Just a Girl

Catholic wife, mom, gardener. Go Irish☘️!

[Pascal @KnowsPascal]

No one can keep the hope of a future life, unless he have patience in the labours of the present one.

-St. Augustine

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

According to psychology, the urge to immediately fix a partner’s or friend’s distress instead of just sitting with them in it isn't empathy; it is your own low frustration tolerance. When someone you love is hurting, and you instantly jump into problem-solving mode, offering unsolicited advice or trying to find a silver lining, you are often trying to soothe your own secondary anxiety. You aren't rescuing them from their pain; you are rescuing yourself from the discomfort of witnessing a vulnerability you don't know how to hold.

[Pascal @KnowsPascal]

The storms that are raging around you will turn out to be for God’s glory, your own merit, and the good of many souls.

-Padre Pio

[Pray The Rosary @PrayTheRosary]

“If God sends you many sufferings it is a sign that He has great plans for you, and certainly wants to make you a saint.” - St. Ignatius of Loyola

[The Chivalry Guild @ChivalryGuild]

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.” - CSL

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

If you are a Millennial or later, you may be unaware of the near total domination Democrats had over American politics in the 60s, 70s, 80s and early 90s.

Yes, the Dems and the GOP swapped Presidencies pretty routinely, but Congress tended to be overwhelmingly Democrat. When Newt Gingrich and his GOP team won a majority in the House in 1994, it was shocking and felt unbelievable.

Now, in 2026, we are truly coming to understand that for decades Democrat electoral victories were built on:

1. Artificial, racist voting district constructs, ostensibly under the Voting Rights Act.

2. Complete control of votes and voting in most large cities.

3. Taxpayer dollars funneled to Leftist NGOs to promote Democrat policies.

4. A mass media with complete obedience to Democrats.

5. Illegal aliens, both for purposes of census district apportionments and illegal voting.

6. Highly questionable voting practices such as mail-in ballots, lack of voter ID, ballot dropboxes and ballot "harvesting."

7. "Errors" in census data that always pointed one-way.

8. The success of calling anyone who challenged their voting policies "racist."

9. Federal government employees "resisting" GOP policies while showing complete fealty to Democrat policies.

Today, however, these electoral crutches are being kicked out one by one, and Democrats are becoming increasingly insane and violent as a result.

Reality is being laid bare, and we are all coming to understand just how artificial Democrat power actually has been.

In ten years they might be a powerless rump party, which suggests a third party supplanting the Democrats might soon be a reality.

It's shocking, isn't it?

[Sense Receptor @SenseReceptor]

Former BlackRock fund manager Ed Dowd on how private equity has infested veterinarian offices, encouraging "vaccines" that cause (expensive) health problems:

"they know the vaccines are going to cause problems for dogs and cats to come back in to get treated for whatever"

"And... when I go to the beach on Maui, that's where I take the pulse of the average human who doesn't know anything. And the numbers of stories of people with cat and dog issues for seven-year-old dogs and cats because they got them vaccinated and because they're like, I have to put my dog to sleep. I don't have four grand for X, Y, Z—"

Dave Collum: "I spent $1,200 yesterday at the vet"

Dowd: "There you go"

This clip of Dowd (@DowdEdward), a former BlackRock fund manager and co-founder of Phinance Technologies, is taken from a discussion with Michael Farris (@CoffeeandaMike) and Dave Collum (@DavidBCollum) posted to Rumble on May 10, 2026.

[Fr. Joseph Krupp @Joeinblack]

In John 15, Jesus reminds us that His goal for us is not success or comfort in this world.
Our time here on earth is the shortest phase of our existence, and it’s an eternal tragedy to place all of our hopes, dreams, energy, and effort into it.
We were made for heaven.
Father, give us the wisdom to enjoy this life that you have given us on earth in such a way as to prepare us for the eternal life to come.
Amen

#talkedtotheboss

[EWTN News @EWTNews]

Today, the Church celebrates the feast of St. Joseph the Worker.

St. Joseph has two feast days on the liturgical calendar. The first is March 19—Joseph, the Husband of Mary. The second is May 1—Joseph, the Worker.

“Saint Joseph is a man of great spirit. He is great in faith, not because he speaks his own words, but above all because he listens to the words of the Living God. He listens in silence. And his heart ceaselessly perseveres in the readiness to accept the Truth contained in the word of the Living God,” Pope John Paul II had once said.

There is very little about the life of Joseph in Scripture but still, we know that he was the chaste husband of Mary, the foster father of Jesus, a carpenter and a man who was not wealthy. We also know that he came from the royal lineage of King David.

We can see from his actions in scripture that Joseph was a compassionate man, and obedient to the will of God. He also loved Mary and Jesus and wanted to protect and provide for them.

Since Joseph does not appear in Jesus' public life, at his death, or resurrection, many historians believe Joseph had probably died before Jesus entered public ministry.

Joseph is the patron of many things, including the universal Church, fathers, the dying and social justice.

https://t.co/CygsLlMnKb

[Sr. Miriam James @onegroovynun]

Eternal Trinity, Godhead,
mystery deep as the sea,
you could give me
no greater gift than
the gift of yourself.
For you are a fire ever burning
and never consumed,
which itself consumes
all the selfish love
that fills my being.
-St Catherine of Siena

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

“You are rewarded not according to time or work, but according to the measure of your love.” —St. Catherine of Siena

[Friar Mario Conte @FriarMario]

Catherine of Siena, a 14th-century Dominican mystic, united profound contemplation with bold action, advising popes, promoting peace, and calling the Church to renewal. Her fiery love for Christ and fearless voice continue to inspire holiness and courageous faith today still.

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

God's blessing does not look like a blessing it looks like a breaking you cannot explain. you will be called to something, and the call will take more than you have. you will pray for easier work and get harder work, and then you will pray for strength and get even harder work, because God does not answer by removing the weight, he answers by thickening your bones

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The Catholic Church has consistently taught that each human life, from the moment of conception until natural death, is sacred and deserves to be protected. Indeed, the right to life is the very foundation of every other human right. For this reason, only when a society safeguards the sanctity of human life will it flourish and prosper.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your brain has a specific region that gets louder when you ruminate. A 90-minute walk through a park quiets it. The same walk through a city does nothing.

The subgenual prefrontal cortex sits just above your eyes, deep in the midline of the brain, and runs hot during repetitive self-focused thought. Depression patients show elevated activity there. Healthy people show the same pattern when they loop on what they said in a meeting, what they should have texted back, what they got wrong last year. It's the hardware layer of rumination.

Bratman and Gross at Stanford ran the clean version of this experiment in 2015. 38 participants, random assignment, 90-minute walks either on a quiet tree-lined path near campus or along four lanes of traffic on El Camino Real. Arterial spin labeling scans and rumination scores before and after. Nature walkers showed reduced sgPFC blood perfusion and dropped rumination scores. Urban walkers showed neither change.

Three independent systems are firing at once when you walk through a forest. The visual cortex shifts from directed attention, which depletes prefrontal resources, to soft fascination on leaves and water, which lets the executive network rest. The default mode network, where rumination physically lives, gets interrupted by low-stakes sensory input. And the parasympathetic nervous system activates through green wavelengths and irregular natural sound, dropping cortisol within 20 minutes of exposure.

The city walk fails on all three. Traffic demands directed attention. Horns and sirens keep the sympathetic system engaged. There's nothing for soft fascination to rest on.

90 minutes on a trail does more for rumination than most interventions people pay for.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your hippocampus doesn't encode days that feel identical. If this Tuesday looks like last Tuesday, your brain files them as a single compressed memory. The second day never gets its own folder.

This is why decades feel like they disappeared. The hippocampus uses novelty as its filter for "worth storing." Repetitive routines trigger temporal compression. Same commute, same desk, same dinner, same bedtime: the brain deduplicates the whole sequence into one entry. You lived 365 days. You filed 40.

Research from Jeffrey Zacks at Washington University has tracked this with fMRI. As people move through continuous experience, the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex fire in discrete bursts at moments the brain flags as "something changed." Each burst becomes a retrievable memory later. In stretches with no boundaries, the bursts flatten. Participants with more boundaries in a given period remembered more of it afterward. Segmentation literally builds memory.

Sleep is the second mechanism. During slow-wave sleep, the hippocampus replays the day's episodes and transfers them to the neocortex for long-term storage. This is when memory actually gets filed. Cut sleep short and encoding efficiency drops. Chronic sleep debt means experiences you had never complete the transfer. The memory existed. It just never made it to disk.

The third mechanism is where dopamine meets attention. Novel stimuli trigger the ventral tegmental area to release dopamine into the hippocampus, which gates what gets encoded. Mind-wandering does the opposite. When your default mode network takes over (phone scrolling, rumination, email during dinner), the hippocampus stops tagging the present. You were at the wedding. Your hippocampus was in your inbox.

Three independent systems working against you. Novelty collapse compressing repetitive days into single entries. Sleep debt blocking consolidation. Default mode network swallowing attention before encoding completes.

The fix comes straight out of the mechanism. New locations, new food, new people, new routes home. The brain needs boundaries to build memories. Go to bed earlier so replay actually runs. Put the phone down when something is happening so the dopamine signal can fire.

The more forgettable the day, the shorter the decade.

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

Cannabis is detrimental to sperm: even if they can fertilize, there can be DNA damage. Many miscarriages and (in the case of IVF) “day 3 crashes” which is when paternal DNA normally kicks in, are cannabis related. Dr Natalie Crawford on the Huberman Lab podcast out now.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

True. Important read on university education.

[Catholic Manhood ❤️‍🔥 @bethecreed]

"It was pride that changed angels into demons; it is humility that makes men as angels."

St. Augustine

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

He brought the public sacrifice of the mass to an end during COVID.

He portrayed the building of a mammon city in Gaza with a golden statue of himself at the center.

He’s been portrayed on commemorative coins as a new Cyrus next to a temple in Jerusalem.

He’s portrayed himself as the Pope.

Now he portrays himself as Christ miraculously healing some mystery man (which looks creepily like Epstein).

Among a thousand other exhibits of a disturbingly biblical, even eschatological character.

He doesn’t have to be THE Antichrist for all this to be extremely, blatantly, in your face antichristic.

I grieve for the President’s soul.

And out of love for the President’s eternal soul, which is in grave jeopardy, let us pray and do reparation for his sins—particularly his blasphemies against Almighty God—with the hope that he repents and converts.