Ways to Calm Your Nervous System: Look for unexpected delights. The news has been tough. Small joys can show up anywhere. Looking for the unexpected is great for creativity and hope.

I love Adrianna Amari's photos. They're so peaceful and beautiful and the nature scenes always calm me and remind me to slow down. bsky.app/profile/4aam...

Here's some good news: having awe can calm our nervous systems in the face of bad news, and awe can generate energy to create. We recently toured Luray Caverns in the Shenandoah Valley. Some of these stalactites and stalagmites reminded me of coral or the underside of mushroom caps.

Our survival depends on our ability "to not linger in the pain, but to allow ourselves to be moved by it. To not whitewash reality, but also not to take up lodging in the house of despair...To feel responsible but not so guilty we are immobilized...." www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...

This drum circle is a sacred honor in memory of slain MN State Legislator Melissa Hortman, at the candlelight vigil

One of my favorite signs from Saturday's march around Patterson Park in Baltimore on the same hill where, a few centuries earlier, American troops held off the British in the war of 1812. They tried to bury us but didn't know we were seeds.

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"You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society." -Kurt Vonnegut

Quote for the day: “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.” — Edward Abbey (My trails are usually waterways.)

Thank you @chenoweth.bsky.social and company.

A powerful list, by former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, of daily things citizens can do to fight recent attempts to dismantle the US government. robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-wh...

I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing LIGHT of your own Being. - Hafiz - #nature #spirituality #Hafiz

This is what we all should remember.

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” -Angela Davis Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis. "If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory." --Angela Davis

Wealth shown to scale. mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-weal... This is from 2021 and measures Bezos' wealth instead of Elon's, but that hardly matters when you see it visually represented. This much greed is hard to fathom.

"You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society." --Kurt Vonnegut

"Even with all the greed and stupidity and terrible things that we're all facing and reading in the news or experiencing, I want to be alive. I want to breathe. I want to do my work." --Patti Smith

A great saying

New to Bluesky after leaving X. Plus a picture of my dog because why not?