Swamp Ophelia by the Indigo Girls, released in 1994. All their music saved me but this album is spectacular.

The messy, imperfect now Week 1 of community writing from Santa Fe, New Mexico

I just launched a newsletter of local voices. They will be weekly snapshots from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Please read and follow if you like this first one: open.substack.com/pub/emilywit...

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

This month people, animals and the land itself struggle to reclaim and restore territory:
📌 A Black family denied access to their own property in CA
📌 A NM writer works to restore a forest after devastating wildfire
📌 Navajo Nation fights border-town bigotry in NM

https://buff.ly/3OAbCZq

The aftermath of the Hermit’s Peak and Calf Canyon Fires - High Country News Devastation is hard to face, but turning away is harder.

My latest essay, with @highcountrynews.bsky.social , about the fires two years ago that burned my hometown and so many of the places I love. www.hcn.org/issues/56-12...

This Beautiful Place People have always fought to be free

So you know it’s me. An essay I wrote several years ago with words in it I keep trying to hold onto now.