Persephone’s Orphan
@persephonesorphan.bsky.social
Artist, performer, psychologist, expressive arts therapist, humanist, animal lover, writer, poet, dreamer, pagan-Buddhist, revolutionary and polyamorist/ENM.
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July 1, 2025
July 1, 2025
Just after noon today, the Senate passed its version of the budget reconciliation bill.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
July 2, 2025 at 6:32 AM
July 1, 2025
To all my Therapist friends out there and anyone that is working with others and trying to be helpful.
June 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
To all my Therapist friends out there and anyone that is working with others and trying to be helpful.
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June 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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I want
to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.
-Mary Oliver
to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.
-Mary Oliver
June 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I want
to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.
-Mary Oliver
to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.
-Mary Oliver
Always a good reminder. Self-care is also a form of resistance.
March 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Always a good reminder. Self-care is also a form of resistance.
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Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.
March 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.
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"Most of EPA’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...
Opinion | Three Former E.P.A. Leaders: You’ll Miss It When It’s Gone
When the next environmental catastrophe arrives, who will be there to deal with the emergency and its aftermath?
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
"Most of EPA’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...
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I'm old enough to remember when trump tried to say people in the Biden Administration were incompetent, but none of them accidentally fired the Ebola team. Or the nuclear weapons folks.
Just sayin'.
Just sayin'.
February 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I'm old enough to remember when trump tried to say people in the Biden Administration were incompetent, but none of them accidentally fired the Ebola team. Or the nuclear weapons folks.
Just sayin'.
Just sayin'.
I’m ready!
February 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I’m ready!
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The artists job is to say no in thunder. - Herman Melville
February 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
The artists job is to say no in thunder. - Herman Melville
My client is dying
She asks me to choose
Which color to view the world in
I choose baby blue, the color of soft love
I choose sunshine yellow, the color of hope
She can no longer clutch her crayons
So we draw together
Heads bowed
As if in prayer
-LAR
She asks me to choose
Which color to view the world in
I choose baby blue, the color of soft love
I choose sunshine yellow, the color of hope
She can no longer clutch her crayons
So we draw together
Heads bowed
As if in prayer
-LAR
February 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
My client is dying
She asks me to choose
Which color to view the world in
I choose baby blue, the color of soft love
I choose sunshine yellow, the color of hope
She can no longer clutch her crayons
So we draw together
Heads bowed
As if in prayer
-LAR
She asks me to choose
Which color to view the world in
I choose baby blue, the color of soft love
I choose sunshine yellow, the color of hope
She can no longer clutch her crayons
So we draw together
Heads bowed
As if in prayer
-LAR
For us healers,
the work is endless…
but little by little
we all learn to sew.
-LAR
(insomnia poet)
the work is endless…
but little by little
we all learn to sew.
-LAR
(insomnia poet)
February 22, 2025 at 7:03 AM
For us healers,
the work is endless…
but little by little
we all learn to sew.
-LAR
(insomnia poet)
the work is endless…
but little by little
we all learn to sew.
-LAR
(insomnia poet)
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The book by Professor @timothysnyder.bsky.social outlines how we can fight tyranny, published in 2017 during the first Trump administration.
Read the list here with short explanations, or just read the short book itself: scholars.org/contribution...
Read the list here with short explanations, or just read the short book itself: scholars.org/contribution...
Twenty Lessons on Fighting Tyranny from the Twentieth Century
Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so. From acr...
scholars.org
February 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
The book by Professor @timothysnyder.bsky.social outlines how we can fight tyranny, published in 2017 during the first Trump administration.
Read the list here with short explanations, or just read the short book itself: scholars.org/contribution...
Read the list here with short explanations, or just read the short book itself: scholars.org/contribution...