Mastodawn

Sometimes excellent poetry appears in the most unlikely of places, something we all should help happen more often. Kristen Darling today posted a lovely and insightful piece on LinkedIn. It begins:

«How to Have the Life You Want

One day, I hope to stop interrogating my peace.
I will stop demanding peace turn out its pockets
and to keep its hands where I can see them.
I will stop inserting anxiety
where I spent a few moments …»

Read the rest here (no account required, do it in an incognito window if LinkedIn's corporateness bugs you):

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kristen-darling-50921813b_mentalhealthmatters-mentalhealth-activity-7440068320231591936-9x4h/

#poetry #poem #life #philosophy #peace #happiness #contentment #sufficiency #enough #enoughness #anxiety #depression #MentalHealth

#mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealth | Kristen Darling

How to Have the Life You Want One day, I hope to stop interrogating my peace. I will stop demanding peace turn out its pockets and to keep its hands where I can see them. I will stop inserting anxiety where I spent a few moments not questioning the validity of my existence— nor courting depression because I was not faster, smarter, better. One must want to live to contemplate the life one wants; and strangely, I do, despite the constant terrors of modern life, the rear-ended vehicles and raggedly broken heart. One day, when life is urgent in my throat and the roar of blood is in my ears, I will thank my lucky stars for everything that my body has rebuked, the many forces that have tried to kill me to this point. One day, I will step into my power and stop second-guessing each potential mistake before I've given myself room to feel joy. Each day, I'm trying to live the life I want, because I want to be alive. (poem, mine) #mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealth

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂Mar 4

Yayo Herrero talks about a just ecosocial transition, that brings us back in connection with the earth and life itself. She takes a position of hope, that we can start to put ourselves in motion, to change.

It is about #sufficiency: it is both a right, for those who have too little, and an obligation for the rest to reduce our levels of consumption.

Privilege is a responsibility, it (should) convert you into an agent of change. Living in territories that rely on the extraction of wealth from others, have the responsibility to change, to repair. It is also a position of humillity, the root of which is shared with "human" and "humus", the earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayo_Herrero

Yayo Herrero - Wikipedia

Life's Moments And Events Feb 20

MONEY
The Future of Civilization, Consciousness, Technology, and Human Organization.

Money isn’t value — it’s a bridge. Beyond hustle and accumulation lies presence, sufficiency, and conscious living.

Link below 👇

#Money #Consciousness #Minimalism #Philosophy #MindfulLiving #Sufficiency

Philosophics Feb 14

The Blunt Edge of Ockham's Razor. What are the risks?

https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/14/the-trouble-with-ockhams-razor/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

I needed to take a break from video editing. No Judas Priest references inside.

#philosophy #logic #simplicity #grammar #language #sufficiency #ontology #metaphysics #blog #podcast #aphorism #heuristic #naturallaw #humility #razor

WIST Quotations Feb 13

A quotation from Horace

Let the man who has acquired Enough not ask for MORE.
A house and acreage, a pile of bronze and gold coins,
Have never been able to lower the sick man’s fever
Or drive out his worries. The proprietor must be well
If he plans to enjoy the good things he’s gathered together.

[Quod satis est cui contingit, nihil amplius optet.
Non domus et fundus, non aeris acervus et auri
Aegroto doniini deduxit corpore febres,
on animo curas; valeat possessor oportet,
Si conpertatis rebus bene cogitat uti.]

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 46ff (1.2.46-50) (14 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/82038/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Horace #avarice #cure #enough #greed #illness #mentalillness #money #more #property #riches #satisfaction #sufficiency #wealth

Horace - Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 "To Lollius," l. 46ff (1.2.46-50) (14 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)] | WIST Quotations

Let the man who has acquired Enough not ask for more. A house and acreage, a pile of bronze and gold coins, Have never been able to lower the sick man's fever Or drive out his worries. The proprietor must be well If he plans to enjoy the good things…

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PaulaToThePeople 😷Feb 6

You don't have to be perfect, but every step you take in the right direction helps:

X, Insta, TicToc -> https://joinfediverse.wiki/Fediverse_projects
Microsoft -> Install Linux on it
AI -> ask intelligent humans instead, e.g. #AskFedi
Google -> https://noai.duckduckgo.com
GoogleMail -> @Tutanota
iPhone -> jailbreak it, use it until its dead, get a Fairphone with @e_mydata
Amazon video, Disney+, Netflix, Spotify, etc. -> Torrents
Google/Microsoft/Apple calendar -> physical calendar
Zoom -> meet friends IRL, or use @signalapp
Whatsapp -> Signal, or better yet @mollyim
omnivorism -> vegetarianism, veganism, freeganism, flexitarianism, ... (just consume fewer animal products and save food)
car -> public transit, bike, car-sharing
flying -> discover the beauty of your closer surroundings by train
job -> general strike
consumerism -> sufficiency
despair -> collective effectiveness & empowerment

#BoycottUSA #UnplugTrump #fediverse #linux #fairphone #torrents #veganism #MobilityTransition #GeneralStrike #sufficiency #empowerment #DIDIt #UnplugMAGA #StopFascism

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Teun 🌏 ❤️ 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸Jan 24

🌿 I like this blog post by @maxwilbert. It highlights the problem with speaking of environmental issues in terms of 'limiting ourselves'. Because that carries the implication that until these limits are reached, we can do whatever we want.

Instead of external limits, he argues (in agreement with author Giorgos Kallis), we should look for internal limits: ways of limiting our own behaviour to be more in line with the world around us – not just because of the consequences, but also because of the freedom and justice such limit-setting entails.

I like this.

However, I disagree with the wording here. I think we can go one step further and not speak in terms of 'limits' at all. I am not limited by the fact that I cannot take a private jet everywhere I go; I am positively happy about it. I am not limited by my non-consumption of animal products, it makes me feel great. What Wilbert and Kallis call 'self-limitation', I call flourishing.

As long as we keep thinking in terms of limitation/expansion, we stay stuck in the capitalist-imperialist mindset. This mindset sees expansion as the only way forward, with everything else being 'stagnation' or 'regression' and therefore Bad. Whereas what we should be looking for is ways to grow our quality of life without growing our destructive footprint.

In my humble opinion, of course.

🔗 https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/the-problem-with-limits

#degrowth #MaxWilbert #LimitsToGrowth #environment #EnvironmentalPhilosophy #GiorgosKallis #sufficiency #abundance

The Problem with Limits

On self-limitation vs. external limits

Biocentric

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Umweltbundesamt Jan 19

The second report examines three mutually reinforcing pathways to address the triple crisis: #efficiency, #sufficiency, and #equity.
👉 https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/publikationen/triple-crisis-systemic-solutions

Moving from interconnected crises to systemic solutions

The drivers and effects of the triple plenatary crisis of climate change, biodiveristy loss and environmental pollution are highly interconneted and can only be effectively addressed through systemic, cross-sectoral, and justice-oriented approaches.

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Michael Burchert Jan 17

We found this #sufficiency #postgrowth book by @[email protected] in the village book telephone booth. (A former telephone booth with shelves where you share books for free.) Trust me this village is the least place where you'd expect this, but it is 2026. Time.