S has been experimenting with hot sauce and fermentation. This time he decided to try out something different. He started the same process as his hot sauce fermentation (part 1 notes and part 2 notes). However, once the fermentation was done, instead of blending it into a hot sauce, he strained out...
[envira-gallery id='9244'] Sweetgum Liquidambar styraciflua Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) is a medium-to-large tree native to warm temperate regions of North and Central America. It puts on a brilliant autumn display - the leathery star-shaped foliage turns orange, red, and burgundy, with multi-colored individual leaves. Decorative foliage and an elegant straight trunk...
[envira-gallery id='9212'] Crimson fountain grass Cenchrus setaceus Crimson fountain grass (Cenchrus setaceus) is a grass plant also commonly called crimson fountain grass. It grows throughout East Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Crimson fountain grass is drought tolerant and the existence of it increases the risk of fires. Crimson fountain...
A’tukwewinu’k (storytellers) i heard the singing through the firestones, trees, windand it helped me dream so that today i may awake and sing, too,for those yet to be i hope they will hear us one daycalling out the storiesthey will need to know and the songs to help them rise...
Future We In-U-Wee Are we allowed to dream?Are we allowed to exceed the parameters of a reality that Canada has no interest in?Are we allowed to be more and better and complete? Aren’t we all supposed to stay in the time of long ago?The time of standing at a seal...
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Abdelmahmoud, E. (2022, May 17). Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces. Ballantine Books. Epigraph Elsewhere.I am a student of Migration Stories. I am pulled toward accounts of lives rearranged by the journey from one place to another. If you tell me you are an immigrant or a child of immigrants,...
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Names She was Eliza for a few weekswhen she was a baby –Eliza Lily. Soon it changed to Lil.Later she was Miss Steward in the baker’s shopAnd then ‘my love’, ‘my darling’, Mother.Widowed at thirty, she went back to workAs Mrs Hand. Her daughter grew up,Married and gave birth.Now she...
This Poem is Dangerous This poem is dangerous: it should not be leftWithin the reach of children, or even of adultsWho might swallow it whole, with possiblyUndesirable side-effects. If you come acrossAn unattended, unidentified poemIn a public place, do not attempt to tackle itYourself. Send it (preferably, in a sealed...
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[envira-gallery id='8753'] Honey locust Gleditsia triacanthos Gleditsia triacanthos is a deciduous tree that is native to the Central part of Noth America. The trunk of the honey locust is covered in thorns that are soft and green when young, but age to be hard and brittle. These thorns are relatively...