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jkirkendall.bsky.social
@jkirkendall.bsky.social
Grew up in Beirut and Tehran. Knitter, potter, meditator. Severe hearing loss and making friends with silence. Trauma therapist. Grateful Buddhist. Living with #lupus.
Ima gonna join you.
March 4, 2025 at 2:45 AM
It’s also a psychological issue. I asked my audiologist about the psychological needs of late defended adults and she responded by saying “there are no psychological needs. It’s just a matter of getting the right technology.”

Wrong.
February 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I mean, as long as it doesn’t go against the free market or individual liberties! 🤦‍♂️
February 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
We lived with a Sufi when we were working with Roshi Glassman at the Greyston Foundatiom in New York. He was old, cantankerous, and not a fun roommate. However, he would move the furniture aside and whirl, and honestly, you could feel the environment shift when he started. It was mesmerizing.
February 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Your husband told me to follow you! 😊
February 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
It’s hot chocolate day here, too!
February 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I love that story!
February 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
So great to see this! I've had to borrow a lot of vocabulary from the ME/CFS world to explain my lupus symptoms to my doctors. The post exertion malaise is so real for me, but seems far more common in ME/CFS world than in the Lupus SLE world.
January 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
My heart might be melting.
January 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
For example they taught me how to sign “Bitch you need Jesus” in ASL! 😝
January 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Awesome! You all are the only good thing left at our once beloved Washington Post!
January 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM