Last night I read your "Steampunk's Guide to the Apocalypse". I wish it sounded quaint, or ironic, or outdated. It didn't. It probably landed harder last night than at any time in the last 15 years. I bought it to send to the young people in my life, the ones who made me start listening to you, but who have not yet had decades of anxiety about the growing threats wear down their adrenal glands. It's a good book - I love the language you used - and the advice is solid. Had I come across it I would have read it many years ago (since I've always been a prepper, punk, and Victorian cosplayer) but I'm glad I read it last night. It reminded me of so much that I forgot I knew. You should see the trebuchet we built. May the seeds we planted shade us now.
The two transgirls at my house are pretty tense about things, and we're in the northeast where things aren't as sketchy, at least not yet. Stay strong! And strength to your equally anxious friends and Rintrah!
I had to start one of my cats on anti-anxiety meds earlier this year. He's always been a little tightly wound because he's a stress sponge but this year escalated things. My vet, who knows I'm trans, wasn't surprised. I'm doing everything I should to manage stress - except sleeping, that one is escaping me - but the baseline has just gotten so high.
At least his meds are effective & he's chilling, getting more cuddly. Maybe I can sponge some of that from him.
I find it difficult to truly express how worried I am about how things are shaking out. It's silly, I'm straight, white, cis and live in Scandinavia, so about as safe and insulated from the woes if the world as one coule get. Somehow it doesn't make it feel any better.
I come from the place of being a teacher, and a lot of my learners are children who have fled war, persecution, genocide and instability of all kinds. I wish I could say that I believed in a world where that doesn't happen, but I'm not too sure anymore.
The only thing I can say, is that the ethos and values you espouse, has helped shape how I interact with the world. Even though things are grim, know that you are having an impact on lots of people, even across the atlantic.
If there is anything allies and friends - even in far flung places - can do to support people in the US, let me know.
PS: One of my learners borrowed my copy of The Sapling Cage and loved it.
Last night I read your "Steampunk's Guide to the Apocalypse". I wish it sounded quaint, or ironic, or outdated. It didn't. It probably landed harder last night than at any time in the last 15 years. I bought it to send to the young people in my life, the ones who made me start listening to you, but who have not yet had decades of anxiety about the growing threats wear down their adrenal glands. It's a good book - I love the language you used - and the advice is solid. Had I come across it I would have read it many years ago (since I've always been a prepper, punk, and Victorian cosplayer) but I'm glad I read it last night. It reminded me of so much that I forgot I knew. You should see the trebuchet we built. May the seeds we planted shade us now.
We either speak up, or fade away. And I prefer not to keep quiet.
Thank you for words I needed to read today, Margaret.
The two transgirls at my house are pretty tense about things, and we're in the northeast where things aren't as sketchy, at least not yet. Stay strong! And strength to your equally anxious friends and Rintrah!
As always, you can find my translation into German here: https://www.trueten.de/archives/13837-Ich-kann-dir-nicht-sagen,-was-kommt-oder-Wie-man-mit-den-Nachrichten-umgeht.html
If anyone has a link to the meme Margaret refers to in the post, I would be grateful :-)
TIA,
Thomas
thank you. i needed this.
I had to start one of my cats on anti-anxiety meds earlier this year. He's always been a little tightly wound because he's a stress sponge but this year escalated things. My vet, who knows I'm trans, wasn't surprised. I'm doing everything I should to manage stress - except sleeping, that one is escaping me - but the baseline has just gotten so high.
At least his meds are effective & he's chilling, getting more cuddly. Maybe I can sponge some of that from him.
I find it difficult to truly express how worried I am about how things are shaking out. It's silly, I'm straight, white, cis and live in Scandinavia, so about as safe and insulated from the woes if the world as one coule get. Somehow it doesn't make it feel any better.
I come from the place of being a teacher, and a lot of my learners are children who have fled war, persecution, genocide and instability of all kinds. I wish I could say that I believed in a world where that doesn't happen, but I'm not too sure anymore.
The only thing I can say, is that the ethos and values you espouse, has helped shape how I interact with the world. Even though things are grim, know that you are having an impact on lots of people, even across the atlantic.
If there is anything allies and friends - even in far flung places - can do to support people in the US, let me know.
PS: One of my learners borrowed my copy of The Sapling Cage and loved it.
Thank you for your grace and courage during this very shit time. ❤️