Kacey Voice

One career test I took in middle school reported that I would be a great fit as a librarian.

I love the idea of holding space for all kinds of knowing. Helping people find ways of learning messages they are ready to hear.

Teaching, learning, experimenting, curating, organizing. All acts of love.

Brilliant 🔥

Have you seen this?

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The other thing that comes up for me with your post is that public health should never be done alone. Why can't we build community and personal supports within degree programs? No one should have to look behind the curtain and witness such horrors alone. Yet many of us do.

It is unsustainable

Mmmmm. Such heavy topics. And I'm maybe I'm projecting, but the nature of literature being unreachable is something I struggle with myself. The currency for PhD is papers most will never read. That issue stands out to me in public health. I feel trapped in doing work that is inherently non-impactful

You aren't alone in this! Totally understandable though. Those of us in public health walk around with the weight of the world (and community health) on our shoulders (and in our hearts). We see the ones who might have been saved 😢 sending love to you.

Wow! 💗

The destruction has started…

Wow! Gorgeous! 🤩

I'm just throwing this out there, but has anyone ever considered just not listening to men?

Men's inability to get it up directly connects to bad environmental and social policies. I hope they are happy with themselves.

"Ellie took more damage than an Oklahoma trailer park in a tornado and people still blamed her for retreating into the bomb shelter of her own mind."
-Daniel Nayeri

So old! Wow! 💛 my youngest just turned 8.

My mind is a playground.

Waking and sleep punctuated by physical needs. Now welcome the physical as well. Nourish the body. Release what is no longer needed. Find hair, clothes, foods, movement to delight.

(1 of 3) #poetry #poem #mindbodyheart

Engage with thoughts and actions. Each creating a space to say don't forget me. I still live here. Where do I fit in today?

(2 of 3) #poetry #poem #mindbodyheart

Oh, my love. I have not forgotten you. Then the heart. Always making meaning. Feeling the way. Showing when balance is not quite right. Connecting to others. Connecting to the wide world. Connecting within.

(3 of 3) #poetry #poem #mindbodyheart

Is it just me?
I don't know how to take a sick day?
It only feels acceptable to take if I am in bed with a fever and unable to move.
I don't have enough days to take so I'd rather work through coughs and headaches... it's not really that bad?
Then there is the guilt of never working enough
#sickdays

What is your current read? I am now listening to Loving Corrections on audio 🧡💛🧡

I have not transitioned to full-time yet. Still hunkered down in a 4 year contract with 2 remaining. 😮 I already lost the health insurance, so my yoga/mindfulness/writing is a possibility ... But an accountant last year said because I have so many losses (training) IRS would likely declare a hobby

🍀 awesome! Good luck to you! The biggest new idea I got from that book was the section on money. The term 'punk damage'. Trying to deal with the reality of capitalism and living like that is how things are. I am scared of the IRS and took all business expenses last year as personal losses 😑

"... trained to pursue and capture women. Seeing woman as human, not prey, can be a lifelong journey for men unlearning patriarchy, unlearning woman-as-belonging, or woman-as-prize." #feminism #adriennemareebrown

There was a young farmer of Leeds
Who swallowed six packets of seed.
It's soon came to pass
They were covered with grass
And they couldn't sit down for the weeds
-unknown

Books on diversity, love, buddism, and science from my bookshelf.

Cleaning my office and thought this might be a good way to introduce myself to people... What is on your bookshelf?
#makeyourartnomatterwhat

bell hooks wisdom

Kiddo perching on a cabinet to get a better look out a window.

Kiddo smiling in a back lit photo of an open window in a slanted ceiling.

Kiddo in a window getting fresh air today 11/17. ⛅

🤣😂

There is a pervasive form of modern violence to which the idealist most easily succumbs activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of Modern Life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of the activist neutralizes their work. It destroys the fruitfulness of their work because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.

Parker Palmer writings feel good today.

Wow!