Jess > Recent Status Updates

“I know that this book isn’t perfect and that I probably added way too many chiles to my mole. You don’t have to be perfect, either.“

“I share it in the hope that anybody who needs it might find a sliver of strength and healing inside these pages. Maybe someone will feel encouraged to take those first hard steps toward whatever they may need to begin healing: to get outside more, or to find a purpose that is outside of yourself, or to connect with community, or to make some dietary changes. Know that you are not alone in taking that first step”

“There is a big push toward ‘regenerative farming’ in our food systems right now as our resources are depleting and the fertility of our soil declining. To be clear, ‘regenerative farming’ is just Indigenous agriculture techniques repackaged and co-opted in a way that avoids any responsibility or acknowledgment of its Indigenous origins or of the land stolen for agriculture use.”

“‘We are entitled to as much survival as we can purchase,’ Adler-Bolton [disability justice activist] says. In America—a country that spends more than any other nation in the world on health care yet has the highest chronic disease burden of the thirty-eight nations that report to the Organization of Economic Co-Operation and Development…”

"The thing about birds: If we knew nothing of jays or wrens or sparrows, we'd believe the trees were singing, as if each tree has its own song.

The thing about this life: If we knew nothing of what was missing, what has been removed, it would look full and beautiful."

“the first modern-day definition of conspirituality […] as a synthesis of the ‘female-dominated New Age (with its positive focus on self) and the male-dominated realm of conspiracy theory (with its negative focus on global politics).’”

“A large percentage of women who are in prison for drug- or alcohol-related charges, or for minor economic crimes such as forging checks, are serving time for crimes that either directly or indirectly were instigated by their abusive partners.”

“Abuse counselors say of the abusive client: ‘When he looks at himself in the morning and sees his dirty face, he sets about washing the mirror.’ In other words, he becomes upset and accusatory when his partner exhibits the predictable effects of chronic mistreatment.”

“Maybe our sisterhood is dangerous because if we protect each other, we’ll stop doing what they say.”

“On average, Americans eat the equivalent of 21,000 entire animals in a lifetime.”

“Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore — ‘I’m easy; I’ll eat anything’ — can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.”

“We tiptoe through life hoping to safely make it to death.”—Unknown

Bolton and this book so far are insufferable, so we’ll see how far I get.

Get this for free if you want to read it to be informed about what’s going on in Trump’s White House (in Bolton’s perspective). Don’t put any more money in the hands of a man with so much blood on them.

“In order to kick ass you must first lift up your foot.”