• Morning gazings to share with each of you. — @moira670 * No need for sound on in first video it is not intentional* *Sound on last video* Mornings have been more mid~day or later for me. Since the beginning of the pandemic I have been isolating myself and doing my outdoors wanderings and reconnections either late at night or early in the morning before sunrise. Shifts in sound and air quality have positively affected the plant and animal life here. Poison Ivy leafs are smaller due to less CO2 in the air and fewer foxes have mange ~ I have been working with a local vet to treat the mage infected fox population for some time. No to little airplane traffic and noise along the shoreline seems to have opened human made noise free nesting areas for Ospreys and Eagles. Back to morning gazings to share with each of you :)) Morning remembrances, honorings and reconnections offered to me from grandmother earth, my maternal grandmother and mother. Loosenings, sheddings, perspectives, focus, sacred ceremonies: Peregrine falcon feather, Osprey feather, horseshoe crab skin, Generative roots, healing, sacred ceremonies: dried Turkey Tail, Chicken of the Woods and Old Man of the Woods Bolete mushrooms, curling Black Cherry Tree bark. Als included are 3 Oyster shells and one Eastern Rabbit Tail dropped from the sky as Bald Headed Eagle flew over me. Image descriptions: 1 Video: A blurry slow moving roving look at nine objects born of the earth Air, Land, Water. Their colors and shapes range from solid curling brown blacks, widely striped browns and whites, narrow delicate striped browns, gray brown rounded forms with sharp points, fluffy dark brownish tones, ruffles of black, elliptical gray creams and layered rounds of reddish orangie browns. All with various textures and densities lie on a smooth solid grayish cream colored ground. 4 Video: Sound is a cat purring and kneading on a woven blanket. Close up of a black cat’s two front paws kneading a dark blue textured woven blanket. The camera moves so close to the cat that the image becomes a soft moving black image with streaks of a light skinned hand appearing for a moment caressing the cat’s fur.
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    Morning gazings to share with each of you. — @moira670 * No need for sound on in first video it is not intentional* *Sound on last video* Mornings have been more mid~day or later for me. Since the beginning of the pandemic I have been isolating myself and doing my outdoors wanderings and reconnections either late at night or early in the morning before sunrise. Shifts in sound and air quality have positively affected the plant and animal life here. Poison Ivy leafs are smaller due to less CO2 in the air and fewer foxes have mange ~ I have been working with a local vet to treat the mage infected fox population for some time. No to little airplane traffic and noise along the shoreline seems to have opened human made noise free nesting areas for Ospreys and Eagles. Back to morning gazings to share with each of you :)) Morning remembrances, honorings and reconnections offered to me from grandmother earth, my maternal grandmother and mother. Loosenings, sheddings, perspectives, focus, sacred ceremonies: Peregrine falcon feather, Osprey feather, horseshoe crab skin, Generative roots, healing, sacred ceremonies: dried Turkey Tail, Chicken of the Woods and Old Man of the Woods Bolete mushrooms, curling Black Cherry Tree bark. Als included are 3 Oyster shells and one Eastern Rabbit Tail dropped from the sky as Bald Headed Eagle flew over me. Image descriptions: 1 Video: A blurry slow moving roving look at nine objects born of the earth Air, Land, Water. Their colors and shapes range from solid curling brown blacks, widely striped browns and whites, narrow delicate striped browns, gray brown rounded forms with sharp points, fluffy dark brownish tones, ruffles of black, elliptical gray creams and layered rounds of reddish orangie browns. All with various textures and densities lie on a smooth solid grayish cream colored ground. 4 Video: Sound is a cat purring and kneading on a woven blanket. Close up of a black cat’s two front paws kneading a dark blue textured woven blanket. The camera moves so close to the cat that the image becomes a soft moving black image with streaks of a light skinned hand appearing for a moment caressing the cat’s fur.
  • In “Radical Softness as a Boundless Form of Resistance” Be Oakley discusses Radical Softness not a utopian idea but rather one that tries to grapple with the unique realities we face. It signals and celebrates how we each come to resistance by allowing us to define these terms for ourselves. ~ GenderFail Press Earlier I had mentioned the things I may share with each of you. Thinking about how often many of us, including myself think, think, think inwardly about our bodies. It is extremely important to feel and express the deep moments within each of ourselves. While these moments are sososo very important to express, they are often simultaneously exhausting. I acknowledge, honor and respect each of you and your bodies, body~minds, mind~bodies. In hopes of supporting each of you please consider the images I am and continue to share with you as a stim care moment package as love, as an invitation to drift out of our bodies to scatter and wander in gelatinous gooey curls. Or ride curling sharp rolling edges with fingertip, eyelash, thought dances and celebratory radical softness and resistance. Jaklin Romine reminds us; to living openly and proudly as a disabled person is one of the most radical acts that exist. Image description Pic 1: On a deep rich black ground rests part of a large curling, upright trumpet edged mushroom. Speaks out its striated earth colors humus soil, sugar sand, pine needle and oak leaf compost. Image description Pic 2: Mushrooms Steam veiled gelatinous, algae shaped bodies roll and curl with, on and lean into one another. Their glistening creamy gray color overlapping creates they lose their deep humus soil brown tints and striations to the rising steam. The now creamy colored glistening mushroom bodies cracked at curved edges bath in the steamy veil.
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    In “Radical Softness as a Boundless Form of Resistance” Be Oakley discusses Radical Softness not a utopian idea but rather one that tries to grapple with the unique realities we face. It signals and celebrates how we each come to resistance by allowing us to define these terms for ourselves. ~ GenderFail Press Earlier I had mentioned the things I may share with each of you. Thinking about how often many of us, including myself think, think, think inwardly about our bodies. It is extremely important to feel and express the deep moments within each of ourselves. While these moments are sososo very important to express, they are often simultaneously exhausting. I acknowledge, honor and respect each of you and your bodies, body~minds, mind~bodies. In hopes of supporting each of you please consider the images I am and continue to share with you as a stim care moment package as love, as an invitation to drift out of our bodies to scatter and wander in gelatinous gooey curls. Or ride curling sharp rolling edges with fingertip, eyelash, thought dances and celebratory radical softness and resistance. Jaklin Romine reminds us; to living openly and proudly as a disabled person is one of the most radical acts that exist. Image description Pic 1: On a deep rich black ground rests part of a large curling, upright trumpet edged mushroom. Speaks out its striated earth colors humus soil, sugar sand, pine needle and oak leaf compost. Image description Pic 2: Mushrooms Steam veiled gelatinous, algae shaped bodies roll and curl with, on and lean into one another. Their glistening creamy gray color overlapping creates they lose their deep humus soil brown tints and striations to the rising steam. The now creamy colored glistening mushroom bodies cracked at curved edges bath in the steamy veil.
  • Hen of the Woods season is here on Secatoag territories! Lenni~Lenape people, my ancestors foraged Hen of the Woods for pleasure, food, ceremonial and medicinal cultures. Hen of the Woods is a polypore rich in Beta~glucans, wild Beta~glucans that have been know by my ancestors as supporting nervous, sympathetic and auto~immune systems. Medicalized yeast born Beta~glucans differ from naturally occurring Beta~glucans and claimed as proprietary beings and knowledges. More parts of working with mycellium to come :D. PLEASE do not eat mushrooms you are not completely sure that it is safe to eat. PLEASE always cook mushrooms. They often have tannins in them that can upset the digestive system but do not upset the digestive system when cooked. Image description: Sitting in Red Oak Tree bark are bright pink letters saying Oak Tree. Hen of the Woods in bright pink letters is slightly cut off as is floats and spores over an image of Hens of the Woods mushroom. Which are curvy, fleshy undulations of tipped browns and oranges wave in all directions across a colorful page. Stopping at light green edges that are being disrupted by a bright green almost moving globual with one titling oak tree leaf inside of it. The word Oak Leaf in hot pink letters floats in the globual. Fuzzy pink and bright yellow splatters embrace, cross, and loosen a technical molecular formula or drawing of Beta~glucans 1/3 and 1/6 in way that mimics spores moving. The word WILD in bright slanted pink letters with a bright yellow streak behind it pushes the splatter spores as it sits on top of the molecular formula. Almost as if WILD is holding sacred muliti~species knowledges. Below at the edge of the page in bright pink letters are the words Beta~glucans. @luttecollective @moira670
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    Hen of the Woods season is here on Secatoag territories! Lenni~Lenape people, my ancestors foraged Hen of the Woods for pleasure, food, ceremonial and medicinal cultures. Hen of the Woods is a polypore rich in Beta~glucans, wild Beta~glucans that have been know by my ancestors as supporting nervous, sympathetic and auto~immune systems. Medicalized yeast born Beta~glucans differ from naturally occurring Beta~glucans and claimed as proprietary beings and knowledges. More parts of working with mycellium to come :D. PLEASE do not eat mushrooms you are not completely sure that it is safe to eat. PLEASE always cook mushrooms. They often have tannins in them that can upset the digestive system but do not upset the digestive system when cooked. Image description: Sitting in Red Oak Tree bark are bright pink letters saying Oak Tree. Hen of the Woods in bright pink letters is slightly cut off as is floats and spores over an image of Hens of the Woods mushroom. Which are curvy, fleshy undulations of tipped browns and oranges wave in all directions across a colorful page. Stopping at light green edges that are being disrupted by a bright green almost moving globual with one titling oak tree leaf inside of it. The word Oak Leaf in hot pink letters floats in the globual. Fuzzy pink and bright yellow splatters embrace, cross, and loosen a technical molecular formula or drawing of Beta~glucans 1/3 and 1/6 in way that mimics spores moving. The word WILD in bright slanted pink letters with a bright yellow streak behind it pushes the splatter spores as it sits on top of the molecular formula. Almost as if WILD is holding sacred muliti~species knowledges. Below at the edge of the page in bright pink letters are the words Beta~glucans. @luttecollective @moira670
  • ****video movement +sound warning***** Every Body <3 moira here :D clumsily sharing some of my favorite stim time with all of you wind! i am neurodivergent and will be sharing some stim joy moments with you, brain injury info, mushroom magic and ask a few questions about ~ shoes. why shoes? i have nerve damage and sensory slips that cause my feet to curl up without warning....or to feel like block or loose feeling. What are your feelings, dreams, desires, rages about, for, against shoes? Video Description: moira, a light skinned person with long dark hair wearing a dark baseball cap, pink framed sunglasses and a black long sleeved jacket. moira is inside a burgundy car and video taping themselves in the car’s side view mirror. the moving image captures both moira and their wind catching gestures and the passing buildings, trees, telephone poles and street signs. sound is rushing wind and faint radio music ~ David Bowie’s Golden Years.
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    ****video movement +sound warning***** Every Body <3 moira here :D clumsily sharing some of my favorite stim time with all of you wind! i am neurodivergent and will be sharing some stim joy moments with you, brain injury info, mushroom magic and ask a few questions about ~ shoes. why shoes? i have nerve damage and sensory slips that cause my feet to curl up without warning....or to feel like block or loose feeling. What are your feelings, dreams, desires, rages about, for, against shoes? Video Description: moira, a light skinned person with long dark hair wearing a dark baseball cap, pink framed sunglasses and a black long sleeved jacket. moira is inside a burgundy car and video taping themselves in the car’s side view mirror. the moving image captures both moira and their wind catching gestures and the passing buildings, trees, telephone poles and street signs. sound is rushing wind and faint radio music ~ David Bowie’s Golden Years.