I wonder where Buckhorn is.
Saturday, December 31, 2022
Friday, December 30, 2022
"Trailed's" map was revelatory this evening
Do you believe in energy? Wow, the woods weren't so safe during our freshman / sophomore year of college. A group of us drove to West VA to go camping during that timeframe.
"I’ve always been agnostic about notions of the afterlife or the presence of ghosts and spirits, but I do believe that violence leaves some kind of metaphysical trace."
~~~~~
"As apprehensive as I was, as predisposed as I was to find something terrible and sad and stained about the place where Julie and Lollie died, I felt none of that. To the contrary, their little stealth campsite was undeniably beautiful. Even in the austerity of early March, when the canopy is bare and the forest floor is packed with dank and decomposing leaves, it is a lovely, peaceful place."
~~~~~
"But maybe, just maybe, when two selfless, joyful, beautiful humans die in a place, what is left behind is not the agony of their deaths but the brilliance of their lives."
~ Kathryn Miles
"Trailing Justice" · National Parks Conservation Association
And some want to go back?
"Doctor Reacts: Dangerous Pregnancy Termination" | Call The Midwife - Mama Doctor Jones - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=njx4ALn5pAs&feature=youtu.be
Not good news in modern times.
"Louisiana's abortion law leaves some doctors afraid to provide miscarriage care" : Shots - Health News : NPR
3,2,1...what if you were there...🎶
Arvo Pärt: "My Heart's in the Highlands" - SkyCamEE - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6UadEvSJMrQ
Arvo Pärt - "My Heart's in The Highlands" - stan_stanislav - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Spmgky3ffk4
P. Sorrentino, "La grande bellezza - My heart's in the Highlands (Arvo Pärt)" - Fabrizio Basciano - YouTube
TASTY! Still, don’t forget to eat your veggies 🥗
"All Hail the Spiedie, the Greatest Sandwich on Earth"
Tomato! 🍅
After all this time, still too busy fending off sexual predators and cleaning up after humanity to watch a show about a bunch of Indigenous migrant women being hilarious? When will this ever change?
Good Ally?
manwhohasitall on Twitter: "Is your wife a big kid at heart too? Mine is. I tidy up after her and organise her life. Sometimes it feels like I have 4 kids, not 3!" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/manwhohasitall/status/1608009988521213957?s=20&t=1TxhxHZkThz4VvNetNxDKw
Where did he get that idea?
manwhohasitall on Twitter: "Medical textbooks are full of anatomical pictures of the clitoris, but the penis barely rates a mention. Is it time we demystified this overlooked organ?" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/manwhohasitall/status/1608552685082378240?s=20&t=tuOUb2zsW7IZ16nENg6X-A
There, there.
Some may soon change to become much more interested in healing from exploitation, rather than just imitating what they saw exploitative colonizers do, too.
Song Film Interview w/ Song Sandwich
Saint Sister - "Blood Moon [Official Video]" - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_jfP2WiLtXM
"The Great Beauty Official Trailer #1 - Paolo Sorrentino Movie HD" - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyt430YkQn0&feature=youtu.be
"Behind The Music With Saint Sister"
https://www.thevpme.com/interviews/behind-the-music-with-saint-sister/
This was worth the search
"New Orleans Tourist to New Olreans Tenant: The Voice Part 3, Coffee Caused C.L.A.M.ities" | My Year of Mardi Gras
http://www.myyearofmardigras.com/2013/05/30/thevoicepart-3/
Margaux Fragoso wasn't looking so tragic in that, was she.
Sympathy for a Simple Misogynistic Man
But, you don't understand...so many women with their own unexamined internalized misogyny issues treated him better when he was more misogynistic to them, too!
You Go, Little Empowering Moment of 2005
There once was a young blond women in her 20s who wrote in the poetry workshop about how her bf who otherwise seemed pretty nice was a huge jerk about this one specific issue, and later the other ladies in their 20s who respected her share told me he'd been seen drinking at the bar 'cause after that she decided she wanted to break up with him.
💖🌻🙏ISO good healing again💗🌼💓
I will...I will...I will...
"Will To Be Healed - Ten Powerful Questions" - La Una Huffines - YouTube
I will listen to you more, beautiful soul.
Soul, please help me do what I meant to do for all the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual healing that I must remember to do for this sensitive one in this lifetime and in this decade and in this very moment. I must be different now.
Sorry body, i will listen to you better.
I am acknowledging my body's healing takes priority because I have to.
Deeeee queeeen of deeeepression cookeeeeng...eees not Rigbeeee 🎶
"What's My Line? - Eleanor Roosevelt (Oct 18, 1953) [W/ COMMERCIALS]" - YouTube
O Holy Notte 🎼
Pink Martini - "Una notte a napoli" - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7qMYif4PeHI
If some things are meant to be better in the 2030s or 40s, is that before or after Person X makes A Great Transition? Who knows...
"O Holy Night — Here are the Ten Greatest Renditions to Listen to All Season Long"| by Joseph Peterson | Medium
It really can be a healing Universe 💗🙏
I can at least be a quietly curious seeker these days. Sometimes I am a bit sorry to have gotten so close to situations that clearly aren't ideal for those canary in a coal mine moments. I am sure stories from other times got to me for certain reasons, and maybe later, when there's more balance, those will also have been part of a good healing process. Disappointments and distractions happened. So did panic attacks and worse. But if I can remember this Earth also has islands of healing potential, I am surely capable of recovering.
Messy messy life 🌻
It seems obvious at the moment that I always wanted "to heal" way more than I wanted "to be successful" in the external way that many were taught to strive for, but there are so many senses of humor out there in the world, and the kinder and gentler ones are those which I feel could help with some of humanity's strangest situations, somehow...
Thursday, December 29, 2022
Another Educational Day
You can value and celebrate that Greta got a good outcome when she stood up to a misogynist.
"Andrew Tate's Arrested for Human Trafficking After Trolling Greta Thunberg"
https://consequence.net/2022/12/greta-thunberg-andrew-tate-human-trafficking/
And yet, some of us can only do that so much (a few hours perhaps?) and go on with our lives...and then the body goes into another mode because there's so much more that still needs to get healed...Valuing what some these days might call "neurodivergence" and different genetics / levels of sensitivity / ways of processing traumatic experiences in life is perhaps only just beginning...
Go, Lungs of the Planet!!!!!
"2023 could mark a turning point for the Amazon rainforest"| New Scientist
Had a vegan thought
Market Tofurkey as a big vegan stuffed sausage and the texture will make more sense. You're welcome.
Really, truly, sincerely.
I wonder if something in the universe wants to give the older guy who just delivered a package here the means to retire and enjoy even better health for the rest of his time on Earth.
Might get better in the 2030s & 40s!
Thanks, young people! And also some older ones.
"...looks like that ambition is being pushed into the 2030s and 2040s."
"Cop15 was meant to be nature’s Paris moment, but Greta Thunberg’s ‘blah, blah, blah’ cry is proving right"| Biodiversity | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/14/cop15-was-meant-to-be-natures-paris-moment-but-greta-thunberg-blah-blah-blah
All the ways they can help society become healthier is happening anyway.
And don't they ever expect better from themselves?
How do some people even get enough calories in them to feel entitled to bully and dehumanize others?
Well, who is gonna grow and harvest the food?
"Why did the farmworker bill die? Because our senator put Wall Street ahead of Idaho"| Opinion
https://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/editorials/article270483427.html
I see. Is being uncaring bad for humans' mental and emotional well-being?
"Women with restricted abortion access may face higher suicide risk – study" | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/28/women-restricted-abortion-access-higher-suicide-risk
Why is it the same old thing again? Why not be a little different?
"THE HERD: Unless some of our friends start actively caring about giving themselves and the young people a better planet, we're certainly not going to bother to make much effort to change anything."
Doesn’t their state have some rich ppl unbothered by inflation who can help? Good Lord in Heaven.
"Increase in demand forces IFCS food pantry to limit visits" | 9news.com
Long-term, not just? Or is live in the moment the moment moment
What should a guy who has enough to eat but still feels pressured to join Man Camp Mentality do to save himself?
Who can help? How?
"Inflation hits Michigan food banks hard as statewide need increases during the holidays" ⋆ Michigan Advance
Privileged Person Says
"Maybe The Next Generation Will Feel Less Entitled To Exploit and Oppress Than How I Was Trained To..."
Good Pottery Vibes!
"SAVE THE DATE: ‘Empty Bowls’ – which benefits local food banks – will be Jan. 27" | The White Center Blog
So much peer pressure!
The Patriarchy didn't want Him to Love the Ones Who Are Worthless To Them? What did The Patriarchy want Him to do instead?
Some Remind You: Man Camp Mentality Exists At Many Socio-economic Levels
"My wife is totally okay if society excuses my abuses. After all, I don't beat her! She's so much luckier than lots of other wives."
Foodbanks Will Feed More People in 2023?
Did the all the frighteningly selfish relatives who probably would have been so much fun to hang out with in some different decade make sure they somehow got enough to eat today?
Caring for people who feed the nation!
"Unsung Santa Cruz: From her home, she organizes a food distribution program for fellow migrant farmworkers" - Lookout Local Santa Cruz
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Uh-huh. Sometimes they need money to get more people to care...
howard ramos on Twitter: "This is a problem too many students, instructors, researchers and staff face across universities. @univcan this is a workplace and institutional safety issue and one too many universities fail at addressing." / Twitter
https://twitter.com/somardrawoh/status/1608176868238278658?s=20&t=7nWIaShMHklCuyNfQE8avw
A daughter, for example.
"Bedolla-López’s daughter, Miriam Bedolla, who began working as a farmworker during the COVID-19 pandemic, said that she wants those who work in offices, schools, and government buildings to have more empathy and compassion for people who work in the state’s produce fields.
'It’s an important, dignified role that should actually be treated with an enormous amount of respect and gratitude,” de Loera-Brust said. “I really think that long term what farmworkers need in California isn’t charity, it’s power.'”
~ Ray Levy Uyeda
"Supporting farmworkers is essential to climate change policy"
https://prismreports.org/2022/12/28/supporting-farmworkers-essential-climate-change/
What could help them not be pushed back into the shadows?
"Farmworkers brace for more time in the shadows after effort in Congress fails" : NPR
"Together, high labor costs and worker shortages contribute to higher food prices, Naerebout argued.
'Our food security in this country is completely dependent on a workforce that is here without status. And we cannot survive without that," Nearabout said. "And that for whatever reason, does not seem to create the impetus you would think it might in solving this problem.'"
~ Ximena BustilloPushed...reminded...again.
"...looks like that ambition is being pushed into the 2030s and 2040s."
"Cop15 was meant to be nature’s Paris moment, but Greta Thunberg’s ‘blah, blah, blah’ cry is proving right"| Biodiversity | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/14/cop15-was-meant-to-be-natures-paris-moment-but-greta-thunberg-blah-blah-blah
This reminded me of how wondering what could happen when people get more accustomed to acknowledging the contributions by lots of human beings who still aren't being acknowledged very much in the 2020s can affect one's outlook.
Patriarchal Systems repeat old patterns...but not forever?
Lorna Ferguson on Twitter: "Now that my Instructor contract is over, I wanted to share my experience this past term teaching undergraduate courses. For months, students posted a slew of hateful, misogynistic, and sexual and gender-based violence messages/threats aimed at me on a course Discord study chat. https://t.co/GTZekNtHBU" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/LFrgsn/status/1607838089669492743?s=20&t=Duwj1NdqtRY2xdTos2OzPw
Lorna Ferguson on Twitter: "Feeling unsafe and threatened with no protection whilst working for one of Canada's top ten universities is something I never expected to experience. I'm seeing so many other people, especially women, sharing similar stories from course evaluations and beyond—I'm with you." / Twitter
https://twitter.com/LFrgsn/status/1607838097105997824?s=20&t=Duwj1NdqtRY2xdTos2OzPw
Lorna Ferguson on Twitter: "The nature of these comments were vile, demeaning, and extremely disturbing, and the relief I feel now that the courses are done is immense. This experience has shaped and changed the landscape of my future." / Twitter
https://twitter.com/LFrgsn/status/1607838092324663296?s=20&t=Duwj1NdqtRY2xdTos2OzPw
Maybe more Universities will be applying for their "Let's treat more women as real human beings" grants soon.
Money to see you as a real person. To collect the data. To convince them to change toxic culture on far too many campuses. It could be so much less dehumanizing in the future!
Wagatwe Wanjuki 🇰🇪 🇧🇸 on Twitter: "@tressiemcphd I co-authored a paper on this issue related to campus sexual assault prevention. it's a problem colleges aren't ready for https://t.co/4bhpvqwF4m" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/wagatwe/status/1608235000222343169?s=20&t=m82bCvhqzTLQbD4rUSf-KA
Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻 on Twitter: "@tressiemcphd It’s like the unironic version of Dwight from the office, if Dwight were in a frat" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/dannagal/status/1608242239175532545?s=20&t=m82bCvhqzTLQbD4rUSf-KA
Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻 on Twitter: "@tressiemcphd Might this be a heightened, distilled version of the misogyny we’ve see in our classrooms for many years? Been years of back-row Uber-bros who refuse to laugh at a woman’s jokes and sit arms-crossed because we couldn’t possibly have anything of value to teach them…" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/dannagal/status/1608241976721252353?s=20&t=m82bCvhqzTLQbD4rUSf-KA
Tressie McMillan Cottom on Twitter: "They’re coming to a college classroom near you" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/1608231699640627201?s=20&t=m82bCvhqzTLQbD4rUSf-KA
Claire Atkin on Twitter: "Andrew Tate got dunked on by Greta today so let’s make sure we know who this man is and how @TikTok has created an incredibly dangerous radicalization machine with Tate at the helm. https://t.co/bUpx9J50Y6 https://t.co/cfIg5igIiI" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/catthekin/status/1608181334194917376?s=20&t=m82bCvhqzTLQbD4rUSf-KA
Matthew Beggs on Twitter: "Anyone who works with boys in upper primary and lower secondary knows how dangerous Andrew Tate is. His views are ugly, corrosive and are having a socking influence on how teenage boys view women." / Twitter
https://twitter.com/MatthewBeggs/status/1608221267060219907?s=20&t=m82bCvhqzTLQbD4rUSf-KA
Data has helped?
"Seattle has the highest number of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls of American cities based on available data, according to the Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI)."
~ Bailey Jo Josie
"‘The land cries out’: Family members of missing, murdered Indigenous people share stories" | Kent Reporter
"WA's missing Indigenous persons alert system saw a strong start"| Crosscut
https://crosscut.com/equity/2022/12/was-missing-indigenous-persons-alert-system-saw-strong-start
See the people who could be relatives?
"Supporting farmworkers is essential to climate change policy"
https://prismreports.org/2022/12/28/supporting-farmworkers-essential-climate-change/
Yours and somebody else's...
"Relatives. How do we define relatives?"
~ J. Sims
"LGBTQ & MMIWR 'P'" - The Paper.
Imagine such gifts from a caring Creator
Spiritually healing convalescent caring places for those who need to be healed of their burdens and ailments.
Gratitude memory
One time when I was young person in Peru and I got sick, and my partner at the time was away at his job, the family sent my partner's little sister and cousin to stay with me for the night, to sleep with me, to be comforting, so that I would feel cared for, and the intention was so healing, and it really did help.
Please let today be better
I have begun to feel very, very, very tired of all the suffering on all the levels.
O My Dear God!
The good man just found an envelope with our California Middle Class Refund! Is it a sign!?
6 minutes made me feel more refreshed. I should watch more!
"The true cost of the end of suffering is rarely shared" || #awakening #liberation #enlightenment" - Suzanne Non-duality - YouTube
Tuesday, December 27, 2022
Patriarchy is pretty bad for many bodies' physical mental & emotional health
Just to fit in with others, patriarchal ones routinely blare out messages like "Society raised me to devalue most women and girls, but especially certain ones more than the others."
"And then, society trained me to only treat a select few (usually the ones with lots of money) as more human than the other ones."
Sometimes patriarchal women as much as patriarchal men seem to feel compelled to indulge themselves in these behaviors.
They do it to get rewarded. Maybe with money, but sometimes just for attention and the approval of others in the patriarchal society.
At least, personal comfort and healthcare should be prioritized for all people, not just The Wealthiest.
Now using a home remedy...a castor oil pack to treat my mysterious ailing body, to heal it of something.
Maybe such courses will be more widespread for everyone who needs to eat in the near future
"For a unit titled Exploring Agricultural Practices in the Adulting 101 class, students learn about the many ways in which food is produced, with an emphasis on sustainability, indigenous knowledge and the entire food system."
~ Leigh Ann Clifton
"Raising Awareness: Farmworker Reality Tour"
https://tpgonlinedaily.com/raising-awareness-farmworker-reality-tour/
Some are already getting a different education now
"The students’ final stop was a dinner in Watsonville prepared by a farmworker family, who shared their own struggles with housing affordability and access."
By Leigh Ann Clifton
"Raising Awareness: Farmworker Reality Tour"
https://tpgonlinedaily.com/raising-awareness-farmworker-reality-tour/
“'Dr. López shared facts with us and stories by introducing us to six farmworkers in three different settings: one was an undocumented farmworker who is now a mother of five children who crossed the border at age 14. She told us her tale of crossing the border with her 16-year-old-brother,' said Astone. 'She’s been living and working here for the past 20 years and has a young son with disabilities which Dr. López believes is due to working in the fields with high pesticide exposure.' Dr. López also shared that many farmworker women are sexually assaulted in the fields when they work."
~ Leigh Ann Clifton
Why not hope the next generation will be better?
javachik everywhere on Twitter: "@naima I’ve been poor, I’ve been broke, and now I’m pretty well-off. I shout from the mountaintops about allllllll of the ways rich people get even MORE SLACK AND PERKS when we do NOT need it. It’s 100% BACKWARDS. And appalling." / Twitter
https://twitter.com/javachik/status/1607118078898503682?s=20&t=jptHWZDjxrhiiXwkEKkrFA
Unlike this person, too many well-off people still expect to be rewarded for acting like their personal temporary comforts are way more important than anyone else's human rights. It's quite depressing because you know they are completely capable of behaving better than that, and yet they still choose otherwise because their ingrained habits are so easy for them to rely on.
Such a good idea...I remember...
"Flower power: Union’s first wildflower meadow to bloom at College Park Hall" | Union College
"About Union" | Union College
Glad to never repeat this burnout again ever.
A nap was a way to find self elsewhere in a dream (like at some kind of best-dressed event). Talked more to a few women than to any of the men (if at all), but when it came to choosing better clothes (to fit in better with the others) two nice men appeared and gifted me with pajamas. That was appropriate. Bedrest Day. Stay in your jammies because healing is really like choosing life or death in these situations. Pray.
Please and thank you, Universe.
PEACE, PEACE, PEACE, HAVEN 🙏💖🕊
People on Earth really deserve more help and healing and again ask a rather frightened society to please open our hearts and please include them. PERHAPS when the larger society is being slow about those things, we could feel able to find many little healing societies...and moments of healing...and take time to feel our appreciation of these...
And maybe needing more healing is why sometimes it's felt like staying inside is what a human being having a human experience really needs. And then, sometimes we want to go outside and feel nature being healing.
Personal request for the universe for help with being better at accepting healing for my sensitve teeth *lately must especially love a lower front tooth on the left area* We ordered another toothpaste.Lower right teeth also appreciate love and healing. Lower left teeth we won't forget about you need healing too.
And so some women made a podcast about their friends and neighbors
"At some point in life we have to look to younger generations to take the wheel when it comes to systemic problems in our communities. They are the ones who will lead the charge to create cultural shifts, shifts in mindsets and real and lasting change."
~ Amanda Lamb
"NC podcast seeks justice for indigenous women and girls"
https://www.wral.com/nc-podcast-seeks-justice-for-indigenous-women-and-girls/20638650/
Thats why some of the dreams are like that, too.
"She said everyone should care about the MMIW movement, not just Indigenous people."
"California's action on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women" | abc10.com
"She said everyone should care about the MMIW movement, not just Indigenous people.
'If you had your mother tragically murdered the way that our women have been murdered: you've had women that were pregnant, had their babies cut out of their stomachs, then beaten with blatant disregard for their lives and thrown into garbage cans, dumpsters, burial sites, mountains, deserts and just left like trash, how would you feel if somebody did that to your mother, to your sister?' she said. 'Then we talk about the correlation between so-called America and our ancestors, whose bones it's built upon and how this genocide has been happening since the beginning of the time that the colonizers stepped foot on our land. There's still no justice (here), and these are uncomfortable conversations that don't just go away because you don't want to have them.'"
~ Marlena Alva qtd in Cordova & Habegger
Hurt people who got praised for being insensitive and cruel needlessly hurt people?
One such example:
"'Governor Abbott abandoned children on the side of the road in below-freezing temperatures on Christmas Eve without coordinating with any federal or local authorities,' Hasan said."
Monday, December 26, 2022
"Aren't you gonna at least congratulate yourself on being not homeless and still breathing."
And also there's food in the fridge, and you're not in cult, and you still have literacy at your fingertips!
"Middle Age Character Fashion on TV in 2022 from Only Murders to Hacks to Abbott Elementary"
Dreamily picking them out from that carton in my fridge 🫐
"Fulfilling at its best
Velasquez still works in the fields sometimes, picking blueberries.
'It’s what I like to do,' she said.
Because when it is good, farm work is great, women agree. Even when it’s hard.
'It’s beautiful work,' Cordero said. 'You enjoy it; enjoy being outside, laughing. You meet people you wouldn’t otherwise.'”
~ Shannon Sollitt
"Women farmworkers face harder path to professional development"
NEVER FEAR! ANCESTRAL HUMANITARIANS
Food banks plus RESPECT for fashion & entertaining gossip is here.
"El Paso food banks and shelters beg Biden for help under strain of influx of migrants" | Daily Mail Online
+
"He arched his eyebrows and said: 'Do you believe that would be a very respectable response to a humanitarian need?'”
~ Joanna Walters
"Border town of El Paso scrambles as more migrants risk it all to reach US"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/24/el-paso-us-mexico-border-migrants-crisis
&
"Migrants take over streets of El Paso as food banks run dry" | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11561027/Terrified-migrants-ditch-dash-border.html
"And So Then I Went Foraging For Another Great Depression Meal"
P-p-p-pleeese Congratulate Ebenezer on His Appointment, Too.
"The Charles Dickens Page"- "Oliver Twist Asks for More"
https://www.charlesdickenspage.com/twist-more.html
First Spouse To Integrate Patriarchal Mom Prom!
Tori Amos - "I I E E E Lyrics"| SongMeanings
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3458764513820559199/
No Small Feat.
"Safe in their Alabaster Chambers (216)" by Emily Dickinson - Poems | poets.org
https://poets.org/poem/safe-their-alabaster-chambers-216
And Now I Suppose I Must
"Talula (M & M Mix)" - Tori Amos - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fFssheMXBMo
Feed A Body
"Recipe: Clara's Depression Era 'Poor Man's Meal'" - Danielle Hatfield
https://daniellehatfield.com/2015/02/recipe-claras-depression-era-poor-mans-meal/
HOW SO?
“'Working in the field has been one of the greatest experiences of my life,' Cordero said."
~ Shannon Sollitt
"Women farmworkers face harder path to professional development"
CLIMATE, WORK, & BECOMING AN ARTIST AT AGE 70!
"Artist Priscilla Phifer holds an abstract commissioned by Debra White-Hunt, co-founder of Detroit-Windsor Dance Academy that was inspired by a series called If Women Ruled."
~ TODD MCINTURF, THE DETROIT NEWS
"Local artist Priscilla Phifer, of West Bloomfield"
"Ayem Kpenkaan, 23, is just one of the many Gen Zers looking at work differently because of climate change"
COURTESY OF AYEM KPENKAA
"Climate change is driving Gen Z’s antiwork mentality" | Fortune
https://fortune.com/2022/12/09/climate-change-existentialism-drives-anti-work-gen-z/
So What If The Patriarchy Trained You To Do That.
How Do You Get Enough Calories To Get Through Your Day?
What if they just said "How did you eat any food this week?"
"record-high food inflation"
"Group says Congress failed farmers, farmworkers and American consumers" | DRGNews
Sometimes Suffering Changes Us
"This conservative Christian couple in South Carolina have become outspoken advocates for abortion rights" - CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/23/health/south-carolina-abortion-ivy-grace-project/index.html
Back to U.S.: Have You Noticed That Fanatical Misogyny is Simply Impossible to Satisfy?
"Texas Lawmakers Plan to Further Decimate Abortion Rights"
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/26/texas-abortion-legislative-session/
A Change Comes To The Spouses' Summit: One Man and Nearly Fifty Woman
TRAGICALLY COMICALLY Two Thousand Twenties Funny TOO.
Will future summits about entire continents include more or less than one woman leader?
"Tanzania’s First Female President Wants to Bring Her Nation in From the Cold" - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/world/africa/tanzania-female-president.html
"But her first challenge, Ms. Hassan said in an interview last week at the state house in the capital, Dodoma, was to overcome the notion that a woman could not lead Tanzania.
'Most of the people couldn’t believe that we can have a woman president and she can deliver,' Ms. Hassan said. 'The challenge was to create a trust to the people that yes, I can do it.'”
~ Abdi Latif Dahir
"Biden says U.S. is 'all in' on Africa's future" | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/china-an-unspoken-focus-biden-woos-african-leaders-2022-12-14/
What's funny about being "that guy"?
Pharaoh👳🏾♂️👑 on Twitter: "There’s this thing people in older generations do that really annoys me. A man will be misbehaving and disrespecting his wife and children and they’ll still ask the woman that’s clearly the victim to go and beg him. Beg him for what??? Are you people mad???" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/MrMekzy_/status/1607311668060557313?s=20&t=9eCvx3hteXnZAmn8NM_9Jg
Pharaoh👳🏾♂️👑 on Twitter: "To all the people following me because of that tweet, i do usually call women out on their bullshit too o, i’m not that guy. I just said I should let you guys know.🤧" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/MrMekzy_/status/1607453431291154434?s=20&t=Y3QFmB9DENezHxIuadFRGA
And don't forget about HUMOR
Chinwendu Nwangwa on Twitter: "Why is it that people do horrible things to others and then remember God? The other day, someone told me to enjoy sexual harassment and when I told him I will enjoy putting his picture on my altar with sand from my father’s grave and cursing him, he remembered God immediately. https://t.co/dDP8SAVnDq" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/MsNwangwa/status/1607393084731424769?s=20&t=DFlgvVcWoQjddrF3-5H3TQ
Why not scroll down now & ♡ a cute cat
cat with confusing auras. on Twitter: "https://t.co/eAHFkI5bov" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/vernorsherzog/status/1542564325956755456
Familiar Story...
ULOMA on Twitter: "What happened to Megan was not an anomaly. As a girl child, you could say an uncle was touching you inappropriately and the whole family would turn on you. It doesn’t matter whether you’re 5 or 15 years old. Their first instinct is to protect the abuser, blame or call you a liar." / Twitter
https://twitter.com/ulxma/status/1606596176500891648?s=20&t=jptHWZDjxrhiiXwkEKkrFA
Straight No Chaser 🦩 on Twitter: "@ulxma Prosecuting sex crimes, I saw how often entire families would pressure and ostracize a child victim, hoping to get them to recant. It frequently works, and it's sickening." / Twitter
https://twitter.com/serioustalk01/status/1606688762620256258?s=20&t=jptHWZDjxrhiiXwkEKkrFA
Yeah that sounds good, too.
"Imagine if the patriarchy hadn't trained us to kill off people like you."
Imagine Empathizing As Such
"Clover, imagine if we had a world where Liza had been greeted as a hero. And Liza had gotten the support that she needed for herself or her family financially, emotionally in all of these ways? She got none of that. And, in fact, a few years later, she was homeless."
"Writer Elizabeth Méndez Berry On Protecting the 'Inconvenient Women' in Hip-Hop"
https://jezebel.com/writer-elizabeth-mendez-berry-on-protecting-the-inconve-1844349703
"...and Reasonable Working Conditions" Maybe More Merry Changes Could Come Our Way!
"How Sarah Polley Infused ‘Women Talking’ with Hope and Humor" – Variety
https://variety.com/2022/awards/awards/sarah-polley-women-talking-humor-hope-1235466694/
What's Minimization Got To Do With Anything?
"....and the difficulty in having a trauma that we’re afraid isn’t valid enough"
"Laurie Kilmartin (Voted #9 Ep of 2012)" - The Mental Illness Happy Hour
Wealthy, Privileged, & Capable of Caring about Feminism!
"Kristen Bell Is Raising Potty-Mouthed Fashion Icons"| CONAN on TBS - YouTube
Also, evidence that tractors can be festive
"Photo of the Week: Illuminated tractors spread Christmas cheer" - Farmers Weekly
https://www.fwi.co.uk/farm-life/photo-of-the-week-illuminated-tractors-spread-christmas-cheer
This reminded me...
"Women farmworkers face harder path to professional development"
"I Am Not a Tractor: A Discussion on Worker-Driven Social Responsibility"
Acknowledge & Then Find Better Ways To Go Forward
Patriarchal Women (*Even Those Who Call Themselves Feminists*) Must Need More Healing, Too? Their Desires to Fit in with a lot of Patriarchal People is Why Some are Still So Accustomed to Dehumanizing So Many. BUT the Issues Can Also Make Them Feel the Need To Focus More On Healing, Too.
Sunday, December 25, 2022
Nice Butterfly News Before Napping...
"Monarch butterfly population booms in Pismo Beach"
https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/monarch-butterfly-booms-pismo-beach-17632617.php
"Early western monarch butterfly numbers in Santa Cruz released" – Santa Cruz Sentinel
Dear Stomach, I pray for better healing.
"21 Effective Home Remedies For Gastritis That Give Instant Relief"
https://www.stylecraze.com/articles/effective-home-remedies-for-gastritis/
Why, homelessness, why?
"I was very young when I wrote this. I was very careful in the sense that I really talked through the implications of going public in the piece. Clover, imagine if we had a world where Liza had been greeted as a hero. And Liza had gotten the support that she needed for herself or her family financially, emotionally in all of these ways? She got none of that. And, in fact, a few years later, she was homeless. That was the vengeance of—I’m sure not just Fat Joe but of an industry that was making an example of her. I think about all of the moments where whistleblowers have changed the world and made us aware of a dynamic or an issue that we didn’t either have the conscience or the courage or the awareness to see. And this person comes forward and tells the truth—at what cost?"
"Writer Elizabeth Méndez Berry On Protecting the 'Inconvenient Women' in Hip-Hop"
https://jezebel.com/writer-elizabeth-mendez-berry-on-protecting-the-inconve-1844349703
"The cost, for Liza, was just enormous. I haven’t talked to her in years. I am curious where she’s at—we were in touch for some time after the article came out—but how does she reflect on all of that? A [few years] ago, she finally at least got a judgment in her favor. But she was an inconvenient woman, you know."
~ E.M. Berry
God, make more enablers and spectators care about girls for Christmas!
“'The thing about gender-based violence is that the people you need to change aren’t necessarily the abusers, though of course, you want them to change too. It’s the enablers and the spectators,' Mendez Berry said."
~ Ivie Ani
"Protect Megan Thee Stallion From Tory Lanez" | GQ
https://www.gq.com/story/tory-lanez-daystar-album-megan-thee-stallion-protect-black-women
I want to move away from (which apartment or house or car?)
I heard not-at-all nice screaming outside. My cat, who has enjoyed the balmy weather on the fenced-in patio, ran right in and is crouching on top of the sofa. Then I pulled this up:
'Pioneering hip-hop journalist Dee Barnes detailed how Dr. Dre beat her so badly in 1991 that she still suffers with medical issues to this day. She says the industry blackballed her and after a series of misfortunes, she became homeless."
~ Ivi Ani
"Protect Megan Thee Stallion From Tory Lanez" | GQ
https://www.gq.com/story/tory-lanez-daystar-album-megan-thee-stallion-protect-black-women
Is that right?And now I hear collective screaming, like maybe people are watching a game.
Saturday, December 24, 2022
Amazed & admiring fancy desserts now...
WHICH ONE MIGHT BE THE RESULT OF OPENING A CAN OF GARBANZO BEANS IN THE FUTURE?
New experiment: make aquafaba meringues
🎶 Tradition:
Little Drummer Boy by Living Voices!
This year, learned more about "I Heard The Bells..."
And there's still more time to listen...to a variety...of upbeat and somber...voices...
Lovers of democracy are surely eager to watch it...and then?
"Filmmaker: ‘Women Talking’ offers model of ‘truly democratic’ conversation"
"Women Talking movie review & film summary" (2022) | Roger Ebert
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/women-talking-movie-review-2022
‘Women Talking’ Review: A-List Drama Shatters the Silence Around Abuse" – Rolling Stone
"‘Women Talking’ Review: The Power of Speech" - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/movies/women-talking-review.html
Yes, BUT consider kinds of clothes we wear now that werent allowed in be worn in the days of great great grand....
Emma Larkins #BLM on Twitter: "@bocxtop Yes!! My parents bought a house with almost no savings & no family help, sold it a couple years later, moved to the Bay Area, bought a house, sold it a year later, moved across the country w/no jobs for a few (lean) years and came out fine. All on one income, three kids." / Twitter
https://twitter.com/emmalarkins/status/1493653236066045954?s=20&t=STP3x57iqsm3hXgbg1qWmA
God, I didn't know "women caught fire more in the olden days" made this Christmas song happen 'til NOW!
"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day - Hope Surfaces from Despair" - New England Historical Society
https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/heard-the-bells-christmas-day-hope-surfaces-despair/
Filmographophites, could this scenario be the opening of a real barn burner?
Litty says VOTE NO on UC TA on Twitter: "@AJMooreHealth The true meaning of Christmas: The UAW sending a Berkeley graduate and paid union staffer to harass workers on Merced campus, only for Merced to reject the contract with a majority of 73%." / Twitter
https://twitter.com/SportswithLitty/status/1606732010764046336?s=20&t=_K1BWvVVP4kgoFKGHSVORA
Fans, films, fun.
"Birdie Is Glass Onion's Undisputed Champion In Knives Out Fans' Minds"
https://screenrant.com/glass-onion-knives-out-birdie-kate-hudson-response/
"Rian Johnson Knows the Tech Bro in 'Glass Onion' Looks Very Familiar" | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/rian-johnson-glass-onion-q-and-a/
"'Glass Onion’ Is Actually About Living in the Age of Musk, Ye and Trump" - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/12/24/glass-onion-musk-trump-ye-00075002
Gosh, sometimes changing the system so people can eat is not easily accomplished
Bernie Sanders on Twitter: "All across the country, academic workers are ruthlessly exploited by very wealthy universities. But now they are standing up and fighting back. https://t.co/4tYe9jKrrY" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1604192813910224896?s=20&t=WdUbpXfoiN9ZFW7LSUZhiw
kat is VOTING NO on Twitter: "This strike has made it abundantly clear that academia is truly just a site of exploitation and violence. Ive decided to leave my Theoretical Chem PhD program at UCB. In the spring I’ll have my masters, Id rather be back working 35 hrs as a barista than this shit. #UCFinalStrike" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/KathinatedDrink/status/1606600961555922944?s=20&t=WdUbpXfoiN9ZFW7LSUZhiw
vote no on bad contracts on Twitter: "This has also been a poignant reminder of the fact that individual people of color can and do use their positions within institutions to uphold white supremacy." / Twitter
https://twitter.com/janna_e_haider/status/1606704143795884032?s=20&t=WdUbpXfoiN9ZFW7LSUZhiw
🌜anny🌛 on Twitter: "i stand with conviction and with pride on the side of marginalized workers like myself because they’ve taught me that we can accomplish anything when we work together. may ratification day be the first day of yet another victory for us all 8/8" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/annywhere_/status/1606396049299767296?s=20&t=WdUbpXfoiN9ZFW7LSUZhiw
Friday, December 23, 2022
God it's nice to feel a few healing vibes
"Next year will be a year of healing for you." Yes, and even now perhaps it could still be...🙏💖😊
That was a scary dream, and I acknowledge that.
Instead of being a disrespectful, controlling of women, not well-in-the-head kind of person, like a dreadful experience out of bad dream (and you certainly wouldn't want to inflict a bad experience like that another person), what if he could have been an actually honest and trustworthy person?
♥️Blessed♥️Honored♥️Agape♥️Hearts♥️
🌻💖🙏 "Well on their way they are to happily contributing to their good tasks of making really positive & healthy changes to better the world in ways they'd never even previously imagined" 🙏💗🌻
Dunno why words out of my mouth reminded someone of this and now I know it exists
Electric Six - "Danger! High Voltage"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-FxmoVM7X4
"TACO..." after watching this i'm not really hungry anymore
Thursday, December 22, 2022
Food for the Holidays
"That labor of love was delivered, farm to farm, with love, songs, music, presents, and 3,000 traditional tamales, in the fields around Half Moon Bay, where Tenes say they only earn $18,000 to $24,000 a year for themselves and their families.
The farmworkers were stunned.
"We are so grateful because this is the first year we have received these gifts of tamales and love and support, and It makes us feel so grateful, especially for our children…in this area, we're so grateful because we're one family and one community," said farmworker Juan Jose Flores Lopez.
"There is not a single person in America that does not benefit from a farmworker," said Tenes.
Politics aside, reality shows without farmworkers, documented and undocumented, America's plentiful food supply would be essentially impossible."
~ Tom Vacar
'Volunteers make wonderful days for Half Moon Bay Area farmworkers"
https://www.ktvu.com/news/volunteers-make-a-wonderful-days-for-half-moon-bay-area-farmworkers
An Angeleno? Paper that is, & a Republican, an immigrant, and a dairy cow...
"Undocumented Farm Workers, Republicans, and Dismantling Toxic Partisanship"
"I felt the warmth among groups of voters, many of them Republicans, toward the undocumented Mexican immigrants who do most of the work on Wisconsin's dairy farms."
~ Ruth Conniff | The New Press
This kind of environment might even become normal???
"It was incredibly important to me that people feel like they were in an environment where they could speak if something wasn't working."
~ Sarah Polley
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/women-talking-movie-sarah-polley-184005115.html
This could continue to get better?
"In an interview with Vanity Fair, Claire Foy revealed that she had been 'taught' in the film industry to 'shut up, do what you’re told, don’t fight back,' highlighting how different Polley is as a director.
Polley ultimately feels that she, and other directors, are 'responsible' for helping create effective conditions of an on-set working environment."
~ Elisabetta Bianchini
Perhaps this is how some who benefited more can realize there are still better alternatives?
"How Sarah Polley fought on-set sexism with 'Women Talking'" - Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-12-22/sarah-polley-women-talking
"I didn’t realize how oppressive that environment of constant casual sexism and misogyny had been until it was gone."
~ Sarah Polley
People need the planet to be healthy.
"When we ask for full and effective participation as Indigenous women, it is not a favor, it is a dignified right. The life of Mother Nature is at risk and therefore the life of humanity in vulnerable conditions such as Indigenous girls and women who do not have opportunities for development and without alternatives to confront the climate crisis. Indigenous women want to be part of the solution, we want to be participants and included in the processes.”
~ Lola Cabnal
"Indigenous Women’s Insights – Stewarding the Earth - Story" | IUCN
https://www.iucn.org/story/202212/indigenous-womens-insights-stewarding-earth
Maybe not forever though...
"Mired in silence" | News
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2022/12/22/mired-silence
"Mexican immigrants, women, and low-income"
~ Iqbal Pittalwala
Hungry People? Food-Insecure Folks?
"Op-ed: Amid Academic Strikes, UC Students Liberated Their Cafeterias" | Civil Eats
https://civileats.com/2022/12/16/op-ed-amid-academic-strikes-uc-students-liberated-their-cafeterias/
Beautiful Day After Winter Solstice Day
Grateful for feeling able to know that people are capable of changing in good ways, which includes getting better at choosing healing. As a child, I believed more in the goodness of humanity. My own experiences of suffering have shown me that I need to believe in humanity's healing potential again. Honoring myself and my experiences is also a part of an opportunity to believe in humanity's greater potential to have a more healing nature. It's possible to feel grateful to be more in touch with even a small part of this belief again.
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
Just one of many possible ways of love...
Breathe in and hold and acknowledge and love you and your sorrow and your need for healing...breathe out and and accept your love for yourself and your own beautiful journey.
Dear beautiful and you and all beings who can heal...
Dear body, thank you for showing where we need to still heal and love again because there is beautiful healing that is still available and it can help us. Thank you, universe. 🙏💗🌻
Honesty headache, healing will come.
If the best is 20% fun, and 80% is confusing to downright horrible, that's never gonna be a favorite recipe...
Great, much better.
I am grateful for every happy and fun moment that happened today. There were more than was expressed, and perhaps that's a problem to rectify in the future, but isn't it a pattern to at least observe and appreciate...
There is healing in the Universe
So that is why, things can always get better, even though quite a lot of this year was almost beyond description. Well!!!! Off to be sure of that happening, and sleep will come soon, too, yay...
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
But eggs are almost getting to be luxurious food items now! Well...
"A dozen brilliant recipes starring the humble egg"
NEXT YEAR WE'LL SEE...
https://thetakeout.com/high-egg-prices-record-breaking-avian-flu-1849887670
Vibes...sometimes...complicated...try not to let the patriarchal culture starve you...
"Why Women (Sometimes) Don't Help Other Women"
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/queen-bee/488144/
"Why Do Women Bully Each Other at Work?"
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/the-queen-bee-in-the-corner-office/534213/
"The Problem With ‘Hey Guys’"
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-problem-with-hey-guys?utm_source=pocket-newtab
This video, too, is communicating the creativity
"Mobile services center brings essential tech to coastside farmworkers"
Now considering this
"New License Plates Raise Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People" - Fox21Online
Ah, so he had also experienced wage discrimination
"ILR student spurs minimum wage hike back home" | Cornell Chronicle
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/12/ilr-student-spurs-minimum-wage-hike-back-home
What if you told some people you know
that their routine bigotry and dehumanization of others hurts our society just as much.
Gathering for the holidays in inflationary times
"Half Moon Bay volunteers make thousands of tamales as holiday treat for farmworkers"
That sounds like it could save lives
"How to be less needlessly cruel to others for the reminder of whatever time I have left on Earth."
What does it mean, "disproportionately"?
Stacy Washington: "Inflation disproportionately affects women"
She Survived Times of Inequity
"Even though I AM A WOMAN, I can't stand the idea of voting for X, but I love the idea of how sure I am that a DEMOCRATIC DADDY WILL SAVE MY CIVIL RIGHTS. And also provide me with a house and a generous trust fund."
About protections for the creatures who are not pets
"Once-common SC turtles that fell victim to wildlife trafficking gain extra protections" | SC Climate and Environment News | postandcourier.com
The Industry of Pretend probably could get healthier, too.
"It Took Me 18 Years to Eat Three Meals a Day"
https://www.thecut.com/2022/05/nikki-glaser-body-acceptance.html
When will others get monies to work on their health issues?
"Professor Receives Grant to Improve Healthcare Access for Hispanic and Indigenous Women" | Cal Poly
At Least There's Turtle Love!
"Love for 'Colors': Man's pet turtle of 24 years sparkles as flower girl in his wedding"
https://www.foxweather.com/lifestyle/chicago-man-pet-turtle-flower-girl-wedding
That was a truly enjoyable story to read!
Crabby about creatures can also be grateful he's neither a woman who can't go to university nor the current chauvinistic President of South Korea.
Just raised that way?
"Cecilia Hyunjung Mo: The male backlash against democracy is no surprise" | Berkeley News
Just wanted to?
"Horrendous news for Afghan women and girls. The Taliban have announced the closure of universities for women in Afghanistan, according to a letter by the higher education minister. It is expected to take effect immediately https://t.co/bVhXGXhYUg" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/BBCYaldaHakim/status/1605254528059772931?s=20&t=XASbf2NPEpnRjRQtyUk4nQ
Monday, December 19, 2022
"Inexcusable" say the experts. Thank you! THANK YOU!
"US rates of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity - near-miss' events that could have resulted in death - are inexcusable "
~ Short & Zacher
"America is failing women’s health"
https://knowablemagazine.org/article/health-disease/2022/america-failing-women-health
Won't some future grandmothers please help by explaining it?
Why you had to act like catering to a few abusive, arrogant, misogynistic men *who happened to have more money* was far more important than the health and well-being of your descendants, and please be even more precise and thorough than you were previously!
Fail Upward, America!
"The state of women’s health in the US is shocking — even to us, medical sociologists and demographers with a history of studying gender and health. Population health statistics paint a sobering portrait. Women in the US fare poorly in one way or another compared with women in other high-income countries, compared with US men, and even compared with previous generations of American women. And there’s no sign that these patterns are improving."
Conveniences
Character: "Over there, they don't get such nice window treatments in exchange for...well what was that? I forgot already!"
And don't forget about your squabbling over food and lack of table manners
"Bet you'd really think we were fun and cool if we didn't remind you of man camps and gangs of violators who just urinate on the dehumanized in order to get along with other bullies."
Social Clubs for a Spiritually Evolving Nation
"Let's really work on ourselves this time, especially before we come back as one of those people we can't stand to listen to at the moment."
It's a feeling, imperfectly expressed in English.
"Sometimes, I truly just can't believe how much more likely it is that you'd be currying my favor if I were living another life, a more dishonest and violent one, but in the body of wealthy man, right now."
Oh, but this is interesting.
"State prepares to enact new Feather Alert system"
"California steps up efforts to stem violence against Native Americans" — Merced County Times
https://mercedcountytimes.com/california-steps-up-efforts-to-stem-violence-against-native-americans/
Not uplifting when this is communicated
"So-and-so can do whatever abusive thing because of money and punitive patriarchal customs and enabling communities."
Herd mentality is still too oppressive & punitive, O Patriarchal Acolytes
Stop enabling misogynistic dehumanization and bullying.
"If she can be treated like this..."
~ Tayo Bero
"Tory Lanez Is The One On Trial, Not Megan Thee Stallion"
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2022/12/11238607/megan-thee-stallion-tory-lanez-trial-backlash
Hey, Lord...children...teenagers...people who were younger once...
"In a meeting on Dec. 15 with youth groups affiliated with Catholic Action, the pope warned that 'a great risk for a boy and a girl today is to spend our days keeping a cell phone screen in front of our eyes.'
'Our eyes are meant to look into the eyes of others. They were not made to look down at a virtual world that we hold in our hands, but to look up to heaven, to God, and to look into the eyes of those who live next to us.'
Pope Francis told the children and teenagers gathered at the Vatican to remember that Jesus teaches that 'every person is important.'
He said that the Lord is particularly concerned not with 'the rich and powerful' or 'those who are on the covers of glossy magazines or on television, but the smallest, the poor, the forgotten, the rejected, those no one cares about.'
'In a world that tends to isolate us, divide us, and that pits us against each other … the secret is precisely to take care of others,' the pope said."
~ Courtney Mares
Heartbreaking for 3 sons and a widow of a farmworker
"Justice for Jacob" - Givealittle
https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/justice-for-jacob
" Taranaki farm worker homicide: Jacob Ramsay's son born weeks after his alleged murder" - NZ Herald
"Pregnant widow left heartbroken after 'love of her life' dies in suspected murder" - NZ Herald
Trio accused of murdering Taranaki farmworker revealed, victim's neighbours
Beaten, chained and towed behind a car: details of a Taranaki farmworker’s horrific death revealed - NZ Herald
Wonder what he'll do next...
"They just don't care. Qatari World Cup organizers don't even hide their apathy over migrant worker deaths, including the most recent one."
"World Cup Daily, Day 25 - Fútbol with Grant Wahl"
Whose job is it to care about the humans or the data?
"HONOLULU — The average profile of a missing child in Hawaii: 15 years old, female, from the island of Oahu and Native Hawaiian. That's according to a new report that says much more disaggregated racial and gender data is needed to combat the scourge of missing and murdered Native Hawaiian women.
Key findings of the report, the first of its kind released by a task force created by the state Legislature last year to investigate the issue, include that more than a quarter of missing girls in Hawaii are Native Hawaiian and that members of the U.S. military play an outsized role in the sexual exploitation of children in the state."
~ Jennifer Sinco Kelleher
"Report: Native Hawaiians hit by missing and murdered scourge"
Eeesh, those Old Restaurant Hostess Memories just came back
"Remember how some of the Corrupted by $ Democrats who didn't seem any happier or feel any better to be around than some of the Corrupted by $ Republicans were, when they walked in with their attitudes and acted as they did?"
Now, I was a bit scared too...
It was 1 am, and I didn't know this guy, who at present has no home, but I asked him to hold on for a moment, and then I got a nice man to help us both.
So I met a homeless guy last night!
He didn't even bark at me like a dog, like a certain rich dude would (not all would). He said he was scared and got in through the back gate and needed help finding his way out.
The Lord Provides Love for The Important Impoverished
"Acting like We Care about Lower Incomers Who Labored and Died for Others' Entertainment Will Happen in Heaven or Sooner."
~ A Voice
Barack Obama on Twitter: "Congrats to Argentina and to the GOAT, Lionel Messi, for an amazing World Cup victory." / Twitter
https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1604604972338905089?s=20&t=wOhcbGBNHHHJKxtmyEgXvw
Sounds like they're in addiction mode again
"A real 'Like us, Trump is also a parent who has a lot of money in a patriarchal society, and he feels entitled to dehumanize people, too,' moment."
Conan O'Brien on Twitter: "Hear me chat with @MichelleObama about insecurity, parenting, and “that guy” @barackobama. https://t.co/pfOk236hQr https://t.co/cVa1DtBwP0" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/ConanOBrien/status/1604824062118793219?s=20&t=QB7F9M3r1WhY4wqCyUrveA
Ah! "He brought his social conscience to his understanding..."
"He was alive to the romance of fútbol culture, but also to the degradation of women, the oppression of the poor, and the pattern of violence, all of which he addressed directly. He reported and wrote with rigor but not with detachment. He brought his social conscience to his understanding of the sport."
~ Louisa Thomas
"How Grant Wahl Changed the Place of Soccer in America" | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/how-grant-wahl-changed-the-place-of-soccer-in-america
Qatar was on his mind.
"They just don't care. Qatari World Cup organizers don't even hide their apathy over migrant worker deaths, including the most recent one."
"World Cup Daily, Day 25 - Fútbol with Grant Wahl"
So, it seems some don't like it if you ever express despair.
Well, to live a life on this planet is to be human.
Sunday, December 18, 2022
🎼 "And slept where they fell in the mire" 🎶
"Hey for Christmas, or The Shropshire Wakes" (Roud V31804)
https://mainlynorfolk.info/john.kirkpatrick/songs/heyforchristmas.html
Hey! What Xmas song lyrics are these?
"...unsightly displays of vulgarity all around. 'Go the Protestant, hele protest and bouldlie boaste; And to the Puritine, he is so hote he will burn the Roast; the Catholike good deedes will not scorne, Nor will not see pore Christmas for-lorne, Wellay Day! Since Holiness no good deedes will do, Protestants had best turn Papistes too, Wellay daie, wallay daie, wallay daie, where should I stay?' Seemingly in response, the Consort closes out with a jolly country dance tune..."
~ David McGee
"The Bluegrass Special" | December 2011 | The Baltimore Consort
Oh not the same...not the same...
"Hey for Christmas!" Bright Day Star - Baltmore Consort- YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jpeGmaOEkaE
Pleasant and also not so.
Whilst the view and the dessert were beautiful...
And the photo of the football player accepting the goalie award was quite funny...
"Men..."
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/zp5af7/men_really_never_grow_up_do_they/
The idea of the massive amount of deaths of poor people just so a big football game could happen in Qatar was NOT.
Oh good, not at all like Phyllis Schlafly?
"How Some Of The World’s Most Powerful Women Are Fighting For Reproductive Rights"
Sick of Being Respectably Misogynistic, Says Society
"Respectable Bigotry on JSTOR"
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41209701
"Indigenous women coerced into sterilizations across Canada: senator" | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sterilization-indigenous-1.4902303
Sorry about some of us sometimes.
It feels like when people who were insecure got duped into being servants to the patriarchal culture, we were really being not very good to ourselves and to each other.
Healthier Changes Can Happen
"'This is a historic moment,' Guajajara said, noting how Brazil had never before had a ministry dedicated to its Indigenous citizens – let alone run by them.
'We receive all these plaudits for our role in protecting the environment during election campaigns or from governments. But it never goes beyond praise. We’ve never actually been invited to actively take part in governing. This is the first time,' the 48-year-old activist said."
~ Tom Phillips
"Sônia Guajajara hails Brazil’s Indigenous ministry after Bolsonaro ‘turmoil’"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/18/brazil-indigenous-ministry-sonia-guajajara-activist