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Martha Crawford

@whatashrinkthinks.com

focused on dreams, mysticism, mortality, community resilience and the psychologies/theologies of liberation Essays in Slate, Vox, New York Magazine Crone Quaker-ish She/Her Website: whatashrinkthinks.com

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Dark clouds on the left and hazy blue sky on the right, with the peak of a roof at lower right. The sun is behind the clouds near image center.

Dark clouds on the left and hazy blue sky on the right, with the peak of a roof at lower right. The sun is behind the clouds near image center.

Also not raining.

06.03.2026 20:28 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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And Their Wings Touched Each Other β€” Martha Crawford - What a Shrink Thinks I need to take a breath sometimes. I need a birds-eye, angel-eye, cosmic-view sometimes. Just for a moment, so I can keep going.

Here is a long essay.

I wrote it gladly and received a lot from writing it whether anyone thinks its too long to bother with or not:

06.03.2026 21:46 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I frankly don’t care

06.03.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

06.03.2026 19:47 πŸ‘ 12459 πŸ” 3359 πŸ’¬ 197 πŸ“Œ 105

with every bad thing that's happening right now children are getting the absolute shit end worst of it

06.03.2026 20:34 πŸ‘ 135 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

And who can help it?

Once all those slurs start filling in there is nothing anyone can do to stop them!

06.03.2026 20:34 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We all need some joy for sure!

06.03.2026 20:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@jkmakes.bsky.social @ajlewis2.bsky.social
@crowknows54.bsky.social

06.03.2026 20:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ’–πŸ’–

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Consecrated Women in Rome Heal With St. Hildegard The community prepares meals for retreats, cooking the same foods they themselves consume, following closely to the principles of the doctor of the Church as they offer hospitality to souls.

Heart wine sounds delicious

06.03.2026 20:02 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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U.S. Sen. Klobuchar: Federal agents in Minnesota near 'original footprint,' contradicting Noem's claim U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar spoke with MPR News host Clay Masters about her reaction to Noem leaving the post.

@klobuchar.senate.gov if this is true why are they bringing in more vehicles to Whipple? Why are they shipping building materials into that facility?

You're just going to keep believing people who lie and can't get their lies straight?

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

06.03.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"You guys are all about masks when they're used for controlling the spread of a deadly virus, but when someone wants to wear one to murder with impunity you're like, no"

06.03.2026 13:43 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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US job market stalls, unemployment rate rises before Fed decision The healthcare sector was hit the hardest , while tariff-exposed sectors remained stagnant .

The healthcare sector was hit the hardest , while tariff-exposed sectors remained stagnant .

06.03.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3
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Dorothy Day & Thomas Merton on Indigenous Wisdom - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day were good friends. He admired her life and work, and she visited him on several occasions at the monastery and at his hermitage. They had friends in common, including Fat...

#ThomasMerton: " #Genocide is a new word. Perhaps the word is new because technology has now got into the game of destroying whole races at once. The destruction of races is not newβ€”just easier." bit.ly/4uwHimj

06.03.2026 18:15 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

They are literally prodding, provoking, manipulating and tricking us into hardening our hearts, as if that will protect us, as if that will help us get through.

It actually feeds them and empowers them more. Turns you into one of their pawns.

04.03.2026 17:23 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

🌸🌸🌸

06.03.2026 16:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can *highly* recommend this workshop. I finished a few weeks ago and it’s amazing.

06.03.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

move slow and repair things

06.03.2026 12:06 πŸ‘ 2511 πŸ” 805 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Free stuff!

06.03.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think we need to deepen and reframe our cultural relationship to mortality

06.03.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

New members welcome for this book!

06.03.2026 15:38 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Room for three more!

06.03.2026 15:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Today!

06.03.2026 15:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s our strength and strategy. That is their weakness. The hole in the death star

06.03.2026 15:33 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Also: when I start to panic and catastrophize that I am getting worse at these this as I age,

This essay I wrote in my 40’s reminds me that I have pretty much the same baseline and its just harder for me to compensate for these disabilities now

06.03.2026 15:29 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As Iβ€”along, I suspect, with many of youβ€”scramble to complete private foundation grant application, it’s so thoroughly clear private funding cannot compensate for the decimation of federal research support in the USβ€”most obviously, everyone is now competing over an exponentially smaller pool of funds

06.03.2026 15:13 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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β€œI guess”.

You’ve got to be kidding me. We have totally unserious, completely incompetent people taking us into mindless deadly war.

06.03.2026 15:23 πŸ‘ 782 πŸ” 241 πŸ’¬ 67 πŸ“Œ 13

Autopen always evokes this earworm

06.03.2026 15:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

People do in fact die.

The problem is a ring of oligarchs who are completely indifferent human lives and who enjoy actively destroying life.

06.03.2026 15:14 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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