Parkrose Permaculture

Thank you so much for all of your kind feedback as I am starting a new video series alongside my regular content. The second blog is now live, and I would welcome your insight.

I would also love to hear from you about how I can improve my Patreon to have it be a more valuable and helpful platform for folks.

I'm getting ready to film my regular videos for the day. Please be gentle with me. I am recovering from a bad migraine and I often garble my words or swap in the wrong word in the postdrome. My brain is always rebooting a bit. First vid will be out soon.

Disappointments and Roadblocks (Vlog 2)
https://youtu.be/qqnf93gBw88

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Parkrose Permaculture

Sorry to skip posting the last few vids today. I got an onion-cheese tart and berry cobbler made and then a migraine hit like a ton of bricks. I’ll get caught up in the morning!

I’m working on a series of short videos about data centers and I’d love to know what specifics about the Data Center Wars you think should be elevated in the discourse? What do people need to know?

1 day ago | [YT] | 2,022

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The last of last summer’s blueberries from my freezer (plus some strawberries my college kid brought home) are about to be cobbler with blue cornmeal cobbles. #localfood #permaculture #sustainableliving #blueberries #cobbler

1 day ago | [YT] | 1,777

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To the gentleman who came up to me yesterday to say hi while I was out with my kid for his 18th birthday luncheon: I should've given you a hat! If we ever run into each other again, remind me that I owe you a hat.

To everyone else, I'm a hat-knitting fiend lately. I'm giving them out like candy and if I've got one on me, I'll try to remember to ask if you want one. Just because. It makes me happy to knit for people.

1 day ago | [YT] | 3,598

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The comments on my latest video are illuminating and incredibly concerning. They tell me that the political Left has a lot of work to do.

I want to remind folks that humanizing the other side is not excusing their behavior, it is not giving them a pass or minimizing the unbelievable harm they commit while dehumanizing all of us. The number of people in my comments who seem to think that they have a right to "go low" and dehumanize the other side really concerns me because it tells me that people in the United States absolutely bring a Christian colonizer mindset of retribution and revenge over justice. Dehumanizing the other side is a barrier to us getting justice and reforms and dismantling the trifecta of oppression.

We have known for a really long time that all atrocities begin with dehumanizing people. When those in power can convince you to dehumanize another group of people, you can commit atrocities against them and sleep well at night. Atrocities are not justice. A desire to make the other side hurt because they have hurt you is not the pursuit of justice just as sweeping it all under the rug is not justice. We have to get to the root of the problem, and unfortunately for people who want to see the other side as soulless monsters, the root of all of this is dehumanization ...so if we choose to dehumanize, we will never get out of this.

I know it makes us really uncomfortable to think about humanizing those who oppress us. It sure makes me uncomfortable. It doesn't come naturally to me. Someone in my comments asked me if I would humanize Stephen Miller. I'm not gonna lie: that's something that's really really really hard for me to do. But what do I want? The momentary satisfaction of revenge? Is it about me and my personal desire (vestiges of a childhood rooted in punishment) for retribution and to prevent my rage on them? Or is it about creating a just world? Is it about dismantling the system? Eyes on the prize.

Justice is not punishment. It's not revenge. Likewise, the opposite of dehumanization is not abandoning justice. Humanization is not permissiveness and apologetics. I'm beginning to think a lot of Americans don't really understand what justice is and that's because so little in our society actually revolves around it. I think I might go write a Substack on this because the comments section scares me, honestly. We are so indoctrinated. We have so much deconstructing to do. Me included.

Should we do this to MAGA? Billionaires? IDF soldiers?
https://youtu.be/jsEsTHN184k

1 day ago | [YT] | 117

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Good morning! I am absolutely overwhelmed and overflowing with gratitude for all your kind words and feedback on my Sunday night video "I can't do this anymore".

Almost three and a half thousand comments, and I am trying to read each and every one because I think it's important to do so, and also it is a balm to my soul.

I am slow in replying because yesterday was kid #3's 18th birthday and his dad and I took him out for lunch and generally tried to spoil him all day. But I'm editing video and reading through comments this morning and I just want to say how grateful I am for all of you. Seriously. Thank you.

(Pic from yesterday's lunch. Yes. I knit in restaurants (well, it's outdoor seating, but you get the idea).

First video of the day out in a few minutes!

1 day ago | [YT] | 4,739

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Good morning! Today's This Week in Resistance LIVE has been canceled so we all can take time with family and community for Memorial Day.

I'll have a few videos out later today.

Please take care, I know this is a complicated and difficult holiday for a lot of folks.

2 days ago | [YT] | 2,241

Parkrose Permaculture

Hello, friends. I am getting ready to start a new video series (a vlog, actually) to share with you all some significant changes I am trying to make with my work.

This is a journey I am on, and I don't know where it's going to lead, although I have already hit some roadblocks. I realized that it is important to share what I am doing even if my plans don't end up coming to fruition ...there is a lot to learn along the way.

I am growing increasingly jaded and sad working in this industry making political content. I am disillusioned with colleagues, capitalism, and the toxicity of working in an online format. It's slowly draining me and I know I cannot sustain it indefinitely. While, I know it is valuable, I also know that I cannot keep up this pace, and I cannot keep covering this kind of political content and neglecting my permaculture and intentional-community based content. Something needs to change for me so I can still do this job. I need balance. And to know I am doing good in some small, measurable way.

These are long form, off the cuff videos. Landscape format, no filters, no script, sharing from the heart. As always, I welcome your feedback. But please be gentle with me. The first video will publish later this evening and I'm grateful y'all give me the space to be authentic and true to my values. Thank you.

3 days ago | [YT] | 6,096

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Tomorrow is Memorial Day. I normally go LIVE at 3 PM Pacific on Mondays. Should I still host my live tomorrow or cancel?

3 days ago | [YT] | 513

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I'm so sorry folks. I owe you two more videos with loads of good news stories from today, but it is 10:30 PM and I am just too tired. I just finished helping my kid with his homework and finishing a very detailed business proposal I have spent 3 weeks on (more on that tomorrow). I just don't have it in me to sit down and film videos, but I have all of my notes and tomorrow I'm gonna have two videos packed with good news!!

Btw, did anyone else break down and cry reading about Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case being dismissed?? I look forward to the day when we use the billionaires' money to make reparations. Stephen Miller and Donald Trump, and all of the Republicans tried to ruin this man's life. They sent him to a torture prison and then they tried to deny him return to the US and then Todd Blanche maliciously prosecuted him with trumped- up charges.

What our government did to this man and his family is unconscionable. And we have to remember that they have done it to hundreds of thousands of other families in the last year and a half. To quote Sweet Honey in The Rock, "We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes". Part of freedom is making right the unfreedom that our government inflicted and continues to inflict on immigrants and the American people.

Sleep well. I'll be back in the morning.

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