Susan Bodnar, PhD
@susanbodnarphd
Psychologist, life warrior and writer. "Few are guilty but all are responsible" AJ Heschel. PI Book - Unmoored: Ecopsychology for a Changing World (Wiley).
They know how to work together and share even when the resource of limited 💙
AQI is over 500, gas and food are too expensive, and voting rights are being challenged. The person in charge of my country is making billions off of the people's backs, and corruption is widespread. In what country do I live?
AQI is rated as unhealthy for all. Here in the mountains. So sure - abolish environmental tracking and regs. In the meantime . . . this. Midday. No rain forecast. Just smoke. Who needs a functioning EPA?
Yup, 'cause this is what we're going for. Destroy our real life and replace it with AI-generated Meta-lands for the broligarchy to profit.
At the vet waiting room, people gruff and tender, diligently caring for their pets, mostly cats and dogs. This humanity is comforting in a country that is forsaking it.
Authors from Greece, rural and urban USA, Amazon, Kuwait, Pakistan, Japan, China, Sudan, West Africa, India, Paraiba Valley, Albania, the Diné, the Haudenosaunee, the Objiwe, and more. Guest chapters by Linda Buzzell, Panu Pikhala, Judith Anderson, Ranjan Datta, Karenna Gore. Discount for Bluesky.
Mamdani victory baking, especially for my daughter but ultimately for everyone and all the winners and especially democracy
I wonder what he would think about our country right now. Who wants to guess?
Dear Canada - I am sorry. Not all of us are with him and his people. We are your friend and don't want this chaos because we love hanging with you in your country. 💙💪
I asked Woody to explain what is going on with our government, and he didn't know.
This is how I'm handling everything. By the time this is over-and it will be over-i will have made way too many crochet blankets that nobody really wants but at least I'm finding a way to metabolize my hurt and anger about the loss of my country and our constitution.
My grandmother's sewing book, with instructions for every type of stitch. She made clothes. It wasn't so long ago. But doesn't it feel like forever ago? Too far, too fast with no reflection creates a society of financial structures and algorithms instead of people.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder. Most of you have already read it, but today was my day. You probably know what I'm feeling. Is happening, isn't it?