Friday, October 31, 2025
Peaceful silly song.
The best was seeing small children singing this at a school program and watching it on videotape over and over again in the 90s. But this is the famous version:
"You light up my life"
Debby Boone
I'm sort of enjoying feeling peaceful at the moment.
I'm planning to soak up this peaceful feeling for as long as possible. And I really don't know if I'll ever be able to write adequately about the illness and anxiety that I've experienced at this age, in this decade. If I was able to feel more peaceful for the rest of my life, that would be awesome. I wonder what happened today. What hormonal things lined up today to help me feel good right now? I'm really curious. I didn't eat perfectly today. But I feel better tonight than I have for probably most of the week or this month or longer. Now I want to pet the cat and emit the peaceful vibes that I am so privileged to enjoy because I just saw the light of what might be an emergency vehicle go to another part of this complex. Peace is one of the greatest treasures on Earth. I pray for peace. I love peace. I am grateful for peace. Feel this peace for as long as possible.
Speaking of reading, how about her memoir?
"Selma van de Perre, Dutch Jew Who Resisted Nazis, Dies at 103"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/world/europe/selma-van-de-perre-dead.html
"My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor by Selma van de Perre" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55711696-my-name-is-selma
People still like reading!
"English was the seventh-most popular major at Yale in the 2024-25 school year."
Jaeha Jang
"English professors take individual approaches to deterring AI use"
I'm kind of thinking about Maria Callas now.
"Maria Callas sings three phenomenal Flute-like notes in Leonard Bernstein's Ornaments"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=erkhGo2kMJY&si=V8FtJ2QN1c8m6imZ
What a voice!
"what I atee⬇️"
amyinhalf
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DP7NokNAXZA/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"😳#weightlosstransformation"
amyinhalf
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DP7wx_UDmaq/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Human vulnerabilities. Some tough stuff sometimes.
"I want to feel and look as good as possible"
amyinhalf
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DP4lSGqkXOW/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"GLP-1 diabetes and weight-loss drug side effects..."
Let's...
eat cake!
"This cake was ridiculously moist"
sheneedsasnack
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQWwxpTjrbA/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
All the young men are lining up for this job, aren't they. Education, what's it for?
"As heat gets more extreme, pregnant farmworkers are increasingly at risk"
What if?...
The future calls some of the not-so-well-off people of today "forced to be less risk-adverse than the others."
The nation's cat lady hating guys are still mad and still aren't winning.
'Elon Musk speaks out as beloved San Francisco bodega cat is killed by autonomous Waymo vehicle
A shrine to the pet has sprung up near where KitKat was killed, with one resident predicting it will 'grow and grow' as Day of the Dead approaches"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/elon-musk-waymo-san-francisco-b2856034.html
Dear stress, why can't you be more like a young man who knows how to lighten up and laugh?
"Why Young Men Don’t Like The Democrats"
More Perfect Union
https://youtube.com/watch?v=awU5f07rh2Y&si=WZoGc0Y6gP_ETfDb
"White House plays racist deepfake video of Democratic leaders on loop" | Trump administration | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/01/trump-racist-deepfake-video-jeffries-schumer
"Explaining Right Wing Comedy's Radicalizing Wormhole | Nick Marx | TMR"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wA7uk77jiFE&si=LXLmQZ5824beeryK
TSK.
Just cleanin' and chillin'.
"Explaining Right Wing Comedy's Radicalizing Wormhole | Nick Marx | TMR"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wA7uk77jiFE&si=LXLmQZ5824beeryK
Just cleaning and chilling!
Gotta prepare by doing work in the kitchen first.
Adding some entertainment that wasn't available to the ancestors.
Flight of the Conchords - "1353 (Woo a Lady)"
https://youtu.be/3UOUzP4GIf0?si=Rd-AmpqbirPheifu
"How 'Little House On The Prairie' Beamed Libertarian Propaganda Into America's Homes"
The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
I really do need apples, celery and sweet potatoes.
"Compounding these risks is the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Many people are too afraid to seek medical and maternal care, according to research and interviews with advocates and health care providers, and are increasingly fearful of retribution if they advocate for safe work environments.
The Associated Press interviewed four agricultural workers who recounted experiences of working in extreme heat while pregnant. Three spoke under the condition of anonymity because they’re in the country illegally or fear reprisals from their employers.
~ Dorany Pineda, Melina Walling, Annika Hammerschlag
"As heat gets more extreme, pregnant farmworkers are increasingly at risk"
Considering this information...
"Agricultural workers are already among the most vulnerable to extreme heat, and pregnant workers are coming under greater risk as temperatures rise because of climate change. Many in the U.S. are low-income Latino immigrants who toil under the sizzling sun or in humid nurseries open year round. Heat exposure has been linked to many extra risks for pregnant people, and while protections exist, experts say they need better enforcement and more safeguards are needed."
~ Dorany Pineda, Melina Walling, Annika Hammerschlag
"As heat gets more extreme, pregnant farmworkers are increasingly at risk"
Apple. Celery. Sweet Potato.
If I become vegan, who get treated the best so as to be able to feed me and the other vegans, and why?
Oh, and the non-vegans who eat vegetables and fruits too. They're going to need some feeding, cuz you can't just eat meat all the time, right?
I mean, I know there's some weird diets out there, but most people are not going to just eat meat.
Also, the animal who became meat needed to eat vegetables.
Body needs healing, but still don't want people suffering from medical conditions just so I can treat my medical conditions with healthy food.
"As heat gets more extreme, pregnant farmworkers are increasingly at risk"
Ah, see? Sensitivity can be a good thing.
"Dogged reporting and sensitivity focuses on the most vulnerable workers in the U.S."
"Climate reporters Dorany Pineda, Annika Hammerschlag and Melina Walling turned their lens on the plight of pregnant farmworkers, a group with little federal workplace protection and growing risk in an era of increasingly brutal heat waves.
Some women who initially agreed to speak backed out, afraid of reprisal as immigration enforcement intensified. But after months of persistence and relationship building with farmworker advocacy organizations, the team connected with three women in Florida willing to speak under the condition of anonymity.
Walling also found a pregnant farmworker willing to speak on the record — due imminently, she had suffered a terrifying episode of heat illness while eight months pregnant, collapsing in the middle of a large field.
The resulting piece painted a compelling, human portrait of how a limited and inconsistent patchwork of regulations leaves pregnant farmworkers exposed to life-threatening conditions. Judges praised the piece’s sensitivity, depth and focus on voices often left out of climate coverage."
There have been other bizarre times and they passed; now this one is here, and it will pass, too.
When the pandemic happened and people had to socially distance, I re-read a lot of the Lucy Maud Montgomery books. Recently, I have been reading Laura Ingalls Wilder books. I am also looking for a lesser-known author who wrote for children. I only read one book by her growing up, but her name is Neta Lohnes Frazier. I'm trying to get access to more of her works.
"Neta Lohnes Frazier"
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/215148.Neta_Lohnes_Frazier
Wow, this one's a bit different and sort of more twinkle~y...
"Positive Energy Sound Bath | To Help During the Challenging Moments in your Life"
Healing Vibrations
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Md2CBLGdxeo&si=M4fjX_QS_nqZhu_M
This may be one of the most bizarre time I've lived through in this life thus far.
Aw, Fred.
"When you use chat GPT for everything"
theharrisalterman and nunnigram
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPeshTAgdNm/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Sometimes technology disappoints.
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Behold the healing power of music 😻🎶♥️.
In this case, it's "Sweet Caroline!"
"day 23 ♥️"
lucilletherescuecat
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQbzUf7EboY/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Isn't that funny?
"Stegner's novel Angle of Repose (first published by Doubleday in early 1971) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972.[2] It was based on the letters of Mary Hallock Foote (first published in 1972 by Huntington Library Press as the memoir A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West). Stegner explained his use of unpublished archival letters briefly at the beginning of Angle of Repose but his use of uncredited passages taken directly from Foote's letters caused a continuing controversy."
"Wallace Stegner" - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Stegner
They took Laura Ingalls Wilder's name off a literary award, but they didn't do that with Mark Twain or Wallace Stegner for some reasons, huh?
Anyways, don't know if I want to get too sucked into that stuff. But this could be something I listen to next time I go into the kitchen.
"How 'Little House On The Prairie' Beamed Libertarian Propaganda Into America's Homes"
The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
They're musical, too!
"I reread all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books..."
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/s/U7RHCi4QgW
I don't know. Was Pa a self-absorbed jerk who made his family live in poverty when he dragged them from pillar to post so that in the end, he left the family of women almost nothing to live on? Was he a good provider and an adventurous dad with musical talent who showered his family with love?
In the comments, they mention Wallace Stegner's "Big Rock Candy Mountain" which I have never read. I have never read anything by him except for this one:
VQR » "Chip Off the Old Block" by Wallace Stegner
Now I got this song in my head!
Harry McClintock - "The Big Rock Candy Mountains"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NMAPOQedRxA&si=kUHiV-9rk5Wq22C5
Anyways, the vast majority of today's homeschooling conservatives didn't live the way Wallace Stegner's family or Laura Ingalls Wilder's family lived. But perhaps some of their ancestors did...
Lol, but how funny to imagine it.
He could have made a video called "The shiny rigid people are holding hands" and you'd see people marching like they're apparently against each other, but they are feeding off each other, and their energy fields are all interlaced and intertwined, ghostly hands gripping tightly, and they're like using different words, but still the same energy, and all that nonsense! Phew. What a sight!
You just cannot always make them happy, haha.
Why are the shiny rigid liberals and shiny rigid conservatives holding hands so tightly? Haha.
R.E.M. - "Shiny Happy People [Remastered]"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IhdCpJGuZQ4&si=ZkTguJkdaPxYuYc9
Hahaha thank you for that information hahaha. Breathe out, breathe in, and try some box breathing hahaha. Thank you for that information. I hear you and I see you and I acknowledge your presence hahaha. See you later.
The body needs healing, and the body does not lie.
To be terrible to the self or to others just by being stubborn or self-absorbed in ways that are very unhealthy and unsustainable is definitely not gonna be the pillar of healing. But everybody needs something different. A lifelong lesson, and one that has been constantly repeated day after day. Onwards...
Thank God that medicine will probably continue to advance in spite of everything ⚕️.
It's amazing to think what people might know about how different kinds of genetics operate in the future. Just skimming the words on this page for now, but I think I will look into it more later.
"Why Blood Sugar Stability is Pillar One..."
"Episode 144: The Perimenopause Revolution: Trauma, Transitions and Tools with Dr. Mariza Snyder"
https://biologyoftrauma.com/episode-144-the-perimenopause-revolution-with-dr-mariza-snyder/
Some people were trained to be rigidly stubborn, and I believe they need to be more flexible.
I'm dealing with illness again, and it's been difficult and painful on multiple levels. Physical stabbing pains, the necessity of canceling plans that were supposed to be fun, etc. Since I'm feeling up to it, I'm going to go to the nearest grocery store to get healthy food and to figure out what I need to do next.
What if everyday becomes like Halloween?
"SNAP Benefits Ending Sparks People To Give Kids Food For Halloween"
https://www.newsweek.com/snap-benefits-ending-people-give-kids-foodhalloween-1095861
Depriving people of access to good food benefits and saying that's in the name of freedom while catering to those who say homeless people should be forced to live in camps does not seem like its the best that privileged humans can do, but this trick-or-treating as food banking was something I hadn't thought of, and yet, now it's a thing.
"In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape" - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/us/politics/utah-trump-homeless-campus.html
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
I sigh with some relief, and yet I must work on some things before I can sleep.
We're going to have to learn how to be nicer to ourselves and to each other for the mistakes we've made. Diffuse shame and begin to build anew. It can be really difficult when you feel like you've had a lot on your plate to deal with, and as for judging harshly, well, that's often what was role-modeled for us, but maybe that almost never helps, huh? We all had different circumstances to deal with. How could we all see things the same way? Lots of people were given difficult situations to deal with as children, too, and they're still recovering from the experience.
When it comes to learning about concepts such as calming triple warmer, it seems to me that is not a bad thing to know more about, honestly.
The Principles of Energy Medicine – Eden Method
Dear Universe, I appreciate your help, and thank you.
I really want to change and be able to go towards something more healing, and it seems more important than anything else right now that I get more clear on this with myself. Even in the past, even in the very recent past, when I didn't see eye to eye with somebody, maybe what I needed to know was just that another person was suffering. And people deserve better than that. And I hope they get the help they need. A lot of us need help. A lot of us are suffering, for lots of different reasons. I don't feel like arguing. I mean, sometimes people feel like arguing, and there's a point to it, but I don't feel able to be in that mode right now because there's too many things that need healing. So this is why I want to change, and pursue a more healing path, and it may be I want to alter the whole course or direction of my life, honestly. I appreciate the universe's help as I navigate this challenging time. Thank you very much!
Three special roses, plus a silly poem with a rose in it!
"Rose Gold Light Therapy (528Hz) Heart Awakening" - Sacred Feminine Healing
Dynasty Electrik
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-1RM_WH4Fd0&si=avNLR1D0GmFTCsvN
"Seven Sacred Flames Meditation: Third Ray Temple, The Crystal Rose Flame Temple of Love"
The Lemurian Connection
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CIuBVNP_QFc&si=mAd1Cn1OH48nBSz5
"ROSE OF MAGDELENE | Venus Rose Codes | Sacred Feminine"
Molly Anne Chinner
https://youtube.com/watch?v=v3IvFfjyeIU&si=6HC-EnSx0g3ilc8Y
Flight of the Conchords - "The Summer of 1353 (Woo a Lady)" - Dallas, TX
"There will be change" the universe promises me.
Sheryl Crow - "A Change Would Do You Good (Official Music Video)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GDwLPMOzHLY&si=1qQeJCnNH_vdBVh1
"And for those of you who support this man as the leader of our nation, please look inside yourselves and ask yourself if this is the kind of leadership our nation deserves."
~ Sheryl Crow
"Country Legend Sheryl Crow Shares..."
https://parade.com/news/sheryl-crow-heated-political-message-donald-trump-no-kings-protests
Sheryl Crow - "A Change Would Do You Good" b/w music video
Wow! They had golden berries.
TIL they were eating what we now call golden berries and tomatillos in " Little Town on the Prairie" back in the late 1800s and I probably didn't eat either those until the 2000s. The golden berries are called ground cherries and the tomatillos are called husk tomatoes.
"All day long while the girls were in school, Ma made preserves of the red tomatoes, of the purple husk tomatoes, and of the golden ground cherries. She made pickles of the green tomatoes that would not have time to ripen before it froze. The house was full of the sirupy scent of preserves and the spicy odor of pickles."
Page 138, " Little Town on the Prairie"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Town_on_the_Prairie
"Cooking With America’s Rarest Fruit |Ground Cherries"
Early American
Monday, October 27, 2025
People deserve to be well and happy.
I am making the vow of turning over a new leaf because it is the best way to get through these really challenging times. Health, happiness and well-being are a great priority for everybody.
Everyday I want to focus more and more on doing what is best for health, well-being and happiness.
Perhaps it's sometimes more important to believe that people don't need to focus as much on unlearning ways which no longer serve them as they could focus more on enjoying learning new and better ways which are more helpful for them.
To make that turning over a new leaf feeling really count for something is really what I want now.
This is what I want to listen to now for good reasons.
"**HIGHER VIBRATIONS**
Singing Bowl Sound Bath"
Healing Vibrations
Shame. I did not look for this content but the person who filmed it did the right thing.
It appears that this was actually in a courthouse, however.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikToks/s/dPuZKmAcSS
Maybe I should reread "Women Who Run with the Wolves." It's been a long time.
"13 Reasons Why You Should Read 'Women Who Run With The Wolves'"
"Why Women Need Their Own Myth"
Breaking Down the Patriarchy
This might be kind of weird, B but T
When I saw step two...
"Why Women Need Their Own Myth"
Breaking Down the Patriarchy
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oeVHp2DtZjg&si=-yUtryUBD9dNlENF
I thought, "That reminds me so much of people who read the 'Prairie Fires' book, and now in their reviews they say they hate Rose Wilder Lane with a passion. But ironically, maybe Rose was a lot like them sometimes, too. Rose and her haters may actually have quite a lot in common!"
"Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingall Wilder"
Is it like the "manifest destiny" side of manifestation?
"Why Women Need Their Own Myth"
Breaking Down the Patriarchy
And then in the new life, the body's all like, now you better pay attention!
Fascinating!
"If I wanted to keep women out of their power, this is what I would do."
onherwisdom
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPsCqmRATK6/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
What if he's a whole other kind of person now?
Wouldn't surprise me if that happened.
"Why Women Need Their Own Myth"
Breaking Down the Patriarchy
Wow, now this one just floated to the surface!
🔮
"If I wanted to keep women out of their power, this is what I would do."
onherwisdom
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPsCqmRATK6/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I remember the sign that showed me they really didn't like the "Barbie" movie.
I should have taken a picture of it to prove it was real. The year the "Barbie" movie came out, there was a sign on the way to the pumpkin farm and it was something nasty about the people who liked the "Barbie" movie!
Was it something along the lines of "There will be no pumpkins for the evil Barbie movie lovers?" But it was less humorous than that. It really was more like a political sign inveighing against the wrongness of the "Barbie" movie.
Just a sign, sitting on some land, on the side of the road, plain as day for everyone to see. And to remember.
'Cuz I saw a teenage kid wearing a Nirvana shirt at the pumpkin farm yesterday
"Heart-Shaped Box" by Nirvana cover by Kawehi
https://youtu.be/077UlBtrqWs?si=DX1Y2EMRUx8bDWCv
And I think that place was filled with Trump-voting parents. You know, a lot of conservatives really like listening to Nirvana.
X: I bet that kid was born in 2010.
Y: It's kinda like when we used to listen to Led Zeppelin.
Kurt Cobain seemed like he was more feminist than Led Zeppelin.
Sunday, October 26, 2025
I'm glad that I got to listen to the audiobook of "Prairie Fires."
I did find getting to know more about the contrasts between the creators and their works to be worthwhile, scintillating, and all that.
"Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33911349-prairie-fires
There really is something about "The Little House on the Prairie" books that deeply affects many of the people who read them. A love of nature really sings in those stories, in words and in pictures.
Even "The First Four Years" book is very moving. I was surprised one day when tears came to my eyes just by thinking about the part of the book where their house burns down.
There's something about the books that seems bigger than any of the intellectual arguments about them.
So I wish that there had been more curiosity than judgment about the women in the tone of the text, and maybe that's partly because I was listening to the audiobook version. I will admit sometimes I didn't like the judgmental tone. It just grated on me sometimes.
I usually read my books instead of listening to them, so maybe I was forced to go through stuff. I might have been skimming through otherwise.
I don't know why, but I feel like taking a more curious tone towards them would be more fun. Because for some reason, with them, my curiosity is surpassing whatever else I might feel. I'm just so curious. I mean, maybe I don't need to figure it out, but I'm just really curious why they felt they needed to be the way they were sometimes, and yet they still created those books that are touching so many people.
I feel grateful that they were here on this planet and left us the books.
Anyways, maybe it's a good lesson!
Reviews...
"Baby Grace attended a teacher's college and taught school for a few years until her marriage to a farmer but they would have no children. Remembering pretty little Grace with her round face, blonde hair and blue eyes from the LH books made seeing a photo of Grace during the Dust Bowl and Depression years as a hard-bitten farm wife in shapeless clothing was heartbreaking for me."
~ Reviewer Laurie
"Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33911349/reviews
"I had not realized what suckers all those settlers had been. Similar to the people hoodwinked by the gold rush. The railroad companies wanted settlers on the land in order to make money(isn't that always the case?). The railroads charged exorbitant fees to transport crops as well as to store the crops before they were transported. Also, the railroads made money shipping vital goods to the farmers. Settlers didn't understand that the best farmland had already been taken by large corporations that ran bonanza farms and that there was no way in hell an individual farmer could ever hope to succeed the way the large monoculture bonanza farms did. Basically, Pa and his peers were set up for failure."
~ Reviewer Julie
"Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder"
What makes some people feel they must be uncharitable when times are hard?
Really, Laura and Rose had some audacity to maintain those judgmental attitudes about others accepting relief during the Depression. And the sentiment that people were "just getting what they deserved," especially considering that Laura's own sisters weren't doing as well, seems most uncharitable.
Laura's own sisters had to accept relief and asked for donations of clothes! And still the Wilder women did not change their attitudes. But they did not live with Laura's sisters. They were in a whole different world. And Laura's less well-off sisters were the ones who took care of blind Mary at the end of her life. Laura didn't do that. So to have such judgmental attitudes towards the people who were accepting relief is almost beyond my comprehension.
Their solace was in their tough attitudes.
And to have that opinion, even with the amount of borrowing money that they both did? (Especially Rose.) No, I cannot say I admire their politics or their attitudes towards others at the time of the Depression or afterwards.
I don't suppose they were thinking about starving children who have no way of earning money when they said those things. I think they were just addressing finding ways of dealing their own fears, and that's it.
But something about it helped them get by, or seemed to help them. They really didn't like to feel like they might ever be in that position themselves.
"Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser" | Goodreads
Emotional thoughts...
"Rose Wilder Lane Rant / Prairie Fires"
https://www.reddit.com/r/littlehouseonprairie/s/GVhDw1H6j2
It feels like another possible way to see Rose Wilder Lane is this: it really had a big impact on her when her parents' homestead burned down when she was a kid. She felt it was her fault, but her parents did not take that seriously. They weren't exactly kid gloves types of people. Her feelings were not taken seriously because that was not valued in their household.
It was difficult for her to take other people's feelings seriously, too. I wouldn't really say she had no conscience. I would say she had a troubled relationship with her conscience and with how she was supposed to process her emotions. People have those same problems nowadays, too.
When people have problems processing emotions from their own traumatic experiences, blaming the big external forces, like the corrupt government, becomes a big outlet for some of them. I'm not saying that the government shouldn't be criticized, but sometimes I feel like there's a loss of perspective, especially when people start aligning themselves with truly bad people and wanting to put those people in charge. Well, maybe I'm actually talking about what's been happening nowadays now.
Laura had a better relationship with her father and she had siblings (Rose didn't have any) and I think Laura's parents actually seemed to take her feelings more seriously, for whatever reason. I mean they still had their rules and there was still the spare the rod, spoil the child mentality, but it just seemed like there was more nurturing in her upbringing.
I'm not sure if Almanzo and Laura would have had kids in those circumstances if they had been born in a different time. Everybody just had kids back then. And then the kids were just supposed to adapt to whatever their parents needs were. Some of Laura's schoolmates had tons of children. She just had one at age 19 and then another one died and then that was enough childbearing for her.
Rose also had a baby who died and then she always wanted to adopt boys. She never seemed to want to adopt girls. Interesting. Patriarchal culture worked its way well into her brain.
But there was a strain in the family of making sure the girls got educated. If not college degrees, then at least learning how to read and think about ideas and things like that was something they obviously valued.
What interesting times these are!
One day, these will be the olden days.
"The reason why we are fighting the world so hard is..."
reichurachl
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQHvNkVEhLG/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Saturday, October 25, 2025
✨🪻Magical feelings are back.🪄🔮
Now I am nostalgic. I want to go see these places. I want to see DeSmet, and the lakes. I guess it's on the bucket list.
http://www.pioneergirl.com/blog/
That's quite a fun site to visit, really.
Bless them, searching for healing help and recording it for posterity 🙏🏼.
That's the beauty of an old-fashioned community newspaper; I am touched.
"April 1896. R.A. Boast and Mrs. G.W. Lattin took Mrs. Boast to Belvidere, Illinois on Monday for treatment by a Christian Faith doctor. She has been helpless from rheumatism for some time and has been troubled with the disease for years.
April 1896. A letter from Belvidere dated April 21st says that Mrs. Boast arrived safely at the end of her journey though very tired. The train hands were very obliging, with the exception of the sleeping car porter, and helped them all they could.
The A.O.U.W. lodge of Belvidere sent a committee to meet the train with carriages for the entire party. Mrs. Boast and Mrs. Lattin were taken to the hotel while Master Workman Palmer went with Mr. Boast to see the doctor and secure lodgings. The latter were found near the doctor’s house and Mrs. Boast was moved there in the afternoon and arrangements made fr daily treatment.
The A.O.U.W. lodge showed every courtesy and Master Workman Palmer was especially active in making the strangers at home and doing everything possible for them. Their kindness is appreciated and will be remembered by the friends here.
The grass is green and the trees all leaved out there and the country looks very beautiful to one just from the prairies. It is too soon yet to say what the prospect is of a complete cure but we will all hope that it may come. /
Mr. and Mrs. Boast accompanied by Mrs. G.W. Lattin started for Belvidere Illinois last Monday to get medical treatment for Mrs. Boast who has been very low with rheumatism during the winter. The railway people very kindly stopped at the crossing opposite the house and Mrs. Boast was lifted into the car in a rocking chair. She was feeling quite strong that morning and friends who had gathered to see her off felt that she would make the trip safely. They should arrive at Belvidere at ten o’clock on Tuesday. A card written from Owatonna Minn. Informs us that they had transferred to a sleeping car and were getting along finely.
May 1896. Mrs. Geo. W. Lattin came home from Belvidere Tuesday evening. She left Mrs. Boast considerably improved and thinks that, with no accident, she will be cured in time. Dr. Hammond calls himself a magnetic healer and depends on personal magnetism for the cures which he performs. There is no nonsense or humbug about him and he is certainly doing wonders in the way of curing difficult cases."
boast_bits.pdf
https://share.google/DuF0V7SBIXKmV8Rs8
Ella & Robert Boast
And what's unexpectedly charming now?
"Ella & Robert Boast"
http://www.pioneergirl.com/blog/archives/4655
How people enjoyed surprise parties!
"June 1888. Mrs. R.A. Boast conceived the idea that it would “just splendid” to formulate a surprise for her “liege lord” on the fortieth anniversary of his advent on this mundane sphere. She accordingly, with a look that plainly said, “don’t let Rob’t know,” invited Mr. and Mrs. H.A. Dunlap, Mr. and Mrs. David Ross, Mrs. and Mrs. O.D. Perry, Mr. and Mrs. N. Eggleston, Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Ogden, Mr. Foster and Mrs. Peck to visit them May 23rd, which they cheerfully did, and Rob. Didn’t know a single thing about their coming. He says what surprised him the most was that his wife could endure the strain of keeping it to herself.
As near full as the cup of surprise now was, there was yet more to follow. At dinner the party brought from its concealment, and presented him with one of Tinkham’s best patent-adjustable, back-action, two-story chairs, which caused the cup to bubble over, so to speak. Now Rob, is a very appreciative piece of humanity,
and he just thinks “lots” of that chair, and you can “go one better” that he won’t forget the donors for many a long day. Mrs. Boast thinks the chair very nice, the surprise perfect, and all that, but she has good reason to be awfully anxious about the extra wear on the bottom of those pants."
boast_bits.pdf
https://share.google/DuF0V7SBIXKmV8Rs8
Forgetting their troubles by enjoying spending time with friends.
"November 1895. The editor and family ate Thanksgiving dinner with R.A. Boast and wife. There was quite a party including Dr. and Mrs. Ensign, and Mr. and Mrs. Ingalls. A bountiful dinner was served, and the company entertained as only Friend Boast and his estimable wife know how. Good company and a good dinner made us forget our troubles for one day."
So this is the 21st century, right?
"Tech Bros Have Been Accidentally Poisoning Themselves With Severe Brain Toxins for Years"
https://futurism.com/future-society/tech-bros-huel-lead
"Caroline Fraser on X: 'So that’s what’s wrong with them...'"
I do love getting into reading mode sometimes.
Kinda wish I could sit on an old farm and read (or skim) Laura Ingalls Wilder's favorite book by her daughter. Fom the School of Theology at Claremont!
"The discovery of freedom : man's struggle against authority : Lane, Rose Wilder, 1886-1968 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/discoveryoffreed0000lane/mode/1up
I don't expect to be very inspired, but I might be stimulated. Sometimes Rose Wilder Lane and her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, were not very empathetic towards others. Very hypocritical, as well. But it's still interesting to see how they responded to their circumstances and I think it's possible to see why they made some of their choices, even if you find them disappointing.
I'm glad I have been able to listen to the "Prairie Fires" book!
They went through a lot. I still find their politics to be a real drag, and I think I would have preferred Eleanor Roosevelt. Nevertheless, I feel the need to pursue this line of inquiry.
I feel grateful to be able to see that I want better and maybe to cultivate a better attitude, too
Gosh, I want to rise above my own thoughts sometimes. I think of people I know who are naturally inclined to be a bit more relaxed or upbeat and I'm so glad I know them.
Them too! This is a mood.
Tenured people at universities can give Hollywood people a run for their money, who in turn can give the people in the corrupt government a run for their money...anyways, maybe this could make them feel better about themselves?
"Somalia wanted to forbid child marriage"
kimiyasajjadi
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQO8L7CiF7P/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I suppose most of our tenured teachers and show business folks and civil servants and elected officials are better than this, right?
"Unfriendly reminder"
kimiyasajjadi
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQFBSePCOEN/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
But if that's so, then the thing is, is if somebody was not so great...
"Epstein scandal: 'Different rules' for Donald Trump?"
https://www.dw.com/en/epstein-scandal-different-rules-for-donald-trump/a-74490884
Why on Earth would you want that person to be the president and let them ruin the country?
Enjoying the human that Germans are so famous for. 😂
I meant to say "humor!" 🙂
"Bin there, pun that 🇩🇪🗑️"
@liamcarps
I think the food bank donaters should try to have more healthy food available now 🥬🤑🥦.
Don't just donate all the expired junk food.
You know who's not laughing though 😿?
Some kids have pets, and if they can't even have access to healthy human food now, who's going to feed their pets? Pet food banks to the rescue!
Or make a joke? 🃏😜🎂🕺🏼
The cake in the ballroom would like us to know that someone whose SNAP benefits have gotten cut off is going to get a nice dress and a party in 7 decades. So, happy eating!!!
Wow! This just floated up. The universe wants me to think about positive things 🥳!
"Grandmothers in Colombia get the quinceañera they never had" - North Shore News
https://www.nsnews.com/the-mix/grandmothers-in-colombia-get-the-quinceanera-they-never-had-11397779
What are the poor going to do to the poor next?
"SNAP: Trump administration won’t use contingency fund to pay November food stamp benefits"
To be honest, looking at $1,000 meals in a time when children are being denied SNAP benefits is kind of disgusting.
"Vespertine"
janiedevours
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHvgB_hJ7T9/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
We know it's not their fault or what they wanted.
"ICE OUT OF LA"
janiedevours
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKtm3YvOxva/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Let us eat cake.
"Pumpkin spice sheet cake Trader Joe's"
janiedevours
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQGjVUPDiA2/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I bought one. Yes, the prices have gone up. Oh and they had a huge display of the carrot cake too. And part of me was like, you could buy two cakes and do a taste test. And make a video! But then, no, I didn't really need that. I need to read more. And to find out more about what's actually best for my body and my health when sometimes even the reading is too much. Sigh!
Gosh, if you just squint and look at it in a certain way, things can only get better!
"Donald Trump is the best -- and worst -- thing that’s happened to modern American feminism"
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/politics/state/womens-movement-donald-trump/
Has there ever been a more ideal time to come to the realization that women and girls really do deserve so much better?
And moreover...
"Hispanics’ support of Trump plunges since he start since he started second term
Notable majority feel the country is headed in the wrong direction, and only 27% approve of his job performance"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/25/trump-hispanic-approval-rating
Every person's ignorance is not punished equally.
Now remembering a German grandfather who was a sort of genteel brown shirt in the 1930s, and he later denounced his ties to the Nazis and went on to have a very respectable career in the government after the war.
"The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate by Martin Puchner" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50489374-the-language-of-thieves
What a difference the circumstances could have made.
"The Aviatrix Whose Name Lives in Infamy" | by Danny Glover | Medium
https://danny-glover.medium.com/the-aviatrix-whose-name-lives-in-infamy-a219ad658d8d
What happened to that other Laura Ingalls?!
"As late as 1938, Ingalls was still the subject of glowing press coverage. A cover story in the magazine of Connecticut’s New Haven Sunday Register heralded her as a woman who sacrificed a future with men to 'lift her sisters from the kitchen to a cloud.'
'I haven’t time for romance. There’s too much to do in the sky,' she said, giving voice to a future dream of opening a school of aviation for women. “Now women must train with men, and they hate to appear at a disadvantage because they do not have the same preparation with which to start. Instructors, too, often jolly a girl along instead of taking her work seriously.”
"The Aviatrix Whose Name Lives in Infamy" | by Danny Glover | Medium
https://danny-glover.medium.com/the-aviatrix-whose-name-lives-in-infamy-a219ad658d8d
"Vision like that no doubt contributed to Ingalls’ popularity on the speaking circuit. But outside the realm of aviation, her wisdom was questionable. It was one thing, for instance, for Ingalls to align herself with the Women’s National Committee to Keep the United States out of War; it was quite another to drop antiwar pamphlets on Washington, D.C.
Ingalls did that in a two-hour peace flight on Sept. 26, 1939, on behalf of the committee. She dropped one-page leaflets containing an appeal to Congress to take legislative action to keep the country out of war. The flight violated two rules of the Civil Aeronautics Authority: 1) dropping anything over a city from an aircraft without permission; and 2) flying in the restricted zone around the White House and most other government buildings.
CAA officials met her at Washington Airport with a threat to revoke her license. 'In her defense, few pilots were aware of restrictions on where they could fly,' according to the account in the Ninety-Nines history, 'and Laura maintained that she had done it out of love for her country.'
That same patriotic passion moved Ingalls to defiantly raise another ruckus outside a closed Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing two days later. Rebuffed by committee leaders, she fumed: 'And this is the government of the United States! I can’t understand it. Imagine! Holding hearings behind closed doors! This is a dictatorship already.'"
The infamy! Adventure came first though.
"Ingalls was the first woman to fly over the Andes Mountains (at 18,000 feet) and the first to fly from North America to South America. She easily surpassed aviatrix Amy Johnson’s distance record of 10,000 miles by logging about 17,000 in the air. She won a prestigious Harmon Trophy from the International League of Aviators."
"The Aviatrix Whose Name Lives in Infamy"| by Danny Glover | Medium
https://danny-glover.medium.com/the-aviatrix-whose-name-lives-in-infamy-a219ad658d8d
Laura Ingalls (left) descends from a TWA 'Sky Chief' with Amelia Earhart in 1935. (Photo: Kansas Memory)"
"The Aviatrix Whose Name Lives in Infamy"| by Danny Glover | Medium
https://danny-glover.medium.com/the-aviatrix-whose-name-lives-in-infamy-a219ad658d8d
"Laura Houghtaling Ingalls earned fame as a daredevil, speed and distance pilot in the 1930s but ruined her reputation by aligning herself with Nazis. She was convicted of working as an unregistered agent for the German Reich. After her release from jail, she unsuccessfully sought a presidential pardon for years. (Photo: Monash University in Australia)"
Yay, Dorothy Thompson!
"Dorothy Thompson: First American to interview Adolf Hitler"
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/14/nx-s1-5324672/dorothy-thompson-hitler
Didn't expect to see her in this:
"Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33911349-prairie-fires
And I didn't know that so many small town conservatives thought FDR was not all that different from Hitler. But they didn't have as much access to information back then as we have now, did they?
"Who Goes Nazi?" by Dorothy Thompson
https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/
How much does access to more information matter to people nowadays? Does it help? It's actually pretty overwhelming, huh? Makes them dig in their heels harder.
Guidance...
Sometimes I even wonder if some things are happening because it helps humanity evolve.
"A Garden Miracle: An Irish story about rising to the challenge of tough times"
Kate Chadbourne
Because she acts like she cares about others.
I feel her compassion more, somehow.
This one cries...
MollyB
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMx6o1dw/
💧
At a lake.
Molly B
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMx6cCGP
I still can't believe how many people seem to feel they must act more coldly when times get tougher, and it must be a survival strategy to "protect" themselves they picked up from somewhere.
Friday, October 24, 2025
Food for thought here.
"The angels tell me that 9 out of 10 people have three quarters of their love locked away..."
Lorna Byrne
Rivulets.
Less human rights violations would also be swell.
Maybe the still miserable conservatives should pick someone better to represent them and their raging traumas next time.
Two parts of the "Long Skirts" story come to mind.
Yes, there was this part (which is mentioned in the "Prairie Fire" biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder):
"Blindly in my terror I attacked. 'Oh, aren't you ever going to let me do anything! Are you always going to drag me down and make me miserable? My goodness mama, I'm not a child! I'm sixteen! I'm almost going on seventeen, and just when I'm beginning to have a little pleasure in my life --' I was crying, wailing, 'Oh, why do you always have to spoil everything? Why can't you let me alone! Are you ever going to stop making me utterly miserable?"
R. W. Lane, "Long Skirts" on page 139 in "Old Home Town"
But also, what about this part:
"A strange thing happened then; I saw my mother. I saw her as a person, separate, not as my mother at all. There was the feeling that she was just a woman; and that she had been a girl herself, once, and had married and had me to bring up and that she wasn't quite sure about everything yet, and could be puzzled and confused and afraid of making mistakes.
She was just a woman, standing there in her last summer's Sunday lawn, faded a little now but with every ruffle carefully ironed; she was holding those ruffles above the dewy grass. I saw the wavy hair that she curled with such care, putting on a dressing sacque over her corset-cover and petticoats, heating the iron in the lampchimney and testing it with a moistened finger and gazing so anxiously into the glass; she was a settled married woman but still she wanted to look nice, and I could have cried over that wavy hair. She did look nice; she looked kind and brave and sensible. She was really beautiful."
R. W. Lane, "Long Skirts" on page 157 in "Old Home Town"
How can you ignore that!
If you read the story.
Old home town : Rose Wilder Lane : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://share.google/sXXWVlgBWkdYOW8Gy
Rose Wilder Lane Rant / Prairie Fires
As I'm reading "Old Home Town," I feel this way.
It seems to me that Rose was trying to do a lot of things as she made her way in life, and while forging onwards, she was making lots of mistakes, and that was not unlike what some of the men in her lineage had done. But she had to do it as a woman in the early 20th century.
I like "Immoral Woman" the best so far!
It would be interesting to know what happened to Mrs. Sims's daughters.
"Design by Paquin. A frock of black mousseline de soie."
"Old home town : Rose Wilder Lane : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive"
Anything could happen! Thanks!
"Maybe we'll have the same shift on a cotton field..."
~ Sarah Cooper
"Classic Stuff: Dating at Work, Coming Out as Black"
Forgot to figure out something better. Got to work on that.
Some of you were taught you can't respect women unless they prove their worth by being a ride or die wife who is willing to die in childbirth (while ignoring what's going on with other women and girls, by the way.)
As if they want to live in an apartment complex when they're moving up in the world , huh?
How to handle the ICE agent neighbor when he or she moves into your neighborhood? Maybe I should go watch "A Small Light" again.
"A Small Light"| Official Trailer
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nsuk8ThvnpM&si=w3LWMDj_4HLO15Ii
There's moments of humor in that show!
Jesus Christ, please help our people and that means you.
Does this mean that if I buy something off of Amazon, I'm contributing to the goddamn ballroom?
"Amazon, Microsoft and T-Mobile, all headquartered in the Seattle area, have donated to President Donald Trump’s new ballroom at the White House, according to a list of donors."
~ Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton
"Seattle-area companies among donors to Trump’s White House Ballroom"
You better open an extra account for a college fund and a home / fancy ballroom remodel.
Who even knows what college degrees will be worth, the way we're going. Have your kids turned in an AI paper yet? Homework these days...
Oh, the housework!
You're almost as obsessed with with your house as Rose Wilder Lane. What's the deal? Did you burn down a House on the Prairie when you were a toddler? And your parents didn't listen to you.
Oh well. Can't spend all day reading. Got to go do my bare minimum of housework.
Repetition!
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - "I Hate Myself for Loving You"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=bpNw7jYkbVc&si=qJI6AWhpwsCWuWzQ
"Bahamut" by Hazmat Modine
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QPDA_enGSWw&si=_S7rPQjrtLqOINhV
Kawehi - "Somebody That I Used To Know" Mashup (live at the Pike Room 7.11.15)
Standards, people.
Standards and morals! Not whatever the spendthrifts had on Epstein Island.
"My interest in Mrs. Sims began when my mother told me about the disastrous hay-ride she had chaperoned at the age of fifteen. Mrs. Sims had been married when she was fourteen. I was going on sixteen and already felt a shadowy approaching dread of being an old maid. 'Sweet sixteen, and never been kissed,' our elders teased, and girls laughed coquettishly between hope and fear.
My mother said that fourteen was too young; she had married at nineteen.
'I want Ernestine to take her time, ' she often said. 'I tell her I'd just as soon she don't get married until she's twenty, even. A girl is only a girl once, and she'll be a long time married. Better be safe than sorry, I tell her.'"
"Immoral Woman" Page 89 in
Old home town : Rose Wilder Lane : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://share.google/sXXWVlgBWkdYOW8Gy
I wonder if it's possible to just enjoy this without reading the original.
"Today Jamie is recommending 'The Wind Done Gone' by Alice Randall"
~ twicesoldtales
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQKTl4ZkknR/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Very classy! A fine example for children addicted to iPads.
"Amazon, Microsoft and T-Mobile, all headquartered in the Seattle area, have donated to President Donald Trump’s new ballroom at the White House, according to a list of donors."
~ Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton
"Seattle-area companies among donors to Trump’s White House Ballroom"
The perils of believing in "evil feminism" are shocking!
Anyways, when some conservative people think that liberal people took away their idealized version of a happy nuclear family and evil feminism ruined things for everybody...They're really wrong!
Rose felt the need to adopt sons and grandsons.
"Does anyone else find the lack of descendants and loss of sons puzzling"
Oh well, if she says so.
"Living the LHOTP life..."
Abigail MacBride
https://www.instagram.com/macbride.abigail?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Minus the crippling diphtheria and constant financial ruin and whatnot.
"Abigail MacBride Allen" - EverybodyWiki Bios & Wiki
https://en.everybodywiki.com/Abigail_MacBride_Allen#google_vignette
Oh deary me...
The "old maid" actually got off easy, compared to "the hired girl."
"Old Home Town" by Rose Wilder Lane | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256828.Old_Home_Town
Some people's ancestors were not treated well at all!
"Rose Wilder Lane Rant / Prairie Fires"
Someday this era will be a century ago.
Some people will begin acting better when they start believing there's more to life than repeating old patterns.
Thanks for the "Old Maid" story, Rose.
Imagine losing your teaching job just because the guy with inherited money indulged himself in locker room talk about kissing you on a buggy ride, and now the school board thinks you have a bad reputation and can't be a good role model for children. Oh, and you have no relatives to take you in if you lose it because your family is dead, and unlike the town rake who bragged about kissing you, they didn't leave you anything to live off of. So your existence is shaped by pitiless village gossip.
"Old Home Town" by Rose Wilder Lane | Goodreads
Think of the progress.
Nowadays, the patriarchal people are less awful than they were a century ago.
Oh, fine.
Human: But doesn't it seem awful to witness the selfish patterns some people will get duped into going along with repeating...
Cat: Me!
Better thoughts...
I'm so grateful. My cat doesn't know about how uncaring the patriarchal sexist people are being again. Why is it so hard for them to break those habits? Don't get sucked into thinking about that too much because it's very bad for your health. Go observe some cat joy for a bit!
I wonder if I should drink something.
Try to make good choices that are healing, but don't be a liar just because that's what they want.
I think I'll go back to reading books til I feel sleepy.
I have seen some truly terrible things online that I probably have never wanted to think about and most people probably never want to think about.
But anyway, I did think about them a little bit, just because I didn't feel like I should hide from it, but Jesus. People are so bad to one another sometimes.
Concentration camps are terrible places for a wide variety of reasons, that's for sure.
It might be a genetic and societal circumstances thing.
Bad times make me feel like I need more feminism. Like, I definitely seem to feel I need it a lot more than some others seem to feel they need it. What a peculiar state of affairs! What a bizarre situation! Who could have predicted this would be how it would turn out?
Yum, early morning potato and celery snack.
I guess as long as the access to food and water is good enough, the whole "surviving terrible times by acting selfish" strategy will also seem to be a good enough coping mechanism for some people? These are insane times.
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Houses!
I think I feel a bit more inclined to take Rose's claim that she believed she had burned down her parents house as a young child more seriously than her parents did. And all of her weird obsessions with remodeling houses and building her parents a house...
"I finished reading Prairie Fire"
Oh, let's pair them!
It will be fun!
"Old Home Town" by Rose Wilder Lane page 13:
"When necessity or some definite pleasure dictated such an excursion into public places, a lady prepared herself for it. She took her hair out of curled papers or curled it with an iron heated in the lamp-chimney,"
What's a lamp-chimney?
"She changed her shoes, adjusted hat and veil and put on at least her second best dress, and gloves. An hour or more was often consumed in getting ready to go uptown."
An hour or more?
"It was only 30 years ago that we first heard that woman's place was in the home. We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is passed, so that in a sense we do not live at all, but only remember living. And we are blind to conditions forming our lives, until those conditions are becoming part of the past. It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change."
Huh, that's kind of like what's happening right now... 😉
"Until that time, woman's place had been in the home as a fish's place is in water. It is true there are flying fishes."
Lol!
"Women's Rights had been laughed at;"
Grrrr.
"Dr. Mary Walker, had, we heard, been permitted by a special act of Congress to wear pants,"
So glad those days are gone!
"And Mrs. Bloomer had given her name to a garment not mentioned in mixed company."
Whysoever not?
"(Though at that time, bloomers were not underwear; beneath our layers of petticoats, winter and summer, we wore union suits. Bloomers were a shameless form of divided skirts, worn by creatures unworthy the sacred name of woman, astride on bicycles.)"
👒🚲🍋⚖️🍰
Page 8 to 9:
"In Tory, people looked up to Papa and Mr. Baldwin. They were the only two men in the village who had much education. The church people and the patients went to them for advice and especially turned to them in time of trouble.
Papa never sent out bills. It was the custom among doctors. Papa thought this was right. " When people are sick and in trouble, they certainly don't want to be bothered about money," he would say. Like my father, Mr. Baldwin was willing to accept part of his meager pay in potatoes, corn and freshly made sausage."
I like that. Pay your bills with food!
I wonder how many other people would like it these days, haha!
"Gracie and I shone in their reflected glory. I was known as doc's little girl and Gracie was the preacher's daughter. We had many privileges on all of which we imposed."
A conscientiously self-examining narrator here!
"We crowded up behind Gracie's father at the graveside services at funerals. We ate at the first table at all church affairs. We chose our own seats in the school room."
They didn't need to have assigned seats at school because their dads were respected? Or because they were?
"Our presents were always the first ones taken off the big Christmas tree at church."
That sounds like a great privilege indeed!
"We hoisted the flag at the 4th of July picnics and, together, we had unveiled the one monument of the village."
They were the village's treasured daughters!
"We had been flower girls at various weddings and whether or not we were taking part, we were invited. And -- we sang duets.
Mama often reminded me that because everybody knew us, we must mine our p's and q's. But we were too busy minding other people's business to pay any attention to this."
There will be gossip.