Kristie mentioned being influenced towards an ethical birth-mother centered adoption through some Instagram accounts. Here are a few she shared with us afterward that she recommends:

Birth mothers:
@bigtoughgirl
@fromanothermotha

Adoptive Parent:
@allison_sweatman

Adoptees:
@throughadoptedeyes
@taravw.postadopt.educator

Rob read a poem by Charles Bukowski. I couldn’t locate the exact version he read, though here is a link to the poem, called “Bluebird”:

https://allpoetry.com/poem/8509539-Bluebird-by-Charles-Bukowski

I (Kaben) referenced a few half-lines from a poem about the shadow side. The author is Juan Ramon, and the poem is “I am not I” (“Yo soy no yo”), translated by Robert Bly:

https://allpoetry.com/I-Am-Not-I

At the very end of the episode, an excerpt from Rainer Maria Rilke is read. Here is a link to more from that text:

https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/06/01/rilke-on-questions/

This episode was recorded on Konkow Maidu land. For more information about the Maidu Kondow, visit

http://maidu.org/
http://www.frth.org/history/index.html

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