Rolande Duprey @Purplerock

Antigua and Barbuda 🇦🇬 joins a total of 40 countries in calling for a moratorium or pause on deep-sea mining. The @ISBAHQ should heed growing calls for a pause and prioritize the environment over hasty decisions. The health of our ocean is at stake. pewtrsts.org/4jI2W03

Two squirrels stage mutiny on Gatwick-bound train and 'refuse to leave' theargus.co.uk/news/24592644.…

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They picked the wrong demographic to attack.

youtu.be/nGVa5ah_roo?si… 13 years ago, this poem was performed in one take

Anne Akiko Meyers: Tiny Desk Concert youtu.be/bRq66Rtwms0?si… via @YouTube

DAILY ART FACT; Lyske Gais and Lia Duinker are the creators of the Book Bracelet, inspired by the work of Rembrandt. The work won a design competition instigated by The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

THIS IS GOING VIRAL SO I WANTED TO SHARE IT HERE TOO: A bit from my past: My first job after getting my PhD was working as a therapist for people from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Almost all of them were diagnosed with depression, GAD, bipolar, or BPD. Most were highly medicated— some to a point that still sticks with me years later. As I got to know their background and lives 3 things were very clear: 1. A vast majority had been emotionally neglected, emotionally abused, or physically abused as children. 2. A vast majority had experienced domestic violence or were currently living in it. 3. Basic needs were never met. Life was an hour by hour struggle. Treatment was an attempt to allow them to get to work in most cases. To just continue to surviving. It was the start of me questioning the field I had been trained in. One that diagnoses people with disorders without taking a look at the whole picture. It began my path of holistic understanding. A person cannot be well when one unexpected bill will have them fall behind on rent. When they lay their head on a pillow and all they can think about is expenses piling up. When a bill at the grocery store is almost double what they paid last year when their income has stayed the same. An entire family unit deeply struggles within survival mode. When a job is lost. When daycare needs to be paid, but so does the light bill— what do you choose? When parents can’t even think about the emotional needs of their children because they have to figure out where their next meal is going to come from. In 1942, 10 years before the diagnostic manual of mental illness was released Maslow knew what was once just common sense: we have a hierarchy of needs. At the bottom are basic needs food and shelter. Then safety (resources, security). Then belonging (connection, friendship, intimacy.) Without three things we *will* be sick, period. I get pushback for questioning the status quo. And I’ll continue to do it. The status quo is keeping people sick. It denies their experience. And it says we should bandage people’s symptoms so they can return to the environment that made them sick. May we wake up, heal ourselves, and build conscious communities to help each other. Retweet if you feel this is true in your body 🙏

Wickham Library in East Hartford Celebrates Renovation with Grand Re-Opening Event original.newsbreak.com/@connecticut-u…

I heard my mom asking our neighbor for some salt. We had salt at home, so I asked her why she was asking. She told me, “They don't have much money, and they sometimes ask us for things. So I asked for something small that wouldn't burden them. I want them to feel as if we need them too. That way, it will be much easier for them to ask us for anything they need.” Anonymous

voices of plovers inviting me to stare into the starlit darkness Basho

Bizarre, alien-like creature discovered deep in Atlantic Ocean has 20 gangly arms livescience.com/animals/fish/b…

What’s a scam that’s become so normalized we don’t realize it’s a scam: that we’re not spiritual beings. We are mind, body, and soul. Our soul needs connection, love, purpose, and meaning. We are not meant to sleep walk through life, work, then die. Mental health symptoms are normal when your soul is slowly dying. Humans weren’t meant to exist in survival mode. We need to be free— to thrive. We’re meant to wake up to our true potential, not to re-live past patterns.

@lizwadsworth65 The mice would not be fooled!

Captured a questing beast on camera:

Homage to Jim Henson youtu.be/ChXkkD58fzo via @YouTube

A promise of hope. The rescued orphans in our care have already weathered many storms during their short lives. Together on #WorldElephantDay2023 we can bring in brighter skies for this herd of hope & play a role in their survival & that of all elephants. sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/news/updates/w…

Signs of Emotionally Available People: 1. Don’t erupt or go into irrational behaviors when feelings are expressed 2. Can have difficult conversations 3. Can listen to a different perspective 4. Words align with actions (in short, they do what they say they will) 5. Apologize when they’re hurtful or act out of character 6. Do not use silence to punish 7. They’re secure: they do not thrive off of negative intensity, drama, or chaos