An extraordinary person who shares gems of powerful wisdom: "Shrub Dryad" (on Youtube & Bluesky). See, for starters:

• "Teach Your Kids about Sex and Gender!" — which concludes:

"You need to have somebody in your life who is trans, who you love. Even if it's parasocially. Even if it's somebody on the internet who will never know you exist. Because not having any trans people in your life is no way to live."

• "In which everyone learns Toki Pona for my personal enjoyment" — which summarizes the tiny language's superpower:

"Basically, the idea is that when you have so few words, you have to find very minimalist ways of speaking, and perhaps minimalist ways of thinking, and that can help you reduce the perceived complexity in your life, and it can help you just think about things in a new way, break them down to what are they, really?"

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_{(cf This Is How It Always Is (2018-02-02), Live in the World with Grace (2021-08-10), ...) - ^z - 2024-05-07}