I can & I will learn how to be better at healing and treating myself better and especially when the symptoms that happen to these genetics are presenting us with opportunities for healing.
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Sunday, November 26, 2023
It could be the right time to buy more sedating herbs?
"Thank you"
~ Mother Wanderer Earth Medicine
https://www.motherwandererearthmedicine.com/journal/Choosingtooptoutofsocialmedia
One time on A SUNny DAY
I felt like writing bitter sarcastic stuff, and then I looked over at my playful and bright cat, and whoosh!
This was a nice story. Is that unwell guy getting help now?
"They are thriving! They are doing good.
I got there and a Jewish costumer came with a birthday cake.
It was one of the worker’s birthday.
A Jewish customer brought a birthday cake
We are having an open lunch for everyone tomorrow 11:30-3:30
Join us at E83rd Street & 2nd Ave"
https://x.com/Husam_Khaled1/status/1727210087796933107?t=h_yFVAgVkVLGx8pFJhRJhA&s=09
"Former Obama official charged with harassment, stalking"
This Holy Day Season
Certain parents who "know true love better than anyone else on the planet" may explain why acting like violent men are more important than everyone else on the planet is still their outward default survival mechanism under This Unwell Patriarchal System, but that they're secretly working on coming up with something much better and more sustainable to impress their grandkids.
Clearly, Violence is a Big Problem for Broken Patriarchal People.
Who thinks this the right thing to do now, and why?
"Biden moves to lift all restrictions on Israel’s access to US weapons stockpile: US media"
Saturday, November 25, 2023
In case a bunch of carrots need attention in the future, I just discovered...
"How To Make The Original Carrot Bacon Recipe" | yum
Clearly, for me...
It feels like it is not in my higher healing interest to make excuses for certain very well-off but not very sensitive individuals who have been given the message that they're entitled to be indulgent and disrespectful, even or especially if they are talented & accomplished, and even if they have pulled a lot of other people into their orbit who constantly make excuses for their antics more than they would for others, just because they're going along with some patriarchal group mentality dynamics, and because that seems like it's the best way for them to HAVE A CAREER.
And "What if...you don't have a career" resonates a lot, again.
"But what happens if what you find out about the truth, if you speak it, you don't have a career?"
Around minute fifteen of the video recording...
Grief.
I had a very sad dream that was a little bit about how surgeons have to try to save lives with no anesthestic in Gaza.
Friday, November 24, 2023
Why no gauze in Gaza?
"There's a special delicious kind of pain in being the place gauze came from for centuries, where people still know how to make gauze the old way, the Roman way, the machines are still around in the Gaza market, and there is no gauze while people die."
~ Dr. Tarek Loubani, around or a little past 22:00
"Doctors Gabor Maté and Tarek Loubani Discuss Israel's Medical Siege of Gaza"
Patriarchy is very unwell, you know?
"In a letter to Corriere della Sera daily, Elena Cecchettin dismissed descriptions of her sister's alleged murderer as a 'monster.' Killers are 'not sick, they are the healthy sons of patriarchy,' she wrote."
~ FRANCES D'EMILIONoise is being made.
"Make noise! A murder and a movie stir Italians to loudly demand an end to violence against women"
Planets make music
"Jupiter: Planetarium" - Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly ~ Owlandthetanager
What do you need, really!
Does the deepest healing and self regulation always mean you need to be insular and shut out the experiences of others? Hmmm. Interesting questions may arise for the empathetic ones.
Listening to this soon.
"Doctors Gabor Maté and Tarek Loubani Discuss Israel's Medical Siege of Gaza"
Thursday, November 23, 2023
Prayers for more peaceful energy to come back.
They're happening.
"Ceasefire between Israel and Hamas comes into effect"
Yes, this one will be on the table again!!!!
I like it even better after it's been in the fridge for a few hours.
"Ottolenghi's Green Bean Salad" | RecipeTin Eats
https://www.recipetineats.com/yotam-ottolenghi-green-bean-salad/
And now, more peace again.
I am feeling good now, after being in some low places. I almost can't remember them now.
I would have been hospitalized in another time.
There were moments of not knowing why certain physical pains were happening, and also why did the universe arrange things in certain ways. For instance, it made feel like I was living a life that just around the corner from one lived by Anne & Margot (once again, I accidentally write 'Margaux' and then correct it) and it seemed like I was wired to experience reality in ways that are different from some other people.
Me and boxes of flower essences and energy medicine exercises, just trying to get through things, as more and more "stuff" comes up.
And now I get to feel at peace and good and calm and committed to healing my body and her nervous system and it's such a blessing. I don't take calm, peaceful moments for granted. They are beautiful.
Evolving...
I feel a great sense of gratitude that so many in the universe have wisdom, and that I can benefit from their wisdom and ask for help.
Bless Humanity.
I will become very humble and ask all of nature and all energy healing resources I can benefit from to help me.
Dear universe, please help me learn how to heal.
Let's help ourselves feel more loved by the universe.
May all become better at caring for themselves and each other.
It's been rough lately. Now a tooth on the upper left side, maybe the 6th one back or that area, is acting up. I hope the universe can help me know how I can help my body heal itself. Please and thank you.
I am happy and thankful this helped me today!
Just the beginning of more work to do!
"Tracing Meridians with Donna Eden!"
The Tragedy of Unhealed Trauma: Wounded Ones May Wound Others.
"Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha Freed After Being Abducted in Gaza & Beaten by Israeli Forces in Jail"
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/21/gaza_mosab_abu_toha_kidnapping
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Hello, recipe I may try tomorrow in some version.
"Ottolenghi's Green Bean Salad" | RecipeTin Eats
https://www.recipetineats.com/yotam-ottolenghi-green-bean-salad
Hmmm, also interesting?
"Marianne Williamson Is Polling Just as Well..."
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/marianne-williamson-polls-media-coverage/
There seems to be a need to acknowledge...
"The Harvard Law Review Refused to Run This Piece About Genocide in Gaza
The piece was nearing publication when the journal decided against publishing it. You can read the article here"
RABEA EGHBARIAH
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/harvard-law-review-gaza-israel-genocide/
These are pitiful times.
"Susan Sarandon dropped. A ‘Scream’ queen let go. Calling Israel’s actions ‘genocide’ is costing people Hollywood jobs
Comments dubbed antisemitic have prompted shakeups in Hollywood"
Are they the witches now?
"Susan Sarandon and Melissa Barrera dropped by Hollywood companies after remarks about Israel-Hamas war"
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/business/susan-sarandon-dropped-talent-agency.html
It sounds like a lot of losing and no winning is what's happening.
"Gaza’s children running out of time: Water shortages spark disease alarm"
And between today and tomorrow?
"Another horrifying milestone.
The reported number of children killed in #Gaza has now exceeded 5,000.
Each one is a life extinguished and a family devastated.
This must end!
All children must be protected."
Thankful?
"Israel-Hamas war: Break in fighting expected Thursday"
https://www.dw.com/en/israel-hamas-war-break-in-fighting-expected-thursday/live-67515818
Well, man and nature co-exist.
Maybe there are horses who feel that God loves all creatures, but that if some guys on their backs weren't quite so addicted to old-fashioned Patriarchal Ways, the horses might be having more fun for a change, too?
Conan O'Brien on X: "This horse hates me."
Bodies talk. What can one do????
"This morning, the left side of the uterus of this body told me it needs a lot of healing , so I am going to need to learn more about what I can do tend to that now" is probably a starting point towards having an attitude of "I can get better..."
I have been thinking of this picture of Anne & Margot Frank looking off to the side towards a source of light a lot lately.
"05.03.2020 On the occasion of the 75th anniversary"
Ever wake up early in the am and notice some things are terribly wrong?
"A surgeon in Gaza had to do an amputation surgery for his OWN child without anesthesia
Then he watched his child die from all the pain. 💔"
https://x.com/missfalsteenia/status/1726764375707426938?t=UKa7DwaqaQEgjdAR6TWFmw&s=09
"he can’t even have privacy in his grief because palestinians have to record and broadcast everything for even the opportunity to be believed. these are the worst moments of people’s lives and we force them to share them over and over so that hand-wringing politicians might act"
https://x.com/vivafalastin/status/1726807137018646790?t=Ql0IVNvJ3GzdQwCt7i1M4A&s=09
"oh my God i can’t imagine the pain 💔💔
without anesthesia… and the world leaders are just watching. this is beyond cruel and inhumane."
https://x.com/whoisitbad/status/1726766741940756527?t=pyNE7V_HnyRE7c9v-xqhxw&s=09
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Thank you, good working juicer.
Sometimes this is good music for juicing, too.
"Saturn" - Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, James McAlister
Monday, November 20, 2023
I have health challenges and almost nothing to say but
I feel it's really necessary for this society to get much better at taking care of the health needs of lots and lots of different kinds of people.
Meridian video because of watching other videos about meridians
"GB - GALL BLADDER MERIDIAN" (Meridijan Žolčnika)
Will a societal change that is more inclusive bring about a better sense of balance to human behavoirs...
And perhaps better mnemonic devices than "fair fat female fertile forty or familial," maybe.
"Validating the 5Fs mnemonic for cholelithiasis"
Sunday, November 19, 2023
She went first. These eyes are crying.
The First Lady when I was born...
"Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, wife of Jimmy Carter..."
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/19/rosalynn-carter-obituary
"How Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter First Met: A 95-Year..."
https://people.com/rosalynn-carter-never-knew-life-without-jimmy-7152295
Add peas and cauliflower?
"Vegan Potato Curry"
https://www.lilvienna.com/vegan-potato-curry/
I want to make something like this without the oil.
Saturday, November 18, 2023
That's probably going to get made again.
I piece of salmon that I had to share after poaching it in some vegetable broth and coconut milk with spices (including garlic & ginger) and "riced" cauliflower, peas, onions, and orange slices.
Wholesome foods are teaching me things
I am considering several sources for what to be eating (the Abascal Way, the guy in the documentary about the Blue Zones, Medical Medium recipes, various internet recipes that I read and tweak), and wholesome foods may take longer to prepare but they are genuinely also more filling! No wonder so many people gain weight eating processed foods. It's as if the brain doesn't think it's getting enough nutrients from whatever's going in your mouth and keeps telling you to eat more...
Three for all the weary gall bladders
"I Know Victoria’s Secret"
https://virginiasolesmith.substack.com/p/victorias-secret-jax
Neutral Milk Hotel - "Oh Comely Lyrics"| SongMeanings
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/36473/
Faye Webster - "But Not Kiss (Official Video)"
"Check out our new skincare line"
"Tiny Women, Big Houses" - Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole Smith
https://virginiasolesmith.substack.com/p/tiny-women-big-houses
"Jordan and I are starting an Argentinian acoustic band. We need a name"
https://www.instagram.com/teamcoco/
"We were such tiny babies once"
Musical Moments Matter, I Reckon.
The Speks - "Old King Cole Nursery Rhyme"
https://www.thespeks.com/nursery-rhymes/old-king-cole.php
"Me + The Mo°n"
Mohammed, meet Margot.
"No wallflower: Margot Frank comes out of her sister's shadow"
https://www.timesofisrael.com/margot-frank-comes-out-of-her-sisters-shadow-in-new-photos/
"Today, an Israeli quadcopter shot right in the head and killed a boy, 10, right at our door. Little Mohammed had already managed to fill his family’s jerrycan with freshwater. They used the water to clean his blood off the asphalt. RIP."Famous Guys Know How Hard Things Can Get, Too.
"Biden facing growing internal dissent over Israel's Gaza Campaign"
This might clear up some things.
"The Psychology of Fame" | Dear Hollywood Episode 15 ~ Alyson Stoner
Friday, November 17, 2023
Another day!
All about buying veggies. Then trying to send healing energy to a stranger on the side of the road who clearly wasn't feeling well. And near sundown, taking roads that afforded views of the beautiful beautiful beautiful mountains...
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Cry, cry, cry...life can be sweetly catty.
Man & Cat
"the best pov" ~ @abrameng
https://youtube.com/shorts/g7NmAxE0WeU?si=y34nOaEEbeAIih7W
"raining from my eyes 😭 #viral"
https://youtube.com/shorts/FdGaLgchneM?si=p7UJ9Yrt0V8nx5-p
"best feeling ever #viral"
https://youtube.com/shorts/lW9AEJQLzf8?si=T07lvwaykZl13164
? & The Mysterians - "96 Tears (Official Lyric Video)"
The unknown & the known.
"S03EP02: Masculinity, War & Somatic Embodiment by Sarah Coxon"
Tori Amos - "Pancake (Ohio)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=logsL0jIGcI&si=OVLFoyw2O19Q91gA
One I have listened to quite recently. The other one, not yet, but maybe will very soon.
Quietly going places in dreams is fine.
I had a dream someone I played with as a kid is a friend and we were going places quietly.
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
And rain is here now, too.
"In late fall of 1694, when Basho was fifty-one, he wrote in his journal, 'Since yesterday the shigure rain has been falling, chot chot.' The following day he opened a haiku session with this poem:
Aki mo haya paratsuku ame no tsuki no nari
Fall now
moonshape reflected in
raindrops."
page 220, Liza Dalby, "november 6 through 10" "water begins to freeze"
East Wind Melts The Ice
Buckwheat flowers
"'Have you ever seen a field of buckwheat in bloom?' asked Adachi."
~ page 224, Liza Dalby, "november 11 through 15" "earth begins to freeze"
East Wind Melts The Ice
~~~~~
Seol Jongbo | Bongpyeong - "Buckwheat Flower Night"
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Bongpyeong---Buckwheat-Flower-Night/0958170404414D17
Tonight is a beautiful time to learn about
“Crescent moon lights
Buckwheat flowers
This hazy earth.”
– Basho
"Buckwheat Flowers Archives" - Chiming Stories
https://www.chimingstories.in/category/buckwheat-flowers
“When the Buckwheat Blossoms” by Lee Hyo-seok l KBS
https://world.kbs.co.kr/service/contents_view.htm?lang=e&board_seq=343455
Grand Baby Spirits
"Isn't it interesting how they thought...but from our perspective..."
"Yes, that is interesting."
It's A Colorful Life.
? & The Mysterians - "96 Tears (Official Lyric Video)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=bOCOMYGIfUQ&si=jwowjmYCq8XCjWh5
Tori Amos - "Pancake (Ohio)"
Maybe some of the unwell could hang out with those kinds of people more in the future.
The world has plenty of human beings who know that the controlling, narcissistic, unsafe, materialistic Patriarchal People are not more important than the rest of the human beings on this planet.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
I didn't see it, but I got a message.
Took a long shower while a person in another room watched a curious show:
"Cabinet of Curiosities 'The Outside' Recap: The Beauty Industry is a Scam
Also Don't Trust Your Television"
https://collider.com/cabinet-of-curiosities-the-outside-recap-guillermo-del-toro/
Do not try to fit in with toxic workplace dynamics.
What kind of day were they having when they made this
"Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt and will do none"
"They that have power to hurt and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow:
They rightly do inherit heaven's graces
And husband nature's riches from expense;
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others but stewards of their excellence.
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet
Though to itself it only live and die,
But if that flower with base infection meet,
The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45100/sonnet-94-they-that-have-power-to-hurt-and-will-do-none
Dear God, please help me find the best information I can get for what I can do next.
This world is full of people who need healing, and I REALLY need to pray for healing for this body and these he genetics and all patterns and addictions I have that are no longer serving me so I can get healthier and well enough to do what I am meant to do.
Say...
"EP vs. LP: What's the Difference?" | Victrola
https://victrola.com/blogs/articles/ep-vs-lp-what-s-the-difference
Daryl Hall & John Oates - "Say it Isn't So (Official Video)"
I know how a lot of Americans love watching "The Crown," and we still carry quite a bit of ancestral trauma, so
This one might do well, too?
"Catherine Tate on Playing Disgraced Royal in BBC Comedy"
https://variety.com/2023/tv/global/catherine-tate-disgraced-royal-bbc-comedy-queen-of-oz-1235632917
“I can imagine nothing worse than having to dedicate your life to the public.”~ C. Tateipoo LP
It's like a weird force took hold of the keyboard on my cell phone, so I am gonna go search what "LP" might stand for.
So thankful for modern refrigeration techniques.
If you get a lot of dairy products from the food bank on future trips, be wise! Make good use of the freezer.
Who thinks their nanny deserves good cholesterol levels and a happy gall bladder and a body free of pain and decent affordable healthcare, anyway?
"Posh family reacts to northern nanny" | The Catherine Tate Show
The prices of the medicinal oil have risen...
"Every posh person's nightmare..."| The Catherine Tate
Are you the doctor? Let's Have FUN & not Take This Deep, Empirical Research into How to Remedy PCOS and Being Perimenopausal and Trying to Avoid Osteoporosis Too Seriously!
"David Tennant is Catherine Tate's new English teacher"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WxB1gB6K-2A&si=6ULXB7tpQ95JEUnt
"Director's Cut: Much Ado About Nothing"
Monday, November 13, 2023
Is it healing or helpful for a traumatized body to believe
that certain "privileged" men and women who were clearly rewarded by Patriarchal Structures for behaving like narcissistic, abusive people who feel entitled to put down others and then act like it's no big deal to get some Societal or Materialistic Rewards in exchange for doing so weren't born that way, and so they aren't actually expressing their truest nature when they act that way?
Sunday, November 12, 2023
Let's choose better health again.
You are able to choose your health so you can get better and release old ways even if the old ways are familiar and even if it seems like it's really hard to do that.
I will do my best to be more health focused now.
I have to heal and focus on my health. It's the way I need to go. Its the best I can do for now. I need to listen to what my body is telling me.
I believe this.
If I were in a war zone tonight, instead of being affected from a distance for whatever myriad reasons (such as, being an empath, it's part of this life's purpose, it's not as far away as it seems, it's part of what I came to work out on this planet, etcetra) I would need lots of healing tools in order to survive.
Why not believe in real love from high above.
And believe that at all ages, you are children of a God or a caring universe that loves you, and wants you to be able to heal, and wants the very best for you.
Living Beings on Earth Deserve Better, We Know.
I wish all people and animals could have blessed humane living conditions, and that they could peacefully and joyfully embrace a much better life, now.
People should let themselves change for the better
You're at the point where there's a great opportunity to acknowledge the injustice fully so you can actually heal from it. Not irresponsibly bypass it and dehumanize your cousins with more fearful fake toxic positivity.
Even that can't last forever.
"How to make the grandchildren sad when they look back on your behaviors."
And so it is.
There's people who are still pretending and looking very tragic while doing it and they're being an example for the next generation to do a lot of things much differently in the not distant future.
Everything Went Wrong.
"Another man with a yellow five-gallon water jug and a blond child were called over by the soldiers. They asked the small boy to step closer without his father. The boy was terrified. Those of us walking past worried the boy would be taken.
The soldier told him there was nothing wrong, he just liked blond kids."
~ Hind Khoudary
"I Joined Gaza’s Trail of Tears And Displacement"
Tragedy
"The last interview of Dr Hammam Al-Louh, the nephrologist who was killed today by Israeli forces with his father."
From Lorenzo Kamel
https://x.com/lorenzokamel/status/1723740324986499343?t=A6ONO5GHOjLNq8sUlAuXTA&s=09
What's the opposite of a gift
"If we do not succeed in stopping the bombing, our children and grandchildren are at risk of inheriting a double identity: not just as targets of mass killings of civilians, but also as those who stood by when mass killings were committed in their names."
~ Jason Stanley
"My life has been defined by genocide of Jewish people..."
Trauma
"Benjamin Netanyahu’s first month following the greatest trauma in the history of the State of Israel could only be described as a total abdication of accountability and leadership."
~ Ben Samuels
"With the World’s Eyes on Gaza, Netanyahu Can’t Gaslight Americans Too"
"Remember, the magic number is 9.66%."
"If the premium for his job-based insurance is more than 9.66% of his annual income, then, Jack may qualify"
"Affordable Employer Sponsored Health Insurance CA"
https://www.healthforcalifornia.com/covered-california/eligibility/employer-sponsored
Jack can afford therapy.
Let's hear it for fewer panic attacks for Jack.
"Affordable Employer Sponsored Health Insurance CA"
https://www.healthforcalifornia.com/covered-california/eligibility/employer-sponsored
Have the people who have got money to afford therapy ever heard of Family Constellation Therapy
It sounds like it could be a really interesting approach.
Why be in collusion?
"We denounce the death warrant of civilians trapped in Al-Shifa hospital signed by the Israeli military. #Gaza" -- Doctors Without Borders
https://x.com/MSF_canada/status/1723726360772776373?t=au-i5yvjRRNFDzn4hztAAw&s=09
What is being done?
With tax dollars from the very small 457 plan I withdraw to live off of this year? Is it building bridges or making the world worse?
But terror from other sources was there? Apparently.
"'Never seen it’: Norwegian doctor disputes Hamas in Hospitals"
https://s3.amazonaws.com/ve1/fb4667c7e483d5b73ebf6502fc43fb83.mp4?mid=3645
Who's picking the food for NO PAY now?
"October, November and December are peak season for tourism in Israel, and overnight I lost all my groups that I was supposed to be having,” she said. “It’s a very difficult time for all the tour guides across Israel and many are doing what I’m doing: helping out wherever we can. We don’t know when our income is coming in but we have hands and the will to volunteer.”
~ Sara Goldsmith
"Urban Israelis flock to Gaza border to tend farms left suddenly without workers
With many residents from the southern communities evacuated or called up to reserve duty, thousands of volunteers are heeding the call to help farmers pick vegetables and milk cows"
By ELIYAHU FREEDMAN
Ooops...
"I would grieve more openly for them if only I weren't so busy updating my social media to boost everything that Bob CEO likes so that our genetically superior offspring can get better access to healthcare than the ones who picked the carrots yesterday."
"TWO OF HER SISTERS IN LAW DIED"
HOW?
"The Tragic Early Death Of Jane Austen"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tqgJZPF_m0o&si=WYBSEFbYs8Vyug7Y
She Resisted. The Unmarried, Childless, Not Famous Writer Lived Her Life & Made Things For Herself.
"The Tragic Early Death Of Jane Austen"
You are not well. You are not okay.
"Gaza casualties: 'Most of the children in my family photo are dead'"
Basic Mental & Emotional Processing Skills Are Needed
“'We’ve never experienced something like this before,' says Takween Dwaik, a 53-year-old mental health counselor, who grew up in the Al-Shati refugee camp in Northern Gaza, which was recently bombed. Some of her siblings and their families have been injured by airstrikes while evacuating. Dwaik has also lost a nephew and her husband lost an infant grand-niece to the shelling."
~ Tanvi Misra
"He Lost Our Votes’: How Biden’s Israel Policy Is Costing Him Dearly"
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/11/biden-israel-michigan-support-00125320
The audacity to act like a man's revenge is more important than the safety of your people, and to use their money to do it.
"'The thing that hurts so bad is that the weapons get paid for with our tax money.'
'They’re using our tax money to kill our loved ones.'”
~ Takween Dwaik
"He Lost Our Votes’: How Biden’s Israel Policy Is Costing Him Dearly"
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/11/biden-israel-michigan-support-00125320
I am so ready for the better leadership to be here.
Just imagine leaders being wise and brave and actually acting like caring about the safety of their people is a priority, and not being locked into a Dumb Violent Traumatized Cruel Fearful Patriarchal Mindset that is killing babies and terrible for everybody.
Saturday, November 11, 2023
Do you ever have Caturday Sadness?
"Lisa was the name of Motaz’s cat, she was a few months old and she died yesterday. There was no access to vets during this time and she was ill so she ended up dying and buried in the backyard. For us in Gaza, the loss of every life matters. When will this end? #CeasefireNow"
https://x.com/Amr_AbuSalim96/status/1722611064733585749?t=V4QbHrlnjA_9gZU-m0pehA&s=09
"Have you noticed this as well? 🤔
The Zionists call the Palestinians ‘human animals’, not realising that the Palestinians harbour even greater love for animals than the Zionists do for other human beings! ✊🏻🇵🇸
In the midst of this horrifying genocide, I keep seeing video after video of Palestinians showing incredible love and affection towards ANIMALS! 🥹🕊️
Who in the world are these people? To be able to think about anything but yourself during such times is utterly mind blowing to me!
I find myself repeating myself lately but the truth bears repeating so that it may overshadow falsehood: Palestinians love life and living. They’re people of light and warmth, beautiful laughter and never ending hope - whether the Zionists like it or not! ❤️🇵🇸
Free Palestine, all of it! - it’s people, it’s trees AND its animals! ✌🏻🇵🇸"
https://x.com/zaramagnusson/status/1722612616709992947?t=kf0B_8lIluV4oIqU5YOQ2g&s=09
Blessed are the jam~makers
"Making Jam with wild berries, Simple recipe, two ingredients" ~ Seanthesheepman
A body is feeling under the weather today but this interesting.
"'Creep' Remix Norteño" - EZ Band (Full Song)
A Caturday Re-read
"Pet column: Joys and sorrows of fostering shelter pets"
https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2023/11/08/pet-column-joys-and-sorrows-of-fostering-shelter-pets/
“The Addams Family is a spicy bunch. Since they were born outside, and didn’t get any human interaction for the first weeks of their life, they need a lot of socializing to make them ready for permanent homes.
So, I set about the task to win them over with my charm.
Things were going along great for the first few days. They were eating well and allowing me to hold them for brief periods of time without hissing and spitting at me.
Uncle Fester, a gorgeous black and white little guy seemed to favor me the most — coming to sit next to me when I’d sit down on the floor of the bathroom (where they’ve set up camp).
I’m not one to play favorites. But if I did, Uncle Fester would most certainly be my favorite. His gentle nature and curious eyes melted my heart. Of the three, he seemed to be the most interested in me, too.
I was in love — and about to have my heart broken.
On the fourth day, I woke up to find that Uncle Fester had passed away in the middle of the night.
When I saw him lying there, something inside me broke. So, I sat there, holding him silently for over an hour before I could turn my brain back on.
I took them all back to the shelter to have them tested to make sure the others weren’t also sick. After running all the routine tests, the remaining two kittens were deemed healthy and disease free.
Uncle Fester’s abrupt death remains unexplained (and odd since he showed no prior signs of being ill) — so I’ll never know if there was something I could have done to keep it from happening.”
~ J. Hagerman
https://www.dailynews.com/2023/11/08/pet-column-joys-and-sorrows-of-fostering-shelter-pets/
“I understood that my choice to care for animals and save lives came with a price — and this was it. I know that I can’t save every single one of them.
But I will keep paying that price over and over because there are still two kittens, Wednesday and Gomez, who have a chance to live a long healthy life — and find a home with people who will love them for the long haul.
It’s not a small price. But in comparison to the fulfillment I get from being a part of their journey and helping to prepare them for life after foster, it’s more than worth it to me.”
~ J. Hagerman
And Much Catching Up To Do.
"'Kidfluencers: Behind the $8B Industry' | Dear Hollywood"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Emu1bHxLcrk&si=_pdIZbx4PBlWuwwY
"'The Truth About Influencers and Brand Deals' | Dear"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lT4d2OHJahI&si=iEQ1vM0A6djN5KIx
"'What it’s Really Like to Be An Influencer' | Dear H"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=11t15GL1DJA&si=QHVZN-hL7NdKviPa
"'The Truth About Social Media Platforms' | Dear Hol"
Ado, Ado.
"David Tennant Treat 4 Today"
http://davidtennanttreat4today.blogspot.com/2023/11/1111DTT4T.html
"David Tennant is Catherine Tate's new English teacher"
Thursday, November 09, 2023
Wow, I had such dreams.
They about traveling in rough places (very close to the ground, & perhaps not in the world's wealthiest areas) and then it ended with a dream about a tall blond woman who seemed to be having some kind of a midlife crisis, and at the very end, there was an image of a young boy who was paddling down a creek and using his mouth to make what were possibly bird calls, or other kinds of whistling sounds.
Sigh. Sprinkle of lemon juice and put away for later.
"Oh, is this part of the reason why your dreams and your feelings and your nervous system made you feel like you couldn't go along with what felt like some other people's insensitivity and greater tolerance for violence."
Oh, hey...
Just cooking kebabs in a grill pan at 2 am and thinking about the wars of the patriarchy, a little. And about women who are into spirituality & healing, too.
Wednesday, November 08, 2023
Trauma is wily, sometimes, isn't it.
If some supposedly privileged people who have been deeply influenced by patriarchal cultural values still want to deal with life by being exceedingly insensitive, narcissistic, rude, selfish, and even rather milquetoast about some kinds of violence in certain situations, then I am sorry they can't see a better way of doing things. Because they are capable of better. I believe they would be nicer to themselves in the long run if they worked on healing from their own traumas, too.
A day filled with self care, and then this in the evening.
"If We Can't See Gaza's Dead Children's Eyes, Can We See Children At All" by Gideon Levy
"Mr. Barak, What would have happened if..."
"Good morning.
Please watch this. You won’t regret it."
https://x.com/ecomarxi/status/1722122185211298004?t=_lDjLxjcaAHTanAoXD7QnQ&s=0
No, Certain Famous Rich Guys, No! You don't know what you're doing to yourselves...
"We Gotta Get Back To Traumatizing People With Our Patriarchal Values & Acting Like Our Needs Surpass All Others, Because If We Don't, We'll Feel Like We're The Losers To Systemic Capitalist Oppression! Aw, Shucks, We Really Had No Idea Our Brains Would Want To Make Inequity Feel So Fun For Us."
"It's Just Our Way of Saying: 'We're Here To Do What The Patriarchal Ones Wanted Us To Do: Enforce Patriarchal Values'"
"Hey, You Wanna Traumatize Someone For Really No Good Reason Whatsoever? Ask Certain Famous Rich Guys To Do It. A Lot Of Them Will Be More Than Happy To Oblige."
Because They Have Their Own Ways of Dealing With Reality
"Certain Famous Rich Guys will not be able to adequately explain why aligning themselves with Patriarchal Values and becoming PTSD triggers to Others feels so rewarding and natural to them, but they will be able to communicate Those are Their Values, Nevertheless."
Tuesday, November 07, 2023
Drawing on my current lifetime experiences as a support for the evolution of my soul's journey.
I time travel back to a few decades ago, and when a friend tells me she thinks I should never go back to a place, I'll say, "Actually, compared to what the future has in store, this place is gonna seem kind of like a walk in the park, a nourishing picnic."
I am gonna just think about the holidays now.
My ghost children from other lifetimes will be so disappointed if I can't pull it together by Christmas.
Susan's definitely putting her three kids on Medi-Cal
They're almost definitely going to the food bank, too. Where on Earth can a family with 3 kids live in California and still meet that 3x/ the annual household income requirement at 70k a year in 2023! That's too much math for my aching neck to take on right now.
Aw, Susan.
"Affordable Employer Sponsored Health Insurance CA"
https://www.healthforcalifornia.com/covered-california/eligibility/employer-sponsored
The back of my neck is SO SORE.
Go to sleep, Lady Jane, we can't take you to the hospital today.
"Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Day Queen"
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Lady-Jane-Grey/