DIY Resistance: Beat the Grief
Surviving into adulthood in this destructive culture comes with a deep familiarity with loss. We lose loved ones to environmentally-induced diseases like most forms of cancer, to the diseases of civilization like diabetes, and to actions previously almost unheard of...
DIY Resistance: Recover Empathy
The dominant culture kills our ability to empathize. Faucets deliver water over great distances silencing the voices of rivers. Super-markets place meat on chilled display shelves hiding the sacred ceremonial relationship between hunter and prey. Pornography produces...
DIY Resistance: Fall in Love
Three months ago, I packed up my 80-litre pack with my tent, sleeping bag, four t-shirts, two pairs of pants, two pairs of thermals, five pairs of underwear, my toothbrush, and six collections of poetry (only the essentials) and made the journey from San Diego, CA to...Interview for Gorilla Radio, University of Victoria, CFUV.
August 4, 2014: University of Victoria, 101.9 FM, CFUV. Liz McArthur interviewed me about my involvement with the Unist’ot’en Camp for her Gorilla Radio series:
Reflecting on Unist’ot’en Camp: Living With Death
There is a trail we all must walk. It begins at birth. It twists and turns through lush forests and barren deserts, under clear, star-filled skies and swollen storm clouds, up steep mountain passes and along lazy sweet-tasting streams. Eventually, we find ourselves...
My Fraser Canyon War
startled by the suddenness of epiphany the pop of a muffler in a damp alley or a gunshot listening from an open barroom window in what is now-called British Columbia I’m an American in Canada and embarrassed to be here my journey has just begun and I’m fighting my own...
From Unist’ot’en Camp: No Word For Goodbye
Leaving Unist’ot’en Camp was hard. As I stepped away from a group of new friends passing pens and notebooks around to share contact information, I found myself on the banks of the Morice River under the pines. Looking up to see their silver and green tops swaying with...
Giving Up on Home and Heading to the Unist’ot’en Camp
I have given up on the notion that I will ever get home. In many ways, I have always been rootless. I was born in Evansville, IN, moved to Bedford, IN when I was 5, moved to Salt Lake City, UT when I was 11, and then enrolled at the University of Dayton in Ohio when I...