Slow down and think.

The Changing Face of Death and Dying: From aquamation to mourning jewelry, death can be as distinctive as the deceased. Recent Saltscapes feature by Denise Flint. (No paywall)

Democracy will start working in Canada when voters in places like Alberta and Saskatchewan start holding their representatives accountable instead of letting them get away with bad behaviour.

A few random immigrants being sworn in as new American citizens in 1940.

“If Adam Picked the Apple” by Danielle Coffyn Love this. Reminds me of “If Men Could Menstruate” by Gloria Steinem

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

"If you removed all living creatures from the universe, there would be no love, but there would also be no color, no sound, no taste, no smell.” - Stephen Westland

"He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage." - George Orwell, 1984