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all that is
it’s a quarter after seven quiet and still no thrumming of jackhammers on concrete no birds singing to loved ones there’s only you soft in sleep whispers of dreams doubts nowhere in sight all that is between you and i lingers in the air unsaid deafening
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for my mother
you never took a seat at the table much less asked to because you never belonged it was never for you too brown, too broken english too invisible, too forgettable your sacrifices weren’t seen as such these were expectations good wife. good mother. dutiful. i mistook your quiet fire for complacency, for conformity but my loud, abrasive demand to be seen, to be heard is owed to you because of you i…
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little girl
navigate the line above, between, below don’t forget the sacrifices made before you don’t cause ripples in the water ahead of you little girl stand up straight your shoulders have yet much to bare.
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i can feel you slipping away again i tell myself we all make choices and this one is yours again how many more times can i go through every one of our conversations, can i blame myself for not trying, caring, understanding enough maybe it’s time to let you go again
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resonate
jagged, deep, split skin scar tissue shallow, sharp, undetected barely visible prick, poke, slice, cut a mark is left behind whether you see it or not whether you feel it or not i carry it with me for my descendants. the burden, the legacy
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i like to consider myself as a very independent person. i do things for myself by myself. but this week from hell proved i don’t always have to. i am so lucky to have a partner who let’s me be me; bitchy, stubborn, quirky. at the same time i can let my guard down and know i can be a little more vulnerable without getting hurt.
So, for all you kids out there who said you’re not looking for a love or a relationship just remember, sometimes it finds you 😁
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Richard Pánik goal vs Pittsburgh Penguins
Researchers have used Easter Island Moai replicas to show how they might have been “walked” to where they are displayed.
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Finally. People need to realize aliens aren’t the answer for everything (when they use it to erase poc civilizations and how smart they were)
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What’s really wild is that the native people literally told the Europeans “they walked” when asked how the statues were moved. The Europeans were like “lol these backwards heathens and their fairy tales guess it’s gonna always be a mystery!”
Maori told Europeans that kiore were native rats and no one believed them until DNA tests proved it
And the Iroquois told Europeans that squirels showed them how to tap maple syrup and no one believed them until they caught it on video
Oral history from various First Nations tribes in the Pacific Northwest contained stories about a massive earthquake/tsunami hitting the coast, but no one listened to them until scientists discovered physical evidence of quakes from the Cascadia fault line.
Roopkund Lake AKA “Skeleton Lake” in the Himalayas in India is eerie because it was discovered with hundreds of skeletal remains and for the life of them researchers couldn’t figure out what it was that killed them. For decades the “mystery” went unsolved.
Until they finally payed closer attention to local songs and legend that all essentially said “Yah the Goddess Nanda Devi got mad and sent huge heave stones down to kill them”. That was consistent with huge contusions found all on their neck and shoulders and the weather patterns of the area, which are prone to huge & inevitably deadly goddamn hailstones. https://www.facebook.com/atlasobscura/videos/10154065247212728/
Literally these legends were past down for over a thousand years and it still took researched 50 to “figure out” the “mystery”. 🙄
Adding to this, the Inuit communities in Nunavut KNEW where both the wrecks of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were literally the entire time but Europeans/white people didn’t even bother consulting them about either ship until like…last year.
“Inuit traditional knowledge was critical to the discovery of both ships, she pointed out, offering the Canadian government a powerful demonstration of what can be achieved when Inuit voices are included in the process.
In contrast, the tragic fate of the 129 men on the Franklin expedition hints at the high cost of marginalising those who best know the area and its history.
“If Inuit had been consulted 200 years ago and asked for their traditional knowledge – this is our backyard – those two wrecks would have been found, lives would have been saved. I’m confident of that,” she said. “But they believed their civilization was superior and that was their undoing.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/16/inuit-canada-britain-shipwreck-hms-terror-nunavut
“Oh yeah, I heard a lot of stories about Terror, the ships, but I guess Parks Canada don’t listen to people,” Kogvik said. “They just ignore Inuit stories about the Terror ship.”
Schimnowski said the crew had also heard stories about people on the land seeing the silhouette of a masted ship at sunset.
“The community knew about this for many, many years. It’s hard for people to stop and actually listen … especially people from the South.”
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/sammy-kogvik-hms-terror-franklin-1.3763653
Indigenous Australians have had stories about giant kangaroos and wombats for thousands of years, and European settlers just kinda assumed they were myths. Cut to more recently when evidence of megafauna was discovered, giant versions of Australian animals that died out 41 000 years ago.
Similarly, scientists have been stumped about how native Palm trees got to a valley in the middle of Australia, and it wasn’t until a few years ago that someone did DNA testing and concluded that seeds had been carried there from the north around 30 000 years ago… aaand someone pointed out that Indigenous people have had stories about gods from the north carrying the seeds to a valley in the central desert.
oh man let me tell you about Indigenous Australian myths - the framework they use (with multi-generational checking that’s unique on the planet, meaning there’s no drifting or mutation of the story, seriously they are hardcore about maintaining integrity) means that we literally have multiple first-hand accounts of life and the ecosystem before the end of the last ice age
it’s literally the oldest accurate oral history of the world.
Now consider this: most people consider the start of recorded history to be with the Sumerians and the Early Dynastic period of the Egyptians. So around 3500 BCE, or five and a half thousand years ago These highly accurate Aboriginal oral histories originate from twenty thousand years ago at least
