Month: June 2018

Suicidal thoughts are treated like a crime

a piece of barbed wire Suicidal thoughts are treated like a crime

so REALLY?? they tell us to be sure to ask for help. What do we do when there is no safe "help" available? Until we are, as a society, willing to answer that question people will continue to die without being offered a chance to share and thus process their pain.  Calling 988 the current number for suicide hotline is also unsafe. Suicidal thoughts are treated like a crime. They will report you and send out cops to your home. Rob Wipond is writing a lot about this these days (2025).  A system that criminalizes pain rather than supporting that person with love is sick.

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Healing plants: mineral rich herbs for nourishment etc

young plant top Healing plants: mineral rich herbs for nourishment etc -

Healing plants: mineral rich herbs for nourishment etc -- My primary relationships right now are with the plants that are healing me. It's an all encompassing love affair.

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Trauma, injury, illness, waking up

purple daisy trauma, injury and illness

It’s strange how it works, or maybe it’s not, but trauma, injury and illness can truly be passageways to waking up and it’s not generally appreciated at all in western medicine which seeks to suppress everything and thus stop that process. Tragic really.

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Meditation on death, impermanence and post traumatic stress

fall leaves death, impermanence

Update 2026: on death and impermanence...death became part of my life earlier than it does for many people. I started losing friends and people I loved in highschool. One of my closest friends died of AIDS when I was 21. That led me to work in hospice with many young dying people in San Francisco by the time I was 23. That led to my first social work position. Working with folks with HIV and AIDS at the beginning of that cruel epidemic that took so many young, vibrant lives. It shaped me. Death remains something familiar and has always been part of my work.

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