on the way back, i stumbled and tripped down the poet’s street
when i got home, my mom cried when she saw my feet
from Bhanu Kapil’s The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers
january 2025 ; 1 2 3 4 my pinterest
2025
ACTION IS THE ANTIDOTE TO DESPAIR
KEEP THE FAITH DO THE WORK
PASSION ABOVE ALL IS THE REMEDY AGAINST BOREDOM
EVERY DAY IS ALL THERE IS
WHAT YOU LOVE IS YOUR FATE
Liz Toohey-Wiese, 2024.
"A sign installed in the largest wildfire burn I’ve ever seen, along the BC/YK border. Borrowing the aesthetics of BC Recreation Site signs, once again pointing to the overlaps of outdoor recreation, resource extraction, and the consequences of the climate crisis. Most recreation sites in BC exist along previously built logging and mining roads.
“Forced into a great and difficult transformation” was a line I heard in a lecture on Buddhist philosophy I was listening to on my drive up north. But it became another mantra I thought about while living in a place that’s been utterly transformed by resource extraction over the past century, and as I thought about the burnt landscapes I drove through."
More here.