What if our greatest strength isn’t control, but connection? In a time of crisis, even the smallest acts carry forward—through memory, resistance, and deep time.
I have added your writing to the list of daily writers, authors and artists who keep me sane, informed and thoughtful including HCR, Jay Kuo, Robyn Synder, Kaitlin shelter, and Anne lamott
Thank you for putting into words what so many of us need —to construct a scaffolding for understanding how we got here and how we’ll need to rebuild what is being dismantled.
Courage strength resilience and all manner of luck and organization will be necessary. I don’t think People yet want to understand/accept the depths of shit we are truly living in
Very powerful words to help us continue to resist while drowning in the daily onslaught of authoritarian bile. As individuals we are stronger than we realize and as a united group we have the ability to change the future. Thank you, James for your comforting and timely message.
I love your writing and the way it ties into Buddhist teachings. I try to do something everyday as my personal act of resistance. I'm trying to leave a good example and a better world for my grandson. I wonder sometimes if I am doing enough. At the very least, as I walk my dogs I pick up trash and what other dog owners leave behind in my neighborhood that would have washed into the ocean.
This beautifully written post is exactly the hopeful message I needed this morning. You write... "But not all futures are lost. The choices we make now matter, not only for their immediate effects but for the pathways they open or foreclose. Resistance and renewal are not separate acts. They are part of the same long arc of care. That arc is held up by relationships: between people and place, between generations, between those who came before and those who are not yet born."
I agree completely with Christina's earlier comments! Thank you.
Just outstanding. Every single one of them are. I don't know how you manage it all, but each post is so informative, and so beautifully written. You make an incredible case not to give up hope, and to contextualize this moment in history. Going to re-read then send to some friends!
Cruelty isn’t just policy. It’s the architecture now.
We are living inside systems built to normalize repression and deny the damage they cause. Authoritarianism thrives on our silence, climate collapse accelerates through our distraction, and the dominant order rewires our institutions not to protect—but to dominate.
But resignation is not realism. It’s surrender. And we do not surrender.
Every act of defiance—protest, protection, solidarity—is a blade against erasure. Every refusal becomes part of a legacy that says: we remember, we resist, we rebuild.
We shape history. Every small move punches a hole in inevitability and makes space for a future worth living.
This isn’t just resistance. It’s rebellion. Authoritarianism is here... and now.
I have added your writing to the list of daily writers, authors and artists who keep me sane, informed and thoughtful including HCR, Jay Kuo, Robyn Synder, Kaitlin shelter, and Anne lamott
Thank you for putting into words what so many of us need —to construct a scaffolding for understanding how we got here and how we’ll need to rebuild what is being dismantled.
Courage strength resilience and all manner of luck and organization will be necessary. I don’t think People yet want to understand/accept the depths of shit we are truly living in
I share each feeling you express and am deeply grateful to have discovered Dr. Greenberg's writing.
"Memory is a form of resistance. And attention is a form of care." This is brilliant. Gives me the fortitude to fight on. Thank you.
Very powerful words to help us continue to resist while drowning in the daily onslaught of authoritarian bile. As individuals we are stronger than we realize and as a united group we have the ability to change the future. Thank you, James for your comforting and timely message.
I love your writing and the way it ties into Buddhist teachings. I try to do something everyday as my personal act of resistance. I'm trying to leave a good example and a better world for my grandson. I wonder sometimes if I am doing enough. At the very least, as I walk my dogs I pick up trash and what other dog owners leave behind in my neighborhood that would have washed into the ocean.
Every act of care is meaningful. Being mindful of our actions both big and small can change the world.
This beautifully written post is exactly the hopeful message I needed this morning. You write... "But not all futures are lost. The choices we make now matter, not only for their immediate effects but for the pathways they open or foreclose. Resistance and renewal are not separate acts. They are part of the same long arc of care. That arc is held up by relationships: between people and place, between generations, between those who came before and those who are not yet born."
I agree completely with Christina's earlier comments! Thank you.
Just outstanding. Every single one of them are. I don't know how you manage it all, but each post is so informative, and so beautifully written. You make an incredible case not to give up hope, and to contextualize this moment in history. Going to re-read then send to some friends!
Wow, brilliant and very beautiful. “The logic of care”…..is it important? Only as important as the future and life itself.
Thank you!
Cruelty isn’t just policy. It’s the architecture now.
We are living inside systems built to normalize repression and deny the damage they cause. Authoritarianism thrives on our silence, climate collapse accelerates through our distraction, and the dominant order rewires our institutions not to protect—but to dominate.
But resignation is not realism. It’s surrender. And we do not surrender.
Every act of defiance—protest, protection, solidarity—is a blade against erasure. Every refusal becomes part of a legacy that says: we remember, we resist, we rebuild.
We shape history. Every small move punches a hole in inevitability and makes space for a future worth living.
This isn’t just resistance. It’s rebellion. Authoritarianism is here... and now.
Is this wonderful essay perhaps a complex echo of “only connect,” the theme of E. M. Forster’s Howards End (1910)?