Lori Kane
@lorikane.bsky.social
Wondersnevercease.blog. We are the antidote to this billionaire-backed global grief and chaos. I’m an essayist, poet, herbalist, auntie, sister, & Alzheimer’s care partner for mom & dad.
May we allow the speaking of our heartbreak to be our offering to the world now… Face to face. Voice to voice. The teas here help turn the speaking of our heartbreak into simple ceremony— to stay with and honor what we're feeling and to celebrate friendship, simultaneously.
Friendship teas & ceremony for those feeling heartbroken right now
This post is for anyone feeling heartbroken right now, for any reason.
The Blessing: May we speak the heartbreak of now together
May we allow the speaking of our heartbreak to be our offering to th...
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January 31, 2026 at 7:07 PM
May we allow the speaking of our heartbreak to be our offering to the world now… Face to face. Voice to voice. The teas here help turn the speaking of our heartbreak into simple ceremony— to stay with and honor what we're feeling and to celebrate friendship, simultaneously.
I know this might sound strange given the fascist-executive-branch-thinks-they're-in-charge-of-the-entire-Earth state of the United States and a few other evil-whack-a-do governments killing their neighbors or own people right now. But I'm thinking about thriving this year. Thriving…
The Year of Deep & Simple Mischief
I know this might sound strange given the fascist-executive-branch-thinks-they're-in-charge-of-the-entire-Earth state of the United States and a few other evil-whack-a-do governments killing their nei...
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January 31, 2026 at 7:05 PM
I know this might sound strange given the fascist-executive-branch-thinks-they're-in-charge-of-the-entire-Earth state of the United States and a few other evil-whack-a-do governments killing their neighbors or own people right now. But I'm thinking about thriving this year. Thriving…
Magic’s afoot now. Can you feel it? How could we ever give up hope with this much magic present? www.wondersnevercease.blog/the-magic-of...
The magic of full and loving presence
Happy 2026, friends, for those of you who celebrate this particular calendar turning. And for everyone else, happy Tuesday or well wishes for wherever you are.
As you may have heard, on the winter so...
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January 8, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Magic’s afoot now. Can you feel it? How could we ever give up hope with this much magic present? www.wondersnevercease.blog/the-magic-of...
I finally found the cure for thriving under this violent regime. Spending way more time with women and nonbinary folks—in person. Way more time. Three days/week works for me… 💚 www.wondersnevercease.blog/creating-whi...
Creating while under the ineffable influence of women
Prioritize what you need today. Right now. Is that a struggle for you today or this month or year? Then this women-and-poetry-woven essay is for you.
This essay demonstrates what I write—and how I ch...
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December 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I finally found the cure for thriving under this violent regime. Spending way more time with women and nonbinary folks—in person. Way more time. Three days/week works for me… 💚 www.wondersnevercease.blog/creating-whi...
What do we know about learning to float within unshakeable darkness? Quite a lot, actually… ❄️
Learning to float
This essay isn't a tutorial for floating your body in the water. It's about embracing the season of deepening reflection and connection. Welcoming the cold and darkness. Adjusting our senses, returnin...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
What do we know about learning to float within unshakeable darkness? Quite a lot, actually… ❄️
Write this for our Whidbey community and surrounding area this week... www.wondersnevercease.blog/when-snap-go...
When SNAP goes away on Whidbey Island, November 1st, here's who's ready to help...
Because the U.S. federal government has been shredded from within this year and now shut down for months, starting November 1st the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that almost 42 mill...
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November 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Write this for our Whidbey community and surrounding area this week... www.wondersnevercease.blog/when-snap-go...
When you’re in the land of the lost, there are no maps. But there are clues to follow, pitfalls to avoid, and even moments of joy to be had, though most days kind of suck…
Clue hunting! One way to re-find your truer path/self in life
Every so often, we find ourselves feeling slightly off or way off our path in life or completely lost from who we are and what we deeply want to be and do next. I'm at a life-transition point myself r...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
When you’re in the land of the lost, there are no maps. But there are clues to follow, pitfalls to avoid, and even moments of joy to be had, though most days kind of suck…
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So many people feel overwhelmed while scrolling and there’s a reason for that. Bots are a large part of the problem. We’ve been breaking down how to spot them. After tracking bot groups that push narratives and attacks, we found some common traits:
September 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
So many people feel overwhelmed while scrolling and there’s a reason for that. Bots are a large part of the problem. We’ve been breaking down how to spot them. After tracking bot groups that push narratives and attacks, we found some common traits:
If at any point you arrive w/ goosebumps, tears, dropped-open mouth, or wide eyes–surprised, delighted, weeping, more fully seen–& you become softer, more open to connection, & a pinch braver, you aren't just reading poetry. We just became poetry together. www.wondersnevercease.blog/joy-grief-fi...
Joy, grief, fireflies, graffiti, & becoming co-creators
One of my all-time favorite poems is by storyteller, poet, playwright, screenwriter, author, performer, teacher, musician, and live-your-whole-being inspiration and muse, Lenelle Moise. This poem.
cu...
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August 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
If at any point you arrive w/ goosebumps, tears, dropped-open mouth, or wide eyes–surprised, delighted, weeping, more fully seen–& you become softer, more open to connection, & a pinch braver, you aren't just reading poetry. We just became poetry together. www.wondersnevercease.blog/joy-grief-fi...
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On Wednesday, ICE GOONS arrested a mother in the school drop-off line at Inzunza Camarina Elementary in Chula Vista, leaving her two children in the car.
August 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
On Wednesday, ICE GOONS arrested a mother in the school drop-off line at Inzunza Camarina Elementary in Chula Vista, leaving her two children in the car.
“I say this all so that you know that you don't have to worry about me. I'm not having a nervous breakdown. I'm not holding pain and loss and worry and rage and other strong emotions that I cannot possibly hold. I'm just a poet. An empath. A jellyfish.”…
The united states of abandonment and jellyfishing
Hello friends. I learned this week that I need to offer a transition explanation for those of you who first met me as an herbalist some time across the past 7 years and who know me primarily as an her...
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August 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
“I say this all so that you know that you don't have to worry about me. I'm not having a nervous breakdown. I'm not holding pain and loss and worry and rage and other strong emotions that I cannot possibly hold. I'm just a poet. An empath. A jellyfish.”…
Excerpt from a new poem…
He makes breakfast.
I hold genocide.
He holds me.
I hold us.
Community is all of us now.
Community is everyone attacked and belittled for just trying to live
and just trying to belong.
Everyone who just wants to be free.
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He makes breakfast.
I hold genocide.
He holds me.
I hold us.
Community is all of us now.
Community is everyone attacked and belittled for just trying to live
and just trying to belong.
Everyone who just wants to be free.
www.wondersnevercease.blog/he-makes-bre...
He makes breakfast. I hold genocide.
Hi friends, I've been writing and polishing essay after essay here in July, but I've been unable to press Publish for the past three weeks. There's something fully mysterious and magic about being a w...
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July 29, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Excerpt from a new poem…
He makes breakfast.
I hold genocide.
He holds me.
I hold us.
Community is all of us now.
Community is everyone attacked and belittled for just trying to live
and just trying to belong.
Everyone who just wants to be free.
www.wondersnevercease.blog/he-makes-bre...
He makes breakfast.
I hold genocide.
He holds me.
I hold us.
Community is all of us now.
Community is everyone attacked and belittled for just trying to live
and just trying to belong.
Everyone who just wants to be free.
www.wondersnevercease.blog/he-makes-bre...
“after we gracefully removed a mouse from the house like a pair of gold-medal-winning couples ice skaters, I sat back down, full of wonder. Then suddenly, instantly, magically into my mind leapt a new perspective. A new perspective on the derogatory use of the word Woke...”
Rest, remember, wonder, gather, and then imagine
I found these words while following a deer path through tall grass in the shade of some Douglas fir trees just outside of town. Over time, I've learned that I'm a gatherer of words. A forager of wildn...
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July 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“after we gracefully removed a mouse from the house like a pair of gold-medal-winning couples ice skaters, I sat back down, full of wonder. Then suddenly, instantly, magically into my mind leapt a new perspective. A new perspective on the derogatory use of the word Woke...”
“My own people know reverence, yes. But at some point we decided to give reverence just one day/week. Settling for far less than we really are six days out of every seven. Causing us to lose faith in ourselves, and then others, and then life herself...”
Being reimagined with lived experience, reverence, intuition, and wonder
I was 37 and just finishing my doctoral dissertation research when I woke up one day and realized that I'd spent my adult life reading primarily the work of men. Almost all books, articles, essays, re...
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June 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“My own people know reverence, yes. But at some point we decided to give reverence just one day/week. Settling for far less than we really are six days out of every seven. Causing us to lose faith in ourselves, and then others, and then life herself...”
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It is bizarre the way people with guns, bulletproof vests, riot shields, tanks, and other military gear act like rocks are an equal threat. It’s madness! If you are scared of rocks and think the punishment for having them thrown at you should be death, you shouldn’t be in law enforcement!
June 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
It is bizarre the way people with guns, bulletproof vests, riot shields, tanks, and other military gear act like rocks are an equal threat. It’s madness! If you are scared of rocks and think the punishment for having them thrown at you should be death, you shouldn’t be in law enforcement!
Finn says Hi. www.wondersnevercease.blog/befriending-...
Befriending Silly, Deep, Barney, Bernie, and Nuance
First, a thank you. Happy Pride month friends. Thank you, LGBTQ+ family and community and ancestors, from the bottom of our hearts, for everything you so generously give the world with your presence a...
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June 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Finn says Hi. www.wondersnevercease.blog/befriending-...
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It’s Taco Tuesday.
June 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It’s Taco Tuesday.
New post on ghost: 7 tips for becoming a trusted community elder in an upside-down world. www.wondersnevercease.blog/7-tips-for-b...
7 tips for becoming a trusted community elder in an upside-down world
I wrote a long introduction laying out my impeccable street cred and demonstrating why I can claim the word "elder" as my own, and why I might deserve to be listened to on this subject, here, just wee...
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June 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
New post on ghost: 7 tips for becoming a trusted community elder in an upside-down world. www.wondersnevercease.blog/7-tips-for-b...
“I listen to what others are feeling, even when it's not easy. And I give voice to what I'm feeling, even when it's not pretty. And because I am doing that regularly now, I'm not tired anymore.
I'm not tired anymore!!! Not chronically, anyway…
I am what I choose to be now.”
I'm not tired anymore!!! Not chronically, anyway…
I am what I choose to be now.”
In the heart of this transition, I welcome feeling everything
We're handing over our beloved Ritual Mischief to her new family in just 8 days.
Only eight days left running my own herbalist practice/organization/business.
Only eight days left to get all our rec...
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May 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
“I listen to what others are feeling, even when it's not easy. And I give voice to what I'm feeling, even when it's not pretty. And because I am doing that regularly now, I'm not tired anymore.
I'm not tired anymore!!! Not chronically, anyway…
I am what I choose to be now.”
I'm not tired anymore!!! Not chronically, anyway…
I am what I choose to be now.”
“I've been stubbornly refusing to settle for less than joy when it comes to letting go... Ritual Mischief started with joy and she deserves to be passed on to the next family with joy. Not stress. Not exhaustion. Not worry. Joy.” www.wondersnevercease.blog/nine-things-...
Nine things that support letting go joyfully this year
Last week, I told my small-but-deeply-loved writer's group– out loud– that I will be doubling down on joy, fun, and wonder in my writing this year. And, because they're connected– doubling down on joy...
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May 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“I've been stubbornly refusing to settle for less than joy when it comes to letting go... Ritual Mischief started with joy and she deserves to be passed on to the next family with joy. Not stress. Not exhaustion. Not worry. Joy.” www.wondersnevercease.blog/nine-things-...
“Grief doesn't need to be feared: this part I already knew. And. Grief also doesn't need to be centered to the point that you feel nothing but catatonic and heavy beyond belief…”
The wonder, kindness, magic, connection, & grief of just one Sunday
As a writer who is also an herbalist, in addition to writing I currently run a small, local-plant-infused herbal products practice called Ritual Mischief. Stay tuned for big news on that front next we...
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April 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
“Grief doesn't need to be feared: this part I already knew. And. Grief also doesn't need to be centered to the point that you feel nothing but catatonic and heavy beyond belief…”
Grief doesn't need to be feared: this part I already knew. And. Grief also doesn't need to be centered to the point that you feel nothing but catatonic and heavy beyond belief…
The wonder, kindness, magic, connection, & grief of just one Sunday
As a writer who is also an herbalist, in addition to writing I currently run a small, local-plant-infused herbal products practice called Ritual Mischief. Stay tuned for big news on that front next we...
www.wondersnevercease.blog
April 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Grief doesn't need to be feared: this part I already knew. And. Grief also doesn't need to be centered to the point that you feel nothing but catatonic and heavy beyond belief…
Just back from watching all our neighbors be total bad asses, I wrote this. We offer three questions to ask for living more courageously followed by two wonders that are just too cool (😎) or lit (🔥) not to share!
Three questions to ask to live more courageously
Humanity is being told by a small group of always-angry wealthy men that we have to give up a lot this year. That we must give up even more now, including people and work and rights and institutions a...
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April 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Just back from watching all our neighbors be total bad asses, I wrote this. We offer three questions to ask for living more courageously followed by two wonders that are just too cool (😎) or lit (🔥) not to share!
How do you know you’re on the right side?
This question, asked anonymously in an online group I’m in, has been following me around this week. When I can’t stop thinking about it, it’s usually time to write about it… 😊
This question, asked anonymously in an online group I’m in, has been following me around this week. When I can’t stop thinking about it, it’s usually time to write about it… 😊
How do you know that you're on the right side?
In one of my large online groups this week, an anonymous and brilliant person from somewhere in the U.S. asked us this:
"There is a sign in my city that says “maybe you are wrong” and I think about i...
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April 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
How do you know you’re on the right side?
This question, asked anonymously in an online group I’m in, has been following me around this week. When I can’t stop thinking about it, it’s usually time to write about it… 😊
This question, asked anonymously in an online group I’m in, has been following me around this week. When I can’t stop thinking about it, it’s usually time to write about it… 😊
“What's crumbling now is not our shared foundation of love. Life herself is not crumbling now. What's crumbling now is everything within us that's been getting in her, and in our, way.”
Trusting our shared foundation of love
Our shared foundation of love is obvious, and everywhere, when we remember to look for it. Sometimes the trick is remembering it's still there or remember to even look. And, sometimes the trick is loo...
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April 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“What's crumbling now is not our shared foundation of love. Life herself is not crumbling now. What's crumbling now is everything within us that's been getting in her, and in our, way.”