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Kindling Action – Woodland Warrior
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Poetic Activism from the Sentinels of the Shawnee Forest. January 27, 2016. How do I kindle the spark in someone else? You know, the spark that motivates them to do something other than attend a meeting or sign an online petition. As an organizer, we always hope our three minute personal story of how I got here inspires a wanna be activist to retire from the concerned citizen role and become fully engaged in the campaign. What could I have done different? Was I approachable enough? We, as a nation, have ...
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November 2015 – Woodland Warrior
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Poetic Activism from the Sentinels of the Shawnee Forest. Headlines read “Endless Vigil”. November 16, 2015. It is an endless vigil. Of prayers for massacrers. Validated with false justifications. Of blood letting leaches,. Endless oppression of privilege. In the name of. Fear, “yes, but…”. Dogmatic theories of extremism. From either end of the superficial spectrum. With a failure to find common ground. In the constant striving. For survival of the armed. And against nature’s evolution. The focus shifted,.
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December 2015 – Woodland Warrior
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Poetic Activism from the Sentinels of the Shawnee Forest. December 23, 2015. December 23, 2015. Much to my dismay my awakening has become a nightmare of guilt and nervousness, of avoidance and silent anger. I hang on; just a sliver lingering at the edge of the horizon on the longest night of the year. Headlines read “Endless Vigil”. Leo on Kindling Action. Braze on Headlines read “Endless…. On Battlefield Entry June 20…. Braze T. Smith on Déjà vu. Headlines read “Endless Vigil”. Leo on Kindling Action.
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Remember – Woodland Warrior
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Poetic Activism from the Sentinels of the Shawnee Forest. November 8, 2015. April 22, 2016. November 5th, warm rain drizzles down on my skin. Hope dissipates from each meeting I attend. To protect our water and our land. From fossil fuel extraction and excess infrastructure demands. Agencies held captive, democracy breaks. Before it gets a chance to flex and bend. Corporations sucking the teat of capitalism dry. While citizens crouch on bent knee. Appointed and elected officials point the fingers of blame.
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Breathless – Woodland Warrior
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Poetic Activism from the Sentinels of the Shawnee Forest. October 14, 2015. The feeling of squeezing. Every last atom of oxygen from my lungs. The pause in my reality. When I realize what I am looking at. Is a missing mountain. For what is now missing. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email.
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Woodland Warrior – Page 2 – Poetic Activism from the Sentinels of the Shawnee Forest
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Poetic Activism from the Sentinels of the Shawnee Forest. Stopping to smell the beauty. April 7, 2015. Words stopped but images flowed. April 7, 2015. April 7, 2015. November 25, 2014. My dreams are gone again. Like the dream for justice,. And the dream for peace, gone. Waking in a life that is continuous. Déjà vu of atrocities. Of horror and war. Of hunger and greed. Of broken people carrying bags of anger. Like a homeless people clinging. To their last possessions. Under bent cardboard on a park bench.
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Bureaucracy 101 – Woodland Warrior
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Poetic Activism from the Sentinels of the Shawnee Forest. July 23, 2015. Driving down a small road in Southeastern Illinois near the Wabash River, we were led to a corn field atop a hill surrounded by trees. For nearly one hundred years, southern Illinois has been dealing with fossil fuel boom bust extraction economies, one would think we would get smart and plan beyond that which leaves our communities devastated. If problems in other states are any indication of what we can expect for Southern IL then ...
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Headlines read “Endless Vigil” – Woodland Warrior
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Poetic Activism from the Sentinels of the Shawnee Forest. Headlines read “Endless Vigil”. November 16, 2015. It is an endless vigil. Of prayers for massacrers. Validated with false justifications. Of blood letting leaches,. Endless oppression of privilege. In the name of. Fear, “yes, but…”. Dogmatic theories of extremism. From either end of the superficial spectrum. With a failure to find common ground. In the constant striving. For survival of the armed. And against nature’s evolution. The focus shifted,.
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Daybreak – Woodland Warrior
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Poetic Activism from the Sentinels of the Shawnee Forest. May 31, 2015. May 31, 2015. Earthen fields of meadows and brush dissolved. Into the morning western sky. Underneath the dense fog. While sun crept over summer treetops. Still hidden behind the hill and trunks. For one brief moment after waking. I left the earth finally. And had been released of my physical burden of being human. For one brief moment I had felt. What it was like to lose the ground beneath my feet. One brief moment of shear anxiety,.
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