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Politics And Culture, +Introducing Trouble Making Poetry Corner

Send Roaring Rivers your Double Trouble poetry and we’ll select a poem each Wednesday

Christyl Rivers, Phd.
2 min readFeb 12, 2025
Photo by Trust "Tru" Katsande on Unsplash

Roaring Rivers

Torrents, currents, and ripples by Christyl Rivers, PhD.

My blog is pretty random. I like tons of topics, politics, science, hiking and climbing, cats, poetry, literature, philosophy, pop culture strangeness, literature, history, humor, and most of all ecopsychology and nature.

I have decided to add to augment my regular blog. One day per week I will add a short poem within Roaring Rivers to a segment called Double Trouble Poetry Corner.

I truly believe that all of you, and everybody who lives on Earth, needs a purpose and a calling to perform good trouble. And, these days we desperately need to solve riddles and laugh.

To feed, and cloth, and share, and protect the sustainable world from pollution, corruption, violence, cruelty, and more, always requires art in the long run. And play. Ridicule tyrants, address farce, warn of dangerous trends and ideology.

This week the rise of the machines grasps my brain and won’t let go. It feels that automated everything is suppressing our in-person, human social qualities. Even as we…

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Christyl Rivers, Phd.
Christyl Rivers, Phd.

Written by Christyl Rivers, Phd.

Ecopsychologist, Writer, Farmer, Defender of reality, and Cat Castle Custodian.

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