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Writer, teacher, spiritual director, mountain lover, beagle mom, and living into my crone-ness, posting here as my true self, Susan Sevier. Get my newsletter, Through the Cracks: Beauty and Light from the Broken Places at subversivelight.substack.com.
8 Contradictions of Life During Trumpism - And How to Hold Them Without Breaking
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8 Contradictions of Life During Trumpism - And How to Hold Them Without Breaking
You're not failing, you're holding space for paradoxes most people avoid. Here's how to stop treating the disorientation as weakness and start navigating it like terrain.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
8 Contradictions of Life During Trumpism - And How to Hold Them Without Breaking
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Hope is a thing with feathers...
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Hope is a thing with feathers...
Looking Through the Cracks #2
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October 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Hope is a thing with feathers...
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Just what I needed to read tonight.
3 Resistance Messages That Backfire — and What to Say Instead
Authoritarians thrive when resistance runs on alarm alone. Fear, outrage, and sweeping calls spread fast but leave people drained — here’s how to write and read for the long game.
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September 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Just what I needed to read tonight.
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My Comment to the Forest Service on the Roadless Rule
58 million acres of wild forest hang in the balance. Here’s the letter I sent and how you can add your voice.
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September 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Tending the Gedenkstätten
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Tending the Gedenkstätten
Through the Cracks #31
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September 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Tending the Gedenkstätten
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This Bill Could Save America’s Public Lands – If We Act
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This Bill Could Save America’s Public Lands – If We Act
The public lands bill Democrats could pass next month, if they wanted to.
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August 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This Bill Could Save America’s Public Lands – If We Act
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Strategic Mindfulness for Resistance: 16 Mindful States For Defying Trumpism
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Tools for the times in which we live. #subversivelightllc
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Tools for the times in which we live. #subversivelightllc
Strategic Mindfulness for Resistance: 16 Mindful States For Defying Trumpism
Authoritarians rely on your exhaustion, distraction, and collapse to succeed. This is your missing toolkit for staying human while fighting back.
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August 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Strategic Mindfulness for Resistance: 16 Mindful States For Defying Trumpism
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Tools for the times in which we live. #subversivelightllc
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Tools for the times in which we live. #subversivelightllc
Open My Ears, That I May Hear...
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A few words about the importance of our sense of hearing and what we do with it...
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A few words about the importance of our sense of hearing and what we do with it...
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Open My Ears, That I May Hear...
Through the Cracks #30
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July 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Open My Ears, That I May Hear...
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A few words about the importance of our sense of hearing and what we do with it...
#subversivelightlllc #spiritualdirection
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A few words about the importance of our sense of hearing and what we do with it...
#subversivelightlllc #spiritualdirection
Be stubborn. Like the moose.
Lingering Moose Shuts Down Popular Adirondack Trail for a Month www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/n...
Lingering Moose Shuts Down Popular Adirondack Trail for a Month www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/n...
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July 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Be stubborn. Like the moose.
Lingering Moose Shuts Down Popular Adirondack Trail for a Month www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/n...
Lingering Moose Shuts Down Popular Adirondack Trail for a Month www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/n...
Train in Nonviolence with the King Center
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Train in Nonviolence with the King Center
Learn the philosophy and practice that powered the Civil Rights Movement
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July 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Train in Nonviolence with the King Center
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We are all equal in awe...
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We are all equal in awe...
Through the Cracks #29
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June 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
We are all equal in awe...
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I know I have friends who need this.
When Trump Attacks Your Work: 75 Grounding Moves to Stay Effective
You can't serve from empty. But stepping away isn't an option. Strategic positioning for public servants trying to do good work under siege.
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June 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I know I have friends who need this.
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I used to sing on Good Friday. Now I write about singing...#subversivelightllc
I used to sing on Good Friday. Now I write about singing...#subversivelightllc
Were You There?
Through the Cracks: Special Edition
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April 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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I used to sing on Good Friday. Now I write about singing...#subversivelightllc
I used to sing on Good Friday. Now I write about singing...#subversivelightllc
My Archetypal Life
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My Archetypal Life
Through the Cracks #28
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April 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
My Archetypal Life
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A newer than new newsletter about finding beauty anyway. #subversivelightllc
A newer than new newsletter about finding beauty anyway. #subversivelightllc
As Winter Wanes...
Looking Through the Cracks #1
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March 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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A newer than new newsletter about finding beauty anyway. #subversivelightllc
A newer than new newsletter about finding beauty anyway. #subversivelightllc
Doorways, Unwanted yet Unavoidable --a kind of January newsletter. #writing #spiritualdirection #dreamanalysis #hadeninstitute
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Doorways, Unwanted yet Unavoidable
Through the Cracks #27: New Year Edition
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February 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Doorways, Unwanted yet Unavoidable --a kind of January newsletter. #writing #spiritualdirection #dreamanalysis #hadeninstitute
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Some kind of new and yet still old words for the season over on Substack...
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December 26, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Some kind of new and yet still old words for the season over on Substack...
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