Cute n' clever

"A Farm Grows in Brookland"

Hello

http://livingeverydaywonderful.com/tag/earth-day/

You are a pretty picture! You are gonna be my new jam. Yayyyy...

Am gonna rest, but...

If I were in a different state, I would post as one healing colors picture but I kind of feel like a river of tears is wailing out of my throat. Like the parts in Campesino about different groups speaking different languages and feeling scared and unable to organize is so upsetting. Btw, head and throat, get better.

Rest

Get some. The good, restorative kind.

Wipe out

This short film Campesino and so many illness symptoms afterwards...did not expect that...burning out is no good. Sad ending. Time to repair.

Healing

It will come, and it must...It will happen. Repairing, health restoring energies. Breathe them into yourselves... Suffering will be mercifully alleviated.

Body

needs healing (so much)

auuuuuuuuu....

http://notalwaysright.com/mothers-can-be-soul-destroying/42374

Berry pie-us

http://www.boredpanda.com/beautiful-pie-art/

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http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/12/16/pecan-pie-baby-jacqueline-woodson-sophie-blackall/

"A mother is a person who seeing there are only 4 pieces of pie for 5 people, announces she never did care for pie. - Tenneva Jordan"

Strangely delicious

https://fitnyc.collegiatelink.net/organization/studentlife/calendar/details/189217

anyhoo, back to farmin'

Beans these days.

http://www.thewannabechef.net/2011/08/28/the-pioneer-womanreally/

My Daughter Loves the ‘Pioneer Woman,’ Who Is All That I Am Not

Management?

http://carnivale.wikia.com/wiki/Lucius_Belyakov

~~~

https://hbr.org/2014/09/legos-girl-problem-starts-with-management/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/26/lego-makeup-organizer-diy_n_6532594.html

Toys for girls

http://www.allure.com/beauty-trends/blogs/daily-beauty-reporter/2015/03/lego-club-magazine-beauty-advice.html

"My 7-year-old wants to know if she has an oval face."

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/beauty-tips-for-girls-from-lego/

(Omg, again I remember being at an all women's college and hearing this auditorium full of students gasp and sigh at the spatial relations portion of the test, and how when I went back to my dorm these girls made a big deal about my spatial relations test scores...they were third highest, below reading and writing, but higher than theirs, and I don't know but maybe these girls were not encouraged to play with legos, building blocks, tinker toys...I got them all, back when they were unisex toys.)

http://www.theonion.com/articles/lego-magazine-offers-beauty-tips-to-young-girls,38265/

Muy bonita

By Matt Hamblen

7 minutes 24 seconds

That's the length of this one:



Pesticide Lake

What is today

Today is a day off! (For some people's workplaces.)

Okay, well, today is Cesar Chavez Day. This day was never celebrated in any other states I lived in. It's the end of this week I didn't used to know exists, called "Farmworker Awareness Week."

There's a movie available for a discount. Today's the last day.





There's a celebrity involved.

(I looked at her twitter. It seems she's been very, very busy. Turned 40 recently. Has she even had time to eat real food?)

9 Insider tips

HERE
^
^
^ 
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/03/9-ways-eat-better-without-really-trying

sooo many gumballs

Immigration, World Poverty & Gumballs

(it was in the comments section of the other article)

\('0')/

Where are the jobs for these children?

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/dhs-secretary-thousands-unaccompanied-children-still-crossing-us

Questions about formative eating habits

http://blog.silverdolphinbooks.com/2011/06/healthy-eating-habits/

1) Favorite childhood snacks?
2) Late night binges...habitual or not a problem?
3) Was your Dad a good cook?

(Those were just the first three that came to mind.)

8:39 onward

If you really don't have 10:47


Heart Star Sun Moon Spain...

It's good about the berries

I'm sure DHS still likes Sunday brunches as much as they liked winding down at happy hour after a long and hard day.

Hmmm

"BerryMex, a U.S.-owned company whose berries are shipped under the Driscoll's label, announced Friday that it was boosting its daily minimum wage by 20% and enhancing its benefits package."

http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-me-baja-labor-leaders-20150329-story.html#page=1

Youtube it away

Dog Girlfriend vs. Cat Girlfriend

Draw our life together

Polka horses

People who go away and leave their cat out all weekend need lots of positive vibes.

Yum

dreamstime.com

~~~

showmemama.com

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http://showmemama.com/blog/2014/10/28/halloween-chocolate-covered-bat-berries/

Music

Tanya Tagaq in Puebla Mexico

Books!

http://wetcanvas.deviantart.com/art/Square-Dance-Book-Sculpture-358222977

~~~

http://www.buzzfeed.com/isaacfitzgerald/keep-reading#.vmgXrVgLk

http://www.buzzfeed.com/kayetoal/that-knife-of-recognition#.qn6lGAbNa

Books?

Not about everything...


Nikki Henderson ~ The Black Power and Farmworker Movements

I wonder if this is good

http://www.blackfilm.com/read/2014/09/18th-annual-urbanworld-film-festival-preview/

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/lake-los-angeles-laff-review-711371

When was the last time

I did something like this?

http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-baja-farmworkers-strike-20150326-story.html

Probably never, man. Probably never.

So Ate-Ease

Kenny Loggins ~ Footloose

There it goes

A popular song that's not "Take Me To Church" gets stuck in my head after a disturbing dream!

Big Date ~ Dangerous (feat. Joywave)

That's not the official video, which I think plays immediately after...

Underrepresented in Hollywood, etc.

African-American Cowboy: The Forgotten Man of the West

Baja Washington

http://agr.wa.gov/pestfert/natresources/aglanduse.aspx

"Starting in the 1970s many of Baja California’s workers began to cross the U.S. border through California into the Central Valley, and even to states like Washington. 'These are all connected communities,' maintained Bacon, which is why the San Quintín strike is big news among farmworker communities in the U.S. such as Washington’s Skagit County.

Sadly, it is not very big news elsewhere in the U.S. When the strike began last week, the Los Angeles Times was the only English-language media outlet in the country to initially cover it. (Since then, a week later, The Associated Press and others have begun to report on the strike.)"

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_mexicos_farmworkers_who_harvest_our_food_are_on_strike_20150326

Food news interesting this week

"Next month, after three years of legislative tug-of-war, the Navajo Nation will become the first place in the United States to impose a tax on junk food."

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/03/navajo-nation-junk-food-tax

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Today I walked across a street and got caught in a dust devil!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_devil

I couldn't walk straight. I had to turn sideways.

Awesome

This is what I'm gonna think about on the bus tonight. Frightful situation. Awesome people.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2015/03/25/393557932/a-couple-spends-their-millions-to-save-migrants-in-the-mediterranean

A rose

http://www.audubon.org/magazine/january-february-2008/a-rose-not-rose

"Between rows of tall, pale pink roses, he came at me like Darth Vader in a billowing cloud of vapors..."

(http://www.audubon.org/magazine/january-february-2008/a-rose-not-rose)

Need to investigate

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/katie-seaver/ate-too-much-last-night-heres-five-things-to-do-today_b_6920676.html?

Because last night, I ate a delicious sandwich way too fast, and it made me feel sick. That was unfair to both of us.

Rice is nice

This is so interesting.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/25/scientists-have-figured-out-a-simple-way-to-cook-rice-that-dramatically-cuts-the-calories/

These are great!

Eric Schlosser ~ If You Eat, You're Responsible


Bennett Konesni and Edith Gawler ~ Transforming Work into Joy

Want to watch more later this week.

Reelin' back the years...

Formative VHS memories: watching the opening scenes of La Bamba (basketball, plane crash, fruit) in a house in the Seattle area, possibly while eating teriyaki. Also, observing young employees at a nearly empty Shakey's Pizza slide a tape of it into the restaurant's VCR not long after.

This is cute:

Ah....

I don't care what some people say; I like alliteration.

Hot tubs for hothouse helpers!

Comedians for crop...croppers...

First look

The Matador video. It's complicated.

https://vimeo.com/36102596

I need tea

http://ghostmothers.com/everyone-needs-little-holiday-revival/

(From a site that could be for me and definitely for my mom.)

Single moms have it hard.
Other kinds of non-single moms have had it hard, too.

That's not an invitation for bragging about your superior mom-sacrificing abilities. Even if you think it is.

Nifty

Way back in the day (in college), one of my jobs was working for the company that, years later, sponsored this:

http://www.bamco.com/timeline/tedxfruitvale-harvesting-change-conference/

(That's a lot of talks to watch!)

por el bien de

By Kim Blair

~~~~~

https://twitter.com/professor_evy

Why not be a little

Mother(Jones)ly?

Except 21st century-style, more pro- women's voting rights (apparently, Mary was anti-suffrage because she was afraid voting would interfere with motherhood!) & more about people who come from different backgrounds...(Although, towards the end of her life, some did call her Madre Juanita...)

I only learned about her this weekend! She was never in any of my high school textbooks.

Yeah, the magazine was named after someone.

So many flowers!

http://www.triciaspencer.net/California-Wildflowers-Family-Adventure.html

And no one in Latin America was forced to work for low wages or sprayed with pesticides while trapped inside of a greenhouse...

Unbidden, a book cover

A big old farm-type field
A smiling girl in overalls

The title: "Beating a Dead Horse"

ACK!

I might watch this show

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/30/candy-girl

maybe I'm amazed

I didn't realize that after I hit a certain age, I would start to see and feel things in a certain way that leads me to this conclusion:

If you're a woman, and you haven't gotten married, changed your name, and become pregnant and given birth to your own offspring, large swathes of society will send you all kinds of messages about your value...not very happy ones. Despairing, awful ones is more like it.

"Society" definitely includes both men and women.Lots of them are sending messages like this to women who either don't or can't do things in this certain traditional way.

I do not believe that society treats men this way. But maybe there are some men out there who might disagree...

Here's this thing about Egyptian men giving their moms back their name.

http://egyptianstreets.com/2015/03/22/why-do-egyptian-men-refuse-to-reveal-their-mothers-name/

 I suppose it's meant to be inspiring, but...

Don't daughters have the power to give moms back their names ever?

Can't moms give their own names back to themselves? 

What about the women who never got pregnant in the first place?

Maybe they are so invisible, they aren't even worth addressing.

Love vintage ads

http://www.get6packfast.net/6-pack-articles/the-20-best-worst-vintage-diet-ads-part-2-because-i-just-love-these-things-so-much

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Special mention

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/03/college-catalogue-shows-white-men-winning-it-all.html?wpsrc=nymag

Apple angel

Yeah, google that.

http://gild-a-lily.deviantart.com/art/Angel-With-an-Apple-80335710

Food people eat

As this is Farmworker Awareness Week, I would hope that either during or after some of the more prominent people who speak out about many social issues would give some time to speak about it.

Speaking up about it does not equal having to be all guilty for being privileged.

It's having a connection with the people who pick the food you eat all the time.

Unless you have your own small working farm which you personally run and harvest, you do eat the food they pick all the time.

I believe that this is going to be more and more acknowledged as time goes on.

https://www.etsy.com/market/kitchen_fruit_bowl

And actually, seeing people reluctant to speak about it makes it seem more like people are uncomfortable and feeling kind of guilty. Is it useful to feel that way? Does it help? It doesn't seem to help much at all. It just allows things to keep on being as bad as they are.

So maybe I hope people will meditate, free themselves of guilt or discomfort and in their hearts feel compelled to care and share and openly see the people who are working very hard to bring us food.

A fruit

http://www.johncannonart.com/2014/07/another-new-tomato-piece/

"For years, he’s picked produce in Mexico and along the West Coast of the United States. He’s good at it, but there’s one thing on display here that he wouldn’t mind never harvesting again: the tomato.

It's the crop that 'leaves you the most tired,' he says."

http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-02-04/how-produce-aisle-looks-migrant-farmworker

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"The fields my family worked required weeding with machetes and garden hoes. I still remember the taste of the pesticides and coughing my throat raw after a crop duster would fly over us and spray. Sometimes I didn’t know if it was sweat or pesticide residue that caused the burned in my 10-year-old eyes. I’m thankful we never picked fruit or vegetables, though my best friend did and he still has problems with his hands to this day. He doesn’t think it’s related to his farmwork as a teenager, but I know better."

https://thelastyearproject.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/tending-hands/

Waving at each other

PJ Harvey ~ Down By The Water
&
Milky Chance ~ Down By The River

OOOOOOO!!!!!

2015 National Farmworker Awareness Week, March 22-28

Already started in 3 time zones in the states

Two realities

Walking in woods plus Blackbird

Reading The terrible loneliness of growing up poor... plus rage-eating grapes

Dear some feminists

I think it's time for you to admit something.
If you have a choice between this ballerina mom
or that child picking pesticide-laden fruit
you really are way, way, way, way, way
WAAAAAYYYY
more interested in the former.

Visuales

http://graphics.latimes.com/product-of-mexico-faces/

https://twitter.com/dbartletti

More berries

I have eaten these.

"Among those targeted are U.S.-based BerryMex, which grows strawberries and raspberries sold under the Driscoll label."

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-baja-farmworkers-20150320-story.html

I got chills

"First, he whispers in her ear: 'You know, I was missing for 13 years.'"

Dorsey Nunn

Formerly incarcerated activist fights to give people a chance to change

Fresas, tomates, pepinos...

La Santa Cecilia ~ Strawberry Fields Forever

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http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-baja-farmworkers-protests-20150319-story.html

http://graphics.latimes.com/product-of-mexico-children/

These two

on a date

Ella Fitzgerald ~ My Funny Valentine
Vance Joy ~ Riptide

Honesty, sometimes

I imagine stuff like this:

"But Grandma, why didn't people care more about how the people who picked the food and made the clothes were treated? Especially when they were always eating that food and wearing that clothing?"

I don't know.

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And then...

Tables! Lamps! Household appliances! Stuffed animals!

Is it simply too overwhelming for the average human brain which is trying to get a multitude of other actions completed prior to bedtime...

Sigh

"Eventually, about 90 percent of kids living in seasonal worker housing drop out of school, according to the San Jose-based nonprofit human rights organization Human Agenda."

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/856d32f6268c4a2c9b9136b912b13c21/farmworker-children-uprooted-california-rule

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"Morales — in a large straw hat — joked with nearby planters, all bent at the waist, as loud music blared over the field. But he got serious when asked if Claudia, her brother Jose, 7, and sister Maria, 16, will ever join him. Legally they can start picking at 13. 'I want them to get a good education, I don't want them working here,' he said."

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/856d32f6268c4a2c9b9136b912b13c21/farmworker-children-uprooted-california-rules 

pleeeease

launch!


"SponsorChange.org is a nonprofit organization that helps graduates pay off student loans in return for volunteer work."

!!!!

MOTH-y things

Liked these recently...

Finding Esther by Susan Duncan (or Susan Story)

Norm MacDonald's Moth Joke on Conan

Your other...

Hurry home! Fortuitous thermal shift! Having an 'egg white' day!

http://yourllbeanboyfriend.tumblr.com/post/113997007946/nothing-matches-that-feeling-of-seeing-the-first

I mean, why don't you relax on the sofa while I whip up one of my famous omelets, Lenny smiled.

But...

http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/76286/us-law-doesnt-protect-child-farmworkers-does-congress-even-care

"...enforcement can only do so much when the laws themselves are so bad."

http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/76286/us-law-doesnt-protect-child-farmworkers-does-congress-even-care

On a practical note

99 cent pregnancy tests at the 99 cent store Bummer there's no 99 cent store out in the big cabbage patch

Influences musicales

Tori Amos ~ Juarez Dallas 1999



PJ Harvey ~ Send His Love To Me



PJ Harvey ~ C'mon Billy

This is an imagination

What if you had to add missing school and fending off unwanted advances in fields to those big thighs struggles? And know that society did not care a whit. Would you be waiting for your prince? Would you ever drift off into a fantasy about encountering The One who could change your name and give you cute babies and make it all better somehow?

Past or present or past or....

A. Neville ~ Tell It Like It Is



Al B. Sure ~ Night and Day

Alliterative Assistance

If you are a youth agricultural laborer, you must watch out for STRAINS and SPRAINS as well as STRUCK-BY

https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/youth/agriculture/workers.html

https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/youth/agriculture/struck.htm

FOODIE FOR THOUGHTIE

Teen worker - responsibilities:

• Follow all child labor laws that apply to you.
• Follow all safety rules and instructions.


• Use any provided safety equipment and protective clothing.


• Wash your hands before eating or drinking in the fields.


• Never drink irrigation water.


• Know what to do in case of an emergency.


• Report any health and safety hazards to your supervisor.

https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/youth/agriculture/other.html

BE RESPONSIBLE YOUNG WORKERS. Also, eat healthily and stay well-hydrated. 

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http://www.jlgo.org/food-deserts

Mind jumps around a lot during a bout of insomnia.

But but but but but but but

http://www.mercurynews.com/drought/ci_27729990/california-drought-state-passes-mandatory-new-water-conservation

It's never enough.

http://gizmodo.com/here-are-the-water-restrictions-california-should-have-1692031986

Shocking

"Sixteen-year-old junior Debbie Trejo said her sympathies lay with some of the accused boys. 'I have classes with some of them and they are gentlemen and I don't think they would be the type to do that,' she said."

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-authorities-venice-high-sex-crimes-20150318-story.html

Ta-da

Everything just flipped on its axis.

90% of the males I grew up with are changing their last names when they get married!

They really don't mind doing it, at all. It's all part of the fun and ritual of marriage.

The females are all, without a single exception, keeping their "maiden names."

WEIRD, huh?

Lettuce

http://spazzygamergirl.deviantart.com/art/Happy-lettuce-483340791

My neighbors are offering me free lettuce plants! 

They got extras at the farmer's market? 

Gardening can be fun.

http://lettucebehealthyandhappy.com/

It's hot today

Fingers to the Bone: Child Farmworkers in the United States

Goodreads

I read these to bf b/c it happened once when we were on a plane:

He laughed. Then I said, you know what? Sometimes? If I dress really nice and put on makeup and especially if I don't wear glasses? I get treated a little bit extra special.

Now you have a cat thrown at your head, he said.

(He didn't throw a real cat... it was a plushy toy one.)

Look

A whole video through a peephole.

Ida Maria ~ 69

double wedding or threesome?

Tori A. ~ Trouble's Lament

Abbe May ~ T. R. O. U. B. L. E.

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Ida Maria ~ Boogie With The Devil's Soul

Abbe May ~ Design Desire

Vive la difference

I bet it was fun to make this:

http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/381080/the-benefits-of-living-alone-on-a-mountain/

I could visit and I'd love to (especially for the views and the stars), but a whole summer of hauling water on your back?

Statelessness

I found this video:



I'm not stateless. But I've moved around a lot and I've been alone a lot and maybe there's a reason for that.

Planning a re-looksee

http://www.neilgaiman.com/works/Books/Good+Omens/

I still need to finish Good Omens.

I haven't outgrown anybody.

I will listen to or look at this book again.

Felt like making a list of the people you talk about

Read this article for the article.

http://www.salon.com/2015/03/11/salons_patton_oswalt_peace_summit/


Phil Collins                           Margaret Dumont
John Oliver                          Quvenzhane Wallis
Stephen Colbert                  Amy Schumer
Chris Rock                           Joan Rivers
George Carlin                      Brittany Cooper
Lenny Bruce                        Malala
Jimmy Fallon                       Ann Coulter
Jimmy Kimmel                     Elizabeth Warren
David Letterman                 Huey Park
Conan O'Brien                    Lindy West
Seth Meyers                        Liz Phair
Craig Ferguson                   Jenny Johnson
Louis C.K.                            Charlene de Guzman
Bill Burr                                 Shelby Fero
Jesus Christ
Larry the Cable Guy
Richard Pryor
Daniel Tosh
Sean Connery
Bill Cosby
Trayvon Martin
George Zimmerman
Patton Oswalt
Adam Lanza
Elliot Rodger
Salman Rushdie
Ayatollah Khomeini
Jerry Falwell
Fred Phelps
Larry Flynt
Ray Rice
Hannibal Buress
Thomas Nast
Shakespeare
Bill Maher
Richard Dawkins
Todd Akin
Martin Luther King
Bernie Sanders
Dennis Kucinich
Grover Norquist
President Obama
Ralph Nader
George Bush
Bill Clinton
Robin Williams
Eric Garner
Stewart Lee

48 names vs 14 names

(Indirect references such as Girls, Broad City, and Mein Kampf were not counted.)

Comin' up

Brittany Howard's voice is on the new MM trailer.

I was thinking

Abbe May would not be on this syllabus.

Abbe May ~ Perth Girls


Mammalian Locomotion

Is it?

This came out today:

http://munchies.vice.com/articles/a-new-california-farm-worker-bill-might-actually-be-too-good-to-be-true

Unedulcorated

WOW

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Aftermath-of-the-uncomfortable-ear-cleaning is pretty great so far

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Wonder what else in the anatomy could go for some cleaning

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How about CLEANING THE AURA

http://thespiritscience.net/2014/11/02/how-to-cleanse-your-aura-by-absorbing-natures-light-field/

Have you really lived

until you've felt snake-like fizzing shooting deep into your ear canal like something in an X-files episode and gotten very dizzy and had to lie back and get poked and prodded at times painfully with a pointy instrument, and then finally emerged with clearer hearing? Don't use Q-tips.

I love my health insurance.

I wish everyone had health insurance.

A morning marriage

I wanted to link the Carnivale "Every Prophet In His House" diner scene (Scudder and the Russian look like generals!) with something, and I still can't get Monotonia out of my head. So I guess that's the pairing this morning. I'm also gonna look up the Ruth Etting song.

~~~

Ruth Etting ~ Love Me or Leave Me

Global Trends

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gms.sushi.FruitPickingPop

Kids picking fruit Magniloquence or lack thereof Accolades for narcissism Eyes of beholders Scales of 1 to 10 Hearing abilities Hearts having feelings

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/series/children-in-the-field/Children-in-the-Field-Picking-Our-Food-164796976.html

Bah

Burned a pizza.

What if

throughout the day, various items of food and clothing just screamed at us?

By Andrey Remnev
http://yosoyarpia.blogspot.com.es/2012/08/viento-y-arena.html

~~~

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-03-13/new-report-slams-cambodian-garment-sector

Author/Solidarity with Farmworkers Idea

I've heard of authors working in a bookstore for a few hours to sell books. What if authors researched a favorite meal or food and found a way to spend a chunk of their day harvesting that food in solidarity with the farm workers that are always harvesting the food that we eat? I'm waiting for someone else to think of it. Like a famous author type. It would be so interesting to see something like that happening.

From The Secret To Making Food Look Irresistible

In memory of a 100 degree plus day and children reluctant to pick cherries.

"I hope you girls never have to work for a living when you grow up."

Vestiges of a farm daughter's childhood.

A complicated man...

When you wake up in pain, eventually get that fixed, but still can't sleep, who better to read about than the complicated Cesar Chavez? 
And Cesar Chavez?

Fast Food Chain by Mark Henson

Ave Maria

Paul Schwartz ~ Aria 2

ah, change

I am happy. I can hear out of my ear now.
I hadn't been able to hear out of it for four hours!
I took a bunch of books I only half-dipped into back to the library today, including a lot of the ones on gender, etc.; however, one of the ones I forgot to take back was Magnetic. I'm weirdly enjoying it because I'm sorry, but I can't believe how horrible I think some of the advice is.
But, my opinion is not the only opinion.
Oh, now my ear is being a little fussy.
It will be okay, ear.

Stream

By Mark Henson
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/570198002794984038/

tired and aching and only able to hear out of one ear
will use the eyes and the other ear
to find something that wants to repair
this person / this body / the soul at this moment
really really hope the ear starts working again soon

http://horacek.com.au/topic-of-the-month/tojune10/

mew

http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-09-23/the-transformity-of-personal-action

on high on low

heating pad
behind the neck
hot water bottle
below the waist

this would be a nice day to stay in bed and visit a chiropractor
I wish

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when you just sit and swallow and it makes something hurt in your neck/back that is jacked up

Get better

inflamed nerve omg please invite
my boyfriend/ roommate / landlord
to your icy hot anti inflammatory
conference because they can afford it
more than I can anyway jesus christ
receptacle that blond chick in Lost
Highway is not paralyzed because
of domestic vol-au-vents where
you hurl all your issues tissues

Combing hair or praying for neck

http://zikimaka.blogspot.com/

Cute

Who knows, maybe cute will conquer.

http://slickmen.com/slick-it/art/apple-love

The cold treatment

Less amusing:

When your steadfast refusal to look at others' suffering seems disguised as joyous positivity, you are not my sunshine.

Most amusing:

Got a frozen Anasazi burrito rubbed on a sore part of my back/shoulder and it helped.

Things I just consumed

Banana
Almond milk
Dates
Cinnamon
Nutmeg
Ice

Ow ow ow

AND THESE PEOPLE HAVE KIDS TOO.

 "The laborers’ most common health problems, Holmes found, include musculoskeletal problems such as chronic back pain or knee injuries. Some also reported symptoms of pesticide poisoning, according to Holmes. As for medical care, he learned few workers have health insurance and all have difficulty navigating the uneven American healthcare system, which often excludes them. Holmes says many farmworkers rely on native healers or help from the few available health clinics, where barriers of culture and language can discourage or hamper treatment."

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/03/06/berkeley-researcher-lived-the-life-of-a-migrant-farmworker/

This is good-looking

http://bonnieplants.com/library/how-to-make-bath-salts-with-lavender-and-rosemary/

Gratitude

Unlike some people, I don't have to take a medication that fucks with my esophagus, so I can eat normally.

http://heartofnourishment.com/nourishment/

It's a bone-aching sleep-interfering thing

That man who thinks he has so much knowledge to shove inside your brain is not your friend, and nothing in the universe says any sort of harsh punishment of this type of oppressor (perhaps he really was an unwitting oppressor! he has good ideas, say so many people) will be of any benefit, and you just have to forgive him for not knowing how to be your friend.

Sad literary influences.

Health search

again

http://www.holistic-alternative-practioners.com/Louise-Hay-Quotes.html

Carnivalesque Ida Maria

Ida Maria ~ Boogie With The Devil's Soul

I know it was probably filmed in Norway or something, but it looks like other parts of the U.S. right now, doesn't it? March went in like a lion...I just finished Carnivale, so I kept looking at her thinking, "She looks like Sofie's long lost sister!" And really...

http://www.theawl.com/2013/02/carnivale-broke-my-heart

Nice

http://great-images.org/imag/international-womens-day-quotes-from-marilyn-monroe/page/2/