I really feel like some people in certain industries used to be much better people, and now it seems like their brains have gotten hijacked and they're just terribly addicted to being so shallow! Oh my God. Think of your health. Think of your future! What is wrong with you? Can someone more enlightened than I am please build rehab clinics for these people? I wish.
Thursday, February 29, 2024
This bee classic!
"No Rain" by Blind Melon
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3qVPNONdF58&si=0PsONWdJaMMiEW-_
Well, dear PCOS genes, geez, I sure do wish I could eat the wheat and dairy products from that food bank without ballooning quite so much. I was losing weight at the end of last year when I was watching what I ate like a hawk. I should take Myoinisitol more regularly, in addition to Choline.
What did you do last weekend.
Well, on Sunday I was listening to one of the Brothers Grimm tell some curious ladies that in real life he sets off fire alarms for a living and thinking that for some reason I am going to remember that.
Looked at some fire department paraphernalia in a museum on Saturday (among other things), and the reflection says a big bee costume was right behind me.
Games had an impact.
"Acebush1 also regularly posted in various video game Reddit communities, including one dedicated to the video game 'Valheim.' In Bushnell’s self-immolation livestream, the liquid container he is carrying has a sticker with the slogan ‘the bees are happy,’ a meme from 'Valheim.'”
~ Nikita Mazurov
https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/aaron-bushnell-reddit-fire-protest-israel-palestine/
He needed money, you know?
"The acebush1 Reddit user joined the military soon after posting about their financial struggles at the beginning of the pandemic. On March 19, 2020, acebush1 inquired about becoming an Uber Eats driver. The following month they posted asking for financial help: 'HELP – Can’t get stimulus or unemployment benefits, about to run out of money.'
In May, acebush1 posted a photo with the caption “My Dad getting suited up to give me a goodbye? hug before I leave for BMT” — basic military training. According to Bushnell’s LinkedIn page, he enrolled in 'Basic & Technical Training' in the Air Force in May 2020."
~ Nikita Mazurov
"Aaron Bushnell Had Grown Deeply Disillusioned With The Military"
https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/aaron-bushnell-reddit-fire-protest-israel-palestine/
Also I really want some cocoa, so it must have something good in it.
"Maybe you'll feel better about day 13 of bleeding when you get that Shepherd's Purse tincture."
"I wonder why our field isn't very inclusive?"
I wonder what the Latino guy who has a wife and daughter and makes jokes poking fun at the Patriarchal Ones at little local festivals does for a living? He probably doesn't make as many excuses for unwell chauvinistic rich white guys as YOU THINK YOU HAVE TO FOR VARIOUS REASONS.
Aw, they are so good.
"Cute 23 Year Old Cat Shows How Much She Loves Her Dad ♥️"
@queenlilysfurryfunhouse1820
I guess it's a lot to process when you're trying to pay your mortgage.
The people running for high office reflect some other people's behavior patterns, their principles, their addictions...really. And it's crazy.
I think I would like to convince my body to cease bleeding.
A lot of Hollywood people are in an abusive, callous Patriarchal Cult where they make excuses for "naughty rich dudes" in exchange for money and a career. They have too much in common with The Least Qualified Candidate sometimes.
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Cope!
"Boy mamas be likeee"
@tylerbenderr
https://youtube.com/shorts/5lM-WBUD54Y?si=sZAsar0hJnqGhv7g
Hahahaha.
"Tradwife drama???"
@tylerbenderr
https://youtube.com/shorts/cmDkT5oKE7Y?si=1Dd-U-HQ5Fp7uqbK
Hahahaha.
What to do about that?
Sometimes I think a dancer ghost might have attached to me at an age...
"He doesn’t understand the gravity of what he just said 😑 (He's not a dancer)"
@jordanlondondance
I wonder, did Lee encounter any Donut Dollies?
"Her nightmares woke us nearly every night, leaving her hoarse. She had inexplicable outbursts of anger during the day. A battered Army footlocker in the living room held her mementos, but my mother carried World War II inside her like a ghost. She had never been a soldier, but she volunteered to serve with the Red Cross Clubmobile Service and followed the troops into combat.
The Clubmobile Service was essentially a mobile social club for the battlefront. The 'Donut Dollies' drove two-and-a-half-ton GMC trucks, three women to a crew. In the back of the truck: a galley with huge electric urns for making coffee and a doughnut machine, a record player, sometimes letters from loved ones to be delivered. My mother was trained to always be a friendly face, ready to listen, comfort and encourage. Which meant she and the other women were also direct and secondhand witnesses to everything that happened during that brutal war. I now recognize my mother was tortured by PTSD, her nightmares and outbursts classic symptoms of something she would never understand: After all, 'battle fatigue' was for the boys."
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
"Opinion | My Mother Returned From World War II a Changed Woman"
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/opinion/women-ww2-redcross-clubmobile.html
🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩
"The meat of the film is Miller’s foray into the theater of war in Europe, i.e., the actual war, where young people, mostly men, were being mutilated and killed in action. Miller is refused military accreditation (which she overcomes after much persistence) and often hears phrases like, 'You can’t be here, lady.' This might seem terribly sexist now, but when Miller encounters a military hospital, with all its attendant horrors, she begins to wonder if they have a point."
~ Damon Wise
"'Lee’ Review: Kate Winslet In A Complex Biopic..."
Do I want to watch the "Model who posed in Hitler's bathtub" movie? Hmmm.
"Kate Winslet on ‘Lee,’ the Film She Was Born to Make"
https://www.vogue.com/article/kate-winslet-lee-miller-october-cover-2023-interview
Maybe there's reasons I get along better with some songs than I can with Lot's O' Wounded "Successful" Guys' Feminine Sides
Because the accomodations are SO overwhelming! And underwhelming, too, actually.
alt-J - "Deadcrush (Official Video)"
Just more reminders of appreciation for how life on Earth can be a lot for some humans.
This dirge is like a lullaby for some people. A lot of death and sadness has happened lately. Right now, I feel like did a really good job with it.
Radiohead - Karma Police
Creativity!
I am so glad that this world has all kinds of gifted artists and musicians who can help us feel things and that the spectrum is just getting bigger...sometimes you need sad music, sometimes a joyful tune, and maybe now I would love to hear a lullaby...or the lullaby-like parts of all the different kinds of songs...
Bless all the people who gave me an example of being on a path of healing
I hope to be more like them soon. Perhaps I am getting there. I am ready to be full of gratitude for having an opportunity to become one of the ones who can get to be on a more healing path now. I am meant to heal from all the challenging situations. I am meant to find new creative ways to be in this world. Thank you to the part of me that gets back to remembering that, however many times I may have felt knocked off of that path to better wellness, I can be glad to have an opportunity to come back to it. So many people on Earth are searching for better ways and that's more important than not being perfect in communicating or expressing it. And thank goodness for nature.
A wonderful time to enjoy a vintage cookbook
(Roxie Kelly and Shelley Reeves Smith)
Circumstances indicate it might be time to get some Shepherds Purse?
"Childbearing & Fertility Issues - MENSTRUATION - Susun Weed"
http://www.healing-wise.com/childbearing-Menstruation.htm
And that it might be time to ask the body why it's been bleeding for almost two weeks...
Vibes? Sometimes somatics can help, though.
"'Euphoria’ Star Hunter Schafer Arrested For Protesting Biden’s ‘Late Night’ Appearance"
War, what is it good for? An article on cancer treatments.
"'Uncommitted': Over 100,000 Cast Protest Vote"
~ Democracy Now!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fsZkS0GiWP0&si=guxZsHKcfumSAgua
"War! What is it good for? Mustard gas medicine"
Jesus, is the po' house populated with nothing but women?
"We couldn't strumpet, kid." Just kidding, this is a wholesome American tale.
"The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe -- Short Story Film" ~ pressmin
"In the po' house." (25:45) Ha ha ha!
Off to the next stage of the journey... this is taking a while, with all these interruptions...
"The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe -- Short Story Film" ~ pressmin
Oh! Lighting the fire helped them see the kid.
"How lucky it was that the very day you found the bug we lit the fire." (See 17:00 to 18:30)
"The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe -- Short Story Film" ~ pressmin
This visual is gonna make me wanna fly across the country and walk down to Shem Creek.
Around minute 15 or thereabouts...
"The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe -- Short Story Film" ~ pressmin
No, I have bread and butter today.
"Do you ever go hungry?" (11:35)
"The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe -- Short Story Film"
Fire is very significant in both versions.
"Edgar Allan Poe's 'THE GOLD-BUG' read by Vincent Price"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VPOnP4pO0ZM&si=ILZiE-7k6BWF6SjO
"The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe -- Short Story Film" ~ pressmin
But she has PIE.
"I couldn't stop myself. All I could see was my mother's face. When I made her rich. With all the treasure." (8:45)
"The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe -- Short Story Film" ~ pressmin
Thank God for this nice crumb of crust from the Chess Pie Lady.
"Aw. You miss your mama don't you. I didn't have no mama and papa. I was born in the orphan house." (7:30)
"The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe" -- Short Story Film ~ pressmin
Be on time for breakfast! Yes, I will make my raisin toast now.
"Oh, I don't mean to be hard on you. But I did promise your mother..." (5:30)
"The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe -- Short Story Film" ~ pressmin
I am very curious to watch this product of a baby.
"The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe -- Short Story Film" ~ pressmin
Welcome to the Impulse to Change for Health Benefits
Oh well, the younger ones will probably be able figure it out. Obviously.
It's not them, it's those other people.
The Dicks to The Others are not Those Mothers. They're Those Other Mothers. They're MONSTERS!
Actually got a brief vision from higher guidance.
Of a soft and mushy organ.
I realized it was my brain.
Vaudevillians...
The World is Full of Energy and Entertainment!
I still didn't find the performer that came to mind.
"Sideshow and flea circus"
Should have taken photos, I guess.
Maybe it's good to try something like somatics?
If you feel you have a lot to process and it's in the body?
For some reason I am thinking about a guy who was doing a Vaudeville Act
He was making jokes that had some poking fun at the Patriarchy undertones. "Men don't like it when I tell that joke for some reason." He used Tic Tacs and gagged and coughed. He was a fan of Van Halen. He pulled a quarter out of his nose after appearing to swallow it. He saw us afterwards and said he likes it when people who weren't so into the act at first get more drawn in / interested / entertained. He maybe had a wife and daughter? (They were not in the show, but walking around with him afterwards.) I think they all had Mexican heritage? The program slot just says "Sideshow and flea circus."
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
I mean, support role models for girls and women before the next Olympics
"Nagham Abu Samra: Palestine karate champion, victim of Israel’s war on Gaza
Gaza’s beloved champion was in line to participate in the Olympics until an Israeli attack left her amputated and eventually took her life"
It's 1985, and they're all SO much nicer than Jeffrey Epstein.
"Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (February 9, 1985)"
I do say, you might begin noticing how much the famous members of our society of shallow, glib entertainment
have in common with other members of the same society.
"President Joe Biden on the Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theories and Dark Brandon Meme (Extended)"
~ "Late Night with Seth Myers"
Oh, humans do get so bored of pain.
Creepy McCreep. International Women's Day is Coming.
"At least he was honest. #CONAF #LarryDavid"| Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/teamcoco/reel/C33thVqPkBf/?hl=en
Are you afraid you're a stale old Whitman's sampler of a human being. Has Old Scratch gotten properly embedded into your psyche. Do you have any insights as to why these people must be so glib and shallow, in order to cope with life.
"President Joe Biden on the Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theories and Dark Brandon Meme (Extended)"
~ "Late Night with Seth Myers"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw0npm56wn0
But How Vastly Improved We Are over that terrible entertainment business fiend, and now we are saving democracy for the richest and the most famous...I am almost inspired to hatewatch old episodes of Lifestyles with Robin Leach, because of These Stressful, Dreadful Times.
I was able to have many nice amusements in my life today.
And yet, I literally just feel so sad that a young man in the service lit himself on fire because he felt the pain and suffering of people who are in another place more acutely than the average person feels it.
You're a Great Life Lesson.
On Planet Earth, becoming biological parents does not inherently grant anyone special insights or sensitivity into the well-being of children. Definitely not other people's children, and sometimes not even their own.
Dearly born to be departed Aaron was from Massachusetts, and Abdullah is from Dearborn, Michigan.
"US Airman Aaron Bushnell loved show tunes, ‘Lord of the Rings’ and gave cat away before burning himself to death"
https://nypost.com/2024/02/27/us-news/aaron-bushnell-left-behind-cat-and-fridge-of-root-beer-pals/
"I’m the Mayor of Dearborn, Mich., and My City Feels Betrayed"O DEARBORN
That's precious name for a town in Michigan, right?
"President Joe Biden on the Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theories and Dark Brandon Meme (Extended)"
~ "Late Night with Seth Myers"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw0npm56wn0DEAR BORN IN THE USA...
"As 2-Month-Old Starves to Death in Gaza...
"Mosab Abu Toha Says His Own Family Is Eating Animal Feed"
~ Democracy Now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFYcH3iNS1k
What? I'm sorry, I didn't actually hear you.
As 2-Month-Old Starves to Death in Gaza,
But being sensitive to others is so hard....
"Children in Gaza face starvation as Israeli offensive continues" | BBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQn6jDRS2_AHEALTH! CARE!
Acknowledging that just because that grandparent got more rewards for doing some things the way x did them doesn't mean the y grandchild is gonna be able to do it that way.
Ask THE GRANDMOTHER FROM THAT OTHER CULTURE TO EXPLAIN IT TO YOU.
"This is worth something of value if it's more like this, but less than that if it manifests in another way."
Maybe it would be good to read "Good Night, Irene."
"Mr. Urrea is the author of the forthcoming novel 'Good Night, Irene,' which is based on his mother’s experiences."
"Opinion | My Mother Returned From World War II a Changed Woman"
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/opinion/women-ww2-redcross-clubmobile.html
I felt like I was supposed to read this for some reason.
"I now recognize my mother was tortured by PTSD, her nightmares and outbursts classic symptoms of something she would never understand: After all, 'battle fatigue' was for the boys."
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
"Opinion | My Mother Returned From World War II a Changed Woman"
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/opinion/women-ww2-redcross-clubmobile.html
You don't have to light yourself on fire to get better.
"In his last social media post, Bushnell wrote, 'Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.'"
~ Jacob Crosse
"Opposing genocide in Gaza, US Air Force soldier live-streams self-immolation in front of Israeli embassy"
Can he be a doctor next time?
My grandson on this side of the world decided to simulate the pain his siblings were experiencing. Oh! Why?
Did you see what he said before he died?
Why should certain grandson of society feel that he has to set himself on fire because society's compliance with bigotry causes him that much despair?
Are you a parent or ghost?
"I am so proud of my grandchild for being so much NICER to the different ones than I was ever expected to be! Oh, how much can I learn from the youngest and least corrupted about purging myself of all of that completely unnecessary bigotry which the Patriarchal Ones wanted for me, so that I could feel more cozy and safe with them?"
You need to revise "Dear Motherly Bigotry" a little bit more.
Just because so many parents were raised by a deeply Patriarchal Culture to discriminate against so many of the "different ones" in exchange for a better chance at social acceptance doesn't mean they can't change their attitudes before that very special great grand child with the the different genetics gets born to an ever-evolving and more enlightened society of grown-ups.
Monday, February 26, 2024
Okay, Ghost. Of Tom Petty. Singing "Free Fallin.'" Too.
"A member of the United States air force who had set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington in an apparent protest against Israel’s war in Gaza has died, the Pentagon says.
The 25-year-old airman, Aaron Bushnell of San Antonio, Texas, died from his injuries, the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, DC, said on Monday.
US media reports said Bushnell livestreamed himself on the social media platform Twitch wearing fatigues and declaring he would 'not be complicit in genocide' before dousing himself in liquid on Sunday."
"US airman dies after setting himself on fire outside Israeli embassy"
And their dad bods are just about to give birth! Hmmm.
Let's talk about how some dads happen to have ghost uteruses that are carrying ghost babies in their ghost wombs which are otherwise known as their dad bod abdominal cavities.
Oh good, second late lunch.
Time to channel your anger about totally unnecessary famine and other sad situations into something productive!
Do you keep a dream journal?
I feel like I've had dreams about some of this stuff.
Did you ever read about out of body experiences? Or parallel lifetimes?
"People in northern Gaza ‘eat grass’ to survive" was last month.
"Mohammed Hamouda, a physical therapist displaced to Rafah, remembers the day his colleague, Odeh Al-Haw, was killed trying to get water for his family.
Al-Haw was queueing at a water station in Jabalya refugee camp, in northern Gaza, when he and dozens of others were struck by Israeli bombardment, Hamouda said.
'Unfortunately, many relatives and friends are still in the northern Gaza Strip, suffering a lot,' Hamouda, a father-of-three, told CNN. 'They eat grass and drink polluted water.'"
~ Sana Noor Haq and Rosa Rahimi
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/30/middleeast/famine-looms-in-gaza-israel-war-intl/index.html
PoeTasters and Potaters!
"Stephen Colbert Is Bringing His Signature Humor to a New Cookbook"
https://carolinas.eater.com/2024/2/15/24073756/stephen-colbert-cookbook
"Poe had deliberately hidden his Army stint—and along with it, his year on Sullivan’s Island—instead fabricating stories of foreign adventure in Greece and Russia to account for these years in biographical sketches that appeared during his lifetime. But suddenly, thirty-six years after Poe’s death..."~ Scott Peeples & Michelle Van Parys
"Unburied Treasure: Edgar Allan Poe and the South Carolina Low Country"
Tori Amos - "Take To The Sky" (Official Audio)
Poe didn't go to Russia...🎵Starring Potatoes!
"Tradwife loses it" @tylerbenderr
https://youtube.com/shorts/aYMw7UF8iUU?si=-qKD27FITh3rZA6H
Help, your feminine sides have masculine energy...
Skating Polly - "Little Girl Blue and The Battle Envy" | Audiotree
Well, that could change too.
A Very Basic Question: Why do some people still act as if they feel like they have to be meaner than they used to be, just to succeed or maintain a certain lifestyle?
Such challenges for the already challenged.
"American doctor describes ‘incomparable’ impacts on children in Gaza"
Valuable are the Values Expressed in this Era.
Sometimes, younger humans are still inclined to have much more sensitive and intelligent methods of communication than some of the older humans whose ideologies got very warped by capitalism which brought them into repeating old patterns laced with greed and misogyny.
"Look at how they still acted in the 2020s. I wonder why."
Let's get ideas.
"What I eat in a week at my NONNA's house in ITALY"
~ Rosie Maio, posted 18 hours ago
Sunday, February 25, 2024
"Look how skinny I look with my hand behind my back!" ~ character played by JC
"Austenland Movie CLIP - Reading (2013)"
She hopes you remember all of her characters, as she had no children!
Mother preferred boys, but she got along better with her sister.
Just imagine...
How lovely it would be if all the patriarchal people who got rewarded for misogynistic behaviors and attitudes in this life got HELP!
Among other things?
"Republicans Suddenly Realize Alabama's IVF Ruling Is Bad For Them"
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-alabama-ivf-ruling_n_65d91bdfe4b0e4346d525d1e
It's a good thing she's not in the UN!
My cat just chased another cat away from the yard. They're both female cats. I wonder if the other one is going to have kittens? My cat has been spayed.
I suppose I feel the need to share...
that I did think his critique of the shortcomings in her essay would've been even more effective and less patriarchal if there were less of the belittling exhortations to read Chomsky, and Zinn, etcetra, as if reading Great Male Thinkers will magically make her smarter and braver?
"Daniel Maté's RESPONSE to Brené Brown on Gaza"
~ Daniel Mate
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QBZrKjXVhrM&si=HWbzkE2L-ENfjsGD
"Not Looking Away" - Brené Brown
https://brenebrown.com/articles/2024/02/13/not-looking-away/
True, sometimes there can be a lot of misogynistic ideology & behavior that sneaks in when people begin to express their opinions
"Daniel Maté's RESPONSE to Brené Brown on Gaza"
~ Daniel Mate
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QBZrKjXVhrM&si=HWbzkE2L-ENfjsGD
"Why Brené Brown’s Gospel of Vulnerability Fails the World's Most Vulnerable"
https://lithub.com/why-brene-browns-gospel-of-vulnerability-fails-the-worlds-most-vulnerable/
"Not Looking Away" - Brené Brown
https://brenebrown.com/articles/2024/02/13/not-looking-away/
A new-to-me writer! Christina Rosetti was a fan.
"What think you of Jean Ingelow, the wonderful poet? I have not yet read the volume, but reviews with copious extracts have made me aware of a new eminent name having risen among us. I want to know who she is, what she is like, where she lives. All I have heard is an uncertain rumour that she is aged twenty-one, is one of three sisters resident with their mother. A proud mother I should think. If our dear Scotts move away altogether from the North, I fear my prospect of making your personal acquaintance must dwindle to the altogether vague. Your kindness, however, has made us no strangers, even should we never meet—or, rather, never meet here; for one of the last days of the year the separations and meetings of time should not alone be thought of.
Yours cordially,
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI"
"Victorian Musings: Jean Ingelow The Poet of Lincolnshire"
https://kimberlyevemusings.blogspot.com/2014/11/jean-ingelow-poet-of-lincolnshire-march.html?m=1
Why is a man I know better to women than you are?
Because he's not as Catholic, or something? He was raised in the Catholic Church, too.
"They were in a cult that trained them to behave that way."
"I have no idea why my grandparents hated acting like human rights for girls and woman actually mattered!"
"But why did accidental bigotry feel so comfortable to the Grand Ones?"
There was unresolved trauma from the Fearful Patriarchal Society wanting to control them that made them want to run after crumbs of acceptance.
No! You can do better than that.
"How to inculcate the young with the kinds of despotic patriarchal values that serve people with my very important genetics the most is basically what I'm after."
The Republicans stance on IVF is yours too? Or no?
When your behaviors say that creating and rearing children is sacred to you in theory, but in practice you were trained to unsee people who have had different experiences, that is really quite tragic.
It might even hurt or alienate some people's descendants more than you ever intended. They are not getting an exact copy of your genetics or your life experiences.
Why do you suppose a Patriarchal Society wanted to train the one they deemed "fortunate" or "genetically blessed" to unsee or exclude others?
"Writing poetry by candlelight"
Jesus loves you, even though you're not earning money again, yet. Sorry you can't use the church's bathroom while you're waiting. Here's six loaves of raisin bread, some kale pasta salad kits, and of course, Dream Light Nightcap by Kin Euphorics.
My sleep schedule is so messed up! Lol.
Meow!
What do you want kitty, go get other human to help you.
I was outside with her! I sat out there with her for a half hour in the cold.
Oh you did? Oh! Sorry I didn't realize that.
And then there's some other guys I met for some reason.
What are you guys gonna do with the rest of your lives before you come back as completely different people.
What kind of feminist am I?
My feelings and my upbringing say that I have all these things in common with the single moms, but because my body and psyche and situation are complex, I get a really nice man and an energetic cat as my main companions in life.
Isn't it a good thing?
If the universe wants you to expand your life, and is not above asking you to do so by getting your attention in unusual ways...
I'm gonna look at her book again.
"In 1917, Alice Bell left her husband, an insurance adjuster in Chicago, and brought her father and two daughters to a farm in central Virginia to raise children and chickens in peace. Without the finality of divorce, it became a kind of peculiar vacation marriage--in 1919 producing the youngest daughter, Virginia.
Now, more than 70 years later, having pined throughout her adult life for the joys and rigors of her mother’s farm, Virginia Bell Dabney has brought that life to life again in an exquisite new memoir. The publication of 'Once There Was a Farm . . .' marks Dabney’s literary debut at age 71."
~ Wanda Urbanska
"BOOK REVIEW : Memoir Re-Creates an Independent Life
ONCE THERE WAS A FARM . . . A Country Childhood Remembered, by Virginia Bell Dabney"
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-24-vw-522-story.html
Library's newspapers and a book about growing up on a farm in Virginia
"BOOK REVIEW : Memoir Re-Creates an Independent Life ONCE THERE WAS A FARM . . . A Country Childhood Remembered, by Virginia Bell Dabney."
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-24-vw-522-story.html
"Large stretches of California are without maternity care"
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Grandpa's coming back as a girl...
Affected by Politics and the Patriarchy.
"Hillary Clinton warns birth control is ‘next’ after Alabama IVF ruling"
You can do it.
What if you could have your career and not still be making a lot of excuses for the unwell patriarchal people, because...
It looks like a lifestyle that is literally unbearable for many people.
Addicted to getting rewarded for acting super in touch with the out of touch.
Sad to know that sometimes.
Your belief system and how you still choose to act and react in certain situations might also make you look like you're struggling to get by in a Patriarchal Culture that wanted to shut down "other" voices when the people who are going to be more free of it in the future look back on this time to learn from the past.
I guess there's still ways to find new ways of doing things.
"Michelle Dowd's memoir, 'Forager,' on surviving..."
Because they're in the learning phase when it comes to being better listeners...
Certain cruel, oppressive, patriarchal people who were obsessed with status and money expressed their deeply significant thoughts to the sensitive ones in rather trite and bullying ways, because being heedless of the tragic consequences just felt good to them at the time?
"Got that, LADIES?"
"125 House Republicans back 'life at conception' bill, no IVF exception"
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1aydgz2/125_house_republicans_back_life_at_conception/
Rich people who got raised religiously get to help the ones who need IVF now, too?!
"125 House Republicans back 'life at conception' bill, no IVF exception"
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1aydgz2/125_house_republicans_back_life_at_conception/
Money is a great tool for creative projects?
"As ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Hangs in the Balance, Warner Bros. Discovery Takes $115M Write-Down on Mystery Projects"
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1ayhtnl/as_coyote_vs_acme_hangs_in_the_balance_warner/
"Acting Like The Grandparents On That Side Of The Family Cared About People Like Us Is One Of Our Life Challenges"
"My Family’s Daily Struggle to Find Food in Gaza"
https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/my-familys-daily-struggle-to-find-food-in-gaza
Isn't that interesting.
"Since The Grandparents' Survival Mechanisms May Not Work Out So Well For The Next Generation, They're Probably Gonna Have To Do Things A Lot Differently."
Because X Deserves Better Values.
Things X could be doing in life, in spite of the fact that acting like "It's The Abusive Rich Guys Who Run The World" was the sort of tired old programming that X's parents' still relied on as their default survive mechanism.
What If God Is Way Less Patriarchal Than You?
God doesn't think acting like the rich abusive guys are more important than everyone else on the planet is the truth, nor is it the only way to survive a life on Earth.
Hello, Grandparents.
What does having the Emotional Maturity of acknowledging that your culture's genocidal values are really not okay for a lot of human beings mean to you ?
I am not profiting from going along with toxic patriarchal show busy-ness culture.
But there are clearly others who feel more able to do that, and whatever their reasoning is, I still feel like not only do their descendents deserve better, and not only do their senator's descendants deserve better...
"The First-Term Washington State Senator Who Prays for the Confidence of a Mediocre White Man"
https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/news/a45488/rebecca-saldana-interview-washington-state/
But actually, they also deserve better!
And yet, they continue to act like Our Patriarchal Culture has convinced them that being rewarded for being toxic & narcissistic & patriarchal is the best way to live.
Friday, February 23, 2024
Adorable Youth! I am indebted.
"Skating Polly explains why they started their band"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UrbDAjcVaEw&si=MUg3siE-1oFgpRHW
"In 2009, 9 year old Kelli Mayo and five years older Peyton Bighorse found themselves living in the same house when Mayo’s father moved in with Bighorse’s mother. A child and a mid-teen suddenly forced together, that should go well! The result should have been a jealousy fit lasting years, especially given the young Mayo’s sometimes disturbingly precocious nature. There is a glorious early interview with the pair on YouTube in which a then 12 year old Mayo sounds like an over-verbose philosophy professor, while Bighorse resignedly rolls her eyes.
They can actually be a hilarious double act in interviews. In a discussion with Amby in 2016 the pair were asked to sum up their bandmate in one word. Bighorse went first and her word for Mayo was 'genius'. Mayo’s for Bighorse was 'nurd'. Bighorse, did a visible double-take before calmly coming back with 'I guess I should say creative genius, not all round genius'."
https://herasayssheshouldbethestarnow.wordpress.com/skating-polly-chaos-county-line-album-review/
Military Factors & Influences
You may have noticed that she's pretty stressed out for having had a relatively 'privileged' life...
"I made some terrible decisions as a small business - where I am now"
~ The Cottage Fairy
Rita Deserved Better.
"Welles told Leaming how Hayworth flew into a rage after discovering that her picture had been affixed to the nuclear test bomb (named 'Gilda') detonated at Bikini Atoll. 'Rita almost went insane, she was so angry,' he said. “She was so shocked by it…She wanted to go to Washington to hold a press conference, but Harry Cohn wouldn’t let her because it would be unpatriotic.”
~ Hadley Hall Meares
"The Love Goddess: Rita Hayworth’s Tragic Quest"
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/09/rita-hayworth-biography-trauma
What if the Universe only left you with a biological grandfather you had no real relationship with?
Sorry, that's the Out-of-Wedlock One talking.
Boy, am I glad he still has Grandma.
"'He was nameless’: Orphaned children lose family, identity in Gaza"
Business Plans? By the way, what if this guy was your dad?
"Netanyahu Rejects U.S. Plans for Post-War Gaza With His Own..."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/netanyahu-rejects-us-plans-for-post-war-gaza-with-his-own-vision
Alright...fine. This is good with frozen grapes and peppermint tea.
"Rita Hayworth HORRIFIC tragedy.. lN€EST, surgeries..."
~ Karine Alourde
This would be a good one to take to a medical appointment.
"Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not be written in ink but in a golden splash."
~ J.M. Barrie
(Dedication page for "Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101160309-class)
Just one?
What a great time to start a new book!
"Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education" by Stephanie Land
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101160309-class
When you're sleep deprived but too cranky to take a nap.
Eagle Drama Today.
"FOBBV CAM🦅Immature Intruder Alert❗️📣Jackie Controls Her Basement✈️2024-02-23"
~ Cali Condor
Have you ever wanted to say to certain "Patriarchal" people
Yes, you definitely can be less shallow than that.
Seriously. Do it for yourself.
I think I'm gonna watch a video about an iconic good person.
We were all kids once.
"Marilyn Monroe - was her WHOLE tragic story a LIE? we finally know her father!"
~ Karine Alourde
https://youtube.com/watch?v=374BRXebNAY&si=Tge_dqYHOmjT7y-D
Okay, well, the narrator has a pleasant voice, but the background music is a bit too much when I listen to it on my headphones, so I might need to rely on the subtitles.
Kids are not here just so some narcissistic grown-ups can get their egos boosted.
That was yesterday's mentality (for some people).
If you're thriving while five year old orphans want to die
You might not want to be too smug about it.
You know, sometimes acronyms can be articulate. WCNSF.
"UNITED NATIONS, Feb 22 (Reuters) - The head of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that medical teams in the Gaza Strip have come up with a new acronym: WCNSF - wounded child, no surviving family."
~ Michelle Nichols
Oh yeah, I liked this one, too, on "happy 2/22, portal" day.
Again...
Y Kant Tori Read - "Floating City (Music Video)"
It still seems really important to identify certain challenges.
"Topics/Triggers:
Islamophobia, Sexism, and Racism
Human rights laws
Being sexual assaulted/raped at a college campus
The failings of the legal system
How seeking justice led to retraumatization + compounding trauma
Invalidation and denial at the federal level
Why she decided not to go to the Supreme Court
Refusing to let the legal system define what happened
Where she is with her healing + grieving her youth
Toxic masculinity
Gender-based discrimination
Equal Rights Amendment
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW, or the Treaty for the Rights of Women)
The legal consent loophole
Implicit, prejudicial expectations for proof
PTSD, Depression, Anxiety, and a lack of joy
Holding space for hope"
The list is from this:
"Initiated Survivor: Commitment to Justice with Aarefah Mosavi"
We'll be productive.
No cost of living raises since 2020 even though the prices of everything went up, along with a decrease in finances is very stressful situation. But might qualify for some student loan forgiveness.
"It's because there's some inherited cultural group think things going on."
(Question to some people): Why oh why are you still choosing to cheat yourself by being much more shallow and discriminatory towards others (and actually, even towards aspects of yourself!) than you were originally born to be?
You weren't like that when you were a younger person.
Nest news!
"FOBBV Eagles🦅 Jackie wins over weather ❄️A long, yucky night+sweet twerplings for Shadow🎶2024 Feb 21"
Thursday, February 22, 2024
And that's why my next topic is birds.
Being self-absorbed happens, and it's a bit of a reflexive way of dealing with a life on earth for some people's egos, but it is really not a safe refuge for most people.
Emotions are part of life.
I need to cry. I had a little nap earlier and heard a scream when I woke up. It was not outside. I am just processing being sensitive to trauma. I will accept that this is something I have access to for some reason and ask the universe to help become more integrated and able to succeed in the near future.
What if the truth is...
That if the universe wants me to be more in touch with my feelings, and to learn more about how to process some stuff that a Patriarchal Society is still not very good at talking about, that I should continue to learn more, instead of going along with other people's programs, even when it means forfeiting some signs of external materialistic success.
What if it wants me to know that we should all be able to tend to our health, and that society is capable of evolving to becoming far more healthy in so many ways that are spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical.
The moon. She speaks!
All the parents at the farmer's markets are friendly and charming, and the cat...
is a cat.
What about "Floating City"!?
Y Kant Tori Read - "Floating City (Music Video)"
~ David Etienne
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dk4kE7ZMMhU&si=wWAZoGz2FgskOZLm
Oh, goodness.
"Tori Amos’ Long-Lost 1988 Album Is Better than You Think"
https://americansongwriter.com/tori-amos-long-lost-1988-album-is-better-than-you-think/
I can make the best vegan potato pizza boats...
Bake two russet potatoes. Slice in half. Scoop out the insides. Add tomato sauce. Sprinkle with fennel, oregano and basil. Add a layer of hummus. Add pizza toppings (such as chopped cherry tomato, red onion, garlic, black olive, basil). Bake at 400 for twenty minutes or so. Sprinkle with Trader Joe's Mushroom Umami Seasoning.
So good. They are in two stomachs now.
I love musical therapies (especially these two, today).
Kate Bush - "Running Up That Hill"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wp43OdtAAkM&si=WLIA4wUm0jHJDLr0
"Ashana: An Uplifting Serenade of Magical Sound Healing"
May the goodness in this world help us heal more.
Pain on the right side of my body is one way to reconnect with a lot of better ways to be, for I know that I have made some progress, and I also know I still need to find more ways to heal from a lot of stuff.
Consider the benefits of becoming better at listening.
"They didn't appear to be listening to what I was saying..." (Mosavi at 11:15)
"Initiated Survivor: Commitment to Justice with Aarefah Mosavi"
But book discussions are sometimes more significant than one might have previously realized.
"Teen Girls, Mean Girls: A Tale Of Karmic Revenge"
https://www.npr.org/2012/01/13/145175020/cat-s-eye-the-vicious-mind-games-of-mean-girls
I enjoy lists.
"Topics/Triggers:
Islamophobia, Sexism, and Racism
Human rights laws
Being sexual assaulted/raped at a college campus
The failings of the legal system
How seeking justice led to retraumatization + compounding trauma
Invalidation and denial at the federal level
Why she decided not to go to the Supreme Court
Refusing to let the legal system define what happened
Where she is with her healing + grieving her youth
Toxic masculinity
Gender-based discrimination
Equal Rights Amendment
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW, or the Treaty for the Rights of Women)
The legal consent loophole
Implicit, prejudicial expectations for proof
PTSD, Depression, Anxiety, and a lack of joy
Holding space for hope"
"Initiated Survivor: Commitment to Justice with Aarefah Mosavi"
Oh, Judge. Minute 9:58
"Listen. This wasn't sexual assault. A jury found it was not sexual assault."
"18-36521 Aarefah Mosavi v. Mt. San Antonio College"
Voice in my head: On the Mosavi & Movesesian Podcast, you should ask, "Did you mention your favorite school in your book?"
"Conan Submits To A Dominatrix" | CONAN on TBS
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ccUMwBkenuk&si=jP1unAnCyoNGk7G9
"The World's Worst Assistant by Sona Movsesian"| Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/59639080
"2023 Mt SAC Alumnus of the Year Sona Movsesian"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8_DWO7HVlis&si=iLLYDUhznGOYBGBi
"18-36521 Aarefah Mosavi v. Mt. San Antonio College"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=y5DgdQO8lNE&si=A3iFtB0ffQ8flI96
"Watch 48 Hours Season 36 Episode 29: The Assassination of Jeff German"
https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/bq2ZvL6vR4OUCoSv1zbUDyNN7bNS5nA_/
"Dulcinea Alex Pitagora" - Manhattan Alternative
https://www.manhattanalternative.com/team/dulcinea-pitagora/
I've still never been to Vegas, but I feel like a person who needs to visit that place in the not too distant future.
Ta~da!
"Mother and Daughter OnlyFans models-Africa and Wai" ~ Soft White Underbelly
https://youtube.com/watch?v=meDj-Srv2Ow&si=zt-PEarDVl1ULJ3r
"Adult dancers in Washington state want a strippers bill of rights"
‘"We strip our clothes, not our pay:’ Strippers rally outside the state Capitol"
What if it's meant to be. Dear cup of tea.
Why don't you just heal yourself and pay me, since I am also going to be healing myself and since I feel like such a product of nature that's been having SO many interesting challenges?
I think I will make a raspberry leaf infusion.
My body has decided to be an educational experience in learning from female anatomy today. I also sort of feel like I am getting the flu but it might not be the flu. We'll see what happens in the afternoon, I guess!
Reasons being.
"$exist People developed those $kills for reasons and they don't just change overnight."
Oh, these people! What do they need?
"Asriah AKA 'Exotic'-June 2022"
~ Soft White Underbelly
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZmuBT6ySi9A&si=ScNiLA7IhES7Wzx6
(Watched her videos.)
"Comedian interview-Chris D'Elia"
~Soft White Underbelly
https://youtube.com/watch?v=m6rca49Z0po&si=iIXmFg0QOuiirUJh
(Not yet.)
"John Gacy Survivor interview-Tony"
~ Soft White Underbelly
Hmmm.Celery juice, everyday, celery juice, everyday
Grimes - "Vanessa (Official Video)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2-aWEYezEMk&si=eorik_X5aLN4F7EU
This is a different environment to be listening to music, compared to where I lived before the pandemic. And yet, there are still similarities...
This is a really good read.
"Biden can end the bombing of Gaza right now. Here’s how." By Mehdi Hasan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/21/biden-stop-gaza-bombing-genocide-israel
In the '20s, Patriarchal Stuff in academia mirrored Patriarchal Stuff in other industries...
Ha ha, Creative ppl and Online Environments Studies.
Does Elon still want everyone else to be on Twitter, too?
The cat has two tickets to that thing you like. The tickets are now diamonds. The diamonds are ethically sourced. That thing you like is Gaza.
"Whatever Happened To The Old Spice Guy?"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QhVmL2Ju4jQ&si=KWYMFj4DsuUQimPK
You're on a horse!
"Conan’s Writer Wants To Replace Regé-Jean Page In Bridgerton"
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
This happened when I was in a much smaller body.
"'Menachem, this is a holocaust,' Reagan told Begin.
Yes, an American leader used the H-word in conversation with an Israeli leader. Begin responded with sarcasm, telling the US president that 'I think I know what a holocaust is.' Reagan, however, didn’t budge, insisting on the 'imperative' for a ceasefire in Beirut.
Twenty minutes. That’s all the time it took for Begin to call back and tell the president he had ordered Sharon to stop the bombing. It was over. 'I didn’t know I had that kind of power,' a surprised Reagan told an aide, upon putting down the phone.
Flash forward 42 years and the Israeli assault on Gaza has now gone on for twice as long as the siege of Beirut. In 1982, Reagan was said to have been moved by the image of a single wounded Lebanese child. As of last week, more than 12,300 Palestinian children had been killed in Gaza, and tens of thousands maimed and injured, in just four months."
~ Medhi Hasan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/21/biden-stop-gaza-bombing-genocide-israel
Born Into A Life On A Suffering Planet
"What I Saw Wasn't War — It Was Annihilation," Says U.S. Doctor Who Volunteered in Gaza Hospital"
Do you think a lot of people are getting fed up with Violent Patriarchal Culture?
Not satire:
"Doctor in Gaza: 'I've never experienced anything like it'"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UUUXZ8qGMWw&si=yDUpJQu_q_riTdOK
Satire:
"Biden & Netanyahu React To ICJ: 'Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now'"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dEG76hlnhNw&si=B-eC9ZkFUWKnR-gf
Clunky discussion:
"Jewish Comedian ROASTS Zionists For Being 'Nationalists'"
People need to look at themselves and learn how to relax and chill.
Owing to the impact of certain messages in society, some people are just as intense about pro-natalism as some businessmen can be when they get very "cut throat" about closing their business deals. You can feel it. It's not the only way to be in life.
Is it possible...
That sometimes there's something in the universe that might want you to heal stuff more than be outwardly what some people would call successful or entertaining or catering to egos...or that, at the very least, it might feel like that's what's more important to acknowledge sometimes, for health reasons...yes, it may be so.
What if...
Sometimes there's an aspect of universal love that says "You have the potential to heal certain parts of who you are even more deeply now, and in the near future, if you are willing to do so" and it has to do with you and your consciousness and your ancestors and energy and how humans are connected to bigger patterns.
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
It's a weird time. I should sleep.
What if you're just supposed to be nicer to yourself and stuff...Hmmm....
Belatedly, Because No Can Stay Up Tonite.
Something to make for World Muffin Day...
"Sarah Vowell: MAGA and Muffins"| Monologue | Topic
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GjVAcZnQdU4&si=N35utKY-vSkouMWz
Space! A beautiful gift to take care of yourself.
People need space to respect themselves. I recently had a light hypnosis experience where I said I just really needed to make a space for myself to make art. I did, and guess what? I actually got more energy to look for work afterwards. I really did! Just from making a space for myself. I didn't even do much art in it yet. A little bit of drawing, not anything to sell. But the space is there! It is on the kitchen table, too. Nothing rented, not even a "special extra corner of the house." It literally took five minutes to make it. Kitchen table, cleared, and a bit more suitable to make some art with space for art supplies on the bench. I think it actually may have helped? SO interesting.
It looks to me tonight like it is so beautiful to grow as a person
I believe she can help herself by going within and towards any spiritual practices she intuitively vibes with and asking nature and the universe for helpers.
"I made some terrible decisions as a small business owner - where I am now" ~ The Cottage Fairy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsRgz3S0-S4
She's going to need help. Lots of people who have more or fewer children or none at all also have their own different kinds of struggles.
Everyone has different things to deal with. As with many other people, what seems to be a "simple" lifestyle actually does rely quite a lot on the labors of others. No one grows all their own food and no one makes all their own clothes, but all people definitely deserve peace and love and help, too!!!!
Healing is so important!
I love when people come into a greater awareness of what's important in life.
Making the choice of honoring creativity and to choose health in this society is beautiful and strong.
I just got kind of like a good culture shock!
Who I was before the pandemic. It all came back to me because of going through some old papers.
And it was not even all that long ago!
I am actually very happy to be reunited with some of the happy sides of my younger self, and I really do believe that she is going to help me!
Superiority Complexes in Modern Parenting
"Well, Patriarchal Culture Has Certainly Considered Our Superior Genetics and Superior Access to Superior Resources."
"How Does This Make Us Feel?"
"Strange."
"We are shocked."
"United Nations experts have called for an investigation into alleged violations against Palestinian women and girls in Gaza and the occupied West Bank since the start of the war.
'We are shocked by reports of the deliberate targeting and extrajudicial killing of Palestinian women and children in places where they sought refuge, or while fleeing,' a group of experts appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council said in a statement Monday. 'Some of them were reportedly holding white pieces of cloth when they were killed by the Israeli army or affiliated forces.'
They also expressed concern over the alleged arbitrary detention of hundreds of Palestinian women and girls in Gaza and the occupied West Bank since the start of the war. They said many detainees were reported to have been subjected to 'inhuman and degrading treatment,' including being held under difficult conditions, denied menstruation pads, food and medicine and being severely beaten.
They said multiple cases of rape and sexual abuse have also been reported. NBC News was not immediately able to independently verify the allegations."
~ Chantal Da Silva
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-rcna139513