2019/2020 winter practices

i’m slowly ramping up to these as fall comes to a close. these will be in full effect winter solstice (21 dec) to spring equinox (20 mar). of course, there will be exceptions, but generally speaking, to survive and thrive this winter, i am committing to these practices/behaviors:

tonglen

readings on the practice, tonglen

toxic masculinity: two current problematic narratives

in the last few months, i’ve heard two narratives repeat that i just want to write out here. they have only happened in spaces that were segregated by gender and the space was assumed by most present parties to be all men.

book review: post traumatic slave syndrome

"how are you?", the feelings wheel, and the body

many years ago, i started to notice that i had a tendency to answer “how are you?” questions with a litany of actions. i would answer as if the person had asked me “what have you just done? what are you doing now? what are you about to do?”