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Category: Culture

Culture

low-to-no ownership

With poorly drawn diagram of a cross-section of Earth and Space. Because Western civilization and most economic systems seem to be centered around “mine” vs. “yours,” there is…

July 19, 2025July 19, 2025 · 4 min read

By cmglee - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=166646811
Best of Mommess

Concise

I made a short 16mm film named Concise. It could be called an avant garde film and it was engrossing to make. I made it as a follow…

July 13, 2025July 13, 2025 · 1 min read

Tell my mistakes to me, not to others. Because my mistakes are to be corrected by me, not by others
Culture

Shame & taking responsibility

And a healing plan for this type of overwhelm below. I was talking with family the other day, and heard myself saying, “I feel ashamed all the time.”…

July 1, 2025July 1, 2025 · 5 min read

abstract face with glasses
Culture

Service Breakdown

Here’s a little “waitress confidential” for you. Yes, that kind of service. I’ve always felt that restaurants raise the finest in service-minded, quick-thinking individuals  in an environment not…

June 6, 2025June 6, 2025 · 3 min read

Creativity

Ma-stalgia: a term of endearment for ascendant generations

Nostalgia as sign it’s time to reboot our childlike sense of self, and how being states help us cope with a heightened sense of responsibility. My brother sent…

May 4, 2025May 5, 2025 · 9 min read

David Bowie in SymbolWork format by artist Elizabeth Mullen Matteson
Culture

Dragons, science fiction, and how fearsome archetypes can help you heal your inner life

I love stories. And I crave movies that sweep me away… and not just for sake of distraction. Stories help heal my inner cast of characters: that chorus…

May 2, 2025November 3, 2025 · 7 min read

Best of Mommess

Frequent, see?

A term of endearment post on Frequency My social media is full of coaches, teachers, and offerings which speak to the power of manifestation using frequencies. The number…

April 26, 2025April 27, 2025 · 5 min read

HeartBreak Shield by EMWE Art Copyright Elizabeth Mullen Matteson
Creativity

self-censorship, free speech, and the powers of The People

What happens when the recently de-privileged1 try to recoup social power by authoritarianism, and what to do about it. No law can save you, if you don’t make…

April 25, 2025April 26, 2025 · 7 min read

Culture

Popes, Psychics, Refugees, and the Power of Love

My mom called me first thing this morning: “Elizabeth, did you call me last night?” No mom. “Are you sure?” Maybe I did a butt dial. What’s going…

April 21, 2025April 21, 2025 · 5 min read

Body & Health

Empathy isn’t pathology, Mr. Musk

If you are feeling a bit too much empathy, and it has you on the floor feeling terrible, don’t go to war with it, up-level it into compassion.…

April 11, 2025April 11, 2025 · 4 min read

Culture

Democracy is a practice: how (and why) to do it.

No matter how outraged you feel, or how erudite your arguments against Social Security cuts, NIH cuts, Veteran’s care cuts, National Parks pillaging, yanking legal immigrants off the…

April 6, 2025April 7, 2025 · 4 min read

Culture

Got George Washington

And how attention to the present moment yields stories and signs. This rainy grey day, after dropping my son at school, I drove by Job Lot and saw…

April 3, 2025April 3, 2025 · 3 min read

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