Dortch Mann
dortchmann.bsky.social
Dortch Mann
@dortchmann.bsky.social
Climate Aware Therapist and prospective Good Ancestor.
“Each of us is given only so many mornings to do it — to look around and love.
​– MARY OLIVER
December 25, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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"If "Did Not Vote" had been a presidential candidate, they would have beaten Donald Trump by 9.1 million votes, and they would have won 21 states, earning 265 electoral college votes."

www.environmentalvoter.org/updates/2024...
2024 was a Landslide...for 'Did Not Vote'
A new analysis by the Environmental Voter Project shows that 85.9 million eligible voters skipped the 2024 general election.
www.environmentalvoter.org
December 19, 2024 at 11:35 AM
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I’m increasingly convinced that the love that powers long term climate action grows out of all the time we spend doing the things we love, in the places we love, with the people we love.

Without that, what are we fighting for?
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:

1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;

2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;

3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
December 18, 2024 at 2:10 AM
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This week I wrote a love letter to the novella—a term I throw around irresponsibly to include any short novel I really like—and make a desultory argument for reading word by word, and not eyeful by eyeful. Gift link via @nytopinion: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/o...
Opinion | Pocket Novels for an Agitated Age (Gift Article)
There is something special about works I can read in full on a rainy Sunday afternoon or in the lamplight hours between supper and bedtime.
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2024 at 3:30 PM
"Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."
Iris Murdoch
December 13, 2024 at 12:48 AM
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Full YouTube video available here 💜 This awesome piece was produced by Action for the Climate Emergency, based on climate psych labs I led around the US with high school students.

youtu.be/UHPZw0zbHNE?...
The Secret to Talking about Climate Change
YouTube video by Action for the Climate Emergency
youtu.be
November 28, 2024 at 5:34 PM
The best thing I have read since the election:

"The capacity for love may be the crowning achievement of consciousness, which is itself the crowning achievement of the universe, which means that we may only be here to learn how to love."
Maria Popova
November 17, 2024 at 6:50 PM