Status Updates From Jonny Appleseed

“One fact I'd learn is that leaving always hurts
—home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable—at least, not an NDN home. In fact, quite often, it's uncomfortable. But it's home…My home is full of hope and ghosts”

“Nobody prepares you for the sting when you're about to leave home. All my life I wanted to leave the rez-and every time I was about to, I stopped myself. It hurt. Leaving hurts. It's not glamorous like Julia Roberts makes it seem.”

“Anishinaabe and the Algonquins translate to "beings made out of nothing" and that we were created by the breath of gitchi Manito. I used to think that meant I had no body, so I learned how to make love as a feral a long time ago the pow wows taught me how, they sang the skin back onto my bones.”

Feels a bit disjointed but y'know I think it'll come together later on.