And here I thought we were a Christian nation again 😤

Hiii, I'm a dxed-3+-days-later pulmonary embolism. Or a car wrapped around a telephone pole. Or an overdose, take your pick. 🙃

...I don't know what this means for my 2026 😶

Hi, hi pocket friends, I made a lil housewarming registry... zero expectations or pressure of course but here it is if any of y'all would like to put art on my walls or protect the flat-top stove from Rumi (and vice versa!) or help me cook/bake more in the new year! ♥️

...would definitely go to the Seattle Art Museum again but, uhh, maybe not on a free first Thursdays lol

Taking Sam (@gracefulgravity.bsky.social) to SAM today... oddly enough, it's the first time there for both of us! 😁

This is classic Seattle (even in July ) but frozen fog and fireworks. 😆

WOOHOO!! Seattle is MAYORLESS until tomorrow! It's the purge!! Anyway. Happy New Year's, 2026!

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Just checked with the experts and the Space Needle has not disappeared. It really is still there. Happy New Year! (Yes. We said the same thing in 2024)

Fireworks are much more tolerable when they're not in my backyard or neighborhood 🙃

So I read a book or two this year:

View from Pike Place Market. Seattle, WA. #photography #art #color #Seattle #MtRainier #sunset #Urban

Kids are sent to “new” relatives because the state cut those ties to begin with. Asking kids to adapt to choices made about them, not with them. Why not support before removal? (Source: Seattle Times) #adopteesky

...the fog was unreal today

A few more aquarium pics:

Ope, here we go- Bluesky didn't like that I copied the pic in lol

LOOK AT THE CLARITY HERE omg

...the *clarity* is just 😍

Violet the Octopus was v active today!

The best ending a comic strip will ever have.

Lolll @ these pajama sets

Found a flounder and we're not even at the aquarium yet! 😁

Took friend to the lil pocket beach ~5 minutes from my place and this dude said he found a moon snail here yesterday! This is a very rocky beach so I wasn't sure what creatures might be around at a low tide. Sounds like this might be a good, quiet beach for minus tides!

Seattle sky tonight (12/30/2025)

Seattle sunset sit rep:

Finally got my new art up on the wall!

Whole thread! Get ready, y’all!

Yayyy! Thanks to a friendly and kind $50 donation we are now at $908 / $1,000! 🧡🩷🩵💙 90% there! Only $92 left to go 🥰 Who wants to look back on their life and know they helped make this happen? lusidpsychcare.org

Not sure which was more stressful: driving to the airport to pick a friend up, or driving through Lower Queen Anne after an apparent Kraken game, 😶

Yeahhh, it's strange not to see the Handbook on Clinical Treatment of Adopted Adolescents and Young Adults or any of a number of other psychoanalytically-minded articles or books on this list. I've got several on my tablet that would've been more robust than this!

💯(but also 😭)

...the professionals also pay good money so [other] professionals take care of us, as well, 😭 🔥 thread as always, Martha!

Good policy 'cause not everything that looks like autism is autism! See, developmental trauma, for one.

Also. Loss (and the myriad of ways we cope- even "negatively" with loss) isn't necessarily seen as pathological in psychoanalytic thought. "Traumatic" also doesn't necessarily mean what the general public takes it to mean. So possibly there's something getting lost in translation here! 🥚

🥚 So this has definitely left containment so a couple clarifications, again: 1) it's one (incorrect) line, out of context; the rest of the section acknowledges that grief/loss are central concerns to the adoption experience, which becomes more apparent through developmental stages

Ope, new phone is here!!! 😍

First session back with GVD and oh my god I got an email from Kansas DCF in the middle of it... how did I "forget" I submitted a request for my adoption records on Christmas Eve?? 😫

Imagine having Melanie fucking Klein in your lineage and then writing this.

A few notes: 1) This quote is from the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual; an alternate system to the DSM. 2) "as traumatic" is key phrase; the rest of the section acknowledges loss/identity concerns as central to adoptee experience (reactions to loss are not necessarily pathological) 🥚

New iphone case arrived before new iphone. I already don't like how much larger the 15 is from the 12 mini! At least the case is pretty, lol

...the rest of the section is mostly decent enough but, man, it's telling that they only mention adoption in the section on childhood. Adoption is a lifelong psychological experience!

Whoever wrote the section on adoption in the PDM-3... did any of your research involve actual adoptees?? 🫠

Anyone want to form an informal reading group for the PDM-3 with me? A chapter/week gets us through the whole book by June or so

Sunday brunch while I stream Lessons and Carols (because I definitely did not wake up in time to make it to a 9:30am service lolsob)

...things I worry about as a therapist (and for which I have no good solutions) 🫠

This is an oddly fascinating zen-like video. 7 minutes. youtu.be/4NuTfvLPTas?...

I feel like this first week of staycation went by wayyy too quickly. And all I've done is sleep &watch trashy TV? (Me: "I didn't even go outside!" Friend: "...the outside that's flooding?") Next week I have a friend in town &I imagine that will go by quickly too. And then back to work &I just, 🫠

Not perfect but definitely Better™

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