Mourning Breaks

07/27/2026

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The I drew from the deck today, and it was exactly what I needed. As always, find it as a solo print and part of the deck of 100, along with the story and process behind them, at https://almanacofbirds.org

07/26/2026

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Our hearts are with the people of Berlin following the attack at yesterday’s Pride festival.
Last night, we gathered to kick off Windsor Pride with a T4T celebration. It was a night filled with joy, connection, laughter, and community. Today, we’re sitting with the reality that those same moments of q***r and trans joy can so quickly become targets of hate.
It’s impossible not to think about how differently our own evening could have unfolded.
Pride has always been an act of courage. It exists because generations of q***r and trans people refused to disappear, even when the world demanded it. That history reminds us why we continue to gather, celebrate, and take up space together.
We deserve to exist without fear. We deserve to dance, to love, to celebrate, to protest, and to build community without wondering if our safety will be taken from us. We deserve to live openly and freely, not despite who we are, but because every q***r and trans life has inherent value.
To our community in Berlin, and to every q***r and trans person carrying grief, anger, or fear today: we are holding you close. Your joy matters. Your safety matters. Your life matters.
As Pride Season continues, we’ll keep showing up for one another. We refuse to let hate define our communities. We choose solidarity, care, and the radical belief that q***r and trans people belong everywhere.
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07/22/2026

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07/21/2026

“A growing community movement encourages people to speak candidly about death, reshaping how we plan, grieve, and connect in loss.

For generations, many families avoided talking about death until a medical crisis forced the conversation. Today, death doulas, death cafés and hospice professionals are encouraging people to discuss the inevitable long before it arrives, and the demand is growing.”

A growing community movement encourages people to speak candidly about death, reshaping how we plan, grieve, and connect in loss. Listen to this article.0:00/687.9567571× Grief counselor Zeena Regis says she has one rule for her own death: If her husband turns on the news while she

07/20/2026

Still one of my favourite Morgan Harper Nichols pieces. Words of gentle acknowledgment and encouragement I think we can all use now and again. 🩵

07/17/2026

⚠️Content: Climate Grief, Climate Crisis, Environmental Racism, Canadian Politics

May this be an awakening. 🙌🏼

I’m outside, watering my parched gardens in my smoky neighbourhood, sick to my stomach thinking about the devastation north of me. I decided to take the morning off after a cancelled coffee date, to mindfully tend to this deep grief, this frustration, this anger. Allowing it all to move through me uninhibited, honouring what my body is telling me—practicing what I preach every single day with all of you. 🙌🏼💛

May this be the impetus to start (if you haven’t already) paying attention to corporate, capitalist, colonialist drivers of the destruction of the Land, and its Peoples. Indigenous communities globally have been trying to tell us, to lead us, to inspire us with their rich and unmatched generational wisdom, their teachings, their sacred connection to—and reverence for—the Land as a Living Being. 💚

If you have capacity, I invite you to get involved: share posts, protest, write letters to your MPs, vote in leaders who have a conscience, who can see beyond profit and beyond their own lifetime and ego.

Give what you can to efforts to support Northern Indigenous communities who have been violently displaced from their Land…again.

And, again, I’ll emphasize, only if you have capacity right now. I understand and honour the tenderness of living in the aftermath of loss, so please take care of yourself as you need to right now. Speaking into, and taking action to support as I can, is one way I personally find helpful as I’m processing the complex emotions that are present. Remember the Circles of Control, Influence and Concern? This is it, in action.☺️

Let’s find ways to work together to halt the destruction of this one world we live in. Before it really is too late. ⏰

Grieving alongside you today. 💛



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07/16/2026

As wildfires continue to impact communities, we pause to lift up all those who have been affected.

We pray for the safety of families who have been displaced, the firefighters and emergency responders working tirelessly to protect our lands, and the community members supporting one another through these difficult times.

May Creator surround everyone with strength, comfort, hope, and healing. May the smoke clear, the fires be contained, and safer days come soon.

Our hearts are with every community facing these challenges.

07/16/2026

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07/14/2026