Mastodawn

Janet Dean leads Bearing Holy Sorrow: Practitioner Grief and the Practice of Lament April 24-26, 2026 in Linthicum, MD. Explore #grief, #lament, and #healing in community. CE credits.

More info: http://dlvr.it/TRbHzd

#SpiritualHealing #Therapists #SoulCare #ACPE #socialworkers #CE

Hans Cummings (he/him)5d ago

#WordWeavers Mar. 18: Tell us about a time when your MC failed.

The first time Pancras tried to perform his duties as a Bonelord and help a terminally ill, suffering person cross over, he was unable to gain her trust. As a result, her son was unable to stand her suffering and the burden caring for her caused, and took it upon himself to smother her.

#Books #Writing #WritersOfMastodon #WritingCommunity #ScarsOfTheSundering #Lament

Green Christian Mar 12

Well-crafted ritual takes us deeper into truth. We normally address climate change through science and politics. These are activities of the mind, but we are more than mind alone. We can only take full ownership of environmental breakdown with our heart and our body.
On these pages we’re collecting resources for rituals and symbolic actions which could be used or developed to help groups of people to respond to and to process the personal and societal impacts of climate breakdown. We hope to collect tried and tested rituals as well as to make available resources to help you to think through how best to design and conduct rituals. We are eclectic -gathering from many sources and traditions.
https://borrowedtime.earth/rituals-and-laments-for-our-times/
#ritual #ClimateChange #Lament #ClimatePsychology #Christian #Formation #Discipleship

Rituals and Laments for Our Times – Borrowed Time

EpiscoGrrl Feb 25

Lent begins in the wilderness. So does the Great Litany. This year, let the ancient prayer teach you a new discipline: the courage to cry out. https://notd.io/n/LearningtoLament #Episcopal #Lent #GreatLitany #Lament

C.Feb 20

@thestrangelet

I think they exist, but they are tiny, not numerous, and widely dispersed. If you happen to find a #nonprofit or #QUANGO or co-operative that needs tech assistance, I think you could have a good chance of finding your skills put to use #ethically, possibly even helping make other peoples' lives better.

The #income is not going to be in the same league with working for Big Tech's extraction machines and misery production lines, though.

I used to do independent consulting for many years, before being lured back into an employee role for the last 4-5 years (spread across 2 companies/periods) before I was laid off, just before the "AI" boom kicked off in earnest. I would love to get back into that, even short-term engagements helping tiny orgs and sole proprietorships who happen to be doing things that meet my ethical standards. I haven't had much luck finding anything.

My industry used to make things, things that people wanted, things that people used for work, for commerce, for fun, for joy. Now it seems the only things that pay are rent-extraction, people-exploitation, and financial scams like gambling and "innovative financial product".

Sorry I can't be more positive about this. How about this: I've been #volunteering with my local Repair Cafe for ~6 months, and after each one of those I feel I have accomplished more good than in my last 5 years of paid work.

#RepairCafe #lament #IT #software #CoOp #BigTech #AI #LLM