TaggartRE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/116325795881403391
This is a specific poverty of American-brand ultraprocessed white culture that has always bothered me. I have never known community like this. It was basically Church or GTFO.
I dunno, I just have felt culturally impoverished for a long time. If you're a certain flavor of white, it's literally religion and work and...that's it. Sports I guess? What a non-nourishing culture.
And planting roots is pretty tough when you are forced to fling yourself across the country for school and work, which is the situation for many of my contemporaries. To leave home is to give up many of those built-in connections and support systems.
❣️u.s. pause federal tax remittances@mttaggart rereading/listening to robin wall kimmerer narrate her book "braiding sweetgrass"... is soothing my frayed soul. becoming indigenous to place, some radical culture making. getting dirty growing where one is. radical reframing. 💚