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Liz thought back on the last year and started to cry. She felt the guilt of knowing she was the reason they had to divorce. She knew it was all her fault. She had finally revealed the secret that she had tried too hard to suppress for the last three months.
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Prism & Pen · She Conquered Transgender Loneliness - Prism & Pen - MediumBy Emma Holiday

I was just given a quote from a statement Thich Nhat Hanh wrote in 2015, shortly before the Paris Climate Summit:

“Many of us have become alienated from the Earth. We are lost, isolated and lonely. We work too hard, our lives are too busy, and we are restless and distracted, losing ourselves in consumption.”

plumvillage.org/about/thich-nh

Found in a newsletter from @vantablue whose mailing list you might want to join: amandaquraishi.com

Side note; I wrote a song about the (utter lack of) results of the Paris Accords:
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Social interactions can help us stay healthier and happier, and according to a report from the University of Michigan, women aged 50+ are lonely. “At my loneliest, I’ve felt a nauseating emptiness in my chest during every waking hour,” writes Melissa Hart for @damemagazine.

“Rumination takes over my brain — if only I’d done, I should have joined, if only I were more like — and fills in the blank spots with a multitude of actions, organizations, and friends who seldom have a free hour in their social calendars.”

damemagazine.com/2025/04/17/ol

#Aging #Lifestyle #Health #Wellness #Loneliness #Women #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

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Dame Magazine - · Older Women Are Battling a Loneliness Epidemic - Dame MagazineGlance at the Dropbox photos from Road Scholar’s women-only tour titled “North Florida’s Sacred Springs and Rivers” and among the images of silver-haired kayakers and manatees lounging in deep turquoise springs, you’ll see snapshots of plastic dinosaurs on a restaurant table wedged into sexually-suggestive positions. The perpetrators were a half-dozen septuagenarians from all over the