I must get the cat in because the wildfire smoke has shifted this way.
Monday, September 30, 2024
Climate change for babies, children and grown-ups.
"The people who feed America are going hungry" | Grist
https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/farmworker-hunger-crisis-climate-inflation-grocery-costs/
Overprivileged is underprivileged.
Overprivileged enough to be shallow enough to unsee what happens to certain kinds of human beings, including some girls and women more than others, is not actual privilege.
It's just like what someone who's addicted to a substance that's bad for them does in order to cope with the difficulty of having an Earth life.
Those temporary self-absorbed coping mechanisms that gave some a very false sense of security for a limited amount of time will not endure because better ways will be necessary.
And yet, you must get your energy and calories from somewhere.
It's really important when the people who look important to your society experience a disaster, compared to when other people who don't look so important to your society experience a disaster. Why is that? Must it be that way?
The fragile adults have things in common with babies.
They are in adult bodies now, but they need at least ten ego feedings. And then, maybe, they will feel old enough offer you a crumb by recognizing the existence of an "other."
Is that the positive point of view?
Really, the potential to be better to the "different" people is still quite high.
Didn't know what to do. Felt some relief eventually.
Remember that time when a young transgender person was sitting next to you in an airport and telling the people they were with, that they were sick of being treated like "a disgusting other?"
That was anxiety-inducing. Didn't know what to do.
And then this young person said, well, maybe they would just cry about it for a little while, and then they'd feel better.
That offered a little bit of relief. They had found a solution of sorts.
Shuteye, interrupted.
Had a dream about talking to a friend I have only seen in a few dreams. The presence feels real. I would like to see this person (or presence) again, so I'm going to go back to sleep. Maybe, maybe it will happen.
I'm aware that sometimes there's a feeling of great disappointment that some people who used to act like they cared more about different kinds of people and about civil rights no longer want to act like they care.
It literally is if they aged out of wanting to care.
Life was too hard on them, and now they're just trying to get by, and they don't care, because it isn't convenient enough for them.
Why do they clearly feel it's more comfortable to ditch certain types of girls and women?
I'm not just talking about me. There's other ones too.
The unexamined sexism is very jarring and upsetting.
At the very time certain kinds of human rights are being challenged, it's like they forgot. They used to care about people who are different and about civil rights.
Now you know why these things happened in the past.
People get fatigued and stubborn.
Why not choose a different survival strategy?
It's bizarre.
It's like a tame nightmare.
I understand there's worse things going on, but still.
Sunday, September 29, 2024
Just as a way of filtering through some life experiences...
Attempts at communications in the English language occur again.
"Virgo picky high expectations" voice says...
"I'm only using those words because that's what people seem to ascribe to those who have higher expectations."
This voice says, "I think I want the best for people on Earth, and I may need to learn more and evolve more about how to communicate that better, and I may have a lot to learn in many different arenas, but I don't think lowering standards for what could be is actually what's best for them.
Sometimes that comes off as picky or critical.
But it's more complicated than that.
I've tried to lower expectations before, and it never worked out.
Sometimes you just have to have high expectations and get disappointed.
Sometimes that's what's authentic.
Expecting growth and better things and getting super happy when it happens is the dream.
It could be that I have only occasionally attracted the attention of certain types of people because my energy expects more of them than the average person expects.
Some people actually kind of like the energy of someone having high expectations of them.
Some people sense that it's really for the purpose of wanting things to get better for them and for everybody.
Even if they don't sense it all the time, there are times when they sense it.
Maybe that makes it worth it.
Higher purpose...what is it?"
Life is an exercise in learning, and sometimes isolation...
"Asheville, NC isolated by flooding..."
This gave me slight vibes of the aftermath of a tornado. Dorothy, the witch, you're not in Kansas anymore...This photo is called portrait of a middle-aged one-cat lady who teared up when she found out some people with a tiny baby had to evacuate from Asheville because they ran out of water, and is thinking, today it seems like I have a simple life. Thinking about the ones in that area who stayed and are writing for the newspapers too...
Do you even know what you're doing?
"Teaching my fiancΓ© how to be native: PART 1ππ"
@EagleBlackbird
https://youtube.com/shorts/o75zd0mIWro?si=hx77vVq-Ab_6tWk1
"Hide your AUNTIES and… π³π"
@EagleBlackbird
https://youtube.com/shorts/wF1mTvRK18E?si=RKezrjxtzrq1zn0e
"That was a lot of 'aho’s'π #indigenous #funny"
@EagleBlackbird
Like lives.
"Truly, minds change all the time."
~ Joanna Gardner
"I Left the Mormon Church. I Feel for Former Trump Supporters"
https://www.independent.com/2024/09/27/i-left-the-mormon-church-i-feel-for-former-trump-supporters/
Well, go find someone who makes you feel more compassionate towards different kinds of human beings, then.
"Acting like you're worthless compared to x kinds of ppl is just like my favorite flavor of ice cream, sometimes."
How's the healthy living?
Have you tried saying yes to the anti-inflammatory diet, versus the anti-people-who-are-not-from-your-village prejudice, which sometimes takes the form of an old rich white guy angrily ranting about immigrants?
"Trump leans into anti-immigrant rants"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/28/trump-wisconsin-immigration-speech
Well, every civil rights lesson you learned in school doesn't have to die out just because you got older.
"Fear of Haitian migration grows in U.S. cities, fueled by anti-immigrant rhetoric from GOP"
"Former President Trump’s comments about Haitian migrants in towns like Charleroi, Pa., Springfield, Ohio, and Enterprise, Alabama have ignited fear, sparking concerns about crime and resource strains across the country."
https://haitiantimes.com/2024/09/28/haitian-migration-us-cities-gop-rhetoric/
Sad.
"According to a recent Gallup Poll, half of Americans see undocumented immigration as a threat.
And, anti-immigrant rhetoric has been on the rise.
These days you can tune into a political speech on almost any level, and hear immigrants described as criminals and drug smugglers.
One study by Stanford University found that in recent decades, Republicans have become far more likely to use dehumanizing terms to describe immigrants. NPR reached out to the Republican National Committee and received no response."
~ Jasmine Garsd
"Anguish and fear in Florida amidst a rising anti-immigrant sentiment"
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/24/1236631178/florida-immigration-desantis-sb1718-fear
Distracted...disturbed?
"FORT MYERS, Fla. — Manuel Vasquez says he remembers when people started to leave. When one by one, people in this community started vanishing."
~ Jasmine Garsd
"Anguish and fear in Florida amidst a rising anti-immigrant sentiment"
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/24/1236631178/florida-immigration-desantis-sb1718-fear
"Vasquez, who is originally from Mexico, sees the anti-immigrant sentiment as anti-Latino. He's been in the U.S. for around 20 years and says he's seen it evolve: he feels it's become almost obligatory for presidential hopefuls to target Hispanics.
Misinformation about the border and immigration has indeed become a centerpiece in this election year. Immigrants being presented as a threat by politicians at all levels makes for dramatic headlines almost every day.
On a local level, states like Texas and Florida have been butting heads with the Federal government, accusing the Biden administration of inaction, saying they have no choice but to pass their own immigration legislation.
A spokesperson for Florida Governor DeSantis told NPR that the governor signed the law 'to protect Floridians.'
But at a local farmer's market, Ana Maria Perez, a fruit saleswoman, says she's cautious about driving around, even though she's a permanent resident. 'If you have dark skin,' Perez says, 'the police here stop you for any reason.'
Perez says she has a son in college, here in Florida. But when he graduates, in a year, she and her husband want to go north.
Not everyone in Fort Myers is anti-immigrant, she clarifies. But she says the racism has intensified here. 'I feel like.... something has been awakened,' she says. 'A monster that was asleep.'"
~ Jasmine Garsd
"Anguish and fear in Florida amidst a rising anti-immigrant sentiment"
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/24/1236631178/florida-immigration-desantis-sb1718-fear
I don't see this knowledge going away...
"Waking up from Our American Dream:
As Seneca First Nation member and psychologist Terry Cross defines it in this keynote presentation, 'culture is one group or people’s preferred way of meeting their basic human needs.' The American Dream tells us that we meet our basic needs by working hard to 'pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.' That way, we become free from having to depend on anyone else.
Who benefits from this story being told? Is it even true? As Daniel Suelo says in The Man Who Quit Money, 'There’s not a creature or even a particle in the universe that’s self-sufficient. We’re all dependent on everybody else' (p. 133). Who sewed the clothes you’re wearing right now? How many materials from how many different parts of the world are inside the device you’re reading this post on? How many hands touched the food you ate for lunch on its way to your table? How many living beings participated in the creation of your home, in your education, and in your emotional state? Even if you purchased these goods with money you earned, you are relying on a community to care for you."
By Teju Ravilochan (contributing editors: Vidya Ravilochan and Colette Kessler)
"Could the Blackfoot Wisdom that Inspired Maslow Guide Us Now?"
https://gatherfor.medium.com/maslow-got-it-wrong-ae45d6217a8c
Oh, this paragraph again...
"Consider Lame Deer’s description and what Maslow witnessed at Siksika. Then consider the repetition of the idea that 'the United States of America is the greatest country in the world' despite the facts that one in four US households experience food insecurity, 4 in 10 Americans can’t afford a $400 emergency, the richest 0.1 percent make 196x as much as the bottom 90 percent, and with 40 million in poverty, the US may be the most unequal nation in the Western world."
~ Teju Ravilochan (contributing editors: Vidya Ravilochan and Colette Kessler)
"Could the Blackfoot Wisdom that Inspired Maslow Guide Us Now?"
https://gatherfor.medium.com/maslow-got-it-wrong-ae45d6217a8c
I have not heard of any conservative neighbors wanting to call any community meetings about this.
"Family members discover body of missing Indigenous woman themselves"
How bizarre!
Kinda not the normal inspirational post.
OMC - "How Bizarre (Official Music Video)"
"Wildfires are a reproductive rights and reproductive justice problem."
That's an interesting point of view. Why would they would say that?
"Reproductive Rights in the US Wildfire Crisis"
Something to consider next time the control issues kick in.
"How Women Are Treated Is a Bellwether for Authoritarianism"
~ Macarena SΓ‘ez
"Want To Rate Your Government? Just Look at Women’s Rights"
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/03/08/want-rate-your-government-just-look-womens-rights
What do you think he'll deserve?
When still troubled, but also, still super propped up by patriarchal, white supremacist systems comes back as a scary witch in his next life...
Wouldn't it be nice for them to have access?
(This was inspired after I was told that some stores don't allow this health supplement to be stocked, so you have to buy it online).
What if there's brothers who need the good black currant oil capsules in order to not bleed to death and to properly digest their life circumstances?
Next time you catch yourself caring about civil rights again, like has happened before...
The voice that said "Just because the Unwell Patriarchal Systems wanted to groom some people to act like certain kinds of peoples' lives are much less important to consider than other kinds of peoples' lives doesn't mean it's good or healthy for people to continue repeating those old patterns" got activated for REAL, and for REASONS.
Its not your fault that human rights for girls and women are constantly being threatened in your country.
That's why "How to be more articulate at explaining why certain behavior patterns are so easy to repeat" is going to helpful to future descendants, particularly when you start delving into why you'd stop supporting that guy so much if he came back and had a new life on this planet in another kind of body.
God sees all kinds of people.
I have experienced "grief about people in a patriarchal society getting trained to abandon and unsee certain kinds of girls and women as a way to cope with life" sadness.
And the "why are they gonna treat that guy so much worse when he comes back in the different form, and how old were they when they felt the need to start repeating old patterns?" questions are real.
Saturday, September 28, 2024
I want to revisit this! I'm glad I found this one.
"Could the Blackfoot Wisdom that Inspired Maslow Guide Us Now?"
By Teju Ravilochan (contributing editors: Vidya Ravilochan and Colette Kessler)
https://gatherfor.medium.com/maslow-got-it-wrong-ae45d6217a8c
And sometimes "if" feels like "when."
I don't see why so-and-so should be treated so much worse by the society he's kept if he comes back in a different body.
People can get very defensive.
"She was accused of murder after losing her pregnancy. She’s now telling her story."
https://lailluminator.com/2024/09/23/murder-pregnancy/
"FACT CHECK: Are pro-life laws to blame for arrest of SC woman who delivered baby in a toilet?"
https://www.liveaction.org/news/south-carolina-woman-toilet-pro-life-laws/
People want to defend their habits, their beliefs, their prejudices... It's noticeable.When is it oppression?
It's been an interesting time to notice patterns
When some people seem to feel more comfortable acting like certain kinds of women are more easy to unsee or devalue than others, that reminds me of prejudice...because it is prejudice. Why should x types of humans be seen as less valuable just because certain messages in society started that as a pattern? What if it is an old habit that will need to change sooner or later? And if change happens sooner rather than later, would that be so bad?
Part VI. The end. If you read it out loud, you might cry.
"I bent and made my arm into a stalk growing from the ground. I opened my fingers to sniff the petals of an imaginary flower. He let out a small shout of laughter and grabbed my hand and pressed it against his head. I think he meant that I had understood that he had been miming the coming of spring.
Before we left that evening, the children sang for us. Their faces were flushed with the pleasure of performing. At our departure, they crowded around the great entrance doors of the house, stunted little weeping figures. They stood quietly while we walked down the cleared path to our little bus. But as we drove away, we saw them waving vigorously, to wish us a safe journey."
~ Paula Fox
"Children of the Tatras"
The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106394.The_Coldest_Winter
Part V of the piece.
"He smiled at me and pointed at the sky. He made flapping motions with his arms more and more slowly as the wings of the bird he was imitating closed around his body and it landed on the rim of the bird bath. He turned his head, then stretched it forward as though to drink. His hands fluttered once again; his arms made flying motions; the bird flew away.
I applauded. He danced in triumph and then, making little clucking sounds that may or may not have been Polish words, he shook the snow from a bush nearby and motioned for me to look closely at what he was doing as he put his hands together beneath his chin, then gradually widened them. I caught on and kicked some snow away from the ground. The earth looked like iron."
~ Paula Fox
"Children of the Tatras"
The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106394.The_Coldest_Winter
Part IV of the piece. Looked up "gelid."
"A boy whose name in English would have been Richard asked me to call him that through the interpreter. He didn't want his Polish name; he'd thrown it away. He said he wanted me to accompany him to one of the huge gardens I had noticed as we approached the mansion. I thought he was nine or so. I was told he was fourteen.
We went through the French doors of the dining room. It was nearly dark now, but there was a rose-colored light on some of the mountain slopes. He held my hand as we walked along a partly cleared path, snow-laden branches of shrubbery leaning toward us, the bare branches of winter-blackened trees above. It was a somber, frozen, lonely place, the gelid heart of winter. Then he ran a few feet ahead of me and, with his arms and legs, brushed the snow from what I mistook as a column that had once supported a mythological or heroic statue. It was a very large bird bath."
~ Paula Fox
"Children of the Tatras"
The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106394.The_Coldest_Winter
Part III of the piece.
"After supper, the Englishwoman, Mary, give a concert for the children. They sat with rapt attention as she sang in a language they didn't understand, but they understood the music.
Only one Yugoslav and two Czech journalists spoke Polish; the rest of us depended on an interpreter. The children wanted to know everything. Where had we come from and why? Did we live in houses? What were they like? If we had children, where were they, with us so far away? Had we left them with relatives or strangers?
They did not speak of their own histories except in the most indirect fashion, and not always in words. They were painfully alert to any sudden movement and fell into abrupt silences in the midst of merriment, when they seem to sink into troubled dreams that raced like camera lights across their faces; then they would suddenly burst out into hectic, even frantic laughter."
~ Paula Fox
"Children of the Tatras"
The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106394.The_Coldest_Winter
Part II of the piece. What's oil cloth?
"Our small group of reporters arrived one midafternoon after a lengthy bone-chilling ride through the winter-silent landscape. It was not yet dark. There were twelve or thirteen boys and girls and a small staff in a grand but bleak house. Its walls were bare, it's floor stripped of rugs; a few rooms had linoleum on the floors. The house's vast windows were white with glare from the snow-covered mountains.
It was impossible to tell the ages of the children, they were so stunted. They were very glad to have visitors, and they clung to us, grasping our hands as they showed us their classroom; a former salon, now filled with narrow, neatly made cots; a library long emptied of books, its shelves containing a few toys and games; and the dining room, where we ate an early supper on a table covered with yellow oil cloth."
~ Paula Fox
"Children of the Tatras"
The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106394.The_Coldest_Winter
Oil cloth is wipeable, and you can make it so.
https://www.instructables.com/Make-Your-Own-Oil-Cloth-DIY-Waterproof-Outdoor-Bun/
I might own her book just because of this short piece I read years ago when I checked the book out of a library.
"One of the places I visited during the bus trip I took with other journalists was a former vacation estate of a Prussian aristocrat in the Tatra Mountains on the Polish-Czechoslovak border. The Polish government had converted it into a kind of recovery residence for children who had been born in concentration camps or had spent part of their childhood in them. Their parents, without exception, had been murdered by the Nazis."
~ Paula Fox
"Children of the Tatras"
The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106394.The_Coldest_Winter
Peace Studies
"Your 7 October happens to us every couple of years. You are the ones who have set the example."
~ Christine
"You know, I have to swallow a frog right now."
~ Orna
Christine (Palestinian) & Orna (Israeli)
"Many people would..."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/13/israel-palestine-7-october-gaza-orna-guralnik
"What impact have these conversations had? Christine and Orna sent their reflections, eight months on.
Christine:
I must admit that my political beliefs have not changed since speaking with Orna. But the function of our conversations was not to indoctrinate each other into thinking the same, but to open ourselves up to the humanity of the 'other.' It was daunting to confront narratives that justify my own dehumanisation. Orna’s desire for safety juxtaposed against my demands for freedom and return made for a volatile recipe. But when continually engaging with empathy and kindness, something started to shift. My so-called 'enemy' became a person with her own fears, dreams and histories. There is so much to be learned, but how can I know if I don’t ask? I now see Orna as my friend, one that I disagree with but have grown to love. Connection under systems of separation is a form of resistance in and of itself, and I will continue to resist until Palestine is free.
Orna:
In the months since we spoke, I have been deeply troubled by the erosion in people’s capacity to invest in dialogue and repair, and in contrast found my conversations with Christine an ongoing source of hope in humanity. Rather than villainise and reject each other, we have shown up with a steadfast commitment to offer compassion and do our best to imagine the world through each other’s eyes. Christine’s fierce commitment to her people was always matched with a gentle, soulful stance towards me, and by extension 'my people,' even during the most difficult of conversations. Her relentless curiosity made it possible to never feel like we reached a dead end. Our conversations have required me to withstand a great deal of guilt, shame, tension and internal conflict. And to get clearer about my own ideological unconscious. And yet, I would much rather suffer that than lose hope in the human capacity to choose the right and ethical path."
"Many people would throw a tantrum now"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/13/israel-palestine-7-october-gaza-orna-guralnik
It could be time to become better friends with your prickly sides.
"VIDEO: Aarefah Mosavi speaks to RCC students..."
What a nice song / film / show / book / painting / podcast by an abusive person.
Abusive people can be so talented.
But, maybe they could learn how to not be so abusive, and then they could also still be so talented.
That would be so next level!
I'm still not voting for that extremely unwell guy, though.
Oh, don't worry, conservatives. I know that a lot of liberals in show business aren't going to look like they were any kinder or nicer to humanity than you all have been.
What a creepy time this era has been.
"California college basketball coach sues school, alleges rampant misconduct and discrimination"
https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/California-college-basketball-coach-sues-school-16458897.php
"Mt. SAC will not take action against..."
"Fired Mt. SAC women’s volleyball coach’s lawsuit can move forward"
"2023 Mt SAC Alumnus of the Year Sona Movsesian"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8_DWO7HVlis&si=C8OF4O0ZmD6cIVqF
"Investigating Lawsuits Against Mt. SAC" – SACMedia
https://sac.media/2022/07/27/investigating-lawsuits-against-mt-sac/
" Sexually harassed by my chemistry instructor"
https://www.reddit.com/r/MtSAC/s/TcXe8UjHJx
NIGHTMARISHLY SO.
Taking a while to repair the nervous system.
So shallow! Who can help the less fortunate ones?
Oops! I meant to complain about how only the rich white guys act greedy and feel glee when they thwart progress!
Blah blah blah
@teamcoco
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAbfdDLSRR1/?igsh=NjZiM2M3MzIxNA==
Unwell rich white guys in show business just never get the therapy or help they need, and they still constantly get enabled in propping up Patriarchal White Supremacy in everything!!!!!
"Tiffany Haddish Returns..."
https://www.reddit.com/r/conan/s/zm1D0PcYCZ
"'Shucking and Jiving': Tiffany Haddish's Apalling Stunt at NYFW Called ‘Classless’ by Fans Who Slam Comedian for Being White Women’s ‘Puppet’"
https://atlantablackstar.com/2024/09/08/tiffany-haddish-nyfw-stunt-paris-hilton-slammed/
"Tiffany Haddish Responds To Child Sex Abuse Lawsuit"
"Roxane Gay: ‘What is the weirdest thing I have done for love? Live with cats'"
Oh Lord. Talk show host and Important Friends. Explain why they're better than Netanyahu. And also this guy. To the children.
"Alabama attorney general joins lawsuit against protections for migrant farm workers"
"Team Coco | The vibes are real."
https://www.instagram.com/teamcoco/
"O’Brien frolics with Netanyahu and the Israeli Army"
https://mondoweiss.net/2017/09/frolics-netanyahu-israeli/
I feel like she should keep the stuff at the end on the screen for several seconds longer.
"My German mother when we play any board game"
~ Laura Ramoso
Ha ha, cute stuff.
A nice fella just sent me this. I think I'll cry, a little.
"One sleeping baby and one hyper baby"
Reminders are back.
My body's not feeling well. I'm going to have to take care of it. Bodies need to be taken care of. This is life on Earth.
This is good writing.
"One child, standing with his father, spotted a chair floating by below and said, 'I have good eyes, Daddy.' A flock of approximately 11 pigeons were having their own difficulties – attempting to fly south into the gusty wind, only to be pushed back under the bridge."
~ Sarah Honosky
Veterans of the Unwell Patriarchal Society have many different kinds of stories
"Historically, birth outcomes for Black women in Orangeburg County, where Marsh lost her pregnancy, have ranked among the worst in South Carolina. From 2020 through 2022, the average mortality rate for Black infants born in Orangeburg County was more than three times as high as the average rate for white infants statewide.
Today, Marsh is still trying to process all that happened. She moved back in with her parents and is seeing a therapist. She is taking classes at a local community college and hopes to reenroll at South Carolina State University to earn a four-year degree. She still wants to become a doctor. She keeps her daughter’s ashes on a bookshelf in her bedroom.
'Through all of this, I found my strength. I found my voice. I want to help other young women that are in my position now and will be in the future,' she said. 'I always had faith that God was going to be on my side, but I didn’t know how it was going to go with the justice system we have today.'"
~ Lauren Sausser, KFF Health News
Why do you suppose humans feel they must do that sometimes?
I thought some people who were open to being around different kinds of people in the past, when they were younger, would still be that way when they got older, not get more insular.
They're there.
There's all kinds of people having all kinds of experiences on this planet, and it seems some people might know that, and they might know that they really don't have to act so cliquey or entitled to forget or abandon others just because they're different.
Life could be better. More fun. More creative...
What if lots of things can be worked out in this lifetime and what if some do not need to wait for the next lifetime in order to be acknowledged?
Healthcare! How's it going?
You should take care of yourself, but if you want to ditch people in the process of going for a more comfortable or bearable life, you might also be ditching a piece of yourself. So maybe that's not taking the absolute best care of yourself?
This seems true.
Those who are so easily forgotten by some people are not so easily forgotten by everyone on Earth.
It's wonderful to think of people evolving and their sensitivity increasing.
"'As a 52-year-old childless woman, I wanna say to the people who think that a woman's worth is measured in her baby count—I mean, shoutout to all the amazing mothers—but the childless women have been mothering the world and elevating culture as aunties, godmothers, teachers, mentors, sisters, friends, and the list goes on,' she boldly recognized.
Wrapping up, the Girlfriends alum added a note of encouragement, declaring, 'And you do not need to push out a baby to help push humanity forward.'"
"Tracee Ellis Ross Makes Bold Declaration About Childless Women"
I remembered this quote again. It was pretty good. I'll probably remember at least part of it for the rest of my life, while others on purpose try to forget it.
You're getting reminded about sexism now.
Yes. Reminded that only talking about certain types of "fortunate" people and certain types of bodies and certain types of experiences is harmful and irresponsible and discriminatory.
Friday, September 27, 2024
This happened recently, too.
"Amari Marsh of Orangeburg, South Carolina, was charged with murder/homicide by child abuse three months after losing her pregnancy in 2023. A grand jury cleared her of that charge in August."
~ Lauren Sausser, KFF Health News -
"She was accused of murder after losing her pregnancy. Now she's telling her story."
The earth life, this life...it is real.
"Impacts of the Climate Crisis on Farmworkers | American Lung Association"
https://www.lung.org/blog/climate-change-impacts-farmworkers
No sirree...
I will not be hopping on the conservative bandwagon of not believing that climate change is real, or thinking that voting for someone like Trump and his terrible discriminatory attitudes, small-mindedness, and sexism is going to be good for the country...that is the stuff that can make you cry...
What is to be done?
I flew away from the Carolinas before the storm came.
"Abnormally warm water helped Helene rapidly intensify and suck up moisture"
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/27/nx-s1-5130849/helene-category-4-fast-warm-water-climate-change
"Helene hits Asheville, bringing flooding, power outages"
Asheville’s historic Biltmore Village submerged in water after Hurricane Helene
Thursday, September 26, 2024
So many opportunities exist in this world for humans to learn more about how to be good to themselves.
And to one another...
Various health circumstances necessitate learning more about how to be better to the self and to the planet while living in a human form on this planet...
I appreciate Health. It is a good teacher.
It could happen...
For real...
Maybe they can enjoy learning more about what they feel are "The Good Vibes."
I could see it happening.
Team Coco | "The vibes are real. #CONAF" | Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/teamcoco/
So many opportunities exist in this world for humans to learn more about how to be good to themselves and one another.
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Okay, granny.
"Kiss my grits." Calm down, we're just eating rice with soy sauce and drinking ginger lemon tea. We can have grits another time.
BRO.
You and Elon are not buying me off by buying me a house in this life. You're welcome to get better. That's what I am doing.
Thank you for sharing!
"5. Toxic Positivity Damages Relationships
In close relationships, all parties do their best to support each other, lend a shoulder to cry on or a listening ear, or validate and be there for one another. Toxic positivity prevents this from happening, and it can alienate those you love and care about. This is because you may do these things:
Display inauthenticity by pretending to be happy when you aren’t and that inauthenticity bleeds into everything you do
Become dismissive of other people’s feelings and invalidate them in the guise of encouraging positivity
Miss out on supportive bonding opportunities with those around you
Begin to force others to behave in a pre-specified, overtly positive way, even when they don’t want to
May feel expected to put on a positive act for those around you, making your relationships less authentic
Bury emotions may manifest in moments where you lash out or behave negatively with others
Block out others and make them uncomfortable sharing things with you while preventing them from being themselves in your presence."
~ Lakeisha Ethans
"Psychology Explains The Impact of Toxic Positivity"
Aw...
"Lakeisha Ethans is a compassionate mom of two who believes in the power of positivity, kindness, and empathy to create a positive change in the world. As a Contributing Writer at Power of Positivity, Lakeisha strives to make a difference through her content. Lakeisha holds a degree in Accounting and Business Management and has also pursued her interest in holistic health and wellness by obtaining a certificate in Yoga and Ayurveda.
Driven by her love for writing, she can craft compelling content that deeply connects with her readers. She aims to establish a connection between words and hearts, effortlessly weaving narratives that inspire, inform, and entertain. In addition, Lakeisha is an interior design enthusiast and a gardening fanatic!
She is a widely published relationship and gardening expert and a ghost author of several published books. When she’s not writing, she’s either knee-deep in soil, tending to her beloved plants, looking for ways to spruce up her space, or making memories with her kids!"
"Psychology Explains The Impact of Toxic Positivity"
Well, look at her, singing and using humor with her health issues.
"The rich people are ripping me apart on Instagram"
@Alyssathepayne
Words of my baptism. Possibly because ancestors were social nurses?
"Love the sojourners"
Deuteronomy 10:19,Leviticus 19:18
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2010%3A19%2CLeviticus%2019%3A18&version=ESV
My body wants to heal.
My body deserves MUCH better and my body knows it deserves MUCH better. I'm going to do the best I can this morning to make it feel better.
Amen. Hallelujah. Praise God's LOVE!
Thank you for your kindness, Jesus.
Dear Jesus, please help me heal because my body doesn't feel good this morning and I was exposed to things that didn't help it this morning and I really need healing.
I'm probably going to rest and not listen to this, but it exists for a reason.
Garfunkel & Oates - "Dating a REPUBLICAN"
I just want to rest...but people who think these mistakes excuse even worse things are not convincing.
"The Story Behind Kamala Harris's Truancy Program"
~ Gene Demby
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Dear universe. Please help me.
I need to heal my body and not let the mediocrity make me upset, sad. Let's give my body something to look forward to, like rest and healing. Even though I'm supposed to be more on the move later today.
I have made salt water, lemon water, ginger tea, and I have alkaline water...
Such horrible things were on a conservative radio station that was playing downstairs. People on the radio who are conservative. Want to blame everything on immigrants? It's just disgusting.
How can a man want to listen to that crap in the morning. And coffee, no. So unhealthy.
Truly the last things I needed after waking up feeling unwell and congested after just a little sleep.
It's like a reminder that even though I feel bad for going away, I could not live here.
I need to heal my body as soon as possible.
Dear Jesus, please heal my ailing body.
I need healing. It is sad to wake up so badly. Dear Jesus, please heal my ailing body.
I want healing. I want healing. I want healing. I want healing.
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Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Modulating. For Peace.
Dear universe, please let me go to sleep soon and let the unrestful feelings dissolve. Help humans get better rest and feel good. I pray for better balance and harmony. Thank you for listening.
Ha.
"Mark Ulriksen’s 'Childless Cat Lady Inexplicably Enjoying Life'"
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2024-09-16
Hmmm.
"Tracee Ellis Ross Ignites Big Internet Reaction With Bold Declaration About Childless Women"
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tracee-ellis-ross-ignites-big-182019652.html
Time to watch something I'll probably never actually do!
"Opening a 90lb Cheese Wheel"
~ Jessi & Alessio
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q2vyu3YbLAM&si=O7sHdU47LU2glozY
Life is just like art.
Even the sexist people who are still relying so much on old patterns in order to survive, and who are still getting by, just repeating those same old survival patterns temporarily...even some of the ones who still seem to be so tiresome, so oppressive, and so into controlling the narrative...Even they still have potential to do so much more.
At least I've learned how to be more attentive to the human nervous system in this lifetime.
It's great to be on a Healing Journey. Healing is happening. It's happening all the time. There are lots of good healing frequencies happening on the planet.
You really could be better to X types of people than the Unwell Patriarchy wanted you to be.
Maybe not you and you. But definitely you, you, and you, and you, too.
What is so unhealthy about Patriarchal Culture.
Just the idea of having to surround yourself with immature, insecure, sexist people in order to survive in an immature, insecure, sexist industry (Like what apparently still passes as the norm in many places in show business. Like what some people do in order to succeed in Hollywood!)
Opinion: Patriarchal Culture Sucks.
"POV you’re a cartgirl and a man hits on you"
@DustinPoynterVideos
Let the healing begin...
My face is hot. I'm asking the universe to help me heal. There's a bunch of construction going on in the yard next door. It is a bit jarring.
Let's get healed.
I will make circles with ankles and other things.
Size is a part of life.
Remember how happy people were when the new pants from Costco fit.
"Take It To The Limit"
The Desperado Dreamers
Working on it!
You should give yourself a day where you just take care of your health. Just take care of your health. How hard can it possibly be? Just take care of your health!
You know, when I get my health all lined up and stuff...
I think I can be rather refreshing.
I'm not a big cult follower.
I'm not a great enabler.
But I CAN have a fun side.
Humor helps!
Come on, bicycle face!
"Reshma Saujani at Smith College's 2023 Commencement"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zMRcWj_GKxY&si=bXrLQZBI-LMqEFKh
If you have paid for life insurance for your parents and sibling and spouse but you hear your mom got rid of hers because Patriarchal Forces wanted her to, you're gonna get pedaling!
It's time to make different plans.
Come on, sister. The paycheck-archy is not set up for us. It's not leaving us anything. It's putting all kinds of roadblocks in our way, too.
I enjoyed the part where the Swiffer came out in this video.
I used some like it to deal with the most amazing dust bunnies in a closet that I have ever encountered. They had tiny dust particles to deal with in this video.
"I tried living like a German for a day"
~ Uyen Ninh
I just don't think the patriarchal values are working out well for everyone.
There have been major health issues and mobility problems. How come you want someone to clean the house, but if the man of the house doesn't want to spend money on that, it doesn't happen, but then money gets spent on other things?
Sneeze!
"How come you can afford to put $ towards this thing but you can't afford this other thing."
Earth life.
When should you have the "I have been informed that Patriarchal forces convinced you to forget about us even though that wasn't the situation you inherited" conversation in regards to life insurance and other things?
It's a one-step-at-a-time kind of life, sometimes.
My body tells me I have to take care of my health today, and that's what I'm going to do. It's not possible to act like someone else when you inherited a different set of circumstances than they inherited. So if you fail to meet their expectations, and it feels bad, and you're sensitive about that kind of thing, and you start getting symptoms, that's a big sign that your first task is going to be attending to your health and getting better. O, life!
A body that that needs care can be a good reminder
People need to get better at taking care of their health and themselves. Everyone is different. I am learning more about how sometimes people need to get better at taking of themselves first. It will help them the most, and then it will become much easier to see how good it will be for them, too, and for society, to make some changes that will be really good for them, and for their health, and for all kinds of important people.
Believe a better future can begin now.
"We can still rise above our own pain to help Bay Area farmworkers in need"
By Jamie Beckett
Monday, September 23, 2024
They are so silly!
"The German art of complaining"
@uyenninh
https://youtube.com/shorts/uOZs--mOmEE?si=w8yyEnINld9i7QW4
"I tried living like a German for a day"
~ Uyen Ninh
What a gorgeous sky... beautiful.
Yesterday's magical moment...
Sometimes you end up going to places you never expected...
Beach!
There's all kinds of things going on.
Life can be about cleaning and trying to help people get over their allergies, too.
Generally speaking, on most mornings...
Coffee in the morning is for other people.
Your body needs something else.
Not coffee.
Oh my gosh, that might be fun!
What if you sit down with somebody and say, let's kinesiology test this text. What are the top four things in this book that could help you?
Why do you read? Depends on the day.
Ever felt like you wanted to cram a book about getting a better quality of life into your head, distill what you learned into the exact right amount of perfect bite-sized lessons, and then impart those lessons to a few people over a 24-hour period that will change lives!
A book like...
"Your Body Will Show You the Way"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61818185-your-body-will-show-you-the-way
Also, you would buy the book for them, too, if they were interested.
It's a caffeinated culture.
"And yet I never learn my lesson..."
~ retr0avocado
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cvm71HPtW82/?igsh=NjZiM2M3MzIxNA==
Oh, oh, a SHARED experience!!!π
"Back in the 90s everything yummy was labeled SINFUL..."
~ retr0avocado
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9aOL4_uG0G/?igsh=NjZiM2M3MzIxNA==
Somewhat, kind of, sorta. Not exactly, but you know, it exists for a reason! Maybe a lot of reasons.Yes, you feel alone in your unique experiences.
When did you start that compulsive chewing?
Well, actually, I think it got bad after I figured out that so-and-so was going to warp so-and-so's life. Also that lady in airport security and her comments.
"Are you going to share any with the rest of us?" Because she thought I was traveling with a rich guy, based on how the rich guy acted with me.
"Aren't you with him?"
"No."
He laughed and said "She doesn't know who I am."
That's part of why he wanted to be around me, perhaps.
He was familiar though.
Maybe that was from another life?
What's on the menu today...
"Oregon farmworker advocates divided on whether effort to address exploitation will work"
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/06/21/farmworker-rights-h-2a-visa-oregon/
How can fortunate humans help fellow humans...
"Stars Wear Red Pin in Support of Israel-Hamas Ceasefire"
Who is going to be listened to...
"'Reservation Dogs’ actor’s powerful statement on Emmys red carpet"
https://ktla.com/entertainment/reservation-dogs-actors-powerful-statement-on-emmys-red-carpet/
I suppose people want the feeling of being in control, and that's why they can get so diligent about repeating certain patterns.
"Florence Pugh Says It's 'Painful' to Read Mean Comments about Weight"
What's up with continuing those repetitive exclusionary survival patterns?
Yesterday:
X: I think that I get hangry sometimes. I was starting to get upset about societal inequity and was compulsively chewing on my fingers. But I also had some sushi in the car, and I asked myself, do you just need something to eat? And after I got home and ate it, I felt better.
Y: You're just realizing that you get hangry?
X: I thought I was upset about the injustice in the world, but I also realized I'm less upset about it when my belly is full.
(Not that societal inequity is okay, but at least the painful, unhelpful, compulsive chewing on fingers and clothes was no longer such a battle.)
Friday, September 20, 2024
I π geography!
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Beautiful...
Make my scallops 'See Wee' style...
Fountain and Flannery O'Conner's home...
What discoveries will tomorrow bring...
Feeling productive.
Ripping off bandages while helping with an insurance claim and probably gonna get in the shower soon because medical grade tape can be very stubborn!
I look forward to reading it in the library.
I could hypothetically go to this, but I will not.
"Stephen Colbert's new cookbook is based on Lowcountry"
He's better off if he knows he better not get too used to it.
"My wife is sick right now #couple #marriedlife"
@meghanandjack
I'll be better at it in my next life.
"A day in the life of a trad husband"
~mayaandhunter
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/yjzFUwiYiK1rjL7x/?mibextid=Mk4v2M
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Time to go back on vacation!
"Undercover as a hotel cleaner in Ireland: ‘Lifting the heavy mattress, I cry tears of rage and exhaustion’"
~ SaΕ‘a UhlovΓ‘
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/19/ireland-hotel-cleaner-work-payslips-schedule
In this lifetime or the next lifetime?
X's folks will be $0 much easier to hang out with when they stop acting like their entire existence revolves around propping up their inherited "we feel entitled to not care about the people who are of your kind" Unkind Unwell Uncaring Patriarchal Values.
It does sound strange.
"It’s strange how normal this weird existence seems after a while. Maybe that’s because everyone is completely exhausted."
~ SaΕ‘a UhlovΓ‘
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/18/undercover-germany-farm-worker-shop-vegetables
Your children do not inherit what you inherited.
"The organic farm shop is a paradise for wealthy Germans. Behind the scenes, we pick and chop vegetables until we’re on the point of collapse."
~ SaΕ‘a UhlovΓ‘
"Undercover as a farm worker in Germany: ‘My hands are numb. No one knows when the shift will end’"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/18/undercover-germany-farm-worker-shop-vegetables
Countless hours of learning experience!
Special skin and special hair and special genetics and special needs.
You do not get your parents' genetics.
"I have to rest because I can't walk right now because I got a rash from shaving."
"You shave there?"
"Yes"
"Why?"
"I have PCOS"
"Oh."
If I was rich, I'd get laser hair removal all over my upper legs so then I didn't have to feel the need to shave my inner thighs before I go to the beach and get tons of rashes and incapacitated with walking and applying ointments and bandages. Liquid Neutrogena and Tend Skin helps but it is not enough. We'll see if the at-home hair zapping device that they sell nowadays works in a few months.
Witches.
"Burn Your Village (Same Old Energy pt.II) - Official Video"
~ Kiki Rockwell
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fMtnktpF_t0&si=BQRYEgq1VrBiVD32
Villager Voices: "It's just cultural programming. We don't like hearing about that stuff when the words come out of your mouth, but when they come out of the mouth of another person, it sounds so much better."
True!
"Children in Gaza: ‘We deserve to live our childhood like other children'"
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/world/video/gaza-displaced-children-ldn-digvid
What's on the menu for breakfast today???
"Teamsters won’t endorse in presidential race after releasing internal polling showing most members support Trump"
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/18/politics/teamsters-will-not-endorse-us-president/index.html
What if it all starts to look similar to the food growers of the future...
"TAMPA, Fla. - Criss-crossing the back roads of Florida, you'll see just how fruitful the state is. Watermelons, peppers, corn and many more crops fill the landscape. Each one is unique, but the farmers who grow them share one growing problem: labor."
~ Mark Wilson
"Battle over migrant farmworker wages in Florida as farmers face rising costs"
The descendants agree that Hollywood people of that particular era who were great at acting like they didn't care about human rights were simply reflecting the values of the witch burning villagers they needed to entertain.
Which presidential candidate was most likely to mirror their behavior patterns?
"It was the 2020s, so certain communities agreed that voting for the most fascist candidate was bad, but benefiting from other privileges, getting money from discriminatory institutions and having access to Amazon delivery was good."
Hair has changed.
Last 36 hours....
A hit and run fender bender on the way to the airport, airplanes from West to East Coast, meals, a beautiful dip in the Atlantic Ocean, prickly pear spines in hands (picked them without gloves), tending to bodily ailments, intense bout of cleaning after opening a dust bunny laden closet...but then I got at least 6 hours of sleep and now it's different.
The water here is different. It makes my hair really crazy and wavy after I wash salt water out of it.
Soooo...it looked witchy in the mirror.
Why did some "burn the witch" vibes come at you from unexpected directions?
Have you read "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"? The mother prefers her son to her daughter.
What if some people still act like they'd like you better if you were a born in a different kind of body on account of their survival mechanism programming?
Maybe it's because they need to feel they have more control over their environment.
Monday, September 16, 2024
It's a great time to get better at valuing all kinds of human beings a little bit more, or a lot.
"Women, especially women of color, in the United States are more likely to live in poverty than men, and they need robust, targeted solutions to ensure their long-term economic security."
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/basic-facts-women-poverty/
What if her friends utilized their fertile imaginations...π€£
"Michelle Russell, 70, regularly met her closest friends for 'music and margaritas.' It was their tradition: They would order salt-rimmed cocktails, share a meal, and listen to whichever local musician was playing at their favorite restaurant.
But Russell has been receiving fewer and fewer dinner invitations.
'Over this past year, because my money has gotten so tight, those friends don't call me anymore,' she said. 'They know I don't have the money to go out, and it's embarrassing for me when they pay for my bill.'"
~ Allie Kelly
"Boomer Who Lives on Social Security Struggles Financially"
Remember to take the black curant seed oil this morning?
Although a certain kind of life seems not just 99% but actually 100% unattainable based on my inherited genetics in this lifetime, there must be other options...you think???
Looks delicious...would try.
"Best restaurant to eat in Milan"
~ The Pasinis
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PI3s0zlTqFY&si=3Gjh-Fb7pFvXiJ-U
https://www.facebook.com/thepasinis/videos/864328455792493/?sfnsn=mo&mibextid=6aamW6
Beth Orton - "Sweetest Decline"
Sunday, September 15, 2024
Just sharing, again.
I had such a fun food experience this evening. I dipped sourdough bread into olive oil with raw garlic, and later I added herbs de provence. And I had the retsina that I like. I know lots of people think retsina is disgusting. But there is one brand that I like to drink chilled, and it has a pine cone on the bottle. Gaia Wines makes it.
It sat in the fridge all summer and I was never in the mood to drink it, and then tonight it was nearing the bottom of the bottle and I finished it off because this was the night to appreciate it!
When you're in the mood to drink that particular type of wine, it's kind of like there's a pine forest in your cup.
You know what else goes weirdly well with that retsina?
Oily peanut butter!
Yes, it was a very oily night.
I had oily bread with garlic and herbs.
And then I had peanut butter and red currant jelly on sourdough.
And also just plain spoonfuls of the oily peanut butter.
And then I would drink the retsina and it would be like, Oooooh pine forest in a bottle!
These are exciting times to be alive.
Exactly.
Well, it's great to be able to experience all this free love and living...what with all the writing and sharing and eating of sourdough bread and accepting oil as a part of life...it's just what's happening right now, I guess.
It's cool outside. Reading this story of a disappeared mountain ranger.
"It wasn’t until the summer of 2001, five years after he disappeared, that Randy’s remains were finally discovered."
~ Eric Blehm
"Climbing Mt. Morgenson in Sequoia and Kings Canyon"
https://www.backpacker.com/stories/climbing-mt-morgenson-ranger-randy-morgenson-disappearance/
"The following morning and 6,000 vertical feet later, we topped Sheppard Pass, and were welcomed to the high country with a squall. 'Smell that?' Rick said, inhaling deeply, as we pulled ponchos from our packs. 'Rain on granite, nothing like it.' And he was off, hustling across the exposed plateau. Thunder growled. Lightning flashed. 'We should spread out a couple hundred feet,' he yelled back to me. 'If the lightning gets much closer, get up against a rock and sit on your sleeping pad with your knees pulled up to your chest.' He took a few more steps. 'Hey, not to freak you out,” he continued, 'but if I die up here, I’m good with that.' He inhaled deeply again, and I gave him a thumbs-up."
~ Eric Blehm
Climbing Mt. Morgenson in Sequoia and Kings Canyon
https://www.backpacker.com/stories/climbing-mt-morgenson-ranger-randy-morgenson-disappearance/
"Looking around for a place to recline and close my eyes, I smelled a distinctly sweet and delicate scent and found myself in a garden of strikingly blue polemonium, which had been Randy’s favorite Sierra flower. I’d only happened upon the high-altitude gem a handful of times, in little more than withered clumps, because I tended to visit the high country in September and October, past the flower’s prime. I had hoped I might see it on this trip, and recalled the story from Randy’s childhood, when he’d climbed a Yosemite peak with his father, Dana, and first discovered polemonium eximium. Dana told Randy that the common name is sky pilot because it is found only on or near the tops of the highest peaks. 'The name,' said Dana, 'means ‘one who leads others to heaven.’' Randy reached to pluck a tiny bouquet for his mother, but his father had stopped him, explaining how the delicate flowers had fought hard to survive in such a harsh environment. 'Wouldn’t it be nice to leave these alone?' He explained in terms an 8-year-old might grasp: 'If climbers before us had picked these flowers, we wouldn’t now be enjoying their beauty.'”
~ Eric Blehm
"Climbing Mt. Morgenson in Sequoia and Kings Canyon"
https://www.backpacker.com/stories/climbing-mt-morgenson-ranger-randy-morgenson-disappearance/
"I don’t wish man in control of the universe, he’d written in 1971 while atop Mt. Solomons. I wish nature in control, and man playing only just a role as one of its inhabitants. I want every blade of grass standing naturally, as it was when pushed through the soil with spring vigor. I want the stones and gravel left in the autumn as spring meltwater left them. Only these natural places, apart from my tracks, give me joy, exhilaration, understanding. What humanity I have has come from my relations with these mountains."
~ Randy Morgenson qtd. by Eric Blehm
Climbing Mt. Morgenson in Sequoia and Kings Canyon
https://www.backpacker.com/stories/climbing-mt-morgenson-ranger-randy-morgenson-disappearance/
Will definitely look at this again.
"Parasympathetic Nervous System | Healing Frequency"
~ Irene Athanasiou
I might check this out sometime.
It could happen.
"Rainn Wilson's personal experiences inspired his spirituality-focused podcast"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rainn-wilson-podcast-spirituality-soul-bloom/
"Soul Boom" | Official Podcast Trailer
Our experiences shape our reactions / responses
There's been times when I have felt that even if I don't have the resources because of whatever I am experiencing or learning, I do have an underlying feeling that I want more and more people to get access to whatever they need in order to have a better life.
When the universe has delivered some weird experiences, there's a need to learn how to respond to those experiences. Sometimes there's a learning curve.
What luxury to know and believe!
It's fine to want to be my best self: pet cats and lay in the grass.
Or in a room with a view.
Some types of more confusion are more harmful than others.
"At the top of his golf course Friday morning, in Rancho Palos Verdes, California—with its staggering views of the Pacific Ocean and that mesmerizing coastline—Donald Trump announced that, if reelected, he would kick off his promised mass deportations of illegal immigrants in landlocked, rundown but reviving Springfield, Ohio..."
~ Joan Walsh
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-vance-haitians-springfield-racism/
"There were problems with Trump’s logic, as always. First, according to local officials, there is zero evidence anyone is eating pets. Second, the Haitians in Springfield are there legally, with work permits, to help shore up the struggling economy. They would be hard to deport, Donald; even Ohio’s GOP Governor Mike DeWine and Republican Springfield Mayor Rob Rue defend them.
Also, Trump claimed he’d be deporting Venezuelans from Springfield, but they aren’t there. There reportedly are some Venezuelans in Aurora, Colorado, and Trump said that would also be an early mass deportation target. I guess he got confused. As always."
~ Joan Walsh
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-vance-haitians-springfield-racism/