Elizabeth Carls
@elizabethcarls.bsky.social
Poet and essayist (works in River Teeth, Great River Review) Asst. editor of CNF for Water~Stone Review. Lover of hard winters, big lakes, and long walks.
Most recent pub, an essay in Under the Sun https://underthesunonline.com/wordpress/2024/316-2/
Most recent pub, an essay in Under the Sun https://underthesunonline.com/wordpress/2024/316-2/
Reposted by Elizabeth Carls
The question is, whether or not we have enough good people who are willing to push back and to move together across lines of politics and religion and race and nation of origin and orientation—and to declare our interdependence from fascism.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/fascism-is...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/fascism-is...
Fascism Isn't Coming To America, It's Here. Do Americans Have the Strength to Drive it Out?
Fascism isn’t coming to America, it’s already here.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
February 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The question is, whether or not we have enough good people who are willing to push back and to move together across lines of politics and religion and race and nation of origin and orientation—and to declare our interdependence from fascism.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/fascism-is...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/fascism-is...
Allowing myself to feel held, held by the slow and quiet of winter. Noticing the small, the humble, and the beautiful…
February 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Allowing myself to feel held, held by the slow and quiet of winter. Noticing the small, the humble, and the beautiful…
Reposted by Elizabeth Carls
Reposted by Elizabeth Carls
“Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.”
Edward Abbey, born on this day in 1927, on the call of solitude
Edward Abbey, born on this day in 1927, on the call of solitude
Desert Solitaire: An Uncommonly Beautiful Love Letter to Solitude and the Spiritual Rewards of Getting Lost
“Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.”
www.themarginalian.org
January 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.”
Edward Abbey, born on this day in 1927, on the call of solitude
Edward Abbey, born on this day in 1927, on the call of solitude
Reposted by Elizabeth Carls
The fact that NIH grant-making has been switched off so haphazardly, for reasons that remain unclear, and despite the scope of troubles it creates, suggests that higher ed will be profoundly vulnerable during the second Trump era, writes @ibogost.bsky.social:
The Chaos in Higher Ed Is Only Getting Started
Grant reviews have been suspended at the NIH. This could be an omen.
www.theatlantic.com
January 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The fact that NIH grant-making has been switched off so haphazardly, for reasons that remain unclear, and despite the scope of troubles it creates, suggests that higher ed will be profoundly vulnerable during the second Trump era, writes @ibogost.bsky.social:
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This was necessary to me this morning. I read about the Paris Agreement and knew I have one job. To fight for the Earth while they kill it. And if I can’t stop them, I will love it to the other side. I know how with dogs,
horses and people. I know how to stand in. www.torreyhouse.org/single-post/...
horses and people. I know how to stand in. www.torreyhouse.org/single-post/...
Promising
On election night, like many of us did in one form or another, I turned off my phone to sleep, woke up in the middle of the night, feeling anxious dread to check it, tossed and turned some more, woke ...
www.torreyhouse.org
January 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This was necessary to me this morning. I read about the Paris Agreement and knew I have one job. To fight for the Earth while they kill it. And if I can’t stop them, I will love it to the other side. I know how with dogs,
horses and people. I know how to stand in. www.torreyhouse.org/single-post/...
horses and people. I know how to stand in. www.torreyhouse.org/single-post/...
As we enter this era of the surreal, the absurd, the false, and the exaggerated, I’m going to stay grounded in the ordinary, the real, and the humble. I wandered the garden early this morning, I visited my chickens, I fed the wild birds. I know who and what matters and I will hold them close…
January 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
As we enter this era of the surreal, the absurd, the false, and the exaggerated, I’m going to stay grounded in the ordinary, the real, and the humble. I wandered the garden early this morning, I visited my chickens, I fed the wild birds. I know who and what matters and I will hold them close…
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Don't let go of reality, no matter what the Trumpers say
billmckibben.substack.com/p/for-reality
billmckibben.substack.com/p/for-reality
For reality
A few thoughts on the last day of the old world
billmckibben.substack.com
January 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Don't let go of reality, no matter what the Trumpers say
billmckibben.substack.com/p/for-reality
billmckibben.substack.com/p/for-reality
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Get a glimpse of two new poetry collections—The Radiant (Tupelo Press) by Lise Goett and Kitchen Hymns (Copper Canyon Press) by Pádraig Ó Tuama—by reading their first lines in our new Page One installment! at.pw.org/PageOne2025x2
January 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Get a glimpse of two new poetry collections—The Radiant (Tupelo Press) by Lise Goett and Kitchen Hymns (Copper Canyon Press) by Pádraig Ó Tuama—by reading their first lines in our new Page One installment! at.pw.org/PageOne2025x2
First finished read of 2025. In these urgent times, when some of us are contemplating ways to resist, we should consider the spirit of reciprocity. #books #writersread #resist
January 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
First finished read of 2025. In these urgent times, when some of us are contemplating ways to resist, we should consider the spirit of reciprocity. #books #writersread #resist
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Re-upping the in light of recent events. What we should really be talking about when we talk about Greenland: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
When the Arctic Melts
What the fate of Greenland means for the rest of the Earth.
www.newyorker.com
January 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Re-upping the in light of recent events. What we should really be talking about when we talk about Greenland: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...