As a matter of good conscience, I can no longer remain silent while what remains of my country comes apart at the seams. This is my testament. I at least want history to remember that I was not complicit in this collective derangement.
On January 6, 2021 the President of the United States seditiously incited a riotous insurrection on our nation’s Capitol that claimed the lives of at least five people, including a Capitol Policeman. He did this in real time on national television. We were all witnesses. …
We are all WITNESSES!
I am a retired public interest lawyer observing the spectacle of Trump’s ongoing coup attempt. While I didn’t do a lot of trial work in my career, I can assure you that there has never been a trial in our jurisprudential history where the jury was comprised entirely of witnesses.
Think about that! What is the point of laying out a set of facts to the very people who were the subject of an assault? I could present this case to the U.S. Senate in three words: “What you saw.”
And then move on to closing arguments: “Trump tried to…
Donald Trump famously boasted he could shoot somebody in broad daylight on 5th Avenue in downtown Manhattan and get away with it.
On January 6, 2021, the President of the United States, along with his co-conspirators Rudy, Jr., Eric, Ted, and Josh, committed felony murder live on television before our disbelieving eyes. A capitol policeman died as a direct result. It appears Trump has now proven his murderous boast.
I am a retired attorney and psychologist. As any attorney could tell you, committing a felony — in this case inciting a riot (textbook) and/or insurrection (arguably) — in the process…
I recently had the good fortune to get out of range of social and news media into the Alpine Lakes Wilderness area of the Cascade Mountain Range — just prior to the pall of climate fires spreading over the entire Pacific Rim. …
“More time always means more dying.” (Stephen Jenkinson, “Die Wise”)
Grief is the natural response of living beings to losing what they love. …
“In silence you must bear a world of pain, subject yourself to the cruel abuse of men.”
~ Greek Goddess Athena, from The Odyssey, by Homer
The sudden, rapturous emergence of the divine feminine on the bloodied streets of Portland represents the perfect counterpoint to George Floyd’s murder on the streets of Minneapolis. I realize that statement could offend hard-core #BLM activists, but hear me out. I’m a life-long connoisseur of direct action and civil disobedience, having participated actively in the Earth First! …
“[C]olonialism’s legacy is evident in every scourge, be it a viral pandemic, climactic events, police violence or exposure to environmental toxicity such as the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan. The task ahead of us is to heal the legacy wounds of genocide and slavery which we now see yawning open and festering before us.”
~ Rupa Marya & Edwin Lindo, Healing the Nations Broken & Scattered Hoop
For too long, black lives haven’t really mattered much in the U.S. It is no great secret that people of color bear a disproportionate share of environmental illness (a form of structural…
By Zhiwa Woodbury, M.A., J.D., Linda Buzzell, M.A., LMFT, and Craig Chalquist, Ph.D
“Psychology, so dedicated to awakening the human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: We cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.” (James Hillman)
In this frightening era of global pandemics, climate trauma and massive pollution, the American Psychology Association (APA) believes that you or your loved ones may be suffering from “eco-anxiety,” which they define as “a chronic fear of environmental doom.” …
I am a single issue voter.
Why aren’t you?
Seriously. The GOP rose to power, from Reagan to Trump, on the electoral strength of a single issue: the right to life. It’s that big of an issue for some folks. So big, in the view of millions of single issue voters, that evangelicals can view a fallen human being like Trump as ‘the chosen one.’ He is a means to their end, and because of their unwavering support he has now reshaped the courts in a way that will radically affect all of us for generations to come.
For these single issue voters, there is nothing more sacred than…
“Earth is alive. What is alive, we can love. What we love, we wish to serve. When what we love is sick, we want to ease its suffering and serve its healing. The more deeply we know it, the better we can join its healing.”
(Charles Eisenstein)
I approached this last winter solstice feverish and aching from head to toe, a nasty virus attacking my biome, while at the same time trying to give attentive care to my 91-year-old mother. My mother is afflicted with vascular dementia — over a decade now of tiny neural bombs going off in her…
Zhiwa Woodbury
Ecopsychologist, author of “Climate Sense: Changing the Way We Think & Feel About Our Climate in Crisis,” Researcher, author of academic paper “Climate Trauma.”
