Oh, I should look into this one...

"She says she has just made the most important and personal film of her career, and is convinced nobody will see it."

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/oct/08/helena-bonham-carter-standing-up-to-harvey-weinstein-johnny-depp

I'd watch it again

So many differences from the film!

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/04/howards-end-review-starz/557390/

Most strikingly, Henry Wilcox at the very end.

~~~~~

Hmmm...interview with actress who played Helen in the film...Forster saw the sisters as a "composite" of a "god."

Also considering these

A LOCAL PLAY

https://pasadenaweekly.com/alfred-molina-helps-bring-humor-empathy-and-love-to-the-father-at-pasadena-playhouse/

ALSO A FILM...oh, then I found this by accident

https://www.cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/384327

Who's Afraid of Alice Miller?

Maybe it could be that sort of film

Cathartic for certain moments...

https://www.bustle.com/p/i-started-payuphollywood-the-assistant-is-a-spot-on-look-at-our-plight-21767164

Moments like happy experiences turning sour...the feeling of getting screwed over...systemic inequalities dismissed as trivialities...gazing up at stacks of papers in boxes and feeling heavy losses...despair...

Feeling appreciative

Cutting not-so-soft food into teeny portions and chewing in little bites on the back right side...

Who likes food?

"Actually, if you’re in the owner class, you likely don’t see the system as broken. Exploitation of labor is foundational to the structure of the United States, and began in the country’s nascent years, with slavery. Conversation about undocumented labor often ends as a hate-filled, anti-immigration argument, with many people ignorant of the fact that if it weren’t for our undocumented workforce, our entire food system would shut down."

~ P. Kabwasa

https://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/immigrant-farmworkers-deserve-better/Content?oid=21171358

"IT'S THAT OUR CULT MENTALITY"

What.

"IT ISN'T THAT WE DONT BELIEVE"

It's not that we don't believe the people picking our produce are being abused.

Cult mentality sure seems to be at it's zenith lately

There is the still living misogynist president. We know who is not believed. There is the deceased basketball icon being honored on all media. We know who is valued. No one should have died in a helicopter that should not have been flying in unsafe conditions. We know who is de-valued. The president is clearly unfit for office and should not be there. Fear is full-on sabatoge. It seems like the collective consciousness is desperate. Cult mentality is not healthy mentality. The amount of violence that is tolerated in patriarchal culture is not beneficial to humanity. Violence against women and men affects what happens to children too. Even one rape is one rape too many. But clearly many don't feel that way.

Unexpected comparison to another movie...

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/the-chilling-power-of-the-assistant

It exists for a reason

"During the jury selection process for Harvey Weinstein’s criminal trial this month, dozens of women gathered outside a Manhattan courthouse to perform a version of the dance/chant known as 'Un violador en tu camino,' or 'A Rapist in Your Path.' First in Spanish, then in English, they sang: 'Patriarchy is our judge that imprisons us at birth/And our punishment is the violence you don’t see.'”

~ V. Barbara

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/opinion/latin-america-feminism.html

Butterfly Man

O Homero Gómez.


Homero Gómez, defensor de la mariposa monarca #Michoacán

🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋

"His death has sparked fears among fellow activists who didn’t have his education and public speaking skills.

'A lot of the communal land owners fear that with his death, the forests are finished,' said Amado Gómez.

'I would like to ask the authorities to do their job and do more to protect activists like my brother, because lately in Mexico a lot of activists have died,' he said. 'With his death, not only my family lost a loved one; but the whole world, and the monarch butterfly and the forests lost, too.'”

~~~~~~~

"The prosecutor said Gómez’s relatives had received a ransom call demanding money, but an investigation determined it was not credible and just an attempt to extort money.

While the circumstances of the death remain unclear, Greenpeace Mexico issued a statement calling it a 'murder.'

'We condemn the fact that defending the land, natural resources and biodiversity converts activists into targets for threats, persecution and the cowardly act of taking their lives,' the group said."

~ M. Stevenson

https://time.com/5775034/mexico-butterfly-activist/

There is a long, long way to go

"In our culture, apologies are still rare."

~ C. Miller

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2019/11/14/chanel-miller-is-sexual-assault-survivor-shes-also-daughter-girlfriend-an-artist-stand-up-comedian/

It's also exceedingly rare to have two good men to witness it and back up the victim.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chanel-miller-meets-the-men-who-stopped-her-assault-60-minutes-2019-09-22/

Instead people want others to be silent...but that is slowly, slowly changing?

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/28/washington-post-staff-reject-reporter-suspension-kobe-bryant-felicia-sonmez

"...she said 'My life is over...I ruined my life and I don't even know how."

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/sexting-shame-and-suicide-72148/


Audrie & Daisy

"'I learned to keep my mouth shut,' Sandusky said." 

https://www.syracuse.com/news/2016/04/jerry_sanduskys_son_how_he_groomed_me_to_sexually_abuse_me.html 

Recurring dreams

Flying over earth and loving trees

Growing interest in a topic

"Climate breakdown 'is increasing violence against women' Exclusive: attempts to tackle crisis fail because gender issues are not addressed, report finds"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/29/climate-breakdown-is-increasing-violence-against-women

This news

"Mexico: defender of monarch butterflies found dead two weeks after he vanished"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/30/mexico-activist-monarch-butterflies-dead-homero-gomez-gonzalez

Yo no quiero live in medieval times

kapeesh
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/u-s-tells-citizens-not-to-travel-to-china-as-virus-toll-tops-200-idUSKBN1ZT374

Their DAD looks like their BROTHER

Sleepover - SNL

I've been eating soft food ALL WEEK

R.E.M. ~ Everybody Hurts

Dear life partner sent me....

"The Assistant movie is about more than Weinstein. It’s about the system around him." - Vox

https://www.vox.com/2020/1/29/21112386/the-assistant-interview-weinstein-julia-garner-kitty-green

Workplace safety, whereforartthou?

"In addition, the rape crisis centers have suffered for years from inadequate funding and a lack of public concern."

~ S. Soriano

https://capitolweekly.net/the-rape-crisis-among-californias-farm-workers/

"Most farm workers who have been sexually assaulted or raped are women. Women make only 32% of all farm workers. The vast majority – if not all – supervisors are men. Agricultural contractors are men. And men dominate the ownership and/or management of farms and agricultural operations. Farm-working women are not only a minority in the workplace, they work for lower wages than their male coworkers, often in more labor-intensive and dangerous positions, further marginalizing them. Farm-working women exist in world where men dominate and dictate nearly all aspects of their employment."

~ S. Soriano

Noticing there is a film as well as a play

The film

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/father-review-1273990

The play

https://www.broadwayworld.com/los-angeles/article/BWW-Interview-Alfred-Molina-Speaks-About-THE-FATHER-at-Pasadena-Playhouse-20200124

The film

https://variety.com/2020/film/reviews/the-father-review-anthony-hopkins-olivia-colman-1203482695/

The play

https://www.monroviaweekly.com/arts-and-entertainment/the-father-astounds-at-the-pasadena-playhouse/

Are you vignettey tonight

Wintery encounter

"When a wild bird decides to trust a human - BeAmazed"

https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/etq7jj/when_a_wild_bird_decides_to_trust_a_human/

Almost upon us

EYEBALLS

Brandon McCarthy on Twitter: "this is nonsense but did people in the past look older when they were younger?" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/BMcCarthy32/status/1210350854571585537

OF

Paul Orzulak on Twitter: "@BMcCarthy32 I just watched It’s a Wonderful Life and the answer is definitely yes." / Twitter
https://twitter.com/orzulak/status/1210365270415544321

FUTURE

Mike B on Twitter: "@BMcCarthy32 this was Mark Twain's high school yearbook photo https://t.co/nkXRAYl9lf" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/MadHominem/status/1210351446480343042

GENERATIONS

adam on Twitter: "@BMcCarthy32 This woman is only 34 years old (photo taken in 1965): https://t.co/RxhbMQ8aNB" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/Ad4m____/status/1210398267860647936

Really is

"Amazing dog"

https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/etzi8z/amazing_dog/

I hope I sleep soon.

I dont ever want to repeat this experience.

It is painful to have a hole that needs attention and needs to be fixed and feel deprived of resources you need.

I wish I could sleep for the entire weekend

Yesterday was so much nicer.
I had such good feelings yesterday.
I have a hole in my mouth.
I can't believe how wrong it feels.
People in discriminatory industries have great gaping holes they are not acknowledging. Its unhealthy. It is worse than the hole in my mouth. They have brothers and sisters missing and gone. They could do so much better. It's sad they don't see or acknowledge their loss. They can't go on doing that. It is not sustainable.

Can't peace come back

I have felt it before...
I want peace...

A lot of peace.

Imagine being able to get help quickly

Really quickly. BECAUSE THE SYSTEM WAS DESIGNED TO ACCOMMODATE AND HELP THE ONES WHO NEED IT.

And what if this happens?

What if someone gets new insurance you like better next month but doesn't want to go to you because you weren't good to the Medi-Cal recipients?

A lot needs to change

The office that got mostly five star reviews except when the people who had Medi-Cal went in. Why is that? They do not like those people. That's tragic to read and to experience. Why say you accept that when you dont want to? What if someone has better insurance tomorrow and remembers how you treated them?

It feels like our medical system is cruel to poor people

It feels like too many people are very cruel and self-absorbed and not enough of them are working to help the greater good.

Created by a nature loving artist

The food of the monarch

Versus – bird and moon
https://www.birdandmoon.com/comic/versus/

Hole in mouth

Appointment in ten days.

Soft food shopping plans.

T~~~~ for who?

"'The Assistant' Film Review: Julia Garner Navigates Toxic Work Culture in Subtly Devastating Drama"

https://www.thewrap.com/the-assistant-film-review-julia-garner-metoo/

would they say

one would think t really didn't care about being cheated out of u's story

The disappeared man and the monarchs

Watching amazing videos of a monarch butterfly sanctuary.

"Gran espectáculo se vive en Santuario El Rosario Ocampo Michoacan...El mas grande del mundo https://t.co/cEULMVTm22"

From the feed of Homero Gomez...and photos as well.

What has happened?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/he-told-me-of-his-battle-to-save-the-monarch-butterfly-from-illegal-loggers-now-hes-gone-missing/2020/01/23/353a6a94-3dea-11ea-afe2-090eb37b60b1_story.html

Twenty twenty "terrible towel"

"Terrible towel. Very scratchy. Does not dry well."

https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/eslvef/terrible_towel_very_scratchy_does_not_dry_well_410/

Good one

"If someone in India hears voices, she's advised to clean the house."
  https://mobile.twitter.com/PicoIyer/status/1219923791268253697

Body says have to learn a whole new way of living

WOW

IT'S AMAZING

HOW MUCH

THERE IS

TO LEARN

THE BODY SINGS

THIS
What the world needs
WONDROUS
is for some trauma-dumpers
AND
to get the help they need
VIBRANT
instead of the toxic dumping
GARDEN
make fertilizer
LIFE!

Waking up this way brings knowledge

I know my body deserves more love and healing. So do so so many other people My body wakes up feeling so sad, both with physical aches and emotional sorrows. Being chronically ill can remind me of a lonely yowling cat. So now that I have had this experience, I will hug a human or a soft blanket and sip the hot chamomile lavender tea and turn my  attention towards the love the universe can provide. Knowing this already feels a little bit better.

Amazing story. Pull quotes!

"This coat design isn't just saving lives. It's launching new careers for homeless people"

"These are not your typical coats. They transform into storage totes and full-length sleeping bags to protect against frostbite or death."

~ H. Yan

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/21/us/detroit-empowerment-plan-homeless-program/index.html

Are they as good as a heating pad?

Time for a change!

Yes, cramping uterus!
Please have mercy.
I can revise my outlook!

Was affordable x years ago...

"Tonight thousands of volunteers will begin an annual three-night count to determine how many people in Los Angeles are now experiencing homelessness."

https://la.curbed.com/2020/1/21/21071123/homelessness-los-angeles-how-to-fix

"People are not living on LA’s streets. They are being sentenced to death."

https://la.curbed.com/2020/1/17/21070672/homeless-crisis-count-volunteer-help

Cold

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-21/homeless-count-los-angeles-county-faq

Browsing while boiling

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0944711318302599#fig0003

Wish for a gift

The gentle power to mend.

God bless you, my lessons

Good morning
God bless you ankle
God bless you stomach
God bless you lower back
God bless you very warm face

Can continue and more blessings are generating love and a healing process

All humans deserve love

It's simple...

This is a cool tradition

Free National Park entrance

https://www.southernliving.com/news/national-parks-free-on-mlk-day

Go away

deserve better health

would love it if this nausea went away

deserve better life

seeing the rampant narcissism and tolerance of bigotry is too physically nauseating

deserve better world

You can connect

to

a larger

picture

That is beauterriffic!!!!

Flow Magazine on Instagram: “Here, have some soothing pictures of nature for a moment of calm. ☘🌿 #flowmagazine #nature #momentofcalm”
https://www.instagram.com/p/B6dn5VLHf98/

My friend Heating Pad & I agree.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B7eUNKoHnWh/

WOW

Hellish experience may I transform you?

Maybe take the least hard on the stomach OTC painkiller and ginger and turmeric. This is exhausting and unfair. Yes a heating pad helps if I lie in bed but I cannot do that all the time.

When it's the right time

I hope she can see Hidden Figures.

https://www.milenio.com/ciencia-y-salud/nasa-invita-nina-genio-adhara-perez-visitar-centro-espacial

Or read about...

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a24429/hidden-figures-real-story-nasa-women-computers/

Or both.

What a stretch

However can one think Pence is so righteous, so persecuted.

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/politics/2020/01/19/pence-one-most-persecuted-christians-america/4519252002/


"Pence’s op-ed is profoundly ahistorical, inaccurate, and oddly reliant upon a view of Johnson promoted by the Ku Klux Klan"

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/01/mike-pence-johnson-impeachment-ross-wineapple.html

Sorry.

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/2020/01/19/mike-pence-memphis-visits-national-civil-rights-museum-cogic-church/4503674002/

"'I know in my heart of hearts that if we rededicate ourselves to the ideals that he (King) embraced, if we strive to open doors of opportunities for every American and if we more faithfully follow the one that he followed, we'll see our way through these divided times and we will do our part, in our time, to form a more perfect union,' Pence said."

~ K. Burgess, S. Hardiman, L. Testino

Another future

It will be interesting to see...

https://noticieros.televisa.com/historia/adhara-perez-nina-genio-mexicana-nasa-visitara/

Water, trees, people!!!

"43 million people, mainly school children formed 16500 km long human chain in my state, Bihar to promote afforestation and water conservation. People of all age came today on streets with full enthusiasm and took part in this historic event. It's the world's longest human chain."

https://mobile.twitter.com/subratkumar1756/status/1218874498788864000

I think they care about humanity a lot

"Known for her novels like Lost Children Archive, she’s currently working on a book that deals with femicide in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, with an emphasis on the brutality on the northern side."

https://remezcla.com/culture/macarthur-genius-grant-winners-2019/

"Forthright when it comes to her views on the current state of North America, Hernández proudly said her work 'unmasks the group of white supremacy on U.S. carceral systems, from our jails to prisons to detention centers, insisting that true criminal justice reform must advance racial justice.'"

https://remezcla.com/culture/macarthur-genius-grant-winners-2019/

"As the president of the foundation said in a statement, these extraordinary individuals 'give us reason for hope, and they inspire us all to follow our own creative instincts.'”

https://remezcla.com/culture/macarthur-genius-grant-winners-2019/

Crochet~breathe

Early a.m. chamomile tea with ginger chunks to chew on. If she'd had better health and more help. That would be amazing. What if the whole system was set up to be kind to sick people, to help them get well.

Dear body. Promise to listen to you.

Dental stuff.
Sacred vows.
Super important.
Because living in a body.
Kinda hope wisdom teeth are okay too.

Due to a mutilated crown and other ailments

I may have to become my own social justice project. I am sososo mad forgiving whatever what is crown anyway happy to be on Earth, learning valuable lessons!!!

Luteal phase riculousness

Trying to stay away from ibuprofen in case stomach needs to heal but is it really necessary to buy more products? And I wonder again.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/PainManagement/story?id=4256403&page=1

"Still, she echoes, there's a dearth of clinical trials."

~ A. Hunter

Waiting for the Muitle (Muicle) I tried in the past with much eagerness. I wish I could find more info than

"para aliviar dolores menstruales"

Fuente: https://designificados.com/muicle/

But I love a heating pad.

WELL THAT'S DIFFERENT

"Here’s a short documentary bit about @NeilInnes doing his 'Protest Song'...”

https://twitter.com/KenPlume/status/1219056860780728320

"....Subterranean Homesick Blues"

https://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/1218815667073191937

Good old kitchen-cleaning music!

G. Harrison "My Sweet Lord"

E. Lighthouse "Love Goes Where My Rosemary Grows"

G. Harrison "Isn't It A Pity"

Good dinner

Chew carefully.

It is honestly nice to know

a) how much change is wanted

b) the Earth has cute beings sometimes

When the energetic young mom with a toddler and a bounding puppy met the woman with the big dog

Your majesty...

We know. The chipped crown is enough.

Is not okay

Maybe mouth is impoverished. One side needs a crown and other other side is chipped and I am afraid it will fall out. And there is some type of TMJ pain happening. Also dealing with a stomach issue and cramps off and on. Why.

This is nice

Michigan
https://abcnews.go.com/US/michigan-man-finds-43000-couch-bought-35/story?id=68369858

Man

https://www.wnem.com/news/man-finds-k-in-couch-he-bought-from-store/article_0c0e5f1c-38af-11ea-866e-9f4962f3015f.html

Maybe the body is crying

Aches and pains and wishes for naps.

Dear San Antonio

Sorry to hear about this.

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/01/16/san-antonio-rent-rising-wages-arent/

Still have a nice Riverwalk though?

Dear Jesus I ate a tamale for breakfast

https://www.facebook.com/MarialyGonzalezLPC/

"Texas Gov. Greg Abbott may be unable to ban refugees after all"
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/01/15/texas-gov-greg-abbott-may-be-unable-ban-refugees-after-all/

Dear Higher Plan

If your relative passes away, does s/he come back...

Hello, I am listening.

The body makes you pay extra attention.

The dream about the friend who left when you said "I think we have been insecure." "No, just stubborn" he said and abruptly walked out. 

Body, can you believe we deserve to feel well and happy?

I truly wish worrisome pains would cease.

Please.

Please is the nice word.

Vagus nerve...

As I negotiate with several areas, let me learn more about thee...

https://oseamalibu.com/blogs/wellness-blog/understanding-the-vagus-nerve

Schisandra?!

Are you making the little panic attack about health issues more toned down and pretty?

Needing to relax a loooooot

Having to take care of my health. Wondering why nice doctor has nervous assistants. Again. Wondering if facial pain is saying something. Speak up again? Geez it migrates. Releasing ghost of somber 19th century man? Dealing with present day realities. Yesterday's prescription vs. today's vs. tomorrow's. Some things are gonna have to wait for a good healthy while. Keeping track of herbal supplements. Getting the heating pad and tea remedy now. That's fine. I love hot water too...

And

"No child should be poor in boastfully rich America"

~ M. W. Edelman via L. Lightfoot

https://mobile.twitter.com/chicagosmayor/status/1218299443927310343

DGL Appreciation Saturday

Lookin at some outside world stuff

Simple, intense dreams

I was in an apartment that was very high, above many others. The cat liked to sit on the couch and look through pillows out the window at another cat, who was on some kind of platform down below. A short time later, the outdoor cat found its way into the apartment somehow. They seemed like sisters. The sound of purring filled the air. I woke up and still seemed to hear purring!

♡♡♡♡♡

Next, I was walking around in a garden. I was near some bushes, looking at the moon...Because the sky was so dark, I saw more craters on it than I had ever seen before. I was holding onto a soft branch to keep my balance and for guidance back to the house...went inside and was greeted by dogs...they seemed eager to go outside...

~~~~~

IRL, woke up feeling very ill. Dizzy, crampy and shivering...but the tea I managed to make and some raw ginger truly helped...and there was also a real life purring cat...

A mere 55k ?

"The lawsuit claims that women and people of color would be most affected"

https://www.record-bee.com/2020/01/18/california-13-other-states-sue-to-stop-trumps-food-stamp-cuts-2/

If I am an able-bodied white male

...in consistently good health...

https://www.record-bee.com/2020/01/18/california-13-other-states-sue-to-stop-trumps-food-stamp-cuts-2/


Then I am sure Trump's rule about food stamps is absolutely fine.

You just know

They deserve better healthcare.
Beautiful and healing workplaces.
Happier and healthier lives.
Breathe well and love.

Opportunity is here

It is time to wake up and love yourself. Love your body. It is time to tap into the vein of healing energy...energies...

VaQueRoS

Cowboy XY: "I'm sorry we gave you the message it was okay to act like a self-absorbed brat but I want you to know it's alright to change...especially in ways that will benefit you and your...kids or nephews/nieces whatever...in the not-so-distant future..." Cowboy Kid: "You're the best dad..."

He must have known that phrase would stick around, cause

It

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ricky-gervais-at-2020-golden-globes-hollywood-terrified-ronan-farrow-1266595

kinda

https://genius.com/Foster-the-people-pumped-up-kicks-lyrics

does

https://twitter.com/aimeecastle/status/1218298732489216000

Also had a rather brotherly dream

Two guys in a flying car
commandeered by a mad man
were struggling to get out
one said "what will I tell my mother?"
EYE
next I was looking at a man through a window
very far at first, then much closer
and a higher director (maybe my ownself?)
made me go into his forehead
NO
it was a very mechanical and
interesting place, it had a strange beauty,
like music, but it was more about making machines
and I woke and thought, ah...some people's minds
just work differently...that's all...

I wonder if I have some gelatin...

I know I have two juices. Pomegranate and unsweetened Cranberry.

O~B~R~O

O Jello.

It's okay to not pretend that everything is fantastic sometimes. Isn't it?

Couldn't You Just

Read

https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/Pages/TPLRD_ER_cont.aspx

A

https://www.policygenius.com/retirement/what-is-probate/

Little

https://www.motherearthliving.com/health-and-wellness/digestive-herbs-zm0z12amzdeb

Hum...DGL...Marshmallow...

H.E. again

One episode so far...it is such a different arrangement...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/howards-end/#

The '90s film made quite an impression...I will watch more episodes...if the body is up to it.

Soeury

Unsentimental personality

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2008/10/08/5103/the-straight-facts-on-women-in-poverty/

Histrionic personality

have you no compassion have you no humanity have you no respect what are you some kind of unfeeling monster to just ignore and and and

You better calm down. Remember your body.

The times effect every body differently...

It began happening in the fall???

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/17/797295985/freed-from-the-secret-rep-ayanna-pressley-opens-up-about-living-with-alopecia

People are going to get better

There IS help in the universe.
We can grow as and become better at handling our most intricate challenging situations.  There IS help. There IS openness to evolution...there is, there is, there is.

O blessed healing universe

Show me
Your wisdom
Please heal
Please heal
Please heal
What causes these pains
Sometimes it was M cramps
Stomach pains are different
We need healing
How come we are
So vulnerable to pain
I pray for guidance
The best treatments
The best changes
The best
The best
The best

We really need to wish each other good health

Really
Good Health!!!
Okay
The Best!!!!
Okay

Wollemi Pines!

SOME

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/16/796994699/aussie-firefighters-save-worlds-only-groves-of-prehistoric-wollemi-pines

GOOD

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/17/wollemi-pines-time-travellers-from-a-different-australia

NEWS

"'_______' thrive inside of imbalanced power structures"

But maybe "thrive" is not such a good verb to use

https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/5/29/16604762/harvey-weinstein-arrest-hollywood-metoo-timesup

"in communities that center on shared values"

Excitement with cat

You can put her in a car and sit with her for fifteen minutes, just to get her used to it, go nowhere, then bring her back inside, and it's a huge freaking deal!!!!

Captionable

Crazy ovaries and crazy times

"The Trump campaign seems to have added R.E.M. to its rally playlist. ('Everybody Hurts' and 'Losing My Religion' so far.)"

https://mobile.twitter.com/letsgomathias/status/1217210744980299777

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Good thing this Nazi is in jail.

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"We are aware that the President*

@realDonaldTrump

continues to use our music at his rallies. We are exploring all legal avenues to prevent this, but if that’s not possible please know that we do not condone the use of our music by this fraud and con man."

https://mobile.twitter.com/m_millsey/status/1217521410240851968

Would wear something nicer...

In the Spring?
http://www.saintsisterband.com/

Maybe?
https://luzer.online/

Shabby chic?

When her Inner Grunge Teenager met "Perimenopause" (¿)

Or maybe something else that doesn't have a name yet.

Steamy

Chicken mole enchiladas and this grilled cactus and chicken stuff in a molca-something.

Where does he get his energy

Amazing at the job...extra napkins and salsa and drink refills...

Ah, I sense the genuine

"@Malala shares how her family keeps her humble even after being the youngest person to earn the Nobel Peace Prize!"
  https://mobile.twitter.com/latewithlilly/status/1207466073794068480

Honestly...???

"We have benefited
more than most.
It's not our fault.
We didn't create
The System"

Go on...

Oh again

Got sucked into wondering if certain humans have ever considered not being swayed so much by $$$ and pack mentality. Because having wisdom and discernment about human behavior can be a good thing...

https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epsteins-ex-girlfriend-dated-kimbal-musk-brother-of-tesla-founder-elon-musk-2020-1

Strangely reminds me of that author's "sad" feeling...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/01/11/donald-trump-evangelicals-rally-stunning-sad-unprecedented-column/4421150002/

Why not stop denying stuff? Why not get help for those issues? Why not do it for yourself and your descendants and the planet?

"Histrionic" is not a word I have often used

"Narcissism is about denying negative reflections of oneself in favor of an imaginary ideal. Histrionics are as phony as the phony men whose approval they so desperately need. Men reduce them to sexual objects, and histrionics define that as winning."

~ A. Nunymiss (good pen name!)

https://medium.com/fearless-she-wrote/intro-to-toxic-femininity-and-the-histrionic-personality-disorder-a29781370a6b

She's pretty upset with how her mother treated her.

And new voters

"How Pennsylvania teens are preparing to cast their first vote for president: ‘The boys mostly like Trump’"

https://www.inquirer.com/news/dunmore-high-lackawanna-county-trump-young-voters-primary-2020-pennsylvania-politics-20200114.html

There should be more studies on mob mentality

I don't even know what quote to pick.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/01/11/donald-trump-evangelicals-rally-stunning-sad-unprecedented-column/4421150002/

The writer felt sad.

"What kind of person takes the time to create such a tweet? What motivates someone to do this?"

https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnFea1/status/1217293385209348096

Sacred texts...sacred seed paces

Have you had enough of sacred texts...spaces...

Not even close to enough....

Ha ha. Spaces. Seed paces.

A way with words.

From Hahn:

"Ignorance is in each cell of our body and our consciousness. It’s like a drop of ink diffused in a glass of water. That ignorance stops us from seeing reality; it pushes us to do foolish things that make us suffer even more and wound again the already-wounded child in us.

The wounded child is also in each cell of our body. There is no cell of our body that does not have that wounded child in it. We don’t have to look far into the past for that child. We only have to look deeply and we can be in touch with him. The suffering of that wounded child is lying inside us right now in the present moment.

But just as the suffering is present in every cell of our body, so are the seeds of awakened understanding and happiness handed down to us from our ancestors. We just have to use them. We have a lamp inside us, the lamp of mindfulness, which we can light anytime."

https://www.mindful.org/healing-the-child-within/

Wow, one-bedroom apartment

"Not long ago you could live comfortably in Los Angeles..."

https://ew.com/movies/2020/01/12/the-assistant-hollywood-culture/

Can you imagine.

“'Hollywood is a rich kids’ industry,' says Roger, a 25-year-old assistant at a major studio, who is black and comes from a working-class background. 'And social events are part of your job. You have to hobnob with richer people and act like you belong. I’m always aware of the class distinction.' Roger, who says he averages a 50- to 55-hour workweek, is considering a second job to cover his expenses, which include approximately $40,000 in student loan debt"

~ T. Aquilina

https://ew.com/movies/2020/01/12/the-assistant-hollywood-culture/

Retail therapy

I feel a Great Yawn coming on but.....

$$$$$$

https://www.joindough.com/kneading-the-dough/where-are-all-the-women

Pets do help

May you feel less disgusted with the world by bedtime.

Here she comes to save the day....

Big sister to the rescue - aww
https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/eo135x/big_sister_to_the_rescue/

Self-love at it's peak

Well, it's good to have a bowl of cereal, a chair, a table to eat at...
And a phone.

"Mostly White, Male Hosts Slam Mostly White, Male Oscar Nominees"

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/arts/television/late-night-kimmel-oscar-nominations.html

World deserves much better

"Trump is an open racist and bigot"

~ A. Hossain

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/14/opinions/trump-hateful-retweet-schumer-pelosi-hossain/index.html

Off to face life in January 2020

https://mobile.twitter.com/ewarren

Decisions devastate

“This decision will devastate refugee communities, lead to family separation for refugee families and leave refugees, former refugees and United States citizens without supportive services. It will devastate congregations that will not be able to live out their calling to welcome the stranger. It will devastate businesses that rely on the workforce and contributions of refugees.

“We hope that Governor Abbott will heed the call of Texan communities and reverse this harmful decision. As parties to the lawsuit challenging the executive order over all, we also hope that the court will block its implementation, so that Governor Abbott’s faulty decision cannot harm refugees and the communities that welcome them in Texas.”

https://cwsglobal.org/cws-condemns-governor-abbotts-cruel-and-immoral-decision-to-end-resettlement-in-texas-devastating-refugees-waiting-for-family-reunification/

That's why it's good to look elsewhere

That's dream-killing stuff again.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ava/status/1217103032543932417

Ever get bewildered tho

I am going to help someone in the am and details of other lives are looking at me (teething infant, WIC, partner getting GED, car-sharing,)  need to stop the compulsive shirt chewing, sometimes I have not cared well enough for my teeth and humans need sleep right????

Started another nature book

Interesting perspective:

"It has been nearly fifty years since I began formally studying the world of plants, though the truth is, my love affair with the natural world reaches back much farther. Even as a little girl, no matter how much I read about the natural world, I always wanted to know more. There is always so much more to be had; it is still the same for me now. This is frustrating because you can never reach the summit. Nobody can. The climb is grindingly hard, and it continues forever."

P. Wiltshire on page 4

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2019/09/03/the-nature-of-life-and-death/

Ate a lot of lemon butter on my toast tonight

And thought about a magical year...

Charlie Hill on the Richard Pryor Show - 1977: "I just have a dream and that's someday I will get into the movies, right, and then I will win an Academy Award, and then I'll refuse it because of the mistreatment of Marlon Brando."

"It was the 70s..."
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/feb/08/richard-pryor-and-marlon-brando-were-lovers-pryors-widow-confirms

"When you're a star...you can do anything..."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-hot-mic-when-you-re-star-you-can-do-n662116

"I'd have done anything..." UGH
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/jul/30/rupert-everett-uncle-vanya-theatre-royal-bath

In the year 2020...

Or maybe last year, too. 

https://newfoodeconomy.org/wonderful-citrus-farmworker-strike-california-labor/

Found it. 🎵


Zager and Evans ~ In the Year...  

https://genius.com/Zager-and-evans-in-the-year-2525-lyrics

(Grand-relative, was it weird when people thought this was normal?  Everyone had to eat in order to use the internet...)

"In California, however, protections for farmworkers, who support a $50-billion industry, are among the country’s strongest. In 1976, the state ordered overtime pay for farmworkers after they had worked 10 hours in a single day or 60 hours in a week. Forty years later, the state became the first to require overtime after eight hours on the job—the standard for workers in other industries. The law went into effect this month, and will be fully phased in by 2022."

~ S. Bloch

"California’s Wonderful Citrus strike exposes a murky world of unequal pay for farmworkers"

They did that influencer thing to my brain

Succumbed to

Mac Miller - Good News

the will of the gods of the internet.

I had a dream about dogs too.

One told me the ceiling was falling in. I was one of those animal telepath types and I was to tell the owners, who might have been my family members...sigh.

Oh oh.

Diabetic cats???

https://mobile.twitter.com/PDSA_HQ/status/1215967362538704896

Time to text "Does it seem like she could have blood sugar issues?"

3rd worlds. Hmmm...

"'Stop letting us distract you from the fact that your cities have third worlds in them'"

A quote from Zapatistas on page 306 in Leah Penniman's book

https://civileats.com/2018/11/02/farming-while-black-is-a-guidebook-to-dismantle-systemic-racism/

Beautiful violets!

And

rogue pansies.

O ALMIGHTY. Do I need a chiropractor too???

@!$%$&!


Very well. So be it.

God, missed another opportunity to go to Sunday service

"If men go to hell, who cares?"

https://mobile.twitter.com/scottagunn/status/1215676001310650371

Weird Hymn Sing - Death ( If Men Go To Hell, Who Cares? ) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWtz-0ZQ4Pg

Felt like looking for old jump rope rhymes

"TeddyBear TeddyBear..."

Jump Rope Rhymes - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rucp0rWs4pU

"Hi ho Tex-i-co over the hill to Mexico..."

"Down by the river where the green grass grows..."

"H. E. L. P."

www.angelfire.com/anime3/starlett/jumprope.html
http://www.angelfire.com/anime3/starlett/jumprope.html

"Down down baby down by the rollercoaster..."

https://www.ted.com/talks/kyra_gaunt_how_the_jump_rope_got_its_rhythm/transcript?language=en#t-165635

Relations

"In Santa Cruz, a clandestine food bank draws hundreds of farmworkers | CalMatters"

https://calmatters.org/poverty/2019/08/clandestine-food-banks-farmworkers-immigration-raids-california/

Don't know what part to pick.

That was not cute, childhood dream

Big marble statue of a composer scraping towards the bed of a less-than-five-year-old.

Some beautiful books

Don't know why he doesn't know better

It seems like he only thinks PTSD counts for a small portion of the population.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/1/10/21059025/ilhan-omar-ptsd-jim-banks-refugee-somalia

It counts.

If he refuses to see it then history will see him as a small-minded, uncaring man who greatly needed to expand his horizons.

Seeing some change

"In a unanimous vote, two-term Councilor Sumbul Siddiqui, a first-generation immigrant from Pakistan, has been named mayor of Cambridge. Siddiqui, who grew up in Cambridge, is the first Muslim mayor in the state."

https://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/news/20200106/cambridge-councilor-siddiqui-becomes-states-first-muslim-mayor?fbclid=IwAR3EtcIalFanpT5SK0F0GL29nEdHewGMJb57vlaQrJqaCYTC-Lh3QovW3GE


'Different Muslim Ban – same xenophobic Administration,' said Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash. 'An expanded Muslim Ban will worsen our relationships with countries...'"
 
https://apnews.com/753968e412fab06e6fb8180e7ac98d47

Why not pay more attention to birds

They are paying attention.

https://www.newsweek.com/vulture-droppings-cbp-mexico-border-1481559

Plague.

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article239172483.html

Understanding seems hard to come by

They should have just said

https://www.newsweek.com/little-hitler-trump-border-wall-raise-money-hot-chocolate-1335093

this kid has an asshole for a father or maybe

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/11/29/how-donald-trump-appeals-to-men-secretly-insecure-about-their-manhood/

it's a common problem that people are still trained to tolerate so

https://www.vox.com/2015/11/11/9714842/operation-wetback

that at least shows the past is really not that far away but 

https://womensenews.org/2019/01/in-deference-to-men-growing-up-in-the-1950s/

that's not definitely felt the same by everyone

"by far the least amount of fun I’ve ever had watching one of his films."

http://insessionfilm.com/movie-review-the-laundromat/

underwhelming is an understatement.

So early for such $$$$ questions

Why do you think Hollywood, Music Industry, Big Business, AI, etc. is so bigoted and sexist and racist?

$$$$

Why do you think old men feel good when very young, blue-eyed, blond-haired women degrade other women and put them and their short-term selfish needs first?

$$$$

Why do you think society trains you to just "accidentally" degrade most humans on the planet in order to get ahead?

$$$$

Why is there such an appalling tolerance of degrading children and women and the type of men who are considered "less than" the wealthy ones?

$$$$

Is this your family?

"A migrant from Mexico who was seeking asylum in the U.S. slit his own throat on the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge between Mexico and Texas after being denied entry, according to reports."

https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/refugees/477515-mexican-asylum-seeker-commits-suicide-at-border

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https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/refugees/474857-01-percent-of-immigrants-receive-asylum-at-the-border

Sounds like they did some good work...

"One theme of the book is that, but for the hundreds of immigration lawyers and community activists who have challenged the administration by bringing test cases like Flores and by supporting individual asylum-seekers, tens of thousands of children who won asylum, many of whom later became American citizens, would have been deported, and many would have been murdered."

https://www.texasobserver.org/philip-schrag-baby-jails-trump/

You can read!!!!

H
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-50751736/las-tesis-feminist-protest-song-of-chile-goes-global

E
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nishitajha/las-tesis-anthem-harvey-weinstein-trial

Y
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/ana-tijoux-cacerolazo/

Loss of a long time ago

A boy in
a daycare
my friend
forgotten
name
forgotten
ancestors
forgotten
and buried.

That is far from the best they can do

"You know what gives the stock market a sugar high? Cutting taxes on corporations & corporations using the savings to buy back their shares. You know who benefits? Just corporations. The typical American household remains poorer today than it was before the 2008 financial crash."

https://mobile.twitter.com/RBReich/status/1215692306377871361

Angel the cat

Thank a wombat.

https://7news.com.au/news/bushfires/australia-bushfires-cat-returns-safely-to-nsw-family-after-seven-days-missing-c-636604


& people.

"'It's like the apocalypse lifted:' Cat returns home after a week lost in bushfires"
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/it-s-like-the-apocalypse-lifted-cat-returns-home-after-a-week-lost-in-bushfires