Coffee and Fire

Photo by Marc Szeglat on Unsplash

Lava from Kilauea creating something new on the Big Island; photo taken in 2017. 

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No more sugar-coating

I don't know about you, but my coffee needs a bit extra to even deal with this election dumpster fire.  The post I previously wrote for today was all about self-care in light of an undecided election -  I threw it in the dumpster to  burn alongside all of the pundits' articles currently dissecting what happened. 

Just so you know, I feel betrayed by  a few writers and podcasters whom I have admired for some time - their current blame-game is intellectually specious at best. And pandering at worst - aka covering their backsides before the January 20th inauguration.

Sorry - the sugarcoating is gone. I am angry.

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Writers I am still reading & following

• Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson. Richardson has been writing and speaking since 2016 about our elections and government.  She is a national treasure.
• The View From Rural Missouri, Jess Piper.  I grew up in the Mid-west and began following Piper as a way to connect with back-home.  She's a blue dot in a red sea.
• beloved, Brian Recker. I started following Recker's deconstruction posts a couple of years ago and recommend his articles about Christianity based on love, not dogma.
  
• Today's Edition Newsletter, Robert B. Hubbell. I just recently began reading Hubbell's newsletter - he's an optimist and a realist. And encouraging in the midst of this insanity.
  
• Is My Kid the Asshole?, Melinda Wenner Moyer.  I began following Moyer because she pushes back against unrealistic parenting advice on social media.
• And, finally, I've started reading Monica Parker's The Power of Wonder: The Extraordinary Emotion That will Change the Way You Live, Learn, and Lead.  Find it at your library, local bookstore or Bookshop.org.  No affiliate connection on this one.

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Grab a cup of coffee. 

Do what you need to do to take care of yourself.

Surround yourself with friends and communities - in person and online - who will stand with you to turn this dumpster fire into something new.

And know that on the other side of your grief is the opportunity to channel your anger into a powerful resistance to what is coming down the road.

We are not going back - we are going to create something new out of this dumpster fire,    
Nonna