Sunday, May 10, 2026
Slightly whine dined.
Evident that my great karmic debt to woman kind in this incarnation could be more recognized in the not two different future.
I hope they give the kids a popsicle or something.
"Palm Springs grad detained by ICE. She hopes her story helps others"
"Community-built map tracks ICE activity across Tucson"
"Activists rally at Minnesota Capitol, demand justice for families harmed by ICE"
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/activists-demand-justice-for-families-harmed-by-ice/
Human offspring are more complicated than cat offspring.
"Student faces expulsion after posting video of student who can barely read"
🎼 It's just another day...🪂🌹☔🌳🐱
Flight of the Conchords - "Summer of 1353"
https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/s/JNEUf6zVpO
"Daily Song Discussion #324 Jenny Wren"
https://www.reddit.com/r/PaulMcCartney/s/vWpNelrpB4
"I just discovered 'Another Day' by Paul..."
https://www.reddit.com/r/beatles/s/5MgoE8BLA8
"Daily Song Discussion #192 Eleanor Rigby / Eleanor's Dream"
https://www.reddit.com/r/PaulMcCartney/s/Uih6GoeId9
"When Paul Explained Blackbird"
https://www.reddit.com/r/beatles/s/ij0uMYUw8u
"My brother's daughter is also his niece"
Things can resolve nicely.
Now I've decided that my feelings almost exactly mirror the feelings of others. I was just not able to say so before. These things take time.
Maybe for some people, it can also be like, Love your Cosmic Mother Day?
"Let's celebrate a different kind of Mother's Day this year."
Perdita Finn
https://substack.com/@perditafinn/note/c-256267746?r=1oj2u
The season for love is spring.
I found a bunch of kinds from Professor Google: Agape, Eros, Philia, Storge, Ludus, Pragma, Philautia, Mania, Xenia, Anteros
Great question to contemplate today.
How well do you think all the daughters of all the different backgrounds deserve to be treated? Do we know that? How do we know?
I believe I could start halfway over with my project.
Frogging a hat I finished because I want it to look better.
Perhaps life can feel more carefree soon.
I suppose much of my life has been predicated on a "It's better to know about the painful things" stance, which seems to also mean that I feel them in my body sometimes. That's empathy.
Processing new lessons again; they're very old lessons, though.
When I was sleeping, I dreamed I was by a rose bush and there was an insect buzzing around my ear and then I woke up and the buzzing around my ear also went to the base of my skull and then I was awake. I'm sad because I didn't realize how thirsty for revenge some people are if they don't feel appreciated enough. Well, that's how it seems. And then it completely takes over, their need to express their dominance and power. And they don't care about iniquity. They don't care about that sort of thing at all. They just want to express dominance and power. That's what the patriarchy raised them to be like: thirsty for dominance and power. That's like when people smile at you, but you can tell you're not supposed to be happy. You're supposed to show them that they're the ones who deserve to be happy at the expense of others. It's sad.
Saturday, May 09, 2026
I guess sugar, spice and everything nice is still available!
It's out there!
"Epstein Files. Deepak Chopra. If someone's spirituality doesn't include seeing women as people, it's not awakening..."
leahvanking
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUW5xSiAQ6G/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Women don't expire at 30"
leahvanking
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWaHZyVSH43/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"'Act your weight' LMAO..."
maiandouglas
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX7DKAFRFMJ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"1/12 Domains of Warfare"
argd.cross
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYDLJuJN0xz/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Time to make a pilgrimage to Corrie Ten Boom's grave soon.
She certainly had a way of making an impression that looking out for others and speaking up was the right thing to do.
Pretty Violent Society.
Whose dad taught them that the mouthy girls and women are more slappable, and they should shut up and be nice girls?
It's really good that lots of people are not starving or locked up in detention centers at this time, but I still wish more were that well-off.
Honestly, if you're desperate to act like rich people are better than everyone else, you should just go around punching people in the stomach. Just punch them in the stomach. Why not? What's stopping you? That's pretty much what you've been doing whenever your insecurity made you rely on whatever got programmed into you to make you act like you think that rich people are superior to others. It's probable that you got pummeled at some point when you felt vulnerable, and maybe the healing process got subverted.
I think this is the kind of positive attitude that could really bring everything together!
🌠🪄😇✨🎶
"If you don't think we should DO something..."
dougweaverart
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYHyAbSDUcP/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
These were good to discover the other day. I'm going to look up all the songs I wrote down again.
🎶 Seven songs, plus two more. 🎶
"Man Of Oil" ~ Animal Collective
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UgiDrYTdNmE&si=Kr-HbrATyATHPX-7
Honey Stretton - "The Thrill Of Loneliness"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=omJgjqvPCwI&si=WEzuDiDh6z9l9pC0
Tara Clerkin Trio - "'In Spring'"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yqPkjwMRMx8&si=z6BJSpgUvLcrMw7h
"Stratus" ~ Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ny4O286HsoA&si=YQEt8lCuKqGK2PQN
Salami Rose Joe Louis - "Nostalgic Montage"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=U6VBa6m2MLQ&si=QZQppHIAVBbovKb0
Gia Margaret - "Barely There"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ltjpRGSjem4&si=veSSc3YwJi5L_tzG
Julia Holter - "So Humble The Afternoon"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fl0fabVJsq8&si=ywVgblosh8rcYE8t
✨✨✨✨
Badly Drawn Boy - "My Friend Cubilas"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aOK7Bl_FKyM&si=vIzmg_KsFGc3G0a9
"Leaves" ~ Tennyson
We're very privileged compared to previous generations, aren't we?
I mean the privileges still do vary quite a bit depending on each individual, but that we are more privileged than our ancestors is still true in a lot of ways.
Honestly, there's probably a lot that's going on right now just so tomorrow can be much better for more kinds of human beings.
I admit that I don't know if tomorrow is literally going to be tomorrow, as in, Sunday instead of Saturday.
These two helpful songs! I thought they were good ones for me to find and hear today.
"'Banks of the Sweet Primroses'" by Josienne Clarke
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JnB2H0064bg&si=Ys57W-ZIpwWa-xdv
Kiki Rockwell - "Faery Queen (Official Music Video)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=H0h4qjT9rnM&si=ViJDX930YDxM0e14
I think I will look at this thread about social group inequities.
"I hate being a black girl sometimes because I can't like anyone without being shamed"
"You love your specialty in this life: Patriarchy Studies."
"A catalogue of all the times that your grandpa was a jerk." It's like, really a fun one to read, actually.
Just give into Creative Energy, maybe.
Does Creative Energy care if you have healthy and balanced personal relationships? I'm not sure if it really does care about that. Can you believe that you've probably experienced little parts of somebody else's reality, even if you've never had a conversation in real life. Of course I can believe that; look at the stuff I was exposed to from a very early age. Of course I believe in that stuff. Why would I not believe in that stuff. The opposite. Actually I don't understand why other people don't believe in that stuff. Or experience it. Oh well. It's probably better to get grounded now.
Can't stop joking, and...
"To get to know your dads better has been great!"
About the compulsion to save the inner wounded dad in every person.
"I was gonna be mean to him, but now I'm inviting him to go on a picnic! No? He doesn't wanna come out today?"
Thanks, demanding higher-ups intelligences.
This is a fun chaser....
"Hyperbole and a Half: Wild Animal (The Simple Dog Goes for a Joy Ride)"
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/04/wild-animal-simple-dog-goes-for-joy.html?m=1
To the book chapter that was entitled "The Helper Dog is an Asshole."
"Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh"| Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17571564-hyperbole-and-a-half
Probably spending more time in nature would help more
Incomplete. I just don't have the stamina to deal with the insensitive-seeming people at the moment. But there's this and that and there was a song from the album the reclusive musical guy wrote about Anne Frank.
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - "Don't Come Around Here No More"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=h0JvF9vpqx8&si=XeDEQkxl9i1oehKA
"Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17571564-hyperbole-and-a-half
"Neutral Milk Hotel – Holland, 1945 Lyrics" | Genius Lyrics
Hurt feelings...Well, at least this article puts a positive spin on humanity...
"Nearly 70% of Houston-area residents disapprove of ICE, according to recent survey" – Houston Public Media
Your actions. Look at how you act and why you are acting like that. The system affects you.
How scary is systemic change, and what kind of change is the most scary, and why?
If you act like you have an irresistible need to be able to fit in with some not especially kind rich people, are there any less immature, kinder rich people you can hang out with, too?
Regarding ways that you chose to behave in order to make yourself feel better. I think putting it down in words, since you're already acting a certain way about certain kinds of women and children, would be more honest and considerate of those other kinds of women and other people's children.
That is what I think right now.
Was much of your childhood spent considering what was going on with the othered ones, including women and other people's children? No? Yes? Sometimes? You did do it sometimes, probably. Do you have to hide that part of yourself in order to fit in with some other people?
Why do you think some people always have to consider the well-being of others' children and not you so much? And not them, the ones you have to fit in with more. Well, why not them?
I don't understand. So I want to understand. Because it doesn't seem like the greatest way to be in the long term, and it just seems like a little short-term, stop-gap type of thing is going on.
It seems like some people are scared of change. That's what it seems like. People who found ways to benefit from the way the system was set up and now the system is crumbling, but we're supposed to try to get more people to have better lives. That's what I think. Not just a favored few who were able to make it in the old system. Not just a favored few who were able to make it in the old system.
Just do better, and give yourself a pat on the back for it.
Not so much "Let's do this annoying thing to see if the feminist girl will yell at us about it," like back in high school. I don't understand how midlife can still seem so adolescent, but I think it has something to do with the wounded patriarchy not healing so quickly, because we also have the least qualified people running this country right now, and they are oppressing the rights of the not too wealthy children and women the most.
"Same applies to not being allowed to show emotions"
somayamusic
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYFzT5RBjox/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
They should study the happiness of cat ladies.
My cat is really happy. She has no Hang-Ups. She freely enjoys pets and food and chasing gophers and lizards and just living her best life all the time.
Also reminded me of some other stuff, but whatever.
"The Met Gala’s fake feminism worships male wealth. But women can see through it now"
God, imagine being born in a different kind of body.
Imagine being a boy all the way from the '70s up until now. Life would have been super different, that's for sure.
I should visit this channel on Sunday.
"Accountability only bothers you when you value supremacy and power over honesty and repentance."
MonteMader
I clicked on this one and it keeps replaying again so I might as well add it.
Just for informational purposes.
"Your body is the least interesting thing about you"
MonteMader
That's another one I need to go under hypnosis for.
Also, when I was a little kid in upstate New York (age 6 or 7) and there was this older boy and he made me a clay heart and my mom got upset about it and threw it away...Well, he just ruined my life. He just set my expectations so high for all the ways that men and boys would act like they could truly show their hearts and how much they cared.
Just kidding. Obviously, he didn't ruin my life.
My freedoms of this century and era today.
I can clean, set a timer so it doesn't feel overwhelming, and listen to music or a podcast.
"Why no women have been on the moon. 🌙"
Anna Akana
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2A3cdKy0A-/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
New 🎶⭐🧚🏼♀️🏵️
Kiki Rockwell - "Faery Queen (Official Music Video)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=H0h4qjT9rnM&si=ViJDX930YDxM0e14
&
"'Banks of the Sweet Primroses'" by Josienne Clarke
Boys, girls, childhood and church was a very cruel and sexist experience.
And seeing a mom and her daughter walking by a matching Def Leppard t-shirts today just reminded me that feminism was treated like a bad word when that band was at the height of popularity, and even in the early 2000s, the average college students thought that they shouldn't call themselves feminist.
Decided that the Universe wants me to believe that more people should have read this in school.
"Green Grow the Lilacs and Oklahoma!: The Appropriation of Native Perspective" - Carolyn Gage
Sometimes anger is more healthy.
"We're not angry enough"
valenoffline
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYHutr1sL3E/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
The massive temptation for so many people to just not care is so disappointing.
"3-year-old suffered sexual abuse during months in immigration custody, family alleges" | PBS News
When some things start to seem medieval, it's good to remember that it's not actually medieval times.
"In medieval times, cats didn’t always enjoy the favorable attention today’s feline-fixated internet bestows upon them. It didn’t help that historically, women with cats were portrayed not only as possessed, but as violent."
~ Leslie Katz
"The Murderous Medieval Roots Of JD Vance’s ‘Childless Cat Lady’ Meme"
"Cats, moreover, and especially black ones, were commonly believed to be demonic, even satan incarnate.
“The fact that cats can climb really well probably made them more frightening, since demons were meant to prefer entering houses through the chimney,” Purkiss said in an interview. “Having a cat was therefore a sign of possible supernatural involvement, but especially if its owner ticked the other boxes of being childless and postmenopausal. This is also the origin of the stereotype that cat ladies are crazy.”
~ Leslie Katz
I guess the universe doesn't want everyone to save themselves in exactly the same way.
I felt like this was kind of a non-sequitur:
"Things take the time they take. Don’t worry.
How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?"
"Mary Oliver on the Measure of a Life Well Lived and How To Magnify Your Aliveness"
https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/03/mary-oliver-blue-horses-fourth-sign-of-the-zodiac/
And then, instead of thinking about St. Augustine, I thought about how a person who used to praise, fawningly one might say, the genius of Neil Gaiman a lot before he became known as an abuser of nannies...might learn from that experience.
Means meaning...
Apparently, another form of feeling more in control of one's reality goes like this with some people:
I don't want to have to answer a question about a topic, and I don't want to have a conversation about a topic. Instead, I want to show that I have the means to make other arrangements. Okay.
Idealism...
She says mothers care about the world's children.
"'Good men' are still raised, conditioned and live under patriarchy."
abbyeckel
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWUhQz4RnkM/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I would like to see that actually play out in real life because clearly, in this society, not all mothers do seem care very much about the well-being of all the world's children.
And a lot of men are probably still getting the message that they can find the women who are doing "what they're supposed to" do (according to the Patriarchal Society) and that's put men first.
It's like the grown men are the big kids everyone else is supposed to take care of first, so that's where their "As long as I run to them I don't have to change" attitudes come from.
Really? Imagine that!
"Sexual abuse investigations mishandled at Tacoma ICE lockup, UW report finds" - OPB
Military history! Are humans militant sometimes?
"Greek-inscribed 'learn your lesson' message found on 2,000-year-old sling bullet from ancient Hippos near Sea of Galilee"
https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/message-on-2000-year-old-sling-bullet-hippos/
Old ways that are unhealthy are dying out, but they can't all die out overnight.
"There are bigger problems..."
Alex Greaner
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkvG53tV/
"Imagine fumbling things..."
horriblemeanbadwoman
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX50qg2RKyF/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Entitlement addictions can be extremely disturbing.
Well, most don't get a lot of money for their trauma. They just get to figure out how to process that trauma. Sometimes big hospital bills to pay, too.
"Former Oklahoma State student gets $2.55M settlement"
Cuz they can afford to buy more merch and concert tickets too?
"This half of America owns 89% of the nation's wealth"
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/05/09/boomers-gen-x-american-hold-wealth/89968169007/
Some of the favored few must have some feelings to express about this?
"Immigrants are giving up their cases and leaving the U.S. in soaring numbers"
And they're mostly single mothers and older adults? Tsk.
"Desperate for help, people face 6-hour wait at Southern California Food Distribution"
It's a lot...
"Revealed: The Trump administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 kids in seven months, ICE records show"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/08/trump-administration-parents-arrested
Well, this was a good reminder, actually.
People do have to tend to their own healing and affix their own oxygen masks first.
forthesoul podcast
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWjYd8yDs5N/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
She had a long winter.
November to May.
"Maine teen released from ICE custody returns home"
https://www.wmtw.com/article/maine-teen-out-of-ice-custody-released-texas-olivia-andre/71256976
Fun to notice little things.
Like one time recently when I was out shopping, and I passed by a mom and a kid, and a store employee had directed me to the restroom but neglected to give me the code, and the mom said, it needs a code, and her daughter said, I know it, and punched it in for me, and let me in. I said thank you, and her mom told her she was clever and a spy.
Creative, too!
People need to get more collaborative and talkative. That's not necessarily the same as being performative.
What if it gets risky for someone like you to buy some socks?
ICE smashed her car windows and took her while she was buying her son some socks. But after 4 months she's coming home. Who paid for her to be locked away for 4 months? This is ridiculous.
"Albany mother of 2 released from ICE custody after 4 months"
Friday, May 08, 2026
Finished. So beautiful to behold!
The ball of hand painted yarn is ready to work with again!
Tori Amos - "i i e e e (Live Sessions 1998)"
Getting closer to becoming a workable ball of yarn again!
Progress! ✨
Tori Amos - "Caught a Lite Sneeze (Live Sessions 1998)"
Oh well, missed that!
"Look Up! The Halley's Comet Meteor Shower Is Just About to Peak"
https://www.sciencealert.com/look-up-the-halleys-comet-meteor-shower-is-just-about-to-peak
Recalibrating.
"I started hearing voices"
annaakana
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2kWsBdrpbA/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Maybe some MORE dads should get gossiped about at our tea party.
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - "Don't Come Around Here No More"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=h0JvF9vpqx8&si=iB8B4tHorLIdybct
Most dads who get / got more rewarded for being catered to and waited on in a very imbalanced Society are going to act shallow if it gets them more attention, and next to nobody ever expects them to be even the least bit enthusiastic if you say, "Hey, let's read something about Joan of Arc or Christine de Pizan or something." Or expects them to get rallied up at all if their very own wives' and daughters' and granddaughters' bodies are being the most threatened by the people who got voted in, and they are the ones who voted for them, and they are messing everything up now for lots of less privileged people who deserve much better.
St. Vincent - "Broken Man (Official)"
The only disturbing dream I had last night
involved one of these guys hanging out in a kitchen with some other people acting meanly diffident.
"Conan & Jordan Share A Kaiseki Meal" | CONAN on TBS
Keep calm.
Glad I found the tail end of this mess.
I get a good ⭐ star for finding the tail end of the mess!
People who are still attending the mega churches that want them to vote for predators get a t-shirt booth set up outside their church: "Proud parents and grandparents of future children with daddy issues bring their $ here! 😜"
I felt like writing down the GLP-1 producing foods in a notebook
Categories are: fiber-rich, lean protein, healthy fats, fermented foods, polyphenol-rich foods and then some specific compounds.
"Spring Haze"
Tori Amos
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nao0KjzYxnw&si=aijPAsw8lGhdBHGj
This song used to make me think of crispy thin chocolate crackers dipped in lemon curd, but if I eat while playing the song again soon, I think I'm going to try something else. Maybe tangy berries with some kind of seed and yogurt?
If it was a thought it wanted me to think it.
Daycare drama.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnneofGreenGables/s/icnX7PKgjo
"Scarlet's Walk (2023 Remaster)"
Tori Amos
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yhwu9yvL_1U&si=SboZaFlVYCBrKxl_
Crocheting again.
"Virginia (2023 Remaster)"
Tori Amos
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qyB1_PXFbHg&si=KYTn7WoWXouwkcCa
"I Can't See New York (2023 Remaster)"
Tori Amos
What makes a person become like this?
So freaking mean and lacking in empathy.
"the way kroger treats it's employees"
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/s/0z1UQ91EBw
Gonna show a good manager how a bad manager would act and ask for an opinion.
Just stay awake. A bad dream can't get me.
Also, I was neglecting my consumption of high quality cat video content, and I have to rectify that now.
"you can tell if granny lu is having a good day..."
lucilletherescuecat
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DW3sXZykQ8g/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Like Sunday morning..." 🎶 Ha-ha, just kidding.
"Easy and cheesy"
They made some brave choices with this high protein cooking staple.
"14 Cottage Cheese Recipes That Will Change The Way You Use It"
https://www.southernliving.com/cottage-cheese-recipes-11948213
Doing the Wordle because I heard it's an interesting one today.
Modern Love:
"My Mom Had a Secret Daughter. I Finally Found Her."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/podcasts/mom-secret-daughter-half-sister.html
Very depraved people. Highly insensitive. Must be on one of their first lives.
Feel good in knowing that you're a way better person than the best ones in this bunch.
"At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports" – Mother Jones
Anyways, got to get back to the humorous side of things now.
Not going to go back to sleep right away.
This is like a humorous creative writing group prompt my brain just concocted:
"A song called 'You gave bad sex a good name,' in honor of some of the fatherly ones of this modern era."
Music Therapy Exists!
The Patriarchy's traumatized children will be the glad recipients of it.
"Porpora: Magnificat"
@vocalartsmilwaukee
The typical stuff can burn out now.
Too boring how people become little carbon copies of what they saw role-modeled for them. Even the people that you wouldn't have expected to do that end up doing it.
Extinction burst, come on.
Saw this video on MTV a lot when I was a child.
Talking Heads - "Burning Down the House (Official Video)"
"I'm short on time..."
embodimentwithemily
https://www.instagram.com/p/DXu2uwKASkb/?img_index=3&igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Thursday, May 07, 2026
I do love independent radio stations, and I want to listen to them more now.
Animal Collective - "Man of Oil"
Hana Stretten - "Thrill of Loneliness"
Tara Clerkin Trio - "In Spring"
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "Stratus"
Salami Rose Joe Louis - "Nostalgic Montage"
Gia Margaret - "Barely There"
Julia Holter - "So Humble The Afternoon"
After the show on the Montreal station about Superman Dynamics which made me feel very up and down because it was partly very interesting but I'm pretty sure they would have said, but Clark Kent is exhausting at least once if they had been more feminist DJs, I enjoyed this other show (Memory Tape?) and I wrote down some of the other songs too; I will look them up later.
No gonna click on you. Big Rebellious Energy here.
"The human brain appears to rely heavily on the thighs to accurately judge female body size." Why do I f****** care???
So tired! I want to cry.
I just woke up and I'm emotionally exhausted. I just don't think I like any kind of art or music as much as I used to anymore. I'm so bad at being a groupie. It's not even funny. Nobody should ever expect me to be as great at fawning over a genius artist as other people are; other people are way better at it.
Anyways, I'm on a journey.
Excuse me if I'm not perfection, but I guess I just have a feeling I am being led somewhere.
It's also giving me "Some men have more empathy for women" vibes..
"Riggs was a gay Cherokee playwright, born in Indian Territory in 1899. He was a disappointment to his father, a banker and a rancher. Photographs of Riggs show him to be a man of slight build, something of an “egghead” with his glasses and premature balding. What was his experience with the hypermasculinity and heteronormativity of the West? Did he experience hazing and bullying as a rite of passage? Did he learn to “stand it” in order to become an adult? Is he telling us something about the survival of his people, as each new generation has had to face a heritage of ongoing violence, denigration, and theft?"
"Green Grow the Lilacs and Oklahoma!: The Appropriation of Native Perspective" - Carolyn Gage
Green Grow the...Ack, Why????
"Charivari” dates all the way to medieval and early modern Europe, where it was a ritual used to punish members of a community who failed to conform to social norms, especially sexual norms. Targets of the charivari might include a widow who remarried, a wife who assaulted her husband, or a couple who failed to have children. In France, where the term originated, teenaged boys and unmarried men traditionally led the ritual, parading through the streets, shouting mocking insults, beating on pots and pans, and threatening violence. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in England, these males would also attack local brothels during Lent. If the victim paid his or her tormentors off with money or wine, the charivari might end without these threats being carried out.
Apparently, until two hundred years ago, most Europeans thought the charivari was a legitimate and effective practice for curbing social deviance. It allowed for a public venting of outrage, with the opportunity for a “peaceful” resolution of a potentially explosive situation. In other words, it served as a kind of communal vent for blowing off steam… an exorcism of deviance. The victims were shamed, but then reintegrated into the community.Here’s the thing: It’s actually a rape culture ritual empowering young males to assert their primacy and dominance in the community, and especially with regards to widows who dare to remarry, women who most likely were just attempting to defend themselves in abusive marriages where their husbands had legal rights to rape and batter, married women attempting to salvage some degree of bodily autonomy and/or freedom from compulsory serial pregnancy by practicing birth control or abstinence, and women who were prostituted. The historical roots of the 19th century Midwest shivaree were not in a playful hazing of newlyweds, but in a sanctioned, violent policing by gangs of young men over women who, in their eyes, were not sufficiently sexually subordinate.
Even when church and secular authorities attempted to outlaw charivari, local authorities were reluctant to prosecute these gangs of young men. Possibly, they feared reprisals against their persons or their properties, as coming between young men and what they perceive as their sexual prerogatives can be dangerous. Not surprisingly, when gang rape or other forms of violent assault occurred within the context of a charivari, the sentencing would be considerably lighter than under other circumstances."
"Green Grow the Lilacs and Oklahoma!: The Appropriation of Native Perspective" - Carolyn Gage
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Hello, ants. Hello, memory of the boy who was feeding gummy bears and talking to the ants.
Nature is very good and loves us.
You can take your kind of PTSD to Nature, and I can take my kind of PTSD to Nature. Nature is forgiving.
One of the themes could be...
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Yes, Universe.
Ever feel like something bigger than yourself was happening and you're just, like, the little mouthpiece for something that's part of a much bigger plan.
I'm going to have a walk in nature because I believe it will be very good for my health.
Like, nature has really great balancing and grounding qualities. I feel like there's stuff that's getting kind of twisted and is more mangled and not as clear as it could be.
Might feel differently tomorrow, or sooner, or not as soon as tomorrow.
I believe if our roles were reversed that I would be doing a better job right now. 😂 Why? I guess I just don't really know if I would be, but I like to think so. What I'm saying is, is I think that I would have access to more expressions of empathy for different people, and I would have more people around me who are more empathetic, who would also have empathy for others. I'm not saying that there's none. I'm not saying life is devoid of empathy. It's just that there's less than there should be. Should is a strong word, and I'm not in a good mood today so... A bad dream that started off my day wrong is still lingering.
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