It Is Election Day At Last. Vote, Listen, Eat, Watch, Read

After you VOTE! Whether you’re driving folks to the polls, headed to an election night watch party, working the phones and text lines or hunkering down at home burning sage and finishing off the Halloween candy…whatever gets you through the night, it’s alright. Let’s stick together.

Listen: I Want to Break, Free by Queen

No one has expressed it better than Elise Chandler did in Behind the Lyrics, November 2020 in Alt Review; “I Want to Break Free“ “With those five simple words, he (Freddie Mercury) empowered anyone who has felt used, abused, and unhappy to make a different choice. To make the choice to love themselves before anyone else.”

Watch: Hidden Figures, Directed by Theodore Melfi

Nominated for three Academy Awards, Hidden Figures stars Taraji Henson as Katherine G. Johnson, Octavia Spencer as Dorothy Vaught, Janelle Monáe as Mary Jackson and  Kevin Costner as Al Harrison. Three female African-American mathematicians play a pivotal role in astronaut John Glenn’s launch into orbit. Meanwhile, they also have to deal with racial and gender discrimination at work.

Read. On Freedom by Timothy Snyder

When Timothy Snyder’s book On Tyranny was released in February of 2017 it became a guidebook to recognizing the signs of tyranny, how to resist (and survive) the sharp turn toward authoritarianism in the US. Today as voters decide the fate of millions in the US (and around the world) as Americans set course to the future, in nervous anticipation we turn to Snyder’s new book, On Freedom.

Within it Snyder contends: “we have lost sight of what it means—and this is leading us into crisis. Too many of us look at freedom as the absence of state power: We think we’re free if we can do and say as we please, and protect ourselves from government overreach. But true freedom isn’t so much freedom from as freedom to—the freedom to thrive, to take risks for futures we choose by working together. Freedom is the value that makes all other values possible.”

The Scientific Benefits of Humming

A simple and calorie free act of self-care may be humming. Humming is shown to naturally lift your mood by releasing endorphins and it can also trigger the release of melatonin to help you sleep as it increases antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits for an immune system boost. For more information go HERE.

Eat: Calm Your Body With Food

Research suggests that foods like avocado, oranges, or oysters can reduce feelings of anxiety as do foods like citrus, berries, dark chocolate and caffeine free teas like lavender or chamomile. Foods high in calcium like dairy and dark green leafy vegetables can reduce cortisol which is certainly helpful in times like these. Source: National Library of Medicine

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