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WFR stands for Wilderness First Responder, a certification obtained via an 80-hour course which provides training on how to address traumatic injuries and medical issues in a backcountry context (loosely defined as more than one hour from access to definitive care, e.g., a hospital or clinic) and guidelines for when to evacuate and with what … Continue reading WFR training / outdoor recreation during genocide
I re-read Ross Gay's poem "Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude" on Lunar New Year and wept. ...thank you,the ancestor who loved youbefore she knew youby smuggling seeds into her braid for the longjourney, who loved youbefore he knew you by puttinga walnut tree in the ground, who loved youbefore she knew you by not slaughteringthe land; … Continue reading reading, lately
It has been 117 days and 75 years of displacement and occupation, recorded in videos, articles, social media posts. In an age of sophisticated surveillance and weapons technology, Israel's razing of Gaza's hospitals, universities, neighborhoods is staggering, horrific, criminal. I have been returning and returning to Sarah Aziza’s essay, The Work of the Witness: Our … Continue reading Witnessing
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