The deceitful voice of depression
Trigger warning: Discussion of suicide.Author’s note: This is my first post on DK and I’m discussing something painful and personal. If you comment, please be kind.Depression is a silent killer. But we...
View ArticleI felt a funeral in my brain
Trigger warning: Discussion of suicide, depressionAuthor’s Note — the title comes from an Emily Dickinson poemAfter my last diary (www.dailykos.com/...) talking about my experience with suicide...
View ArticleWYFP - Friends and Foes, Future Camping Woes.
This week, I tell ya. I finally got to see my therapist after several weeks of interruption — he was sacked from where he worked for giving notice, and set up at the new place he was going to and we...
View ArticleKitchen Table Kibitzing, June 1, 2019: On the spot story telling
GiraffidaeI. Giraffidae’s name is referred to thusly because it is not until later in life that Giraffidaes journey away from their birth place to learn their name. This story is about one Giraffidae...
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"Climate Grief: The growing emotional toll of Climate Change" (And a new...
Climate Psychology Alliance (a group of academics, therapists, writers and artists) we believe that psychological understanding can help with the wide range of complex individual and cultural...
View ArticleSurvey shows 25% of Americans are 'skipping medical treatment' because of costs
The reasons Americans, liberal and conservative alike, want a more socialized medical infrastructure is because the private sector’s greed has become untenable for almost everyone. Drug prices continue...
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My Anxiety and Depression Over Climate Crisis
I grew up in a small farming community in East-Central Illinois.Bucolic farmland scenery. (Image from dbcoe)Through my formative years, my everyday view of the world looked something like this...
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Exxon conducted cutting-edge climate research decades ago and predicted the...
If you do not pay attention, then how can you prepare yourself for what is to come?This critical moment in time is, our last chance to act before it is too late, most will scroll past this diary, and...
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WYFP - Elder Care and the Anxieties
Mum is out of town this weekend, so it’s just Gran and I here at the house. So far we’ve done real well, she ate all her dinner last night and all of her breakfast this morning, and has taken her...
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Wildfires sweep across the Arctic circle; seventy percent of soil carbon...
It’s time to tell the full truth. It’s time to pursue hospice, with as much honesty, integrity, and compassion as we can muster. It’s time to admit that ignoring the decades-long warnings about climate...
View ArticleBrain
This is an old strip (three years!) I posted when Fetch was just starting. I thought it would be a good introduction to the personal side of my cartooning. Fetch has been a webcomic through which I...
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Alaskan marine-terminating glacier melting 100 times faster than current...
“We found that melt rates are significantly higher than expected across the whole underwater face of the glacier – in some places 100 times higher than theory would predict.”– Rebecca Jackson Trouble...
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Peat, the world's largest terrestrial carbon store, ignites into...
Throughout the High Arctic of Canada, Alaska, and Siberia unprecedented wildfires are raging. Thanks to stunning satellite images from NASA and the EU of the burning Arctic, this crisis has made...
View ArticleGreenland's Inuit traumatized by the climate crisis; N. Atlantic Current...
I am not sure if people realize the significance of the dramatic and probable, irreversible loss of Greenland's ice by warming oceans and atmospheric changes.Most of the time I feel a good majority...
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Dead bodies piling up on Alaska's beaches due to an extraordinary marine...
And all those facing outward, towards the planetary, the geologic, the unknown, raised a great cry, a witnessing of the very tide that had been predicted. Homo Colossus did not stir from its dream of...
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WYFP - The Great Pennsic War XLVIII (anxiety camping edition)
My first Pennsic was number 17, summer of 1988, I believe. But it was my first major war and I had an incredible time. I traveled with my then boyfriend and was sworn to the Kingdom of Calontir in...
View ArticleClimate Anxiety is real, and can make us terrible activists.
Environmental News is a Depressing MessMy weekly digest of news is always harrowing. Just this week, I received the news that hundreds of acres of ecologically important Amazon Rainforest are burning,...
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Is Social Media Making Us Sick? AOC quit some of it this year, because...
UPDATE: For clarity, YES this site IS definable as a social/ digital media site, and the diary’s content applies fully to it; this is not a diary taking any superior position whatsoever toward the...
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Get outside: hiking for mental and physical health. Plus: Mongolian yaks - on...
There is a fair amount of research* that supports the idea that getting outside, moving one’s body, and being in nature is healthy and this concept is seen throughout the literature: “contact with...
View ArticleWYFP - Post Turkey Day Musings
So Turkey Day is over, and the dreaded “holiday season” is off to it’s usual mad start. We had a quiet day on Thursday, my aunt and uncle came to visit briefly and we had a nice meal with all the...
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