Ajia & Dakotah are simply trying to make the world a better place for our daughter, River Sage, the future fastest president in space.

River was born at-term with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy and is recovering from a run-in with the american healthcare system quite well. We wrote some poems during the first 3 days of our zombie cyborg’s life, when we didn’t know if lil Speed Racer would live or die or something worse, and we would love it if you would read them:

https://sylveon.org/NICU
(we encourage other NICU parents to submit their own poetry, prose, or other thoughts about their NICU experience to be published here)

“Everybody’s got their problems;
Everybody says the same things to you;
It’s just a matter how you solve them;
And knowing how to change the things you’ve been through.”

-Sum 41

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A little about River’s parents

We wanted to have a homebirth in the bathtub but decided a hospital would be safer. We are pretty sure our child’s traumatic birth was a result of hospital negligence. In any event, the experience brought us closer together as a couple and we are excited to move forward with our beautiful baby.

We were, of course, hesitant to have any surgery done to our baby, but the gastronomy tube has honestly been a great thing. It is so easy to feed our baby and ensure she gets the proper calories. She is never really fussy or hungry, even in the morning after 5 hours without food. We are working with several speech therapists to get her to eat, and plan to introduce purees as soon as possible, but it is definitively a low priority. If she has to wear her cyborg backpack to feed herself forever, we are okay with that, and would rather focus on cognitive development as a top priority.

We intend to homeschool, and will more than likely be following the contemporary “Unschooling” approach. Being a recreational rocket-ship race pilot & president of the USA is our suggestion to our daughter so that she will have the network and funding to do whatever she wants in life in her 40s and beyond so we hope she can count on your vote in the election of 2060.

We practice a spiritual form of stoic absurdism; nothing matters and even if it did, it wouldn’t make any sense.

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Ajia Leilani is a UX Researcher who writes the scripts and conducts the interviews that are used to determine how to write scripts and conduct interviews for improving government products and services. When time permits, Ajia makes electronic music, tattoos Dakotah, and giggles at River’s farts.

Dakotah Taylor is a political artist, stay at home mom, published poet at 13, single major in Philosophy including studying eastern religion abroad, and was the youngest ever elected-official in a town of ~30,000 at age 26. Dakotah has been professionally reading tarot cards for over a decade, has a passion for GIFs with a hard-G, and once tried to build a new Internet.

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Check out our wedding:

https://houseofsylveon.wordpress.com/starlight-moonlight-yeah/