Fat Is Anti-Fascist And Unapologetically Progressive -- Can Faith Communities Be As Well?

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Sorry it took so long! I let BlueSky drop during the holidays and am only now getting back!

After being off BlueSky for three weeks I return to find 200 people have followed me. Forgive me if I take a while to follow you back, particularly if you have a bksy handle that makes it hard to identify who you are.

Poet Jan Richardson from “Blessing of Hope”:

hope made of sinew
and muscle
and bone,

hope that has breath
and a beating heart,

hope that will not
keep quiet
and be polite,

hope that knows
how to holler
when it is called for…

I keep hearing that GenZ is the first generation expected to do worse, economically, than their parents. As we came of age, GenX was told that constantly. For me it was true, is true, and under Trump will be more true. My parents had no student loans, which in my 50s I’m still struggling under.

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I’ve ordered this year’s 12 Days of Zentangle pack because I’m quite sure this holiday season I’ll need more than 12 days of focused spiritual practice. Attached: last year’s pack.

I wish I could schedule a post to post later. Is there an app that lets me?

As a fat person, I’ve been unable to wear tall socks for years. I recently discovered a couple of brands of socks that fit, so now have fun patterned socks for the first time in a long time. My whole outfit today is coordinated to wear my new Viasox cat socks.

My posts on bsky are less personal as I consider them public. As a shy person I find myself therefore struggling to figure out what to say. Pretend I said something amazing about liberation and justice today, please. It’s all I am thinking about today, but am struggling for words.

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Hey clergy peeps! It’s time to check your supply of Christmas Eve candles and bobeches. And if you just looked up the word bobeche, you’re welcome!!

I think the death camps were worse. But if we give them time and let them, sadly they’ll get there.

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One response to the election for me was to dive into spiritual practice. So I ordered a Zentangle project pack that uses a lot of moon imagery, Cynthia being a moon goddess.

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I did add you. However nothing in your profile makes it clear who you are. 😁

M. Gessen breaks down Trump's appeal and threat Now more than ever, we need to understand Vladimir Putin and his rise to power—because he is pulling the strings. M. Gessen breaks it down in the NYTimes today. For those bewildered by why so many Ame...

M. Gessen in Daily Kos: “Balint Magyar has a useful formulation. ‘Liberal democracy,’ he says, ‘offers moral constraints without problem-solving’ — a lot of rules, not a lot of change — while ‘populism offers problem-solving without moral constraints.’” www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

Today focused in on spiritual practice a bit. Ordered more supplies the day after the election that haven’t come, but will tomorrow. Meanwhile learned a new tangle:

Disabled people have been right about almost everything that’s happened over the last five years.

People don’t listen to us because they don’t think of us as real people. We’re invisible (at best) and completely disposable (at worse).

We are the canaries - and we are trying to warn you. Listen.

With advent around the corner, spent today thinking about Hope. Reread Victoria Safford: “Our mission is to plant ourselves at the gates of Hope—“ which she says are the gates of resistance and defiance. Amen, Victoria!

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Good thing Hannibal Lecter is fictional or he’d be nominated for Health and Human Services. Human Meal Services.

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