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whatever it is you need good luck for, i wish you good luck. tests, job, home life, social life, mental health, physical health, love life. you name it. this post is wishing you good luck on all of that.

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does this to you

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hey guys one day january will be over it's not today but it will be one day

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Me as I successfully navigate creating a Mighty Networks space for The Reiki School of Energy Healing as a total noob

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I'm grateful for all the sleeps yesterday 😴 I was so tired.

I'm grateful that I get to help my friend with the development of her Reiki School 🙌✨️ I'm going to spend some time today looking into Mighty Networks as an option to create a community for the school 💖 I'm already in CNS Kitchen on there and I like how it functions so hopefully it will be helpful for the school and student connections 😀

Daily Gratitude

January 27, 2025

What are you grateful for today?

Welcome to my gratitude support group! All are welcome to be a part of the gratitude crew. Re-blog, write a note or send an ask as often as makes sense for you (just once, every day, twice a year, a few times a month— doesn’t matter!)

I tag parts of the crew almost every day. If you’d like to be on the tag list let me know.

All posts will be tagged ‘resiliencewithin’s daily gratitude group’.

Prompt (if you want): What kind of weather are you grateful for?

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do it scared do it stupid do it alone etc etc but don’t do it hungry. eat a snack first

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Something that I think is very important to remember right now, is amidst all of the chaos and horror. You HAVE to take care of yourself.

Please, take breaks from social media. Take breaks from doomscrolling and the news. Go for a walk. Write. Paint. Draw. Work out. Watch your favorite show. Do whatever you need to do to keep yourself sane, because paralyzing yourself with fear doesn't help yourself or others.

Educate yourself, spread helpful information, spread positivity and support to your friends, followers, and family. And then when the weight of it all makes your heart and your neck hurt more than you can bare, step away for a moment.

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*whispers* holy shit people are amazing.

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The “Green Revolution” is the name given to a wholescale transformation of global food production led primarily by the United States that began in the 1940s and accelerated from the ’60s through the ’80s. It used collaborative research, public subsidies, chemical fertilizers, and genetic modifications to increase global food production, but it also led to greater carbon emissions from agriculture, soil erosion, increased diffusion of toxic chemicals, and other environmental degradations. There were also profoundly negative social consequences, as large agricultural production was emphasized without any accompanying focus on inequalities in land distribution or gendered labor. Overall food instability as a result in fact increased in countries where the Green Revolution took place, even as it decreased globally. How did that happen? The food writer and historian Mark Bittman notes that the massive decrease in global hunger in these years happened almost exclusively in China, where there was no Green Revolution. Instead, Chinese leaders focused on state support for independent farmers, and the goal was to reduce poverty, not just increase crop yields. Having more crops available does not mean they will be properly distributed, after all. Much of the world’s explosion of new corn products during the Green Revolution in other countries, for example, went to ethanol and high-fructose corn syrup. China’s more direct if still imperfect approach achieved more of what the Green Revolution promised: “Production tripled post-Mao, but, more important, the world’s most dramatic decrease in poverty ever took place.” That didn’t happen because of technological change alone, but because of the combination of technology, investment in ordinary people, and economic regulation.

Avram Alpert, The Good-Enough Life

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i feel like as a society we should re-learn to enjoy the art of doing nothing - i was sitting on the bus home and so many people were on their phones playing or listening to music loudly, and I do understand that it's your choice but i feel like we have been taught to always do something with our time when like wouldn't it be nice to do absolutely nothing??? just wait 10 minutes in silence until you get home, enjoy the view, quite literally NO thoughts, giving a break to your senses. idk man i love turning off for a couple of minutes i feel like more people should too

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Resources for Mending Clothes

We toss out over 80 pounds of textiles each year. These textiles are often made of plastic materials (polyester, nylon), made in unethical conditions, dyed with harsh dyes that often get put into the rivers, etc. Even a single cotton shirt releases carbon emissions and uses tons of water. 

So the best thing to prevent the unsustainable growth of the fashion industry is to make sure that your clothing lasts as long as possible. To do so, mending clothing is a must. So here are some resources to help you learn how to do various things, such as sewing a button, to tailoring clothes, or even upcycling old clothing into new styles. 

* How to sew on three different types of button

* How to hand sew on a patch on a torn pair of jeans

* How to sew up a hole in an old shirt

* How to sew a simple T-shirt

* How to upcycle old clothing into new clothing

* More upcycle and sewing techniques

* How to repair a damaged sock

* How to do an invisible stitch

* 3 different stitches to work with for different results

* How to make a T-shirt smaller so it fits you better

* How to make repairs to your shoes

These are just a few of the things that you can do in order to make sure that your clothing lasts for a long time. Nobody wants to keep buying new clothing, as it is expensive and wasteful. 

So making alterations to your clothing, or fixing small holes hen you see them can be hugely beneficial to your wallet, to garment workers, and to the environment in the long term. 

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please please please when something good happens, let yourself feel good! be proud of yourself, revel in that joy, bask in the happiness. you deserve it! you deserve to feel good!!

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“Why should rich people pay more” because fuck ‘em

“So you are okay for paying more when you have money” I am not excluded from ‘fuck ‘em’ when relevant

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man I realize that changes in road design could make huge differences in the numbers of crashes & traffic fatalities and solely blaming people for driving badly shifts the focus away from changes that really need to be made to the way we approach driving as a society. but also. and I am not being hyperbolic at all. people are not at all conscious of how fucking dangerous driving a car is and I think if you get caught driving drunk, blowing through red lights, speeding in areas with pedestrians, you should get your license taken away for the rest of your life and never be allowed to drive again

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I'm grateful for a wonderful, full day of activities on Friday: tai chi class, volunteer shift, then dance yoga.

I'm grateful for the fun day yesterday taking my young nieces to Disney on Ice. It was a Christmas gift from my sister 💗 What talent those skaters had! The girls had such a great time singing along 🥰 so cute.

I'm grateful that today I get to do nothing 🙏 well, I'll probably loaf in bed and work through my two online courses in anatomy and meditation.

Daily Gratitude

January 26, 2025

What are you grateful for today?

Welcome to my gratitude support group! All are welcome to be a part of the gratitude crew. Re-blog, write a note or send an ask as often as makes sense for you (just once, every day, twice a year, a few times a month— doesn’t matter!)

I tag parts of the crew almost every day. If you’d like to be on the tag list let me know.

All posts will be tagged ‘resiliencewithin’s daily gratitude group’.

Prompt (if you want): No prompt today.

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Optimism is a necessity to survive in times like these

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we are on like covid variant #100037 and rsv/flu/pneumonia cases are rising and people will show up unmasked and be like “yeah i’ve been sick for days :/” like. ok. Get the fuck away from me then? why are you out here breathing on everything. the very least you could be doing is masking. NOT hacking into open air every two seconds.