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August 14 - October 14, 2020
it was the boots that yielded Emery the first cash she had ever owned.
Haha
Haha - like Lake Mead and Salt Lake and the Aral Sea - "one of the planet's worst environmental disasters,” former United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/7554679/Aral-Sea-one-of-the-planets-worst-environmental-disasters.html
she’s worth something, Emery is. And she’s decided she’s one of us.
Sunday, September 26, 2027
Humboldt County.
Cape Mendocino
Create no images of God. Accept the images that God has provided.
The universe is God’s self-portrait.
Glory,
Bad idea
sheriff’s deputies. I wonder what you have to do to become a cop. I wonder what a badge is, other than a license to steal. What did it used to be to make people Bankole’s age want to trust it.
So many stolen IDs these days.
They searched him and took the cash he was carrying. Fees for police services,
If the cops decide they want me, you won’t be able to do a thing. Worse, if they decide they want you, there’ll be nothing I can do except take revenge, and be killed for it.”
That slowed me down—the thought that I might cause his death instead of backing him up.
the cops had said they would come out to investigate the fire and the bones.
We worried that sooner or later, they might show up. We’re still keeping a lookout for them, and we’ve hidden—buried—most of our valuables.
Haha - where’s the paperwork? And anyway, “So many stolen IDs these days.” 363
garden
citrus trees
fruit and nut trees
a winter garden from the seed I’ve been carrying
Seven months from dad’s funeral to the great burn in ch. 14.
my own brand of denial,
What were we going to do now?
THE question. also p. 69
There should be something cheerful about sitting around a campfire with friends and a full stomach.
Haha
Sure - Richard Moss had a good thing going with chickens in Robledo.
“Nothing we find farther north will be any better or any safer than this,”
the more people there are packed together in cities, the more danger there is.
“Anything we build anywhere is a target,”
Being white might help you win people over faster than he did.
Food is gold these days,
it’s if, if, if anywhere you go.
Children were the keys to most of the adults present.
“There are no guarantees anywhere,”
Sounds like Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land, by Leah Penniman (Chelsea Green 2018) - read half in July 2021 for the ELPC Environmental Book Club.
“And if people threaten us or our crop, we kill them. That’s all. We kill them, or they kill us. If
He had been both cousin and lover to Joanne, and he’d let her go when he could have gone with her.
But it’s a possibility anywhere,
you could be forced to work under the conditions that Emery and Grayson found.
Forced labor and debt slavery.
“You might be able to get a job as a driver,” she said. “They like white men to be drivers.
Ambiguity rules!
“Trucks? No, I mean driving people. Making them work. Pushing them to work faster. Making them do … whatever the owners says.”
“Sometimes jobs like that are the only jobs—slave or slave driver.
They don’t get paid much, so they get into debt. They get hurt or sick, too. Their drinking water’s not clean and the factories are dangerous—full of poisons and machines that crush or cut you. But people think they can make some cash and then quit.
“Borderworks,”
Sharing would be harder on a man.
“We’ll have whatever we can shape,” I said.
Haha he Earthseed credo
10 days later. And 14 days arrival on September 26.
“A thing like that should serve the living,”
