knowing he was 23 at the time of recording makes it that much sweeter
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so many things in this book are difficult to stomach but this is not — it makes my heart smile. His mother is a country woman and he was born in 1941 — on the heels of the Great Depression and within earshot of the great migration. industry and factories prominent in his memory of childhood and old Chicago.
+ our inherent connection to land as black people, as farming and agricultural people. little legacy making my heart smile.
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stills from this archvial source [eastern carolina university]
i feel like i am warming up to her and her to me while watching this. it amazes me how hold she is yet how lithely she moves in video: bending over, bending her knees, talking with her hands, flitting from patch to patch. glee on her face when talking about smoking dried jimson weed. the rosary on her neck — her declaring all glory be to god.
appreciating the subtleties of plant/nature. the way our medicine is always in plain sight.
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Saint Cecilie, or Cecilia, patroness of musicians — venerated on Mary Lou Williams album ‘Free Spirits’
subatomic thoughts 