"My dad's better at supporting rape culture than your dad is."
Shush!
"My mom acts like she thinks girls and women are more worthless than your mom does."
It's time for a time-out.
Friday, January 17, 2025
Sometimes women who are treated badly take it out on the wrong people.
"Megyn Kelly's vile rant about lesbian firefighters"
I'll try to do better, Great Grandmama!
The one from the side of the family who went to The Nut House has informed me that I should be incredibly grateful that some privileged moms don't request a cuddly koala along with their big strong male firefighter who comes to rescue them, because in her time, they couldn't even vote, and if they were too weird, guess where they got sent?
The power of a privileged dad: to make a privileged mom feel lesser!
It's been a lot for even these merely daughterly genetics to process.
"Honestly, I’m feeling somewhat lesser, here. I’ve literally never given $60,000 or $275,000 to people I haven’t sexually assaulted so that I can – hang on, let me get my reading glasses on – help them get therapy/'make up some of the damage'. Having said that, I have always paid my nanny via PAYE, and have never attempted to have sex with her. I recommend it."
~ Marina Hyde
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/17/neil-gaiman-allegations-sexual-assault
Don't blame it on Mom or Dad.
Just because your mom or dad acts like sexually predatory white men with money are more important than everyone else doesn't mean you should too.
Don't blame it on Jesus.
Jesus did not make you act like sexually predatory white men with money are more important than everybody else.
And then you vote for the sexual predator guy who's like that.
Imagine being that parent who gave your child a book about how their bodies are meant to be respected and strangers shouldn't touch or abuse them.
Maybe in the future...
I will hang out with some people's parents if they can promise that they will maintain this delusion in their minds that while we are together, I am just as valuable to them as a nice dad. Of course, according to them, a nice dad might be a guy who sexually assaulted somebody and then, no big deal, later got a bunch of other people's children killed on a helicopter.
Anyways...
"Women’s claims of sexual abuse must be heard – unless they’re about master storyteller Neil Gaiman, apparently"| Marina Hyde | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/17/neil-gaiman-allegations-sexual-assault
What if a bunch of dads had gotten on another dad's case and said, 'Hey buddy, you really need some help for that childhood trauma!'
(Hey buddies, why don't you pretend I am a nice dad, too, and get some help for that childhood trauma?)
Body is still recovering.
The cat is such a great little relaxed being. I want to focus on how she is now.
Wow. Perhaps things can get better?
Have to recover from a nightmare that happened in the a.m. I was driving on a road and there was some kind of sudden and really horrific collapse that happened nearby, but it was a dream.
That was a bit of a surge of adrenaline, really.
Anyways, maybe I can straighten a bookshelf today!
"small changes can fix a lifetime of frustration"
@DearModern
https://youtube.com/shorts/qMpV0rxCYKM?si=ctehDrSXm6DCtzm2
Oh, this reminded me of another thing...
"Farmworker groups call on state to fix proposed ‘racist’ pesticide rule"| Government |
ojaivalleynews.com
But at least her house didn't burn down?
There is the sister who is obviously telling you that she was raised to treat boys and men so much better because of all the extra consequences she'd have to face if she didn't. Bullying others after being bullied herself.
Jesus can help them.
I really do have to give up on some of your society's most shallow dads when it comes to them getting inspired to acknowledge a greater portion of humanity as soon as they can.
They clearly have been given a lot of impetus not to do so.
They're just going to have to figure it out whenever they're feeling it.
I guess I live in the state of Deseret?
"State of Deseret" - Wikipedia https://search.app/rVMdTbhMRQsahNiK7
Has my life been structured in such a way so as to point out that in Christianity, Jesus didn't say that all the privileged well-off people should just keep on treating the privileged, well-off patriarchs better than everyone else?
"The faith of Malcolm Gladwell" – Deseret News https://search.app/yzwZXnA3kCDPWJdL6
Who is assigning guardians for the children who are supposed to feed other people's children?
"Immigrant farmworkers are preparing for incoming U.S. president Donald Trump's promise of mass deportations, including by assigning guardians for their children if they are detained, according to groups providing them legal support.
Rising demand for such legal services reflects anxiety that Trump will follow through on a campaign vow to deport millions of undocumented immigrants once he is sworn in to office Jan. 20, something that could have an outsized impact on the country's agricultural sector, which heavily relies on their labor."
~ Leah Douglas
"Immigrant US farmworkers prepare for Trump mass deportation plan" | Reuters
What if they started saying "mothers and fathers and children"?
"Immigrant US farmworkers prepare for Trump mass deportation plan" | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/us/immigrant-us-farmworkers-prepare-trump-mass-deportation-plan-2025-01-17/
There's some how to forgive inspiration out there in the universe.
"I want to be the free one"
~ Dr. Maya Angelou
@femalepoetsociety
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEfbBd8iSjG/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
How to forgive people?
How to forgive people for abandoning so many kinds of girls and women and poor people just to get by in this life?
How to forgive people for acting like money and houses were more important than the health of human beings?
I was raised to be Christian. In this life, as I have gotten older and the obvious effects of wealth inequality seem to be getting worse, I've become a person who needs some kind of comfort and relief from the despair that our highly materialistic society is so willing to deposit on so many.
My favorite thing about Christianity is that there's something in it that teaches people to be compassionate to other people, and there is a strand of it that teaches you to not be so materialistic and to value spirituality.
There are so many people who actually are in denial about how dependent they are on others. They never want to think about who they rely on for all their food and clothing.
But there's a strand of Christianity that doesn't want us to settle for that, and I'm glad that it exists.
It feels like it's getting closer.
Imagine more and more people realizing that they no longer feel entitled to dismiss and ignore great swathes of humanity just to survive their own cultural conditioning.
Oh, how they need help.
What if bodies really do get sick and tired of the greed and shallowness of capitalism?
Thursday, January 16, 2025
I can thank my body for being a teacher, I guess.
Oh Lord, this is a time where people really need to start taking care of their health and helping themselves heal. I know it, because I need to do it, too.
Sometimes I feel that art can be such a blessing!
björk : isobel
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VGPYO0mzmBQ&si=vWnx_ycc_9B2GfBG
björk : bachelorette
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JNJv-Ebi67I&si=VF2ewYodeTfSvbzD
björk : human behaviour (HD)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=p0mRIhK9seg&si=aGKoMLpbN5oDv6jH
björk : hunter (HD)
I haven't seen preparations in regards to who's going to start picking all the food for a shrinking class of materialistically weIl-off people.
"Central Valley farmworkers scared to show up to work over deportation fears" https://search.app/L2Qf526fZodLuSRCA
There are many challenges in many different areas.
A lot of talented people have been molded by certain societal forces and they were abused and led astray and they have gotten cut off from themselves and other portions of humanity, and it's not just the conservative people, or the white evangelicals who were extremely damaged by the unwell Patriarchal Culture.
Spiritual point of view?
Some say people who come to Earth and are exposing the dark sides of human nature are brave in their own way, like on the soul level, but on the human ego level, they still need to be held accountable. That is truthful, and that is what initiates more healing on the planet.
I felt sad for every single one of these people.
He should get healing for his childhood traumas.
"The Dark Secrets Behind the Neil Gaiman Abuse Accusations"
There's multiple layers.
Anyways, sometimes this is a rather challenging and painful time to be here.
The fires have already shown there are huge inequities.
Which kinds of people get money donated to them, and which kinds of people will be able to rebuild their homes, and which kinds won't, and which kinds can afford to rent a place, and which kinds cannot, or do not have to worry about such things.
I have an opinion about healing that will not go away.
Wealth inequality has gotten really out of control, and people have got to stop ignoring that because for a smaller and smaller and smaller group of people to be able to afford healing, like only a smaller and smaller and smaller group of people can afford to live in a certain area, is not in and of itself a good healing practice.
Body can communicate.
The sobering thing is, I really feel in my body that it is needing to heal from a lot of the damage that has come from the stress of being around people who were also hurt by a society of unwell Patriarchal values, and I am sure that others also need a lot of healing, too.
Ya gotta remember the fun times!
Like reading "Mary's Neck."
"Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction/Novel more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike and Colson Whitehead. Although he is little read now, in the 1910s and 1920s he was considered America's greatest living author."
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/73021.Booth_Tarkington
"Mary's Neck by Booth Tarkington" | Goodreads
Whether or not her man comes back from the war...
If she puts on a few pounds and starts reading Virginia Woolf, I think that's okay!
My great grandma thinks they need to be holding koalas, okay
"Australian Firefighters Are Back and Hunkier Than Ever"
https://wbkr.com/sizzling-hot-the-australian-firefighters-are-back-and-hunkier-than-ever/
Ha. An exaggeration, of course. But it also really happens!
"This literally happened this morning #shorts #lgbt"
Maybe they should reflect on his teachings a lot more deeply.
"Remind me, is that the Jesus who made a point of befriending and defending women in a society that devalued them? The Jesus whose radical offer of forgiveness begins with real repentance—'Go and sin no more'? The Jesus who took the lead in self-sacrifice before asking it of others?"
~ Holly Berkely Fletcher
Their cult of harming humans is definitely not for everyone.
"Oh, and there was also the obligatory reference to poor Jesus—whom Hegseth also repeatedly invoked to get out of every jam free. (I seem to remember a commandment about not taking the Lord’s name in vain.)"
~ Holly Berkely Fletcher
"You might think that the 'bros' and the 'theobros' would have little in common, especially considering the bros’ heavy use of pornography, verboten in evangelicalism. In fact, though, the bros’ and theobros’ eerily similar views of women and sex bind them together under the MAGA banner. And in Pete Hegseth, this misogynistic marriage from hell is embodied in one deeply flawed and unqualified person."
~ Holly Berkely Fletcher
So obviously raised to disrespect and dehumanize oh so many different kinds of people.
"I FELT FAMILIAR NAUSEA watching a particular moment during Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing on Tuesday—and I suspect it was a feeling shared by others watching who, like me, walked away from the white evangelical churches in which they were raised."
~ Holly Berkely Fletcher
She needs to take her fears of others to therapy, methinks.
"Megyn Kelly rants about ‘obese lesbian’ firefighter tackling LA blazes: ‘We want a strong man to rescue us’"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/megyn-kelly-women-firefighters-los-angeles-b2679664.html
Who's impressed?
If a traumatized mom who needed a tall heteronormative white guy to rescue her relents and admits she thinks a skinny bisexual human being might also be an okay fire fighter? Not everyone needs to adhere to your personal romance novel narrative in a time of crisis.
Humor! Love it.
It exaggerates to make a point.
"What it's like dating a bisexual woman #lgtbq #com"
@Alaire_thomas
True! Very inspiring.
The parents who start caring more about the well-being-being of 19-year-old boys can also be courageous enough to start caring about the well-being 19-year-old girls.
What? Surely they wouldn't let that happen.
"This could go on until, eventually, it reached a 19-year-old enlisted service member who would have to make the final decision"
~ Timothy Soseki Kudo
"Trump Cabinet: I’m a Marine. I can’t get one part of the Pete Hegseth Hearing Out of My Head.
It’s time to prepare for the worst-case scenario under Trump."
I just saw birds of a feather flock together!
They were pecking at the ground and didn't care about the cat on the wall and didn't care about me standing next to the window. But then I raised my arms up and guess at least one of them saw me and six of them all flew away as a group!
Meg and Kelly will not be babysitting my cat.
Of course I'll try to be of the presence of mine to ask whether wife or daughter would rather hang out with a Beatrice or a Bill, but in the meantime...
Yikes.
"Herringshaw had been eating lunch in her dormitory dining area, when a bullet came through the window and into a cement pillar."
~ Jan McLaughlin
"Kent State shootings changed many lives..."
Keep your kids away from the irresponsible dads.
"Trump Cabinet: I’m a Marine. I can’t get one part of the Pete Hegseth Hearing Out of My Head.
It’s time to prepare for the worst-case scenario under Trump."
"An order by Trump to deploy the military and have it open fire on protesters would be catastrophic in a way few Americans who haven’t served in uniform realize. Unlike the National Guard at Kent State, today’s military is significantly more lethal. In 1970 the Ohio National Guard killed four protesters and wounded nine at Kent State University, firing semiautomatic M1 Garand rifles, which held an eight-round magazine and could fire 40 to 50 rounds a minute.* As one National Guard member there that day recalled: 'I distinctly heard one shot fired; then all hell broke loose when 28 men fired a total of 67 shots over a period of 13 seconds.'
A modern military squad operates with roughly nine M16s loaded with 30-round magazines and three squad automatic weapons that each contain 200-round belts of ammunition. If today the same number of soldiers were firing for 13 seconds, as they did at Kent State, they could easily unleash several hundred rounds. Additionally, contemporary crowd-control tactics often result in 'kettling,' in which protesters are pushed into densely confined areas, where individual bullets are likely to penetrate multiple people before stopping."
This has nearly happened before."
~ Timothy Soseki Kudo
Kind of sounds like fun.
"WE'RE MOVING TO ... ? Answering all of your questions!"
~ Feli from Germany
That's an interesting beginning.
Zabbaleen - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabbaleen
"THIS is what I like..."
~ refashionedhippie
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEe_riHuFr3/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
This explained so much! 💚🛌🏻😺
You can be as feminist as you want, as long as you sleep on the proper side of the bed.
"In Feng shui girls take left while boys take right"
@DearModern
I wonder what HER dad was like?
Learn about long-term liabilities!
"German Mother's best burns"
~ Laura Ramoso
https://youtube.com/shorts/_SnbaBxlsPg?si=_rc4jIj79270N3WY
Dads need their own ways to figure out how to survive "the weird times"
"I went through high school trying to bluff my way through class after doing none of the reading, and in Hegseth, I recognize a master of the craft. During the hearings Hegseth repeatedly said he was going to defend the meritocracy. In what kind of meritocracy is being a Fox TV host preparation for being secretary of defense? Maybe in the one Caligula fancied when he contemplated making his horse a consul."
~ David Brooks
"Opinion | Pete Hegseth Is the Secretary of Defense We Deserve" - The New York Times https://search.app/Nww5Gaprn9hhKcKC8
What's not to love?
"Man In Finance"
~ who made this song???
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OMZH0_7EUZg&si=LCRGJuYYuPAEZaiO
"Every old house was once new!"
@DearModern
Fixable!
"in Feng shui it's bad to float your bed in the middle..."
@DearModern
https://youtube.com/shorts/TRnzKTEbXbc?si=rKgKfJnEQJ5aV81B
What if that guy is now on his way to becoming a much better parent of deserving children than Trump or Hegseth or Kelly or...?
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
"you lost a bunny museum"
"Every old house was once new!"
@DearModern
https://youtube.com/shorts/QI3DBzGL0TU?si=pwk9IYDqCbtsG_7n
"don't put your bed against a window, it's bad feng shui"
@DearModern
https://youtube.com/shorts/a9M_okq5oAw?si=wJRUrUp-S9JpIC5G
"people suffer everyday, but remember..."
@DearModern
This has completely distracted me from an errand I was going to run.
"She tells me the water comes out of the tap yellow and foul smelling, and she doesn’t trust it. The family takes showers in it, and she washes their laundry in it, and if she runs the water long enough, she will use it to wash her vegetables and cook her rice and potatoes. But she cannot remember the last time she or Manuel or their children drank it. 'It comes out like pee,' says her 11-year-old daughter.
The water is filtered for arsenic, boron, and other salts, and the monthly tests show no violation of state or federal standards. This hasn’t convinced the people of Lost Hills, however. Lupe says no one in her family, and none of her friends living in the trailer park or on the other side of town, drinks the water that comes out of the pipe.
In the kitchen corner, cases of bottled water are stacked halfway up the wall. These are donations from other farmworker families, but they’re not for her and Manuel and the kids. Her brother-in-law was killed recently in a car crash along Highway 46. He was headed to the fields at the same time that another farmworker, drunk on beer, was coming home from the fields. The sober man died. What to give a grieving widow and her five children in Lost Hills but drinking water?"
~ Mark Arax
A Kingdom from Dust — The California Sunday Magazine
https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust
That song about how weird life can be started running through my head again.
"'Drought, no drought, makes no difference. The aqueduct was built with tax money, yes? The aqueduct brings the water, yes? So everybody should have it, right? But this is water for Mr. Resnick. Not the people. When it doesn’t come, he finds a way to make it come.' He spits tobacco juice into the empty can of Rockstar. 'The checks the workers bring in here from Mr. Resnick are the same checks they bring in for years. I cash them the same. Nothing changes. Big fish eat the small fish here. Anything else I can help you with?'
He seems in a hurry. He guides me back into the main store with its displays of fresh fruit and vegetables, meats, cold cuts, and baked goods. The shelves spill piñatas, gloves, hats, pruning shears, and loaves of Bimbo white bread. The wall of Pacifico and 16-ounce cans of Bud is rebuilt daily. Vicente Fernández, the king of Ranchera music, is crooning to no one, but it won’t be this way in 30 minutes, Hussein tells me. Today is quincena day, twice-a-month payday, and he needs me to scram because the workers coming in to cash their checks and wire 25 percent back across the border to families in Guanajuato and Guerrero will wonder if I’m with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. If that happens, they’ll go down the highway, and he’ll lose the $1 he takes for every $100 worth of their checks. 'It’s a bad day,' he says, shooing me out. 'You look like Border Patrol undercover.'"
~ Mark Arax
"A Kingdom from Dust" — The California Sunday Magazine
https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust
Radiohead – "Optimistic Lyrics" | Genius Lyrics
Sounds complicated.
"I pity the outsider trying to make sense of it."
~ Mark Arax
"A Kingdom from Dust" — The California Sunday Magazine
https://search.app/AKa1o6nBf6iTaFXU6
"And yet prominent right wing influencers and political figures, including President-elect Donald Trump, are falsely blaming the fires' destructiveness on the city not having enough water to fight the blazes. Some online commentators are falsely saying water needed to fight the fires is instead going to pistachio moguls. Others are claiming, inaccurately, that there were 'bans on pumping water' and that it's part of a plan by a 'globalist elite' to turn burned land into open-air prisons. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has made a webpage to fact-check false wildfire narratives, much of them about water."
~ Julia Simon
"Here's what experts say to know about water..."
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/15/nx-s1-5256478/california-fires-water-agriculture-palisades
"The comedian said he bought a helicopter for such emergencies, but it didn't work out like he'd hoped."
~ Ron Dicker
"Bill Burr Faced 'Sophie's Choice' Dilemma About Fleeing Fire In His Helicopter" | HuffPost
https://search.app/mpUkhLBgGDxjDePD9
O Simplicity!
Good quote?
"If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself."
~ George Orwell
I found it in a library book.
"Dani Shapiro Bares Her Genes" | Pressvision's Blog
https://pressvision.wordpress.com/2018/08/23/dani-shapiro-bares-her-genes/p
And then I just remembered...
"Jacqueline van Maarsen" - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_van_Maarsen
And I also just heard there's a ceasefire?
"Live updates: Israel and Hamas agree to Gaza ceasefire"
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-hamas-gaza-ceasefire-hostages-01-15-24/index.html
All of that in a short span of time.
What a world it would be!
If some people's shallow, scared parents still did not feel the need to reinforce those prejudicial attitudes they were trained to repeat, or to dehumanize almost every type of human being who is different from a big, tall, materialistically wealthy man, in order to make themselves feel "safer" in their incredibly imbalanced patriarchal society.
What's next?
"The book that changed me as a teenager:
I grew up in a working-class town in the north-west. We didn’t have much money, but that was all right because neither did anybody else. Reading Agatha Christie I discovered that people could be rich without working for it. I was 13 and it was the first time I’d been angry at a concept, rather than a person."
~ Stuart Turton
Yes???
"As the dad of my own inner child who is aware that many patriarchal women and man have been trained to dehumanize daughters..."
Could some parents help her out?
"Megyn Kelly rants about ‘obese lesbian’ firefighter tackling LA blazes: ‘We want a strong man to rescue us’
Conservative media personality took aim at the three women who hold leadership positions at the Los Angeles Fire Department"
Humans can be more imaginative.
Too much reliance on "X had to dehumanize people like you so that X could be favored by the patriarchal culture at the expense of a lot of other kinds of human beings that our patriarchal deems as 'lesser' in order to feel accomplished" as coping strategies or survival mechanisms is not very imaginative.
Read the behavior patterns.
"We know you're the type that our friends and families were trained to dehumanize."
~ The Patriarchal Ones
You wonder why it still feels normal to some to dehumanize others.
When a mother told me that where she comes from, "We don't talk about these kind of women; we send them away to a village," I began to be forced to see how cruel and dehumanizing the patriarchal culture wants parents to feel entitled to be towards certain kinds of other human beings, including children, or those who were once children.
It is a horror. It is a real tragedy to normalize that kind of dehumanization. The universe is not going to let me just forget about it to make some self-absorbed people feel like it's okay for everybody to keep on continuing those kinds of patterns of dehumanizing others.
Well, may sleep come soon.
I have vertigo, and it interferes with sleep, but I will sleep. I have to do what I have to do. I see others' lives, and it's interesting, but something like vertigo brings me back to myself. Health interferes, but it’s on the path. I will probably never be a full-time scholarly person of letters. There's some other types of knowledge the universe needs me to look at more, it seems.
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
This is the best cooking show!
"Surviving on Tulip Bulbs during World War 2 - Dutch Hunger Winter"
Tasting History w/ Max Miller
A lot, apparently.
What does the future great grandmother of obese non-heteronormative persons have to do to earn a well-deserved rest at a sanitarium.
"Megyn Kelly rants about ‘obese lesbian’ firefighter tackling LA blazes: ‘We want a strong man to rescue us’
Conservative media personality took aim at the three women who hold leadership positions at the Los Angeles Fire Department"
You're on your way to your next life, too!
You are gonna have to watch out! Misogynistic impulses creep out of all kinds of creatures and he-man beings when you least expect it. They need lots of healings for their traumas.
At least they have some decorum!
I know some of the girls haven't grown up to be quite the brave feminists I would have hoped they'd be, but at least they're not operating at Megyn Kelly levels of misogyny!
"‘We want a strong man to rescue us’"
Sorry, I mean, everyone who's dealt with the patriarchy is probably just needing a lot more compassion and spa treatments and healing money and understanding, and that would fix a whole lot of things. Mercy!
I feel like she could go to a healing spa.
Perhaps a misogynistic mom is just being a sad clown whose addled nervous system is stuck on a very repetitive setting after all.
What kind of healing does she need?
There's this part of me that KNOWS some of the dads of daughters who have gotten treated WAY better by certain misogynistic moms might have some opinions.
"Megyn Kelly criticizes 'obese lesbian' Los Angeles firefighter for battling blazes"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/megyn-kelly-criticizes-obese-lesbian-220356968.html
How healing can begin again.
Feeling grateful on a few accounts: I got some nice insight. We have flight or fight responses and they show us what needed healing in the past and what still can be part of healing. Sometimes suffering can help us see what we need to pay more attention to and point us in a good direction.
Clothing appreciation?
I had a weird dream that a person was putting on very fine clothing from another era, like from centuries ago, and affixing a sparkly Christian cross pin or brooch as a final touch, and then just laying down while wearing it.
Housing woes happening. How come?
"After losing the Altadena home that he owned in the Eaton fire, he was scouring for a new place to rent, and having little luck.
"'What's available is not nice at all and the rents have gone up a lot,' Mr Storc told the BBC. "I told my teenage daughter we had to accept we would live somewhere not very nice."
~ Max Matza, Kayla Epstein, and Gabriela Pomeroy
"LA fire victims fear new housing crisis"
I had to think about this.
When I was a young adult, I went to the Folger Shakespeare Library for a little outdoor celebration of Shakespeare's birthday and there was an older woman there who seemed quite young to me. She had long hair and there was something about her that made me feel like she was like 19 or 20 but with gray hair. It was amazing to me. She was many decades older and probably near the end of her at that time present day life, but the universe made it seem as if we were the same age. She was a stranger. I didn't even converse with her, but she made such an impression on me.
Now I could be the older one, and she could already be reborn as a young person. Isn't it funny.
Monday, January 13, 2025
Especially when it's obvious that you're so much more capable than that.
Actually, it is hurtful when you act so uncaring as an act of self-preservation.
Are your feelings precious? Is demand high? Is your supply running low?
"LAist texted her to ask if she was familiar with California’s disaster-related price gouging law. She texted back, 'Sorry can not talk right now,' then mentioned another listing in Mar Vista where she said one person offered $10,000 above the $15,000 asking rent.
She ended her text, saying, 'Supply & demand.'"
~ David Wagner
"Asking rents skyrocket as LA fires destroy homes"
Who cares about which people these days and why and when do they find it convenient to act like it and how do you know?
"Opinion | My hometown broke its 100-year Democratic streak"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/11/29/trump-election-hometown-fall-river-massachusetts/
Pretty much everyone has, right?
"But the Resnicks worked hard for their money, didn't they? And the state approves of what they do!
How many of California's millions or the world's billions know the story I'm about to tell? 3"
Amy Sterling Casil on X:
What conditions create a place like Lost Hills in the world's supposedly richest country?
I'm also tired because there's been this war going on inside of me for ages, and I think inside of some other people, too, where we're kind of tired of so-called liberal people who claim to be about equality or interested in healing or wanting to make things better actually being just as self-absorbed and materialistic and selfish as the so-called conservative people are.
Learning about Lost Hills is a good way of communicating to me why I feel tired of the system sometimes.
"I am a 5th generation Southern Californian who grew up in an orange grove and in Hollywood. I fled my home state in 2020.
Los Angeles is burning right now because of what We the People have allowed rich people to do. Here is what has happened: 1🧵"
Amy Sterling Casil on X:
This looks good and like it wouldn't spoil quickly
So attuned to the candles and gas burners too.
"The BEST Soup Explained: Keys to a Healthy YOU Year"
~ Derek Sarno
The kind of stuff that some of us don't think about until it's pointed out to us.
"Over the past two days, emergency crews evacuated at least 1,400 residents from dozens of Pasadena-area nursing homes and assisted living facilities as the Eaton Fire threatened the region, according to state officials.
The mass evacuation of care-dependent residents, mostly over age 65, created immediate health risks for this fragile population and stretched public health officials' coordination capabilities to their limits."
~ Aaron Schrank
"Nursing home evacuees faced cot shortages in Pasadena"
https://laist.com/news/nursing-home-cot-shortages-pasadena-eaton-fire
"By Thursday afternoon, more than 35 facilities had been evacuated, according to the California Department of Public Health and the California Department of Social Services. While some evacuees found placement in nearby care facilities and hotels, hundreds were transported to public evacuation shelters."
~ Aaron Schrank
"Nursing home evacuees faced cot shortages in Pasadena"
https://laist.com/news/nursing-home-cot-shortages-pasadena-eaton-fire
What if I had just annotated more?
She revealed...
"My most annotated book 😮"
@ProseandPetticoats
https://youtube.com/shorts/MnoDtgG5oNE?si=iC9nar5lmWD6OE3l
I immediately thought of the Les Misérables portion of my wardrobe (two drawers, several bags, plus numerous articles of clothing that were turned into rags or thrown away over the last six or seven years.)
Obviously gonna become rags pretty soon.
Yes, others do not fail to appreciate large swathes of humanity as much as he does.
"Trump’s deportation vows only for ‘rabid’ Republicans and will fail says Newt Gingrich"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/13/trump-immigration-newt-gingrich
Noticed this story this a.m.
"Acres of orange fields sat unpicked in Kern County this week as word of Border Patrol raids circulated through Messenger chats and images of federal agents detaining laborers spread on local Facebook groups.
The Border Patrol conducted unannounced raids throughout Bakersfield on Tuesday, descending on businesses where day laborers and field workers gather. Agents in unmarked SUVs rounded up people in vans outside a Home Depot and gas station that serves a breakfast popular with field workers.
This appears to be the first large-scale Border Patrol raid in California since the election of Donald Trump, coming just a day after Congress certified the election on January 6, in the final days of Joe Biden’s presidency. The panic and confusion, for both immigrants and local businesses that rely on their labor, foreshadow what awaits communities across California if Trump follows through on his promise to conduct mass deportations."
~ Sergio Olmos
"Kern County immigration sweep sets off fears of more CA raids" - CalMatters https://search.app/piEMgor3xc89v2Xj6
Sunday, January 12, 2025
The power might go out again, I realize.
It was a huge hassle because we weren't prepared, but it was good to look more at books instead of the Internet.
Sometimes, I wonder if I'm better off not being online too much? Hmmm.
Imagine better leaders being here. Too.
"Zelenskyy offers Ukraine’s help to fight California wildfires after Trump Jr post"
What if they revised their surveying process now, in light of the new circumstances?
"New homelessness data: How does California compare to the rest of the country?"
https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/01/hud-pit-count-2024/
Maybe he is scared and was some mom's cute baby once, but he should still be better.
"South Carolina peach grower took money from farmworkers..."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/south-titan-farms-used-farmworkers-pay-for-political-donations/
Is it like you're cheating on The Patriarchy now?
Is having more empathy and feelings and thinking of others just not what the paychecky wants, and the patriarchy gets jealous if you start thinking about other people, and then it accuses you of cheating, of cheating on The Patriarchy? Is that what the problem is.
Which society wouldn't let them become the owners of one of the Ghost Homes?
The ghost witch familiar cat is saying that after all those ghost IVF treatments which resulted in a ghost pregnancy that produced a perfect ghost kitten and subsequent ghost Facebook posts about all their ghostly outings with her other small ghosties who benefited from the ghostly grandparent childcare providers who of course knew that when the other ghost children were picking the food for their little ghost heirs they were entitled to completely ignore those kinds of things as they got back on the merry-go-round and made sure to always act like only a certain set of ghosts and their descendants were the proper ones, those who could afford one of the finer ghost properties, teaming with the very best ghost cat ladies.
🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀
This is a ghost witch speaking.
Any day now, a lot of the wives who had to treat dads better than daughters so they could get access to a nice house are going to not do that anymore.
The power's back on!
Well, here's another reminder that maybe there's a lot of people alive in the world right now who will be able figure out how to be better to a much wider population of women and girls in this lifetime! Or in the next lifetime, if they still can't manage it by the end of this one.
The stubbornness of some people when it comes to clinging to their old ways (because it just feels good for them to dehumanize others for whatever reason) is the water we all swim in sometimes. I know it's not good for my health. I need to figure out what is best to do in order to manage things so that my health doesn't suffer more than it already has.
Using precious data to look up words.
"Antimacassar" - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimacassar
Found on "Emily Climbs" by L.M. Montgomery, page 97.
Sorry, there's so much to process.
I know it's really unfortunate, but I really have felt for a long time that some people have got to start being more sensitive to people who've been through traumas and who've lost things and who couldn't afford certain lifestyles.
I cannot hide that. This is some of the stuff that comes up at moments like these.
Of course the universe knows that all kinds of people from all kinds of backgrounds and all walks of life and all different socio and economic classes deserve good things and healing, right?
My nervous system needed healing processes.
It's sunk in dreadfully. My poor nervous system, our poor nervous systems, need healing. I can't otherwise explain, but I must know people whose houses have been burned down, and even if we haven't talked for a long while, that is so sad. It's time to do what can be done to feel healing processes beginning.
Power out most of the night & this morning.
Watching birds and reading books. This an entry about magpies. It goes on to say that they are trickster figures.
Liza Dalby
january 10 through 14th
winter
page 268
"east wind melts the ice: a memoir through the seasons"
Power out again.
Sorry I didn't do the dishes. But I did wash some clothes in the laundry room. Which did not dry enough. So they will be scattered around.
Saturday, January 11, 2025
I am feeling very zoned out.
The dream I had the night before I learned the Bunny Museum burned down was about people talking about how weather conditions made it possible and even likely the waves would attack a ship on the water. And then it happened.
Even if it wasn't like I may have expected.
I have a profound gratitude for getting older. It can be a good thing!
The food says so.
You may not be the same age as you were back then, but the age you were then still lives inside you.
Eating a type of food I haven't had for a while.
Several decades after I first tried it, I have successfully explored a range of experiences in regards to how the human nervous system may operate in a certain kind of female body.
(Peruvian food! Que rico.)
Change, change, change.
I had the impulse to try to drive out to see the devastation but everything I want to see is blocked off probably.
My back is not letting me take a nap!
"Teacher Nightmare: 'Please Complete BY COB' #teach"
@classbastin
On the contrary; all of my descendants shall be SPINSTERS!
"Losing an argument with an American"
@ABeckettKing
https://youtube.com/shorts/h513h-rXdQs?si=er_AvHtv0K63B3Z0
"How The Spinning Jenny Impacted The Industrial Revolution"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=294B1F4_5Bk&si=w4ZNO9uudMxwgi8g
"Spinster" - Wikipedia
Cropland, what are going to do with yourself? What if the fires come for you???
Which kinds of people's bodies do you seem to feel deserve good food and shelter and healthcare this year? Which do you not want to discriminate against in 2025???
Great Mother of Us, what if the blindest parents start having to send their children into the fields to pick all the crops for the rest of the country???
"A surprising immigration raid in Kern County foreshadows what awaits farmworkers and businesses"
Dear patriarchs planning to get reincarnated soon...
Don't be led astray by those shallow Unwell Patriarchal Fools! They will troll you and impoverish you and ruin your fertility and your wardrobe! Be sensitive and sensible and wise and grounded!
Good luck.
Time to get on that train to better living ASAP, right...
Because nature will eventually expose you and all of your emotional affairs! And then you will have to figure out how to get better anyways.
I should know! I've met some very ridiculous and trying situations myself, in this life. Who hasn't?
He's a great steward of nature.
Edgar McGregor on X: "The worst night of my life. I've driven down this road hundreds and hundreds of times going to my park. https://t.co/gIsBWVQL2w" / X https://search.app/CaFi1LnavbtXNoDn7
"Edgar McGregor is a climatology senior at San Jose State University. He has collected litter from Eaton Canyon and other natural areas for over 1,400 days. Edgar's climate activist #EarthCleanUp account on Twitter has over 35,000 followers."
Oh if people would care about nature more.
I have aching feelings, on physical and emotional and possibly many other levels.
This place...I was there many times...
Most recently in Oct. 2024. I no longer live close. I am glad I went there that day.
"LA Nature Center Burns Down Before Animals Evacuated" - Newsweek https://search.app/L9KFtZoSE4TrW2UH7
The trail to Millard falls was beautiful.
When the crazy pandemic started, I went out on the trail to Millard Falls because it was allowed to hike there, and not in other places.
And now the fire is there.
Oh no! Sierra Madre too... I was more oblivious when the power was out.
The Bunny Museum.
I always meant to see if I could check out the Theosophical Society library someday.
The Thai restaurant near Topanga in Malibu (I only ate there once but still it was good.)
And now, Sierra Madre.
"In tiny, charming Sierra Madre, Eaton fire destroys homes, forces scores of residents to flee"– Pasadena Star News https://search.app/Xv1Yr4d1WqMDdYsz7
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