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Monica Samelson
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I'm a parent, writer, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Chicago.
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Another post today about how we can be together well enough to do something about what's going on
Image of an icy lake with the text: keeping each other in mind; on theory of mind, thirdness and third spaces, and surrendering with agency
February 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Sun dog in Chicago yesterday. Does it portend good or evil? Have to know
A weird rainbow appears in a cloudy sky over a brick building. The rainbow is vertical and slightly curved, and there's a more faded extension that forms a semicircle above and below it
February 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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I wrote on substack again, about what many are thinking on this week: how we need to get close if we're gonna get through this. I reflected through the lens of Tu Bishvat (happy birthday, trees!) & a book called Spell of the Sensuous (have you read it? let's chat!)
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Big snow-covered jigsaw puzzle pieces of ice fill up the surface of a lake, extending all the way to the horizon, where it meets a blue nearly-cloudless sky
February 16, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Back at the Field Museum this week, thinking about mass extinction events and the dialectics of grief.

Here's what I wrote about it:
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a photo of a fossil at the Field Museum, a stem and long leaves fanning out from the center, with interspersed little fish fossilized throughout
February 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Here's a Lake Michigan photo/song pairing for a day that feels like trash
Song: Engine by Neutral Milk Hotel youtu.be/sUZTT2ztyJU?...
#Chicago
A trashcan is on its side on the frozen portion of a harbor in Lake Michigan. Trash pours out of its open lid and a halo of exposed ice breaks the stretch of snow
February 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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A Lake Michigan photo/song pairing for these times
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#LakeMichigan #Chicago #synesthesia
A photo of Lake Michigan. Half the image is taken up by a bright blue sky splattered with clouds. Underneath, a grey mass of water churns with uneven waves. There's a shadow along the foreground of the lake, and a strip of greenish blue along the horizon.
February 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM