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a) My Personal Fav Posts, b) Psychology, c) Trauma & healing, d) Saving the World: Environmental and other Challenges of this Age of Humanity, e) The Meaning of Life and related thoughts

167) Thanks Mom: Intergenerational Wisdom, Part 2 — Friendship and Community

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I believe that Wisdom is about sharing as the default, trusting as the default, being open as the default, and putting your heart on your sleeve, as the default.  Obviously, sometimes you will get burned for this, and in those instances, you need to pull back, have good boundaries, and be willing to value yourself…

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164) From Shitty-ness to Well-ness, Part 17: “Feeling Seen”

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As with our discussions of both Competence and CONTEXT, the fact that social validation is important to us, is pretty obvious.  Of course it feels good to be validated, to be accepted, to feel “Seen”! We’ve known that since we were kids and needed, very deeply, for people to pay attention to us. We all…

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145) Coming Full Circle:  Part 5 — The Bleeding Hearts and The Artists Make Their Stand

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In Pink Floyd’s The Wall, when the album (or movie) is almost over, and the big crescendo has happened, and the wall has come crashing down (which is really cool to see live in concert!!), there is this wonderfully beautiful little song that I didn’t appreciate for the longest time, wrapped up as I was…

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144) Coming Full Circle:  Part 4 — My Personal Piece of Performance Art :)

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I believe that the solution, in the smallest nutshell, is Fierce Love.   Fierce love in protecting and taking care of our Mother.   Fierce love in accepting and opening ourselves to each other.   Fierce love, in accepting and opening ourselves to ourselves, to own own unique loveliness.   Fierce love, in standing in…

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143) Coming Full Circle:  Part 3 — Screaming into the Void

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***Venting ahead*** So, I have been…bothered…by the trajectory of the world for a long time.  I wrote a high school paper on climate change in……check it out…….1986.  We knew about all this WAY BACK THEN.  And mostly what we know now that we didn’t know then, are more of the precise details of just how…

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142) Coming Full Circle: Part 2 — Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land

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We, of the modern, global, technological, 21st century world of science and post-colonialism and such, now are beginning to understand that humans have ALWAYS known how to organize ourselves better than we are, in most places, today.  It is, in essence, the indigenous way.   (Obviously, that’s a huge generalization and you can’t just lump…

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141) Coming Full Circle:  Part 1 — Me, this blog, Pink, and a Scathing Diatribe against The System, maaaan 

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I feel really, really grateful for you all. All the people who have been reading this and sharing thoughts, a whole community of people who share ideas on Facebook especially and in comments here — it’s just awesome to have experienced all this. Blogging is (for me anyway, lol….) a pretty personal thing, like writing…

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126) All Cops Are Not (Necessarily) Bastards: The Inescapability of Hypocrisy for Inherently Flawed and Limited Humans

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Not long ago (post #122), I wrote how “All Cops Are Bastards”, and I freely admit, a lot of well-earned emotional energy went into that.  Well-earned on the part of cops, that is, in the sense that the emotional unhealthiness of several police officers, has played a huge, profound, and long-term role in my life,…

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123) Arm the kids. (Sort of.)

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So after talking about school shootings with my kids, we are all wondering — why not teach kids & teachers to plan ambushes in their classrooms? Just like in, say, a roleplaying game; teach them to plan ahead, know how to fight, have strategies, and when the shit goes down, prepare to kick ass. Sure,…

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122) All cops are bastards: School shootings, the police, and taking back our society

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I shared this on Facebook this morning — Now, we are told that the police are “to serve and protect”. That is, to serve and protect us, the public. My experience has repeatedly shown me this is not true. The police exist to serve and protect CAPITAL. And time and time again, when the interests…

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117) Moral hypocrisy and the consequent impossibility of lasting international peace

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As we prepare to send more arms & $$$ to Ukraine (which I support), it is interesting that we also widely condemn China for potentially providing the same support to Russia. I mean, sure, obviously, we disagree vehemently with what Russia is doing, to the point that we are near-ready to go to war over…

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109) The bad guys behind The Bad Guy: Or, How the West started this War

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The thing that I wish our media talked about more often, and that we discussed more openly amongst ourselves, is how our governments are complicit in causing things like this war against Ukraine. There is a history here, leading back to the oh-so-celebrated “End of the Cold War”, which I remember clearly as I neared…

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108) War, Part 4: Solutions?

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It seems to me that war stops only when one of two conditions are met.  Neither of these conditions are very likely, or easy.  They are definitely easy to critique, easy to dismiss.  But the alternative, as we discussed previously, is more war in a world, bristling with weapons, poised on the brink of global…

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107) War, Part 3: The 21st Century

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Now, in the 21st century, we can’t afford this tragic spectacle of war and obedience to the power-seekers, anymore.  The future cannot be determined by the despots.  The stakes are just too damn high.  I mean, they always were; the cost of human suffering is incalculable.  But now, it’s incalculable to the power of incalculable.…

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106) War, Part 2: Hate and Heroism

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History can seem so clean and simple, when we look at it through the lens of the narrative we prefer.  Usually, that narrative involves Us, our people, our nation, “people like us”, being the Good Guys, the reasonable ones, the honourable ones, prevailing over Them, “those people”, those non-allied nations, “people not like us”, being…

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105) War, Part 1: Love

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“Hey Mommy, Daddy, Grandpa, Grandma…..What did you do during the Great War?” Have you ever thought of how you will answer questions like that?  Because your future will, if you are lucky, arrive, and you will have lived through whatever atrocities humankind inflicts on each other in the present days and coming years.  And someday,…

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104) Freedom Convoy “vs.” the Police

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So, you might be wondering, why didn’t the police/government take control of the “Freedom Convoy” much, much more quickly? Why was Canada brought to a standstill by this protest, and for so long? Why? These are the questions on many Canadians’ minds right now.  They’re being talked about in newspapers, on CBC radio constantly, in…

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99) From the River to the Sea

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The tears didn’t come until I was walking home. I guess in order for the feelings to really surface, I had to get out of the noise and drumming, chanting and dancing, smiling faces, haunted but friendly eyes, and children, lots of children, more children (proportionally) than I have EVER seen at any protest or…

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91) The great unraveling: A horror story of life on Earth

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The article attached at the end of this is so beautifully, tragically, honestly written. I think about this all the time. My kids were raised with a beautiful first decade or so of life, falling in love with the natural world through hiking, camping, and of course David Attenborough documentaries. Now, as their second decade…

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86) What’s it like to go to a protest?

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(from https://www.pressreader.com/canada/toronto-star/20200830/281492163705587) Saturday, August 29th, 2020 was an inspiring day in Toronto, as most protests and demonstrations are.  Every time I go, I am inspired by at least four things. Every time. One is how interconnected the issues are that people care about.  Your typical protest has a theme or set of central issues that…

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