MAHA over the last year, as Trump has pushed PFAS, glyphosates, sewage, helped shutter small farms, opened parks/refuges to drilling, encouraged coal & poison in rivers and air, legalized asbestos, the whole list is here: www.elephantjournal.com/2025/03/maha...

The Top 3 Excuses why Men don’t give Oral & How to Get the F Over It. {Adult}

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” ~ Mark Twain

New published article on @elephantjournal.com www.elephantjournal.com/2026/04/find... #elephantjournal #newpost #newarticle #publishedarticle #publishedauthor #depression #mentalhealth #blogger #writer #embracetheunseen

Many of us don't love or befriend ourselves, and that's at the root of negative loneliness.

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy." ~ Rumi

The SAVE Act failed. Excellent. Let's celebrate this moment of sanity in our elected government representatives in 2026. But the fact that it was even a close vote is more than depressing; it's a call to action like never before. ~ Molly, ed.

"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness." ~ C.S. Lewis

Trump undid Biden's PFAS regulations on day 1, literally. Thanks, MAHA/RFK Jr.! "They're also in fake lawns (popular at kids' schools nowadays), rain jackets, rain boots, what else?" Two years ago today:

Flashback to 2 years ago today: "The fact that RFK, Jr thought about Aaron Rodgers as his VP should disqualify both of them immediately."

"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity; it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all." ~ William Faulkner

“This is the single best Ask Amy response I’ve ever read.” www.elephantjournal.com/2014/05/this...

What we need to relax into deep focus is an ability to natural return to this very moment. Here's how: www.elephantjournal.com/2008/08/the-...

#thingsiwouldliketodowithyou: get or gift a copy at elephantjournal.com/shop

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity." ~ Simone Weil

It works. You remember they’re human, and stop tripping out. Earthy (!) Buddhist wisdom: www.elephantjournal.com/2010/05/tort...

Homophobia is not an expression of strength. It is an expression of fear.

Get just Elephant's best, most helpful articles: elephantjournal.com/best (free). May it be of benefit!

When my heart is unsettled. When my breathing is heavy. When I’m in the dark depths of loneliness. These are the words that carry me, that settle me, that bring me back home to myself: elejrnl.com?p=3006012

It's not every morning you're on your way to get coffee and a dog leaps out of a truck window and attacks your dog

"Decency becomes the absence of strategy. Our approach should be simple-minded sometimes, very simple, allowing a sense of genuineness to emerge.” ~ Chogyam Trungpa

Turning+Imposter+Syndrome+into+an+Unconventional+Ally. I wrote this fun story where I named my Imposter Syndrome, David. It's wild that when you actually put a name to something you struggle with if softens things for you. Thank you to @elephantjournal.com I am honored.

"Where have all the good men gone? The dating reality for women seeking 'the One."" www.elephantjournal.com/2017/04/ill-...

It's directly connected to cancer--read up on the Philadelphia Phillies.

In a world full of fascist haters, be a Daryl Davis:

A Conservative living next door to you: consensual homosexual love is...a sin. A Conservative living next door to you: totally okay with Trump raping children.

This video will do in five minutes what takes your meditation two hours. www.elephantjournal.com/2012/04/skip...

What books are on your desk right now? Or on your bedside table, or your end table, or your floor in stacks, falling down even though you keep picking them back up again? Curious minds want to know 🤓

Just released! 🎉Listen to this week's Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis episode 👇🏼

“‘Is the spring coming?’ he said. ‘What is it like?’…’It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…'” ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

WHOAH

21 “Non-Spiritual” Things that make us Happy: www.elephantjournal.com/2012/11/21-n...

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” ~ Anne Bradstreet

"We are in the middle of a real crisis of male loneliness. The data is unambiguous. And the loudest voices offering men a way through it are selling a system that the research shows produces more of it."

Two years ago today. But but "both sides the same." #easter #trans

“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.” ~ William Shakespeare. {Just about everything we published today was balderdash). Cheerful April Fool's!

We can not judge anyone—even the Dalai Lama—by their worst moments. I get it. www.elephantjournal.com/2021/04/dala...

My mom had a blue one and a yellow one. ❤ They're still great!

A year ago today

It is with mixed emotions that I inform you of the end of Elephant's independence. That said, the cash & distribution will benefit all: ⁠ ⁠ We're joining Ellison (CBS, Warner Bros, CNN, HBO, DC Comics, TikTok) to grow Elephant globally: www.elephantjournal.com/2011/04/big-... for sale price.

USA USA: www.elephantjournal.com/2026/03/make...

You, just as you are, are fundamentally aok. Basically good. You don't need self-help, it doesn't help. You don't need a higher state of mind. You don't need to drum up positivity--you are already naturally positive. So relax, and practice being present through whatever arises.

What is happening is not normal. They thrive and grow on us being tired, desensitized, and shutdown. They thrive on our staying divided. We must not let them bring down our energy to hope. We must continue to lead with love and soldier on in peaceful revolution.

“My grandfather kept this quote in his wallet until he died.”

Meanwhile, "Taxpayers’ Tab for Donald Trump’s Golf Habit Crosses $100 million."

Four Questions to reveal something we already know:

The Hidden Cost of Hyper-Independence:

Love it.

“There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all Hell.” ~ General Sherman

”There’s nothing more American than peacefully protesting when you feel your government has failed its duty to uphold democratic, peaceful, and transparent values.”