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"Grief is subversive, undermining the quiet agreement to behave and be in control of our emotions. It is an act of protest that declares our refusal to live numb and small. There is something feral about grief, something essentially outside the ordained and sanctioned behaviors of our culture. Because of that, grief is necessary to the vitality of the soul. Contrary to our fears, grief is suffused with life-force.... It is not a state of deadness or emotional flatness. Grief is alive, wild, untamed and cannot be domesticated. It resists the demands to remain passive and still. We move in jangled, unsettled, and riotous ways when grief takes hold of us. It is truly an emotion that rises from the soul."

~ Francis Weller: https://www.francisweller.net/

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That video is age restricted, but we teach gender dysphoria to babies? What is this thing that has sought to destroy our sense of what is appropriate? I am grieving for a culture that has gone insane.

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Thank you for sharing. And for understanding. And for connecting us with others who understand, others who grok this intense and complex experience.

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Jul 8, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Thanks for introducing us to the new Stack, Monica!

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Eating what today passes as food, becoming sedentary relying on machines, then the "treatment" of the ailments caused.

On top of all that the elites want us to have shortened lives and still next to no one cares, so I have been asking, do these people deserve to die?

As we take direction from the elites we are a lost cause. To those who have or haven't considered it start a garden now and begin the break away phase.

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