*Monday Notes: Third Chakra

K E Garland

*woo-woo warning: this is a metaphysical conversation, and it’s a little longer than normal.


“…and do it with joy!” my mother used to add whenever I’d crumple up my face and slink off to do whatever she’d asked that interrupted my reading or daydreaming—wash the dishes, polish the wooden coffee table. Whatever the task, ‘do it with joy’ meant don’t pout, look angry, or be upset about it.

It wasn’t a request. It was a demand. And it became a running demand. Later, when she shared it with my grandmother, it became a running joke.

I never thought much of it, until a few weeks ago, when I was talking to Megan, the naturopath.

I’d divulged that I am tired of my job, and I have a nagging suspicion it is time to go. But as of now, I don’t know where to go, so I just do my job.

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Martinique

De malinha pronta

Des eaux cristalines
La mer, la meilleure des vitamines
Une végétation exubérante
Une fragrance inébriante
Un oiseau inaperçu
Un climat si doux
De la terre mouillée après la pluie
Des exotiques fleurs et fruits
Je rêve d’y aller
Pour me perdre dans son ciel étoilé
Là, où tout est possible
Là, où Dieu a interdit l’horrible
Merci Anne-Hortense pour cette paranthèse magnifique
Un jour, j’irai découvrir la Martinique.

Filipa Moreira da Cruz

Photos : Anne-Hortense

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Minbari Mondays, “Hunter, Prey,” and Belief

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

      This  week’s is the 13th report for an incident taking place in July of our year 2259 CE, sent to us from our future by Ranger Mayann, writing to us from Minbar, where she is stationed:

      Greetings, from Tuzanor:

     This report comes from the incidental rumors collected at this time by a member of my order, who was aboard your Babylon station on other business, at the time.  This being a purely internal Earth affair, naturally the Anla’Shok have never heard of it, officially speaking.

     The incident in question revolves around the escape of a head physician of your martyred President Santiago.  Those in authority, at this point, wished for this physician to look guilty, and acted accordingly.  Your Babylon station’s command staff, looking upon the evidence, acted differently.  In allowing them to do so, Captain Sheridan and Commander Ivanova both showed the resourcefulness which…

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Under Bolsonaro, Indigenous Yanomami see surge in child malnutrition deaths

  • With 0.013% of the Brazilian population, the Yanomami accounted for 7% of deaths from child malnutrition in 2019-2020.
  • More than 50% of Indigenous Yanomami children are underweight and suffering from acute to chronic malnutrition.
  • Indigenous health advocates blame the problem in part on lack of government support, including the ending of food provisions for community health units.
  • Another factor is the growing presence of illegal miners inside the Yanomami Indigenous territory, bringing with them disease and contamination; areas more affected by mining also suffer more from malnutrition.

On May 10, the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo reported on child malnutrition in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory, located in the country’s northern Amazonian region. It featured the image of an 8-year-old Indigenous child from the Maimasi community lying in a hammock, her ribs sticking out due to severe malnutrition.

On the same day, the Palimiu community, also in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory was attacked by illegal miners. Shortly after, President Jair Bolsonaro said that “Criminalizing miners nowadays in Brazil is not fair. I’m not saying that because my father was a miner for a while. That has nothing to do with anything.”

Source: Under Bolsonaro, Indigenous Yanomami see surge in child malnutrition deaths

USMC Birthday | Veterans Day

Pacific Paratrooper

US Marine Corps Birthday

10 November 2021 – The United States Marine Corps’ 246th Birthday

Prior to 1921, Marines celebrated the recreation of the Corps on 11 July with little pomp or pageantry. On 21 October 1921, MajorEdwin North McClellan, in charge of the Corps’s fledglinghistorical section, sent a memorandum to CommandantJohn A. Lejeune, suggesting the Marines’ original birthday of 10 November be declared a Marine Corps holiday to be celebrated throughout the Corps. Lejeune so ordered in Marine Corps Order 47:

Sketch of the original Tun Tavern

11 November 2021 – U.S. Veterans Day

On November 11th, we pause to reflect on the history of this great Nation and honor all those who fought to defend it. Originally titled “Armistice Day” and intended to celebrate the end of World War I, “the war to end all wars,” Veterans Day allows us to give…

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 Indian Child Welfare Act

LANDBACK Friends

I’m discouraged to learn about the latest tactics to use children, once again, as leverage to take away Native rights. The intentional cruelty of the violent removal of children to the institutions of forced assimilation was what finally broke Indigenous resistance to stealing the land, and its resources, from native peoples.

The previous administration also used the intentional cruelty of stealing children from those trying to enter the country called the United States.

The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) was enacted in 1978 to help keep Native children in Native homes. The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) worked closely with Congress to enact the legislation. One benefit of ICWA was to give Native families the legal right to keep their children out of those schools.

If the Supreme Court overturns the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) — a federal law that keeps Native children with Native families —…

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