Lorde was a poet in both the literal sense at its most stunning and the largest, Baldwinian sense - “The poets (by which I mean all artists),” wrote her contemporary and coworker in the kingdom of culture James Baldwin, “are finally the only people who know the truth about us. A century and a half after her, Audre Lorde (February 18, 1934–November 17, 1992) - another woman of uncommon courage of conviction and potency of vision - expanded another horizon of possibility by the power of her words and her meteoric life. Shelley laced her novels with the exquisite prose-poetry of conviction, of vision that saw far beyond the horizons of her time and carried generations along the vector of that vision to shift the status quo into new frontiers of possibility. “Words have more power than any one can guess it is by words that the world’s great fight, now in these civilized times, is carried on,” Mary Shelley wrote as she championed the courage to speak up against injustice two hundred years ago, amid a world that commended itself for being civilized while barring people like Shelley from access to education, occupation, and myriad other civil dignities on account of their chromosomes, and barring people just a few shades darker than her from just about every human right on account of their melanin. If you are currently experiencing a mental health crisis, please click here, text 741741, or call 988.This is the precarious balance of a thriving society: exposing the fissures and fractures of democracy, but then, rather than letting them gape into abysses of cynicism, sealing them with the magma of lucid idealism that names the alternatives and, in naming them, equips the entire supercontinent of culture with a cartography of action.
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Try the Ten Percent Happier app for free for thirty days by visiting /more and check out the meditation pack made especially for working with dread and Jay Michaelson’s teacher talk, Confronting Climate Change.Adult Mental Health Resources from the CDC.An article about Aurelia Casey and her workĪnd if digging into dread is very difficult or intense for you, some additional resources that could help are listed below.And keep in touch with us on Twitter at podfeelings.Īurelia Casey and the Gowanus Canal Conservancy: Thank you for joining us for The Dread Project Challenge! Today is the last day of the Challenge, but you can come back any time to listen to an episode or practice your favorite exercise. Do you hear any birds? Is there a rustle in the breeze? What can you smell? Do you notice anything that’s changing around you, or maybe inside you as you stand outside? When you turn around to go back in, does a little bit of that evening glow follow you back in? Notice what your other senses are picking up, too.
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Take time to notice things around you: the quality of the light, the color it makes on your skin or the other structures or living things around you. This evening, some time around sunset, stop what you’re doing, and step outside. Today’s Challenge - Estimated Time 3-5 Minutes Nature Educator Aurelia Casey and Somatic Therapist Patty Adams help listeners understand that the environments immediately around us can help us build emotional resilience, so that even if we feel paralyzed by eco-dread we don’t have to stay that way for too long. Not only because it’s untenable to live that way, but because the only way out is the biggest collective action the planet has ever seen. But we can’t just tune out and shut down. It’s one of the most overwhelming emotions listeners are struggling with.
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