Jen Grow
@jen-grow.bsky.social
Trauma therapist and writer | Award-winning story collection My Life as a Mermaid (Dzanc Press) | Words in Writer's Chronicle, The Sun Magazine, Hunger Mountain, About Place Journal, Hippocampus and others | No DMs
"...there’s a second way to see what’s happened in Minnesota – a tipping point of a different kind... a tipping point toward Americans coming together to defeat Trump’s fascism."
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America has reached a tipping point on fascism – and on opposition to it | Robert Reich
A chance encounter reminded me: there are two ways to look at what’s happened in Minneapolis
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January 28, 2026 at 5:10 PM
"...there’s a second way to see what’s happened in Minnesota – a tipping point of a different kind... a tipping point toward Americans coming together to defeat Trump’s fascism."
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Ways to Calm Your Nervous System: Look for unexpected delights. The news has been tough. Small joys can show up anywhere. Looking for the unexpected is great for creativity and hope.
September 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Ways to Calm Your Nervous System: Look for unexpected delights. The news has been tough. Small joys can show up anywhere. Looking for the unexpected is great for creativity and hope.
I love Adrianna Amari's photos. They're so peaceful and beautiful and the nature scenes always calm me and remind me to slow down. bsky.app/profile/4aam...
August 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I love Adrianna Amari's photos. They're so peaceful and beautiful and the nature scenes always calm me and remind me to slow down. bsky.app/profile/4aam...
Here's some good news: having awe can calm our nervous systems in the face of bad news, and awe can generate energy to create. We recently toured Luray Caverns in the Shenandoah Valley. Some of these stalactites and stalagmites reminded me of coral or the underside of mushroom caps.
July 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Here's some good news: having awe can calm our nervous systems in the face of bad news, and awe can generate energy to create. We recently toured Luray Caverns in the Shenandoah Valley. Some of these stalactites and stalagmites reminded me of coral or the underside of mushroom caps.
Our survival depends on our ability "to not linger in the pain, but to allow ourselves to be moved by it. To not whitewash reality, but also not to take up lodging in the house of despair...To feel responsible but not so guilty we are immobilized...." www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...
How do we resist and rise? We have to believe the impossible is possible | V (Formerly Eve Ensler)
Every action matters now. Every effort small or large counts. And moving, movement is the essential key to dispelling despair
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July 2, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Our survival depends on our ability "to not linger in the pain, but to allow ourselves to be moved by it. To not whitewash reality, but also not to take up lodging in the house of despair...To feel responsible but not so guilty we are immobilized...." www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...
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This drum circle is a sacred honor in memory of slain MN State Legislator Melissa Hortman, at the candlelight vigil
June 19, 2025 at 3:06 AM
This drum circle is a sacred honor in memory of slain MN State Legislator Melissa Hortman, at the candlelight vigil
One of my favorite signs from Saturday's march around Patterson Park in Baltimore on the same hill where, a few centuries earlier, American troops held off the British in the war of 1812. They tried to bury us but didn't know we were seeds.
June 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
One of my favorite signs from Saturday's march around Patterson Park in Baltimore on the same hill where, a few centuries earlier, American troops held off the British in the war of 1812. They tried to bury us but didn't know we were seeds.
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"You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society." -Kurt Vonnegut
June 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
"You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society." -Kurt Vonnegut
Quote for the day: “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.” — Edward Abbey (My trails are usually waterways.)
June 4, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Quote for the day: “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.” — Edward Abbey (My trails are usually waterways.)
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Thank you @chenoweth.bsky.social and company.
Our research shows: the resistance is alive and well | Erica Chenoweth, Jeremy Pressman and Soha Hammam
Street protests today are far more numerous and frequent than skeptics might suggest
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March 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Thank you @chenoweth.bsky.social and company.
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A powerful list, by former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, of daily things citizens can do to fight recent attempts to dismantle the US government. robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-wh...
What you can do
Revised and expanded
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February 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A powerful list, by former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, of daily things citizens can do to fight recent attempts to dismantle the US government. robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-wh...
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I wish I could show you,
when you are lonely
or in darkness,
the astonishing
LIGHT of
your own Being.
- Hafiz -
#nature #spirituality #Hafiz
when you are lonely
or in darkness,
the astonishing
LIGHT of
your own Being.
- Hafiz -
#nature #spirituality #Hafiz
February 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I wish I could show you,
when you are lonely
or in darkness,
the astonishing
LIGHT of
your own Being.
- Hafiz -
#nature #spirituality #Hafiz
when you are lonely
or in darkness,
the astonishing
LIGHT of
your own Being.
- Hafiz -
#nature #spirituality #Hafiz
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This is what we all should remember.
January 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This is what we all should remember.
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“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
January 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
Wealth shown to scale. mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-weal... This is from 2021 and measures Bezos' wealth instead of Elon's, but that hardly matters when you see it visually represented. This much greed is hard to fathom.
Wealth, shown to scale
Wealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.
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January 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Wealth shown to scale. mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-weal... This is from 2021 and measures Bezos' wealth instead of Elon's, but that hardly matters when you see it visually represented. This much greed is hard to fathom.
"You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society." --Kurt Vonnegut
January 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
"You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society." --Kurt Vonnegut
"Even with all the greed and stupidity and terrible things that we're all facing and reading in the news or experiencing, I want to be alive. I want to breathe. I want to do my work." --Patti Smith
January 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"Even with all the greed and stupidity and terrible things that we're all facing and reading in the news or experiencing, I want to be alive. I want to breathe. I want to do my work." --Patti Smith
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New to Bluesky after leaving X. Plus a picture of my dog because why not?
November 16, 2024 at 10:58 PM
New to Bluesky after leaving X. Plus a picture of my dog because why not?