"Different generations working with their female coworkers.
*Laughs in white boomer*"
@champagnecruz
Friday, May 30, 2025
What? Is this the reason?
"The biggest failure of the last administration — and arguably the primary reason that voters 'threw the bums out' and put Trump in office — was the cost of housing. The price of a house jumped by about 50% during Biden’s term, and spiking interest rates meant that the effective cost of buying a home more than doubled. Rents skyrocketed as well, jumping more than 26% over those four years. Since owning a home is an iconic part of what it means to be an American, the fact that this milestone has become woefully out of reach to the current generation of Americans has had a massively disillusioning effect on our society."
~ Basel Musharbash
"Messing With Texas: How Big Homebuilders and Private Equity Made American Cities Unaffordable
Dallas was one of the last big cities in America where a working family could buy a house. No longer. And it's not because of zoning policy—it's because of corporate consolidation and private equity"
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/messing-with-texas-how-big-homebuilders
Thursday, May 29, 2025
And now I know...
"The Fish Doorbell — The Fish Doorbell"
🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟
"Dutch guy and American visit Antwerp"
@letsdoubledutch
https://www.instagram.com/share/reel/BADVck4Ayn
"English divorcee in Red Light District"
@letsdoubledutch
https://www.instagram.com/share/reel/BAHXaxL9H7
"'Dutch fish doorbell origin story"
@letsdoubledutch
Interesting experiences. Grappig!
"Max Verstappen tries to be in an advertisement 🏎️"
@letsdoubledutch
https://youtube.com/shorts/iSd3vIf5rDA?si=-TkPskJz3WYLjqcv
"Dutch person taking vacation days in America 🌾"
@letsdoubledutch
https://youtube.com/shorts/EPXkhj7VTfA?si=PXdPUyIa6ERpyvM_
"Showing a Dutch person small-town America 🇺🇸"
@letsdoubledutch
Both pets and human creatures deserve healing, don't they.
It's time to be very nice to Kitty cat because unfortunately she got traumatized by a situation involving a household item and now when she sees the household item she runs away and the household item is simply a blanket and the blanket was something she ran under and then unfortunately a human foot started to come down on her but then the human foot lifted up when it felt a lump. But nevertheless, even though she was not physically hurt, she was very much psychologically unhappy about the experience and now whenever she sees that blanket being laid out the way it was when she ran under it, then she runs away from it, and it's really sad. She is suffering from PTSD. But only when the blanket appears as a trigger, in the exact space where it appeared outside. And even if she's many feet away from it, she runs away and wants to go in the house and hide. But apparently she still likes her humans because she still wants to lay next to them on the bed and she still accepts all the pets.
Next to a safe blanket.
It's true.
Some of them are going to get the genetics that are going to make them have to learn how be more focused on the healing and the petting of the cute cats.
And now...spelen met translation.
"West of the West" and "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit"
Trying to learn a little bit of another language by oneself can be very dull, and the brain needs a bit of variety.
Working with free resources, and just cannot seem to learn another language very fast even if it's one of the ones that's the most close to English!
So, what if I pick out some quotes from other recent readings, just to see what the translations might look like?
"A small frenetic man, Burrell gave the impression of feeling uneasy in his robes, and he seemed to compensate for this insecurity by playing bully. Ironically, he found his most convenient target in defense attorney Griffin, a black man like himself. Each time Burrell ruled against Griffin, he did so with an impatience that bordered on brow beating."
Mark Arax, Page 145, "West of the West"
OK.
Trying this now (with the aid of Google translate):
A small, frenetic man,
Een kleine, hectische man,
Burrell gave the impression of feeling uneasy in his robes,
Burrell gaf de indruk zich ongemakkelijk te voelen in zijn gewaad,
and he seemed to compensate for this insecurity by playing bully.
en het leek erop dat hij deze onzekerheid compenseerde door de pestkop uit te hangen.
Ironically,
Ironisch genoeg,
he found his most convenient target
hij vond zijn meest geschikte doelwit
in defense attorney Griffin,
in verdedigingsadvocaat Griffin,
a black man like himself.
een zwarte man zoals hijzelf.
Each time Burrell ruled against Griffin
Elke keer dat Burrell tegen Griffin oordeelde
He did so with an impatience that bordered on brow beating.
Hij deed dat met een ongeduld dat grensde aan intimidatie.
Page 145, Mark Arax, "West of the West"
"In 'The Agent,' Arax profiles James Wedick Jr., an FBI agent turned private eye, fighting for the chance to testify on behalf of two Pakistani Muslims who stand accused in the first terrorism trial in California. The authorities think (hope) they’ve busted an Al Qaeda cell in Lodi, population 60,000, a farming town at the far northern edge of the San Joaquin Valley. In reality, Wedick tells Arax, they’ve found the neighborhood ice-cream man and his sad cherry-packer son guilty of little more than stupidity and railroaded by a dubious interrogation process."
~ Richard Rayner
"'West of the West' by Mark Arax" - Los Angeles Time
🤨🤨🤨🤨🧐🧐🧐🧐
Onto the second book:
'"That's my mogger,' said the lady in her soft country voice.
For some reason this was terribly funny. Anna, biting back her laughter, glanced at Max and found that he too was almost in convulsions.
'What's a...what's a mogger?' she asked as the lady folded back the lid of the basket, and before anyone could answer there was a screech of 'Meeee' and the head of a scruffy black tomcat appeared out of the opening."
Judith Kerr
Page 82, Chapter 4, "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit"
Trying this now:
'"That's my mogger,' said the lady in her soft country voice.
"Dat is mijn mogger", zei de dame met haar zachte countrystem.
For some reason this was terribly funny.
Om een of andere reden was dit verschrikkelijk grappig.
Anna, biting back her laughter, glanced at Max and found that he too was almost in convulsions.
Anna probeerde haar lach in te houden toen ze naar Max keek en zag dat ook hij bijna stuiptrekkingen kreeg.
'What's a...what's a mogger?' she asked as the lady folded back the lid of the basket,
'Wat is een...wat is een mogger?' vroeg ze terwijl de dame het deksel van de mand opvouwde.
and before anyone could answer there was a screech of 'Meeee' and the head of a scruffy black tomcat appeared out of the opening.
en voor iemand kon antwoorden klonk er een kreet van 'Meeee' en verscheen de kop van een onverzorgde, zwarte kater uit de opening.
Judith Kerr
Page 82 Chapter 4 "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit'
"Judith Kerr has spoken about finding, years after her mother’s death, letters from her father in which he describes her mother talking about killing both herself and her two children. At the time, she says, she was particularly happy: she had just learned to speak French."
Josephine Grahl
I am very tired now! Maybe I should have looked up "The Girl with the Pearl Earring..."
There are those who lead by example...
"White House sued for abruptly halting services for deaf when Trump took office"
https://www.rawstory.com/white-house-sign-language-interpreter-suit/
So good!
"Sam Oliner, also from Poland, arrived from a displaced persons camp in 1945 'totally uneducated and forlorn.' The staff observed his intuitive skill with animals, and they encouraged him to keep pets of his own. He learned ''not only reading and writing but also how to cooperate, how to be kind,' he said. Tante Anna in particular struck him as 'a farsighted and truly altruistic human being.'”
~ Deborah Cadbury
"Schoolteacher Anna Essinger Saved Her Students..."
Another reason to learn more...
"Anne's Dutch was fluent and effective but does occasionally veer into stream-of-consciousness, which is tricky to capture, or slang, which is even trickier. One very concrete example of the latter: she refers to herself ten times as a 'bakvis,' a slightly pejorative word for a younger teenage girl, now I think a bit dated, meaning the kind of fish you would fry for a quick meal."
~ Nicholas Whyte
"The Translation of Anne Frank"
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-translation-of-anne-frank/
And I think it'd be cool to see a good film about someone like her, for a change.
"Schoolteacher Anna Essinger Saved Her Students From the Nazis"
Because X was never rewarded for thinking about it too deeply, and the system expected her to act like that.
I know X was just trying to get by in her life, but why did she act like going along with the sexist and demeaning norms of the time was enjoyable to her?
Maybe a lot of things will improve sooner rather than later.
"I was punished for not working harder to nurture and uphold a culture built around the lethal combination of aging white men’s ego and libido.”
~ Corynne Cirilli
"Women, You’re Not The Problem — Our Sexist Workplace Culture Is"
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sexism-in-the-workplace_n_5a4d556ae4b06d1621bcf9ed
"Former 'After Midnight' Staffer Files Suit, Alleges Hostile Work Environment"
Jed Rosenzweig
"Tired of the message that I needed to figure out how to exist in a culture that prizes and supports maleness and whiteness above all else."
~ Corynne Cirilli
"Women, You’re Not The Problem — Our Sexist Workplace Culture Is"
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sexism-in-the-workplace_n_5a4d556ae4b06d1621bcf9ed
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Humans love flowers! 💐🪻🌻🌷
"Jacoba van Tongeren"
https://jacobavantongeren.nl/english/
Oh, looking at the flower catalog and then finally looking at the illustrations at the bottom of the article, and seeing how much she liked the flowers, too.
That is really something, universe.
We deserve better than fascism.
"National parks told to police 'negative' history under Trump directive"
https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/national-parks-negative-history-trump-20343308.php
Wow, she battled an infection for eight years (before the widespread use of antibiotics, I think?)
"In 1916, when Jacoba was 13, the Van Tongerens returned to the Netherlands. They settled in the Johannes Verhulststraat in Amsterdam and Jacoba attended high school. She then trained as a nurse, but fell seriously ill in 1928 with a streptococcal infection, leaving her too sick to sit her final exams. Her father rented a house in Groenekan, in the countryside, where she was cared for by a housekeeper. After eight years of treatment, she relocated to the TB sanatorium in Amersfoort, where she befriended a nurse by the name of Nel Wateler. In 1937, Jacoba and Nel returned to Amsterdam and took up residence in the Antillenstraat."
"English – Jacoba van Tongeren"
Independence among Independents
"Early September 1944, the government and the Interior Army (the joint resistance forces in The Netherlands, created in September 1944) demanded more cooperation among resistance groups. H.M. van Randwijk, in charge of Vrij Nederland at the time, attempted to wrest the leadership of Groep 2000 from van Tongeren but she refused. She proposed a merger of equals between her group and Vrij Nederland, which van Randwijk found unacceptable. In the end, the First Aid posts in Amsterdam and the fighting squad went to Vrij Nederland. The rest of Groep 2000 remained independent and continued to concentrate its efforts on helping people in hiding.
Van Tongeren's father had taught her the use of secret codes. He had also impressed on her to keep names and addresses hidden and never take notes. Instead, she used coded correspondence to find addresses for people who needed a safe place. She designed a numerical code, which corresponded to the members of Groep 2000, the people in hiding and all addresses. Only she and one other person knew the key to that code. In March 1945, the Germans got hold of the group's entire coded administrative system but they could not decode it. As a result, the hiding places of 4,500 people were never discovered."
"Jacoba van Tongeren" - Wikipedia
What might this have been like? What would it look like on screen?
"As a child, she would live together with her father in a moveable home for army officers in the tropical rainforest, close to the bridge under construction. She never went to primary school but received what we can call a ‘military education’ from her father. Part of that involved inculcating military norms and values, such as great discipline and sense of responsibility."
"Jacoba van Tongeren" - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacoba_van_Tongeren
Also would be an interesting subject of a film.
'Jacoba van Tongeren, Groep 2000 and its 150 members have remained virtually unknown, in part because of Jacoba's modesty and her post-war ill health. But the fact that the group was working entirely in code did not help matters either. Wartime camouflage also worked after the war. Only in 2015, when the book ‘Jacoba van Tongeren and the unknown resistance heroes of Groep 2000', was published, the veil was lifted. It was based on the memoirs, which were discovered by accident by a son of Jacoba van Tongeren's brother. Only then a full picture of the organisation began to emerge: the group had been invisible for 70 years."
"Jacoba van Tongeren" - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacoba_van_Tongeren
🌬️🍃❄️🏔️⛅🌱🏞️
"As a quote often attributed–probably incorrectly–to Edmund Burke says, 'The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.'
This is especially relevant as the United States and the world are once again grappling with questions about immigrants, intolerance, and the rise of authoritarian regimes.
I’ll focus on the Netherlands because it was such a paradox. It was a safe haven for Jews fleeing the Inquisition and Hitler and the only occupied country whose workers staged a nationwide strike to protest the treatment of Jews.
Yet, the Netherlands was also the deadliest country outside of Germany for Jews. The fascist government eagerly participated in the Nazi atrocities and even used bounty hunters to capture Jews. By some estimates, the Nazis and Dutch fascists murdered 75 percent of the 140,000 Jews living there before the war.
Amid all that carnage, several heroes arose. One of the most remarkable was largely unknown until her memoirs were published posthumously in 2015."
"Jacoba van Tongeren, codenamed 'Miss 2000,' was the only woman founder and leader of a resistance group in the war. The trained nurse and social worker created the secret Group 2000 in 1941 to aid people in hiding, including Jews, resistance fighters, and young men subject to forced labor in Germany."
~ John Winn Miller
"World War II has many lessons...."
https://www.kentucky.com/opinion/op-ed/article300946434.html
A bio, after watching a historical film.
"Banker To The Resistance – Walraven van Hall"
https://toritto.wordpress.com/2018/10/10/banker-to-the-resistance-walraven-van-hall/
"The Resistance Banker trailer (2018)"
Being mean to children is not a sign of an advanced or health y society.
Sadly, I came across this today:
"when you were born here and the Trump administration wanna send you back to your great great grandfather's village..."
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj9XVfqk/
People were comparing this to some very cruel things that happened in the past.
Saturday, May 24, 2025
Humans are cute. Humans are good!
"Inside the tiny Highland school with just two pupils"
BBC Scotland
Interpretations are trepidatious?
Neutral Milk Hotel - "Oh Comely Lyrics & Meanings"
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/36473/
Seems like maybe it's about somebody being in mourning about knowing that sometimes people are easily tricked into treating other people very badly.
Learning how to respect the health of your fellow humanity is a journey.
"'I Will NOT Yield To Disrespectful Men'"
~ TYT Investigates
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Radio Paris? Hmmm. 4%? Eeesh.
Another "things like this have happened before" moment.
"Why Trump’s Approval Rating Is Still So High Despite Many Being Furious With What He's Doing"
@KatieCouric
https://youtube.com/shorts/oWwX-KvewBo?si=ho8YS2XqzvFbsDxH
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Ah, variety.
There's just lots of ways of being in this universe.
Maybe sometimes when things get harder, it means you're getting to the really good stuff.
Then your higher self is like, "Oh bravo, now you're getting to the really good stuff!"
What's good for the soul might not be what all the people around you are going to give you compliments for, sometimes.
I also think of those people who created works and were not particularly celebrated and died. And then years later, everybody realized oh, this book is very meaningful. But the author never got to see that kind of appreciation in his or her lifetime.
Sometimes people do get it, though.
And then the next moment and the next decision arrives.
Now I'm letting my ankles rest on the cool ground. I don't know why so many people have gotten their fear centers so activated, but I suppose I'm not that different, even if we have different situations, and different ways of dealing with our problems, or of expressing ourselves.
May there be peace and healing. This has been a rough time for some people, for sure.
I needed something somatic maybe.
Right now, lying on a blanket, with my knees on the ground and my ankles up in the air, and shaking the feet and lower limbs but letting the rest of me be on the blanket, on the ground, seems like a smart and respectful decision for my health and wellness. And my nervous system which is, of course, in need of healing, obviously.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Frisian & Scots (for fun!)
"hoo muckle it cost awthegither for tae pey sic fowk throu the years"
"Speir anent Scots speakers"
https://www.scotslanguage.com/news/6647
"Dat makket it lekkerder."
"Learning Frisian: Example Dialogues and Phrases"
https://www.futurelearn.com/info/courses/frisian/0/steps/116189
Door = through. Doorways. Where did this language come from.
Crowds
"Inside Anne Frank's Real Home"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MsdHFBZHG2g&si=Utm8EqVcdGxFWgCn
Sometimes I get chills when I remember how uncrowded it was the day I went to visit the muesem in 2001, and how I used to stare at the book when other people were reading it on the school bus. I saw the kind of power it held; that was a formative experience.
Now this video is quite easy to find online.
"Otto Frank talks Anne's diary" | Anne Frank House
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AWRBinP7ans&si=Rr9WtVm4axqREsl9
Also had the cathartic spillover of tears not from watching the video (which I first saw in the house) but from reading some of the comments...some from a relative of the bookcase maker.
Monday, May 19, 2025
Sigh.
Tonight's purpose: Just a simple soul who needs to make lifestyle changes and take care of the body. Maybe that's the life's purpose? It could be so.
Cuteness, too though.
Humanity has many moments of cuteness too.
"I can’t be neurodivergent! Can I?🤔"
@TorenWolf
Humanity has many moments of sadness.
Because it's hard to live a life here on Earth sometimes.
Neutral Milk Hotel - "Oh Comely"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z-fjyEIgWik&si=fwNibpbn7nxpX4U-
"Oh Comely" by Neutral Milk Hotel
https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/s/lriTClp3Yq
"Oh Comely - Neutral Milk Hotel" (live)
I wonder how the cat can be so relaxed?
Oh humanity, this is a such strange time. There's a part of me that feels very upset and I don't have the energy to hide it: I am sad about how people are sometimes. People can treat each other better.
Societal standards are ever evolving.
"Skinner said that Munro 'reacted exactly as I had feared she would, as if she had learned of an infidelity.'"
~ Sian Cain
"Alice Munro knew..."
“She said that she had been ‘told too late,’ … she loved him too much, and that our misogynistic culture was to blame if I expected her to deny her own needs, sacrifice for her children and make up for the failings of men,” Skinner wrote. “She was adamant that whatever had happened was between me and my stepfather. It had nothing to do with her.
'I … was overwhelmed by her sense of injury to herself. She believed my father had made us keep the secret in order to humiliate her. She then told me about other children Fremlin had ‘friendships’ with, emphasising her own sense that she, personally, had been betrayed. Did she realise she was speaking to a victim and that I was her child? If she did, I couldn’t feel it.'
Skinner distanced herself from her family in 2002, after telling Munro she would not allow Fremlin near her children. But after reading an interview where Munro spoke positively about her marriage, Skinner took Fremlin’s letters to the police in 2005."
~ Sian Cain
"Alice Munro knew..."
When people feel disrupted, sometimes they get very controlling.
When people act like your point of view is worthless to them or not worth considering, are they just being unskilled and falling back on relying on patterns which they observed in others, and by relying on that learned behavior again, they get to have something like a space where they can recover a feeling that they can once more be in control?
Art thou a Clown Wife?
"The Day I Realized I Was in a Cult"
~ Alyssa Grenfell
https://youtube.com/watch?v=W_eSubCKmGo&si=uOX6Tw2EncOUFne5
With a clown's life?
"TV Review: 'The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives'"
https://www.purewow.com/entertainment/the-secret-lives-of-mormon-wives-review
Art thou ever a trad wife?
"#community #conflict..."
@brown19170
What if a lot of Trump's clownish behavior is really just the results of his reckless indigestion of some people's ideas of a traditional wife...What makes some people so needlessly destructive? Hmmm.
There's probably many factors.
"Trump dismantles domestic violence nonprofits with DEI attack"
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/trump-domestic-violence-dei-attack.html#cxrecs_s
Another mistake! Oh well.
Oops, I drank ginger tea, and now I guess I'll have to get the blood work done another day.
The pendulum can also go the other way...
"Winooski superintendent shares story growing up in refugee camp"
"'Right now, I think we're at a low point in how we're treating each other and how we're treating vulnerable communities,' Chavarria said. 'But, I think the pendulum can also go the other way, and I have faith in the United States that it will do the right thing over time.'
The Trump administration has called self deporting a 'dignified' way to leave the U.S. The Department of Homeland Security is offering immigrants who self-deport $1,000 if they submit an 'Intent to Depart' through the CBP Home app and their departure is confirmed.
Chavarria said his family considers this money 'insulting' and has no plans to accept it."
~ Anna Guber
"Vermont family self-deports following notice from ICE"
https://www.mynbc5.com/article/winooski-family-self-deports-following-notice-from-ice/64785010
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Humorous people of modern times.
"German on an American Hike! 🤣 #funny #german"
@nappifamily4
https://youtube.com/shorts/cfntCIFc_VA?si=mJpa-7kA0NcMEJhb
"Having a German wife is pretty cool! 🇩🇪❤️ #germany"
@nappifamily4
https://youtube.com/shorts/yxGu1E6wJng?si=6oHek3KmJW4IODr9
"Guess i got a good one 🤷🏻♂️ #love #international"
@nappifamily4
Hello, Sunday's nearly over.
And this old poem was running through the old noggin:
"Sumer is i-cumin in" | The Poetry Foundation
Processes are processing again...
Sometimes it's really easy to get pulled back into looking at the same things.
"The food supply of the Secret Annex"
https://research.annefrank.org/en/onderwerpen/2cb4ec5b-d423-4255-8b7c-0c667a54f33c/
"From 8 August 1943, a 'customer loyalty' scheme for fruit and vegetables came into effect in many places, including Amsterdam. This meant that every household had to commit to a regular greengrocer for each four-week period. The latter issued a 'family card' by name and had to ensure collection of vouchers and reasonable distribution of his supply, depending on the number of family members. How the helpers solved this complication in practice is not known."
Why didn't they know. Miep lived until 2010, and perhaps they could have asked.
Saturday, May 17, 2025
I can do it. I can be more interested in how to be healthy now.
I also need to let go of some of my interests sometimes because I need to do it for the sake of my own health.
I need to be more interested in how to be healthy today.
Can my good higher sources help me now?
I'm having a little physical discomfort, dear higher sources, can you please help me? Maybe I can get up and walk around. Will that help? A tea or some apple cider vinegar and water? I know I was being a little bit daring this evening.
I want to start getting better at listening to those higher sources, you know.
Oh my goodness! I can totally see it. I can totally see how a higher source could be saying oh no! She's supposed to be taking care of her health, not cramming her head full of this other stuff, oh my gosh, oh my goodness gracious.
Isn't it wonderful to think that people will be more educated in the future about so many different health-care related things?
Some very lovely insights have been shared!
"Hungry or Nervous System Cry? Decode Your Signals"
https://youtube.com/live/AzjDH-ymhls?si=NPPJNLSpW2ypAOHQ
I'm just starting to learn some things, like a beginner, crawling before you walk.
My body's like please learn how to be good to me eee... Yes, I certainly got messages. Which I could not ignore. I simply could not. No siree, not I.
I think I can thank the body for being a very big wake up call.
It's not been fun to have scary pain and trauma, but I am finding my ways to make a situation better and more healing.
Some other people have their own coping mechanisms. And there's kind of like almost an emotional eating energy aspect with others' coping mechanisms, too. But it might not be exactly the same. But it's still something, isn't it?
I need to focus more on my own health right now, but I'll pray for good health for the collective. But I know that in order to contribute to the collective, I'm going to have to help myself some more.
Wow, we will see what happens.
I dared to eat a small plate of a sliced precooked beet, a little bit of a cooked sliced Japanese sweet potato, plenty of micro greens, some hummus, and a squeeze of lemon juice. I had two cholacol pills with it. And a digestive enzyme capsule.
Back to my journey...
I am not even 12 minutes into this yet, and I already feel like I wish I heard some kind of conversation like this a very long time ago.
"Hungry or Nervous System Cry? Decode Your Signals"
Reminding myself to check on this page again in the future.
"Check out my next Adventure! #churchorgan #music"
@SalisburyOrganist
What about Saturday night and Sunday? What about that?
Friday was kind of like free eating day. But it was still healthy. It was vegan! But I guess it just wasn't healthy enough. Saturday was sit at home and...manage pains. Seriously know you want to pursue Better Health day.
I really would like to get a lot healthier and better now.
I had a nice little interaction with some young Mormon men and said I couldn't really discuss religion with them because of my health problems and there wasn't really a good time to come back. But I wish them luck and they wished me luck. And that was nice. But I really wish I felt healthier. I wish zero people would have my health problems, and that's including me, too.
Maybe this can be informative.
On account of trying to manage terrible physical feelings it was tea, plain baked potato, and miso soup day.
"Hungry or Nervous System Cry? Decode Your Signals"
https://youtube.com/live/AzjDH-ymhls?si=NPPJNLSpW2ypAOHQ
Yes, there's genetics and PCOS and perimenopausal stuff and all kinds of things like that. But also I'm curious about what is going on with the nervous system, because I sure am aware of it.
This is why some people write as a part of processing trauma.
"This Actually Helps Trauma"
@TherapyinaNutshell
https://youtube.com/shorts/Xl2Jkh4xfG0?si=cNV66TUX1HUfgDTB
Writing about something for 4 days in a row helped people process trauma.
I wish we lived in a society where we were all encouraged to really take care of our health really well.
I wonder what has happened with people? We could make a society where we are encouraged to take care of our health, couldn't we?
What a time this has been!
I wonder if I could just pretend to have super amazing help / health and then maybe it will feel better? I did so many things today so many little processes because I woke up and there was stabbing pain and that was not good. And of course there's stuff to be scheduled and it's been scheduled now and I don't know. I'm so tired of this. It's really tiring. I did so many things today, so many little processes because I woke up and there was stabbing pain and that was not good. And of course there's stuff to be scheduled and it's been scheduled now, and I don't know. I'm so tired of this. It's really tiring. I'm really going to find out things to be grateful for now. Attitudes of gratitude, yay!
How it feels after more experiences.
My body hopes I can get better at taking care of my health. Sometimes others' agendas are not going to be in the best interest of your health. It's a new path. Sometimes others are not going to be able to help you, and you will have to ask the universe for more help, or for a better direction, to go towards a new path towards healing and wellness.
Friday, May 16, 2025
Maybe they actually pair well together?
"This is your sign..."
"Just a swinging"
~ evilninjarobot
https://www.reddit.com/r/justgalsbeingchicks/s/lxpwxIyd8r
"Amazing"
~ Soft_Ambassador_7848
And another book that Anne Frank read, which is apparently not available in English yet.
"Camera Obscura" by Hildebrand | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1544307.Camera_Obscura
Oh my. I detect a bit of English.
I don't know enough Dutch yet so I will have to look up the rest of what this reviewer is saying.
Zij zijn zoons!
Just imagine all the migrations that went on for ages!
"Foreign-language influences in English - Wikipedia"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-language_influences_in_English
An interesting life! 1935 - 2025
"Dr. Malcolm Potts, gutsy global changemaker for reproductive health and women’s rights, dies at 90"
https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/articles/news/in-memoriam/dr-malcolm-potts-dies-at-90
English!
"Anne's Book of Beautiful Sentences" | Anne Frank House
https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/diary/annes-book-of-beautiful-sentences/
Thursday, May 15, 2025
I might color some things now.
This body and brain could use some relaxation.
Spent a lot of time cramming another language in my head today and I think it's time to take a break.
Actually it was mostly one language (Dutch) but then a little bit of another (German, which I went off and on with last year.)
And I'd like to also brush upon some French and also learn some Italian because I used to be able to speak some Spanish. And Italian, as you know, is a little bit more similar to Spanish.
Maybe in the future I will look a little bit at Swedish and Irish and then who knows what's next.
I like looking at languages that have influenced English.
Why? Why would it do that?
It's really incredible how the Patriarchal Cult trains people to be so apathetic about caring about the health of their fellow human beings.
Great life lesson!
Sometimes jokes are just distractions from real issues that deserve to be addressed in a way that is more caring and respectful and inclusive of a much wider range of humanity.
I think I will do that.
Just imagine living in a much better culture that wasn't so punitive of certain types of bodies.
You're not making $ and you're going to want to call member services to see how much this is going to cost.
Since it all comes out of the deductible! And
Covered California won't let you buy a plan if you got health insurance from someone else's job even though the only insurance that job offers is the kind where everything comes out of the deductible.
Slaap je?
I decided that if I learn Dutch, maybe I can read some of Cissy's books!
"Cissy van Marxveldt (Author of Een zomerzotheid)"
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2963353.Cissy_van_Marxveldt
"Van Marxvelt's Joop ter Heul novels had a notable influence on the writings of Anne Frank, who addressed her diary letters to an imaginary friend named Kitty. Anne Frank scholars, as well as Anne's friend Kitty Egyedi, are united in their belief that Frank's Kitty was based on a character created by Van Marxveldt: Kitty Francken, a friend of Joop's and a frequent recipient of her letters.
Van Marxveldt also wrote many other young-adult books, of which Een zomerzotheid ('A Summer Folly') was a particular best-seller, which made her affluent.
In 1914, she met Leo Beek, who was a department store manager as well as a reserve infantry officer. De Haan and Beek married on 2 February 1916 and had two sons, Leo and IJnze. During the German occupation of the Netherlands, Beek was a resistance fighter. He was arrested and later executed in the Westerbork transit camp in 1944, though it was 1946 before De Haan learned of his fate. She dedicated her last book 'She Suffered Too' to him. She died in Bussum on 31 October 1948, aged 58."
What a remarkable time to get clear on your values and attitudes about how to get ahead for yourself in this life!
"Today, the Supreme Court hears historic arguments as the Trump administration tries to challenge the constitutional provision that guarantees automatic citizenship to all babies born in the U.S. The Constitution's 14th Amendment says, in part, that all persons born in the United States are citizens of the country. On day one of President Trump's second term, he issued an executive order barring citizenship for children born in the U.S. whose parents were either not here legally or who were here legally but on a temporary basis."
I wonder if they've ever heard of ACEs?
"ICE Used Kids as 'Bait' to Arrest Woman in Worcester"
"Ferreira-De Oliveira’s frightened daughter told her mother that she needed to leave the home now and come meet them on the street, because ICE was telling them that if they arrested Clara, they weren’t allowed to leave the baby in the hands of a minor. So, the feds insisted, grandma needed to rush over to take custody of the baby.
Shortly after Ferreira-De Oliveira arrived on the scene, ICE took her into custody. The agents suddenly no longer seemed interested in the 21-year-old daughter."
~ Asawin Suebsaeng, Ryan Bort
The self-absorption is truly incredible. Not in a good way.
"Trump Admin Plans to Postpone Limits on 'Forever Chemicals’ in U.S. Drinking Water:
PFAS are linked with cancer, fertility issues, and developmental delays in children — yet the E.P.A. has moved to weaken regulations designed to protect Americans"
By Charisma Madarang
That's showbiz: liking people who are different is possible, under certain, very specific circumstances...
"'I like you too much': Trump and Saudi crown prince bask in their friendship"
As someone with actual non-cosmetic medical problems, I'm just imagining the world's dads having this much plastic surgery so they can succeed in their careers.
"Nikki Glaser, 40, shares shocking images of herself before sparking backlash with plastic surgery, Ozempic comments"
And then being all like "People just treat you better when you're hotter."
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Comfy kitty.
Keeping watch alongside a human.
Well, what's this about now...
"Apartment Tour: 400-year-old Dutch Canal House (Amsterdam)"
~ David Wen
And to think, I saw it on a day when it wasn't very crowded.
A more recent experience.
"INSIDE ANNE FRANK HOUSE: Tour, History, How To Get Tickets"
~ Andy's Awesome Adventures
This was one of the discoveries in another season of reading
"The Last Secrets of the Secret Annex"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62918585-the-last-secrets-of-anne-frank
One of the people that hid the Frank family and their friends had stomach cancer
"Johan Voskuijl"
https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/main-characters/johan-voskuijl/
And he still survived the war, but almost all of them died. The only one who survived being captured by the Nazis was Otto Frank.
He thought his teenage daughters would survive, but that did not happen. They got put on the very last train from Westerbork to Auschwitz.
He was in Auschwitz for 5 months and then it got liberated. It took so little time for everyone he lived with to die in the camps except him.
Actually, Peter might have survived if he had stayed back and tried to hide in Auschwitz in the barracks with Otto Frank but he didn't.
"Otto Frank was in the sick barracks at the time. He was unable to come and tried to persuade Peter to hide in the sick barracks, but Peter would not have it. He felt that he had a good chance of surviving the march because he was reasonably fit."
https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/main-characters/peter-van-pels/
"According to Otto Frank, Peter was still in relatively good condition and was himself convinced that he would make it.
Peter arrived in Mauthausen on 25 January 1945. On 29 January he was transported onwards to the Melk subcamp, where he was assigned to work as a forced labourer in ‘Project Quarz’ on the construction of an underground factory. The living and working conditions were inhuman and the death count high. On 11 April 1944 Peter van Pels was sent back to the Mauthausen infirmary, where sick prisoners lay without care, with hardly any clothes or food – in fact, a place to die. Peter van Pels died on 10 May 1945, five days after the liberation of the camp by American soldiers. He was only 18 years old."
https://raumdernamen.mauthausen-memorial.org/?id=4&p=137617&L=1
I'm disappointed the rich white guys aren't preventing more kidnappings from happening.
She would have giggled and been like, oh these cops are right, it was funny, stop that, you funny rich guy, put that phone charging cable away, giggle giggle, and then nobody's teenage daughter would have needed to get her face slammed into the ground after watching her mother being dragged away by the ICE agents.
He's a figurehead for the wounded part of the patriarchy in need of healing.
However, he's not the only one!
"Why is Trump so fixated on toys for little girls?"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/09/trump-dolls-little-girls
In conclusion, before I go on to my next healing topic...
Maybe the universe doesn't want everyone to live in a troublingly narcissistic bubble?
People repeat certain types of behavior because they've been rewarded for it.
Like retelling the "What do you call a woman with two black eyes? A slow learner," jokes that they like to laugh at along without much thought for others.
It's possible to think so.
Wouldn't it be nice if Society got a lot less racist and sexist for them, too?
Do you doubt it?
I bet if a funny rich white guy hit a pregnant woman with a phone charging cable, the cops would have shown up and started cracking jokes with him, and talking about how everybody makes mistakes and look, it didn't even leave a mark, did it?
"Feds say woman arrested by ICE in Worcester had an assault charge. Here’s what court docs say"
Well, of course she shouldn't have done that.
However watching her teenage daughter get her face slammed into the ground by a bunch of men looked A LOT more violent than this sounds.
"A relative told the officer that Ferreira-De Oliveira struck them with a phone charging cable and was aware of the person’s pregnancy. Ferreira-De Oliveira was arrested that day."
~ Ryan Mancini
"Feds say woman arrested by ICE in Worcester had an assault charge. Here’s what court docs say"
Monday, May 12, 2025
Perhaps a lot of healing will happen though.
Honestly, it sometimes makes me kind of sad that I can't enjoy certain forms of entertainment as much as some other people can. It's as if I know too much. On the other hand, I do believe it makes me search out new voices a bit more.
Actually, I'm really overdue to read "The Never-ending Story."
It's only been about four decades since I sat next to a girl on the schoolbus who told me it was her favorite book, and that's when I discovered the practice of reading a book that also exists in another version as a film.
If I ever get around to reading this one, maybe I'll pair Momo & The Neverending Story alongside it.
To keep my spirits up, ha-ha.
"The Man Who Loved Children" by Christina Stead
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/304344.The_Man_Who_Loved_Children
"Momo by Michael Ende" | Goodreads
Perhaps owing to diet, body seems to be feeling better.
I no longer fear a trip to the ER before tomorrow's appointment. For part of this evening, I'm even well enough to renew and continue reading my library book.
"West Of The West by Mark Arax"| Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6323324-west-of-the-west
This work is such a beautiful gift in service to humanity.
"EP005 | Liver (317.83Hz) ＋ Gallbladder (164.3Hz) ＋ Blood (321.9Hz) Tibetan Singing Bowl"
~ Nature Sounds
https://youtube.com/watch?v=X3Y5mpCz5cI&si=cgTmRQ8ebxo3nkVb
And a friend had kind words to offer about living in the moment and caring for yourself. After 14 hours of moderate physical discomfort and then scheduling a medical appointment but still dealing with distressing feelings of anxiety and anguish, (oh no what if it gets worse tonight and that sort of thing), I am proud that I was able to fall asleep on my left side and then I woke up and I had some beet juice and I ate more healthy and bland but solid food than I've eaten all day, with some lemon juice and lemon water and I think, I think some things are just starting to seem a little bit better. 💞🙏🏼🏞️ Praise Jesus.
Impending medical appointments.
This cat is cute! The "I'm still standing" song got in my head.
~ lucilletherescuecat
Sunday, May 11, 2025
The universe can have truly mothering, good, loving, happy energy in it.
A celebration of the true mothering energies of the universe. That's what can happen today.
I fell asleep and I woke up.
I had a dream that an acquaintance I met long ago was really happy and she told me that it's normal to be lesbian in a place where we both grew up. She didn't get to see that when she was a young girl. But now it's really more accepted. And she was happy. I said,"Yeah, just accepted like a normal person, just like everybody else," and I stepped on a garden path and began walking on it.
Saturday, May 10, 2025
It's like I need that deep, spiritual healing, man...
It's like I have a physical disability that has emotional aspects and I got to figure out the right way to get through life while I'm navigating this disability stuff. Even though maybe it wasn't recognized as a disability.
Like I used to have a lot of pain with menstrual cycles and I was like seriously, can I put this down as a disability. But then why was it not considered a real disability? And then it's like, well, maybe Society is the one that has the disability?
I want to say this in a raspy stoner voice without actually smoking anything. Anyways, we'll see what else happens. We'll just wait and see.
Will I ever be the same? I guess not.
I'm being really put through some stuff right now, but maybe I'll turn out all right. I think I have to, like, totally change my lifestyle. Also had to put away my dinner and possibly give it away to someone else cuz there was feta cheese on it.
That's too heavy for me right now apparently. Tons of veggies. Half a veggie sandwich and half a veggie salad, but the feta cheese was too much.
I feel like I'm the patient in my own hospital and I'm my own experiment at the same time. I went through a drive-thru after not leaving the place for about a week.
It was exciting but I guess the feta cheese is not what my body needs right now.
I have to evolve a lot. Who knew it would be this hard? Circumstances and genetics hold their own challenges. Time to breathe and rest and digest and drink liquids and think about other things too. Maybe a nice little game of Wordle will help.
It's time to heal the nervous system again.
Sometimes this body needs to do little tasks and sometimes this body needs to sit still and do nothing and just veg out and it always changes, and it's never the same one thing forever.
Surviving a rough time as are others in their other kinds of ways.
I think my body is trying to tell me that healing is more important than everything else, including protesting, and maybe I can try to explain something about why, besides the fact that it's my body telling me that, because other people's bodies aren't telling them that, maybe. Well, we have different genetics and different experiences.
I decided to order a copy of "My Place" by Sally Morgan to own because something about this book really was good for me to reread right now, and part of it was not just about the author discovering her Aboriginal heritage, which was probably the main point of the book, but also how she witnessed her father and the suffering he went through.
"My Place (book) - Wikipedia"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Place_(book)
Her father, the privileged white man of the book, suffered so much and he did not live long because he suffered greatly from PTSD, and I think his PTSD was not only from the war but also his upbringing and his failure to be able to be the "man of the house" the way his Society expected him to be the "man of the house."
Her father was the least powerful and the least important person in his own house and he did not feel good about it at all. He was lost. And the medical community really failed him. He was a veteran and he struggled and he suffered a lot. He was also a very difficult person to be around. He was alcoholic and his PTSD made him borderline dangerous, but he suffered greatly, too, and I can see that he wanted to be better and he just couldn't get the help he needed.
So sometimes when I see the suffering that's going on now, it seems a consequence of the privileged ones being duped, and there must be a kind of suffering that goes along with that. Like once you have everything, once you have all the things that Society told you that you were supposed to have, and you still aren't really fulfilling your whole purpose as a person, that's another kind of suffering in and of itself.
Now, there's a lot of people who don't suffer as much as her father did in that book because they're not World War II veterans with severe PTSD and they don't have horrible flashbacks and they're not put into the hospital for huge amounts of time, and yet they may be operating at suboptimal levels for themselves even though they are successful in the eyes of society.
It's that thing that has been said before: " Hurt people hurt other people."
People have to be brave to be able to face things in this realm sometimes. We have to go down different paths than the ones that were trod before by others.
I'm going to keep going towards the healing path. It really seems to be my only choice right now. But everyday is new and an opportunity for new doorways to open both externally and internally.
Health is an ongoing job for some people.
I still would like to get through life without surgery of any kind, but that is my personal decision for myself. I still do like to think of alternatives. Like what about black currant oil and other alternatives that maybe aren't as known or accessible to people? What about things that might seem more normal in the future that are considered strange and outside of the norm to do now???
Recent history.
"On Wednesday I testified at the NH hearing..."
@lucilletherescuecat
https://www.instagram.com/share/reel/BAMJufUh7g
NH HB606 | BillTrack50
So great to find new perspectives!!!
How Lucille saved her human.
"Part 1"
@lucilletherescuecat
https://www.instagram.com/share/reel/_cisgZPga
"Part 2"
Ruth has such an awesome voice!
"Why was gardening so popular in Victorian Britain?"
@historyextra
https://youtube.com/shorts/WiB1NSc7IiI?si=N4YuIwvvrbvAvlfJ
Powerful.
Vapours!
"Cloud Fishing"
Phillis Levin
"Wolken"
Nadja Küchenmeister
https://www.lyrikline.org/de/gedichte/wolken-12397
Joni Mitchell – "Both Sides Now"
After 9 years she can finally get an operation. Meow meow!
"i have no words that can express how I feel..."
@lucilletherescuecat
https://www.instagram.com/share/reel/BAXHJUwUSr
Yeah, this society is going to look barbaric to future generations.
"saying goodbye..."
@lucilletherescuecat
A bit more light-hearted!
"Ireland during WW2"
@killersundy
https://youtube.com/shorts/s5aKS3sujiw?si=bLHpSA8mBjDr8gaq
"Medieval Town planning committee"
@killersundy again
https://youtube.com/shorts/wSBsBdKNy78?si=spT_54B1Ft7Mbrp2
"Irish and German People Offering Things #irishcomedy"
~ The "Ireland during WW2" & "Medieval Town planning skit committee" Guy
Time to go look at something else. Pray some more!
“'We’ve got a big job to do,' Trump continued. 'No other president would have done what I did... No others. I know the presidents, they wouldn’t have done it.:”
~ Charlotte Phillip
"'J.D. Vance Promises Parents Their Kids Will Have American Made Weapons If They Go To War"
What a time to say, Hey, what's wrong with some people?
"'They Aren't Kidding. This Is A Threat' — People Are Warning Against Attending The 2026 World Cup In The US After JD Vance Made A 'Joke' About Deporting Visitors"
https://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelabramwell/jd-vance-disturbing-joke-about-world-cup-deportations
Be the sensitive humans you can be.
"Worcester Mayor Joseph Petty released a statement saying, 'As someone who prides themselves on leading a welcoming city, I am devastated to hear about the separation of a family, especially with Mother’s Day around the corner. The fear of ICE tearing a family apart is the worst nightmare of so many in our city. Simply put, we cannot have this happen in our community.'"
~ Troy Matthews
"Boston Neighborhood Rises Up Against ICE..."
https://meidasnews.com/news/boston-neighborhood-rises-up-against-ice-as-mother-detained
Here we go! 😀 Go!
I am grateful. I am grateful and grateful for the opportunity to heal.
I am grateful. I am grateful and grateful for the opportunity to heal.
I am grateful. I am grateful and grateful for the opportunity to heal.
I am grateful. I am grateful and grateful for the opportunity to heal.
I am grateful. I am grateful and grateful for the opportunity to heal.
I am grateful. I am grateful and grateful for the opportunity to heal.
I am grateful. I am grateful and grateful for the opportunity to heal.
I am grateful. I am grateful and grateful for the opportunity to heal.
I am grateful. I am grateful and grateful for the opportunity to heal.
I am grateful. I am grateful and grateful for the opportunity to heal.
I am grateful. I am grateful and grateful for the opportunity to heal.
I am grateful. I am grateful and grateful for the opportunity to heal.
12 x 9 = 108
Amen.
Working on the attitude again.
I am grateful I have the opportunity to heal from multiple kinds of things versus oh God, I have to heal from multiple kinds of things. Why?
They had free will.
"For the second half of the war I wasn’t Jewish anymore. I entered a totally different world. Nobody spoke about what was happening to the Jews of Amsterdam at the non Jewish school which I now attended. People looked the other way. Most people were indifferent."
~ Jacqueline Sanders-van Maarsen
Oh, maybe the dream says he's going to read her book soon
Greenfield Recorder - "My Turn: A dream of Donald Trump and Anne Frank"
Such shameful racism and brutality.
"The family's attorney, Andrés Latarulo, said Clara's mother is seeking asylum, and her three daughters are in the country under a deferred action program.
'She didn't commit any crime, she doesn't have a deportation order, so there's no reason why immigration would want to detain her mother,' Latarulo said in Spanish."
~ Mercedes Paris and Mike Pescaro
"Family breaks silence after ‘chaotic’ ICE operation"
Who trained the racists to be so prejudiced? Blatantly acting like white people are superior.
"White South African 'Refugees' Will Soon Arrive in the United States"
It's already happened to some Americans.
"Judges warn Trump’s mass deportations could lay groundwork to ensnare Americans"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/10/donald-trump-immigration-deportations-due-process-00339319
'Three US citizen children, one with cancer, deported to Honduras..."
To me, the cat had a certain amount of charm.
Also, the cat came to the back door to meow even when my cat was still out there last time and she was resting on a chair.
So he was also calling to say hello to a human. He would say hello and then run away.
That type of meow, that I only heard in the backyard, was very distinctive, very different from my cat's meow. There was a trill to it.
Change is something really beautiful about The Human Experience, sometimes.
I'm glad I get to change, and I'm sorry about illnesses, and especially when they happen to me, I'm sorry about them, of course. But humans get to change. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
Change is coming.
There's a lot going on. Wonder if a cat I used to give some food and water to because my cat here would tolerate him is gone now though, because he hasn't been around for days, and I used to wonder if he was the same as a kitten that I saw at my front door. That kitten ran, like flew away, like a ball of flying energy. And this cat was grown. He only came into the backyard. The last time I saw him he got a little bit of cooked salmon, and some dry food.
One day when I was napping I had a dream that somebody was going to come to the door but I wasn't supposed to answer it, and then I woke up and a cat meowed near the side of the apartment that has the front door, and I didn't go out. I think some time passed and I went out and looked, but I didn't see anything. It was at night.
When he came around in the past, I was thinking I might try to do trap neuter release with him. He was very shy. He liked to come up to the back door and meow and run away. He didn't want any humans touching him. That's kind of how he acted. But he liked to say hi. And he seemed to like my cat. My cat just tolerated him, but she doesn't tolerate any other cats, so it was interesting.
She was here when the cat meowed outside and she heard the cat. See, now I've convinced myself that it was that cat.
Maybe if he's gone, he'll go to a new life and enjoy the company of humans next time around. The way my cat does.
Is there an angel of the people who are the ones who like cats who sees these things?
Friday, May 09, 2025
Back to focusing on health because it's really really needed.
I saw just a little bit about something that's stressful and triggering, and I just realized that anything that reminds me or makes me believe that the world can be a good place that's compassionate and healing is what I need right now, as I am living a life in this body.
The waterfalls are beckoning.
May beautiful healing energy help the ones who need more peace and healing now.
"Beautiful Relaxing Music 🌿 Stop Overthinking, Stress Relief Music"
~ Inner Peace Look Inside
I think it's good the neighbors were sticking up for the mother and her daughters.
I hope the teenage daughter doesn't read the comments that are bad for her. But she maybe already has. It's sad that people were like that. But I hope she has a lot of support around her right now. They deserve better.
"Woman speaks after arrest as ICE detained mom, daughter in Worcester"
NBC10 Boston
People need to learn how to not be racist towards others and to cope with their stress responses.
Just imagine if people started saying deport all the white men just because some of the white men are criminals and some of the white men are rapists and some of the white men are bad to other human beings.
The new pope is from the United States and he's also got Peruvian citizenship
Apparently, he was wanted, so he became officially a citizen, too!
Some prejudiced people say they don't want the "illegal" people here, but then they don't know who's going to provide them with all the comforts they're used to, huh. Their privileges have not made them as happy as they could have been.
They live in a very delusional world, and I do not want to be a part of catering to their delusions. I don't actually think it's very nice to them if I were to cater to their delusions, either.
I think it's nicer to respect people and expect people to be responsible and truthful. Not hide and pretend that things are fine or that things are certain ways that they're not or to scapegoat and blame a certain group of people because they can't take enough responsibility and think they need to scapegoat and blame others to explain their own unhappiness.
So prejudiced on account of some paperwork.
People need to start acknowledging they've been fed their entire lives and they've been cleaned up after and they've had their social security paid into by the "illegal" people, among other things.
As if almost everyone isn't a descendant of someone who migrated here.
Pray for this sad state of affairs to end and for things to improve. Of course, there are some shamelessly prejudiced people saying snide things like "Get rid of all the illegals" or "'Free trip home, Happy Mother's Day!" in other comments sections. Those are the very people who are going to look like they were prejudiced, small-minded and destructive towards humanity. Those are the people who make me feel like they would have joined up with the Nazis if we were living in Germany 100 years ago.
At first the daughter walked to the car door calmly and then she threw herself on the car screaming.
And a bunch of neighbors on the street started asking why the police were helping and then began chanting "Don't take the mother."
Drew Schnoebelen: "Video of the woman being taken..."
https://bsky.app/profile/dschnoeb.bsky.social/post/3loojzhsq6s2l
I just can't even believe it.
Suddenly I am up and walking more swiftly and smoothly than I have in several days! What the hell? I'm walking fast, lifting my knees high and everything! I'm still going to be careful if I bend over though. What in the absolute mayhem is this?
And the other person they arrested was a school nurse???
What a sad and horrible action to inflict on them; what a waste of human energy.
The screaming tells me this was very traumatic and mean for the mother and daughter.
"ICE in Worcester, MA"
https://www.reddit.com/r/WorcesterMA/s/8HDGRxzyOg
"Witnesses at the scene tell This Week in Worcester that WPD arrested the teen daughter of the woman taken by ICE and Ashley Spring, a Worcester resident and candidate for the Worcester School Committee.
When ICE approached the woman they seized, she was holding an infant child.
According to multiple witnesses at the scene, WPD officers supported ICE agents leaving the scene with the seized woman inside their vehicle.
On Nov. 14, 2024, Mayor Joe Petty and City Manager Eric Batista issued a joint statement which said, in part, “The municipality will never target individuals based on their immigration status.” In other statements, both indicated the city would not support the apprehension of anyone without a judicial warrant."
~ Tom Marino
https://thisweekinworcester.com/ice-seizes-woman-worcester-050825
I need help so I can walk and release the pain.
I need some kind of higher guidance because my mobility issues seemed to be getting better yesterday and today I'm having more difficulty.
Please help me to accept the help from the places and people in the universe that actually know how to help people! My lower back on my left side needs a lot of help right now.
Thursday, May 08, 2025
Sometimes it's good to just be quiet for a little while.
It kind of feels like there are people who can move forward, but it is scary to do because if they move forward too much or too fast, that feels risky, like they might lose a lot of connections, or something else that they like. They love having those connections. They don't want to lose those things.
It's true that it can feel lonely to start off on a different path and start new things sometimes.
People have their vulnerabilities, and they have different ways of coping.
Well, shoot. I really need to take care of my health now.
Others can ask them if they're going to be just as dishonest with themselves and each other in the future.
Should I try to find a disturbing book that I've wondered about reading for several decades?
"The Man Who Loved Children" by Christina Stead
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/304344.The_Man_Who_Loved_Children
I know it will be disturbing because I read an excerpt of it a very long time ago in
"Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing from the Land Down Under"
Phyllis Fahrie Edelson
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11153174-australian-literature
Hee hee. Witchy life?
I got a good black kitty cat at my feet. She's great at stretching. I think she's happy to be here. Maybe she can help the human body remember how to get itself repaired again.
Goodness gracious, a body must heal.
I think some men are the way they are because some old current in society wants them to be like that and rewards them for it more than it has ever rewarded them for having curiosity or compassion.
So many compliments for that Windschuttle guy. Oh well. There's no way he's gonna repeat that life again. He might be really happy to be on to the next thing.
"Aboriginal Identity: Sally Morgan and My Place"
Sigh. Peace must come back to this body. I want my mobility again.
I want to walk well again.
Something in me has seen the expensive high heels bludgeoning people. I know you don't need them. Some people are so ridiculously bad to others when they're scared sometimes. The systemic oppression really happens. I hope to heal from the deep lesson that got in my body somehow, so my health will improve. I can have knowledge and a well body, can't I? I want to be well. Let me walk in peace.
Maybe a body that got tense and triggered can relax better.
I feel like hearing this one again.
"Doughnut Song (Live In Houston 11/25/07)"
Tori Amos
Truly, it's time to move on now.
I live with such a nice person who is not someone who never made a mistake but I love that he knows how to make efforts and he's apologized before and best of all he's definitely not as selfish, shallow and materialistic as some are! Dear God, I don't know why I let others bother me so much with their truly weird choices that I would never feel comfortable making in this life.
I pray to release tension and accept good energy.
I have known fearful people who used their material possessions and things to bully and put down others and that is a very sad state of affairs. I think I need to release a lot of grief and tension. Shocking stuff. Trauma, help us get the healing we deserve.
Please let this body heal now and today!
Healing so I can walk better again is good and worthwhile and beautiful.
Good healing energy for those of us who really need it.
Dear Jesus, please help me with my healing of my back and with my encounters because some have been so so so ignorant and I don't know what their deal is, but probably they're just not very empathetic people. Humans are wired differently. Please help me heal my wiring now so I can walk better. Thank you please and thank you.
Please help with the healing.
We have all needed and deserved healing. Have met some absolutely dreadful cold-hearted bullies in this life, but humans can be very strange. I still need to choose healing because I want to walk better again. Please help the healing energies come around and get through.
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