Do I buy the terrycloth zip up sweatshirt robe from Duluth for the winter? Do I just enter my frumpy Midwestern farm wife era (IE become my Mom) or do I try to find something a tiny bit stylish, handmade from repurposed mens' wool suits and become my Grandmother? Mom sounds a LOT easier.

3.1 miles this morning and two of those were under 10 minutes! 🤩 So that's goal 1 down, now to get them down under 9 which is a LOT harder (for me).

Let's do it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...

I have a beautiful collection of crystal I collected over the years (Grandma taught me to buy the really good stuff cheap and then use it daily) and since I don't drink anymore now it holds fresh apple cider. Use the good stuff in unexpected ways, you are worth it. (Estate sales folks!)

I just stumbled on non-alcoholic CIDERS! Like real cider, alcohol removed. 😍 Must restrain self from ordering a year's worth of beverages, restraint, restraint...

More, so much more of this. Of compromise, real and reasonable compromise, no longer being a dirty concept of last resort. Listened to some of her music - it's good to know rock and roll isn't dead yet. Dare I suggest she might be a Patti Smith for younger generations?

When I tell you that I am sobbing. This is worth your time. Well worth your time.

This app really needs the option to restrict your account (ie private). Sometimes I want a conversation to just be with mutuals. (I don't just mean who can reply, I mean the whole conversation or even everything you post.)

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

History rhymes a bit too well sometimes.

Do I already have 10 books on hold from the library, 2 checked out, and a STACK of psychotherapy books I need to read (ahem, 20)? Yes. Could I pass up this gem? ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Use correct terminology! It's not "expresso," it's *espresso* It's not "hone in," it's *home in* It's not "irregardless," it's *regardless* It's not "vaccine skeptical," it's *pro infectious diseases* It's not "pro medical freedom about vaccines," it's *scientifically illiterate*

Speaker making the connection between Christian monotheism and our cultures' monotheistic obsession with "singular scientific truth" and this is an interesting connection I hadn't thought of before. But our obsession with asking folks if they BELIEVE in science sorta clicks in this view.

Props to CSI for putting together a really well done hybrid Jungian conference. With literally EVERY talk available through a "choose your own breakout room" online setup and camera/sound setup that works. Looking forward to the next three days of learning from wildly diverse therapists.

I am the pond. My thoughts are the fish swimming beneath the cattail shadows. My fears are the frogs, floating weightless, their pointed faces parting the lily pads. My hopes are the dragonflies, warming themselves on a willow branch, mirrored in the still water. (1/2)

I need people to understand that Disney has not been a force for good in decades, if it ever was, and that it’s understanding of stories as a pacifying rather than liberating force rivals Christianity’s. It’s the First Lady of the status quo, the quelling soft power.

Remember that fascists cannot deal with comedians. Humor and satire undermines them. That’s why they’ve targeted Kimmel and Colbert. Fascists have the thinnest skins. They pretend to be strong, but it is always an act.

This comes up way too often so: Western flippant teaching of "mindfulness" as "emptying your mind" is utter bullshit. That isn't the goal. The GOAL is to notice thoughts as they arise without judgement and without becoming "hooked" by them. IE thought rises, you notice, you let it go...

Yes, but also if you actually look at the list of conditions that put you at high risk you probably don't have to lie. It's a long list with incredibly common things on it.

It was so chilly this morning I put on a sweater. It is now 90 in Seattle. WTH?

She's old, she's a little scuffed, but I FOUND A TORTOISE PELIKAN MECHANICAL PENCIL Y'ALL! A vintage one!!!!! It is so cute. And light, and comfortable. It will be my book annotating pencil.

Hi. I’m going to hold your hand while I say this. Don’t tell your deepest, darkest secrets to a robot.

Holy shit YES. CHILDREN ARE PEOPLE. CHILDREN HAVE RIGHTS.

COVID vaccination acquired. CVS in WA has it, and they're obeying the order to make it accessible to all. In case you are looking. And thank goodness our insurance also didn't bat an eyelash.

I have been complaining about the impossibility of the "enhance the image" tv detective show trope since the mid 90s, and the only thing that has really changed since then is that computers have gotten better at lying.

Hey friends, log off. Turn off the glowing horror boxes, pull out your favorite comic, or favorite book and reread it. Snuggle with a critter. Sit outside and listen to the crickets and the wind. Take some deep slow breaths. Maybe leave it off more often.

Welp, finally got to the point today where I left all my stroke support groups. Trying to educate people on vaccine safety and the increased risk of stroke after COVID infection (both with lots of good peer reviewed studies) was deemed "political" by admins. We are in a BAD spot in history folk.

I cannot with the amount of misinformation and downright conspiracy theory bullshit around medicine right now. Stop asking people if they "believe" in scientific principles. Stop. Belief is irrelevant and I swear this one is all on Christianity and our frankly toxic focus on personal belief.

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing. www.science.org/content/arti...

First ride for we two since I had surgery and he tore his suspensory (while I was in surgery bc apparently he wanted to rehab with me). He was so eager to go for a ride he basically snatched the bit from me. 😂😍

I am the sort of little account that NO one, and I mean NO ONE beyond my little circle of friends sees my social media posts. Until I said "I'd like a phone without AI please" and thousands of other people have been like "HELL YEAH" and how are companies THIS blind to how big the no AI market is?

No, for real, though, here’s my proposal: As soon as you crest into $1 billion, we throw you a party, congratulate you for winning the game, and then we build a bunch of affordable housing and you wake up tomorrow in an apartment with $1000 to your name. When you win the game, it resets.

You should have to fill out a basic medical literacy test before obtaining a pet. These assholes are literally putting all our lives at risk.

I feel like screaming this with a megaphone 📢

And our AQI has past 185. Stay inside Seattle/Eastside, close the house up and fire up those those air filters smoke season is here with a vengeance (finger crossed the rain comes this weekend and clears the air).

The thread bsky.app/profile/emil...

Just a reminder that all the nice, compassionate love your neighbor stuff Jesus said was either quoting or paraphrasing the “OT,” that the OT tells people not to return escaped slaves while the NT tells slaves to suck it up, and the NT introduces the concept of eternal damnation.

Ritual is so important and it doesn't have to be huge. For me swapping out my perfumes as the seasons change is a way to slow down, be intentional, pay attention to the world around me changing. Ritual can be that simple and that grounding. (And fall perfumes are my favorite, all warmth and spice.)

Little girl casts a looooong shadow in this household. She rules with an iron paw (and she's the sweetest little goddess if you are in her good graces). Don't tell her I said little. 🤣

Love my state. Get your shots!

I feel like you can already see this happening in accelerated time with the Y2K bug—it’s become a punchline, like it was never a problem. It *was* a problem, and people worked very hard to solve it, and succeeded.

Hi. Your regular reminder that this is not normal. The fact that some things have been "not normal" for weeks/months/years makes them neither normal nor ok. We must keep pushing for a normal that improves on the baseline normal, not that leaves it in the rearview mirror and speeds off backwards

More controversially, I hate when people bring up his drug use. At SAMHSA we *tried to hire* recovering drug users because they offered insights into the health system that others didn't have. (also, he probably didn't actually have a brain worm, sorry. He probably made it up)

Not loving people talking about JFK Jr's voice as evidence that he's unhealthy and therefore unfit to lead. His eugenics and denial of science make him unfit to lead, not his disability. A science-loving disabled person would offer amazing insight as an HHS leader.

This is op/ed is a hot mess but let's focus on one specific false claim from Oren Cass. He wrote: "the crops are not rotting in the fields" But yes, Oren, they are. Crops are rotting in the fields.

Are we blind to the life that keeps our world alive? 🌿🌱🧪 Plant blindness is shaping how we see (or don’t see) the natural world.

💯 this. Imagining a better future helps me to act in the present, it makes action meaningful for me. I know how I want things to be and I believe in the possibility.

I am slight obsessed with my new workout wear...