Walking into Spring

Mikisiwi Pisim Day 13 (Feb 21)

Blurry Buds

Five dee’s from a chickadee soon followed by two coyote visitors. They knew before us. If you know how to listen you can hear the language of species other than your own. 

Pair With: Learning the Grammar of Animacy Robin Wall Kimmerer

Mikisiwi Pisim Day 14 (Feb 22) 

Gave me the blues then them purple pink skies. 

Pair with: Invisible String: Taylor Swift

Mikisiwi Pisim Day 16 (February 24)

Chickadee. Pickikîskisîs. gijigijigaaneshiinyag. 

Pair with: Ojibwe Language

What the Chickadee knows

Mikisiwi Pisim Day 17 (February 25)

Mikisiwi Pisim Day 18 (February 26) 

Resistance 

Pair with: The Brilliance of Beavers: Learning from an Anishnaabe World

Mikisiwi Pisim Day 18 PII (February 26)

Resistance 

Kokum Moon

I know where the woodpecker lives 

kisiskâciwanisîpiy 

River that moves at a swift walking pace

A small pocket of moving water in Whitemud creek- Niskipisim is coming!  

ᐃᑖᐦᑰᒧᐤ itâhkômow

They have kinship- thus they are related. 

Baby Buds! 

Preparing for Sakipakawpisim (Leaves appear moon).