L.J.

ID: A black background with a burst of golden starlight in the center; white dots like snow float in the dark. Text: Litany for Minnesota; prayers and hexes for these times. bit.ly/4a6gUpL

ID: Text over a vibrant closeup on magenta azaleas "The Tension is Holding Me: call me a knight because I'm in a suit of armor." This week's Substack is about taking a friendly approach to acknowledging my muscle tension and pain, and making yoga more accessible. bit.ly/4c8YvcU

This week's Substack: When Family Rejects You. (Chosen family FTW). Nothing can erase the loss you've experienced, but good things will exist too, right alongside your scars. ID: A bright moon over a pale blue sky before nightfall. Read it here: bit.ly/4s1QRI6

This week's substack is for my depressed, anxious, and traumatized BBs. Lemons: keeping on when you're sick of lemonade. ID: daffodils dropping over their stems. bit.ly/4l0xxs5

Even though we live in a time where monsters and unimaginable evil are being revealed we are also in an age of unparalleled good. Not only do we have access to the wisdoms, ingenuity, and brilliance of our time, we also have tools for survival and flourishing that our elders and ancestors left us.

Minutes, Seconds, Milliseconds: Scaling Change. What if how time moves (small, to bigger, to biggest) is how change moves too? How can we join our efforts to make small change big? (ID: LJ's mittened hand holds a small chunk of ice) Link in bio or bit.ly/4bM8R3X

This week's Substack is Piano Lessons for Hyper-Connected Brains: what our hobbies teach us about life. Image of the meme of Sean Bean from Lord of the Rings that says, "One does not simply/ play a new piece perfectly." Link in bio or: bit.ly/4r2zlmz

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1. In a stunning new poll released by Fox News, voters prefer the Democratic Party to the Republican Party on transgender issues at a staggering +22 points. This includes white voters, rural white voters, black voters, protestants, and moms. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Nothing like a contest deadline to get me to finally finish my manuscript!

Beloveds, no matter who you are, where you are, or how you feel you have something to give this moment, movement, & resistance. Some can be in the streets but others need to do things like pray or send blessings, encouragement, or funds from bed bc that’s all their bodies or circumstances can allow.

@tomsuozzi.bsky.social WTF are you doing voting to fund 🧊?

@gluesenkampperez.house.gov WTF are you doing voting to fund 🧊?

@golden.house.gov WTF are you doing voting to fund 🧊?

@golden.house.gov @gluesenkampperez.house.gov @thomas-r-suozzi.bsky.social, Henry Cueller, Laura Gillen, Don Davis and Vincente Gonzalez, Damn you all to a fiery hell for funding terrorists against American citizens! We will remember, never forget and nor will you. We've had enough. Fuck you all.

Hey @democrats.org , WTF are you doing voting to fund 🧊?

This week's substack: Night Walks. Practicing Belonging and Body Trust. --When do you have permission to go at your own pace? --What is the difference between being by yourself and being (existentially) alone? --How can you slow down and experience wonder? Read it existentialease.substack.com

In these trying times, I don't know much. But I do know this: when pizza's on a bagel, you can have pizza any time.

Mood

I can't get Nonmonogamummy out of my head! 🎶

Good news: Our thoughts and feelings aren't what define our character. It's what we DO with our thoughts and feelings. Embracing the shadow; our thoughts do not define us. "Last year someone I trusted intentionally harmed me, and I was so angry it scared me." open.substack.com/pub/existent...

Reflections on #thegoodplace and whether it's really possible to utterly apart. "I never let go of you. We were never separate. Content warning: mortality, death, and spoilers for The Good Place. Hang onto your hats, it's about to get spiritual in here!" open.substack.com/pub/existent...

Sometimes I feel like a furniture store, like it’s either grand opening energy or everything must go energy and there’s just no in between anymore

Prudenci Bertrana Compte,a significant Catalan painter and writer, was trained at the Escola Llotja in Barcelona. This work from around 1917 shows the houses on the River Onyar in Girona and the Basilica of Saint Felix.

Tonight I weep and grieve because neither little ones in Gaza nor elders in Colorado should be burned because of the impact and consequences of Israeli apartheid. Palestine should be free, Gaza should live, and our Jewish kin should be free from harm. Period.

existentialease.substack.com/p/feel-to-heal

I want politics to be about a better everyday life. Here's what that can look like:

This is Tuna. You have once again taken him to the vet instead of the park. Fool him once, shame on you. Fool him twice, even more shame on you. 13/10 (IG: tunathekahuna)

what do you want

When everything gets overwhelming, I make a point to seek out the natural world. The trees and mountains stand witness to the fact that every despot and petty tyrant is nothing to the grandness of it all. It truly is healing to me. Blue Mountain - Missoula, Montana

Zooey is doing WORK in Montana and teaching everyone several lessons: 1) You can stand on your values as a Democrat and not harm trans people. 2) Doing so can actually move hearts and minds in a traditionally conservative state. 3) There is value in having representation in our halls of power.

TERF-ism is oxymoronic as it seems increasingly clear that transphobia is deeply misogynistic.

MAJOR Victory in Montana! Bill that would criminalize parents with felony child endangerment DIES in Montana after 15 Republicans cross party lines. The bill would have criminalized even parents of trans kids driving through the state. It died after nonbinary rep Howell delivered a strong speech.

I’m seeing a lot of negative reviews on games along the lines of “this isn’t exactly what I wanted, even though it was exactly what was promised”. I can’t overstate how much more joy you will have if you allow art to unfurl in front of you, instead of demanding it be what you imagine you want.

“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.” ― Toni Morrison

JAPANESE CHIN ALERT!!

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

Ummmm WTAF Gavin?

Crockett: We had an opportunity to have a woman lead this country and I promise you, she would have led us to the promised land. But instead we got somebody that seems like he wants to take to us hell