Episode 19--Post-Election Relief & Responding to Listener Comments

<p>Heidi and Paul discuss their experience of the election-that-wouldn&apos;t-end... their immense relief to  have the sociopath-in-chief be gone... and they read and respond to listener comments about becoming &quot;Hope-free.&quot; <br/><br/>To join &quot;Creating Islands of Sanity&quot; private fb group-in-process: <a href='https://www.facebook.com/groups/1039749833155581/about/'>https://www.facebook.com/groups/1039749833155581/about/</a><br/><br/>References: (links coming soon)<br/><br/>Youtuber discussion about the wrongness Flat Earthers are sensing. <br/><br/>Noam Chomsky on it being 3 minutes to midnight. <br/><br/>Maria Bamford bit on giving up sugar!! (I FOUND IT!)<a href=' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qhARSaCko8'> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qhARSaCko8</a><br/><br/>Generative somatics--and adrienne marie brown on the need to listen to bodily knowing, to bring that wisdom into social activism. <br/><br/>Living resilience website resources (psychotherapy for climate grief that allows us to integrate difficult emotions; Catherine Ingram, friend of the late Leonard Cohen, on the near-impossibility for parents not to be in denial). <br/><br/>Emergence magazine article--acknowledging that countless other peoples have faced the ends of their worlds--and the wisdom and strength we can learn from that. <br/><br/>Philosophy tube and the (weirdly similar) cultural forces Confucius faced. <br/><br/>Bayo Akomolafe discussing the need for &quot;when urgency is great, to slow down&quot;, the vitality and agency and centrality of the world (&quot;Human beings are not all that&quot;), the virus not as enemy but as messenger, and the post-activist task of shapeshifting, unlearning whiteness &amp; more--all on &quot;Rune Soup&quot; podcast.<br/><br/><br/>Music: <br/><br/>Widespread Panic<br/><br/>Marc Maron<br/><br/>Tom Waits<br/><br/>Natalie Merchant<br/><br/><br/><br/></p>