They Told Us Their Names

Posted by on August 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

image of "rubber tree" plant

Oh, Gen­e­sis. You’re kinda ridicu­lous, but so embed­ded in our cul­tural DNA, you make an odd, dis­turb­ing kind of sense. At least you did, until last Feb­ru­ary, when Daniel Quinn (white dude) made quick work of you, and last week­end, when Dan Long­boat (Mohawk) fin­ished the job.

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Settling

Posted by on May 30, 2011 · 3 Comments 

lookingbackwards

Heavy read­ing lately is mak­ing me lose some of my taste for pon­tif­i­cat­ing. So today, I’m going to point at these two (pos­si­bly) unre­lated moments from late in Roots of Sur­vival. The first on Indi­ans and Chris­tian­ity, the lat­ter on time, two top­ics you know I’m kinda pas­sion­ate about.

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What's all this, then?

I’m writ­ing a book to under­stand my hometown’s dis­in­ter­est in its own his­tory, and my role in that. It’s sort of become a novel. This is the full story.

This is my play­ground. It reflects and pre­dicts what’s hap­pen­ing in the book.

Things I dis­cuss: East­ern Mass. his­tory, sto­ry­telling, book­mak­ing, time travel, poetry & nov­els, writ­ing craft, dreams, pub­lish­ing, indige­nous per­spec­tives, spir­i­tu­al­ity, sex, adop­tion and par­ent­ing, research, and what­ever I can’t get outta my head.