palestine #free palestine