Fairy tales, pins, and paradoxes Through the Cracks #39

Realizing your humanity in an increasingly inhuman world... #subversivelight #hadeninstitute #carljung #marionwoodman #fairytales

Susan Sevier (@subversivelight) Some new words and pictures gathered together which, I hope, make some sense!

A new essay for a cold, cold day...

The Skills We Built While Trump Tried to Break Us We didn't just endure this year. We learned skills, clarity and resolve they didn't mean to teach us – and these are things they can’t take from us.

A year-end summary worth reading...and reading again.

8 Contradictions of Life During Trumpism - And How to Hold Them Without Breaking You're not failing, you're holding space for paradoxes most people avoid. Here's how to stop treating the disorientation as weakness and start navigating it like terrain.

8 Contradictions of Life During Trumpism - And How to Hold Them Without Breaking
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Courage Through the Cracks #32

A new edition of Through the Cracks...#writing #spiritualdirection

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Hope is a thing with feathers... Looking Through the Cracks #2

Hope is a thing with feathers...
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And he is so confident in his right to do so that he doesn't even care that there are 30 people filming his actions. I am so sad.

3 Resistance Messages That Backfire — and What to Say Instead Authoritarians thrive when resistance runs on alarm alone. Fear, outrage, and sweeping calls spread fast but leave people drained — here’s how to write and read for the long game.

Just what I needed to read tonight.

My Comment to the Forest Service on the Roadless Rule 58 million acres of wild forest hang in the balance. Here’s the letter I sent and how you can add your voice.

11 Days left to comment. Please.

Tending the Gedenkstätten Through the Cracks #31

Tending the Gedenkstätten
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This Bill Could Save America’s Public Lands – If We Act The public lands bill Democrats could pass next month, if they wanted to.

This Bill Could Save America’s Public Lands – If We Act
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Strategic Mindfulness for Resistance: 16 Mindful States For Defying Trumpism Authoritarians rely on your exhaustion, distraction, and collapse to succeed. This is your missing toolkit for staying human while fighting back.

Strategic Mindfulness for Resistance: 16 Mindful States For Defying Trumpism
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Tools for the times in which we live. #subversivelightllc

Open My Ears, That I May Hear... Through the Cracks #30

Open My Ears, That I May Hear...
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A few words about the importance of our sense of hearing and what we do with it...
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Be stubborn. Like the moose.

Lingering Moose Shuts Down Popular Adirondack Trail for a Month www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/n...

Train in Nonviolence with the King Center Learn the philosophy and practice that powered the Civil Rights Movement

Train in Nonviolence with the King Center
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We are all equal in awe... Through the Cracks #29

We are all equal in awe...
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When Trump Attacks Your Work: 75 Grounding Moves to Stay Effective You can't serve from empty. But stepping away isn't an option. Strategic positioning for public servants trying to do good work under siege.

I know I have friends who need this.

Were You There? Through the Cracks: Special Edition

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I used to sing on Good Friday. Now I write about singing...#subversivelightllc

My Archetypal Life Through the Cracks #28

My Archetypal Life
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As Winter Wanes... Looking Through the Cracks #1

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A newer than new newsletter about finding beauty anyway. #subversivelightllc

Doorways, Unwanted yet Unavoidable Through the Cracks #27: New Year Edition

Doorways, Unwanted yet Unavoidable --a kind of January newsletter. #writing #spiritualdirection #dreamanalysis #hadeninstitute
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Some kind of new and yet still old words for the season over on Substack...

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