It's very challenging to be affected by ailments and find that you cannot fulfill the expectations of either what you thought you would be doing or what others think you should be doing until you get better. I am hoping to get so much better at receiving all kinds of healing, so I can go out and do more "stuff" in the future, but because of my circumstances, learning how to get better at healing and learning how to be much healthier is gonna have to come first for this person, in this body.
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
I guess I am here to humbly ask the universe for help again.
I am grateful, too, that I have received some help. Healing is very important for a lot of people on this planet.
Since I got indications from the universe that I still need to get much better at healing physical health and also I need help with the experience of providing the best care for the human condition on multiple levels, I ask for wise guidance and good help now, please.
Off to grate good carrots by the light of the Jack O' Lantern.
A friend says that the costumes of the trick r treaters who came around carrying a homeless sign (a boy) and dressed as a boxer (a girl) were the best.
Maybe I will have to try to read GOT, too.
So far, she prefers the character of the girl who ran away from stitching instruction to find her bastard brother. She thinks the queen only seems to have power when she's pleasing men.
Okay, not so bad to know.
A girl who has processed a lot of trauma and works alongside some guys who are very into Game of Thrones will not be watching the show, but will read some of the books, and then give her opinions of them (the books). The guys think she's really gonna like Cersei. They're not very sensitive or kind souls. Men who expect better from their coworkers have quit because these guys are more comfortable with acting like jerks than the average man, but there's something about the place (like her better than average bosses) that makes her able to tolerate them and speak up around their nonsense, and that's very interesting.
Are they just real into whatever is the opposite of empathy?
People who get along well in environments that foster rape culture-y dynamics must really crave "fitting in" or "going along with certain societal forces," no matter how harmful, and they must also be great at shutting out others' experiences, I guess?
The holiday is not what it used to be.
A costume that says "The Department of Education gouged me this month thanks to the Supreme Court decision."
Ah, very good.
"'After rewatching Hell House, I was sort of relieved that I couldn’t find a Hell House or Judgement House near me. I was also surprised about their lack of presence. Perhaps their popularity has started to wane. I’ll miss my chance to go again this year. Possibly, I’ll never attend. To be honest, I’m glad for the near miss. I’m uncertain that I could make it all the way through the tour without losing my temper. I’m not sure I want to be close enough to touch the suicide or abortion girls. I don’t want my entrance fee to support their vision of the world, and I definitely wouldn’t stay for the altar call. Instead, I’ll take my kids trick-or-treating. My oldest wants to be a black cat or a bunny, and my youngest a pirate. We’ll celebrate Halloween with candy, jack-o-lanterns, and traipsing through the neighbor together."
~ Kelly J. Baker is a freelance writer with a Religious Studies PhD who covers higher education, gender, labor, motherhood, American religions, and popular culture. She is the author of Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK’s Appeal to Protestant America (2011) and The Zombies are Coming! (2013). She can be followed @kelly_j_baker. [1] Jason Bivins, The Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism, (Oxford, 2008), 164.'"
"Hell House" – Sacred Matters Magazine
The Cultural Values That Have Influenced People's Choices Can Bring Up Questions
"Hell House tortures women’s bodies to send messages about morality, chastity, and the peril of sexuality. The bodies of the lost are feminine in shape. A girl, who is date-raped at a rave, later commits suicide while being slut-shamed by a death monitor. An abortion gone wrong kills another young woman, but not before we hear her ear-splitting screams and see her anguish, physical pain, and so much blood. A husband chokes to death his adulterous wife. A drunk driving boyfriend crashes his car killing both him and his girlfriend. A disastrous drug deal begins with one dealer’s girlfriend being shot to death in front of him. Before these female characters die, men insult, threaten, choke, slap, push, and rape them. These young women die by their own hands or the hands of another, death monitors drag them to hell. An angel spares the abortion girl, who cries out to God to be saved. She finds salvation, but loses her life. Women’s bodies appear broken and wounded. They are clearly victims. Yet, the victims are the ones punished for eternity while their victimizers suffer no such fate. Hell House normalizes male violence while vilifying and damning female victims. Trinity’s teens role play at sin, but the effects of sin appear starker for young women than young men. Who wants to play as a rapist or domestic abuser? Unless they both walk away from consequences in everyday life and the afterlife. Salvation and damnation are gendered. Hell House makes that clear."
~ Kelly J. Baker
"Hell House" – Sacred Matters Magazine
They could be useful for pointing out society's deficits...
"I worry about the messages that Hell House provides audiences about violence and victimhood. Why are women’s bodies the particular media for Hell House’s message? Why must their female characters be broken and damned? In The Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism, Jason Bivins writes, 'the body is the locus of the politics of Hell House.'[1] The scenes, particularly AIDS and abortion, suggest a conservative political ideology, in which characters are punished for supposedly choosing sin. Young female characters are damned for any encounter with sexuality. Bivins argues that these Christian haunted houses are antifeminist. I want to push his analysis further. This particular version of the religion of fear is not only antifeminist, but misogynist. Hell Houses are built upon the fictional destruction of women’s bodies."
~ Kelly J. Baker
"Hell House" – Sacred Matters Magazine
Look out.
If you have a dream about young people being angry and protesting stuff that the young people didn't protest as much when I was young, it might be a sign that more and more people are becoming disappointed & dissatisfied with Old Patriarchal Norms.
It's hard to pull together "A Modest Proposal" costume, so I'll be Witch again.
"Contemporary Reactions to A Modest Proposal"
https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/contemporary-reactions-to-a-modest-proposal/
I bet they're gonna come to his house anyway.
Someone not too far from here stuck a sign alongside the road to a pumpkin farm that said "No Barbie Trick r Treaters!"
The treasure returns.
"Monday, October 30, 2023
This version is a treasure.
'Ave Maria' - Paul Schwartz
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RNQ0pBpRsdg&si=p66b2Qsu4w4MRg4p"
Blessed. Ave Maria...
I think something in me just likes the smaller town "living on the edge of rural but still having access to the businesses and local community" feeling, and it reminds me of the good parts of my childhood, and why I am here on Earth, and how to have fun and enjoy the little things.
So now that the Evil Patriarchal Norms Aren't Gonna Be In Control Today...
Scary Products for Men, & Maybe For Some With Men, will be drawing on their gross profits as a way of giving back to local communities dealing with inflated food & rent & the challenge of thinking of the well being of all kinds o' children from all sorts o' backgrounds.
‘"Real disconnect’ between cost of living and worker's paychecks" - NBC News
Celebrate Nature's Witchy SHADOW(L)S!!!!
"This owl stole a kid’s stick-horse toy and has been riding it around town in true Halloween spirit"
https://x.com/thegallowboob/status/1719110418906460160?t=MG4HMdXzCIAsndJCfyi_6A&s=09
Monday, October 30, 2023
Almost the Big Holiday Festivities are Happening...
I really like where I live! It kinda reminds me of where I grew up in upstate NY as a kid sometimes, and in a good way.
Just Need A Break, Obviously.
I will not carve "Not Working For Rape Culture Enablers Anymore" into my Pumpkin because I am learning how to get better at self care.
Why not two?
"Make me a picture of the sun"
https://bloggingdickinson.blogspot.com/2012/04/make-me-picture-of-sun.html?m=1
"Make Me A Picture Of The Sun" ~ Emily Dickinson
2023 is a different time.
"The 2023 song 'Eat Your Young' written by Irish musician Hozier might be a reference to 'A Modest Proposal'.[29] It combines themes regarding the anti-war and anti-income-inequality movement, and uses Swift's essay as a framework to compare those modern problems to those same problems during Swift's time."
"A Modest Proposal" - Wikipedia
Amazing.
"Swift was an above-average student but not exceptional, and received his B.A. in 1686 'by special grace.'"
Jonathan Swift - Wikipedia
Female Physician expressed her difference of opinion with colleagues
"What we’re not going to do is fat shame our patients" ~ Dr. Niky, MD
https://youtube.com/shorts/5lfbm1NfGtQ?si=r0Je08q7ELJy0IkX
and others.
"Antisemitism, islamophobia, and any..." ~ Dr. Niky, MD
Sweetness & light again!
Jonathan Swift
"We have chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light."
The Zen Way of Dealing With Laundry Issues?
"Orient lines so that you can take advantage of prevailing winds."
"The Simple Clothesline"
https://www.mysimplysimple.com/my-simply-simple/2022/5/31/the-simple-clothesline
~ the author???
K. Johnston
You also need a stove and an oven that works for a lot of meals.
I can get the burner to work with the lighter!
"How I Made 12 Meals for Just $10"| Dollar Tree Emergency Grocery Budget Prep
https://youtube.com/watch?v=EmsST4EA0DU&si=t_O3B7wMzBSM2zp5
Well, they still need to give us a handle for the oven door so we can actually use it.
"How to Eat for $18 a Week"| Aldi Budget Meal Plan
It's too expensive.
MAN
"18 Common Excuses Men Use to Not Do Therapy"
https://calmerry.com/blog/therapy/18-reasons-excuses-why-men-avoid-therapy/
REALLY
"Conan O'Brien Pops Up on 'Last Week Tonight' to Scold John Oliver for ‘Staring’ at Him Like ‘a Piece of Meat’"
https://www.thewrap.com/conan-obrien-last-week-tonight-john-oliver-cameo/
I guess bad dreams are the body's way of being reasonable with you sometimes.
As I continue to process various pieces of information, I hope that if I ever go back to one of those places where the ones in charge seem to blatantly have no regards for the trauma being inflicted on certain kinds of people by violent actions and ideologies, I really hope my physical health is great that day. And if it is not, then it really wouldn't be good idea to stay in that place for very long time.
Cousins.
"Jewish doctor speaks out on Israel and Palestine"
https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/48251
"My Word: Greta and Guterres"
https://m.jpost.com/opinion/article-770431
"German-Israeli Shani Louk, seen paraded by terrorists in Gaza"
"As war rages between Israel and Hamas,
Palestinian children are dying in staggering numbers as world leaders watch on"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-30/gaza-israel-war-death-of-children/103037452
This year's nicely discounted pumpkin
Was so huggable.
Selection came after a wee bit of reflection.
"Baltimore Jewish Council Statement on Bipartisan National Support for Israel"
https://www.baltjc.org/news/statements/
What can you do but hope that life is not pushing some people you used to know into ways of thinking that would not be in their best interest, either?
Sometimes...
Do You Get Distracted By Things? 1, 2, 3, 4.
"Good Eating Habits (1951)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JR6u9YFRBOo&si=sJQIOrnWLIn6CiH1
"Sometimes I Doubt Your Commitment to Sparkle Motion"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ouFnQTq6gNQ&si=tOzglJqAn7jLHGB3
"How my ADHD hides my autism" ~ Yo Sandy Sam
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5jD4iU2_v4k&si=ZH6O_BUClWIJrRFi
"As Temperatures Rise, So Do the Health Risks for California's Farmworkers"
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Dedicate & Self Educate & Learn & Re-dedicate
Even though I still have so much to learn, I know that people deserve to feel well, and they deserve to heal from trauma. I am a beginner at it, still, and I am learning. There are many others who know more about healthcare, and I want to begin to become much more familiar with good, effective ways of healing my trauma, and that could help us to heal our collective trauma, too, as a society.
That's good to know.
It may be that, in addition to discovering more about some of the healing qualities that are found in nature, the strengths of some of the quieter & more centered & grounded people could be real role models for some of us.
C'est la vie. Today's today. Do what you need to do.
At least for now, it is clear to me that I can only dip a toe into certain areas because my brain and body are requiring me to still learn a lot more about health and healing. It's a process, sometimes. Breathe, beginner, breathe. 🙏🩷
They must have watched "Dallas" over there too...
Julia Jacklin - "to Perth, before the border closes"
I'll be a ripe 60-something, unless I'm way younger than that by then! Brothers.
"For Anyone Planning to Live Past 2040, Climate Change is Personal"
And later, we'll pretend it's Lockdown Times again & unpack that box of puzzles.
"In The Pines (Where did you sleep last night)" - Folksong ~ Cadenza Pete Studios
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OApA9ixS-Os&si=tzfvjbIC7cyuIK00
"Chicken in retsina wine"
https://katerinaskouzina.com/meat/chicken-in-retsina-wine.html
Chill, Better-Tasting-When-Chilled-Retsina, Chill.
Happy Pines!
It's birthday gift card organic white pine tea time.
"Our Story – Four Elements Herbals"
Are you in Texas.
"We’re on your team, I promise 🥹"
https://youtube.com/shorts/8qHcDFUGZUM?si=LFyB44Vpjx6ByHL3
~ @Natalieavni
What if your life was the opposite of what it is now?
"If you don’t know what a cryptic pregnancy is, watch!"
~ @Natalieavni
This week's highest light... 🌄🙏💒
Seeing a rough sleeper getting to eat his snacks on the steps of a church.
It was a different time. Hi, snacks!
"Priscilla" | Official Trailer HD | A24
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DBWk6BohVXk&si=_TwhcbJIrN_vx1L0
These are just some of the savory ones.
How interesting it was to learn about a piece this way
"At Least your Parents Wanted to Raise you Right" @ThatLizHunter
https://youtube.com/shorts/me5z6MmL-KA?si=FG1aggoFCyXqhL01
Bo Burnham - "Joe Biden"
Sometimes a human being is a human being. And sometimes...
"$$$$$$$$$hark!"
POV: I’m an ASMRtist ~ Caroline Easom
"Hey pretty lady, have you been flashed yet today?"
"FLASH!"
Oh good, and there's eighteen of them, too.
"While others are handing out candy and carving pumpkins..."
"We'll just be handing out Kind Bars and gratin' carrots."
I thank the good Lord for these blessin's...
Good morning, Disneyland errr Food Bank Line
"Weather is the main culprit for the higher prices. Cocoa prices are trading at 44-year highs after heavy rains in West Africa caused limited production in the season that began last fall. Now, El Nino conditions are making the region drier and are likely to linger well into the spring."
~ Dee Ann Durbin
"Less boo for your buck"
https://apnews.com/article/halloween-candy-prices-cocoa-sugar-9410c51b7604761ef13cf9bea38691fb
"Moll went on to appear in the 1999 satire “But I’m a Cheerleader” with Natasha Lyonne, in which he played a gay man who shepherded teenagers sent to a re-education camp by parents who suspected they were homosexual."
~ Variety
"Richard Moll, who played towering bailiff on 'Night Court'"
Direction.
A person with a sweatshirt that says Irish is giving people what looks like sacks of potatoes! Or some other produce? We will see.
Actually, the kids are giving them out under the adults supervision.
Oh no...
But least some kinds of Patriarchal People aren't also getting lots & lots of money to wipe and destroy the ones they deem less important as humans...but why did they have to be they way, if...
They weren't born that way.
Someone taught them to be like that.
Why...
PTSD lessons.
Oh no...why was the culture of the old workplace that used to be okay but eventually gave you panic attacks & nightmares so much better to other kinds of people than they were to a student and employee with the last name of Mosavi...why did they have to be that way?
Oh no...PTSD triggers.
Oh no...when that rich and famous self absorbed man made some unseemly sexist rape culture-y jokes about his wife and everyone around them acted like it's okay as a survival technique it still did not feel okay and it ruins the prospect of being able to ever trust them to be good to lots of kinds of human beings in this lifetime. Why did they have to be that way...
Celebrate the shadows that showed you
Certain Patriarchal Ones who got traumatized into being narcissistic & uncaring are gonna end up in another kind of body, and they will literally be unable to make those same choices in That Lifetime.
Good Black Cat Energy
"Every home would be lucky to have a resident black cat 🖤🐈⬛🐾
#NationalBlackCatDay #BlackCatDay #HousePanther #Cats"
https://x.com/ColeTheBlackCat/status/1717854243640561898?t=YKmGYqdwnYVWWG_JmUI3TA&s=09
Friday, October 27, 2023
I like how this essay sees the potential in humans to become better at understanding a wider variety of outlooks on life.
"Misunderstanding Thoreau: Reading Neurodiversity in Literature and in Life"
https://lithub.com/misunderstanding-thoreau-reading-neurodiversity-in-literature-and-in-life/
Ahhh. Ha ha.
"Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.”
~Henry David Thoreau
Time to heal some stuff.
That Industry. So many kinds of behavioral patterns can flourish. For so many kinds of reasons.
Cuteness.
"🇵🇸 A Palestinian boy shares his bread with a cat."
https://x.com/CensoredMen/status/1717417048035274871?t=MvGLqnUyvH227XZA4pBzTw&s=09
Time to let the tiny countertop washer work on the little things.
"The spirit and solidarity of those strikers — and their emblematic rallying cry, 'Si, se puede' — are emulated to this day by political campaigns and portrayed in various books, documentaries and motion pictures.
But those romanticized narratives, Paiz said, can be limiting.
'The heroic and tragic story of the UFW movement is less about individual leaders and more about the larger anti-union currents of the era,' said Paiz, who was born and raised in Coachella Valley. 'It’s about the reality that strikers lived through, the love they elicited for one another, and how those experiences compel us to recognize that we're tethered to them, and to history, whether or not we want to be.'
Berkeley News spoke with Paiz recently about some of the hidden figures of the UFW movement, what their lives were like as strikers and how we can leverage their accomplishments to, as Paiz says, 'build a better and capable world.'"
~ Ivan Natividad & Christian Paiz
Well, that's just craziness!
"You don’t feel bad when you’re wrong—you feel as though the way you see the world is how the world really is."
~ Edwards & Schulz & et alia
https://lithub.com/misunderstanding-thoreau-reading-neurodiversity-in-literature-and-in-life/
Isn't that interesting?
It's not crazy to be more compassionate and concerned about the climate and the planet and the people who feed you than you were perhaps raised to be by the cultural norms you were brought up in. It might be a very natural thing to want to acknowledge that things need to get better.
"End the discriminatory treatment of farmworkers"
"THIS SEASON’S TORRENTIAL, climate-driven rain and floods devastated the Massachusetts farm economy, damaging over 110 farms, 2700 acres and causing millions in crop losses. Fortunately, the state and federal governments, as well as individuals and philanthropies, quickly responded to farmers’ pleas for emergency relief. Those responses should be loudly applauded.
But what about farmworkers? Recall that farmworkers were among those lauded as “essential” during the COVID epidemic for their heroic efforts that kept us all fed. But collective short-term memory fades quickly. The current emergency farm relief efforts offer no direct assistance to Massachusetts’ 13,000 farmworkers and their families – more than 2,500 who work in Hampshire and Franklin counties alone."
~ Harris Freeman
https://commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/end-the-discriminatory-treatment-of-farmworkers/
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Feelings are in this life for a lot of reasons.
When you're hurt by the ignorance and actions of some people, it can be almost too easy to feel upset, but when you are in a place where you can admit you can grow and learn more and change, some very good things can begin happening, and there can be more delight and celebration in the new ways of doing things than you had previously considered possible.
"Now and Then"
(Reading in public while "Like a Rolling Stone" plays on the speakers.)
"How The Beatles Are Releasing Their 'Final Song'"
Big Illegitimate Child
I simply cannot provide BIC with the professional level of therapy he needs in the Earth School Reality, even if on another plane we might be able to get along better.
Now is the time to open your backpack.
And begin evaluating all that stuff you got hypnotized into believing at a very tender age.
Chilling. Quotable.
"All the chilling effects end up weaponizing health systems.”
— Alicia Ely Yamin
"'Life of the mother’ is suddenly vulnerable" – Harvard Gazette
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/07/life-of-the-mother-is-suddenly-vulnerable/
Did I plan to wake up this early? No.
I feel my cat should go to sleep now; however, the cat seems to feel otherwise.
And if you had been great at basketball or a Catholic priest
So many moms and dads would have called you a role model for children no matter what you did! In the '20s.
More on that topic later.
Early am insight: If you had more money
You could have been a great mom/dad with ovaries and a uterus!
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Learning opportunities multiply
"Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese - Spreadin' The News"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aHzI43Hd8iI&si=ONhTEYpfUzGtDywl
There's a spiritual person who told me that trauma happens because when we're children, we're kind of in a state of hypnosis and lots of stuff gets inside our heads that we carry around into adulthood, like we're wearing a backpack, and when we hit a certain point, the backpack opens and stuff starts spilling out so we'll deal with it.
At least the "cats are nicer verse" is there to help.
Whenever the universe sends yet another message to me that downplaying the suffering that results from misogynistic cult-like behavioral patterns just to fit in with Certain Patriarchal People's Norms is just not ever going to be the right path for me, it's a reminder that processing certain traumatic experiences is a valid and necessary step towards healing.
It's also very humbling. I cannot be the "mine was not to reason why, mine was but to do or die" type in this body, like some people are.
Corb Lund – "Horse Soldier, Horse Soldier"
https://genius.com/Corb-lund-horse-soldier-horse-soldier-lyrics
(Good song, though.)
It's like, once the veil is lifted, you simply can't go back, even if others do not seem to see it that way, for some reason.
I'm alive to become a better person.
It kind of was a good reminder, though.
If you work at a place that has people who start to remind you of the unsafe misogynistic guy in a dark parking lot, and it feels like the ones in charge won't do anything about making it better than that, and you get panic attacks and bad dreams as a result of that dynamic, then that's really not a good place for you.
I feel grateful to live with a good, nice, level, low-key man.
An unwell man in a dark parking lot muttered a misogynistic phrase from a rap song at the world in general and looked at me and did it again and it made me change my plans this evening and come home and know that I need more healing and so do other people, including people who make excuses for behaviors which traumatize others. I will just have to work on healing some stuff again this evening. Blessed be the skilled healers, and maybe I will be able learn more about such things very soon.
Wishing the World was Healthier while looking at gold glitter sugar crystals
"These are the faces of some of the 5,700 Palestinians killed in Gaza over the past two weeks."
https://x.com/ajplus/status/1716942990567002288?t=oy2Qt4PYY1pKZ1fk9JH4Xw&s=09
"I am very puzzled by the constant concern which the world is showing for the Palestinian people," says Dan Gillerman.
"I don't remember people shedding tears for the Taliban," he adds.
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
https://x.com/SkyNews/status/1717279204130037806?t=mlGIT27_k1hVvIRlyXouRA&s=09
Public Health May Triumph Tomorrow!
“It’s really not a public health triumph that people have to mobilize the financial and social resources to travel, sometimes hundreds of miles away from their home, to obtain basic health care,” said Dr. Alison Norris, co-chair of #WeCount and association professor at The Ohio State University’s College of Public Health. “That’s really a public health crisis.”
~ Deidre McPhillips
"Abortions increased in the US overall in the year post-Dobbs, but there are stark inequalities state-to-state"
You could drive yourself without fear of the law in some states, and yoga poses aren't illegal yet.
"Abortions increased in the US overall in the year post-Dobbs, but there are stark inequalities state-to-state"
By Deidre McPhillips, CNN
Don't forget to hydrate.
Oh no. I celebrated by eating too many peach and pear preserves, and now I need to digest them.
"If people were honest at gender reveal parties"
@carolineeasom
https://youtube.com/shorts/Km6Lt9gwWdo?si=220gcW222YPy_iWW
"If people were honest at gender reveal parties part 2"
@carolineeasom
https://youtube.com/shorts/HN1gujYMiFE?si=AxS8KqPfUUxXJMmL
"If people were honest at baby showers #comedy"
@carolineeasom
https://youtube.com/shorts/9VFKkbA88KA?si=BzPM0ebS97_MD91u
"You’ve got this, mama! #comedy #doctor #skit #sketch"
@carolineeasom
https://youtube.com/shorts/xd0MkD56XsY?si=beAnSKzqXa9F5F29
"POV: You're This Victorian Child's Mother"
@carolineeasom
https://youtube.com/shorts/2RpZPcpyj5E?si=O1TcPHBONRyEzM45
Whew. Digesting Now.
Also, a civil rights icon that embraces masculine heteronormativity is preferred.
"I just hope you're attractive and good at sports"
@carolineeasom
Curiously, this reappeared on my screen...Renaissance!
"Paul Robeson: Hanna’s Tomato Tastings 2007"
AND THEN
"Only Two States Have Passed ‘Right to Garden’ Laws"
AND THEN
"Paul Robeson | Paul Robeson Biography | American Masters"
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/paul-robeson-about-the-actor/66/
I suppose it's as not nefarious as it seems...
"Yucaipa Point Update (White Trucks)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=r2kcSu1grTM&si=uPdZWusowq5DJ5o7
@Caroline Season 2 Episode 8
https://www.tiktok.com/@caroline_easom/video/7102151326510894379?lang=en
"Replying to @_teddy099 More Darlene content..."
https://www.tiktok.com/@caroline_easom/video/7242444401937698094
"Come bowl with the team once in a while"
@carolineeasom
Why don't you get more invested in your health
So what's traumatizing to your body and brain is interesting to you and maybe could even become a fun journey instead of being ashamed and hiding the "different" things and the "pain you're trained to ignore to accommodate the stuff that's actually very not healthy for you."
How to heal a body?
The upper left side of my mouth sometimes tells me it needs healing right around where there's a crown that fell out in the past because almost no tooth is left and I think it's next to another tooth with a kind of "sassy" root so I don't exactly know what's happening.
How to be...
The cat naps on my ankle. The cat frolics outside in wet grass. The cat naps at my feet again.
Does The New Automat Need To Be More Innovative?
"The Gin Rickey is considered the official drink of our nation’s capital."
~ Tam Francis
"History's Top 10 Secret Gin Cocktails of the 1920s"
https://www.girlinthejitterbugdress.com/historys-top-10-secret-gin-cocktails-1920s-speakeasy/
"Automats making a return to American dining"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=C-N3dof-RD0&si=3ZclLC31_fzgjt3v
"What happened to cheap food? Diners, Automats, and affordable eating"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jwCEvwenfg8&si=a9ImnFf9bKOSvMmU
It seems like only yesterday...Grandpapa Charlemange said she's something
"What goes up must call me"
Blood Sweat & Tears - "Spinning Wheel"
Tasty.
I had the most expensive bread from Aldi for my toast this morning, and it did not disappoint.
"Automats making a return to American dining" says CNN
Does the writer need to go deeper?
What is he leaving out?
"You know what they say, two is better than one — even when it comes to nepo babies. And there’s a new nepo union to celebrate with TMZ reporting that Frances Bean Cobain and Riley Hawk married earlier this month. Cobain, the daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, and Hawk, the son of Tony Hawk, were wed on October 7 in Los Angeles after dating since at least January 2021. (Cobain was previously married to the Eeries singer Isaiah Silva.) Naturally, they kept it in the family; the ceremony was officiated by R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, Cobain’s godfather. (No word on whether her godmother, Drew Barrymore, attended to celebrate fellow nepo children.) Congrats to the lucky couple, their famous parents, and their potential future children who will one day run society."
~ Justin Curto
https://www.vulture.com/2023/10/frances-bean-cobain-riley-hawk-married-michael-stipe.html
Oh, a breakfast hour pause for reflection.
Now I wonder if the diners I used to visit back East were owned and not rented and that's why they were more affordable...around minute 12:40.
"You're not mad at Lorelai Gilmore, you want her house" ~ Kendra Gaylord
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TJ7k5NCI_fs&si=Rf4mrhLBNR2e_M49
Ok.
This Simple, Experimental, 3-Link Sandwich may be partially consumed before the water boils for a cup of tea!
Even though I still have never seen an episode of that show.
"You're not mad at Lorelai Gilmore, you want her house" ~ Kendra Gaylord
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TJ7k5NCI_fs&si=Rf4mrhLBNR2e_M49
Life can be about pretty things.
"on living a ‘boring’ life - accepting a gentle daily existence" ~ The Cottage Fairy
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lm5CG0rDyvk&si=Th8IQWNC-BiVre0w
Well, he's on a brand new journey now.
"The house Steve Jobs broke" ~ Kendra Gaylord
I am just excited to maybe get the opportunity to make a good sandwich and put it into my mouth.
No one's paying me money to feed Cult O' Untrustworthy Patriarchal Ones (who used to be a much better people when they were younger) tons of compliments simply because warping themselves to fit in with the Unwell Patriarchy was Their Great Coping Mechanism.
A bottle of Lupo's Upstate NY Spiedie Sauce shipped from a company in CA that is a half an hour away from here!
"ANYWHERE!"
Frank Sinatra - "New York, New York"
Ha, ha, ha!
Cool.
"many, many people are losing their minds lately and I fucking get it."
https://x.com/anylaurie16/status/1717046688693768537?t=L1eN0lEeQyhDo6lBR5Ul-g&s=09
"The US government is prepared for nothing but war. Not a pandemic, not natural disasters, not poverty & homelessness..."
https://x.com/its_dryx/status/1362026469518495744?t=ILfXA4ws9DZFEm5imUFo1Q&s=09
"This shouldn’t be illegal, for the rest of the month."
https://x.com/anylaurie16/status/1717074686163792143?t=xhysj_0S2CIhPIr112ceXg&s=09
Funny.
"One way of repaying the kindness"
"Gabor Mate on How Surviving The Holocaust Made Him Support Palestinians"
Dear Kind & Caring Aspects of Humanity
"Among the thorniest issues is the lack of affordable housing"
~ Ashley Ahn
"Success may hinge on changing attitudes about family and work"~ Ashley Ahn
"South Korea has the world's lowest fertility rate, a struggle with lessons for us all"
Your Immature Dad Could Be Someone's Daughter
"Texas Republicans Ban Women From Using Highways..."
https://www.newsweek.com/lubbock-texas-bans-abortion-travel-1837113
(Not all dads are...)
It's kind of a joke. Too early?
"Hello darkness my old friend"
Paul Simon - "The Sound of Silence (Official Audio)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xUZgM96XY7s&si=Q5fNiH_DAnwkO5ub
Hello, certain scared, cruel, untrustworthy, immature human beings whose choices and behavior patterns were clearly influenced by Trying to Become More Acclimated to a Social Climate Dominated by Lots O' Unhealthy Patriarchal Values...that just explains so much...it was a real head trip, man...
I suppose that was kind of a useful dreammm...
I had a dream about a chauvinistic, talkative man who was not so big on introspection or reflection, but he acted like he was very confident in his judgments, and I woke up and realized that I just really did not agree with many of his assessments.
How to survive the systemic ways that warped some people...
"Their cruelty to others & to each other & to themselves is just an outcome of human error & immaturity & ignorance & a lot of acquired unhealthy coping mechanisms."
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Oh the best...
Was starting to fall asleep while listening to "Abraham Hicks - 'Why Does God Allow Pain & Suffering'"
Because the falling asleep aspect tells me it's good to cultivate respect for the need for rest.
Everything passes and new patterns begin to develop beautifully.
Some say "The only way out is through," and i guess i just discovered it was Robert Frost who said it, and maybe his meaning was not mine.
You begin feel as if you are closer to a relative who got deemed "insane" than you are to any famous dude you met who has surfed the wave of present day Patriarchy.
The only way out is through.
People who you thought were different became the ones who let the tragic patterns continue...
The only way out is through.
Those choices are just other kinds of lessons.
Onward to the next great lesson.
How can anything last forever? It is the nature of the universe to change.
There will be better times.
Sometimes people choose to push away others because they're unsure or they're feeling fragile and they dont want to show it.
Learning more about how to become a healthy person is a good way to find out how to let the next piece of life unfold.
How fragile humans can seem, sometimes.
If health concerns were always "in the way" in the past, maybe those concerns will help you to become more guided to going in a new direction.
Lifetimes have lessons.
Tonight suggests that sometimes, one lesson might be...
Experiencing the humility of knowing that who you are in this body and in this lifetime couldn't fit in with some systems, and it felt like some old patterns were not created to include you, and you're going to have to change to get to be the more healed person you want to be.
Like the New Deal, scratch n' sniff popsicles, tetherball, Americana, and drawing the body of the animal on the envelope stuff
"Overly critical to USPS stamps" - part 1
https://youtube.com/shorts/B-KzB1JgJFg?si=Zz9b4qdyjdwO00ug
"Overly critical to USPS stamps" - part 2
The water is hot! Break out the fine china...
To caffeinate or not to caffeinate? I am sorry you can't go out, Cleopatra. The gardener is here!
Ah! Time for a Literary Break.
"The Dollhouse by Katherine Mansfield" – Close Look
https://closelookreview.wordpress.com/2018/11/30/the-dollhouse-by-katherine-mansfield/
I shall be making my tea and crumpet to enjoy with an assortment of "Mom" jams (Vanilla Peach, Lavender Apricot & Chai Pear. Or maybe it's worded the other way around on The Lay Bills...)
Joanna Newsom - "Peach Plum Pear"
Back in the day...
One girl could make 2500 small pewter tea cups per day for other girls to play with...
"500 years of dollhouses and what it meant to teach girls"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HoWhBQ2PGSk&si=kZhT2Ynck28V_rAX
(Around 10:10)
Behold Babywalker Cuteness!
At around 4:30, I believe.
"500 years of dollhouses and what it meant to teach girls"
Aw. Stop the serfdom. Bring back the diners!
From around 10:20...
"What happened to cheap food? Diners, Automats, and affordable eating"
"When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary..." sang Some Brothers...
"500 years of dollhouses and what it meant to teach girls" ~ Kendra Gaylord
I wonder about this, too!
"What happened to cheap food? Diners, Automats, and affordable eating" ~ Kendra Gaylord
Ah, Interesting Addiction.
"I watched 151 celebrity house tours and they’re full of lies" ~ Kendra Gaylord
Whenever I think of how arrogant, abusive, and cruel people can be, there's one thing that helps me remember they've got a lot of unhealed trauma to deal with...
"Looks Like A Pump, Feels Like A Sneaker"
"1989 Easy Spirit Dress Pumps Commercial"
Patriarchal Systems Still Seem To Not Be Working So Well.
"Women and children have made up more than 62 per cent of the fatalities, while more than 15,273 people have been injured."
"Israel-Palestine: Gaza death toll passes
5,000 with no ceasefire in sight"
When a nifty song leads you straight into the bosom of "better than they used to be at cherishing war men's magazine articles"
"What poetry does (even if you don't like poetry)"
https://ohcomely.co.uk/stories/2021/2/23/what-poetry-does-even-if-you-dont-like-poetry
"How feminist YA came of age" — Oh Magazine
https://ohcomely.co.uk/stories/2020/8/19/how-feminist-ya-came-of-age
Neutral Milk Hotel - "Oh Comely Lyrics" | SongMeanings
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/36473/
"Oh Magazine"
Womby People Know What Patriarchal Pattern Privilege Means To Them.
"After I opened my heart to Elon's pro-natalist POV and attended some very inclusive womban's gatherings, I began to believe in the magic of very special Israeli & Palestinian genetics (they're practically cousins, right?) and that's when the most important physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual transformation of my journey in a body with uterus and ovaries in this lifetime finally began..."
Monday, October 23, 2023
She who shops thriftily is too busy to kick either a sick person or a wounded veteran.
Mmmm!
(It's Military Monday at some thrift stores.)
Know Thyself!
I just can't believe I would turn into a Patriarchal Mom who has the tendency to act like she has no feelings for "the different ones" if PCOS Tummy turned into Pregnancy Tummy tomorrow.
However, perhaps the lesson is still unfolding...
"Elon Musk and pronatalism"
https://slate.com/technology/2023/10/elon-musk-grimes-babies-pronatalism-research.html
Sitting next to this guy and crying about some fertility issues and a friend who died from ovarian cancer did not pay off...
All the musical people, where do their moms come from...
"Jonathan Ofir, an Israeli-born Jewish musician, conductor and writer based in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, is also a pro-Palestinian protester critical of Israel's bombardment of Gaza."
“'Israel claims Jews as its national asset, and it weaponises us, as Jews – both as bodies in the demographic battle vis-a-vis non-Jews and particularly Palestinians, and ideologically as born representatives of the Jewish state – [and] seeks to do that to Jews worldwide,' Ofir told Al Jazeera. 'That claim, in turn, makes [us] the human shields of the state, as it assaults Palestinians under its settler-colonialist agenda, be it through ongoing ethnic cleansing, through siege or through seasonal massacres.'"
~ Alasdair Soussi
"Holocaust survivor and activist Dr Gabor Maté urged the group to pull out of the show, saying: 'I respectfully urge the progressive and humane-minded artists Imagine Dragons to stand by their principles and support both Palestinians and courageous Israelis by not performing in this apartheid country.'
But the band ignored activists calling for a boycott and addressed the crowd warmly at their show.
Lead singer Dan Reynolds told the audience 'It’s not normal to have such a big crowd,' adding: 'Tel Aviv, we love you.'
The band's Jewish drummer Daniel Platzman was also on stage and joined his bandmates in performing at Reading and Leeds festival last weekend before jetting off to Tel Aviv.
Earlier this summer, Robbie Williams also defied boycott calls to perform at Yarkon park, telling a crowd of Israelis that he was 'grateful for the Jewish people" and paid tribute to his Jewish wife Ayda Field and their four children.'"
~ JC Reporter
But what about a grill...
"Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2023
I have had Lupo's spiedies for years. I cook them up in an air fryer and they come out great. No restaurant in my area serves spiedies. So, home made is the only way I can get them."
My non-usable oven is pushing me to go to new places.
"15 EASY Air Fryer Recipes That Will Make You Want An Air Fryer"
Correction: When he...
"My sister decides to reduce the amount of food and treats she gives the cats. Their food and stuff occupied the biggest space in the bags we took, but she says we are not sure how long this situation will go on, and we need to keep as much left as possible.
The cats start meowing and going to the bag trying to fetch a treat. At first, she refuses to give them anything, but then she caves in and gives them the treats."
~ Ziad in Gaza
"10pm I lie on the couch to count my blessings for the day. I remember that my cat jumped over my belly and started purring; Ahmad told me that a shop owner is selling products at lower prices for those who evacuated because he wants to help; I saw a short video of Gazan children swimming in the sea; and – oh, I am still alive."
~ Ziad in Gaza
"Saturday 21 October
8am The explosion this morning was so hard that I literally felt my body rise above the couch I was lying on.
The targeted house was metres away. I wake up, terrified, trying to get the cats with my sister, but this time I can’t. There is such a loud buzzing and ringing in my ears that I can’t focus. I can’t balance either.
My sister gets the cats, and we sit on the couches, as usual, waiting for a cue to move. Minutes later, she opens the door of the balcony, we can’t see anything for dust. Later, Ahmad goes to check and see what is happening. Ahmad – enthusiastic, positive Ahmad – comes back covering his body with his own hands, as if he is trying to hug himself. He looks lost … he is scared."
~ Ziad in Gaza
"Gaza diary part seven: ‘I am weak, I am vulnerable'"
Mischievous Chicken Man
"His newly developed public speaking and acting skills won him the role of Karkour, the most famous television character in the Gaza Strip. Karkour, a mischievous chicken, was the star of Al-Aqsa TV’s program Tomorrow’s Pioneers, which hosted children from all over the Gaza Strip.
Hamada’s character attracted an audience from all over Palestine and even the Arab world, where kids would call to protest Karkour’s jaywalking, shouting over the telephone and other such annoying behaviors, and suggest to him more well-behaved alternatives.
Early this year, Hamada won a small role in another TV show that started airing this Ramadan but was stopped due to the ongoing Israeli onslaught.
The death of my brother will come as a shock to the large numbers of children whose favorite part of Friday was watching Karkour misbehave and helping him change into a better Karkour, thanks to their advice, only for him to relapse at the start of the next episode into another anti-social behavior.
By killing my brother, Israel has surely has killed a promising talent, and deprived thousands of children of a funny and educational program."
~ Refaat Alareer
https://electronicintifada.net/content/story-my-brother-martyr-mohammed-alareer/13653
This was an interesting experience, too.
"Everything went black."
By Caitlin Johnstone
"I used to be pro-Palestinian. I thought Israel was wrong for carpet bombing Gaza and using siege warfare on civilians.
But then I ran into a very wise Israel apologist who changed my way of looking at things forever.
I was walking down the street and I saw him leaning against a lamp post, smoking a pipe as wise men do.
“Your shirt says Free Palestine,” he said from behind a plume of smoke.
“Yep!” I replied.
“So I guess that means you love Hamas then?” spake he.
I stopped in my tracks. I’d never thought of it that way before.
Could it be? Could my opposition to murdering civilians really be indicative of a deep affection for a Gazan militant group? Maybe I really did love Hamas and think everything it did on October 7 was great and wonderful?
“Is this really how I want to live my life?” I thought to myself.
“I — I — I…” I said out loud.
“Or perhaps,” he said with a raised eyebrow, “you just HATE JEWS??”
I fell to my knees.
Oh my God. He really had a point. What possible reason could anyone have for opposing military explosives being dropped on buildings full of children besides a seething lifelong hatred of adherents to the religion of Judaism? How could anyone possibly oppose siege warfare tactics which cut off civilians from food and water and electricity and fuel and medical supplies unless they harbored a dangerous hostility toward members of a small Abrahamic faith?
“Who… who are you?” I asked.
“That’s of no consequence,” he said, casually blowing a smoke ring through another larger smoke ring.
“But… but the children,” I stammered as my entire worldview crumbled before my eyes. “The civilians! They’re dying! Isn’t it bad that they’re dying?”
And then he went for the coup de grâce.
“Have you considered,” he said before a pregnant pause, “… that all of those deaths are the fault of Hamas?”
I fell flat on my back. The world was spinning. A trickle of blood ran down into my hair from my ear.
I felt all the anti-colonialism leaving my body. I suddenly could no longer remember why I thought it was bad to rain down military explosives on a densely populated concentration camp.
Everything went black.
When I finally came to, the mysterious stranger was gone. But his wisdom and profound insights into Israel and Gaza will always live on in my heart."
~ Caitlin Johnstone
https://x.com/caitoz/status/1716252262853747065?t=iokBjuvKI4RJ5brXLvJJxA&s=09
They're there.
"Gaza diary part seven: ‘I am weak, I am vulnerable'"
"Imagine Dragons defy boycott calls"
This is a GREAT sandwich to look forward to eating.
"Great Depression Cooking - Peppers and Eggs (part 1)"
It seems like only yesterday that I was buying a green bell pepper for 79 cents.
"This time of year, Hilaria Santiago typically picks bell peppers in the California desert.
But after a pair of unusual back-to-back summer storms washed vegetable seedlings out of fields in the eastern Coachella Valley, Santiago had to find another seasonal job. She’s now sorting dates in a small packinghouse, working just 20 hours a week, with at least 21% of the date crop damaged.
Santiago had already been struggling to support her nine children, ages 3 to 24, even with help from her oldest son, who works in the fields by day and a restaurant by night.
'There are times when the kids want a pizza, or hamburgers, or Chinese food, and if I don’t work, I don’t have enough money to buy these things,' said Santiago, an immigrant from Acapulco."
~ Rebecca Plevin
Liked & Subscribed.
Monday's Mosavi and Movsesian podcast episode about the joy of thriving in equitable & nonviolent workplace environments was really quite good.
"Before #MeToo There Was Aarefah Mosavi - BAMN"
https://www.bamn.com/justice4aarefah/
"2023 Mt SAC Alumnus of the Year Sona Movsesian"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8_DWO7HVlis&si=7xzLQJnbUEon7pko
I guess there's a reason for the existence of the great variety of human beings who are alive and well right now on this planet.
Sunday, October 22, 2023
Learned something new
"Largest coconut ensemble" | Guinness World Records
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-coconut-ensemble
I hope good people and good cats meet and help each other.
Sometimes I get a wave of feeling so disappointed about not being able to save the cat and her kittens. I know it's probably like an inner child thing. I wanted some other things to be better too.
Appreciating two different versions
Julia Jacklin - "'Eastwick' | Live From Green Man 2017"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DFaaz73TLWA&si=7Z2yUg-p1OXlRCjC
Julia Jacklin - "Eastwick (Official Video)"
Cat Blessings
Sometimes I still remember the dream for the inner child about getting to take both this cat and another cat with kittens to a farm, and I think about how if I lived closer maybe I would be giving food to the cat who touched her nose to my finger...and then I remember that other cat people lived there, and hope for the best.
You're gonna come back, & it's gonna be different!
"STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK" - INCENSE AND PEPPERMINTS
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yPpQXC7EqVk&si=NI06MQlMxKQ8x2vJ
"Your Time is Gonna Come" cover by the Tune-Yards
https://www.reddit.com/r/siriusxm/comments/asoppi/your_time_is_gonna_come_cover_by_the_tuneyards/
"Reaction To Kelly Clarkson’s ‘American Woman’"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ybZny8TVtLc&si=ulV25Frtyvv_WRL1
"EASY PANTRY MEALS 2023"
~ Ardent Michelle
Four people who have never been able to carry a fetus to a full term healthy natural at home birth discuss how that situation impacted their artistic choices.
"Dave Grohl, Krist Noveselic, & Steve Albini Talk 'In Utero' With Conan O’Brien"
Wow, so well-lit!
"Another scene from the movie, 'The Rewrite...'"
https://www.facebook.com/224870624206125/photos/a.736309426395573/1071610492865463/?type=3
"The Rewrite Official Trailer #2 (2015)" - Hugh Grant
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WhEVfpHH9Vk&si=7JEAQTEN2QS_s6Ae
Did they have to pick a prettier campus, lol.
"'The Rewrite' returns director to BU stomping grounds"
Ah, I see."The Making of ‘The Rewrite’" - Pipe Dream
https://www.bupipedream.com/ac/48054/the-making-of-8216the-rewrite8217/
Hey, Culinary Influences.
Intending to try Chicken French & compare it to Chicken Spiedies & I really look forward to having a WORKING OVEN.
"I Made JP His Favorite Meal 🐔🇫🇷 Chicken French"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zg0ZKNRjXuU&si=wGaHIsnA8x2NRc2i
"How to Make Your Own Spiedie Sandwich Quick and EASY"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AFULLhu3jrE&si=Yokaf_Qc7vbRtMVV
"Spiedie (Binghamton, NY) on Sandwiches of History"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OE9johRjQTQ&si=XGNh90SwsSRswK9q
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Nice wistful driving around and listening to the radio on Saturday night song. Check out the video later.
Faye Webster - "But Not Kiss (Official Video)"
Backache found me some CBD cream!
"Face Your Monster"| Eckhart Tolle
https://youtube.com/shorts/RIihk9DpFUw?si=A6pxOA9U-PQuLUA1
"The ego will play sneaky games with you..." | Michael Bernard Beckwith
Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps
"I feel like the only time men believe women is when we're lying about being eighteen."@BethStelling
https://x.com/DanielPaisner/status/1709135902092431442?t=5LU5oQhuopnVq5Fllm9Hjw&s=09
"Aaron Samuels wants you to open Netflix and press play on “If You Didn’t Want Me Then”.
#BethStelling #Comedy #Netflix #MeanGirls #MeanGirlsDay
https://x.com/BethStelling/status/1709245183790117319?t=-tZR0kb0tJ-2ZNw-BBfSdg&s=09
"Congrats to our friend @BethStelling Her new special 'If You Didn't Want Me Then' is streaming now on @NetflixIsAJoke Go watch it!" #bethstelling #Comedy
https://x.com/HollywoodImprov/status/1709404831440625665?t=lS8tF9m2113FCSHVAIg0bw&s=09
"Jonathan will go on to be the voice of a generation"
🎤 Beth Stelling: If You Didn't Want Me Then streaming NOW
https://x.com/NetflixIsAJoke/status/1709946758707753040?t=Q_05mFfqJ-qQDmVn5TllVA&s=09