environment (we are such fools)
JoAnne Sauder JoAnne Sauder

environment (we are such fools)

This environment series was inspired by running out of yarn. This process of not knowing if I will have enough and playing ‘yarn chicken’ reminds me of the games we play with the environment.

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profit vs comparative profit
JoAnne Sauder JoAnne Sauder

profit vs comparative profit

what I learned is law school is that law is really based on the protection of property and to me the concept of property infused too much of what we are and the lives we live and my mind wants to figure out how the balance the excesses of it

this is one I have thought about a lot and the concept seems obvious in my head, but it is hard to put into words, however, I still want to put my thought process out there

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JoAnne Sauder JoAnne Sauder

just

Just get rid of the argument and call it truth

Just pretend it's fair

Just place intentions on other's actions

Just yell and scream until your heard

Just call it hate when they disagree

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the worst of us

The whole world is falling apart
and I'm standing still

I'm watching
and waiting
and don't know what to do

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revert

why should we have to relearn

the mistakes of the past

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tomorrow was a bad day
JoAnne Sauder JoAnne Sauder

tomorrow was a bad day

I was thinking to myself walking over University Bridge, “tomorrow was a bad day.” And that didn't make sense, but it kinda did.

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borderland: ukraine or canada

The moment he got elected, it felt like the polar ice caps melted, shipping opened up in the Northwest Passage and drilling commenced. Climate change accelerated, done by intention, and what Canada has in its large land mass, fresh water and mineral deposits relative to the world, became relatively more. We straddled the line between resource blessing and resource curse. And what we had for others to take, to steal, to break international norms and laws to get, became more.

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the next lane over

The problem with him

And the horrible things he says

It's in the next lane over to what has been going unsaid

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democracy or division
JoAnne Sauder JoAnne Sauder

democracy or division

This one feels like a fail. It's far from square, pulled in numerous directions, and I doubt there is any washing and stretching that will be able to fix it.

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false binaries

One complex problem

Two simple answers

Both too simple to be right in any real sense

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individual imperialism
JoAnne Sauder JoAnne Sauder

individual imperialism

It wasn't that long ago I knit this, but it feels so very long ago.

It felt like we were moving from the imperialism of countries to individual imperialism.

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the fight

when did the fight become morality

total war to total everything

reality tv

WWE

democracy filed down to dichotomy

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the fruit of the spirit

Whenever I heard the media talk about Christians supporting he I don't feel like naming, what rolls through my head is simply this (and has been since way back in 2016):

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the unsafe space

The world is an unsafe space

The flashing light from a bicycle

The economic incentive to take from others

The ownership stake in the creator

The yelling to make space by faking crazy

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language

[excerpt from a chapter on the possibility of having autism]

When I lost my violin, I lost my language.

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