Category Archives: Adversity

The impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain… David Foster Wallace

Posted on December 3, 2023 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

The depressed personwas in terrible and unceasing emotional pain,and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this painwas itself a componentof the painand a contributing factorin its essential horror. David Foster Wallace

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Techno Feudalism | Yanis Varoufakis

Posted on February 22, 2022 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Yanis Varoufakis observes how we have mode beyond capitalism to to state he calls Techno Feudalism.We no longer have capitalism but after a decade and a half of governments printing money pumping m to prop up financial markets and big … Continue reading →

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What’s it like being homeless in Toronto?

Posted on December 17, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

What’s it Like Being Homeless in Toronto? CBC’s The National Toronto Commentary: Toronto – like many cities and many towns too – is in a housing crises. In Canada’s wealthiest city well over ten thousand people each night rely on … Continue reading →

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I’ve learned we are never too small to make a difference – Greta Thunberg

Posted on July 25, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

My name is Greta Thunberg. I am 15 years old. I am from Sweden. I speak on behalf of Climate Justice Now. Many people say that Sweden is just a small country and it doesn’t matter what we do. But … Continue reading →

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Illness? or Dangerous Gifts? Sascha Altman DeBrul

Posted on July 17, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

To label a state of being as “extreme” is to pass judgement and to seek to box the unboxable, impose some prefered state order upon necessary chaos ? So who gets to judge if what you experience is “extreme” ? … Continue reading →

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Scorchio!!! Make Your Own $20 AC Unit

Posted on July 16, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Toronto’s Public Health decided they can no longer be arsed to issue hot weather Alerts, so here’s one: ITS GONNA BE FUCKING HOT OUT THERE !!! And, since Tronto Public Health also decided it cant be arsed to offer cooling … Continue reading →

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How we can bring about mental health support to refugees – Essam Daod-

Posted on June 25, 2018 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Essam Daod shares a story of one way we can bring brief, important support to refugees at critical times. And also offers us a window of insight into how any of us might support any other of us midst potentially … Continue reading →

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all the shit that happens after the-shit-that-happened

Posted on May 2, 2018 by dave umbongo

Whether a person is left traumatized has less to do with the-shit-that-happened than it has to do with all the shit that happens after the-shit-that-happened. Werd.