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During Annie’s corn tasting lab we consumed the American staple crop in many different forms. We nibbled on cornbread, polenta, corn flake cereal, corn slushie, cornstarch, corn syrup, and whiskey. As I consumed all of these corn abstractions I could… Continue Reading →
Although busyness has been a trend throughout the weeks of this winter quarter, this week was a particularly long one. Between preparing to lead seminar and make lunch, and the Washington Higher Education Sustainability Conference, not to mention squeezing in… Continue Reading →
SOS: ComAlt, Seminar Pre-Writing Week 6 21 February 2017 Word Count: 474 Passages: “‘When you bring me a handsome loaf, entirely made by yourself,… I’ll give you my heartiest kiss, and promise to eat every crumb of the loaf… Continue Reading →
SOS: ComAlt, Seminar Pre-Writing Week 5 14 February 2017 Word Count: 261 Passages: “I prefer the term Indigenous Economics. I prefer the idea that not all has a price tag attached to it, and that stories of place stay… Continue Reading →
I can’t believe it is already Week 5. As the quarter flies by, I get closer and closer to thinking about that 12-15 page paper culminating all my findings that I will write. Oh boy. For now, though, it seems… Continue Reading →
Is this what being an adult feels like? Meetings after meetings day after day have left me feeling tired, but also like I have learned a lot this week. Readings: Unlike that past few weeks, this week I have dedicated… Continue Reading →
SOS: ComAlt, Seminar Pre-Writing Week 4 7 February 2017 Word Count: 250 Passages: “This is what I find: The average American consumes more than his own weight in daily stuff.” (LaDuke 2016: 107) “The butter-and-egger was seen as nouveau… Continue Reading →
SOS: ComAlt, Seminar Pre-Writing Week 3 31 January 2017 Word Count: 226 Passages: “In so doing the metaphor erases the historical presence and agency of the actual indigenous inhabitants of the land, by both murdering the men and sexually… Continue Reading →