Vin you are actually correct, I was watching a documentary and it showed that hugging a tree actually reduced the hugger's blood pressure and heart beat, and you are probably correct about the electric element. If you have a friend you can experience it, each person's electric current is different when the difference is significant the higher one transfers to the lower one until balanced, ever got a shock when shaking hands? A way to experience it is called "face painting", with another person make yourselves comfortable sitting facing each, one person closes their eyes and the other uses their fingertips to trace the features of the others face keeping a mm from actually touching and both will feel a tingling sensation at the spot, if the disparity is great it be quite a buzz. Not easy to do at first.
Actually it’s more beneficial to sit with your back against the tree’s trunk in that its energy can be absorbed through the spinal column. This was taught me by a Native American friend.
And don’t go around randomly hugging/sitting against trees: ASK THE TREE’S PERMISSION FIRST.
Because trees are intelligent beings in communication with one another and with tons of fungal partners in the soil. And somehow standing next to and atop and embracing all that brings me closer to being integral with it. Illusion? Reality? Some would argue that the tree produces weak electromagnetic fields that my fields interact with. But I bypass all that intuitively.
There's a book called "The Hidden Life of Trees," by Peter Wohllben, and it talks about how trees communicate.
I have a young white oak tree near the center of my annual garden, that I have been caring for and watching. I have a small chair that I can now sit under this 8ft tall young oak. It's my "Attitude Adjustment Chair." It seems to help me, at least! ✌️
He has a Jostenberry bush growing near and they seem to like each other... both are healthy and much new growth this year.
He is growing -very near, almost in, an old Maple tree stump and partial fallen trunk. I've heard that old tree trunks are like babysitters for new seedlings.
It's true, if only from the fact that the stump's roots are still in symbiotic association with the tree species' preferred mycorrhizal soil fungus, thereby preparing the surrounding area for new sapling's roots to form that essential association more rapidly.
I love your response! I was imagining your tree in the centre of a wide, wide garden - all alone except for you on your chair - now I have a different vision in my head of the tree being watched over from relatively close at hand!
(continued….) years, I sort of ‘befriended’ a small struggling young oak tree close to my house…..I felt kinship with this struggling tree and over time both the tree and I seemed to benefit. I still chat to it most days……
There is what I call a mother tree which I walk past once a week and stand in awe of for a moment or two and rub her smooth trunk. Eucalyptus grandis or flooded gum, she has spawned a small forest of offspring around her in the last 30 years. Quite the miracle!
Actually, far more beneficial to sit with one’s back against the tree’s trunk in order to absorb its energy through the spinal column. This was taught me by a Native American friend.
My two cats frolicking about bring me a lot of love and an awe of nature. Watching the butterflies and bees pollinating our crops are a source of a lot of smiles, too. We can't forget what we're fighting for--a loving world for all humanity. It's just really tough on some days when the headlines bring you down. Time for a kitty and garden break!
Just this week we hear that a top Israeli official (Itamar Ben-Gvir-currently serves as the Minister of National Security.) Is calling for at least 30-40 Palestinians to be murdered every day, regardless of whether they pose a threat.
Until the atrocities in Palestine stop none of us will be able to hold our heads up and call ourselves human. We will all be in a class of organism known as beasts of prey. Those who kill to survive without moral conscience. And even that class will have it’s survival as justification whereas we are not entitled to call ourselves human as long as we allow men, women and children to be slaughtered in the name and for the benefit of a political religious cult known as Zionism.
How much blood will we allow to flow like streams? How much carnage is enough to make us rise up against them? The Zionist monstrosity must be removed from Palestine before it engulfs all that makes us human. There will be no world worth living in if the Palestinians cannot live their lives like humans. There was a time when the world rose up against Nazi murder and dehumanization. We are all now being dehumanized by the descendants of those who we then called Nazi victims.
A murderously brutal immoral people cannot be allowed to steal and occupy any land they desecrate with the blood of children and then laugh in our faces. While they dance on the graves of their victims and dare us to stop them. They mock what is human and even coerce their animals to participate in the sexual carnage. If we stand by and do nothing to stop them and drive them away we will become that which is collaborator and enabler of evil. There will be nowhere for us to hide our shame. There will never be enough that’s human left of us to pay what is due.
Hitler had total control over Germany for 10-12 years and he and his influence became very psychotic when he reached the pinnacle and lost his mind to the power he imagined within himself. There are many people right now in Israel that are as psychotic as Hitler was and have been that way for decades. How will humanity and the world deal with that?
"There are many people right now in Israel that are as psychotic as Hitler was and have been that way for decades. How will humanity and the world deal with that?" Very true.
While the United States operates roughly 750 to 800 overseas base sites across more than 80 countries and territories, and while the 342 million Americans are content to see that situation continue, and while in the USA, an Israeli-controlled political climate, only allows opportunities for the voters to elect a President of the calibre of a Biden or a Trump, and while the United Nations remains a toothless, veto-controlled social club, life will continue on as it is now.
There is nothing that will change it. Nothing. Why you can even gather up 200 million dollars for bribery and corrupt action for a candidate and no one sees that as anything but normal. Right, Miriam? It is even legal in the USA together with the well established control over the candidates by the ADL and AIPAC. judged to be at over 70% of both 'little Israel' Houses.
With the American voters, is it contentment with the US status quo in 2026, that even today after we have all seen the total support by the US government for the genocidal Zionists in Israel with untold deaths as the result, with those disloyal Zionists resident in the USA openly preaching the hateful 'gospel according to Netanyahu', that motivate so many people with MAGA flags to be present and visible at every meeting where the narcissistic Trump continues lying to the people, day after day?
Do the people know he is lying?
Do they even care?
So sadly, even with the commendable "love" theme by Caitlin today, a corrupted voting environment in America will probably resist and overcome any possible change for at least 8-10 years.
So, much more to come. Gird your loins, one and all.
I think most Americans are much better than you describe. First they are still trusting corporate media, but that trust is evaporating. Most don't support the slaughter in Gaza nor do they support the attack of Iran. Most are aware of the deep corruption in the U.S. and how money runs everything. Multiple polls show two-thirds of American disapprove of Trump's policies. But most feel helpless to do anything about it. What can we do?
It's hard to accept that Americans care when they've allowed the worst of society, a malignant Narcissist (& habitual criminal, pedophile & autocratic kleptocrat) Trump & his flying monkeys to constantly empower & enrich themselves with open corruption. When they allow them to oversee the complete decay of the USA's political system, the decay of the legal system & decay of humanity. And it didn't start with Trump. We've seen the USA's traitorous AIPAC Democrats (especially Biden, the Clintons & Jeffries) & traitorous AIPAC Republicans (especially Trump & his psycho flying monkeys) and these heathens' depravity. They have turned the USA into the United States of the Anti-Christ - pure evil.
We have now seen who the Zionists truly are & their unconscionable sadistic
depravity & genocidal psychopathic behaviour. The world's majority, the sane, civilized & humane people of the world, are no longer falling for the Zionists' scam of falsely conflating Zionism (an atheists' 1897 cult) with Judaism (the centuries old religion). However, we have also seen who the Americans truly are & the depths of their depravity - the USA is the most dangerous political, economic & military terrorists in the world. Responsible for the slaughter of millions of innocent people & destruction of millions of innocent lives; in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Latin America & elsewhere.
We've seen the depths of America's depravity & indifference to other people, especially the lives of black, brown & "not-white-enough" people. We now know that Americans are no better than the Zionist cult of fake Jews, the Zio-Nazis. They accept the Zio-Nazis (who voluntarily cooperated with Hitler & the Nazis to profit from WWII; & who now have no problem with Musk's Nazi salutes & who fund extreme far-right organizations around the world, with neo-Nazis & Heil Hitler salutes, such as Tommy Robinson's extreme far-right organization in the UK.
We have seen America's Christian-Zionist fake Christians, with their strong aversion to Christian values & submission to the Christ-hating ZIONIST cult of fake Jews (who persecute the REAL Jews, including the REAL Holocaust survivors; then use & abuse the REAL Jews' history & suffering to manipulate the rest of the world for sympathy & unwarranted privileges, & to build the wealth & power of ZIONISM's fake Jews.
The Americans are evil & gullible. They have fallen for the Zionist cult's fake Jews & Christian-Zionism's fake Christians (who have been brainwashed using the ATHEIST Rothschilds' Scofield Bible, which falsely favors the Christ-hating ZIONIST Israelis, regardless of how Satanic their behaviour is - and it could not be any more Satanic than we are now aware of. The Bible accurately describes the Zio-Nazis at John 8:44, Revelation 2:9 & Revelation 3:9. They are liars. They are fake Jews. They are the children of the Devil. They are the Synagogue of Satan.
Thanks for yor reply.You've listed many of the shocking and horrific acts of the American government, but again I don't think most Americans really support this. Kamala Harris wouldn't have been better, she espoused violent rhetoric against Iran and was fully supporting Bibi. Then DT, the supreme huckster, promised no new wars! What were voters to do? Many who voted for DT are feeling deep betrayal. Our system is broken and most people who are awake, don't know how to respond. That doesn't mean they support what's happening.
They are currently on the road to destroying themselves, they are not supreme, they are not most loved by any god, except for Lucifer who wants to rule the earth. It won't happen. Every time people like that rise their evil is seen and others stop them. Check as far back in history as you wish, the evil does not win for long - just feels like it. We' very been here before, it's so disturbing that in those who are so full of themselves there are only a few of the ancestors that vowed "Never again".
Yes Caitlin. The personal is political women like me discovered in the 70s. Bread and Roses song never more relevant. Keeping your heart open and connected to other loving beings human cats or trees is vital for health and resilience. I love your work. Especially that poem about the awkward dinner party mess of it all...love Julie
Being spirits in bodies, we endure whats bad and hopefully take comfort and satisfaction from the little things we find here --- which coincidentally are free ---- such as viewing a sunset (hopefully sky is not chemtrailed) enjoying flowers that are in bloom, taking delight in the laughter of children playing at a park ( hopefully they're not inside staring zombie-like at screens), and on and on. Yes, they wreck the good and aren't stopping, but we can outfox them.
My point is there is still good out there, inside or out. LOOK for it!
Whuch brings me to being amazed at children if Gaza playing , laughing and loving each other with wonderful hugs. And then there is their dancing g and singing together because Gaza does NOT allow usraeli meanness and destruction of all life to stop these children from having happiness wherever they can find it.
Mum sends me photos of bees. Bees she’s seen on a bushwalk, out and about. And it’s just a wonderful little grounding moment. Just a reminder of what is beautiful and worth fighting for. (Also a great palette cleanser after reading about anything Tony Abbott or Trump et al)
Why do revolutionaries struggle, organise and fight if there is no beauty and joy to be had in this world? If there is no beautiful love and care for fellow humans? That they too should experience peace and justice? Why, if a climate crisis leaves them cold?
13th August 2026 was the 100th anniversary of Fidel Castro - a revolutionary visionary who gave his all to make life better for the global south humanity, so that they too will know the joy of liberation from greedy grasping colonialists.
Yes! There's plenty of love and happiness to go around.
Lots of Du'a (prayers) and remembrance (Zikr) of Allah Subhanwata'alah....God Almighty helps me.
Thank you my dear sister Caitlin for your powerful writings that you pour your heart into. You are amazing. May we all find peace in this upside down world!!
I appreciate your post and gave to wonder if you have always been this way? I am full of rage for the inequities and injustices in the world- but I trust that God is in control- everything will come to fruition one day. I pray every night and keep all of the hopeless in my prayers- may God bring change to the hard-hearted. May love always gave the last word.
Try to let the rage go! Dont let it eat you and make you sick.
I struggle more with frustration, I think, but neither are good. And these demonic creatures throwing all this at us delight in our being stressed, etc....
Wish I could insert one of my favorite emojis with a little character raising a glass of champagne with "Cheers!" appearing above his head, so please, just imagine the toast to you.
I firmly believe that a life of happiness involves giving oneself to work that builds a more morally aligned world. I believe American culture does itself a disservice in what it promotes as happiness, and what that hollows out.
I think you’re right to call for stories that show a pursuit of social justice does not mean a joyless life. We do our causes harm by believing suffering is the only path. It may be hard but so are many things that are deeply fulfilling and bring satisfaction.
From an old woman living in the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Canada... thank you. Basic physics keeps me going. For every action, there is an equal and opposite REaction. One of these days, the bad will be SO bad that the pendulum will be forced to swing in the opposite direction. I am trying my damndest to stay alive long enough to witness that swing.
Highly recommend hugging a tree. With a beneficent attitude. A repeat tree partner if possible.
Vin you are actually correct, I was watching a documentary and it showed that hugging a tree actually reduced the hugger's blood pressure and heart beat, and you are probably correct about the electric element. If you have a friend you can experience it, each person's electric current is different when the difference is significant the higher one transfers to the lower one until balanced, ever got a shock when shaking hands? A way to experience it is called "face painting", with another person make yourselves comfortable sitting facing each, one person closes their eyes and the other uses their fingertips to trace the features of the others face keeping a mm from actually touching and both will feel a tingling sensation at the spot, if the disparity is great it be quite a buzz. Not easy to do at first.
Hi John
Actually it’s more beneficial to sit with your back against the tree’s trunk in that its energy can be absorbed through the spinal column. This was taught me by a Native American friend.
And don’t go around randomly hugging/sitting against trees: ASK THE TREE’S PERMISSION FIRST.
So Vin Biff - you want us to make like a tree and get out of here?
How about: Make like a tree and start communicating with everything else in the Biosphere?
Back - to the Future!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BowJk0InIic
Vin, at one time I used to make fun of that. Since I've essentially thrown out all I thought I knew, please tell me why that's a good practice?
Because trees are intelligent beings in communication with one another and with tons of fungal partners in the soil. And somehow standing next to and atop and embracing all that brings me closer to being integral with it. Illusion? Reality? Some would argue that the tree produces weak electromagnetic fields that my fields interact with. But I bypass all that intuitively.
There's a book called "The Hidden Life of Trees," by Peter Wohllben, and it talks about how trees communicate.
I have a young white oak tree near the center of my annual garden, that I have been caring for and watching. I have a small chair that I can now sit under this 8ft tall young oak. It's my "Attitude Adjustment Chair." It seems to help me, at least! ✌️
Can you give it a companion (apart from yourself)?
He has a Jostenberry bush growing near and they seem to like each other... both are healthy and much new growth this year.
He is growing -very near, almost in, an old Maple tree stump and partial fallen trunk. I've heard that old tree trunks are like babysitters for new seedlings.
So Oak has an old Maple Auntie! ;)
It's true, if only from the fact that the stump's roots are still in symbiotic association with the tree species' preferred mycorrhizal soil fungus, thereby preparing the surrounding area for new sapling's roots to form that essential association more rapidly.
I love your response! I was imagining your tree in the centre of a wide, wide garden - all alone except for you on your chair - now I have a different vision in my head of the tree being watched over from relatively close at hand!
That's cute. :)
I’ve been a tree hugger for years - even as a child. During the necessarily restrictive Covid
(continued….) years, I sort of ‘befriended’ a small struggling young oak tree close to my house…..I felt kinship with this struggling tree and over time both the tree and I seemed to benefit. I still chat to it most days……
Sounds cute. Reminds me of grounding, kinda. Now I gotta find a tree
Thanks for sharing!🤗
A walk in the woods is refreshing, rejuvenating. Quite the opposite of a walk in the concrete jungle or even a small town
Food for thought. Okay
Thank you!
🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳
Indeed!
There is what I call a mother tree which I walk past once a week and stand in awe of for a moment or two and rub her smooth trunk. Eucalyptus grandis or flooded gum, she has spawned a small forest of offspring around her in the last 30 years. Quite the miracle!
Actually, far more beneficial to sit with one’s back against the tree’s trunk in order to absorb its energy through the spinal column. This was taught me by a Native American friend.
And… ASK THE TREE’S PERMISSION FIRST.
In a world where forces of industry and empire are destroying life, the act of loving life is itself resistance. And vice versa.
🎯
👍 Nice. I will adopt it.
It’s the only way to remain sane is to compartmentalize. It’s not always easy, but, the other way lies madness. 🥂
Hear ya, but keep in mind "Energy goes...where Consciousness goes"
Whatever consciousness even 𝙞𝙨, but that’s a fair observation, and I take your meaning.
World of beauty,
World of pain.
Keep it real!
Don't turn away.
My two cats frolicking about bring me a lot of love and an awe of nature. Watching the butterflies and bees pollinating our crops are a source of a lot of smiles, too. We can't forget what we're fighting for--a loving world for all humanity. It's just really tough on some days when the headlines bring you down. Time for a kitty and garden break!
WHEN WILL HUMANITY PAY IT’S DUES?
Just this week we hear that a top Israeli official (Itamar Ben-Gvir-currently serves as the Minister of National Security.) Is calling for at least 30-40 Palestinians to be murdered every day, regardless of whether they pose a threat.
Until the atrocities in Palestine stop none of us will be able to hold our heads up and call ourselves human. We will all be in a class of organism known as beasts of prey. Those who kill to survive without moral conscience. And even that class will have it’s survival as justification whereas we are not entitled to call ourselves human as long as we allow men, women and children to be slaughtered in the name and for the benefit of a political religious cult known as Zionism.
How much blood will we allow to flow like streams? How much carnage is enough to make us rise up against them? The Zionist monstrosity must be removed from Palestine before it engulfs all that makes us human. There will be no world worth living in if the Palestinians cannot live their lives like humans. There was a time when the world rose up against Nazi murder and dehumanization. We are all now being dehumanized by the descendants of those who we then called Nazi victims.
A murderously brutal immoral people cannot be allowed to steal and occupy any land they desecrate with the blood of children and then laugh in our faces. While they dance on the graves of their victims and dare us to stop them. They mock what is human and even coerce their animals to participate in the sexual carnage. If we stand by and do nothing to stop them and drive them away we will become that which is collaborator and enabler of evil. There will be nowhere for us to hide our shame. There will never be enough that’s human left of us to pay what is due.
Hitler had total control over Germany for 10-12 years and he and his influence became very psychotic when he reached the pinnacle and lost his mind to the power he imagined within himself. There are many people right now in Israel that are as psychotic as Hitler was and have been that way for decades. How will humanity and the world deal with that?
"There are many people right now in Israel that are as psychotic as Hitler was and have been that way for decades. How will humanity and the world deal with that?" Very true.
While the United States operates roughly 750 to 800 overseas base sites across more than 80 countries and territories, and while the 342 million Americans are content to see that situation continue, and while in the USA, an Israeli-controlled political climate, only allows opportunities for the voters to elect a President of the calibre of a Biden or a Trump, and while the United Nations remains a toothless, veto-controlled social club, life will continue on as it is now.
There is nothing that will change it. Nothing. Why you can even gather up 200 million dollars for bribery and corrupt action for a candidate and no one sees that as anything but normal. Right, Miriam? It is even legal in the USA together with the well established control over the candidates by the ADL and AIPAC. judged to be at over 70% of both 'little Israel' Houses.
With the American voters, is it contentment with the US status quo in 2026, that even today after we have all seen the total support by the US government for the genocidal Zionists in Israel with untold deaths as the result, with those disloyal Zionists resident in the USA openly preaching the hateful 'gospel according to Netanyahu', that motivate so many people with MAGA flags to be present and visible at every meeting where the narcissistic Trump continues lying to the people, day after day?
Do the people know he is lying?
Do they even care?
So sadly, even with the commendable "love" theme by Caitlin today, a corrupted voting environment in America will probably resist and overcome any possible change for at least 8-10 years.
So, much more to come. Gird your loins, one and all.
I think most Americans are much better than you describe. First they are still trusting corporate media, but that trust is evaporating. Most don't support the slaughter in Gaza nor do they support the attack of Iran. Most are aware of the deep corruption in the U.S. and how money runs everything. Multiple polls show two-thirds of American disapprove of Trump's policies. But most feel helpless to do anything about it. What can we do?
It's hard to accept that Americans care when they've allowed the worst of society, a malignant Narcissist (& habitual criminal, pedophile & autocratic kleptocrat) Trump & his flying monkeys to constantly empower & enrich themselves with open corruption. When they allow them to oversee the complete decay of the USA's political system, the decay of the legal system & decay of humanity. And it didn't start with Trump. We've seen the USA's traitorous AIPAC Democrats (especially Biden, the Clintons & Jeffries) & traitorous AIPAC Republicans (especially Trump & his psycho flying monkeys) and these heathens' depravity. They have turned the USA into the United States of the Anti-Christ - pure evil.
We have now seen who the Zionists truly are & their unconscionable sadistic
depravity & genocidal psychopathic behaviour. The world's majority, the sane, civilized & humane people of the world, are no longer falling for the Zionists' scam of falsely conflating Zionism (an atheists' 1897 cult) with Judaism (the centuries old religion). However, we have also seen who the Americans truly are & the depths of their depravity - the USA is the most dangerous political, economic & military terrorists in the world. Responsible for the slaughter of millions of innocent people & destruction of millions of innocent lives; in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Latin America & elsewhere.
We've seen the depths of America's depravity & indifference to other people, especially the lives of black, brown & "not-white-enough" people. We now know that Americans are no better than the Zionist cult of fake Jews, the Zio-Nazis. They accept the Zio-Nazis (who voluntarily cooperated with Hitler & the Nazis to profit from WWII; & who now have no problem with Musk's Nazi salutes & who fund extreme far-right organizations around the world, with neo-Nazis & Heil Hitler salutes, such as Tommy Robinson's extreme far-right organization in the UK.
We have seen America's Christian-Zionist fake Christians, with their strong aversion to Christian values & submission to the Christ-hating ZIONIST cult of fake Jews (who persecute the REAL Jews, including the REAL Holocaust survivors; then use & abuse the REAL Jews' history & suffering to manipulate the rest of the world for sympathy & unwarranted privileges, & to build the wealth & power of ZIONISM's fake Jews.
The Americans are evil & gullible. They have fallen for the Zionist cult's fake Jews & Christian-Zionism's fake Christians (who have been brainwashed using the ATHEIST Rothschilds' Scofield Bible, which falsely favors the Christ-hating ZIONIST Israelis, regardless of how Satanic their behaviour is - and it could not be any more Satanic than we are now aware of. The Bible accurately describes the Zio-Nazis at John 8:44, Revelation 2:9 & Revelation 3:9. They are liars. They are fake Jews. They are the children of the Devil. They are the Synagogue of Satan.
Thanks for yor reply.You've listed many of the shocking and horrific acts of the American government, but again I don't think most Americans really support this. Kamala Harris wouldn't have been better, she espoused violent rhetoric against Iran and was fully supporting Bibi. Then DT, the supreme huckster, promised no new wars! What were voters to do? Many who voted for DT are feeling deep betrayal. Our system is broken and most people who are awake, don't know how to respond. That doesn't mean they support what's happening.
They are currently on the road to destroying themselves, they are not supreme, they are not most loved by any god, except for Lucifer who wants to rule the earth. It won't happen. Every time people like that rise their evil is seen and others stop them. Check as far back in history as you wish, the evil does not win for long - just feels like it. We' very been here before, it's so disturbing that in those who are so full of themselves there are only a few of the ancestors that vowed "Never again".
Yes Caitlin. The personal is political women like me discovered in the 70s. Bread and Roses song never more relevant. Keeping your heart open and connected to other loving beings human cats or trees is vital for health and resilience. I love your work. Especially that poem about the awkward dinner party mess of it all...love Julie
Being spirits in bodies, we endure whats bad and hopefully take comfort and satisfaction from the little things we find here --- which coincidentally are free ---- such as viewing a sunset (hopefully sky is not chemtrailed) enjoying flowers that are in bloom, taking delight in the laughter of children playing at a park ( hopefully they're not inside staring zombie-like at screens), and on and on. Yes, they wreck the good and aren't stopping, but we can outfox them.
My point is there is still good out there, inside or out. LOOK for it!
We must find pleasure in the here and now.
Thank you! YOU encourage us. 💐
Whuch brings me to being amazed at children if Gaza playing , laughing and loving each other with wonderful hugs. And then there is their dancing g and singing together because Gaza does NOT allow usraeli meanness and destruction of all life to stop these children from having happiness wherever they can find it.
So young, yet so wise.
I'm so happy your happy Caitlin.
Now , I'm going back to hating the bastards that run this shit show. The Liarticians.
Anytime I despair about the world - my
Mum sends me photos of bees. Bees she’s seen on a bushwalk, out and about. And it’s just a wonderful little grounding moment. Just a reminder of what is beautiful and worth fighting for. (Also a great palette cleanser after reading about anything Tony Abbott or Trump et al)
I agree--Bees are really the bee's knees!
Bee Kind RC!
Why do revolutionaries struggle, organise and fight if there is no beauty and joy to be had in this world? If there is no beautiful love and care for fellow humans? That they too should experience peace and justice? Why, if a climate crisis leaves them cold?
13th August 2026 was the 100th anniversary of Fidel Castro - a revolutionary visionary who gave his all to make life better for the global south humanity, so that they too will know the joy of liberation from greedy grasping colonialists.
Yes! There's plenty of love and happiness to go around.
Lots of Du'a (prayers) and remembrance (Zikr) of Allah Subhanwata'alah....God Almighty helps me.
Thank you my dear sister Caitlin for your powerful writings that you pour your heart into. You are amazing. May we all find peace in this upside down world!!
🤗🩷
I appreciate your post and gave to wonder if you have always been this way? I am full of rage for the inequities and injustices in the world- but I trust that God is in control- everything will come to fruition one day. I pray every night and keep all of the hopeless in my prayers- may God bring change to the hard-hearted. May love always gave the last word.
Try to let the rage go! Dont let it eat you and make you sick.
I struggle more with frustration, I think, but neither are good. And these demonic creatures throwing all this at us delight in our being stressed, etc....
🤗
Wish I could insert one of my favorite emojis with a little character raising a glass of champagne with "Cheers!" appearing above his head, so please, just imagine the toast to you.
I firmly believe that a life of happiness involves giving oneself to work that builds a more morally aligned world. I believe American culture does itself a disservice in what it promotes as happiness, and what that hollows out.
Wrote about it here: https://humaninference.substack.com/p/pursuit-of-happiness
I think you’re right to call for stories that show a pursuit of social justice does not mean a joyless life. We do our causes harm by believing suffering is the only path. It may be hard but so are many things that are deeply fulfilling and bring satisfaction.
From an old woman living in the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Canada... thank you. Basic physics keeps me going. For every action, there is an equal and opposite REaction. One of these days, the bad will be SO bad that the pendulum will be forced to swing in the opposite direction. I am trying my damndest to stay alive long enough to witness that swing.