Bam, Said The Lady.

I just wanted you to know, I don’t let many people fully know me… and you knew me. You were there making memories with me for the entirety of my life. And the number of memories I recall about my life will continue to grow as I make more of them, but they will all be missing a big aspect of my life… and I will always find myself missing you.

Chaco Canyon. 1250 A.D

Monks Mound 900 A.D

Montezuma Castle, 1100 A.D

Temple Mound, 500 A.D

There are places where Native Americans were building cities without an agrarian lifestyle. Hunter gatherer cities! That is completely different from how western civilization developed! How cool is that! How aggressively does that up end the idea that hunter gatherers were inherently more primitive than agrairian cultures.

But studies show otherwise: Black women are killed and sexually assaulted by the police, and incarcerated at almost three times the rate of their white female counterparts. Yet news coverage of these cases are focused largely on the relationship between law enforcement and black men.

From the linked article above. None of this diminishes the importance of any Black Lives Matter protests or the lives of black men.

Trying to locate stability, while tipping on a cracked foundation.

Attempting to stay lost, in a place of make believe;

Where all things are kind and everyone is free.

But as I turn the page to read ahead, there’s less of a story to perceive.

And as more pages turn, the faster I peruse;

I’m searching for forever, knowing I’ll have to lose.

For the book’s already written and it’s story must conclude.

Even in fiction, things come to an end too soon.

I misplace myself in books, to omit the truth from which I used solace to hide away.

Though sometimes, sadness seems to only want to stay.

Letting my tears mix with the words on the page, this love for reading I swear it won’t fade.

The newspaper’s ink, wiped onto my sleeve, there’s still no place that I’d rather be.

me:

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