Hap Connors
@hapconnors.bsky.social
Recovering politician and lobbyist trying to live my values and seeking new ways to make our communities vibrant.
“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.”
John F. Kennedy
#Democrats #surrender
John F. Kennedy
#Democrats #surrender
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.”
John F. Kennedy
#Democrats #surrender
John F. Kennedy
#Democrats #surrender
“When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.” – Fannie Lou Hamer
#oneness #community #values #votingrights
#oneness #community #values #votingrights
November 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.” – Fannie Lou Hamer
#oneness #community #values #votingrights
#oneness #community #values #votingrights
“Imagine a country whose citizens—maybe even its leaders—are brave, calm, and open towards each other; a country whose people realize that all human beings belong together as one family and must act accordingly.”
- BR. DAVID STEINDL-RAST
#kindness #oneness #community
- BR. DAVID STEINDL-RAST
#kindness #oneness #community
November 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
“Imagine a country whose citizens—maybe even its leaders—are brave, calm, and open towards each other; a country whose people realize that all human beings belong together as one family and must act accordingly.”
- BR. DAVID STEINDL-RAST
#kindness #oneness #community
- BR. DAVID STEINDL-RAST
#kindness #oneness #community
“Knowingly or not, all of us are embarked on a common journey in consciousness whose goal is our full awakening to unity.”
~ Anna Lemkov
#journey #oneness #community #interbeing
~ Anna Lemkov
#journey #oneness #community #interbeing
November 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
“Knowingly or not, all of us are embarked on a common journey in consciousness whose goal is our full awakening to unity.”
~ Anna Lemkov
#journey #oneness #community #interbeing
~ Anna Lemkov
#journey #oneness #community #interbeing
“…There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places and desecrated places….”
~ Wendell Berry
#mindfulness #spirit #sacredplaces #nature
there are only sacred places and desecrated places….”
~ Wendell Berry
#mindfulness #spirit #sacredplaces #nature
November 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
“…There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places and desecrated places….”
~ Wendell Berry
#mindfulness #spirit #sacredplaces #nature
there are only sacred places and desecrated places….”
~ Wendell Berry
#mindfulness #spirit #sacredplaces #nature
“To acknowledge and cross a new threshold is always a challenge.…
“Whatever comes, the great sacrament of life will remain faithful to us, blessing us always with visible signs of invisible grace. We merely need to trust.”
— John O’Donohue, “To Bless the Space Between Us”
#thresholds #halloween
“Whatever comes, the great sacrament of life will remain faithful to us, blessing us always with visible signs of invisible grace. We merely need to trust.”
— John O’Donohue, “To Bless the Space Between Us”
#thresholds #halloween
October 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
“To acknowledge and cross a new threshold is always a challenge.…
“Whatever comes, the great sacrament of life will remain faithful to us, blessing us always with visible signs of invisible grace. We merely need to trust.”
— John O’Donohue, “To Bless the Space Between Us”
#thresholds #halloween
“Whatever comes, the great sacrament of life will remain faithful to us, blessing us always with visible signs of invisible grace. We merely need to trust.”
— John O’Donohue, “To Bless the Space Between Us”
#thresholds #halloween
“We who easily grow apart from the world are returned to the great store of life all around us…. There is no real aloneness. There is solitude and the nurturing silence that is relationship with ourselves, but even then we are part of something larger.”
- Linda Hogan, Chickasaw poet
#oneness
- Linda Hogan, Chickasaw poet
#oneness
October 30, 2025 at 12:48 PM
“We who easily grow apart from the world are returned to the great store of life all around us…. There is no real aloneness. There is solitude and the nurturing silence that is relationship with ourselves, but even then we are part of something larger.”
- Linda Hogan, Chickasaw poet
#oneness
- Linda Hogan, Chickasaw poet
#oneness
October 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
“Empathy and nonseparation are the most fundamental aspects of loving-kindness. This is what we need to recognize as loving-kindness: a radical seeing of our nonseparateness, knowing our oneness, our indivisibility.”
— Sharon Salzberg
@lionsroarbuddhism #compassion #interdependence #community
— Sharon Salzberg
@lionsroarbuddhism #compassion #interdependence #community
October 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
“Empathy and nonseparation are the most fundamental aspects of loving-kindness. This is what we need to recognize as loving-kindness: a radical seeing of our nonseparateness, knowing our oneness, our indivisibility.”
— Sharon Salzberg
@lionsroarbuddhism #compassion #interdependence #community
— Sharon Salzberg
@lionsroarbuddhism #compassion #interdependence #community
“Thoughts in Jail”
Prisoners are we….
I look down the long row Of gray-blanketed heaps. Under every heap a woman, Weak, sick, but determined, Twenty gray fortresses of determination.
— Katharine Rolston Fisher, 1871 – 1950
#womenssuffrage #protest #NoKingsDay #freedom #courage #history
Prisoners are we….
I look down the long row Of gray-blanketed heaps. Under every heap a woman, Weak, sick, but determined, Twenty gray fortresses of determination.
— Katharine Rolston Fisher, 1871 – 1950
#womenssuffrage #protest #NoKingsDay #freedom #courage #history
October 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
“Thoughts in Jail”
Prisoners are we….
I look down the long row Of gray-blanketed heaps. Under every heap a woman, Weak, sick, but determined, Twenty gray fortresses of determination.
— Katharine Rolston Fisher, 1871 – 1950
#womenssuffrage #protest #NoKingsDay #freedom #courage #history
Prisoners are we….
I look down the long row Of gray-blanketed heaps. Under every heap a woman, Weak, sick, but determined, Twenty gray fortresses of determination.
— Katharine Rolston Fisher, 1871 – 1950
#womenssuffrage #protest #NoKingsDay #freedom #courage #history
"Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change."
— Terry Tempest Williams
#NoKingsDay #community #together #courage #resilience
— Terry Tempest Williams
#NoKingsDay #community #together #courage #resilience
October 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change."
— Terry Tempest Williams
#NoKingsDay #community #together #courage #resilience
— Terry Tempest Williams
#NoKingsDay #community #together #courage #resilience
Scary “terrorists” in DC at the No Kings Rally.
#NoKingsDay
#NoKingsDay
October 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Scary “terrorists” in DC at the No Kings Rally.
#NoKingsDay
#NoKingsDay
October 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
“This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.
“Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light….”
- JOHN O'DONOHUE
#liminalspaces #community #soul #spirit #breathe
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.
“Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light….”
- JOHN O'DONOHUE
#liminalspaces #community #soul #spirit #breathe
October 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.
“Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light….”
- JOHN O'DONOHUE
#liminalspaces #community #soul #spirit #breathe
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.
“Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light….”
- JOHN O'DONOHUE
#liminalspaces #community #soul #spirit #breathe
“And if it’s true we are alone, we are alone together, the way blades of grass are alone, but exist as a field.”
— ROSEMERRY WAHTOLA TROMMER
#oneness #community #together
— ROSEMERRY WAHTOLA TROMMER
#oneness #community #together
October 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
“And if it’s true we are alone, we are alone together, the way blades of grass are alone, but exist as a field.”
— ROSEMERRY WAHTOLA TROMMER
#oneness #community #together
— ROSEMERRY WAHTOLA TROMMER
#oneness #community #together
“When I am among the trees…
Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, ‘Stay awhile.’
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, ‘It’s simple,’ they say,
‘and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.’”
— Mary Oliver
Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, ‘Stay awhile.’
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, ‘It’s simple,’ they say,
‘and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.’”
— Mary Oliver
October 4, 2025 at 2:42 AM
“When I am among the trees…
Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, ‘Stay awhile.’
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, ‘It’s simple,’ they say,
‘and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.’”
— Mary Oliver
Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, ‘Stay awhile.’
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, ‘It’s simple,’ they say,
‘and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.’”
— Mary Oliver
“Spirit….
Come down to earth as leaves in autumn
to lie in the patient rot of winter.
Rise again in spring's green fountains.
Drift in sunlight with the sacred pollen
to fall in blessing.
All earth's dust
has been life, held soul, is holy.”
~ Ursula K. Le Guin #mindfulness #transitions #soul
Come down to earth as leaves in autumn
to lie in the patient rot of winter.
Rise again in spring's green fountains.
Drift in sunlight with the sacred pollen
to fall in blessing.
All earth's dust
has been life, held soul, is holy.”
~ Ursula K. Le Guin #mindfulness #transitions #soul
October 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“Spirit….
Come down to earth as leaves in autumn
to lie in the patient rot of winter.
Rise again in spring's green fountains.
Drift in sunlight with the sacred pollen
to fall in blessing.
All earth's dust
has been life, held soul, is holy.”
~ Ursula K. Le Guin #mindfulness #transitions #soul
Come down to earth as leaves in autumn
to lie in the patient rot of winter.
Rise again in spring's green fountains.
Drift in sunlight with the sacred pollen
to fall in blessing.
All earth's dust
has been life, held soul, is holy.”
~ Ursula K. Le Guin #mindfulness #transitions #soul
“To Know the Dark”
“To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.”
— Wendell Berry #darkness #light #activehope
“To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.”
— Wendell Berry #darkness #light #activehope
October 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
“To Know the Dark”
“To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.”
— Wendell Berry #darkness #light #activehope
“To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.”
— Wendell Berry #darkness #light #activehope
“Transformation usually involves the shedding of old ways, especially those that have become burdens.
“…[No]…matter what you have done, it is still possible to be and do something new.”
— Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
#autumn #transformation #impermanence #mindfulness
“…[No]…matter what you have done, it is still possible to be and do something new.”
— Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
#autumn #transformation #impermanence #mindfulness
September 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“Transformation usually involves the shedding of old ways, especially those that have become burdens.
“…[No]…matter what you have done, it is still possible to be and do something new.”
— Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
#autumn #transformation #impermanence #mindfulness
“…[No]…matter what you have done, it is still possible to be and do something new.”
— Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
#autumn #transformation #impermanence #mindfulness
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape—the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.”
—ANDREW WYETH
#autumn #naturesrythym #mindfulness #spiritual #transitions
—ANDREW WYETH
#autumn #naturesrythym #mindfulness #spiritual #transitions
September 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape—the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.”
—ANDREW WYETH
#autumn #naturesrythym #mindfulness #spiritual #transitions
—ANDREW WYETH
#autumn #naturesrythym #mindfulness #spiritual #transitions
“As I enter this autumn season — and the autumn of my own existence — I am growing slowly more comfortable with the becoming less and less, so that more and more can be revealed. Bring on this Autumn of the soul. Welcome these colors shining through.”
- Omid Safi
#autumn #mindfulness #ego #masks
- Omid Safi
#autumn #mindfulness #ego #masks
September 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
“As I enter this autumn season — and the autumn of my own existence — I am growing slowly more comfortable with the becoming less and less, so that more and more can be revealed. Bring on this Autumn of the soul. Welcome these colors shining through.”
- Omid Safi
#autumn #mindfulness #ego #masks
- Omid Safi
#autumn #mindfulness #ego #masks
“Autumn asks that we prepare for the future —that we be wise in the ways of garnering and keeping. But it also asks that we learn to let go—to acknowledge the beauty of sparseness.”
- Bonaro W. Overstreet
#autumn #rest #prepare #naturesrythym #mindfulness
- Bonaro W. Overstreet
#autumn #rest #prepare #naturesrythym #mindfulness
September 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
“Autumn asks that we prepare for the future —that we be wise in the ways of garnering and keeping. But it also asks that we learn to let go—to acknowledge the beauty of sparseness.”
- Bonaro W. Overstreet
#autumn #rest #prepare #naturesrythym #mindfulness
- Bonaro W. Overstreet
#autumn #rest #prepare #naturesrythym #mindfulness
“Risk”
And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to blossom.
— Anais Nin #mindfulness #awakening #courage
And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to blossom.
— Anais Nin #mindfulness #awakening #courage
September 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“Risk”
And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to blossom.
— Anais Nin #mindfulness #awakening #courage
And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to blossom.
— Anais Nin #mindfulness #awakening #courage
“When I started to fume,
God grabbed me in his arms
impossibly strong and tender
and said, dear one,
don’t build our house too small
and I dropped my hammer
and nails and noticed
how fine the breeze
without walls.”
- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
#mindfulness #activehope #oneness #community
God grabbed me in his arms
impossibly strong and tender
and said, dear one,
don’t build our house too small
and I dropped my hammer
and nails and noticed
how fine the breeze
without walls.”
- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
#mindfulness #activehope #oneness #community
September 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“When I started to fume,
God grabbed me in his arms
impossibly strong and tender
and said, dear one,
don’t build our house too small
and I dropped my hammer
and nails and noticed
how fine the breeze
without walls.”
- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
#mindfulness #activehope #oneness #community
God grabbed me in his arms
impossibly strong and tender
and said, dear one,
don’t build our house too small
and I dropped my hammer
and nails and noticed
how fine the breeze
without walls.”
- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
#mindfulness #activehope #oneness #community