For I live in a body
& it has told me so again.
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Grown-up babies being articulate about experiences
Lou Godbold on Twitter: "In Buddism, the wrathful deities bring a lesson, the compassionate deities a blessing. Both emotions can co-exist in the often complicated and nuanced response to sexual violence. But I don't want to be as "the wrathful woman." https://t.co/GIkj2XPxd3 via @slate" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/richmchugh/status/1389393390350000131
Harvey Weinstein Survivor Interview
https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/08/harvey-weinstein-los-angeles-survivor-story-interview.html
Rich McHugh on Twitter: "“They want to shut me up.” EXCLUSIVE: Amy Franck and Amber Fitzwater were hired by the pentagon to help the military combat its sexual assault issue. Today, they come forward with their own, serious allegations against leadership #Army @Neveraloneadvo1 https://t.co/iz4gikhAty" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/RichMcHugh/status/1389393390350000131?s=20
On Earth is An Experience
“The earth is always holding us, which means the earth always loves us regardless of who we are.”
— cassidy hall (@cassidyhall) August 27, 2021
–Lama Rod Owens, Love and Rage pic.twitter.com/HeXy7SMUTf
~~~~~~
Lama Rod Owens on Twitter: "When we invite our bodies to be partners with us, then you will slow down. This is important. Crisis produces anxiety and trauma and we must tend to these by slowing down and not speeding up to bypass or outrun the discomfort." / Twitter
What if his parents are picking grapes now?
"Meet Alfredo. He celebrated his 69th birthday with his coworkers in the grape fields. They say he is a champion who can carry out 8 trays of grapes at a time on his wheelbarrow. Let’s wish Alfredo a Happy Birthday and thank him for his skilled work as a farm worker. #WeFeedYou https://t.co/1UCokjJhvy" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/UFWupdates/status/1432795512063807488?s=20
It was kind of fun to watch
"Anthony Bourdain Visits The French Laundry"
https://www.finedininglovers.com/article/watch-bourdain-ripert-and-friends-visit-french-laundry
If he came back as a girl, is he gonna still be friends with the same people?"Why Roadrunner’s Director Skipped Interviewing Asia Argento"
I have my doubts.
Sooooo slooooow.
"Mindy Project’s ‘I Slipped’ Trivializes Consent" | Gender Focus
https://www.gender-focus.com/2014/10/08/mindy-project-episode-i-slipped-trivializes-consent/
"After Experiences of Unwanted Sex, Queer Women See Men as 'Stupid'” - Contexts
https://contexts.org/blog/after-experiences-of-unwanted-sex-queer-women-see-men-as-stupid/
That went somewhere.
This article ends with a strange focus on women being competitive about thinness.
"Meryl Streep Had to Fend Off Jack Nicholson Repeatedly While Filming Heartburn"
Monday, August 30, 2021
I, a grown-up baby work in progress
do feel grateful that all kinds of alternative therapies exist even though I most likely haven't used them as much as I could...it can be very challenging to retrain yourself to choose better ways sometimes...
OnlyOnly
"OnlyFlans ๐ฎ (@OnIyFlans)" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/OnIyFlans
Maybe if I ever get an account everyone will just ignore it...
We deserve more options than hysterectomy or ibuprofen bottle
I mean WAY WAY WAY more options.
I'm sure I will be a lot better at accomplishing external things when internal conditions improve.
What does it mean mean mean mean
If you return to a lots of feminine challenges themed life life life life...
Second Something
DISTRACTABLE
— Effin' Birds (@EffinBirds) August 30, 2021
VOUS
— manwhohasitall (@manwhohasitall) August 25, 2021
IT'S NOT 199X!
https://www.spin.com/2013/02/king-missile-detachable-penis-oral-history-john-s-hall/
WHATEVER THAT DECADE MEANS TO ANYBODY ANYWAY
And after waking up about a dream of washing a kitchen floor
I was just a child living on an island once, listening to
"Baby sneezes
Mommy pleases
Daddy breezes in..."
https://genius.com/Carly-simon-coming-around-again-lyrics
in our living room.
"Coming Around Again" - C. Simon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uDkX8fAcEA
Song repetitions for when the systemic forces are being careless assholes.
"How Can I Cry" by Moira Smiley - YouTube
Babies all grown up: Amadeo & Ed
"Amadeo shares, "I'm out in the fields working every day. I work in the cold, the heat, the rain and wildfires. I worked during COVID19 and even got sick. The work farm workers does feed America. Farm workers deserve a path to legalization." #WeFeedYou #WeAreHome https://t.co/xMIEeYK64Q" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/ufwupdates/status/1432064797533687813
&
"Farm workers mourn the passing of actor and activist Ed Asner, who championed Cesar Chavez and the UFW since the 1970s. https://t.co/eEfmPB6lV0 https://t.co/PMlPNibu0D" / Twitter
Sunday, August 29, 2021
Mushrooms & paintings
LAY
https://thehustle.co/inside-the-worlds-most-booked-airbnb/
TER
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/fantastic-fungi-movie-review-2019
may
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/08/bob-ross-documentary-netflix
be
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mental-phenomena-dont-map-into-the-brain-as-expected-20210824/
Sunday packing Sunday...
Since I enjoyed listening to his interview while filling boxes, I think I might ask some local libraries if they could order his book.
nazir afzal on Twitter: "What an honour to have PAPERBACK version of my memoir “The Prosecutor” published on 1/4 & to share some new thoughts It’s available in all your bookshops (we so need them) & online Delighted that it’s being adapted for new ๐ฌ๐งdrama Home made trailer for you https://t.co/b3thhW5bz6 https://t.co/VT0ouL6bTB" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/nazirafzal/status/1431748859848499210
Wow, maybe that T. guy can leave his mafia family someday
nazir afzal on Twitter: "There’s this Afghan born woman (married to a Brit) living in Kabul with 5 kids under 12 She had only expired passports She got herself & her kids to the airport & a Taliban guy took pity on her & let her through They’re Home Her kids want to make this country greater - they will" / Twitter
He's got songs in his interview!
"Desert Island Discs - Nazir Afzal, lawyer - BBC Sounds"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000ydp1
These are the first three...
https://genius.com/House-of-pain-jump-around-lyrics
Sounds to pack boxes in 2021 to
Mandu Reid on Twitter: "This is one of the most moving, inspiring, and uplifting episodes of #DesertIslandDisks ever. Thank you @nazirafzal for setting the standard of what it means to be a genuine male ally to women and girls in world disfigured by patriarchy and misogyny! https://t.co/wzyze7WGau" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/wep_uk
"Desert Island Discs - Nazir Afzal, lawyer - BBC Sounds"
I know the Patriarchy is bad for our health
AND SO DO OTHER PEOPLE.
Women's Equality Party on Twitter: "Black women in the UK are 4 times more likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth. Help us shine a light on the racism that is driving these unnecessary deaths. ๐๐ฟ Share your experience below or if you are an ally, help spread the word. https://t.co/ELo227ZUgP" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/WEP_UK/status/1431587369749209088?s=20
HOW?
Women's Equality Party on Twitter: "These reports are damning and it is impossible to have faith in a justice system rife with racism and sexism. Work must be done to *prevent* this bullying and harassment, as well as appropriately investigating and tackling this behaviour. https://t.co/MEfoTsh9sC" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/WEP_UK/status/1431208814511022090?s=20
BY ACKNOWLEDGING THINGS
"In lockdown I entered the abortion clinic alone, hiding trepidation behind my mask" | Women | The Guardian
Beneath a heating pad...
I have watched a good man kill a roach. We had the pest control person come back on Friday. Apparently they crawl up through dry pipes. Hope the new apartment doesn't have as much of a problem with them. Maybe put plugs over all the drains?
Life tells me that the good guy can do that for you while you've got your heating pad / pain management treatment thing going on.
Saturday, August 28, 2021
Found a new song...it's at the bottom...
"Steam Plant Body Percussion - VOCO - Live - 7/16/2009" - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XoIOHWU2Ex4&feature=youtu.be
"How Can I Cry - moira smiley & VOCO (Live at Carthage College 4/7/16)" - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fBRZpw48aBg&feature=youtu.be
"MOTHER OF INVENTION by Moira Smiley [Live Performance]" - YouTube
The feminine body is really a lot again
Mind
https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/female-desire-gaze-cinema
Mind
Mind
https://www.thelily.com/the-assistant-isnt-about-harvey-weinstein-but-he-looms-over-it/
Mind
Since the 1980s male flight attendant offered a copy of Esquire to a girl, I ended on a high note!
Yah, Environmental Yesterday
"Henry David Thoreau — The Original 'Social Distancer' — Has Newfound Relevancy During The Pandemic"
TV & criss-crossing topics
SHALL I DARE TRY TO WATCH?
"The Chair"
I found out my friend and her kid made it home safely from the horrible storm that's about to hit NOLA, & she also asked if I'd ever watched "The Chair." I told her my frame of mind wasn't especially keen on it because it kind of made me think about women acting like feminists in one context and making excuses for the bad behavior of male tenured colleagues in another. I have enough stress to deal with at the moment, so why invite more into my leisure time? It might be unfair to the show, but that's how I felt about it. But then she mentioned that the woman in the show is a single mom raising a daughter, and that got me thinking about how the choices of TV parents don't seem at all like the parenting we experienced growing up (or, in her case, since she has a kid, the parenting she practices). She thought I should watch it anyway so we can talk about it. Maybe I will...
Snack attack maybe?
This kind of thought is terribly stressful if you really think about it.
"Every patient with or without COVID19 that's in the ICU in NOLA is going to die this weekend. Many floor and ED patients too. They can't evacuate because no one in the Gulf Coast has beds. And there's no hospitals to go to if sick/injured. If you're in the cone run for your life."
https://twitter.com/RNickGorton/status/1431441655626752002
I, safely esconced on the West Coast, could deal with it by driving to one of those markets that purportedly sells the New Orleans style potato chips.
https://www.mashed.com/444647/the-untold-truth-of-zapps-potato-chips/
Snacking is comforting, and who knows what effects these small actions can have.
https://genius.com/Machines-of-loving-grace-butterfly-wings-lyrics
And yet if I think "If only it were 10 miles closer" enough, maybe I'll just stay put and pack boxes and eat roasted vegetables.
That's some creativity P
although
"Radiohead - Knives Out" - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lpw3yMCWro
not as delightful as this film!
"Review: Knives Out Is More Than a Clever Murder Mystery" | Time
https://time.com/5739463/knives-out-review/
Who knew this would catch my interest a week ago?
Not I.
"'Knives Out' 2 - Release Date, Cast, Spoilers, Set Photos"
https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a37192069/knives-out-2-release-date-cast-spoilers/
Oats and mares and does, lambs
"Mairzy Doats"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mairzy_Doats
They had tolerant parents, I think?
" 5 REINCARNATED CHILDREN Who Remember Their Past Lives " - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2cHbiIUpos
Formative years flashback
One of the first times I remember watching SNL was when I was 12, eating pizza with a laid-back Christian group of younger adults in an upscale home in Monterey. Everyone laughed at the skits until one came on about "T & A." And suddenly, no one was laughing! An attractive blond woman who was hosting the party did not laugh. An attractive Latino guy merely looked somber. I kept looking at them for cues...would it be okay to laugh now? When was it gonna get funny enough to laugh again?
The respect could kill you.
why are these women all doing laundry together
I asked myself this question.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bb0L6gPPWyE&feature=youtu.be
Is it like they're in some sort of horrible camp?
Who says it's funny
"Funny Prayer about Getting Old - Home Instead" - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSemARaqGqE
Ooops
You're just a big ol' question mark in this lifetime
aren't you
?
How long do you keep your torn and chewed skirts.
Friday, August 27, 2021
It may take 500 years for society to change?
Pain, I will not deny that sometimes the saddest thing is to feel like the potential of something more positive got ruined, but I guess that's when you tell yourself that you can find other people who are more ready to change and not clinging to what feels like very old, unhealthy patterns. Some people and their enablers are still too insensitive to know how much unnecessary damage they cause. They are not ready to change much. I am really not in a position to fix it for them when their livelihoods depend on toxic systems and fearful attitudes. So, it's a big planet and there are others. Or maybe the circumstances will be more fortuitous at another time.
It may take 500 years for society to change, but did it have to be that way?
Two from before that can be nice now.
"Steam Plant Body Percussion" - VOCO - Live - 7/16/2009 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoIOHWU2Ex4&feature=youtu.be
"How Can I Cry?" - VOCO - Live - 7/16/2009 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsn6xNNwcKo&feature=youtu.be
Might be the praying type tonight
Weirdly bad back pain, sad news someone had to go to the hospital, and worry about a big storm... I want to be in touch with healing vibes.
I once met a woman who lost her family in hurricane Katrina and even though I never saw her again she was one of those strangers who can change your outlook on life.
Stories can have that affect on you if you're a sensitive person.
Now I gotta find out
if a friend can leave before the storm hits.
Life isn't fair, and this has been communicated before in various ways...
So maybe...
Fantastic Fungi on Netflix. ๐ pic.twitter.com/I0tBp59rYL
— Fantastic Fungi (@FantasticFungi) August 28, 2021
Fantastic Fungi (@FantasticFungi) / Twitter https://mobile.twitter.com/fantasticfungi
I bet I watch this whole thing tonight
"๋ถ๋ ธ์ ํ์นดํ ์์ ๋ชจ์ 11ํ / Angry Homecafe" - YouTube
Never too old to stop learning
Last night it was good to see Knives Out and will probably be able to finish the Bob Ross documentary later.
Cute cat in this photo, and I thought of
"Knife Party - Centipede (Official Video)" - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CSemARaqGqE&feature=youtu.be
Just because of the centipede and the dark humor.
A friend was texting me and another friend who went to NOLA about some potato chips, which are found in these semi-local Italian markets. I was thinking about looking for them. Maybe when I feel better? Hmmm.
Blessed be the musical moments but
My back hurts way too much. Way too much.
"Drab City - Working For The Men" - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNyrFw79Hg
"Kekko - Past Lives" - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f2cHbiIUpos&feature=youtu.be
"Strawberry Mountain - You Were in My Dreams Tonight" - YouTube
A lot of stuff is systemic
FOOD quandary: could I eat a hot dog later? I enjoyed snacking on blackberries today. Some of them were a tasty accompaniment to my steel cut oats at breakfast.
"Study: Eating a Single Hot Dog Can Take 35 Minutes Off Your Life - InsideHook"
https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/food-and-drink/hot-dog-study-health-risks
https://twitter.com/EffinBirds/status/1431301485829267464?s=20
Happy 98th
"The Voice of the Nightingale (1923) | MoMA FILM VAULT SUMMER CAMP" - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LWLiRvxfbRE&feature=youtu.be
"Silent Movie GIFs on Twitter: 'You can watch the full film on MoMA's YouTube channel https://t.co/OjcpabWBnL" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/silentmoviegifs/status/1431143363005325315
What if i run away from the smoke.
"Gimme Shelter | Roadfood"
https://roadfood.com/gimme-shelter/
And stay in a kitschy place from the 60s and ignore TV and read pulp-y things.
Pulp Librarian on Twitter: "Many readers have asked me about the raft of lesbian pulp novels published in the '50s and '60s. How did they come about? And did they actually change people's attitudes to same-sex relationships? Let's look back at the lesbian pulp explosion and try to uncover its legacy... https://t.co/S337Q8efyE" / Twitter
After I finish the Bob Ross documentary since we watched Knives Out first.
Smells BURNT outside
I wanted to enjoy the deck more before we have to relocate.
"Llamas, sheep huddle together as brush fire burns in Lytle Creek area near Fontana" | abc7.com
https://abc7.com/lytle-creek-fire-fontana-15-freeway/10975456/
Ha ha. So bad.
And not only did you not go to the Catholic religion class in the early afternoon, like almost everyone else, but your body doesn't digest carbs so well either.
https://www.lovefood.com/news/93107/21-irish-foods-explained
Maybe I'd talk to a man about it if his mind could still understand what I was saying.
And also, am I getting Pea Soup Andersons mixed up with a Shamrock themed restaurant that was somewhere in Pennsylvania or Maryland on the way to Civil War battlefields and colleges?
Dutch Kitchen LIVES
Unlike the intriguing shop that sold singing Crystal Bowls in the F-ville mall circa 2003-2005. RIP...
"Schuylkill Mall - Frackville, PA | A Dead Mall Masterpiece (Demolished)" | ExLog #10 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqOyUa0V6NM
Hey
"THE FAMOUS DUTCH KITCHEN, Frackville - Menu, Prices & Restaurant Reviews"
It even has a Tesla charger station now.
"Dutch Kitchen | Tesla"
https://www.tesla.com/findus/location/charger/dc32337
Good for you, Dutch Kitchen.
It's just a MIND and it's so DISTRACTablr
I was like...Schuylkill! Moravians! That time I told a young Californian who was sick with nervousness (about having to write and the topic was Utopian communities) about what I knew about musical Moravians and he appreciated the distraction because he was musical and by the end of our encounter he wasn't so nervous and felt more confident about trying! That college in Bethlehem! Someone else used to teach there! Oh wait that's not in the same county as the one I drove through a lot.
Such an EAST COAST place name!
"Knives Out | Schuylkill Banks"
https://www.schuylkillbanks.org/events/movie-nights/knives-out
"Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania" - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuylkill_County,_Pennsylvania
"Music Faculty | Moravian University"
https://www.moravian.edu/music/faculty
Hippity hoppity goes the mind that makes associations...
Doesn't her picture kind of make her look like a college student
"from the 1980s" I thought to myself.
"Food, power, and sustainability: UW undergraduate research foregrounds migrant farmworkers" | Welcome2021 | dailyuw.com
"Ibrokhim’s interests in food and environmentalism grew after she came to the UW and began her food systems, nutrition, and health major, she said. Both academic coursework and her upbringing in an Uzbekistani immigrant family, where she watched her single mother work underpaid jobs in the United States to make ends meet, inspired Ibrokhim to dive deeper into the exploitation of migrant farmworkers in the United States.
'It was really hard for me to [dissociate] food from exploitation,' Ibrokhim said."
~ Julia Park
Thursday, August 26, 2021
But along the way some other songs got rediscovered
"How Can I Cry - moira smiley & VOCO (Live at Carthage College 4/7/16)" - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fBRZpw48aBg&feature=youtu.be
"Moira Smiley and Inga Swearingen: Garden Hymn" - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pyD5fCmLjnE&feature=youtu.be
"Lisa Hannigan - Roads (Portishead)" | Hibernacle 2020 - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7iD9h2iTFUg&feature=youtu.be
"How Can I Cry [Official Video] Moira Smiley & VOCO - In Our Voices" - YouTube
WHEN YOU FINALLY FIND A SONG you were looking for after a whole month...
Geez...
Toro y Moi - "Ordinary Pleasure" (official music video) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hJb9MxI2NY
(Thought process SEVERAL WEEKS AGO: It's a song about wanting to be chill and laid back and I think the singer is Asian? Well it's a miracle I finally found it by typing "song lyrics does sex even anymore it seems like I don't know")
"Need Help Identifying a Song? Here's One Way to Find It."
https://markfgriffin.com/2015/02/need-help-identifying-song/
Maybe the general public cares more now...
Rep. Barbara Lee on Twitter: "On Women's Equality Day, I’m excited to share that with my bill, phenomenal women throughout history will be featured on the U.S. quarter – including Maya Angelou and Sally Ride. Learn more about the program here: https://t.co/bfQGLQKpg2 https://t.co/ocWlYSideh" / Twitter
Bob Ross could be a follow-up
To the Why Women Kill Season 2 Finale.
"Bob Ross Documentary Explores The Business Behind The Celebrity Painter" : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/25/1028128954/bob-ross-documentary-netflix-melissa-mccarthy-bob-falcone
Also interesting....
"Knives Out (2019) New Trailer – Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas"
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Night thinking cap
Your thinking about going to the pharmacy to get Pepto Bismol when you already bought an aloe version with a pink cap that was clearly supposed to be its more healthy replacement the other evening is watching.
It came back...
The scary book that a girl I was friends with in 3rd grade made me read.
"Women Running from Houses: Jane-Emily"
http://womenrunningfromhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/jane-emily.html?m=1
She made fun of me for getting Little House on the Prairie books from the library. This one she recommended. Cheryl, with long blond hair and superior knowledge of things like foodstamps and a nice grandmother who came on our class field trip to some place like Lake Washington that last time I saw her...
She also told me Bridge to Terabithia was good but so sad and that one I did not read until many years later. Maybe this one was enough...
Jane-Emily by Patricia Clapp
Another place and other situations come to mind
"I covered Hong Kong for decades. Now I am forced to flee China’s ‘white terror’"| Hong Kong | The Guardian
Do we know we need healing
I think so...
๐ฆ๐๐ฟ๐
Sometimes we have painful feelings and we need to heal from certain experiences...
๐ป๐๐ฆญ๐
Well well Welsh
Urdd Gobaith Cymru on Twitter: "Hawliau merched yw hawliau dynol. Women's rights are human rights. Mae pobl ifanc Cymru yn sefyll gyda'n chwiorydd ar draws y byd. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ A message from the young people of Wales: let's use this new normal to create a better, gender-equal future. ๐ #Heddwch2021 https://t.co/cJIGSdWnkE" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/gloriasteinem
I'd like to see the British Isles! ๐ถ
And other places too...
"In the commercial, a camera pans across faces of all shapes, colors and ethnicities, as they sing from a hilltop in Manziana, Italy, 'I’d like to buy the world a Coke.' When the ad was produced in 1971, it cost $250,000, making it the world’s most expensive commercial at the time, the Daily Beast reported. Which makes it all the more astounding that Backer came up with the idea while sitting in an airport cafe in Shannon, Ireland after his plane was forced to land due to a blanket of fog smothering London like pea soup."
~ T. Andrew's & F. Barbash
๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐
SONGS get in one's head sometimes...
"The Platters – Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Lyrics" | Genius Lyrics
Hey Dudes ๐ถ๐๐๐๐บ
I get a feeling that having respect for human bodies and having respect for the Earth is connected!
๐ฌ๐๐๐ฝ๐๐
Regarding older dudes (and sometimes the women who go along with them for various reasons) who are just rather unevolved when it comes to being sensitive to people who have experienced certain kinds of significant trauma, do you ever bother to note the example of the younger people who are strangely better at it? Do you ever ask yourselves why that is? Not too often, huh? What do you think of trying to get better at it yourselves, TOO? Is that something you could possibly ever attempt to do? Or is that still too much to ask? If so, why?
"Hey Jude"
https://genius.com/The-beatles-hey-jude-lyrics
Your repressed inner child is quite possibly better at it, though, so if you get in touch with that one, maybe that's something!
The Beatles - "Hey Jude" - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_MjCqQoLLA
Decided to be a role model for myself & listen...
A piece of earth is in the song?
"Tennessee..."
https://genius.com/Brns-american-money-lyrics
And I have seen a little of that state.
Now could I sleep?
๐ฌ๐
CBS News on Twitter: "Video shows damage, and debris caused by flooding through Middle Tennessee, at least 22 people were killed and more than 50 were still missing as of Sunday afternoon. https://t.co/mwjJAMJihQ https://t.co/URnvKuHEsJ" / Twitter
Guido - Secondhand flying public on Twitter: "@CBSNews 20 years ago this would've been the most important news story for the whole year." / Twitter
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
American Money Thoughts have returned
Musical
Pears...
https://twitter.com/wuerker/status/1430220729547730949?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/UFWupdates/status/1430187349221068804
~~~~~~~
una canciรณn muchas versiones
Found a smart library book online again
Y: No cursing in the office.
X: Oh. Sorry. But I found something funny. So, ha-ha.
— Effin' Birds (@EffinBirds) August 24, 2021
https://twitter.com/EffinBirds/status/1430304036092264464?s=20
Y: Are you listening to "Gimme Shelter" because that guy died.
Not consciously.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44527315-effin-birds
ART!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36054958-my-lady-s-choosing
I just cant stand it
"Flight of the Conchords - 'Jenny'"
http://kampaitube.blogspot.com/2009/03/flight-of-conchords-jenny.html?m=1
I am so glad I left a ridiculous model truck outside the other night and I shall tithe more soon.
Blah blah blah frickin blog f~ing blah.
I 8 a feather comforter
I 7 a feather comforter
I 6 a feather comforter
I 5 a feather comforter
I have a LOT to deal with.
I 4 a feather comforter
I 3 a feather comforter
I 2 a feather comforter
I 1 a feather comforter
I ♡ a feather comforter!
♡◇♡◇♡
Oh my god maybe my inner child can save me.
Ah... (a background song from childhood)
Unpleasant yet sometimes fun to sing screechily...
"Lyrics for Those Were The Days (Theme to All In The Family) by Archie and Edith Bunker" - Songfacts
Maybe the sit-coms could become more environmentally-oriented too?
"Norgaard was puzzled by what she found: the people of Bygdaby were aware of climate change, yet they appeared untouched by this awareness. There were no signs of political action, not even letters to the newspaper, and no one seemed to be making changes in their behaviour:
What perplexed me was that despite the fact that people were clearly aware of global warming as a phenomenon, everyday life in Bygdaby went on as though it did not exist. Mothers listened to news of unusual flooding as they drove their children to school. Families watched evening news coverage of the failing climate talks in The Hague, then just tuned into American sit-coms.
This was a community directly affected by climate change, and familiar with the facts, yet there was no sense that it knew itself to be in trouble."
D. Hine and Norgaard qtd. in D. Hine
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2020/01/23/notes-from-underground-9-crossing-the-threshold/
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"We do not have enough climate activists..."
— Edgar McGregor (@edgarrmcgregor) August 23, 2021
"Everyone who knows it's true should be in the game right now, and yet, there's a space between 'knowing about it' and fully knowing it. Unfortunately, we don't know how to bridge that gap."
— I'm done with Capitalism.✊☭๐๐ฑ๐ต๐ธ (@ResearchingNerd) August 23, 2021
"Btw, I've borrowed this language from Dougald Hine's (@dougald) 'Notes from the Underground.' Anyone who's interested in this aspect of climate chg should read or listen to his beautiful essays:https://t.co/i3KGulUz4r"
— I'm done with Capitalism.✊☭๐๐ฑ๐ต๐ธ (@ResearchingNerd) August 23, 2021
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"For Christians, a classic expression of this attitude to reality appears in Paul’s first letter to the church at Corinth, from the chapter on love that gets read at weddings:
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. (1 Corinthians 13:11–12)
The emphasis is on the partial nature of knowledge: in relation to the ultimate, our understanding is childlike"
~ D. Hine, "Childish Things" https://dougald.nu/childish-things/
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Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life
by Kari Marie Norgaard
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10300309-living-in-denial
Bring back CCC maybe?
"FDR creates Civilian Conservation Corps" | HISTORY
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-creates-civilian-conservation-corps
Tree Dad has talent...
Edgar McGregor on Twitter: "Remember: I cleaned up my park at home for free, I did it by myself, I did it with ZERO special equipment, I was thorough, I did it in under 2 years, AND I KEPT IT SPOTLESS. These cities have an army of workers, millions of dollars, and yet they are failing. I don't get it."
"Edgar McGregor: Pasadena climate activist, 20, cleans up litter at Eaton Canyon for 633 days and counting" | abc7.com
https://abc7.com/environment-trash-garbage-climate/10529694/
"Empathy - Have Some!"
Gabe Ortรญz on Twitter: "When I tell you how much I am constantly learning from this account … I never knew this … ๐๐๐ท #WeFeedYou" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/TUSK81/status/1429551010091962374?s=20
Jaguar Vein on Twitter: "@TUSK81 @UFWupdates It almost makes me want to try and do it for a week or so. But I know I'm a total wuss and might not even make it through one day." / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/ufwupdates
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"Empathy - Have Some!"
"Does Wealth Rob the Brain of Compassion?" - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/does-wealth-rob-brain-compassion/618496/
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"Far better for the wealthy to keep as much of it as possible for themselves and use (a fraction of) it to do benevolent things through philanthropy."
"Abigail Disney: Why the Rich Protect Dynastic Wealth" - The Atlantic
If only it weren't so much fun
to pack and clean and prepare to move the contents of an entire apartment...
https://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian/status/1425827696366428165?s=20
Pulp Librarian on Twitter: "Apologies if you feel I've spammed your feed today. I promise never to do it again and fully understand if you wish to mute me in future. You have better things to spend your time on. But before you go I promised to share with you the secret of gothic romance... https://t.co/TMv3t1vsxj" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/aprilzlopez/status/1429952904098627589
April Lopez on Twitter: "@edgarrmcgregor Unfortunately... "The Biggest Mistake: thinking that knowing about a thing, motivates people to do a thing” https://t.co/DB0DpcxqcD" / Twitter
Sunday, August 22, 2021
Good energy is great
When people love it is great.
Love can also be like, you love a flower.
I want to get better at choosing a more healing path because it's a necessity. I have to get better at it and take care of my health and sometimes that means I will be on a different path than I felt pressured to take but I am going to get better at forgiveness.
Our planet can be so confusing. My body, what I must do to make it better...that's my task right now.
I have a good partner and I am fortunate and love is here in twosomeness and maybe we will get a cat again soon.
I want to get better at being patient and trusting and finding people who do not mind helping and in fact find it a joy. Right? Maybe we lack the training to know how to be skillful and show our compassionate selves more often, but the capacity to learn and try new things can return to us. Like a gift we lost but found again.
I guess I am very grateful to my body in a way because I am learning to love more, since it's a healing practice, and my body has told me healing is what we need.
I feel concerned about health things still, but I also believe in helpful people and helpful energies and love in lots of forms. That makes me happy.
I shall tend to my physical being with ginger tea and soon, sleep.
♡♡♡♡♡♡
Tres gentil
Muy apacible
Que bueno
Muchismas gracias
I feel the good.
Saturday, August 21, 2021
๐ฝ๐ HOPE is ALIVE! ๐๐บ
AN ARTICLE
"Gluten-free diets and period pain: What does the science say?"
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319692
THAT KNOWS IBUPROFEN IS NOT A PANACEA!
So cute and so smart and meow!
I like Juns Kitchen.
"Cooking birthday presents for my wife!" - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sV7eDd1d7LI&feature=youtu.be
"Jiggly Mousse Cake (Japanese Green Tea)" - YouTube
REPEATING FOR EMPHASIS
Friend at another school: We are online until next Spring.
Me: Wow, that sounds very healthy. BECAUSE...
INSERT TEXT TYPED EARLIER BELOW:
CATTY PUBLIC HEALTH RELATED INQUIRY: If someone tells you that as soon as anyone gets sick the whole class is gonna have to quarantine for 2 weeks and go online, d'ya think maybe it should've just been online to begin with and also the other online classes shouldn't have been cancelled at the last minute like that to up the enrollment for the in-person classes? I mean, just to save the FUTURE PATIENT ZERO from embarrassment for making everyone quarantine and go online if nothing else? ALSO, if everyone has to quarantine, is that just for class or also for their student jobs? WHAT if they're essential workers at the GROCERY STORE? Also what if I become one of those people who starts a cat website. HMMM.
http://www.catladyland.net/2012/06/cranky-boxing.htmlOn top of the other stuff
I wonder if the empty clinic in a local Target that takes my insurance but sees nobody on a Saturday would ever see me if my left side and stomach issues persist? I just better meditate and REST ALOT today. The person working there said that the way to make the appointment that was advertised on a big sign is no longer valid right now because of COVID but if I call the number on the back of my insurance card I can request the clinic if nothing that might be COVID-related is involved.
IT's CRANKY CATurday
CATTY PUBLIC HEALTH RELATED INQUIRY: If someone tells you that as soon as anyone gets sick the whole class is gonna have to quarantine for 2 weeks and go online, d'ya think maybe it should've just been online to begin with and also the other online classes shouldn't have been cancelled at the last minute like that to up the enrollment for the in-person classes? I mean, just to save the FUTURE PATIENT ZERO from embarrassment for making everyone quarantine and go online if nothing else? ALSO, if everyone has to quarantine, is that just for class or also for their student jobs? WHAT if they're essential workers at the GROCERY STORE? Also what if I become one of those people who starts a cat website. HMMM.
I need more spatulas
"This Is Your Guide To Kitchen Spatulas"
https://www.yummy.ph/lessons/prepping/cooking-spatula-baking-spatula-a00249-20180824
What's his line?
"Now all those blindfolds in place?"
"Walt Disney - What's My Line - 1956" - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yvsLocgAVLE&feature=youtu.be
A man, his plans, some fantasy, some phantoms...
Playing around: a song & link sandwich
Gimme Shelter - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EJRdDhnTRoo&feature=youtu.be
"Bans like this create a world where your ability to control your life depends on where you live & how much money you earn. The leaders in TX are prioritizing banning a standard abortion procedure after 15 weeks—instead of addressing a public health crisis. https://t.co/odXOYU91g5" / Twitter
Butthole Surfers - Pepper - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO8vBVUaKvk&feature=youtu.be
https://mobile.twitter.com/PPact/status/1428823105993125894
"Why is the South the Epicenter of Anti-Abortion Fervor?" – Kaiser Health News
https://khn.org/news/article/qa-why-south-is-anti-abortion-epicenter/
Beck - Devils Haircut (Official Music Video) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa3rBVb3v4g
Whoa Rainbow Woe
"White, White, Baby" - Vanilla Ice Parody from In Living Color - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx7kzarSwGE&feature=youtu.be
"The US adoption system discriminates against darker-skinned children"| The World from PRX
"(Flintstones) scene that went over my head as a child, but get it as an adult and betty get's raw." - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sqNAj2tSbwI&feature=youtu.be
Films...for the Niece and for the Rich Guy?
Robin Tran on Twitter: "Here’s me doing my favorite joke I’ve ever written, about how much I hate Vietnam War movies, at @justforlaughs! Full set here: https://t.co/b8PVD36nu1 https://t.co/HAlF0DekSL" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/robintran04/status/1428008210053537795?s=20
Huh.
Robin Tran on Twitter: "#tbt being a girl sucks! https://t.co/cpDusHahES" / Twitter
Robin Tran on Twitter: "“Women talk too much” was one of the biggest lies men created and it’s never been more evident by the breakdown of podcasts by gender, I am really glad “men never shut the fuck up” is being revealed as the actual truth"
Questions...
Oops got distracted again
"How I joined the literary prostitutes club, writing erotica for cash"| Aeon Essays
https://aeon.co/essays/how-i-joined-the-literary-prostitutes-club-writing-erotica-for-cash
"Migrant students work in fields during COVID school closures" | CalMatters
Is that right.
"A Woman's Exposure to DDT Could Affect Her Granddaughter's Health Today - Consumer Health News" | HealthDay
How's 21st century literacy going
"US Bans Toxic Pesticide on Food Crops" | Human Rights Watch
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/08/18/us-bans-toxic-pesticide-food-crops#
You too might play an old song sometime
Jim Croce - "Time in a bottle - 1973" - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO1rMeYnOmM
Go to sleep...
Holy Corporal Lesson Cowboy
Although I believe in good intentions and humor my energy at the moment seems to me to be more on the exhausted side...well perhaps a headache and sadness are some of the reasons...but I can believe in retrieved optimism too, which is why I say, isn't it a joy to recollect all these learning experiences too sometimes.
What are the important things?
Backyard flowers and sunsets at age 4.
Listening to cars go by outside the window at night.
A baby sibling and a book with color pictures.
(An adult mind gets distracted...)
"Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452-Amboise 1519) - The fetus in the womb; sketches and notes on reproduction."
https://www.rct.uk/collection/919102/the-fetus-in-the-wombnbspsketches-and-notes-on-reproduction
"Blog: Science in the Talmud"
http://www.talmudology.com/jeremybrownmdgmailcom/category/Sotah+45
Bathing in a fountain at age 6.
Wow, "Mullholland Drive" showed up in this article about "The Big Sleep"
After reading about "Withnail & I."
"The Big Sleep: The most baffling film ever mad" - BBC Culture
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210812-the-big-sleep-the-most-baffling-film-ever-made
"Withnail and I: The ultimate cult film?" - BBC Culture
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200526-withnail-and-i-the-ultimate-cult-film
Friday, August 20, 2021
Thursday, August 19, 2021
Probably not Pegan
I ♡ PBS anyway.
"What Is the Pegan Diet? - What You Can and Can't Eat on the Pegan Diet"
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/diet-nutrition/a25906196/what-is-pegan-diet/
"Eat Your Medicine: the Pegan Diet with Mark Hyman, - WFSU Public Media"
Seasons make shoes, pastries
Why not pay more attention to nature? Nature grows plants for our food and clothing for people to pick and process and without those things, you couldn't sit and watch your TV shows, could you?
Grown-up babies.
I wonder if I could meet Greta in the woods or Malala on a plane next time.
Shoe pastry seasons
I learned about making more veggie-centered dishes from someone who watches British baking shows and likes some comedy programs and will bake French pastries for her coworkers and maybe tonight I will finish the last episode of Season 1 of the farm show. Because why NOT?
"Jeremy Clarkson Farm Series Two With Kaleb Cooper"
https://www.countryliving.com/uk/news/a37098599/jeremy-clarksons-farm-amazon-prime-series-two/
"The Great British Baking Show | The Art of Choux Pastry" | Season 2 | PBS
https://www.pbs.org/video/great-british-baking-show-art-puff-pastry/
Ha-ha, big grown-up once visited Amsterdam baby
Flighty things
Sometimes you might meet interesting people on a plane...another time, you might see an important part of an outfit that got worn on An Occasion in a film...
"'Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar' Review: Fuddy-duddies on Vacation" - Variety
And then the flight attendant walks down the aisle with a baby and leans into our row & says he's found her crawling around in the back and asks if she's ours and it's like no but I guess we look cute watching this movie together?
Never did go there when I was younger
"Museum Our Lord in the Attic, Amsterdam"| Amsterdam.info
https://www.amsterdam.info/museums/museum_lordattic/
Maybe I would if I went back.
Who's to know.
Who's to say.
"Not My Job: Mandy Patinkin Is Big Into TikTok So We Quiz Him On Clocks" : NPR
Knocker-uppers.
Look at this video... ๐ https://pin.it/7jdniU3
VOICE over
"Being Human (1994 film) - Alchetron, the free social encyclopedia
https://alchetron.com/Being-Human-(1994-film)
Abstaining from including any other links in this one is better.
soybeans, fruit and nut trees, broccoli and cauliflower
"EPA bans pesticide linked to health problems in children"
https://apnews.com/article/business-health-environment-and-nature-2a947da437b57b8ee819cb46f2196aaa
Hooray for a health victory.
ALSO....Other health topic I was still thinking about...
"Rao's nomination attracted some opposition due to some of her college writing on race, sexual assault, and feminism.[16] In response, Rao publicly apologized for these writings.[17] A hearing on her nomination before the Senate Judiciary Committee was held on February 5, 2019. Rao was asked by several Senators about her college writings, some of which they viewed as sexual assault victim blaming. Rao responded, "A victim of a horrible crime is not to blame and the person who commits those crimes should be held responsible."[18]"
AND
"Rao is married to Alan Lefkowitz, with whom she has 2 children"
That sounds like that was very mature of her.
Just stay away from the LIQUOR. And from toxic people.
"Getting 'Kavanaughed' Isn’t a Thing; Neomi Rao Just Isn't Fit for the Federal Judiciary"- Rewire News Group
Why?
"Getting 'Kavanaughed' Isn’t a Thing; Neomi Rao Just Isn't Fit for the Federal Judiciary" - Rewire News Group
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/article/2019/02/05/neomi-rao-unfit-federal-judiciary/
Why don't you treat women better?
Lisa Richardson MD on Twitter: "I have noticed that I receive the most vitriol on Twitter when I post about gender justice or women’s rights. Not sure if this is similar for others?" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/RicharLisa/status/1427034054076026887
"Republicans’ stance on COVID contradicts their position on abortion"
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/08/texas-covid-abortion-greg-abbott-james-ho.html
Rewire News Group on Twitter: "It’s important to remember that Trump and conservatives not only created an anti-abortion supermajority on the Supreme Court, but they stacked the lower courts too. In fact, three judges on the Fifth Circuit are Trump judges. https://t.co/8AUQlTyHLA" / Twitter
In another time
Trauma and toxic patriarchal people and whatever it is with environmental problems or genetics might have finished me off by now.
Why does this take so long? For the parents and children?
"US Bans Toxic Pesticide on Food Crops"| Human Rights Watch
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/08/18/us-bans-toxic-pesticide-food-crops
"Exposure to chlorpyrifos is associated with a number of health risks, including endocrine disruption, suffocation, and adverse impacts on fetal and childhood development associated with prenatal exposure, all of which were outlined in the original 2007 petition to ban the pesticide. In the decade that followed, the risks only became more clear. By 2015, the EPA acknowledged that they could not conclude that use of chlorpyrifos met federal safety standards. But chlorpyrifos remained legal – and continued to be used – for six more years.
“'During that time,' wrote Judge Jed Rakoff in his April decision for the 9th Circuit ordering EPA to make a final decision on the safety of the pesticide, 'the EPA’s egregious delay exposed a generation of American children to unsafe levels of chlorpyrifos.'"
Cara Schulte (@CaraSchulte_) / Twitter