It works. You remember they’re human, and stop tripping out. Earthy (!) Buddhist wisdom: www.elephantjournal.com/2010/05/tort...

Homophobia is not an expression of strength. It is an expression of fear.

Get just Elephant's best, most helpful articles: elephantjournal.com/best (free). May it be of benefit!

The Mary Oliver Poem that has Saved my Life, Again & Again. | elephant journal These are the words that carry me, that settle me, that bring me back home to myself.

When my heart is unsettled. When my breathing is heavy. When I’m in the dark depths of loneliness. These are the words that carry me, that settle me, that bring me back home to myself: elejrnl.com?p=3006012

My dog Winfield got attacked this morning by a dog leaping out of a truck’s window. | elephant journal This morning I was biking to coffee with Winnie, my dog, running alongside...while Kelsey, my wife, drove our baby Willa and her son Leo. It was a nice cool sunny morning. About two blocks from the c...

It's not every morning you're on your way to get coffee and a dog leaps out of a truck window and attacks your dog

"Decency becomes the absence of strategy.
Our approach should be simple-minded sometimes,
very simple, allowing a sense of genuineness to emerge.”
~ Chogyam Trungpa

Turning Imposter Syndrome into an Unconventional Ally. | elephant journal When I realized this "thing" had a name, I also realized it had been living in my head rent-free for most of my adult life. I decided to name mine. His name is David.

Turning+Imposter+Syndrome+into+an+Unconventional+Ally.

I wrote this fun story where I named my Imposter Syndrome, David.

It's wild that when you actually put a name to something you struggle with if softens things for you.

Thank you to @elephantjournal.com I am honored.

"Where have all the good men gone? The dating reality for women seeking 'the One."" www.elephantjournal.com/2017/04/ill-...

It's directly connected to cancer--read up on the Philadelphia Phillies.

Aggression creates aggression, not justice or equality. | elephant journal Above: Daryl Davis, who befriended dozens of KKK members, shows off collection of robes surrendered to him. Talking to anyone anywhere [these days] is just landmine hopscotch. ~ Tina Fey Just like you...

In a world full of fascist haters, be a Daryl Davis:

A Conservative living next door to you: consensual homosexual love is...a sin.

A Conservative living next door to you: totally okay with Trump raping children.

meanwhile Trump is gutting the Forest Service, NCAR, NOAA, science funding, climate crisis and fire research funding for his 1.5 Trillion with a T new military budget.

This video will do in five minutes what takes your meditation two hours.
www.elephantjournal.com/2012/04/skip...

Oooh, that's supposed to be very, very good! ~ Molly, ed.

What books are on your desk right now? Or on your bedside table, or your end table, or your floor in stacks, falling down even though you keep picking them back up again? Curious minds want to know 🤓

(You say you wanna Revolution) Stop Doing This. ~ Waylon Lewis {Walk the Talk Show Podcast, Video} | elephant journal And yet our ethics and values go out the window...

Find the full video and podcast on Elephant and help feed the good wolf:
"I want to encourage people to feed the good wolf: the wolf of independence, of journalism, of community." ~ Waylon Lewis

Here's a taste for your listening pleasure:

Just released! 🎉Listen to this week's Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis episode 👇🏼

Out of the Dark: 10 Spring Quotes to Revive our Hopeless Hearts. | elephant journal So, as I am wont to do in moments of utter despair, I went hunting for some hope to pull me out of the dark and found these 10 quotes. They’re like a

“‘Is the spring coming?’ he said. ‘What is it like?’…’It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…'” ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

Trump Administration Live Updates: Bondi Fired as Attorney General

"Ms. Bondi surrendered much of the department’s historic independence and oversaw the exodus of experienced career officials, leaving the department’s public corruption and national security units, along with many local U.S. attorneys’ offices, weakened and demoralized."

WHOAH

21 “Non-Spiritual” Things that make us Happy:
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Out of the Dark: 10 Spring Quotes to Revive our Hopeless Hearts. | elephant journal So, as I am wont to do in moments of utter despair, I went hunting for some hope to pull me out of the dark and found these 10 quotes. They’re like a

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” ~ Anne Bradstreet

The Performance Model of Masculinity Cost Me 30 Years of Real Connection. | elephant journal For 30 years, I was the model of male performance masculinity. My generation didn't call it the Manosphere, Red Pill Society, The Abundance Mindset, Hypergamy,

"We are in the middle of a real crisis of male loneliness. The data is unambiguous. And the loudest voices offering men a way through it are selling a system that the research shows produces more of it."

Two years ago today. But but "both sides the same." #easter #trans

Unconditionally Cheerful April Fool's. ~ Linda V. Lewis | elephant journal Unconditionally Cheerful April Fool's. ~ Linda V. Lewis

“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.” ~ William Shakespeare. {Just about everything we published today was balderdash).

Cheerful April Fool's!

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We can not judge anyone—even the Dalai Lama—by their worst moments. I get it. www.elephantjournal.com/2021/04/dala...

My mom had a blue one and a yellow one. ❤

They're still great!