#Steadfast

[horse-breed-a-day]

Horse breed of the day: Belgian Draft

Height: 16-17 hh

Common coat colors: Bay, chestnut, and various roans

Place of origin: Belgium

[scamallach-1]

When fellow “US” settlers tell each other that they wanna learn about indigenous decolonial land back here on this land but then spend time making an issue about their time, saying they don’t really have time to educate themselves, my autistic ass is at a loss. Cus I’m stumped. You say you want to learn and then when provided with resources your regular response is that you don’t have time? I see it constantly, this excuse. In comment sections when people ask questions and then claim they don’t have time to read the answer; in my own circle when my fellows blab about things they don’t know and then when presented with correct answers and sources, they get quiet and say they just haven’t had time to look into it (yet that doesn’t quiet their mouths on shit they don’t know). We settlers need to ask ourselves right now what we are willing to change for the greater good. If you make a bed from selfishness then expect to sleep in it, I think.

I can’t make other people work decolonial edu into their schedules, I can only send them the resources directly from where I myself am learning about decolonization: the First Nations educators and historians and scholars and Black New Afrikan educators, historians and scholars. If you want to learn about this stuff - and you must - I think it does require making the sacrifices in your daily life necessary for you to be able to do that. Settler-colonialism has us in a chokehold so we need to be more than what it ‘allows’ in order to unlearn it!

I don’t know what other settlers want me to say? Do they want me to be wishy-washy with them about it? Say that whole “if you have time, please consider, sometime…” No, i am not gonna say that because I believe that is bullshit and nothing will get done with that passive attitude.

I do think we working class/poverty class/disabled settlers need to help each other be able to prioritize this education NOW. The indigenous and Black educators we learn from also have jobs, also have children they need to care for, have personal responsibilities and important things to do - and have active genocides against their people. They believe full-heartedly in working toward decolonial land back because of course they do. This is their lives, and not just individual by individual. They’re working for their people’s liberation in the face of settler-colonial genocides!

And so when we look at our work and school and family schedules - as settlers, no different in status than the “Israeli” settler occupying Palestine - and we prioritize our own overwhelm when we are asked to make the fucking space and take the fucking time for this imperative education, so we can be ready accomplices to decolonial action in the coming years, you gotta know how fucked up that is. We should no longer snap into this typical self-serving behavior!

No, I’m not going to say anything less than what I believe is factual, based on the edu ive so far learned from the indigenous and Black liberationists who are telling us, with their radical perspective and wisdom, what we need to do and how we should go about it, even as potential settler accomplices. Prioritize decolonial edu. Make fucking room.

We settlers should all help each other to accomplish this. Plenty of settlers like me with learning disabilities are out there trying to encourage others and make it easier for people to read the histories and theories. People break this information down for you so you can learn it in different ways (audiobook recordings, forum discussions, infographics that take a couple min to read, key histories in “less than 6 minutes”, YouTube interviews and discussions, podcast discussions, free book banks with PDFs, free articles). We have different ways of learning and in different stretches of time available - I really think what matters is that you work to get it done regardless of daily constraint. Show some solidarity. Working class settlers are not the center of the oppressed under settler-colonialism. We are the settler-colonialism. We must actually work to dismantle it by following FN leadership.

The idea that anything liberating and meaningful just falls into someone’s hands is a white supremacist lie.

What I wish is that in my circle at least, fellow settlers would say “I want to learn this but it’s hard and I need help, will you help me?” — to which I would do all I can in order to ensure they can learn. I have more time than others do because I work only part time due to my disability - but that is time I have to give to discuss, share, read-to others (I have dyslexia but I will fucking READ TO YOU because I know how hard it can be!) The point here is, if you begin your edu, you won’t be alone. Reach for support to make it happen and there will be people who will take the endeavor seriously with you.

But you have to be committed to learning this going forward. You have to actually want to begin learning about decolonial land back.

[rustandsky]

Golden growth

[toyastales]

"You Can't Sway Me" by LaToya Cole

Acrylic on Stretched Canvas

https://www.saatchiart.com/lcolestudios

[wiirocku]

Lamentations 3:22 (ESV) - The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; His mercies never come to an end;

[johnnyyumaisarebel]

she's driving in the night to where

her love is necessary

she stands fatigued but undefeated

moves the earth as needed

a new ambition underscored

i long to be a comet

searing at an altitude sufficient

to stand watch inside a western sky

where my venus is the starlight

i am not magnificent

i have no silver wings

i only have her beautiful

and my one desire

she's where she needs to be tonight

as every other evening

pouring out her mystic light

to her grateful lucky people

[heartofmuse]

Darkness calls me and whispers in my ears, "Do you not know everything can be taken in a glimpse of an instant and forever be gone?" My feet grow restless and my heart even more. I want to find the faith that will let me walk the path I chose without looking back, with a steadfast heart, through the thorns, despite the pain.

e.v.e.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Be Strong

Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the Lord do that which is good in his sight. — 1 Chronicles 19:13 | King James Version (KJV) The King James Version Bible is in the public domain. Cross References: 1 Chronicles 19:12; 1 Chronicles 19:14

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1 Chronicles 19:13 Commentaries

[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]

[geraldofallon]

Attributes, Qualities, Quirks

Steadfast

[capitalism-is-a-psychopathy]

The Weight of Gold

Gold does not burn, but it drags the soul into the fire.

The pursuit of wealth, in all its forms, binds us. Some steal in darkness, others in broad daylight. A thief might slip a wallet from a pocket. A CEO might rob pensions from workers who toiled a lifetime. Both walk different roads, but the destination is the same: ruin.

Stealing a loaf of bread may feed hunger, but it leaves a mark. Breaking trust with numbers on a ledger feeds greed, but the mark is darker. A worker caught skimming the till will lose their job and be named a criminal. A leader inflating profits at the cost of others loses integrity, but often not before losing the livelihoods of thousands. Both debts must be paid.

The cost is never just money. It is trust. It is dignity. It is peace.

Crime, whether by the hand or by the pen, is never cheap. Its repayment is steep and inescapable. The weight of wealth wrongly gained is heavy, crushing the heart and darkening the soul.

To chase wealth is to chase shadows. The more you gather, the more it owns you. Leave the gold. Seek what does not burn.

[howifeltabouthim]

'What are my duties?' 'The normal ones,' I said. 'You have to save me.' 'You need saving?' 'I do.' . . . 'And after I save you? Then what?' 'Well, then I'll owe you.' 'What will I get?' I shrugged. 'Whatever you want. You saved my life, after all. I'll even be brave and swim across the sea to see you if you ask.' 'Who says I'll be there when you get there, waiting for you?' 'I'll wait for you, then,' I said. 'I'll wait on my knees at your doorstep until you come home.'

Katherine Lin, from You Can't Stay Here Forever

[military1st]

Finnish Marines during exercise Steadfast Defender 24.

The U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Danielle Serocki (2024).