Coronavirus & the Pandemic Response How To Prep Your Home For The Holidays During COVID-19 A helpful guide for families who are planning to come together physically during the holidays: Click here to access this resource. Should I Hold Thanksgiving During Covid? A great detailed article on whether or not you and your family should be celebrating Thanksgiving/holidays this year, and what precautions you can take if you decide to go ahead. Click here to access this ... [Continue Reading]
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Coronavirus & the Pandemic Response Is COVID-19 Leading to More Addiction Relapses? | The Palm Beach Institute A helpful article from the Palm Beach Institute about the increase in addiction relapses occurring during the pandemic: Click here to access this resource. Racial Justice & Educational Resources Ancestral Healing - Healing Division, Healing Our Country, Healing the Earth With Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone, Resmaa Menakem, and Anita Sanchez PhD • Sun, Nov. 8, 15 & 22, 2020 10–12 PST Harvesting Ancestral Wisdom /Transmuting Intergenerational Traumas; A 3-Part Live Webinar Series Where do we find strength and stability in a world struggling to shed ... [Continue Reading]
Helpful Resources in a Time of Uncertainty #80
IN THE TIME BEFORE A CHANGE I’m in a time of uncertainty right now and I know things have to change. I’m not alone in this time of uncertainty. We’re all living in it. Last night, I read a blog post by a man I’ve been following for the last month or so. He’s a Biden supporter, and every night he composes an email to his list, which I’m sure has grown into the many, many thousands. In it, he cherry-picks the good news of the day, or reports the bad news with a positive spin. His emails are full of optimistic predictions for the election. We don’t know the future and we mustn’t let up, he insists, but things are looking good. I often read his post late at night after I’ve read Heather Cox Richardson, the historian who writes a detailed analysis of the day’s most important news, with ... [Continue Reading]
Helpful Resources in a Time of Uncertainty #79
Racial Justice & Educational Resources Healing from Colonization A fascinating exploration of an apology for colonization from a white American woman to a Native-American man. From the Pachamama Alliance. Click here to access this resource. Election Listen to this "The United States of Anxiety" episode: How to Steal an Election Here's what it's about: Here’s a report of some of what we’re up against in terms of voter suppression and the disasters we may face in counting ballots. Reporter Christopher Werth brings us a story from Wisconsin, a key swing state, about the legal efforts to suppress the votes of communities of color and how Milwaukee-based organizers like Melody ... [Continue Reading]
Helpful Resources in a Time of Uncertainty #78
PROMPT: Tell me about the time before. I used to hug people without thinking. Their soft bodies pressed into mine. I used to sit in a yurt four times a year with an intimate circle of new age, hippieish, Goddess-loving women, sharing one ladle, dipping into a clear glass jar filled with psychedelic cactus juice, Watsuma, cooked for twenty-four hours and sweetened with honey. We ladled the dark brown liquid into thin elegant glasses, sleeved with metal curlicues, fancy glasses rescued from a mother-in-law’s bourgeois estate, repurposed for our ceremony. Then we drank. And journeyed together. In the time before, I used to have two or three plane tickets for the future at all times. I was taking a group to Bali or Tuscany or to hike the Camino. I was supposed to see my daughter, who ... [Continue Reading]
Helpful Resources in a Time of Uncertainty #77
Coronavirus & the Pandemic Response Here’s a handy article from the British National Health Service about how to differentiate Covid symptoms from a common cold or flu. Click here to access this resource. Racial Justice & Educational Resources Healing from Colonization Webinar Tuesday, October 13 | 11:45AM PT | 75-minute Webinar with Edgar Villanueva and Hilary Giovale In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, join Pachamama Alliance Co-founder Lynne Twist for this Resilience and Possibility Conversation with social justice philanthropy expert Edgar Villanueva and ninth generation American settler ... [Continue Reading]
Helpful Resources in a Time of Uncertainty #76
Coronavirus & the Pandemic Response Deaths from Covid have not been publicly mourned, but no more. The daughter of a man who died of Covid, who spoke at the Democratic convention, stating, “my father only pre-existing condition was trusting Donald Trump,” has created a national week of morning which started yesterday for those 200,000+ who have died of Covid-19. Click here to access this resource. Interesting article about Israel’s second lockdown—and how many corners are being cut the second time around. Lockdown Feels Pretty Different the Second Time Around [Continue Reading]
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Racial Justice & Educational Resources The breakdown of our healthcare system and the “politics of emergency.” Harvard professor Timothy Snyder tells it like it is...with Michael Moore I thought you'd like this episode of Rumble with Michael Moore that I listened Here's what it's about: Dr. Timothy Snyder is one of America’s preeminent scholars of European history and has written compelling and essential books about how enlightened and democratic societies turn to fascism. He appeared in Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 11/9” after his short book “On Tyranny” was published in 2017. After a recent life-threatening health scare that included disastrous hospital visits, Professor Snyder has written a new book based on his hospital diaries that connects the horrors of our ... [Continue Reading]
Helpful Resources in a Time of Uncertainty #74
I’d like to start today with a poem in honor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: When Great Trees Fall by Maya Angelou When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after safety. When great trees fall in forests, small things recoil into silence, their senses eroded beyond fear. When great souls die, the air around us becomes light, rare, sterile. We breathe, briefly. Our eyes, briefly, see with a hurtful clarity. Our memory, suddenly sharpened, examines, gnaws on kind words unsaid, promised walks never taken. Great souls die and our reality, bound to them, takes leave of us. Our souls, dependent upon their nurture, now shrink, wizened. Our minds, formed and informed by ... [Continue Reading]
Helpful Resources in a Time of Uncertainty #73
Coronavirus & the Pandemic Response I wanted to introduce you today to Emily Oster, author of Crib Sheet: a data-driven guide to better, more relaxed parenting, from birth to preschool. A professor of economics at Brown University, Oster uses data to help parents make more informed decisions. In this blog posts she explores some of the key issues in schools and coronavirus. Click here to access this resource. What will women’s travel look like post-pandemic? Journeywomen identifies five criterion women will use to determine their choices in the future. [Continue Reading]
