Category Archives: Swinomish Reservation

101 – 101 is about continuing to greater numbers

Today I picked red, ripe cherry tomatoes from my father’s backyard garden. I don’t even like tomatoes, generally, but there’s a lot of freedom and charm in squinting my eyes to find the reddest and ripest of these supple little … Continue reading

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082 – The Beginning of Death

NOTE [20090601] – The first day we woke up in Swinomish they were having a funeral. The entire reservation essentially shut down, and so many people processed on foot to the colorful graveyard. Death turned out to be a strong … Continue reading

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080 – salmon, fry bread. korean chink tito.

I flipped to this one randomly. It’s a section in the middle of a day’s writing (20090325 I think?), and indeed the little divider above it says, as I have portrayed below… unresolve ~//~ One thing that interests me is … Continue reading

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078 – Day One

“There’s people that have been there for thousands of years, where you’re going to be.” – Fr. Pat Twohy, 200903102049 Day One (20090323, about to sleep, much be between 22:15 and 23:00 I guess) I can’t decide whether to write … Continue reading

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077 – Swinomish.

It’s about time. I don’t know what has caused me to put this off for so long, and why I’ve decided to post this now. Maybe now — because of my panicked scraping for community. These will not necessarily be … Continue reading

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051 – “I feel like I learned something about life tonight. I don’t know what it is, but there’s something there.”

quote from Hannah, one of the student leaders on the service immersion I’m going on in the spring Last night, a few of us going on that trip (plus some past immersion participants, plus others) made a visit to the … Continue reading

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