Return to Mother
September 2025
Over the past few weeks (and here I do in fact mean the actual last two weeks), I was reading through The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow. I won’t make this into a book review because I wouldn’t be able to do justice to the book but let’s just say I was enraptured by it and I am going to be thinking about the book’s contents for years and years to come. I’ll just leave you with a little tidbit which I found heartwarming.
“The earliest word for ‘freedom’ recorded in any human language is the Sumerian term ama(r)-gi, which literally means ‘return to mother’ – because Sumerian kings would periodically issue decrees of debt freedom, cancelling all non-commercial debts and in some cases allowing those held as debt peons in their creditors’ households to return home to their kin.”
This past month Nadya and I were able to go on a three week road trip out east to Quebec City, Montreal and Toronto, camping along the way. Despite all of the fun things about travelling and the freedom to do it, its also good to be home, to return to kin.
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September was instructional, illuminating, and warm . Looking back, it was full of:
Faspbros, Fundraiser quilt, Nextdoor hang with the Sibs, Materialists (Letterboxd review here!), Marika’s art at First Fridays!, Free Palestine, Chinatown nightmarket, Vimy Ridge park hang with friends, close at TB, glued to the web post-assassination, Oma hangs, Neepawa wedding, McNally Robinson for trip books, scoring over 400 on Scrabble, Agawa Bay sunset, evenings rays through rolling hills along Ottawa River, Montreal hangout with Winnipeg friends, catching up with friends while waiting 2 hours for Ramen on a Montreal curb, Bike ride with Aunt and Uncle, Old Quebec, hiking, shopping for hot pot, paddle boarding, rainy day driving on the 401, Critical Mass Toronto, picnic in Rouge National Park, seeing Begonia at Toronto Musical gardens and giving her an instax of it afterwards, dinner with friends in Hamilton, cafe in Coldwater,
Enjoy the photos,
Michael, not Mike
