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Want to Examine Income Inequality in the South End? Take ‘The Wealth Walk’ On a recent summer evening, a group of about a dozen people stood in the Lakewood Triangle – a pocket park in Mount Baker – taking in the well-to-do neighborhoo

The current run of The Wealth Walk, presented by The Feast theater ends tomorrow. Show at 1.
I was excited to see this ambulatory abacus of comparative economics. It is flush with historic tales of our very own neighborhoods. Highly recommend.
southseattleemerald.org/arts-culture...

YouTube video by meogracie 🎵 THANH THẢN giai điệu Thần Chú Dược Sư - Tayatha Om Bekanze Bekanze - Medicine Buddha Mantra

Another version. Thinking about the links that tie us all together. Beautiful links. Lots of depth.
youtu.be/0zI0GR0wWSc?...

YouTube video by Zen Music Chant Medicine Buddha- HEALING Mantra- NO ADS in Chanting Teyata Om Bekanze Bekanze- 藥師佛 -약사불 - Tinna Tinh

Healing trauma. Using a Buddhist mantra:
Tayata Om
Bekandze Bekandze
Maha Bekandze
Radza Samudgate Soha
I meditated on my impostor syndrome and my embarrassment in front of others. I felt ready to hold my embarrassment with love and compassion instead of blocking it out. youtu.be/dBtvpjKAUF0?...

Public radio mutual aid 🧡🤗 🎙️🎙️🎙️

Vagal Tone: A Measurable Indicator of Nervous System Health — Trauma Geek Vagal tone is the ability of the ventral vagus nerve to regulate the heart beat. “Cardiac vagal tone" is measured by tracking heart-rate and breathing rate at the same time. The heart-rate speeds up a...

I saw a meme recently stating something like if we don't heal our wounds they will raise our children.
I'm trying to make a little space for healing, even within my less-than-stable existence.
Here is an article about vagus nerve myelation inspiring me today.
www.traumageek.com/blog/vagal-t...

Got a new gig where a random mistake can spell the end of the opportunity. It's cycling and in tourism which I adore. And it has me thinking about my relationship to attachment. I feel privileged to get to consider this lesson anew. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonatta...

Stole this, but damn, priorities on 👉!!

Someone took over my roundabout garden without approaching me a few weeks before I move out to another neighborhood.
😭
I'm so depressed. Thank you for witnessing.
I feel better already

Also they dug out the rose bush because 'it was too big'
😭

7. Consent-based Learning and Parenting Radical Learning Talks · Episode

Listening to a parenting conference today and came across the Radical Learning Talks. This one on consent deals with a big motivator for me in standing up to societal norms in developmental and mental health. #autonomy #consent #unschooling
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I'm not in a position to move (for health reasons). Support folks in Red states making a difference just by being there.
Kinda my rationale as a Canadian for being in the US.

If I had a therapist it'd be like this:

#Poveryskolas woot!
#tentcity3
Mutual aid community is IT!
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There are N8V restaurants.
There are probably Sioux comedians who could teach you a thing or two as well.

Why the UK and US governments will both fail. Garys Economics · Episode

Every government in our lifetime has worsened inequality of wealth. Each and every government has made rich people richer and ordinary families poorer, and ironically, governments poorer as well.
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Who you going to exploit today?
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Replying to @kaaridahl wow wow wow #seattletok #sandwichtiktok TikTok video by Zoe in Seattle

Trolling my family member who says, "Everytime someone makes one of these Tic Toks about us we're crazy busy. It's so annoying." 🤣😘
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2UPDVCY/

Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health The last few years have brought increased writings from activists, artists, scholars, and concerned clinicians that cast a critical and constructive eye on psychiatry, mental health care, and the cult...

Interested in this topic from the perspective of the value of including voices at every range of experience and capacity in our academic discourse. So many voices are lost because non-conforming is not tolerated at every level.
www.routledge.com/Mad-Studies-...

YouTube video by Insider How Millionaire Bankers Actually Work | Authorized Account | Insider

Let's say it together.... Market trading is making money off human disasters and rising inequality.
youtu.be/9GumiLIxLMM?...

Evictorbook A tool for tenant organizing

So serial evictors are a thing, and hence, Evictorbook 😮
evictorbook.com/about

YouTube video by Amit Hadary Absolum - Regenerated

Friday bike riding track 😜🤩😘
youtu.be/EZU5CG_ewMg

Mindfulness is one thing but autocorrect is not so patient.

Tai Nghiem

After some breaths for this clarification,

And some for a change of keyboard,

I can add also the diacritics.

Breathe and Remember — Sr Tại Nghiêm — Plum Village France Listen · Episode

Sister Tai Nguyen,
Such a beautiful dharma talk about practicing mindfulness. open.spotify.com/episode/1lRb...

From Aggarando Pueblo, 1978... Seeking more info.

Developing a Critical Conceptualization of Love in Our Social Justice Work - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly People tend to talk about the importance of love in our social justice and movement building work, but very few define and operationalize it. So, what would it look like to define and operationalize a...

Durryle Brooks' article in a 3 part series on what they called Critical Theory of Love. Durryle coined this term to speak to love alongside anti-oppression and empowerment, liberating it from judgements around ableism and identity and human worth.
nonprofitquarterly.org/developing-a...

I'm thinking if there's cis-gender maybe there's also dis-gender; where you're assigned the gender they weren't hoping for 🤷‍♀️ 💅🫂

Vital to share this, and to do real work to protect and support healing for communities of color.

This webinar is tomorrow. I'm excited to hear about the scholarly side of an inclusive humanity for folks of all mental health states. fireweedcollective.networkforgood.com/events/80097

NeuroTribes, beautifully researched and crafted by Steve Silberman. I am grateful to learn so much of the science and story of autism. The author's style and craft suits me such that reviewing any given section is more like absorbing knowledge than reading.

Me: Tell me you're sensory seeking without telling me you're sensory seeking.
Child: