Next time you nod at a friend and raise your chin high, and you nod at an enemy and your chin lowers to the ground, know that it's probably not necessary now a days, they aren't likely to leap at you with their teeth, but take pride in the animal you are, with all that ancient safety knowledge rolling about in your head.

I'm a really small account, usually always given being an introvert, so it doesn't feel quite right to suggest this, but I'm sad the tag #coping has only three posts, now four and maybe what if people shared tips with the tag?

By the way, research is knowledge seeking, which releases dopamine just like gambling does, it's the old evolutionary thing with finding berry reward, but anyway if you feel bad but there's something you want to know about, look into it, then find a cool thing about it and look deeper, and then maybe you might feel a bit better.
#coping

No, I don't think I will identify the Nepenthes sp I bought simply labeled, "carnivorous plant". I have never owned this species, have no idea what it is, and I am absolutely in love with the sense of mystery, of watching something grow with zero idea of what's about to happen. Thank you, irresponsible grower, for this gift of wonder you have given me.
#nature

Daughter just asked if the television knew I had her, and I miss the days when the answer was no.

It warmed my heart today to see how many people were in a virtual seminar on standing up to street harassment, (ty again @NorCalCherylLyn ) knowing they do the lessons regularly and they get that attendance was nice. I've been transcribing my notes into my journal I read when the world frustrates me. Notes that help me stand up to it more effectively. Anyway, it was a great seminar, they have others, check out https://righttobe.org/our-training/
#politics #activism

Okay, so you know how some southern US women pretend to be ladies when they want to be snide, and it comes out all smooth like silk and the target of their anger is left confused? They get to be all proud of themselves for not losing their cool and being grown ups while seriously angry? Any other goths do their own version by pretending to be Morticia Addams? I like that better because she actually is genuinely kind.

I love #homeschooling. Seriously, I've been walking around with her for a couple of years trying to lecture her about useful plants around us, and she's interested, but it's just an info dump. It took the homeschoolers and their scavenger hunt suggestions to make it click that a list with the occasional "heart shaped leaf" or "fuzzy stem" will help teach identifying features, and doing this every few weeks will teach "when this is in bloom, keep your eyes out for..."

I suppose turning it into a board game is one way of dealing with the trauma of 2020, but I don't know what I would think if I was at a party and someone was all, "Hey, you know what would be fun? To relive 2020, but competitively!" I like how focused it is on America, that is very on brand for a game made here.

This is NOT GOOD. They're trying to take the casinos away from Indigenous people, only reason I like going occasionally is we don't pay them taxes and we rightfully should, seeing as how we live in an area that was set aside for them, but the city was built anyway.

#politics #racism
https://www.underscore.news/reporting/experts-say-lawsuits-pose-greatest-threat-to-tribes-in-decades