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In this series I feed my hunger for knowledge by diving deep into history that I never got the opportunity to learn through formal mandatory education, in the age of a world that burns books and puts price tags on education accessibility, but also in a time where internet accessibility is available to most, and I have the privilege of being able to use it to inform myself. With ongoing conflicts across the world, I feel a responsibility to equip myself with the knowledge of how those wars began, the reasons they are ongoing, the power structures in place, each countries political interests and actions or inactions that serve these interests, as well as the beautiful things about places and their histories such as long held traditions, religious teachings, culture and practices, artwork, influential people in peoples’ lived history that aren’t known worldwide because of eurocentrism, languages and how they shape and are shaped by a countries’ culture and politics, indigenous populations and their fundamental beliefs as well as history with their land, the significance of place and land itself and why on a macroscale wars are fought over it, and on a microscale people are becoming more depressed in growing cities that aren’t walkable and lack community, local commerce and greenery, as well as symbolism and I could go on and on and on…which is what I’m going to do in this beautiful little corner of the internet!

I encourage the people in my life to interact with me in any way they like, I want to have more conversations in person about these things, I want friends to share with me their random internet history rabbit holes so that I may learn more from them, I’d love to do something creative with you to express our complex feelings, I’d love to do things like a book club to hold me accountable for actually doing some reading into those who have researched these complexities in depth already!