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If the guiding light is “What did America look like in the mid-19th century?,” we are screwed.

Why can’t we reward and celebrate the people who seek help?

They did not want ‘those’ kids near ‘their’ kids.

We are all survivors of the human condition. All of us are attempting to make our way through the world. If we could go across the room and ask everybody to tell us “what makes you happy, what makes you sad, what challenge you have had in life, what success you have had, what makes you tick” — three things would happen.

A new ‘preventing homelessness’ committee member asked a panel of ten people to reflect on when they could have made a choice differently to avoid homelessness. That was his idea of prevention. In 2020, 350 Minnesotans died outside. Some of them were babies.

Treat each other with true kindness and humility and gentleness and love, because that is our way forward. That is how we are going to find ways to heal the harm that has been inflicted on so many of us, and the land, and the water.

While there is plenty of bad news out there about climate change, Bill McKibben — who founded 350.org — published

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As we reawaken to the control issues related to women’s bodies again… a reflection on the tension between two competing purposes. “One is social control — ensuring that people conform to social norms, standards and ideologies by providing services that control those who are deemed unworthy or deviant.”

It can be hard to navigate how to create more environmentally friendly homes while we also need tens of thousands of additional housing units.

How you can help me is get me in front of people who think that I am odd, and I will show them that I am not.

I feel the patriarchy society has socialized us to constantly compete with each other, and we have to shut that down. We have to break that and disrupt that by doing things together.