"Not my normal content"
themidlifereframe
Monday, June 22, 2026
Healthy people in a healthy society do not have to stay silent when the people are being treated this way.
“'We were calm. The only thing I said was to not separate me from my son because that was what I was most scared of,' Jonathan said.
Neither of them knew where the other one went.
'I arrived in Adelanto, and they wouldn’t tell me where (Joani) was at all. Even if I asked, they wouldn’t tell me,' he said.
While at the center, Jonathan faced delays in accessing medical care and faced mistreatment before he was released in May, he said.
'Once a week they would feed us chicken, but what really hurt is that they would throw it in your face,' he said. 'They did not let us eat sometimes, or if you wanted a second helping, they also would not let you, they grabbed you and threw the plate.'
'It was so humiliating.'
He also recalled getting sick, suffering from debilitating headaches and asking for medical care but faced delays in getting seen.
'They did not pay attention to me, they did not attend to me,' Jonathan said. 'Other detainees would tell me, ‘Here, you have to be dying for them to pay attention.’'
He told his lawyer about the repeated lack of medical care, and the lawyer called the center. Jonathan said he was seen quickly after his lawyer called.
'When I arrived at the medic, he was annoyed because I had called my lawyer,' Jonathan said.
After his medical appointment, Jonathan said he was led to a small, cold room with a bed. He believed he was taken there as punishment for calling his lawyer.
'It was so cold because they change the temperature to cold, and they don’t give you a blanket, nothing,' he said.
He said this made him fearful of telling his lawyer anything else over the phone because the calls were recorded and monitored.
He said he never gave up on being reunited with his family. He recalled thinking, 'I have to endure this and keep fighting.'
Joani said it took two days to travel to Dilley, and Kaleth was in distress the whole time.
'I couldn’t count how many (moms and kids) there were because there were too many,' she said."
~ Pricila Flores
"Santa Barbara Family Speaks Out After Being Separated, Detained by ICE
The family of three are asylum seekers who were separated across state lines in March after showing up to an immigration appointment"
https://www.noozhawk.com/santa-barbara-family-speaks-out-after-being-separated-detained-by-ice/
Time to reincarnate, suckers.
I mean, Hans.
"I 1947. Forgotten Film Exposed How Nazis Recruited"
DavidHoffmanFilmmaker
https://youtube.com/watch?v=f5StiYRF-NQ&si=i2eeH8oRYvF0DaeR
Cool Library Story. 🪶
"Beloved Heavy Manners Library in Echo Park is moving"
I've never been to this library, but something about reading the article makes me feel like schisms and divides that certain people are still currently going along with and accepting as normal reality are just going to feel weirder and more jarring and really not what the next generations will want to be repeating.
Eeeesh, the banality of a bunch of selfish, entitled conformists making "the others' children" suffer so much more for their weird idea of comfort.
"Santa Barbara Family Speaks Out After Being Separated, Detained by ICE
The family of three are asylum seekers who were separated across state lines in March after showing up to an immigration appointment"
https://www.noozhawk.com/santa-barbara-family-speaks-out-after-being-separated-detained-by-ice/
Don't be as cold as ICE.
It's too toxic, and definitely not the optimal way to raise our very special and talented children.
"It’s like Hell’: 60 lawsuits detail alleged medical neglect at ICE detention center"
Some have gone through quite a bit, haven't they?
"Jewish Love Song recorded in Concentration Camp (1944) 'Westerbork Serenade'"
I object to the cult-like phenomenon where something about having excesses of money is still convincing too many humans that acting like shallow, insensitive jerks is just the best they can do.
"Trump loyalist Jim Jordan linked to group that received ‘dark money’ from ICE detention contractor" | Jim Jordan | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/20/jim-jordan-super-pac-ice-donation
Evolve! Do it for fun???
I used to have more of a problem with the terrifying, gripping, undiagnosed complex PTSD type of fear, and lately I feel like it's been evolving a lot more.
That was a different experience.
"Well, well, well, it's not exactly the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' is it?"
Okay, Voice.
She's very cute and likes her humans and hangs out and acts happy according to how she really feels.
I really like how my cat is so impervious to the wily ways of patriarchal white supremacist cult indoctrination.
This also seems very appropriate to read at this moment in time.
"How the Father Complex Shapes the 'Tradwife' Movement"| Psychology Today
Someday, I would like to see the documentary that's been made about him.
"THE RETURN FROM THE OTHER PLANET" Official Trailer
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fB6KpNGv1JM&si=jw6USvwHgo1elejN
"In his opening statement, De-Nur described Auschwitz in unearthly metaphors, saying:
I do not see myself as a writer who writes literature. This is a chronicle from the planet Auschwitz. I was there for about two years. The time there is not the same as it is here, on Earth. (...) And the inhabitants of this planet had no names. They had no parents and no children. They did not wear [clothes] the way they wear here. They were not born there and did not give birth ... They did not live according to the laws of the world here and did not die. Their name was the number K. Tzetnik.[9]
After saying this, De-Nur collapsed and gave no further testimony.
Tom Hurwitz, son of the TV producer showing the trial live at the time, was present during this testimony and recounts the collapse as a stroke.[10]
In an interview on 60 Minutes broadcast on 6 February 1983, De-Nur recounted the incident of his fainting at the Eichmann trial to host Mike Wallace.
Was Dinur overcome by hatred? Fear? Horrid memories? No; it was none of these. Rather, as Dinur explained to Wallace, all at once he realized Eichmann was not the god-like army officer who had sent so many to their deaths. This Eichmann was an ordinary man. 'I was afraid about myself,' said Dinur. '... I saw that I am capable to do this. I am ... exactly like he.'[11]
In her report on the trial, Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt perhaps sarcastically implies that his fainting might have been because he was 'deeply wounded' by the polite efforts of the prosecutor Gideon Hausner and presiding judge Moshe Landau to get him to speak in more concrete descriptive terms.[12]"
"Yehiel De-Nur"
How bizarre it's been to see it be so in control of some people, and to see their drive to make it seem so normalized, sometimes.
"[Banality is] simply the reluctance ever to imagine what the other person is experiencing. That is the banality of evil."
— Hannah Arendt
"Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny"
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/hannah-arendt-documentary/36135/
They're actually being mean to themselves too, but they're very dumb about it.
They will know what they did to people like my friend at the daycare and to me. Their numbness will last for however long it lasts, but it's not possible for it to last forever.
They're not okay.
Beware the people who are acting like the happy colonizers / Nazis.
"Who Goes Nazi?", by Dorothy Thompson
E.M. Forster was brilliant when he said "Only connect."
Colonizers created the kind of racist, misogynistic, unwell, imbalanced culture where humans began to believe that they needed to be in control or push away others more than they needed to connect.
Sunday, June 21, 2026
The free carousels were great!!
I rode the one in Johnson City the most.
"C. Fred Johnson Park Carousel - All You SHOULD Know Before Going 2026 (with Reviews)"
The one with the carousel lit up at night on the cover is also really appealing.
"Herbert Rowbarge (New)" | Natalie Babbitt | 9781250075109 | Awesome Books
https://www.awesomebooks.com/book/9781250075109/herbert-rowbarge?gc=AU
The Tunnel of Love 💗
"For as such things go, or could go, this ride is rather tame. The little boats will trace their route a short four yards apart, eliminating privacy. And the tour will only take five minutes -- too short a time for serious arousal of the blood. Still, it is titillating in its way, and Walter likes it. Walter is forty-two and, like his cousins, unmarried, but, unlike them, no virgin. If it weren't for the fact that he is son to his now-dead father, Dr. Stuart Loose, and nephew to his uncle, Herbert Rowbarge -- in other words, if Walter weren't as rich as he is and due to get richer-- the town would long ago have written him off for a wolf, and worse. But things being what they are, he is instead admired and indulged, especially by his mother and the waitress at the President McKinley tea room."
Page 10 & 11
"Herbert Rowbarge by Natalie Babbitt" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/449892.Herbert_Rowbarge
This Merry-Go-Round reminded me 😍.
This novel is really great for Father's Day.
🎠👼🏼🪽
I think Herbert Rowbarge is a very under read book, and I hope more people will discover it. I also think it would make quite an interesting film!
sierraelizabethferrell
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZMgO1CCcbo/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Herbert Rowbarge by Natalie Babbitt" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/449892.Herbert_Rowbarge
"This is absolutely a policy of white supremacy."
"This is a corrupt government money laundering scheme based in cruelty and human rights abuses"
chelseaisgods
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DY3v9d6A5rU/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Crossing a border is not a reason to..."
"This is a corrupt government"
chelseaisgods
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DY3v9d6A5rU/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
No, because I still have to read more books.
I have to read some more books about gritty things. That's kind of a solitary activity. We don't have the same genetics. We don't have the same imbalances. We don't have the same experiences. And we don't have the same needs.
"the bigger the height difference"
ashelnok and babiesofsteele
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXZr9AhgD8u/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Is it Coffee Shop Time?
Flight of the Conchords - "Business Time"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WGOohBytKTU&si=d4xAt1PRFIdSQQ6w
Fond memories of when I worked with two guys in a coffee shop on several little skits that we enjoyed crafting together and performed in front of a real live audience. And the reception to our work was excellent. And they weren't ever acting like degenerates or disrespectful jerks or anything. They were just like colleagues who were open to new ideas and sharing and all that sort of thing. And I will always have that experience to remember. Thanks for raising the bar, fellas!
So, I guess this person hates living in Florida. Read the thread.
And the quote in her bio! That really interested me too.
"There was this adorable little Latina girl..."
vicki.likes.drums
"... The genetic betrayal that is my legacy."
~ Janeane Garofalo
But Mike, look on the bright side. Much like Oliver and Elio!
At least they'll never have to get abortions or hysterectomies.
Suicidal Tendencies - "Institutionalized"
Well, this is horrifying.
"States can now legally institutionalize and sterilize women..."
cancel.the.state
Maybe if maybe if maybe if I watch this, even though it will annoy me...
But ugh, they don't even provide a trailer to let you know what you're dealing with. They want you to either get sucked into the torment of watching a full episode of their fiction, or not watch it at all.
"The King's Favorite."
Trickiness is as trickiness does.
"Obama's new Presidential Center and his tricky relationship with the South Side"
Well, I didn't consciously ask for that. You know.
Why does the universe send me the random friendly stranger who used to work in the particular not-so-well-off high school, to tell me about the problematicness of the Obama's Art Center on Juneteenth?
Oh, I think it's because she mentioned about the test scores at that school being not very high, and I used to have a job working for a company that put out those kinds of tests. Back when I used to live in the Chicago area for a brief but significant amount of time. That's why.
But then I moved away and was a wage slave (not really, just felt incredibly demoralized) in a sexist restaurant work environment back when bars still allowed smoking for several years, where I did not make enough money and acquired credit card debt while also trying to make sure other people stayed alive in spite of the torturous things a patriarchal society will do to a person's psyche, and that is the kind of experience that no amount of money could ever provide.
However, if a good blonde babysitter is unavailable that day...think happy nanny thoughts.
Talented artist's favorite expensive, pointy, high-heeled shoe will be lending it's services, so that the adopted child will one day grow up to have the confidence of a...
Huh? There's that maturity and wisdom mixed with vulnerability poking through.
Good blonde babysitter will be caring for a future adopted child who's currently in less fortunate circumstances so that one day the child may grow up to have the confidence of a mediocre thin rich blonde woman.
Aw, look at the cats in their cute little cardboard box Roomba war...wtf???
"There was this adorable little Latina girl..."
vicki.likes.drums
In this country there are some bad, racist people who are being very dehumanizing towards other people's children and they are the ones who would have been the Nazis and if you want to put some banality of evil stuff out there into the universe, on top of that, on top of things like some racist people making children get taken away and treated terribly, and traumatizing the neighbors who are trying to treat the children well, then you are not a humane person.
Saturday, June 20, 2026
Wake up from the terrible dream soon!
"This president, this administration..."
chris_sea1
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ1UrJzuFxZ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
It's a freer country for some people than it is for other people.
I mean, if you think you're handling the fascism better, or have some extra advice to offer...
Yeah that's a nice walk, but what about the lawn and the bougainvillea?
"be you, that's what's most important"
joannvdherik
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYQEs7hshsY/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
When you're raised in a cult, it's very important you take the correct steps to not be treated as a witch.
Women with rampant unhealed internalized misogyny issues?
Ha-ha. HA-HA! Hahahahaaa!!!!
"boop!"
chelseagettingdressed
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZTHbdIyhfG/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"It was never about witches."
crystaldawnalchemy4
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVbnpEzCSKo/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I feel like a lot of land that's up for purchase is tainted with stories of abuse and conquest though.
What if I buy a piece of land and I start getting vibes about all of the abuse and conquest that happened on the land???
Then I will have to call upon a shaman.
We can do a land clearing. But don't expect them to participate in such a strange ceremonial thing.
That would be too deeply different from their culture for them.
I don't know why. They used to seem like much more open-minded people.
Oh well.
What if they expected me to own land and be like super thin?? God, I should be more grateful. They didn't expect that second thing.
At least they're not a young, shallow, insensitive rich person. They would just be happy if I owned land and had money. And didn't bother them with anything like the stories of abuse that happened in the family and how it affected our lives. They don't really care what size I am.
So that certain relatives and other shallow, insensitive types of people start respecting my opinions and existence on this planet more...
It's time to look for a piece of land that I can afford to buy and be a real whatever they want reflected back at them.
Old-fashioned fun from 84 years ago.
"SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1942
Dearest Kitty! Let me get started right away; it's nice and quiet now. Father and Mother are out and Margot has gone to play Ping-Pong with some other young people at her friend Trees's. I've been playing a lot of Ping-Pong myself lately. So much that five of us girls have formed a club. It's called 'The Little Dipper Minus Two.' A really silly name, but it's based on a mistake. We wanted to give our club a special name; and because there were five of us, we came up with the idea of the Little Dipper. We thought it consisted of five stars, but we turned out to be wrong. It has seven, like the Big Dipper, which explains the 'Minus Two.' Ilse Wagner has a Ping-Pong set, and the Wagners let us play in their big dining room whenever we want. Since we five Ping-Pong players like ice cream, especially in the summer, and since you get hot playing Ping-Pong, our games usually end with a visit to the nearest ice-cream parlor that allows Jews: either Oasis or Delphi. We've long since stopped hunting around for our purses or money -- most of the time it's so busy in Oasis that we manage to find a few generous young men of our acquaintance or an admirer to offer us more ice cream than we could eat in a week."
"Anne Frank – The Diary of Anne Frank (Excerpts 6/20/1942-7/5/1942)"| Genius
https://genius.com/Anne-frank-the-diary-of-anne-frank-excerpts-6-20-1942-7-5-1942-annotated
What about some kind of ceremony with the burning of sage and herbs and incense and stuff?
What do you do about those people who have been favored by the dominant society and culture who still act like they don't care enough about what x types of people need in order to not be trampled on so much by the dominant society and culture anymore?
Magic will step in and help when people won't!
I think the neurodivergent women with health problems are really going to start getting it together soon. They're going to get out of debt. They're going to get a creatively fulfilling way to earn a regular income. They're going to get emotionally and mentally and spiritually and physically really healthy...
Oh, beliefs! What do they have to do with anything?
"So even though I have a complicated situation going on UP HERE" (twirls fingers pointing at temple) "and I know that even some trained therapists will lie and ditch you when you're kind of weird and neurodivergent in a way that they don't quite understand, I just wanted to let you know that just because you don't BELIEVE me..."
Fantasy Man Speaks Island
FM: Thanks to the misogyny of relaxation and rejuvenation...No! I meant to say the massages and my sojourn on this island of wellness, I must confess I have to begun to notice that among my male and female acquaintances, there are still perhaps one or two who are suffering from internalized misogyny issues, who treated me a lot better because I was in a man's body. And moreover, taking my lead, they didn't extend very much compassion or empathy or sympathy towards those whose life experiences were different from theirs.
Fantasy Woman:
I think you are right. Thank you so much for sharing that. What a relief to know we are both beginning to be worth something more to our evolving society. Now I no longer feel like I am missing out on a crucial piece of information that can also assist me with my own healing. We're still not exactly on the same page, but that's okay, because now I feel much more confident that we're going to be going on this healing journey together!
I wanna know why this is the formula for a groggy, well-groomed queen...
"In order for me to accept that privileged white men are here to support and pamper me according to my proper status, the privileged white men and I must enact the "banality of evil dance" on a daily basis when it comes to acknowledging the plight of the less fortunate feminine souls in this society. Alas, poor things! But there really isn't much we can do for them, is there?"
Gosh, it's pretty long.
Maybe I'll make a list of all the reasons why my body actually liked getting bigger.
Maybe I'll just start calling men sparklers!
They're just so...sparkling, sometimes!
"If we lived in a society where men feared women"
boredwalk
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYLfo1XSwZU/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
On a less less prudish note. (After all, it's Saturday night!)
I think it's hilarious how putting gratification of desires at the top of the list feels normal for the average man in the patriarchal society but their orgasms are like sparklers and women's orgasms are more like fireworks, as a really annoying person who used to tell sexist jokes without much sensitivity for what was going on with other people in the class used to like to say.
She certainly was raised better, though.
"Corrie ten Boom" - C.S. Lewis Institute
https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/resources/profiles-in-faith-corrie-ten-boom/
The very worst of human attitudes when it came to having compassion towards abused children and women.
Making excuses for unsafe, abusive men in the family and acting like they're the most important ones just because they have more access to land and money. What if having more access to a better job or more money or land just doesn't seem worth it based on the attitudes I've seen? I've seen women get access to more money and then more land and then blah blah blah and then they just start acting like the most well-off white men are better than everyone else. And everyone else who's not a privileged white man, which is apparently what they always wanted to be like deep down inside, is now like a worthless piece of trash to them. Awful! Awful internalized misogyny issues. They were brought up to hate women and girls and to put men and boys on a pedestal. Makes you realize how horrible the Nazi female concentration camp guards probably were, and how cold, and how little compassion they must have had towards the ones they simply just didn't feel like caring about anymore. I mean it was actually their job to not care. If they started caring they would lose their job. They got paid money to be evil. So they had many many reasons to not care. Fitting in with others and financial rewards were probably far more important to them. I wonder if there's any studies done on how many Nazi female concentration camp guards went to church when they were children.
Atrocious behavior patterns make some human beings suffer more.
The banality of being desensitized to others because something about that way of existing made you feel like that was your best chance at fitting in with others or whatever else gave you access to what you want.
I wonder how long other people's children have to suffer or die because of attitudes like this?
"I was raised to be too pampered by the patriarchal culture to want to care about what happens to others. Attitudes like mine are what makes those 'banality of evil' kinds of attitudes feel like such a 'normal' way of living to certain groups of people."
She seems like a caring person to me.
"I was born with a disability."
rachelboyce65
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZtUGbDPTtE/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Perhaps I will also be reading "Nausea" soon. Because it's certainly something I've experienced, and so have others.
"[Banality is] simply the reluctance ever to imagine what the other person is experiencing. That is the banality of evil."
— Hannah Arendt
Educate me!
"Ask me how many times a day I've demonstrated to other women's children that the patriarchy wanted me to be a shallow sexist racist mother...lackey."
Perhaps suffering more is kinder to humanity in the long run sometimes.
"I was born with a disability."
rachelboyce65
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZtUGbDPTtE/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Oh God!
Who wants to be the insensitive, sexist, racist, untrustworthy Grandparent of tomorrow? Childish, obstinate and stubbornly existing in a little bubble of cowardice, selfishness and greed.
Dear Hannah Arendt,
I'm getting tired of the banality of evil. How did you handle it? And what was the deal with Heidegger.
"Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny"
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/hannah-arendt-documentary/36135/
"[Banality is] simply the reluctance ever to imagine what the other person is experiencing. That is the banality of evil."
— Hannah Arendt
People's attitudes can be very worrying.
"I was born with a disability."
rachelboyce65
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZtUGbDPTtE/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Don't worry, it's just the shallow people stressing out a Cat Mommy again.
With their big patriarchal energy cortisol boosting attitudes.
Pop some stress bubbles. Read something relaxing.
You guys are not even Trump supporting baby boomers!
I don't understand why we couldn't just meet in a coffee shop to talk about why you and your friends still seem to feel like it's super normal to act like you guys absolutely do not give a crap about the (reproductive rights!) quality of life for most human beings who are women at a time when their human rights and health are being more threatened than ever, but maybe it's more important that this eventually becomes a much larger conversation. I guess that's what the universe thinks? What do you honestly expect the girls to do about those kinds of attitudes, with the way things are going? I know you probably don't like to think about stuff like that, like, almost ever but whose job is it to think about stuff like that? What kind of bubble is everybody supposed to exist in? You can't have everyone existing in the same bubble right? Somebody has to pick food for the people who are existing in the bubble. That's one thing you have to think about. Somebody has had to pick the food for the land-owning, patriarchy-worshipping, unfeminist, incurious...
And that's a truly daunting thought.
I bet when the cult leaders get really upper level, they can't hardly restrain themselves from gently extricating permission from their followers to continuously allow themselves to enjoy how holy and sacred it feels to indulge their impulses to perform incredible acts of Jesus-like behavior.
I can't believe I haven't finished hallucina...I mean, "Melusine" yet.
"Ghosts beneath our feet : Wright, Betty Ren"
https://archive.org/details/ghostsbeneathour00wrig
"Melusine : Lynne Reid Banks": Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Just being funny, ha-ha.
Remember your inner child still has a sense of fun and play!
"The Birding Dictionary" by Rosemary Mosco | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/218372437-the-birding-dictionary
Just press on your little rainbow stress toy.
No pressure about anything at all whatsoever.
"Death on the Prairie (Chloe Ellefson Mystery, #6)" by Kathleen Ernst | Goodreads
This was uplifting! 🪺
I like the decision that they made!
"At the Ritz-Carlton Rancho Mirage..."
insidehistory
https://www.instagram.com/p/DXuQCdsEXtv/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
What's this about?
"Let's talk about the cultural tax..."
maria_savax
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZx-rFpKJm7/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Patriarchal parents and other patriarchal people can stop doing this, too.
"Stop reducing our health to our reproductive output."
ojiirot
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZheWFKOHkm/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Cherry on top thinking?
I should just love good music/art and not care about human rights is like telling me I should just eat the cherry on top and not care about the rest of the entire ice cream sundae.
I just got an ice cream (two big scoops) in a cup without any cherry on top, but I did get cherries in my ice cream! And I split it when I got home.
I got it from the Mexican ice cream place. It was filled with people who were way less white than me, and also nobody who was in an adult body was a size small. I'm not sure if anybody grown up was a size medium either.
I'm starting to think that size small is more for the people who have had fewer adverse childhood experiences, and are better at not being so stressed out about what's going on currently, but of course, that would be too much of a generalization.
A silly rhyme, but also, very sensitive to childhood experiences.
"Feminism killed the fan girl part..."
The Buggles - "Video Killed The Radio Star (Official Video)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs&si=d-zLT4ykLXZ6OloP
But it's not just feminism. It's actually figuring out how to be able to stay alive in this body! People not caring that other people are being oppressed because they're locked away in their own survival strategies is a tragedy, but some of us have to get to a higher level now, even if some others seem to believe that they don't have to.
It's time to pet the cat who is so great and cares not about ye olde oppressive patriarchy.
Naturally the patriarchy would want talented women to act like blah blah blah is more important than blah blah blah. She's not impressed.
I think people can have more love.
But they have to learn how to love more kinds of people! They don't have to touch all of them. Like, see them. Acknowledge they exist. Acknowledge that people who need help deserve help.
People...They get to talk about their experiences!
Although we know that the patriarchal society didn't want them to.
"You know when..."
"i wasted so much time & energy & money"
thebeccamurray
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZdH4JUpWy4/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"we are in a lonely world because..."
emeleedahla
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZiZ7aMqa0z/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"ego lifting"crzysxykewl
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZxUCqTxTIv/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
There's the lighter side...
"If you have difficulty..."
artandtherapystudio
https://www.instagram.com/p/DZyK91Ykd7U/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
So, this is life. There is the dark side...
"The @aclu_nationwide data says..."
the.sisofficial
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZyBsAtxsAk/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"We see you..."
ojiirot
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZz0DlCoH_j/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Just out here trying to create a safe space..."
itskathrynnatalie
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZuQxWETYTn/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
When you are gifted a book, you should randomly open it to a page.
"Death on the Prairie (Chloe Ellefson Mystery, #6)" by Kathleen Ernst | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/25212068-death-on-the-prairie
In this case, they're talking about when Pa couldn't play his fiddle anymore during the long winter.
Very systemic stuff.
In all fairness, it's probably harder to not be a liar when you've gotten more rewards for it throughout your life.
Rollins Band - "Liar (1994) Official Music Video"
Sounds like it could be an appropriate hot weather activity, hmmm!
Maybe I'll put some ice cream in my larger-sized body today.
PSYCHE!
Well dear, if any of our friend's daughters just so happen to meet someone special as they're out and about in the world, in this patriarchal culture, I suppose we can only hope for the best.
I'm sure it's just part of a grieving process...
I'm starting to appreciate more the times as a child when the adults around me were honest and didn't hide how they felt, even if I was disappointed in how they acted, and honestly even in workplace environments, too. When people were really showing their biases, I didn't like it, and it did traumatize me, but maybe it's better I knew, in the long run!
That's the funny thing. Because you've stopped running away from the knowledge.
Accepting that a lot of good people have been trained to be extremely dishonest can actually be a bit of a relief. A weird kind of peace and clarity can come to you. Like, quit fighting with yourself so much about it; it's just, that's how people act sometimes. It's disappointing, to be sure. But it can be helpful to face the truth about these things. Nevertheless, it may or may not feel like its as helpful to get confirmation that all kinds of people really can be liars from a song, like...
Rollins Band – "Liar"
Do you think that would be an appealing title for a work of art?
"Surviving many many lies told by many many liars."
Sometimes, the luckier ones are not the most sensitive. That's why it's good to have a mother who listens.
The "Guess Who" game inventors:
"Ora and Theo Coster" - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ora_and_Theo_Coster
He was one of Anne Frank's classmates.
"We All Wore Stars: Memories of Anne Frank from Her Classmates by Theo Coster"| Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/11450811-we-all-wore-stars
Sigh. But her mom listened!
"Guess Who’s sexist? Classic board game’s gender bias leaves six-year-old fuming"| The Independent | The Independent
The inventors of the game were sexist.
The mom listened!
"Guess Who’s sexist? Classic board game’s gender bias leaves six-year-old fuming" | The Independent | The Independent
Some people might really need to develop a lot of spiritual fortitude.
Considering the circumstances.
"Obama's new Presidential Center and his tricky relationship with the South Side"
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5853362
"Obama urges resistance to ‘cynicism and despair’ during presidential center opening ceremony"
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/18/politics/live-news/obama-presidential-center
It seems to me that we really do need to develop spiritual fortitude for these times.
Even people who have received special training in ethics will lie to be able to fit in with a system or to avoid things they don't want to look at or talk about. Then you have to deal with the betrayal because you've been lied to. Even very good people do this. And then, sometimes you are in denial about that for a little while. Maybe that's what you needed to do to get through life for a period of time. But there are many time when being in denial about it is just going to make it worse, if it goes on forever. All of the humans, even the ones who are supposedly trained not to do this sort of thing, are susceptible to repeating old patterns. Painful truths are more easily faced when you can believe in some kind of spiritual fortitude, something that's beyond human capabilities.
And honestly.
My mindseye visual: It's like a blonde girl who looked like Daisy Coleman was smiling at me.
"Daisy Coleman" - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Coleman
I'm glad they wrote these pieces.
"Who Goes Nazi?" by Dorothy Thompson
https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/
"Who Gets Believed?" by Dina Nayeri
Both US and Europe need to get better!
"Now I get to watch the 'pro-life' crowd justify it"
MonteMader
https://youtube.com/shorts/sxJ3dLSkp6o?si=wxNHqAHOYJzwUZu8
"The MAGA movement arrived"
abiralsahlani
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZuSmP3ItE2/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
A society of people shouldn't have to be so racist in order to get the feel-good feelings that they want.
"'They have all the power’: investigation finds that 93% of ICE arrests targeted Latinos" | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)"| The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/20/ice-investigation-new-york-new-jersey
Dearest Kitty!
Why was I supposed to see the accidental (I assume) swastikas on the ceiling, made by some combination of the fans and dust collecting on the grates? Did this really happen?
"Anne Frank – The Diary of Anne Frank (Excerpts 6/20/1942-7/5/1942)"| Genius
https://genius.com/Anne-frank-the-diary-of-anne-frank-excerpts-6-20-1942-7-5-1942-annotated
Well, time to turn the attention towards something more interesting now?
"Not just books - how renting a sewing machine from the library can improve democracy"
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260618-the-weird-and-wonderful-libraries-of-finland
"'I have tears in my eyes when I see people almost run into the building at 08:00, heading straight to their favourite spots,' says Katri Vänttinen, director of library services for the whole of the Finnish capital. 'It shows that the library really belongs to the public.'"
~ Erika Benke
It's really frustrating to see sometimes.
People's inability to confront their own greed and shallowness and groupthink on a smaller scale is part of what is creating the larger scale conditions. But I've been told that this is happening because we are collectively moving towards something better, and now all of the stuff that we're supposed to let go of is coming out.
But they don't seem to think that way about it. They just think that they're doing what's best for them. It makes one feel like they're just perpetuating lies for a brief time with almost no thought for the long term affects. And they have to experience those effects too. But I guess they're just choosing to maybe experience more of it either later in this life or in the next life.
And it's shocking who ends up doing it too. People you would have never expected to be like that end up doing that. They're just repeating old patterns they saw role-modeled for them and they're still getting little rewards for it. But I don't understand why they don't have a desire to dream bigger.
"Comfort Zone." Who is it comfortable for, exactly? Whose comfort is it geared towards?
Some of you could get a lot more articulate on why your preferences and tastes have been favoring some insecure bullies who have felt entitled to abuse others as much they have abused their own privileges, yes?
I think if this was actually working, inequity would not be increasing!
Best Proverb of the Day: “People visit the rich with gifts but they visit the poor with advice"
And we move onward!
Yeah I'm glad music is fun.
Self Aware ~ Temper City
Shut Up Kiss Me ~ Angel Olsen
End of Beginning ~ Djo
Water Fountain ~ Tune Yards
Happy Together ~ The Turtles
Also, I deleted "Oh Shallow" by My Bloody Valentine (which I heard before "Self Aware") because I REALLY wanted The Turtles "Happy Together" song to still be on there!
How you know what's been on your mind lately.
When you're trying to take a dance class and you have a lot of nervousness and feel awkward and end up looking up at the ceiling and noticing something that looks like a swastika well maybe the fan behind the grate did that because it's so strange why would that be up there and it's not the only one either.
The first, the second, and the third I've seen by her.
"Banks of the Sweet Primroses" by Josienne Clarke
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JnB2H0064bg&si=ApirPeWkGjFxVvVF
Josienne Clarke - "What Do I Do"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z8pUnhr-bmM&si=s-JBcIcnLj3zQTCH
Josienne Clarke - "The Drawing Of The Line"
More conversations will be happening, hopefully.
"Obama's new Presidential Center and his tricky relationship with the South Side"
Costly things are costing us many things.
You're not really on my side. Stop pretending! But you have made good art.
Tori Amos – "Taxi Ride Lyrics"
https://genius.com/Tori-amos-taxi-ride-lyrics
It's just that a lot of people really need a lot more than good art these days. They really need to be seen and heard and acknowledged. They need to have more access to basic cost of living things, too.
Falling out of favor...
Lying to yourself and acting like certain kinds of people are better than others kinds of people. We know that behavior was very much normalized and a crucial part of some people's rise because of how the Patriarchal systems have structured things.
Feels like people know what they know, and they just keep on knowing it.
Feels like a lot of negligence happens because good communication is still not being prioritized.
It feels like there's some growth that can still happen.
It feels like sometimes, some people need to tell themselves lies just to feel they can be protected from the harsher realities that others are facing.
What do you do when the painfulness of inequality is just so blatantly in your face?
Yesterday, a friend told me how much she liked the Obamas' speech at the opening of the big art center which is for the community. And by coincidence, we also both met somebody who used to work at the high school which is right next to the art center. And in a not-at-all abrasive way, the person who used to work at that school said that the building of the art center was controversial, and I see that this is an article that touches on that.
"Obama's new Presidential Center and his tricky relationship with the South Side"
Friday, June 19, 2026
La de da, love.🌹Peace.🕊️Dove.
Beauty & love & spiritual stuff. Feeling that impulse to try to shed some of the cynicism that's been acquired over the years. People need to know how to protect themselves, too. It helps if they know how. Sensitive people sometimes have to figure out how to take better care of themselves and to affix their own oxygen masks and things like that.
Ah! Such a challenge to be here sometimes but I guess it's worth it?
You know, sometimes I say a lot of silly things and I really just want peace and healing to guide us forever! It's hilarious! I thought it would be so much wiser at this age. It's hilarious. I just have to keep remembering to learn how to cultivate compassion for silly human ways.
Well, I have to go out and have a life now.
"Lotteria..."
janiedevours
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZRsGA5RENz/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Reminder that I am going to be ordering a gift card for the upcoming holiday.
Nobody is a man forever.
"Those who get it, get it."
emaansaidso
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZxxIl4Itx1/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
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