Martha Crawford

Right?

Lots of owls hooting in the dark arroyo tonight

Here is an old bohemian folk tale about the Long Desired Child that I found very illuminating when I worked with lots of late in life/ long infertility processes and other adoptive mothers like myself

en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Slavoni...

Oh, the Long Desired Child archetype is a WHOLE THING. the most precious jewel.

Fun fact: even as UCLA is being extorted for $1B by a fascist government, its administration is requiring all faculty to install a “security” program that surveils everything we do and shares that information with the federal government.

My mother’s era had no choice - no abortion or birth control or gratifying paths to master - and moms in the 60’s and 70’s did not give a shit about kidnappers or us playing with fire or on literal thin ice.

please?

$1095 needed to get to 40%

40% is what i have to pay upfront, my oncologist was able to make an arrangement for me to pay the remaining 60% over 3 months.

the sooner i have the 40%, the sooner i can schedule the first session.

time is not on my side - please contribute/share now! ❤️

And I think it has something to do with actively choosing motherhood and the pressure to be not fail at something we chose to do.

The cabal of Other Mothers enforce it for sure.

And if you even TRY to resist it other mothers punish or terrorize or shame you.

YES.

If you grow up, as I did, in Idaho or any of the places where the temporary losers slink off to entrench themselves you get to watch the actual enemies of your childhood re-emerge in contemporary politics while wondering why they’re not dead yet.

No one is going to just accept that their bills only go up and the headlines keep blasting that it's all for Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman's Ponzi scheme for idiots.

Everything is so fluid now that it means anything is possible. It's very funny to me that AI's insane greed could be what makes the grid collapse and prices rise so exponentially that we eject private owners from the grid for the next hundred years or so.

Due to my research & writing on Christian Nationalism, researchers of Doug Wilson reached out to me a few years ago to make sure that Wilson was on my radar. Initially, I found it challenging to show that Wilson is a threat beyond Moscow, Idaho (though I tried). It is no longer challenging. Thread.

Mortality Workshop | Explore Mortality Mindfully — What A Shrink Thinks Join our online interactive workshop to deepen your understanding of mortality and develop healthier responses to the life's existential realities.

I’ll be hosting this by donation workshop- 16 weeks to talk about the dominant cultural responses to grief, caregiving, death & dying- to locate ourselves, to respect and expand beyond our reflexive anxiety lines

initiating ourselves into a more mature relationship to mortality

September

A glimpse — What A Shrink Thinks We exalt the Explicit, we idolize the seemingly permanent. We underestimate the power of the implicit.

I’m aware of the implicit impact I have and we all have by being a part of this interdependent universe.

I’ve seen glimpses

That is more than enough for me

I offer all my groups by pay what you can donation.

If any of them seem interesting or useful for you please don’t feel financially inhibited from participating or investigating.

More on why I think this is different from a “sliding scale” here

Ha!

I keep them All. like dog eared and hard worn little soldiers.

Thanks for the resource

ONCE AGAIN I AM ASKING YOU TO DENY ALAN DERSHOWITZ A PIEROGI

NEWSMAX * • Follow NEWSMAX 2d • Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz was once again refused a pierogi from an unwilling vendor at a Martha's Vineyard market, the latest in his controversies over pierogis in the celebrity hot spot. newsmax.com Dershowitz Again Denied Pierogi, Told to Leave Farmer's Market 1.2K 750 comments 66 shares

Can’t say why exactly, but the phrase “once again refused a pierogi” made me laugh out loud.

Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.

alternately, you could really expand the pierogi world-building

Dershowitz tries to obtain them in different places throughout the series and they all deny him pierogi without explaining why

maybe he ALMOST obtains one in the season finale, where Cuomo is denied a food handler's permit

I think my favorite part is that it appears he tried it again and was refused a second time

imagine being publicly shamed at a farmer's market and then GOING BACK

these men are so wildly unaccustomed to "no"

as a pierogi-loving bitch of Polish descent I am unreasonably delighted by the ongoing Alan Dershowitz saga

Same! Its delicious but for myself for wholly different karmic reasons.

A deadly shooting at the CDC shook its scientists. Now they want answers from RFK Jr. CDC Director Susan Monarez convened an online all-hands meeting of the agency division that focuses on vaccines, and employees called out Kennedy’s rhetoric specifically.

Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

And to all of those Dems who felt the need to scream at those of us calling out Dems for their transphobic BS? This is the result. The only reason Pelosi has shifted on this is folks yelling and calling out shit like Buttegieg throwing trans athletes to the GOP wolves. Keep letting them know.