actions of the week

Well, here we are (deep, deep sigh). 

We’re all feeling it. 

My internal weather patterns this week have quickly shifted from: frozen to windless to unseasonably foggy to a fiery buildup craving escape. 

All I know is that when things get bad, I move into action, and rest in between.

Act, then go for a scream drive.
Act, then make pancakes for dinner.
Act, then google “can you bring your dog to Ireland?” 

Ibram X. Kendi recently posted: “The best way to protect ourselves from what’s to come is for us to construct what’s to come.”

I’ve been on the fence about what to write about each week, if I should even still do a newsletter, and now, the answer is crystal clear: 

Yes, filled with Actions of the Week.

So, here’s the first of many more to come. Pick one thing to do, or ten. Save it for when you feel the fire burning inside. 

And in the meantime, take good care of yourself and the people in your life.

xx Caitlin

Actions of the Week

• Read 10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Tr*mp has won
  

• Repeat to yourself: He has no power over me.
  

• Attend one of these online action meetings:
  

  • Today at 4pm Pacific: If you live in California, Governor Newsom is hosting a live call to talk about the state’s response to the election results.
    

  • Today at 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern: How to Plug-In and Resist hosted by the Women’s March
    

  • Tuesday Nov 12 6:30 Pacific / 9:30 Eastern: Energetic clearing and reset with Sarah Faith Gottesdiener. No need to sign up, here is the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82288123407
    

  • Tuesday, Nov 12 4pm Pacific / 7pm Eastern: Post-election call: Be in community with us hosted by UltraViolet Action
    

  • Saturday, Nov 18 9:30am Pacific / 12:30pm Eastern: Call your power back practice & ritual with Sarah Faith Gottesdiener. No need to sign up, here is the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85283376936
    

• Join Authors Against Book Bans. If your name has ever been printed in a book as a credit to its creators, you are welcome. They are looking for writers, illustrators, narrators, translators – all the people who create books, either traditionally and independently published.
  

• Finally, read this poem written by a local poet in Sebastopol, California:

Rise and Fall 
by Larry Robinson

Let go of fear
and rest in that which is.
For peace, like love,
comes to those who allow it.

Let go of fear
and rest in stillness.
Watch the breath rise...
and fall.

Watch the tide rise...
and fall.
Watch towers rise...
and fall.

Watch walls rise...
and fall.
Watch statues rise...
and fall.

Watch empires rise...
and fall.
Watch the breath rise...
and fall.

Let go of fear
and rest in the arms
of the One
who has always held you,
the One who holds
atoms and empires
and oceans and stars.

Let go of fear
and watch what happens next.