Human Stuff from Lisa Olivera

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This is part of our protest

1 week ago | lisaolivera.substack.com | Lisa Olivera

Human Stuff is a free weekly-ish newsletter. You’re welcome to share parts of this newsletter that connect with you on social media, or send to someone you love. Thank you for reading, ‘heart’ing, commenting, sharing, for helping this newsletter continue by being here. It truly means something.
Courage, dear heart

3 weeks ago | lisaolivera.substack.com | Lisa Olivera

Human Stuff is a free weekly-ish newsletter. You’re welcome to share parts of this newsletter that connect with you on social media, or send to someone you love. Thank you for reading, ‘heart’ing, commenting, sharing, for helping this newsletter continue by being here. It truly means something. A song I’m loving: This morning, I feel my young self trying to take over my current self. Before I remember who I am now, I forget I’m not a helpless infant.
What can I say?

1 month ago | lisaolivera.substack.com | Lisa Olivera

Human Stuff is a free weekly-ish newsletter. Please feel free to share parts of this newsletter that connect with you on social media or send to someone you love. Thank you for reading, ‘heart’ing, commenting, sharing, for being here. It truly means something. A song I’m loving: Can I say the first poppy of the year bloomed in my backyard yesterday, with others right behind, their closed buds just barely holding on, about to burst, and seeing that first poppy nearly made my heart burst?
How are you being?

1 month ago | lisaolivera.substack.com | Lisa Olivera

Human Stuff is a free weekly-ish newsletter. Please feel free to share parts of this newsletter that connect with you on social media or send to someone you love. Thank you for reading, ‘heart’ing, commenting, sharing, for being here. It truly means something.
This is the time to practice

2 months ago | lisaolivera.substack.com | Lisa Olivera

Human Stuff is a free weekly-ish newsletter. Please feel free to share parts of this newsletter that connect with you on social media or send to someone you love. Thank you for reading, subscribing, ‘heart’ing, commenting, sharing. It all means something.
Yes, fear. Yes, rage. Yes, grief.

2 months ago | lisaolivera.substack.com | Lisa Olivera

Human Stuff is a free weekly-ish newsletter. Please feel free to share parts of this newsletter that connect with you on social media or send to someone you love. Thank you for reading, subscribing, ‘heart’ing, commenting, sharing. It all means something. A song I’m loving: Good morning to you. A reminder to perhaps soften your shoulders, maybe lift your eyes from the phone or computer for just a moment, turn your neck from side to side, take a breath, feel your feet, feel your hands, feel yourself.
Humble and listening

Jan 19, 2025 | lisaolivera.substack.com | Lisa Olivera

Human Stuff is a free weekly-ish newsletter. Please feel free to share parts of this newsletter that connect with you on social media or send to someone you love. If you enjoy and benefit from my work, I invite you to become a paid subscriber. This is a reader-supported offering and I’m so grateful for your presence here. A song I’m loving: 1. — “Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair.
For the heavy heart

Jan 10, 2025 | lisaolivera.substack.com | Lisa Olivera

Human Stuff is a weekly-ish newsletter. Please feel free to share parts that connect with you, or send to someone you love. Thank you for reading, ‘heart’ing, sharing, commenting, subscribing, for being here. All of it means something.
As the dark crescendos

Dec 8, 2024 | lisaolivera.substack.com | Lisa Olivera

(A song I’ve been loving: The dark is crescendoing here (as far as Northern California goes, at least), close to its peak on the coming solstice. The sun sets while we eat dinner now; yesterday, I caught a glimpse of it through the window while finishing roasting sweet potatoes. I scooped my daughter up and ran to the front yard so we could stand in awe as scattered blue clouds turned pink, then orange, then neon, then even brighter neon, then darker red, then dark blue, then night.
To be drenched in life

Nov 24, 2024 | lisaolivera.substack.com | Lisa Olivera

A song I’ve been loving: 1 — It poured rain for three days straight here, leaving a record amount of rainfall. My backyard is soggy with memory of it now. I kept saying to myself, “how does it just keep going?” The seemingly endless pouring made me think about how long it sometimes takes to fully let go of what needs letting go — to fully release what is asking to be released. It often doesn’t happen in the midst of a yoga class or in one single breakthrough or in one particular cry.