Making old lemons clean surfaces

After cleaning with water and vinegar solution and cloth towels.

Gifts from neighbors!

I do wonder where masks the volunteers made are now

Masks made by volunteers were offered, then they (people in charge) changed their minds. "Don't need them yet." So she makes her own because she lives with a high risk individual. She goes on the elevators and presses the buttons, she stocks ICU & ER, well, she says "I can take care of myself." There's lots of soap of course. I think volunteers could make more too. Her coworkers said they like her handsewn masks. Some say they don't need them. Tough guys...up top? Or is it out of an abundance of caution? Launder all cloth masks made by volunteers first?

Bet there's a movie about the Gilded Age on Netflix

"...worse than it has been since the Gilded Age."
  https://www.caller.com/story/opinion/2020/03/30/cesar-chavez-day-coronavirus-and-workers-rights/2928607001/

0 yeah???

https://www.history.com/news/second-gilded-age-income-inequality

This paragraph makes me eat more cold spaghetti

"The class dimensions of COVID-19 are stark. It was mainly brought to the United States by people who could afford the luxury of international travel; but it will be the poor, who cannot afford that kind of travel, who will bear the brunt of this pestilence."

~ J.C. Harrington 

https://www.caller.com/story/opinion/2020/03/30/cesar-chavez-day-coronavirus-and-workers-rights/2928607001/

What if the farmworkers had a day off on Cesar Chavez Day

Aaaaaaaa

FLOWERS

"🔥 The blue flower fields located in Osaka, Japan 🔥"
https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/frkjhz/the_blue_flower_fields_located_in_osaka_japan/

And won't it be nice

Someday this will be in the past.

"A pandemic is good for the ratings. My god, he really is a sociopath."
https://mobile.twitter.com/Robert_E_Kelly/status/1244555790066712576

But cute.

Scott Bryan on Twitter: "omg our favourite family have returned to bbc world news"
https://mobile.twitter.com/scottygb/status/1243092328446902277

"BBC Dad has learned a thing or two about working from home"
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/bbc-dad-has-learned-thing-two-about-working-home

Maybe this is a better communication.

It is of course good to appreciate nice things...

Actually, though "Many of these folks have helped to make your lives easier" is pretty on point.

However, it is quite unnecessary for the well-off to brag about that quarantine BBQ by the backyard pool right now.

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1244453401183715329

It wasn't all that necessary last month, either.

PPE Mask Art

"Inside the start of the great virus airlift - Axios"

https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-airlift-masks-medical-supplies-1d1913bf-744e-41cf-895c-d8934afa2c36.html

Looking forward to...

Not feeling nauseated with worry when the phone pings as I wake up in the morning. Morning after morning after morning. At least I can fall asleep at night though.

Braiding Sweetgrass looks really good to read

"The book is all about reciprocity, Kimmerer explained, and how do people enter into reciprocity with the world, giving back in return for the gifts of the earth. 'When a book with a message like that hits the best sellers list I can only be hopeful that means that these ideas have adherents. … There are places in Braiding Sweetgrass where I ask, ‘Aren’t we a better species than this?’ and for the book to be doing so well gives me the answer that ‘Yes, yes we are.'”

~ K. B. Moore

https://realfoodmedia.org/dr-robin-kimmerers-braiding-sweetgrass-hits-new-york-times-best-sellers-list/

Thank you for your donations

They need more masks and there are many pieces about it.

Reading about the background behind "Derry Girls"

It's good to learn more!!!!

https://www.vulture.com/2019/08/netflix-derry-girls-northern-irish-family.html

Learning about one Rachael Robertson

Here
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8164167/Leadership-expert-explains-no-triangle-prevent-anger-isolation.html

and here! https://www.rachaelrobertson.com.au/#expedition-leader

So this was worth listening to a second time...

"In this episode, to understand how the coronavirus is affecting and might affect our food, we talk to an economist, a farmer, and, of course, the people who really make farms go — the farmworkers."

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/25/821593542/episode-984-food-and-farmworkers

"Recent interviews with California farmworkers conducted by Líderes Campesinas, reveal that although considered 'essential' to the U.S. economy, they are also the most vulnerable link in our nation’s food supply chain...In the midst of National Farm Workers Awareness Week and the advent of Cesar Chavez Day, let us commit to focusing on the special needs of those that continue to put food on our tables..."

~ Irene de Barraicua, Líderes Campesinas

https://pasoroblesdailynews.com/letter-to-the-editor-farmworkers-are-essential-yet-vulnerable/106464/

Is this a good time to break old patterns?

"The first time he screams, or lies, or steals, it’s easy to show grace and patience. But after the thirtieth time? The fiftieth? The hundredth? It gets a lot harder to empathize with how he’s feeling."

"We like to put parameters on other people’s healing. We like to think we understand how long is 'long enough' for someone to display the affects of their trauma. We like to believe we know how much empathy a person is allowed to have before they’ve met their limit and shouldn’t be given anymore. We like to decide when people ought to have 'learned by now,' instead of understanding that we have no idea how long it will take them to learn or adjust."

~ W.R. Cummings

https://blogs.psychcentral.com/childhood-behavioral/2020/03/what-the-hardest-year-of-my-life-taught-me-about-kids-who-dont-deserve-gentleness/?li_source=LI&li_medium=popular17

I really like who I live with right now

We worked on a puzzle and watched a funny show last night.

It's great to experience kind people in a time like this.

And to have a good cat.

Something only a small percentage of people could say now

"I said 'I have tenure, so I don't give a %$#@!'

But I was just using abusive language to emotionally vent as I saw many others do.

Afterall, I can't even live a life without healthy people to help me in so many ways!

I guess I give more of a %$#@! than I thought at the time."

Got to watch a funny show on Saturday with lots of 90s music!

Season 1 of Derry Girls. 

Oooo.

https://www.vox.com/2019/8/14/20802077/netflixs-derry-girls-season-2-review-so-good

Sounds like the next season will be good too.

It was never okay for the more fortunate to ignore them

All the people who assist you in your life that you have been trained to forget about or not see.

Hospital workers who hand sew their own masks

Do I like waking up thinking about someone who gets low pay, no hazard pay, and gets told by her hospital administrators there's no need for wearing a mask yet, even though she is in the ICU and ER regularly? Everyone else on those units will be wearing masks. She tells her boss, since I am living with someone who is high risk, I am going to sew my own mask.  People are worried about getting sick and accidentally passing it on to someone else who might have less of a strong immune system.

Canadians are so cool

"The toilet paper challenge. Coast to coast (Canada)"

https://www.reddit.com/r/toptalent/comments/fqv9qu/the_toilet_paper_challenge_coast_to_coast_canada/

Auuugh, the information...

You know you care about your FOOD.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/25/821593542/episode-984-food-and-farmworkers

How do you know the people who pick your food will live safely? Get to work safely? Be able to pay for their WATER?

Listening while putting away dishes after cooking soaked beans and roasted vegetables...

Pickers of fruits and vegetables need better transportation

"Calzadillas and his wife are among half a dozen workers who crowd into a car or van to get to the groves a 40-minute drive away. There, they are huddled in a group to get daily instructions — without regard for social distancing, he said."

~ C. Dil & A. Taxin
  https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/california/farmworkers-key-to-keeping-us-fed-are-wary-of-virus-spread/2295073/

The dream of quinces in a jar

In addition to jarred fruit in the supermarket, there was an almost empty park and an outdoor amphitheater and a blond female comedian performing in the street alongside the park for no audience in particular, unless it was for the dreaming spectator...

Follow your dream 🎭

Peter Quince
https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/how-important-peter-quince-midsummer-nights-dream-696905

et al
https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/msnd/section2/

"Spinnin’"
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/fqj99f/spinnin/

Gotta rally spirits with humor said a body

As population works from home, Walmart reports increased sales for tops but not pants - nottheonion
https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/fqbhfl/as_population_works_from_home_walmart_reports/

We have food because of them

"Thousands of farmworkers are now carrying a new document with them on the road, in case they get stopped. Barbara Resendiz got hers last Friday, together with her paycheck. The small card explains that the Department of Homeland Security considers her job to be part of the nation's critical infrastructure and that she needs to get to work, despite California's order to shelter in place."

~  D. Charles
  https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2020/03/27/821449729/essential-status-means-jobs-for-farmworkers-but-greater-virus-risk


If you can, tip them more...

https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/884b3k/food-delivery-workers-told-us-about-their-indescribable-fear-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak

Imagine a way better world

Way

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/er-doctor-who-criticized-bellingham-hospitals-coronavirus-protections-has-been-fired/

Way

https://www.vox.com/2020/3/27/21197074/deborah-birx-praised-trump-scientific-literature-coronavirus

Better
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xgqpyq/most-brown-and-black-americans-are-exposing-themselves-to-coronavirus-for-a-paycheck

Why did the universe pick this fruit

Dreamed of walking into a store and buying quince in a jar.

https://www.thekitchn.com/quince-tough-fall-fruit-with-a-secret-reward-ingredient-intelligence-73041

Am I supposed to see tough times, secret reward?

For the universe loved you so much, it sent you a dream about...

Quince.

Quinces.

In a jar.

Crafty women

Nice to see them recognized.

https://www.postandcourier.com/health/covid19/hospital-in-sc-coronavirus-hot-spot-asks-for-handmade-masks/article_8dd29082-6d56-11ea-8188-37317758c9cb.html

Hospitals aren't the only ones who need better crisis management

Where are the better communicators

A person can be a light

I remembered
https://yarnutopia.com

YARNutopia by Nadia Fuad - Home | Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/YARNutopiabyNadiaFuad/

Maybe my teeth wish I would pray

I have a very expensive mouthguard now tho...but what about the other stuff...

Men in charge just winging it

They never go into the ICU but they tell the people who do there's no need for masks yet.

I have noticed who can wear the special masks

So many out in public.

But why can't the person who goes into the ER and stocks supplies wear one?

Still

Masks

https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/companies/face-masks-thermometers-are-among-the-supplies-illinois-manufacturers-are-racing-to-produce-amid-coronavirus-outbreak/ar-BB11EyPP

Needed

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/some-health-care-workers-resist-orders-to-work-without-adequate-protection/2020/03/25/d39e652c-6e97-11ea-aa80-c2470c6b2034_story.html

Some people are a lot like those police

"Luth admits his guilt....police have never apologized..."

~ A. Ricono, Z. Brown

https://www.kctv5.com/news/survivor-reacts-to-sentencing-of-man-who-raped-her-in/article_aa808a12-2023-11e9-a7fb-b7f689b04bd9.html

Can you imagine...

"Taylor knew how hard it is to get a conviction in an assault case — according to RAINN, out of 1,000 rapes, 994 perpetrators will go free — but she also knew that in order for law enforcement to have a better chance of catching these guys, her assailants would need to leave as much evidence as possible. During the attack, Taylor made the men use lubricant not only “because what they were doing hurt,” she tells the detective in the taped interview, but also because she wanted their hands to be sticky to leave obvious fingerprints. At one point when one man tried to force his penis into her mouth, she protested saying her mouth was so dry — could he get her a glass of water? They would have to touch glasses, cabinets, and the kitchen faucet." ~ A. Kopsa
  https://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a8557036/taylor-hirth-gang-rape-independence-missouri/ 

And her daughter there the whole time.

Taylor Hirth is a brave woman

And her two-year-old daughter, who was so strong.

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a8557036/taylor-hirth-gang-rape-independence-missouri/

"He was a dad and a kind neighbor."

Hirth on the news.

Today: bumped elbows w/ love

♡♡♡♡♡

Tiny crwature

Baby turtles move very slowly.

How to distract yourself

Know there is a hallway of plastic, but I have not seen it.

They have the gloves that are small and the gloves that go up to your elbows and the jokes about fashion as seen in the Great Gatbsy (but they are really in need of more gloves).

In that hallway, you now walk by plastic instead of a door, if you are there (which I am not).

Friend in quarantine says her daughter,  who got an extended sleepover at a neighbor's, was on local news, and has pictures to prove it.

Space, technology, access to money, childcare...

Mountains, clouds, shadows of clouds

Can help a lot.

Blake, the poet who cared

"Blake's two chimney sweepers"

"In the last line of the poem, he implies that the church profits from the miserable life that he leads and therefore ‘make[s] up a heaven of our misery’. This suggests that organised religion is built upon innocent pain. It also suggests that the church weaves a fiction of happiness, pretending that children like the sweep are satisfied instead of suffering. The sin of organised religion, as Blake sees it, is to prevent people from seeing things as they are by training them in the fallacy of received wisdom. So Blake implies that social problems are intimately connected with spiritual problems."

~ L. Freedman

Blake's two chimney sweepers - The British Library

https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/blakes-two-chimney-sweepers

According to the CDC

"Agriculture ranks among the most hazardous industries."

CDC - Agricultural Safety - NIOSH Workplace Safety and Health Topic
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/aginjury/default.html

*****

"Noting that they work in one of 'the most hazardous industries in America'...”
  https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-03-02/elizabeth-warren-announces-plan-to-strengthen-farmworkers-rights

Farmworkers have kids, too. Masks needed because pesticides, fires, viruses...

Not enough masks but the good news is:

“'Everything is cleaner,' Salinas farmworker Cruz Santiago said in Spanish. 'The bathrooms are clean, there’s enough soap to wash your hands, there’s enough water.'"

https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/03/farmworkers-unprotected-face-masks-coronavirus/

Cat Dance!

Amelia Love Clearheart on Twitter: "This is me & my beloved cat Aurora. Her awesome antics caused this video to go viral! I'm so grateful to share in laughter & love with our human & animal families around the world! I'll be sharing movement, wellness & music vids in the days ahead. All be safe well and blessed! https://t.co/8xkbzuDGH3" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheLoveOpera/status/1242529164520853504

News of some no longer empty houses

Things can still get better

They have before.

https://www.history.com/.amp/news/1889-russian-flu-pandemic-in-america

Things can be a lot better now compared to in previous centuries.

How 5 of History’s Worst Pandemics Finally Ended 

I love the noises the birds are making

They sound so cheerful!!!

It doesn't feel good that it is like this

https://mobile.twitter.com/hrmoroz/status/1241025578527903750

https://mobile.twitter.com/jstein_wapo/status/1243156750309752833

A healthy vision...

"Where you live is significantly linked to how healthy you are. Sadly, U.S. Latino communities face unaffordable housing, unreliable public transportation, and a lack of green space and parks. This limits Latinos’ access to health-promoting assets─medical care, good schools, healthy food, and physical activity. This contributes to health inequities affecting this population. Fortunately, community leaders can adopt dynamic land-use methods, public-private partnerships, and community involvement to build and revitalize Latino neighborhoods. This can create affordable housing, connection to public transportation, and more green spaces. The result is health equity─a fair, just opportunity to achieve the best health possible."

~ A. Ramirez

https://salud-america.org/the-state-of-latino-housing-transportation-greenspace-research/

Let's say I am wealthy enough to shelter in place quite comfortably

If so, should I and my friends try to become landlords of those houses which sit empty,  so that all those who couldn't afford to even rent them, much less buy them, could now reside in them, to deal with the virus in far more medically adequate conditions?

For the greater collective good, would this be something to do?

And then the one bedroom, one bathroom criteria could be met more easily.

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2020/03/21/coronavirus-how-safely-take-care-someone-sick-covid-19/2866984001/

I get to eat; Cesar Chavez Day is next week

I will read more of this after I sleep.

https://foodtank.com/news/2020/03/18-organizations-to-support-during-national-farmworker-awareness-week/

Farmworkers living in crowded conditions still...

"Earlier this month, Ahedo said, she did a health check at an apartment in Salinas where four farmworker families—including seven children—were living in three small bedrooms and the living room. It’s typical for an entire family to live in a room, she said. It’s also not uncommon to see two families sharing a single room with a divider down the middle, she said. 'These are small spaces, very closed in, with few windows and many people living on top of each other,” Ahedo said. “And if someone does get sick, where will they go?” (Medical experts recommend that people sick with coronavirus use a separate bedroom and bathroom, or even just maintain the safe distance of six feet.)'"

~ G. Wozniacka

"Farmworkers Are in the Coronavirus Crosshairs" | Civil Eats

https://civileats.com/2020/03/25/farmworkers-are-in-the-coronavirus-crosshairs/

~~~~~

"Harvard Medical School recommends..."

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2020/03/21/coronavirus-how-safely-take-care-someone-sick-covid-19/2866984001/

How are they and so many others to suddenly and magically become wealthy and privileged enough to meet these standards?

So grateful for fresh air in nature and tacos

The two vital therapies.

Good news!

People are happy a shipment of PPE arrived!

Actually, this was sort of reassuring

"Ladino said her boss held a meeting recently to remind workers to wash their hands more frequently. They need to wear gloves and a hair net as usual, but now they’re also wearing masks over their noses and mouths."

~ A. Hall & S. Khoka

https://www.kqed.org/news/11808267/farmworkers-cant-pick-crops-remotely-how-can-they-stay-safe

I mean, it sounds like at this facility, they have more access to PPE than a person who stocks medical supplies in a hospital.

But maybe in the future we will build a monument to hand sanitizer.

But had quick access to a test

is the positive side of the situation

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/royals/britains-prince-charles-tests-positive-for-coronavirus/ar-BB11Gm9Z?ocid=spartanntp

Oops they need more still

PPE.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/u-s-diplomats-urging-nations-ramp-ppe-production-seeking-buy-n1168421

People who sustain our nutritional needs deserve better!!!

"Food scarcity is also looming as several rural communities in California and Washington are reporting a lack of basic necessities, said Mily Treviño-Sauceda, executive director of the Alianza Nacional de Campesinas. “They’ve told me, ‘We have nowhere to get food. The corner markets and dollar stores have empty shelves (and they aren’t restocking).’ This is creating anxiety and despair.'"

~ G. Wozniacka

https://civileats.com/2020/03/25/farmworkers-are-in-the-coronavirus-crosshairs/

Farmworkers Picking Good Food Today

Do you have a favorite farmworker Twitter friend to check on and see how they're getting along?

https://civileats.com/2020/03/25/farmworkers-are-in-the-coronavirus-crosshairs/

Well

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-restricts-visas-farmworkers-raising-concerns-about-food-supply-n1164216

Who is this written for?

https://www.wired.com/story/not-going-run-out-food-dont-panic-shop/

I got some spices

Listened to The Romantics - Nature (BBC documentary) while making Niter Kibbeh.

Sounds like an interesting soul:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-clare

John Clare

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clare

And Wordsworth, and William Blake...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth

A poet who cared and showed it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake

Hey there, here's a talk

From Alexis de Toqueville to today.

Why are people hoarding toilet paper? | Hans Hacker | TEDxUAMonticello

Who even knew National Farmworker Awareness Week just happened???

It's in March! Food is GOOD.

https://www.thepacker.com/article/equitable-food-initiative-champions-farmworker-awareness-week

"this year it is March 25-31, according to a news release."

OH WAIT THERE'S STILL TIME

This comment sounds kinda scary though

"Comments

Submitted by S Martin on Fri, 03/20/2020 - 12:29 The real kicker is all of the migrant workers that were expected to be landing April 1st are now going to be denied entry. In Ontario alone that is 15,000 skilled workers and 50,000 across Canada. If the labour shortage isn't addressed immediately many types of vegetables will not be planted this year. We are likely to have food shortages if this isn't addressed immediately. Planting starts within weeks and any delays will be catastrophic"

https://www.thepacker.com/article/coronavirus-spurs-concerns-farmworkers

"Don't worry, all the rich people have giant back yards and will immediately hire the many people out of work to grow food for just them." Sorry, that was very cynical. I'm sure the great U.S.A. can do much better than that.

A nice headline: "Coronavirus spurs concerns for farmworkers"

"The hundreds of thousands of farmworkers who harvest fruits and vegetables for U.S. consumers are often taken for granted.

Not this year."

~ T. Karst

https://www.thepacker.com/article/coronavirus-spurs-concerns-farmworkers

THIS COULD BE TRUE!!!!

Was it stressful to live in the time of rationing medical supplies for healthcare workers who needed them

Yes.

Not wise to treat the people who provide your food that way in the 21st century

"ignored by the public and, quite frankly, most of the media."

~ M. Bretón

"Farmworkers pick our food. Shouldn’t we care about their health and coronavirus exposure?"

https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article241320291.html#storylink=cpy

Safe as any other supplies

Thank you.

Recognize inequality in action

Help humanity more.

Is it glove donation time yet?

A lot to consider

The complete list of California's essential workers | KTVU FOX 2

https://www.ktvu.com/news/the-complete-list-of-californias-essential-workers

People in all kinds of living circumstances need food

"If America stays fed in our moment of need, it will be thanks to immigrant farmworkers."

~ A. De Leora Brust

"Farmworkers feed us during coronavirus and deserve rights"
https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article241341626.html

Ever start noticing the vacant houses more

Why yes

https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ghost-town-vacancies-and-evictions-on-the-rise-in-the-caltrans-owned-710-corridor-homes-in-pasadena-south-pasadena-and-el-sereno

They always have deserved better

"Farmworkers feed us during coronavirus and deserve rights"

https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article241341626.html

Probably some immigrants have to go outside to feed a ranting Italian mayor too.

It's an issue. April.

What timing.

"They know not what they do" someone once said.

"I'm sure that well-off neighbor you saw wearing that n95 mask is not hoarding them for himself in these times of diminished supplies."

"Loving those ranting Italian mayors far more than the poor people cooped up and needing to walk dogs or the dollar store employees or the people scrambling for medical supplies or the growing number of homeless is clearly not what this is about."

While thinking of shortages for someone whose job is stocking hospital supplies

I think it is fair to ask, why don't you stay in your big home and order in groceries to protect your fragile health?

Should I ask how often she gets to wear gloves?

Rich celebrities are not the medical workers. They are not the dollar tree employees. They are not at all sensitive to systemic discrimination and greed.

They are not living in crowded apartments, yet they enjoy judging others for going for walks?

The  behaviors of the clueless, spoiled rich are truly where inspiration goes to die.

Not a high income problem

People wanting to go outside for walks and get away from crowded apartment living.

cooking these days

me: i know! let's try to use up spices by making ethiopian recipes, i haven't had ethiopian food in ages, yum!
also me: spending hours trying to find the ingredients, substitutions, etc.
& also me: let's just make a tv dinner and try it tomorrow

!!!

Violently Bored Americans Begin Looting Puzzle Stores
https://www.theonion.com/violently-bored-americans-begin-looting-puzzle-stores-1842429517

It will be interesting to see what happens down the road...

"Risking Arrest, a Homeless Mom Occupies a Vacant Home in El Sereno During Peak Coronavirus Panic ~ L.A. TACO

https://www.lataco.com/mother-occupies-home/

We can still get better

Releasing stress and anxiety is a gift. Feeling well in a body is a blessing. Help me know I am ready to receive the gift. Help me to appreciate all the good I have known. Help me get better at forgiveness, too. People can evolve. Humanity can heal.

Time to repair today

I feel it. The aching back. Needs healing.
I will need help from the universe today.
Help me do what is best for health, please.

But seriously, we must be better

We have to take better care of ourselves, our health, and each other. What can we do now to take better care of ourselves. Love your body and respect it. Love the earth and respect it. All the good you have within you.  Feel it and know it is alive.

"Thinking of others"

Thank god the neighbor playing the squeaky recorder stopped.

https://mobile.twitter.com/PicoIyer/status/1241598151133294592

I love you, chill cashier man

Thank you for your service and calm demeanor. We need more like you in the world.

A site that intends to be useful...

The National COVID-19 Medical Equipment Clearinghouse | Project N95
https://www.projectn95.com/

♡ The cashier at the dollar store who got lunch for her coworker ♡

My friend who gave a grocery gift card to a coworker who is a temp employee and single mom.

My sister being resilient at her job and writing people of their need for medical supplies and her boss telling her she's a beacon of hope.

Remember the people who showed their best qualities at this time and how they helped you feel better about humanity.

Sometimes I keep on looking at the same topic

UH HUH
https://www.hindustantimes.com/tech/apple-to-donate-millions-of-masks-for-health-professionals-fighting-covid-19-says-tim-cook/story-KHtQDYJpLAoQyYFD6FBMZO.html

Man who needs masks donates masks

Story

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/denver-dialysis-patient-challenges-other-to-donate-spare-masks-sanitizer-gel-during-ppe-drive

A world where healthcare workers get the supplies they need, and rest, and appreciation

That's a good world to envision...and like, was wondering if the two seemingly healthy and possibly wealthy guys with the harder looking types of masks and gloves who were out riding their scooters around the neighborhood this evening could possibly help the hospitals out...

"Medical professionals turn to community for face masks amid shortage in COVID-19 fight"

https://www.ktvu.com/news/medical-professionals-turn-to-community-for-face-masks-amid-shortage-in-covid-19-fight

“'The masks that I had were from my kids’ supply and also leftover from the wildfires,' said resident Mike Levi. 'I saw them here yesterday and realized that I’m not using them and this is a wonderful contribution I can make.' Pacific Gas and Electric on Friday announced it's donating nearly 1 million protective masks from its wildfire and construction zone supply to California hospitals."

~ L. Martinez

https://www.ktvu.com/news/medical-professionals-turn-to-community-for-face-masks-amid-shortage-in-covid-19-fight

People with dogs don't forget to stand behind that red line at the checkout

Grocery store experience has nothing to do with this comic

https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/fms8lt/at_least_theyre_happy/

Or does it...

https://www.honestlyfake.com/2020/02/19/hmm/

Deep...

In the month of March 6 years ago: a film about...

Why is the pay for a certified nursing assistant so low?

https://hbowatch.com/hbo-documentary-films-paycheck-to-paycheck-the-life-and-times-of-katrina-gilbert/

ooooh

https://noogatoday.6amcity.com/local-mother-featured-in-hbo-documentary-achieves-dream-of-graduating-college/

M***

A

Copper 3D makes the free N95 mask design to fight COVID-19 pandemic spread - CD3D
https://3dprintingcenter.net/2020/03/18/copper-3d-makes-the-free-n95-mask-design-to-fight-covid-19-pandemic-spread/

S

Taiwanese Doctor Teaches How To DIY Cloth Face Mask With Air Filter, So No Need To Scramble At Stores
https://mustsharenews.com/cloth-face-mask/

K

Deaconess - How to make a Face Mask
https://www.deaconess.com/How-to-make-a-Face-Mask

Something about making masks

Curtis Merritt, DO on Twitter: "#MedTwitter, this is @3M @3MUK @3MNews ‘s household filter which is package rated for viruses. When you unfurl it, it accordions out and by my estimate you can make about 60 masks per $22 spend. Plus cost of staples string and hot glue. https://t.co/HgXS5L6v8P https://t.co/0cFAy3vy0j" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/Curtis_Merritt/status/1240656394476490757

Masks, gloves, gowns, eyewear

They really need supplies.

https://kstp.com/coronavirus/imports-of-medical-supplies-plummet-as-demand-in-us-soars/5680176/

Time for sound machine (maybe) / sleep (for sure)

Someone in a car was asking me about being able to walk in a park now and something about it bothered me...oh maybe the guy looked like a clean-shaven version of a brother in this band...what do I know???

Gonna dream of medical supplies...

~~~~~

"Oregon Bike Trails"

https://earmilk.com/2013/02/15/cayucas-high-school-lover/

I gotta watch the video

"Satellite images also show a significant drop in pollution level in Italy during the coronavirus quarantine. According to the European Space Agency (ESA), nitrogen dioxide emissions have significantly decreased over Italy following the lockdown caused by the spread of COVID-19, reported Mail Online.

They also released a time-lapse video showing the noticeable change in the environment"

https://www.storypick.com/water-and-air-quality-improve-in-italy/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Does this make sense now

Water & Air Quality Improves In Venice During Country-wide Lockdown
https://www.storypick.com/water-and-air-quality-improve-in-italy/amp/?__twitter_impression=true


Hilda on Twitter: "El Salvador has cancelled all rent, water, phone, internet, electricity bills for three months AND they’re building a hospital IN CASE of a major outbreak. MY third world country did THAT" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/hiillddaah/status/1240505524140949505


Catrin Nye on Twitter: "Omg Bryn Celyn Care Home in south Wales does self isolation human hungry hippos 🥰 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 https://t.co/PJvSyZVwAw" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/CatrinNye/status/1241015429482582016

I set some lyrics to a song in my head today

There was a girl
I think she was a dollar store employee girl
She told the cashier who was ringing me up
That she forgot her wallet at home
So the cashier gave her a card
And she took it to McDonalds
She did not miss eating lunch today

https://genius.com/Ewan-mcgregor-ascension-nature-boy-lyrics

tgif after 0 pay this week

off to wail like a disturbed cat

What could caption this

https://twitter.com/goodbeanalt/status/1240740439432495104

How about, "Look what people who don't work in essential industries get to do."

It would be so great

if a place where family works and a friend's baby was born there and a covid patient is being treated there got all the supplies they need at this moment in time...

Must've read this one too...

What's that one about the girl who works in a hospital when Pearl Harbor was bombed...oh.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1242845.Veronica

"Maybe you should want more" ~ O'Connor's Barn

A song by Quilt

https://genius.com/Quilt-oconnors-barn-lyrics

And another

"Dear my love in another life"

https://www.shazam.com/track/295816875/eliot-st


O'Connor's Barn


Eliot Street

Wanting content about masks

"As chair of the University of Washington astronomy department, Dalcanton normally spends her time thinking about galaxy formation, not health care supply chains. But on Tuesday night she tweeted out a link to an online form soliciting donations of respirators from the general public that could be donated to nurses and doctors. “These are masks you may have bought for painting projects with fumes, for blocking smoke inhalation, or for an emergency kit,” the donation page reads. In less than 48 hours, Dalcanton said, her call out brought in some 1,700 unused masks,"

K. Bensinger & R. Adams

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/amid-desperate-shortage-of-medical-supplies-to-fight

Jack Ma

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/13/jack-ma-coronavirus-test-kits-128522

Mask oh mask

Mask!!!!

Masks, gloves, gowns.

"According to my sister, in addition to face masks, they should research how to make a variety of gowns and surgical drapes" ~ E. Farra https://www.vogue.com/article/coronavirus-new-york-nurse-how-designers-can-help-make-masks-supplies

Sister of a nurse says...

"I’ve seen tourists visiting the World Trade Center in N95s, and celebrities and influencers are showing off their N95 masks on Instagram, usually just to run errands or drive around Los Angeles. I can’t help but feel infuriated, seeing as my sister has been given one—one!—N95 to use over and over for the foreseeable future (the hospital recommended she store it in a paper bag between shifts)."

~ E. Farra
  https://www.vogue.com/article/coronavirus-new-york-nurse-how-designers-can-help-make-masks-supplies

I want some better things to start happening ASAP

Do not want to repeat this situation, ever. How can I phrase it? We can have better times.

Someone who know how much hospitals need supplies

Has written her representatives, she told me.

Liking Hair better than Les Mis right now but anything you like is alright...

Such good voices!!!!!


Hair ~ Aquarius

~~~~~~~~~

O Sing

 
Hair ~ Let the Sunshine In

Sisterly wish.

I would like for her hospital to be well-stocked and well-run. She delivers supplies. She's organized. She notices when things are low. She noticed when masks were disappearing. She's also taking online computer programming classes, and that can be challenging. That's a talent I don't have. She's good at stuff.

When & where

These days it feels better to get supplies at the least ransacked place...

About a bird

It's its own thing.

"The Gray Catbird: NARRATED"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs7htuxGElk

Seasonal news

"Earliest equinox in more than a century" https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/spring-equinox-2020-scn-trnd/index.html

ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ

💖💞 💗

https://genius.com/Julie-andrews-my-favorite-things-lyrics

"Google Translate sings Thriller"

Kittens, cakes, pines...
🐈 🍰 🎍

That's good!

"With the situation in China now slowly improving..."
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/this-is-ikea/newsroom/letter-from-ikea-u-s-president-regarding-coronavirus-response-pub50ffa2cf?itm_campaign=OWFEHP&itm_element=HeroSlider1&itm_content=storeclosure

Hmmm.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/world/asia/china-coronavirus-zero-infections.html#click=https://t.co/lGmxRvMyF

I see the light...

And "check out this video about cats and dominoes"

Catsssss

https://apple.news/AIWoHsUbTQsyNhWZb_ptuHg

Received some other news

This is happening too.

https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/science/coronavirus-treatment.amp.html

TV shows donating medical supplies

Masks, gloves...

https://www.cnet.com/news/medical-tv-shows-halted-by-coronavirus-donate-masks-gloves-to-real-hospitals/

Masks. Gloves. Everything. Masks. Gloves. Everything.

Masks. Gloves. Everything.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/03/us-america-has-fraction-medical-supplies-it-needs-to-combat-coronavirus/

They need more supplies.

Cat bird symbiosis

Cats helping Pleasant Hill bird build a warm, cozy nest
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/04/cats-helping-pleasant-hill-bird-build-a-warm-cozy-nest/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Learning about masks

Masks!!!! What a challenge.

"Coronavirus Spurs Demand For Face Masks — But They're Surprisingly Hard To make : Goats and Soda : NPR"
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/16/814929294/covid-19-has-caused-a-shortage-of-face-masks-but-theyre-surprisingly-hard-to-mak

I know someone who is distributing those masks to hospital employees this morning.

Masks can be great.

masks

masks
masks
masks
masks
masks

Sometimes ppl in the stores are really nice and happy

Because they can be.

I am choosing to believe in healing energy

I believe

Love for healing vibes

 My health requires I have attention to a dental issue soon and I hope people will let themselves believe in healing...If you have anxiety, find what helps and heals...all v
backgrounds... all..all...all...humanity deserves to get better. Really. Truly.

TRULY APPRECIATED

My work sent out a very communicative e-mail about their plans.

Really impressed. Good job.

♡Community♡

O dear universe

I know you can be good and I love you and I want and need your help.
Help me find balance and true health. Help me transform my anxiety into something healthy. Help me with my right tooth that has been feeling trauma after dental work. Help me be happy, well-grounded, healthy. Please help me feel more balanced in all areas of my cycle. Oh if these things could unfold, I want more gratitude in my life.  Thank you.

"Manchester England England..."

Galt MacDermot - The Flesh Failures (Let The Sunshine In) (Hair) (1979)

"Let the sunshine in..."

The 5th Dimension ♒︎ AQUARIUS ♒︎ Let The Sunshine In

Some guys who were young once

A history class in high school

where they assessed females
shared callous jocularity and 

got away with so much but

oh, how could you laugh

when we watched the film

about Kent State shootings?

Back then you could 

jump a fence and 

go swimming

I mean, I heard they 

departed the planet

so young, only four decades

of this life, and a little more
Well, they may come back

Grab onto little happy things

Grab onto little happy things

Om

Grab onto little happy things

Shanti

Grab onto little happy things

& *exhale*

Born to live a life... music note emoji

Boiling bark on a stove

Crawling out of grief and stress.
So much. Will willow bark help something.
Now is the time to at least try it.

Has words

A Mayor

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/michigan-republican-mayor-who-voted-for-trump-switches-to-biden-even-more-deranged-now-than-i-thought-then/

Wonder if the beauty has a name

The rest stop cat that gets pets and food and is happy where it is and reminds me of the sick cat with loving energy I saw so many years ago...I think I prayed for that cat! I bet it's either the same cat or the soul of the same cat.

Still ♡ this beautiful quote

"Integration is kindness made visible"

https://www.mindful.org/dr-dan-siegel-hearing-yes-childs-brain/

This healthcare thing then that

After this about healthcare, income inequality, PTO, etc.

https://mobile.twitter.com/abcnews/status/1236462655012917249

I will either do something productive

(Does lying down with a heating pad count?)

Or time will pass because it needs to do that.

But at least the cat is not hungry.

Such an intersting article

"Felitti came to believe that for Patty, obesity was an adaptive mechanism: she overate as a defense against predatory men. Felitti began asking other relapsing study participants if they had a history of sexual abuse. He was shocked by their answers. Eventually, more than 50 percent of his 300 patients would admit to such a history."

'Initially I thought, 'Oh, no, I must be doing something wrong. With numbers like this, people would know if this were true. Somebody would have told me in medical school,'" he recalls."

~ A. Piore

https://www.newsweek.com/2020/03/06/yes-stress-really-making-you-sick-1489620.html


"Felitti started bringing patients together in groups to talk about their secrets, their fears and the challenges they faced—and their weight loss began to stick. Within a couple years, the program was so successful that Felitti was receiving regular invitations to speak about his program to medical audiences. Whenever he brought up sexual abuse and its apparent link to obesity, however, audience members would "storm explosively" out of the room or stand up to argue with him, he says. Nobody, it seemed, wanted to hear what he had to say.

"At least one person was intrigued by his findings. Robert Anda, a researcher at U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), had been studying chronic diseases..."

A. Piore

https://www.newsweek.com/2020/03/06/yes-stress-really-making-you-sick-1489620.html

And competence in communication and attention to healthcare

"Daily Coronavirus Check In With Barbara Ferrer, Director Of LA County Public Health Department"

https://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2020/03/05/65384/daily-coronavirus-check-in-with-barbara-ferrer-dir/

https://mobile.twitter.com/DrBurkeHarris

ACES

https://mobile.twitter.com/DrBurkeHarris/status/1234601968779194368

Appreciating humanity

"For poor and homeless students, school may be the only place they can get three hot meals a day and medical care. That is why New York City's public schools will probably stay open even if the new coronavirus becomes more widespread" https://twitter.com/NYTMetro/status/1236298692010876928

Beautiful quote found

https://www.mindful.org/dr-dan-siegel-hearing-yes-childs-brain/

♡People who provide your nutritious food♡

They deserve amazing health and care.

We are packing. He shows me his mug.

"Most Eligible Bachelor."
It is from his ten year reunion.
"Do you know why it says that?"
He smiles. Love that smile.
"Because I had graduated from college!"

Know your needs?

I need water and good health and the best healthcare. Every morning I know this. Tapping into the better aspects of humanity is good for my health.

Now you can be nicer to people who have health isssues

Feeling ill and ill-treated by a not understanding society is one of the least fun parts of having health issues.

One aspect of this situation is that people are not going to be as guilted to not care for their health or to force themselves to work while sick. It is sad how much that has happened in the past.

Wish people were just nicer though. (Without the coronavirus scare).

Oh this cover

And the story
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2041548.Someone_to_Love

And another review
https://whatireadbackthen.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/our-toothbrushes-together-or-someone-to-love/

Star of a story

I was thinking about owls and when I have seen their image used in our culture and began imagining a man who works as a janitor and eats Wise potato chips and gets picked on too much and likes simple things and moves slowly...Hmmm.

On another note, this book was read to us as fifth graders...
  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1694329.Mrs_Fish_Ape_And_Me_The_Dump_Queen

WhereforeartthouTP

That was March 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/03/07/813191533/why-is-there-a-worldwide-run-on-toilet-tissue-amid-the-coronavirus What a time https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/08/813401722/who-official-says-coronavirus-containment-remains-possible

Happy universe

Years ago I worried about a sick cat (something wrong with its eyes) at a rest stop in SC who was friendly and had been left a pile of chicken. Today, I get a text of a picture of a happy and contented cat that people feed and pet alot at a rest stop in SC. It could even have been the same cat, based on looks. Clear eyes. Good energy!

Today could be a great day to begin healing

♡ a lot of the sorrow & grief ♡

Play this into a shorter day

Fall back, leap forward.



Hair ~ Age of Aquarius

and cheerful DANCERS!

I want a ritual

Pain is back.

Once I felt something like a butterfly in my uterus but what was it really.

I want some plants and herbs for people like me...for me.

The body is wedding the heating pad, ginger tea, and maybe some other remedy later.

I want the healing. Energy. Tools. All of it.

If you have any healthy, immune-system-boosting foods to eat

You can thank farmworkers for that.

https://www.dailydemocrat.com/2020/03/02/farmworkers-struggle-with-high-cost-of-housing/amp/

Hope they are healthy and being treated well!

Frozen banana + sunbutter

EASY seed-cycling breakfast/dessert

Seed Cycling Mixes (+ 10 Ways to Use Them) | Minimalist Baker Recipes
https://minimalistbaker.com/seed-cycling-mixes-recipes/

+

Is it true that certain foods reduce menstrual cramps? | The New Times | Rwanda
https://www.newtimes.co.rw/section/read/181631

"Their cohort"

"Because so many of Thunberg’s harassers are older, conservative men, Vitak recommends encouraging other men to step up as more vocal allies, since harassers tend to listen only when their own cohort speaks up."

~ E. G. Ellis

https://www.wired.com/story/greta-thunberg-online-harassment/

Who is that in this life?

A nice name for a nice piece

"Luna's Touch"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi8GWfU4Rk0

They sang

"How can people be so heartless"

https://www.metrolyrics.com/easy-to-be-hard-lyrics-hair.html

I guess it is because they are...

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/threedognight/easytobehard.html

Musical song in the head thanks to others

"Donna"

https://www.allmusicals.com/lyrics/hair/donna.htm 

I am also grateful for books and for literacy.

And how I got to go to the National Museum for Women in the Arts as a teenager.

And lots of guys who have capacities for empathy. I know you guys. I know we disagree and that may be how it goes for the rest of this life. But I know you are a lot more like me than we let on. It's a lot to be in a body on this planet.

Quick notes of gratitude ♡

I am SO glad that feminism is MUCH more encouraged and accepted than it was when I was younger. I truly am! Pain is dissipating! Go, female body capable of healing! :-)

I need a better life because my body hurts

Cramps. Heating Pad. Help me find better ways to live. Or wake up. It's a real ask. I felt better. Then I ate probably some of the "wrong things." But toasted "healthy" bread with cream cheese and "Everything bagel" mix was so good. Sigh. Wrong time of month. But what if it is also stress because of empathy for women who have suffered that brings on the pain? That's real tears shed.

Review of a book I want to read more of

Rooted

https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2017/10/06/rooted/

But there is an essay in the book that already probably made the biggest impression.

"Stacked For Firewood" by Diana Hume George

"A white girl hanging out with "those Indian boys' in 1960s small-town America upset the white parents and teachers...It also angered the native girls" (65). 

Enter Jane. They fight, then become friends.

"Now I had a protector among the people who were the victims of my people..." (67).

"What happened to Jane..." (69).

"It would be decades before I'd truly understand why..." (70).

And 

And I can read

some of The Lonely Other...

Just a little drug humor

"Police In The US Are Spreading A False Claim That Meth Is Contaminated With Coronavirus"

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/police-spreading-false-claim-coronavirus-meth?bfsource=relatedmanual

Hi body in this life

Be sad but be open to healing
Tend to the throat
Breathe, smile

Human interest

"'What happens to my girl when society realizes it’s not ‘cute’ anymore? How do I make people see the beauty I see?’: Mom to daughter with autism urges us to challenge our idea of beauty"

https://www.lovewhatmatters.com/society-not-cute-autism-special-needs-bullying/

Reading and drinking water

My old school is in the news

https://q13fox.com/2020/03/06/university-of-washington-employee-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-classes-to-be-taught-remotely-starting-monday/

Your women and tornado art

AND

https://www.lovewhatmatters.com/im-broken-emotionally-womans-infertility-battle-captured-in-this-breathtakingly-powerful-photo/

MORE

http://laurajnovak.com/what-my-adhd-tornado-taught-me-about-life-myself-and-love/

This has relevance to today

"Placed on a pedestal of sentimentality and self-sacrifice, white, middle-class Anglo-Saxon women in particular were considered uniquely suited to instilling moral values in children, all while being safely confined to the private sphere of the home. (Which wasn’t even an option for many poor women and women of color.)"

~ T. Schechter

https://www.topic.com/a-brief-history-of-bullying-women-to-have-babies

Such unwillingness to discuss

"A Brief History of Bullying Women..." on the part of the fearful patriarchy to either make them have babies or get forcibly sterilized!

https://www.topic.com/a-brief-history-of-bullying-women-to-have-babies

Such bias about fertility

"We don’t actually know how many children American men desire, as the CDC only reports on the fertility desires of women."

~ M. Adshade

https://www.thedailybeast.com/yes-women-are-making-fewer-babies-but-no-its-not-womens-fault?ref=scroll

So important

Sexual Assault Happens to Boys Too

"Through their stories, the brothers aren’t necessarily ignoring a decades-long string of allegations, legal proceedings, and the resulting public outcry tied to R. Kelly. The singer has been dropped from RCA Records, radio stations have agreed to #MuteRKelly, and he now sits in jail facing more than two-dozen charges in three states. Instead, his brothers’ revelations shed light on how some male survivors live with the pain—or replicate it by becoming perpetrators themselves—in a society that rewards unhealthy models of masculinity, validates myths that have sustained rape culture, and often fails to educate people about healthy sexuality and boundaries."

~ D. Clifton
  https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bvgz78/sexual-assault-happens-to-boys-too

He's good too.

"Canalla said he's going after Alberta's X-Site Energy Services for using his image to create a 'horrible' sticker of the teen climate activist."

"'I don’t know how grown men can think that’s a joke,' he said. 'Rape culture is the worst.'”

~ A. Gaviola

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjde9b/tattoo-artist-german-canalla-wants-to-sue-oil-company-x-site-energy-for-greta-thunberg-sex-act-design

She is brave and she wants the planet to get better.

"They are starting to get more and more desperate... This shows that we’re winning."

https://mobile.twitter.com/gretathunberg/status/1233775476998582278

And that threatens old sexist people.

Stop discriminating against women with health issues and making it worse

Maybe your grandchildren will be better at it than society taught you to be.

God I live for change sometimes!

Great Breath of Joy
Holy holy holy
Transformation
Is HERE
Right
NOW

♡Opportunity♡

Coffee at night and moving activities.
It is a beautiful thing. REALLY.

Let the universe help you
Let the universe health you
Let the universe heal you

It's the optimistic time of the cycle!!!

Back on earth, this story came out on Valentine's Day

Seriously.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/feb/14/how-nepals-migration-ban-traps-female-modern-day-slaves-in-the-gulf

Reading after eating

O Tiptree

https://www.eater.com/2018/5/30/17397060/women-chefs-food-media

It was a story about going into space...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17874281-the-women-men-don-t-see

Hey, if the universe wants you to look at Nepal...

“Chosen from . . . 3 to 6 years of age from the Newari community, they [the Kumari] are confined inside a temple. Their relatives and a private teacher are the only ones who can talk to them and they are not allowed to touch the ground with their feet. In the Nepalese culture, menstrual blood is seen as something polluted, and thus, non-divine. Even for a Goddess, menstruation means exclusion and a change of life.”

K. Dickerman & M.C. Coll

https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2019/05/17/meet-some-child-goddesses-nepal/

Take some time....

"A young production assistant thought she had landed the job of her dreams when, in the summer of 2015, she started work on 'Going In Style,' a bank heist comedy starring Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin."

~ A. Phung & C. Melas

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/24/entertainment/morgan-freeman-accusations/index.html

Where do people's souls go...

https://popculture.com/sports/2020/03/04/kobe-bryant-morgan-freeman-narrates-powerful-tribute/

Dizziness again says

Someday
better care,
better health,
better quality of life

Sunday is International Women's Day

"Itisha Giri and Bhrikuti Rai are fed up with the male-dominated discourse in Nepali media and are determined to change it. The hosts of Boju Bajai are using their platform to speak to women, for women and about women in a space where many voices are left behind."

https://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/rabble-radio/2020/03/dick-jokes-rape-culture-nepali-women-ask-hard-questions-podcast

This podcast just reminded me.

There's nothing wrong with having daughters tho

Noth uh ng

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/ex-hillary-aide-on-warren-exit-men-should-push-for-women-to-lead-not-just-when-they-get-daughters-and-discover-women-are-people/

What planet

"...she was asked if gender and sexism are still factors of American politics. The senator called that “a trap question for every woman,” elaborating that “if you say, ‘yeah, there was sexism in this race,’ everyone says, ‘whiner.’ If you say, ‘no, there was no sexism,’ about a bazillion women think ‘what planet do you live on?'”

~ K. Meyer

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/elizabeth-warren-holds-emotional-presser-on-2020-bid-sexism-in-politics-and-her-endorsement/

What could make the world better?

"As for Elizabeth Warren? 'When I hear her talk, I want to slap her, even when I agree with her.'"

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/03/america-punished-elizabeth-warren-her-competence/607531/

Internalized Misogyny is a sickness.

"Kate Manne, a philosopher at Cornell University, describes misogyny as an ideology that serves, ultimately, to reinforce a patriarchal status quo. 'Misogyny is the law-enforcement branch of patriarchy,' Manne argues. It rewards those who uphold the existing order of things; it punishes those who fight against it. It is perhaps the mechanism at play when a woman puts herself forward as a presidential candidate and finds her attributes—her intelligence, her experience, her compassion—understood as threats. It is perhaps that mechanism at play when a woman says, 'I believe in us,' and is accused of being 'self-righteous.'"

~ M. Garber

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/03/america-punished-elizabeth-warren-her-competence/607531/