Hooray for what exists now, that didn't in my youth...

Like this:


Tig

SPINSTER

I am reading a book called Spinster.

I was so excited by the title!

I had to check it out immediately.

I am enjoying it. The author is very different from me, but that's refreshing.

I'm a little surprised at the hostility of some of the reviews of this book.

But also...I realized I had a thought. The thought was this: if I posted my current reading choice on a social media network, perhaps the women who've changed their names would not react warmly to it.

I dunno, I kind of wonder why I thought that?

It's a feeling.

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The net giveth cards and more

1) Hanafuda knowledge
http://duarcain.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-twelve-suits-of-hanafuda.html

2) Deciphering the "In A Big Country" music video
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_a_Big_Country

3) Book review with major spoiler (it happens)
http://www.westword.com/arts/amy-butcher-on-suicide-psychosis-and-her-memoir-visiting-hours-6926588

The game has been found

Nearly three decades after my afternoons at the day care center... http://hanafudahawaii.com/ginstructions.html I thought I remembered round circles and moons and black white and red and bending over grasses and birds like cranes ??? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanafuda Wonder if we might've called it Sakura...

you you you

it sticks



Stephen Fry ~ You, You, You

Some what ifs...

http://www.melanieholmesauthor.com/what-if/

A mom's thoughts

from pinterest

From Melanie Holmes: 

"'I thought, if I can’t have children, there’s no reason to live.' I read that quote years ago and immediately thought of my own daughter (a pre-teen at the time). As I reflect on the emotions of a woman unable to have children, I’m compelled to try to understand how to ameliorate those feelings."

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 "In an attempt to protect the inner self/future self of my own teenage daughter, I’ve interviewed/polled 200 women across the U.S.—those with and without children, ages 18 to 66, a wide range of ethnicities and income levels. While motherhood is a meaningful life choice for many women, not every woman wants it or will be able to achieve it."

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"Telling a woman she’s selfish if she opts out of motherhood or that she’ll miss out on the truest form of love is a grievous injustice to those who don’t want it or can’t achieve it (through circumstance or biology). As visionaries for young women, parents can help their daughters keep open minds about their futures by refraining from making assumptions and setting up expectations that may go unmet later in their lives."

~http://werenothavingababy.com/childfree/abundance-assumptions-females-lives/

balloon art

https://eternallybliss.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/following_your_dreams_by_lost_in_happiness.jpg

On second thought

Do not tell either GIRLS or BOYS that their worth and value is linked to their ability to procreate...DO NOT do that.

"But please know this: childlessness isn’t just a ‘female’ thing. Infertility cuts a man up too. In more ways than you may know."

~ http://www.rageagainsttheminivan.com/2015/03/what-i-want-you-to-know-infertility.html

Stormy

the rain is coming down...and also, the palm leaf branch...

as I get older I get very disturbed by messages that women get about their worth and value being tied to their fertility, and it's making a storm of anger and rage curdle inside of me

the flip side of which is, of course, despair
mustn't give in to despair

do not tell girls that their worth and value is inherently connected to their ability to procreate

that is poison *disguised as sweetness

do not do it

Behold

from pinterest

I don't know this movie, but...

a} I like the poster b} I like when the reviewer said: "Indeed, once you have seen what Katz can achieve with two slackers and an old car you will come to realise quite how redundant most action film direction really is. With a director as skilled as Katz, you simply do not need explosions, fast cars or Matt Damon stomping about with a fucking earpiece."

http://ruthlessculture.com/2011/04/27/cold-weather-2010-the-eyes-of-the-sensitive-observer/

But, like

I just can't watch a superhero movie at all sometimes what with the world being all it is sometimes... ~~~ horses

Sonderousness

A girl of about nine or ten had her own child-sized work desk with an overhanging light. She made jewelry chains, but gave no sales pitch. Small children were attracted to her. When no conversation was attempted, their parents pulled them along, drawn to other vendors. Children lifted petting zoo animals, and the horses with blinders walk-walk-walked in circles as laughing adults leaned over the railings and took photographs.

Maybe the fair was a bit much.

At home, I felt relief and petted the cat that likes to hang around in front. (And combed. And dangled a crochet swatch on the end of a piece of yarn attached to a pencil.)

I have read about fertility and infertility, children and tragedy, the sudden death of a child, and I was grateful for hooks and yarn and loops that turn into things. I practiced some stitches and listened to cave music.



Luray Caverns Stalacpipe Organ ~ Moonlight Sonata


I can practice more stitches today, drinking that free sample chocolate health drink that came in a packet. It tastes like a strange pudding when I make it in the blender. I can choose to like it.

A Child Fund rep. came to my door yesterday and thought a cat was mine, but this is not the case. She does look a lot like my first cat (a calico), but I think she is with other people for a reason. She came in for a little bit today when there was thunder and lightening, but I kept the screen door open and put her back out when her caretakers came back. "I didn't know it was going to rain." "Sorry." "That's okay."

There's been a drought...but today it rained...

http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2009/06/19/1000-words-seattle-rain-happy-plants

WATER

Don't forget the drought.

http://www.thenation.com/article/welcome-to-fairmead-california-where-you-have-to-walk-a-mile-for-a-sip-of-water/

Drought by Margaret Sharpe

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A little CCR

Waiting...

Let Me Explain You
H is for Hawk
That new Harper Lee book
~~~
Hmmm, these are all books by women with a father theme going on...?

Beautiful...

Madisen Ward & the Mama Bear ~ "Silent Movies"

I don't wish to cause alarm...

but I believe Lizzie is in a Bananarama video.

Don't forget Lizzie

The mini-series won't tell you how she died of grief.

http://preraphaelitesisterhood.com/elizabeth-siddal-laying-the-ghost-to-rest/

"They come to know her through her overdose, the speculations of a disappearing suicide note and her wraith-like appearance as she stared absentmindedly into a fire, rocking the ghost of her dead child. "

~http://preraphaelitesisterhood.com/elizabeth-siddal-laying-the-ghost-to-rest/

BAAAAAAA

Drank the rest of boyfriend's Angry Orchard cider BAAAAAA Omg, found my next reeeeeead!!!???

Bleat, the tragedy goat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scapegoat_(painting)

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The fan trailer did not omit all the sex

I NEEEEED TO WATCH THAT PLOTLESS ITALIAN MOVIE ABOUT GOATS AND DEATH AND REINCARNATION AGAIN!~!
It was so spiritual! What was it...

La la, found it easily...

http://ruthlessculture.com/2011/07/04/le-quattro-volte-2010-pay-no-attention-to-the-goat-behind-the-ocean/