Vicki Robin

Let them eat from dumpsters! This is heinous. Using the urgent needs of citizens to compel politicians to bend to Republicans' will. The illusion of democracy is so blatantly false now that we now must ask, how tight am i willing to let the screws be turned on our imperfect union?

E.P.A. Plans to Revoke the Legal Basis for Tackling Climate Change

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How do we fight this?!

Lessons from a shouting match MAGA and WOKE in the ring together

A shouting match in the comments of vickirobin.substack.com/p/lessons-fr... yielded this complex post, from bdsm to family healing to DJT and MAGA. Please read, comment and like - want to know if you are sniffing the same trails.

Check out my latest at vickirobin.substack.com/p/7-ideas-fo...

I posted my sanity strategy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/share/p/1DyY... including orgs I intend to support to do the work of toeing the line with the oligarchs. Many others suggested orgs as well, so here's the whole list of suggested orgs to support docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

In “The Last Showgirl,” Jamie Lee Curtis Dazzles In “The Last Showgirl,” Jamie Lee Curtis upends a host of cinematic clichés about women.

A Woman, on Full Show www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/s... "“I am pro aging. I want to age with intelligence, and grace, and dignity, and verve, and energy. I don’t want to hide from it.” Jamie Lee Curtis. Part of #comingofaging is shedding layer upon layer of internalized ageism.

How fast we can fall The medicine we really need

This is a tough subject, but very real. Life after the inability to adequately care for yourself can be hell all around. What are you doing for others, for yourself, for social change around this. vickirobin.substack.com/p/how-fast-w...

51st or Fight: Trudeau leaves, Trump Arrives Justin Trudeau is leaving you, Donald Trump is coming for you. The timing couldn’t be worse. The threat couldn’t be bigger. The solutions couldn’t be more elusive, writes GZERO Publisher Evan Solomon.

I subscribe to @gzeromedia.com for a rational overview of global Geopolitics. Today's is stark. Hold your hats, the political whirlwind is touching down. www.gzeromedia.com/gzero-north/...

Mr. Death Monty Python, Susan Campbell, and me

In which I review my scant knowledge and limited emotional intelligence about death, thanks to a post by Susan Campbell.
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Apocalypse, Constantly <blockquote><br /><strong><em>Humans love to imagine their own demise.</em></strong></blockquote><br /><p><dropcap>I</dropcap>n 1985, ...

www.rsn.org/001/apocalyp.... this fascinates me as I have found a calm come over me since election. Others have said the same. Why? If you fear the worst and the worst happens, does it neutralize the fear? Is it releasing resistance to what, in hindsight, may have been inevitable? Thoughts?

Desiderata, 2021, recycled Where I still stand

vickirobin.substack.com/p/desiderata.... My own project 2025, to live with one foot rooted, the other with wings, to be a humany human and also a poet of complexity and a teller of stories and a tell it like I see it writer. My Desiderata and gyroscope and training wheels. enjoy

Corleone-Style Diplomacy World events in the context of The Godfather

Corleone-Style Diplomacy open.substack.com/pub/rushkoff...
@rushkoff.com is one of my best bestie - our ways of thinking have similar quirks and wrinkles and ruffles, and I recommend this post as well as anything else he writes.

Now that there are no more green glasses, Oz looks grim around the edges. People now extol the importance of community, turning towards one another as systems turn us away. But how? Here's a good mutual aid story. Have any others? I'm collecting and sense making. truthout.org/articles/wha...

i don't know either why you can't see other's comments. will investigate

https://vickirobin.substack.com/p/getting-ready-to-die in which I reflect on another mentor's death, the impending death of a friend, my own ignorance of what happens after our last breath, and share a poem about a friend ascending. What experiences or thoughts about death are you willing to share?

a new post in which I share about another mentor passing from this life, about a dear friend contemplating his own death, about my paltry understanding, and a poem. What do you understand of death? vickirobin.substack.com/p/getting-re...

Handy list of trustworthy sources for clickbait-free trusted news. Resist and reject what the legacy media is trying to force upon us all. When lying ceases to be a cash cow, maybe they'll remember what journalism is.
(The list is not meant to exhaustive. There are others.)

Oldies but goodies posts from prior blogs - Your Money or Your Life, Blessing the Hands that Feed Us, What Could Possibly Go Right and more - have a new findable home vickirobin.substack.com/s/your-money...

All I want for Christmas is my 3 front teeth The hag arrives

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Read and subscribe. Aging has become my new fascination because guess what, that's what i'm up to, or down with. Share with friends. I want to be in conversation with anyone who is aging...

Have you heard of Ann Randolph? I've been a groupie in her online writing salon, Unmute Yourself, Your Story Matters. One month on, one off. It starts up again in January and if you have any stories in you waiting to be born, I highly recommend the class. shorturl.at/DO61Q

Empty before filling From when the tide of life was ebbing

I loved crafting this post about one moment in that year when I had cancer. I wrapped some stories around a poem I wrote in the worst dark painful days. vickirobin.substack.com/p/empty-befo...

How do you settle your nerves and open your soul? For me, sitting on a high lifeguard chair on a deck off my office dies it every time. Show me your ways to ground... or soar.

Marking time Bucket list for the last 20 years

Here's my latest post on my substack #comingofaging. So glad to be here instead of faceplant because I'm pretty sure I can post this link and some algorithm won't decide it's trash: vickirobin.substack.com/p/marking-time

how cool!

Worries; a poem A young friend thinks her marriage, and thus her life, might be over at 40.

A poem just posted on substack
At the risk of asking you to use one more platform, subscribe... It's always free. open.substack.com/pub/vickirob...

Power! Truth! Beauty! Our times call for this and what a courageous woman. www.instagram.com/reel/DCVlvv6...

This helps me

Coming of Aging… for Empire Is capitalism aging gracelessly, full of hubris and making trouble for everyone who loves it? Name me an empire that has gone out gracefully.

That you @resilience.org for reposting my article. www.resilience.org/stories/2024... originally on my blog "coming of aging" on substack

YouTube video by Machine Pun Kelly BlueSky for Beginners

It's up!!!! My Explainer video for BlueSky beginners.

I cover how to find your Twitter followers, Starter Packs, Feeds, Lists, some handy-dandy tools, and BlueSky etiquette.

Please watch and/or share with any newbies you know. I think it's helpful.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_V2...

Saving this for hints on how to use BS (sheesh, what an acronym) well.

i'm just learning myself. stay tuned. and lemme know what answers you find