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[indigenouswomenrising]

Young Indigenous Film Maker, Shaandiin Tome (Navajo), will have her film, Mud premier at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Its inspiring to see our young people dream big and make their dream a reality, no matter what they may be.

[justmaybeitcanhappen]

Summer session has begun and now it’s human anatomy. 😅 My study areas are not terribly glamorous, mostly because we have little room after housing the family. I do what I can.

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[indigenouswomenrising]

INDIGENOUS WOMAN

Painting By: Jaque Fragua 

Desert Woman (1986)

desert women know

about survival

fierce heat and cold

have burned and thickened

our skin. like cactus

we’ve learned to hoard,

to sprout deep roots, 

to seem asleep, yet wake

at the scent of softness

in the air, to hide

pain and loss by silence,

no branches wail

or whisper our sad songs

safe behind our thorns

don’t be deceived.

when we bloom, we stun.

-Par Mora

[justmaybeitcanhappen]

Two weeks left of the spring semester. I’m feeling it. Mostly I’m focusing on Chemistry because that’s the most important grade.

[justmaybeitcanhappen]

I am sooo surprised that I still remember this stuff.

[justmaybeitcanhappen]

Sigh. I have so much to do and not enough time. I can’t cut sleep or running or working. So I do the best I can.

[justmaybeitcanhappen]

Something lit me on fire.

I decided to post. Presently, I’m taking four classes, all prereqs: Nutrition. Chemistry. History. Cultural Anthropology. Not even going to entertain the wisdom of going full time and working full time. Can’t imagine it’s any less stressful or easier than the first year of med school.