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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts” -Wendell Berry, August 5, 1934 - August 31, 2026

Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Hi, new/old friends! I’m a spiritual director, Enneagram professional, reader, &poet, exploring: •contemplative activism •spiritual practices •deconstruction •the divine feminine •justice •antiracism •self-compassion •IFS •grief work •healing from systems of oppression •Enneagram work

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I’m beginning to think that part of the process of maturing happens simply because we run out of energy for all the ways we’ve worked so hard to keep it together.

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 20/08/2025

Trans people are worth protecting. Not because we are amazing people (although we are) or because we offer a great deal to society (although we do) or because we are fine as hell (we are). We are worth protecting because we are HUMAN BEINGS, and it’s amazing how often that simple fact is forgotten.

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

What are some of your favorite poems? I need a little refresh (for myself and for readings to share with the people I work with).

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

“Periods of struggle move us to new levels of integration, and then we have to translate our relationships to God, ourselves, and other people into this new perspective.” —Invitation to Love by Thomas Keating

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

What’s everyone reading this weekend? I’m reading: Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper (Audiobook) Queering Contemplation by Cassidy Hall Invitation to Love by Thomas Keating

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I’m beginning to wonder if what I have always called being an introvert is actually fatigue from masking. What’s one way you knew/discovered you are neurodivergent?

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Sometimes it feels like you ought to be able to tip your therapist.

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Matt Nightingale @mattnightingale.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

You don’t have to worship where you’re not wanted.

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The only time immortality seems remotely appealing is when I think of all the books I could read. What’s in your currently reading/just finished/next up stack? Just finished: The Tears of Things -Richard Rohr

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

In today’s No-Stress (Low-Stress?) Nature News, a green heron fusses at and startles a duckling while the sibling looks on, and the mother duck is a little flustered. Are you the heron, the duckling, the sibling, or the mother duck today?

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

“Felt reality is invariably wept reality, and wept reality is soon compassion and kindness.“ —The Tears of Things by Richard Rohr

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Good morning! Currently sustained by books, naps, and beauty. How about you?

Is sunrise with the sun peeking through a break in the clouds

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

What’s everyone reading this weekend? Just finished: Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza by Peter Beinart Currently reading: -The Tears of Things by Richard Rohr -Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams -The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I just finished a book that had been on my Goodreads TBR list for 5.5 years🙌🏻🎉

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I’m proud to be a newly Accredited Professional with the International Enneagram Association! I believe with my whole heart that we must tend to our inner work in order to show up in the world as our most compassionate, wise, & discerning selves, & the Enneagram is a powerful tool to help us do so.

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Bibliophile confessions: Sometimes I argue with authors in the margins of the (nonfiction) books I read.

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

There’s nothing quite like a car full of 9 year olds singing, “Working 9 to 5”😂

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Matt Nightingale @mattnightingale.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

You don’t have to worship where you’re not wanted.

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

“Society’s attraction to so-called cults…tends to thrive during periods of broader existential questioning. Most alternative religious leaders come to power not to exploit their followers, but instead to guide them through social and political turbulence.” —Cultish by Amanda Montell

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 24/07/2025

16 years ago today Congress raised the minimum wage to $7.25. And as corporate profits have skyrocketed, executive pay has exploded, & the cost of living has soared—the min wage is still $7.25. Here are 6 truths everyone should know about our corrupt wage system. www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-crimin...

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The Criminal Poverty Wage—16 Years On

The $7.25 federal poverty wage is literally killing Americans, and it must change

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I don’t think anything has made me happier recently than the taste of this tomato from our garden. It brought me right back to my great aunt’s dinner table!

Several tomatoes on a wooden cutting board - a medium sized red one that is sliced, a yellow cherub tomato, and a red cherub tomato.

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

What are y’all reading this weekend? I’m reading: •The Enneagram &Prayer -Barbara Metz •A People’s History of the U.S. - Howard Zinn •I See You’ve Called in Dead -John Kenney •Invitation to Love -Thomas Keating Next: •Hood Wellness -Tamela Gordon •Queering Contemplation -Cassidy Hall

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

2 ?s I’ve been holding lately… How can I live life so I won’t look back & regret I didn’t do more w/ others to address the atrocities during this time? How can I live life so that I won’t look back &feel sad I was so immersed in the pain of the world, I didn’t appreciate this beautiful, brief life?

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ACLU @aclu.org · 09/07/2025

Homelessness is solved by housing — not handcuffs.

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.” —The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

My heart has been so heavy for all of the grieving families here inTexas. When words fail me, I often turn to picture books. Children’s books about grief: •Always Remember - Cece Meng & Jago •When Sadness is at Your Door -Eva Eland •The Invisible String - Patrice Karst & Joanne Lew-Vriefthoff

A collage of 9 picture book covers. Titled and authors are listed in thread

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Five things to remember about war:

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

In hearing about the US bombing Iran it’s ok if you feel anxiety, rage, grief, fear, confusion, overwhelmed, sad, and even unsure. You get to feel whatever comes up for you about war and violence being done in your name against your will.

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

“Centering prayer is a preparation for action; in particular, action that emerges from the inspiration of the Spirit in the silencing of our own agitation, desires, and hang-ups.” —Open Heart, Open Mind by Thomas Keating

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

In today’s no-stress nature news, we have tomatoes, yellow squash, and jalapeños in our first veggie garden! The baby jalapeños are so cute.

Little cherub tomatoes growing on the vine, at varying degrees of ripeness

A jalapeño plant with a tiny jalapeño growing on it

A medium-sized jalapeño growing on the plant

A squash plant with yellow flowers and two little yellow squashes growing on it

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE 🥹 Presenting the book cover of “I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy,” written by myself and illustrated by my friend Lorraine Nam. Published by Random House Children’s Books 🐧💚 Preorder at bit.ly/ISHYH-Reveal 📖✨

Mychal Threets and Lorraine Nam picture book, “I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy”

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I love our Buy Nothing group! My teen and I cleaned out books my kids have outgrown and we found a teacher who can use them in her classroom library. We filled 3 boxes of books, which is good because the new ones keep rolling in somehow 😆

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

My teen came in to tell me good night & she she squeezed my hand, her eyes wide with excitement as she said in a sing-song voice, “Tomorrow is book clean out daaaaay!” [She wants to clean out old books to make room for more recent purchases.] I said, “You’ve been waiting for this for years,

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

What was the last book you couldn’t put down? For me- Fiction: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell Nonfiction: The Many Lives of Mama Love by Lara Love Harden

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

In today’s no-stress nature news, the canna lilies are blooming:

A collage of 9 pictures of red, yellow, and orange canna lily flowers

A collage of 7 close up pictures od canna lily leaves in different shades and patterns of green and purple

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

In today’s no-stress nature news, the goslings are growing!

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Wishing you the ease depicted by our beloved Izzy when she’s sunbathing as you head into the weekend.

A blond whippet lab mix dog sleeps lazily on the sunshine near a swimming pool

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I’m beginning to think the praise of a woman’s selflessness is the affirmation that she does not deserve to have a self, that her purpose is to d i s a p p e a r in service of all the selves that get to be. When the fire of a woman’s self is deprived of oxygen, 1/2

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

“The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from Him.” —Thomas Keating, Open Mind, Open Heart

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Social media moves faster than the pace of my poetry-crafting. I will keep writing roughly at the pace of a deep cleansing breath to steady myself as the world rushes by.

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

“Nostalgia is a well-intentioned wound.” —“Here Nor There” by Clint Smith, Above Ground

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Izzy hopes you can take a little breather this weekend and remember that you are loved, right now, just as you are.💗

A blond whippet lab mix dog is lying on a grey couch with her belly towards the back of the couch and her head turned upward towards the camera, one ear comically spread out

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Grief is longing to go back to before you had to know what you now know, feel what you now feel, before the thing that has happened had happened.

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

In today’s no-stress news, I got to see this beautiful new heron who appears to be young/not yet full-grown. I always wonder how they stay so clean amidst the mud and creek water!

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given.” —On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder Review is up for this must-read! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Lindsay's review of On Tyranny

5/5: Timothy Snyder is a professor at Yale University and historian of fascism who “offers a guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism.” Written in 2017, the book exami...

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

When I really want get a truly helpful idea of whether a book is worth buying/borrowing/reading (for me), I go straight to the 3 star reviews.

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Lindsay O’Connor (she/her) @lindsayloconnor.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

A mom friend said in the group chat, “I am so proud of all of us” and it was such a nice thing to hear in Maycember!

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