I am the evergreen with fading needles
roots deep in sandy soils
slightly burned from ancient fires
a home to only the survivors
Tenille K. Campbell, I am not a wild strawberry
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Nedi Nezu (Good Medicine)
April was National Poetry Month here in Canada, and I fell in love with this luscious collection by Indigenous poet Tenille K. Campbell. The poems were gorgeous, centering on love and loving through an Indigenous lens. Some were quite 🌶, too, in an evocative, wild, and defiant way. The natural world provides a strong base, and this collection pulses deep in the blood. I loved it; a strong antidote to the grim, overwhelming world right now. Good medicine indeed.
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Me, depressed tired and anxious over moving: :(
Me, remembering I have sage and can smudge: :)
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Sorry I'm kind of dissociated and my vocab crashes during that can you explain the Biden drug thing in just. Shorter simple sentences.
Sure! You're not the only one who's mentioned being unclear on what it means either, and I'm happy to help
(Context for anyone else: US Sets Policy to Seize Patents of Government-Funded Drugs if Price Deemed Too High, via Good News Network, December 11, 2023)
From the very basics:
When drug companies create new drugs, they get a legal protection called a "patent." The patent means no one else can make or sell the same drug for whatever number of years.
Usually, this is about 10 years after the drug starts being sold to the public.
So, for those years, that one drug company is the only source of whatever medication. And since people need their medication, drug companies can charge however much money they want.
Meaning a lot of drugs that people need to live cost way too much money to buy.
So, with this, Biden told drug companies "Fuck you, if you keep making medicine too $$$ for people to afford, I'm giving your competition the right to make and sell those drugs too."
The US has never done anything like this before.
This is a huge threat to the whole (awful) drug industry in the US. It will save people thousands of dollars. If he does this, it will save lives.
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Edit 12/17/23: Quick note, as people have said in the notes, this only applies to drugs made in part using taxpayer money. Which is! Literally all of them!
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Snoop Dogg’s Affirmations for kids is good medicine for any one
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