"Women of the Rosenstrasse protest challenged the Nazi Regime"
Monday, September 14, 2026
Your shadow side is coming out! Well, it's important to do Shadow Work, isn't it?
Is Donald Trump your shadow? Are the ICE Agents who lack empathy your shadow?
Cool? Cool use of taxpayer money? No. Not at all.
"'Alligator Alcatraz’ Used Small Cages as 'Calming Areas' Report Says"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/us/alligator-alcatraz-dhs-inspector-general.html
Bleach!
God, it's disappointing how many people in certain industries are acting like they are susceptible to collective narcissism. It makes me think that the Nazis took control of Europe because too people were just so susceptible to being collectively narcissistic.
Concentration camps and greed are a sign of failure, not a sign of success.
So greedy!
"I will not be normalizing hunting humans on the streets with guns"
chelseaisgods
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdPykIcAnjG/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Stop being so patriarchal.
Stop acting like the best thing about women and girls is if they're young and skinny and compliant or if they're pregnant and creating entitled children who oppress other people's children.
Just throwing it out there, just because people don't seem to be acting out of the kindness of their hearts as much these days.
It is also time for rich people to stop hating poor people so much, because they're going to be outnumbered.
And this is exactly what happens when you get convinced to along with that s*** when it's supposedly convenient for you to do so.
Humans hunting people on the street for money in Michigan and other places.
"I will not be normalizing hunting humans on the streets with guns."
chelseaisgods
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdPykIcAnjG/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Disappointment!
This is me shaking my finger at the culture that was disgustingly prone to normalizing sexism and violence during your little moldable mind's upbringing: so degrading; so dehumanizing; so disappointing!
Not every moment is enlightened!
I don't make the rules! Anyways, not those rules.
Freaking Academy O' Nightmares.
"Mt. SAC women’s basketball coach Brian Crichlow wins Coach of the Year for a third year" – SAC Media
"Mt. SAC will not take action against Brian Crichlow Despite Sex Abuse Allegations"
"Mt. SAC coach being sued for sexual harassment says accusers out for revenge money"
"Former head coach suing Mt. SAC for gender discrimination"
https://sac.media/2024/01/03/former-head-coach-suing-mt-sac-for-gender-discrimination/
"Former Student Files Lawsuit Against Mt. SAC"
https://sac.media/2017/03/13/former-student-files-lawsuit-against-mt-sac/
Rich mom, poor mom.
I've just got to the part where they're comparing the details about different types of homes for unwed mothers.
"'The Antidote' review: A spellbinding epic from 'Swamplandia!' author Karen Russell" : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5332088/the-antidote-review-karen-russell
You have got to figure out how to hate girls less. I know it's difficult.
Because what will the SUNS do if you hate them?
That was the old life!
Whose body has never pushed out even ONE single boy baby into our wickedly Patriarchal Society in this lifetime....hmmm?
I ate the other half of an extremely yummy salad that I ordered last night for breakfast this morning!
The ingredients included fennel, toasted pistachios, quinoa, orange segments and chicken! I added pomegranate seeds to it in the a.m. I also ate the olives and breadsticks appetizer and drank one glass of Pinot Grigio. (Not in the morning; in the morning, I had water to drink.)
"The internalized misogyny runs deep"
littledrownedrat
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdPLj8tRYou/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Really. Well if they do that, I hope they can have a thoughtful discussion afterwards.
As a result of their recent decisions, ICE Agents and other cold-hearted survivors of the brutal Patriarchal Society will be gathering for a collective viewing of "Mr. Holland's Opus."
"Mr. Holland's Opus(1995) is an underrated movie"
Just throwing it out there right now.
It would be a much better world if a whole bunch of people hadn't been raised to feel entitled to dehumanize girls and women just because that's what their unwell Patriarchal Society wanted them to feel entitled to do.
I wonder if this was a dream from the Divine Feminine?
I had sort of a funny dream that there was a female voice telling me that she went out with a male friend of hers on a date a couple of times and decided it wasn't going to work out with them but she thought he would really hit it off with her friend and so she canceled their date and said that he should go out with her friend basically and then they went out and they did hit it off and then they got married and she was happy for them! And her way of telling the man that she thought that he should go out with her friend was to say that she thought he would really enjoy a bowl of pumpkin chili. That's the funny part.
Sunday, September 13, 2026
Beautiful bag! Reversible. Sewn and crocheted.
Bought from a vendor at a Renaissance Fair in the forest.
Kat Nap Crochet
Oh, it's a challenge.
I wish I had gotten more reading done today but I have to go out and do some stuff. It will happen...
It's so good when people have more energy to do things when they're younger. And I used to have more energy sometimes, but then half the month I'd have pain that kept me both from wanting to work full-time or do very much compared to what other people were doing.
I wish I would have known about something like taking black currant seed oil twenty years ago. There's also other alternative methods that I only discovered in very recent years.
Wow, it's sort of but not really like a retelling of The Wizard of Oz?
"The Antidote, by Karen Russell" – Elle Thinks
https://ellethinks.wordpress.com/2025/03/10/the-antidote-by-karen-russell/
A reminder that feelings are important.
"It's rarely the truth itself that people can't accept. It's how they feel about it."
Page 73 "The Prairie Witch"
"The Antidote by Karen Russell" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/214537790-the-antidote
This song was on the radio yesterday.
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Breaking The Girl [Official Video]"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=iyu04pqC8lE&si=q51N9_WSOXd0Bqxt
I was like, it's a good song. Why couldn't he have treated women better? Oh, his dad.
Back to reading about women's basketball!
"The Antidote by Karen Russell" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/214537790-the-antidote
I'm on the part of the book where they're talking about women's basketball. It's at the beginning.
And the worse things get, the more childish some adults seem to become.
The Trump acts like a child, and the more some people seem to love him.
But at least they're not all like Karl was.
"Karl Silberbauer"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Silberbauer
"Silberbauer's memories of the arrest were notably vivid – he in particular recalled Otto and Anne Frank. When he asked Otto how long they had been in hiding, Otto replied, 'Two years and one month.' Silberbauer was understandably incredulous, until Otto stood Anne against the marks made on the wall to measure her height since they had arrived in the Annex, showing that she had grown even since the last mark had been made. Silberbauer said that Anne 'looked like the pictures in the books, but a little older, and prettier. 'You have a lovely daughter', I said to Mr. Frank'.[17]"
It's something to remember the next time I turn on the radio, too.
"Why is everybody always fawning over certain kinds of grown men the most? Why? Why? Oh, I know why. We live in a Patriarchical Society, and grown men of privilege are the best taken care of children in a Patriarchical Society."
Grown men of privilege are the best taken care of children in a Patriarchical Society.
Fascinating. I don't think it's very good for Humanity collectively as a whole for things to be that way, but...fascinating, nevertheless.
"The real tragedy" (?)
"The real tragedy, these women insist, is a woman who's missed her chance to have children."
~ Edin, Kathryn; Kefalas, Maria. Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage.
"The End of Baby Mama Culture - The WizardLiz, Cardi B and Offset"
manifestelle
Sometimes I wonder if collective narcissism is just an alternative definition for popularity.
"Study: Trump Tuned in to America’s Collective Narcissism"
While the stuff that was on display in the temporarily empty candy shop yesterday (the owner had left a note that they would be back soon) might be a sign of collective narcissism, it could also be a sign of desperation to identify with a powerful patriarchical figure who's going to "save us." There was also a whiteboard with lots of references from the Bible and God Bless Trump written at the top of it. This part about a dad fighting the school board was funny:
The shop was not quiet either because there was a radio program with a man's voice playing in the background. I didn't feel like staying, so I didn't.
Summary reminded me of a song.
"Wednesday, 2 September, 1942
Anne is shocked at the trivial quarrel between the Van Daans, and at how lazy and touchy Peter is. Mummy and Mrs. Van Daan are not getting along either; Mrs. Van Daan refuses to share her sheets, and as a result, so does Mummy. Peter sneaks away with a book about women, and Mummy disapproves and says that he is not as mature as Margot and should not read it. Peter gets into trouble. After three days, things are all right again."
"Notes on August/September 1942 from The Diary of Anne Frank"
https://www.bookrags.com/notes/daf/part2.html#gsc.tab=0
It reminded me of a healing song I learned when I visited my grandparents in Michigan.
Heile heile segen
Drei tage regen
Uber morgen besser sind.
🌦️☔⛈️💧
Heal, heal, blessing.
Three days of rain.
Things will be better tomorrow.
Not much happened to this guy.
He was "just doing his job."
"Karl Silberbauer" - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Silberbauer
"Although the Austrian government stated that the arrest of Anne Frank 'did not warrant Silberbauer's arrest or prosecution as a war criminal', the Vienna Police convened a disciplinary hearing. Among the witnesses was Otto Frank, who testified that Silberbauer had 'only done his duty and behaved correctly' during the arrest; however, Otto added: 'The only thing I ask is not to have to see the man again.'[18]
As a result, the police review board exonerated Silberbauer of any official guilt. His unpaid suspension was lifted and the Vienna police assigned him to a desk job in the 'Identification Office' (Erkennungsamt).[18]
Silberbauer died in 1972.[9]"
It's a rather inspiring thought!
Someone who's feeling alone and experiencing some truly awful things right now might be the honored guest on a children's program in a few decades.
Just knowing this guy existed helps me get on with this life sometimes.
"1976: OTTO FRANK on the Diary of Anne Frank | Blue Peter"
I could go back to a very good place where I heard these for the first time.
Stevie Nicks – "Edge of Seventeen Lyrics"
https://genius.com/Stevie-nicks-edge-of-seventeen-lyrics
I had my first childhood in upstate New York.
Fleetwood Mac – "Gypsy Lyrics"
https://genius.com/Fleetwood-mac-gypsy-lyrics
And I sort of had a second childhood, in my young adulthood, in upstate New York.
(On the good days it was like a second childhood. It could still be pretty grueling, at other times.)
This looks good.
"'The Weather Keeper' is a new children's book"
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/13/nx-s1-5902250/the-weather-keeper-nelly-buchet-elizabeth-haidle
Just another human life!
A memory: I used to live in Virginia and not too long before I moved, I guess, I was experiencing a certain amount of turmoil and there was a woman who came up to me in a parking lot and she said you have very strong energy. Can I give you a reading. And I said No! Go find somebody with money! Cuz I felt that I didn't have enough money to pay her for a reading. On that day I was really strong in my energy of rebuffing her offer of giving me a reading. I could see she was hurt by my reaction but I could also see she was listening and she was actually going to follow what I told her, and she was going to find people with more money and give them readings. I guess I didn't need to know what she wanted to tell me, but now I'm curious what she would have told me. Hopefully she was able to give readings to other people because she wasn't wrong, but for some reason, that's how that interaction went.
Saturday, September 12, 2026
The most upbeat thing I read all day was about a nature walking play!
Sounds really amusing actually. 🍁🎭🌳🍃
"Take A Walk On Emerson And Thoreau's Wild Side In 'Nature'"
https://www.wbur.org/news/2017/09/29/emerson-thoreau-concord-walking-play
Fa la la la la la la la la.
"How to Eat the Bitter" | Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brainstorm/202609/how-to-eat-the-bitter
People should do what makes them happy or brings them peace.
Dying is a process. People die. People go through a process in hospice. The caretakers go through a lot. Dying is a process and people go through a lot. Physically and emotionally and in all kinds of ways.
Do you think it would even work if I tried? I don't think so.
I'm not even allowed to live in other people's bubble worlds because I have the wrong body, the wrong upbringing, and the wrong everything to be able to live in that kind of a bubble world.
I don't care at all about being successful right now.
Really want to get better at healing. I just feel the need to dig through stuff / throw things around first. It's like a creative process.
I read somewhere that in my astrology there's something like in previous lifetimes I was more more warlike or something and in this lifetime I'm supposed to get better at connecting and communicating and it might be the case.
Okay, that's enough information for this body.
Now I have to zone out or take a nap or do my flower essences or something.
Are the movies like propaganda?
"Age 5: Wait to be chosen"
wanwanluve
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdMXp9qsRmC/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I'm sorry (?) I'm so curious though.
Do you think she actually experienced all these things herself or do you think she collected stories from friends or does she just have a really vivid imagination?
"Men in the arts when you tell them..."
jain_edwards
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbD5ga2teJL/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Yes, I have noticed that.
Have you ever noticed that people who have felt the need to align themselves with violent patriarchical figures ended up becoming kind of like, people you can't really count on?
Where did they learn to do that?
People are acting like they love and worship an abusive man who's been totally terrible for them and for the country!
Were you ever given guidelines and feedback on what you needed to do in order to feel loved?
"Most men don't love women"
sarahinfluenced
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdHZQyjRsCM/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
That's a question that came up too.
So, if your if your hero dies and comes back as a woman, what kind of woman does the hero reincarnated have to be in order for the women and men who really liked and admired that hero to also like and admire the woman that the hero comes back as?
Humans are very weird sometimes! We need to learn more about how they're wired.
It's been interesting to note how some people will end up replicating the not particularly healthy behaviors they saw when they were younger, even if they also used to criticize those behaviors when they were younger. It is as though part of them still accepted them as normal, and subconsciously decided that to display those behaviors again was also normal.
Maybe it's more common for people who grew up with ads like this to think somebody who's a fascist is a good provider.
You know, the kind of person who really wants what's best for you.
"We'll never forget this."
motorinamakeup
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdMbqBgsIcy/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Sometimes seeing the repetition of certain human behavior patterns makes me wonder these things.
Where do you find the parents who don't have internalized misogyny issues, who don't put selfish men on pedestals at the expense of others, who don't feel the need to put down girls and women to keep their favored position in patriarchal society "protected," and who don't act like they're the ones who are entitled to not care that all of those things are to the detriment of other people's children, and actually, in the long run that's to the detriment of themselves and their own children as well. Where's a good place to find such people?
Thought I'd stop by a cute shop and I ended up being glad the owner wasn't there.
I don't know if those decorations are supposed to explain the rise in prices. Maybe?
Really it is the least they could do.
"As Millions of Birds Migrate, Residents Are Asked To Turn Off The Lights"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/us/bird-seasonal-migration-lights.html
"I think someday you could write a book just like the lady who lived here and wrote my ire, I mean my favorite, 'Nancy and Plum.'"
"Betty MacDonald - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_MacDonald
"Chickens are just the fall guy in this funny, blunt tale"
"Nancy and Plum by Betty MacDonald" | Goodreads
Girls will show cleavage.
Girls all can wear the same shirt to work and not look the same. They can look different because they wear different bra sizes.
"Girls will be girls 😈"
boardwalk.los.angeles
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHcIOSmydVy/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I visited a poetry page.
The top poems on the page were ones I had read before, and then a bunch of poems underneath I had not, so I read through those and picked the one I liked the best: "XIII."
"Twenty-One Love Poems XIII by Adrienne Rich"
https://allpoetry.com/poem/10381457-Twenty-One-Love-Poems-XIII-by-Adrienne-Rich
They're so unlike Jesus.
The song reminds me of rude, self-absorbed cult members who don't care about girls and women or what's happening to immigrants (people whose paperwork might just be a little bit not like theirs). And a lot of these people voted for the tyrannical sexual predator who's ruining our country right now. Because they're cult members!
"Our God is an Awesome God with Lyrics"
Now I have to pause and do healing work on myself.
I'm getting physical pain. I don't think I should be getting physical pain from drinking part of a banana and almond butter smoothie. Sigh.
Who cares about celebrity culture, but also, I wonder what this is about.
Update: It's Mama Adrienne Rich!
"The End of Baby Mama Culture - The WizardLiz, Cardi B and Offset"
manifestelle
Champagne wishes and shiny polished balsamic meatloaf dreams.
🎵Alice in Chains "Man in the Box"
purr.chaos.triplets
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcZ9TbKMgK1/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"A new personality was unlocked that day."
@erinmiller
https://youtube.com/shorts/3-6_qL2bUZs?si=Yz06ysQ7xy8FGZ-R
"Balsamic Glazed Roasted Vegetable Meatloaf Recipe"
https://jeanetteshealthyliving.com/balsamic-glazed-roasted-vegetable-meatloaf/
Don't worry, it's all a terrible nightmare, and you'll wake up soon.
Thoreau has bludgeoned Emerson with his ax and said that's too bad because he was a very good advisor when we were both men, but I could not bear one more repetition of his trite nonsense. Now take me to jail. My aunt will bail me out in no time.
No, I'm not going to say that your flakiness is fine. I think it's actually a horror show.
You and your wounded father are untrustworthy, and excruciatingly and exceedingly prone to oozing entitlement. Excuses were constantly made for your kind as long as you behaved in certain ways, which is why only some of the people who repeated your behavior patterns got more "rewarded" for doing that than others. I'm so tired of your laziness. You are no help at all.
Get your traumas healed somehow. Like, quickly.
I'm soooo sick of some people acting like entitled, untrustworthy avoidants who can't be relied on at all and who can't deal with reality just because their parents were not good enough role models for them. It's harsh. I don't like that I said that, but it's true. That's how I feel right now.
And also, how they acted like a lot of unfeeling sheep who just wanted to go along with what others were doing sometimes.
"The army psychologist in charge of watching the Nazis during Nuremberg said their one unifying trait was a complete lack of empathy."
mmikehidalgo
The audacity of her! What a Christian woman.
"A Philadelphia nun named Sister Rose Kuhn drives to the immigration court in Harlingen, Texas every week to sit beside unaccompanied minors… the youngest being four years old.
Just so they don’t face a deportation judge with no lawyer and no parent. She is a true representation of Christianity, not Trump."
arianajasmine__
She knows what she's talking about.
"Giving men the love that they deserve"
elleorlando
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcCJIodCa9E/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Mouthy woman's voice.
"Absolutely Disgraceful and Disgusting"
back.up.bruhhh
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dc6KveRBIrV/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
This is the greeting that some deserve.
"Every time we meet another trucking kitty."
truckin_cat
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdG8PbCRGpi/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
She knows what she's talking about.
"We gotta watch the boys."
tactless_radio
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dc7ic30OSjJ/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Guess what? A lot has happened over the years.
Do you ever think: "Guess what? That's not my job in this life."
And I mean...
Some people have been so rude, it's like The Patriarchy has actually brainwashed them into disrespecting their own moms. So they're obviously not going to respect a whole bunch of other kinds of human beings in feminine form, if they won't even respect their own mothers. So brainwashed!
So I guess you could say I woke up with a feeling of heartache. Truly!
You can do better! Get it together! Have a heart!
The Youngbloods - "Get Together (Audio)"
The entitlement of some people is not very charitable. They are not "doing it for the children" either.
Also, I guess I do feel some righteousness, as I am still very offended by the entitlement of some people to not care about what is happening to others, especially when what's happening harms people who are more vulnerable to being discriminated against. But they no less deserving of having a good life.
Good morning! This is the day the Lord has made. Saturday is the Sabbath. If you're a Seventh-Day Adventist. I think.
I woke up early thinking about how hard Cheerupcharlye from Kalamazoo, Michigan is working so that Benny can get out of the concentration camp and he have his dream of a goat farm and a reunion with his daughter.
"I have been fighting to get my friend Benny out of ICE concentration camps for exactly 270 days"
cheerupcharlye
https://www.threads.com/share/_wK6Mh7RY/
"Fundraiser by CheerUp Charlye : Free Benny, Reunite A Family"
https://www.gofundme.com/f/free-benny-reunite-a-family-rebuild-our-farm-restaurant
"About Benny: Benny was brought from Guinea, Africa to the United States in 2011 by a dance and acrobatics troupe from New York City. At the time, he was only 17 years old and arrived on a H2B visa to be a dance/acrobatics instructor in NYC.
Benny worked for the dance troupe for over 2 years without receiving a single payment for his labor. After his visa expired, Benny was turned out onto the streets of NYC to figure things out for himself. Barely an adult, he was able to find a job + room and board at a hotel restaurant in Manhattan.
Looking out from the sky-rise windows of his room over Lexington Avenue, Benny began to build a life in the city he had always dreamed of.
In 2018, Benny booked me as an audio engineer to record his music.
On Benny’s first day in the studio, he had an interpreter with him because he didn’t feel confident in his English. Halfway through the session, the interpreter told me that there was no point for him to be there because Benny and I understood each other even if we didn't communicate with the same language.
After that first session, we became fast friends and Benny started to come back to record every single week. Through 10 years working with me in the studio, Benny became fluent in English, and we recorded over 100 songs together. Over time, I witnessed Benny speak, sing, and freestyle in 9 different languages. Thanks to Benny, I became so much more aware of the effort it takes to learn English, but also the lack of credit polyglots in the United States receive. I was even able to learn a little SouSou and Patwah along the way.
During that time, it was us against the world!
Two young adults, barely drinking age, from small towns oceans apart. Me, a homeless disabled transgender audio engineer, and him, an African-Jamaican singer, trafficked to the US to dance.
We found each other fighting for the same dreams in the streets of NYC. Together we learned to sing our way through COVID, through societal collapse, through joy and suffering. In the day time, we both worked our asses off in restaurants; at night time, we would meet in the studio to record our stories
Our dream was, and will always be, our freedom.
For the past 12 years, Benny has worked to build a life here in the US.
Benny got married, he renovated a house in Queens, NY and used it to buy a farm in NJ to raise goats, and start a business. He has a beautiful 1yr old daughter and he loves his life here.
Last December, Benny was harassed on the street of Vineland, NJ.
Fearing for his life, he went into a police station to file a police report. While in the police station, an ICE agent heard his African accent, gave Benny a deportation form, and lied claiming it was a harassment report. Benny did not understand the legal jargon on the paperwork, so he trusted the ICE agent and signed on the dotted line for his own incarceration."
Friday, September 11, 2026
Well, that one song was perfect for unloading a countertop dishwasher.
And I remembered how I liked the part of this book where the author called herself, as a young woman trying to teach English in Czechoslovakia, "a very trying girl." But now back to the documentary that her book led me to discover!
I need to listen to this 15 minutes in while I unload the dishwasher, and then back to the "My Indiana Muse" film!
"Kodachrome / Mabellene (Live at Central Park, New York"
Simon And Garfunkel
Everything is very, very cyclical.
Earlier today I got this very vulnerable feeling about me, especially around the heart area, and the only thing I could do was kind of curl up in a ball and lie on my side, and it's like I had my two feet with a little soft pillow in between them and it felt like the feet were just talking to each other, like helping each other out, in order to help the human process the experience.
But now I sort of feel normal again.
I don't have as much of that weird heavy feeling around the chest anymore.
Isn't that a blessing?
We'll see how long it lasts.
I also think a triangle model could be applied to other things in life, too.
Like, if you had an upbringing that was not necessarily so ideal, then when you're at the bottom of the triangle, you're still in a lot of murkiness and confusion as you're dealing with the pain and trauma. And then, as you get towards the top of the triangle, you can find more joy in fulfilling your destiny, which is to learn more about the nature of love when you've been given a certain set of challenging circumstances to deal with!
In my heart, I know I can provide evidence of experiencing all the levels! 😀
"Hope we all get to Level 7 ✨"
baddestbinthebldg
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdE0tF-RZ18/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Details from someone whose friend from NY is being detained unjustly.
"I have been fighting to get my friend Benny out of ICE concentration camps for exactly 270 days"
cheerupcharlye
https://www.threads.com/share/_wK6Mh7RY/
Fundraiser by CheerUp Charlye : Free Benny, Reunite A Family
https://www.gofundme.com/f/free-benny-reunite-a-family-rebuild-our-farm-restaurant
"About Benny: Benny was brought from Guinea, Africa to the United States in 2011 by a dance and acrobatics troupe from New York City. At the time, he was only 17 years old and arrived on a H2B visa to be a dance/acrobatics instructor in NYC.
Benny worked for the dance troupe for over 2 years without receiving a single payment for his labor. After his visa expired, Benny was turned out onto the streets of NYC to figure things out for himself. Barely an adult, he was able to find a job + room and board at a hotel restaurant in Manhattan.
Looking out from the sky-rise windows of his room over Lexington Avenue, Benny began to build a life in the city he had always dreamed of.
In 2018, Benny booked me as an audio engineer to record his music.
On Benny’s first day in the studio, he had an interpreter with him because he didn’t feel confident in his English. Halfway through the session, the interpreter told me that there was no point for him to be there because Benny and I understood each other even if we didn't communicate with the same language.
After that first session, we became fast friends and Benny started to come back to record every single week. Through 10 years working with me in the studio, Benny became fluent in English, and we recorded over 100 songs together. Over time, I witnessed Benny speak, sing, and freestyle in 9 different languages. Thanks to Benny, I became so much more aware of the effort it takes to learn English, but also the lack of credit polyglots in the United States receive. I was even able to learn a little SouSou and Patwah along the way.
During that time, it was us against the world!
Two young adults, barely drinking age, from small towns oceans apart. Me, a homeless disabled transgender audio engineer, and him, an African-Jamaican singer, trafficked to the US to dance.
We found each other fighting for the same dreams in the streets of NYC. Together we learned to sing our way through COVID, through societal collapse, through joy and suffering. In the day time, we both worked our asses off in restaurants; at night time, we would meet in the studio to record our stories
Our dream was, and will always be, our freedom.
For the past 12 years, Benny has worked to build a life here in the US.
Benny got married, he renovated a house in Queens, NY and used it to buy a farm in NJ to raise goats, and start a business. He has a beautiful 1yr old daughter and he loves his life here.
Last December, Benny was harassed on the street of Vineland, NJ.
Fearing for his life, he went into a police station to file a police report. While in the police station, an ICE agent heard his African accent, gave Benny a deportation form, and lied claiming it was a harassment report. Benny did not understand the legal jargon on the paperwork, so he trusted the ICE agent and signed on the dotted line for his own incarceration."
I want to be successful enough to make a pilgrimage to an island I used to live on.
And there's a song that reminded me of a particular place where commerce occurred and cats slept on the merchandise; they really liked doing that.
"We are restocked"
countrystoreandfarm
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUV6d4GjVU7/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"The weather is fixing to change"
countrystoreandfarm
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdHGV2qONg7/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"It's time!"
countrystoreandfarm
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaLUEZZB6fh/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Tim Noah - "Country Store"
Oh, this was terrible.
"#neverforget"
someguymark
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdKkLMNJ1pP/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Oh, he had me going. All indignant about how I was glued to the cable TV and freaking out and feeling alone in the house with my sister because our parents were still on vacation several states away in South Carolina and how there were friends who knew people who lost family members. Oh my goodness. Gracious. Well, the video game was clearly important to him.
Sometimes I have to remind myself of the fortunate times.
I did have some very fortunate times when I was growing up and I felt very close to Nature and I felt like spirituality was accessible and some of these books were lying around the house and making me feel like quite the wise little being before I knew how much life was going to knock me around when I got older. Why do you suppose we lose our way sometimes?
"Books by Sanaya Roman (Author of Spiritual Growth)"
I also feel like I need to honor this part of the experience of being here right now.
Like it was almost pre-ordained that people would need to learn certain lessons again.
"Terrible things are happening outside"
legeciii
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbbeUcDOLN4/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
These are just the sort of things the universe seems to want me to think about sometimes, you know?
"Tina Bell, who pioneered the grunge sound..."
lostwomenseries
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdFpe32Bj6w/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"A whole generation of us were quietly praised for being low maintenance"
confused_and_competent
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcbrLXGNdTP/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Men and audacity"
zoe.lilou
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdJjpOrA1V5/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"We can and have to do better for the black cats"
houseofblackcatmagic
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaeGWW-NfFX/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Baby Come Back" ~ Player
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vLtmmFjxSoc&si=csdNZe_S06IR1NMc
🫣🙏🏻🎵💗😸
I want to learn more about this one.
"Neuro Emotional Technique (NET)" - Atlanta Relationship Institute
https://atlantarelationshipinstitute.com/neuro-emotional-technique-net/
Some people have used it on me before and it really helped. But then the next day comes and the new stuff comes up. I wonder if I could use it on myself or something.
There's a part of me that likes being an empath because it's very interesting and even fun and I appreciate empathy.
I feel like I'm an empath and people don't actually need to feel like they love me in order for me to have empathy for them. Sometimes I start to get a lot of feelings of empathy and it gets overwhelming. Well, if I'm just lying in my bed, I can let stuff cycle through me. But most people in the standard workplace environment don't have that empath thing going on. I mean, if you're a big empath, you might feel the need to have a lot of alone time, I think. Because you're feeling a lot of things. And then sometimes empathy gets crisscrossed with hypervigilance and then perhaps being triggered into needing to protect the self or others starts to make things go a little haywire.
I think this passage is very interesting. It could speak to lots of different kinds of situations.
"I was in my mid-twenties when I first learned to understand love 'as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another spiritual growth.' It still took years for me to let go of learned patterns of behavior that negated my capacity to give and receive love. One pattern that made the practice of love especially difficult, was my constantly choosing to be with men who were emotionally wounded, who were not that interested in being loving even though they desired to be loved."
bell hooks
page 10
"All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/17607.All_About_Love
This morning I was thinking about a song that reminds me of childhood and it's a bit nostalgic.
And I'm sure most of the time it's taken like it's being sung to another person, and that could be true, but right now now it almost seems like maybe it could be a song you sing to yourself. Like if you abandoned parts of yourself, you can sing it to yourself.
"Baby Come Back" ~ Player
I need to stay inside and cultivate more calm again.
Something that's really challenging about living through this time is knowing you're not performing to whatever other people's standards or your even your own standards were in the past because other things are taking priority instead. You have to adjust your expectations. You have to almost become a new person. A lot can change very quickly. It's happening. Change is happening.
I just can't tell you how amazing it is to get little glimpses of a better future sometimes.
Because it was not that long ago that I was sitting on the balcony of my apartment feeling like I was at the bottom of the barrel and nobody was ever going to feel like my experiences were important enough to be recognized and at the same time it was like there were spirits telling me things that were encouraging and I was like God, I just don't even believe them. But I did sort of make a little part of me believe them. But I just was like, I have no idea when things are going to get better. It'll be another couple decades and I'll be old by the time things start getting better. And I don't mean totally fixed. I just mean better. But now I'm starting to believe them. It's like spirits were whispering things in my ear several years ago that now seem possible. And they did not seem possible a few years back.
I feel it's giving rise to some other thoughts right now.
People have to believe that raising expectations and sometimes calling out and addressing hard things is going to be compatible with increasing their opportunities to experience all kinds of love and more kinds of pleasure in ways that are better for all of us on our planet.
People are feeling the need to call out violence and misogyny more now.
The culture is changing. I'm actually surprised. This was not happening as much a few years ago. A lot of stuff that used to be swept under the carpet is now being examined more openly and thoroughly by both men and women. But I don't know if it's just happening online or if it's also happening in spaces where I was and felt traumatized when it didn't used to happen. I don't know that at this time.
"We gotta watch the boys."
tactless_radio
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dc7ic30OSjJ/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Next book?
"The Antidote by Karen Russell"
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/214537790-the-antidote
Starting off strong with a six-year-old boy getting pummeled by toxic masculinity in the prologue.
And so polished, too.
"A new personality was unlocked that day."
@erinmiller
https://youtube.com/shorts/3-6_qL2bUZs?si=Yz06ysQ7xy8FGZ-R
"Balsamic Glazed Roasted Vegetable Meatloaf Recipe"
https://jeanetteshealthyliving.com/balsamic-glazed-roasted-vegetable-meatloaf/
🎵Alice in Chains "Man in the Box"
purr.chaos.triplets
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcZ9TbKMgK1/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Scarred is like Southern talk for scared.
If the wickedness scarred you so much, how'd you get so much self-esteem to put out all that stuff?
"When your mom moves a quarter of an inch"
featherandtoothless
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbjgtmgPQpy/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
You're just a passe.
"Tori brought some Sugar..."
mrscrabbyapple
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcOhvvOx-tI/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Identity theft is not a joke."
bobatea.fett
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbyZhKNivAW/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"He's built like a sweet potato."
mikeymikeymotocykey
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdG1DZOz5zz/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"You can hide anything in there!"
brentterhune and shane_hartline
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdE4ChjvCsf/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"And we love and support that"
"You can hide anything in there!"
brentterhune and shane_hartline
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdE4ChjvCsf/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
In fact, she might even want to support me because of how ostracized I felt.
I feel more clean now, and I have decided that there's evidence that the Divine Cosmic Mother does not have a problem with me pointing out some of the imbalances and injustices that some people really haven't been wanting to look at too closely.
I'm going to reunite with a water element.
Actually, I have decided it's better for my health to be more chill and not too weird right now. I like how water can have a nice tranquilizing effect. That's a good thing about water, sometimes.
What does it mean? Is it more offensive if it's female or male?
"Offensively excitable behaviors in our era."
ERA!
We still don't have the ERA, the Equal Rights Amendment. Why is that offensive?
I think all people deserve to have healing and soothing spa experiences.
I would like to have some. I would like other people to have some. I would like for people to feel emotionally regulated and good a lot. I would like for myself to feel that way, too.
What do you think?
Would it be feminist to do a creative project about other people's moms, or would it just be rude if you don't get collaborative help?
I love how they're tapping into their inner children to create this amazing ditty!
"$50k seems a bit low for a soul"
goodcop_radcop
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdGwYzXASae/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Kitty cats!!! 💗😸🪄🎩
"I'm the trash man!"
_shadowcat08
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdENjanhRX6/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Every time we meet another trucking kitty."
truckin_cat
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdG8PbCRGpi/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"She might prefer the streets."
pepperbepper
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdDW5mLJwzE/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
And we're not on Earth forever. 🌎🪱🏜️⛱️🗺️♻️
It doesn't matter so much if people don't like you for being "more feminist" right now, because a lot of times, they actually do respect your stance more later. Somehow, the passage of time seems to make it seem to make more sense to some people.
Unfortunately, the more people don't want to look at this stuff, the more I feel obligated to not go along with the crowd and to look at it.
And I do mean obligated, for multiple reasons.
"Two tiny siblings show how women are deeply socialized to become victims"
whathereallymeans
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdHeNk8OFh_/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
With the way the world's been operating these days, I think it's really good that this exists.
"The Zone of Interest | Behind the Scenes"
A24
Who knows, maybe they really did have a good relationship.
16 back then was like the modern-day version of 18 or 19 now?
"In April 1842, aged 41, Moltke married his 16-year-old step-niece Bertha Maria Wilhelmine Burt, known as Marie. She was the daughter of John Heyliger Burt, of St. Croix in the Danish West Indies, a member of a wealthy slave-owning planter family. Burt had married Moltke's sister Auguste after the death of his first wife, who was also a German.[32] It was a loving union and they remained married until Marie's death on 24 December 1868, although they had no children. Moltke never re-married. He was devoted to his wife, and long after her death still daily visited the chapel where she and her sister were buried to meditate."
"Helmuth von Moltke the Elder" - Wikipedia
Would I want to watch this right now, or not. Not too sure.
"'The Zone of Interest’ Producer Ewa Puszczyńska and Director Jan Holoubek Say ‘Wild, Wild East’ No Longer Feels Like a Period Drama: ‘It Can Happen Again. It Already Is’
Polish Second World War thriller premieres at TIFF"
It's just feelings and tastes vary.
I feel like if the book was about Elia and Olivia I would still think that the characters' love is not very deep. I mean, I'm not saying it's nothing. It's just like, compared to all the other loves in the universe, I think there's room to grow. And I think if it was about two lesbians I would think the same thing. Or if it was about a man and a woman, I would also think that.
Have to start repairing those things.
I feel like a lot of things that are happening now and back then are happening because so much of patriarchical culture is too messed up.
I don't know why humans have had to experience such things.
I think I was in a man's body during the era when the Holocaust happened. Or else, somebody who was in a man's body back then has done a good job of having their Spirit be a part of me.
It might still be unusual in this era.
Having the sort of consciousness that thinks oh you have memories like you were a boy in a really previous lifetime and it's both very close and far away from now.
Time flies when you're not falling asleep yet.
Perhaps we'll meet in Switzerland on a mountain someday!
Thank God for that. What a relentless dream!
At least I'm not a man who needs to make a sister feel like she's got to ditch women in order to prop me up.
I'm sure I can go back to sleep and have a less relentless dream really really soon.
Weezer, Best Coast - "Go Away (Lyric Video)"
Relentless! Even in my dreams the messages won't stop.
Why can't you stop betraying girls and women in order to survive your sexist culture?
You know in these times of deportations...
I had a dream that it was very serious thing to be a girl on a plane if it was going to a certain country. That is to say, a life or death type of situation.
Thursday, September 10, 2026
It's how a life unfolds sometimes.
I decided to show the messiness of what humans can go through but maybe from the messiness something good and beautiful and new can get created. But maybe I don't need to make it today. I just want to take a nap or something.
It would just be such a wonderful thing for this planet if more people really learned how to take care of themselves.
"Don't make me do it if I don't want to." It's like that thing when I was a kid and I got forced to travel and I didn't want to. And I would get sick. God I would hate for anybody to go through some of the stuff I went through. I'm not interested in anybody repeating that stuff. That was enough.
It's kind of nice imagery to think about that.
It's cool to think of letting a lot of stuff go up into the clouds somewhere where I / it can get recycled and like maybe in the future a new garden is going to get planted or something.
Things that take time take time.
I actually am really close to changing and letting a lot of stuff go. I guess I'm a slower one, sometimes? Well, there's a lot to process and let go of so you know it takes time and I'll have to learn how to get better along the way. What seems to be best for health? Are you supposed to advocate for a cause or are you supposed to just take care of your own body? And I'm starting to lean towards the water. I mean the latter.
Fly haven temple?
"Flughafen Tempelhof" - American Academy in Berlin
https://www.americanacademy.de/berlin-journal/flughafen-tempelhof/
Cult of personality culture may have started dwindling down for some very good reasons.
"Portland renames César E. Chávez Boulevard for all farmworkers"
Maybe there is growth. Not in feeling your POV is rejected, but in feeling more considerate of another POV...
Not everyone can have the same experiences at the same time because everybody's been born to different experiences. And when people are feeling better about themselves, maybe it is easier for them to be more considerate about what others might be going through as a result of how Society has been structured to treat certain people differently than others.
Maybe they were family in another time...
"My Indiana Muse (Movie Trailer)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hmf26ZFlnT8&si=cyrWG0IR6F7-qI44
"My Indiana Muse" (Documentary)
How cool is that t-shirt?
I think it looks really cool. An orange slice as a skirt!
"A Slice of Orange..."
nicranson
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdHCsRKOveL/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Pour them. Poor them. Why did they need to do that?
I think some of the cult leaders were way too irresponsible in how they manipulated other humans in the past.
That's the thing...
I feel like people who are good at challenging (what I meant to say was channeling) need to be a little bit careful. I don't know how somebody can feel like a normal person you can talk to in one moment and then like this ginormous force that you're not quite equipped to handle yet in another.
I cannot leave this house right now.
I need oceans of calm. I'm drinking D-Mannose in lemon water. It might be better later. Adding Ashwagandha.
Huh. I guess that was like being 18 back then.
"In April 1842, aged 41, Moltke married his 16-year-old step-niece Bertha Maria Wilhelmine Burt, known as Marie. She was the daughter of John Heyliger Burt, of St. Croix in the Danish West Indies, a member of a wealthy slave-owning planter family. Burt had married Moltke's sister Auguste after the death of his first wife, who was also a German.[32] It was a loving union and they remained married until Marie's death on 24 December 1868, although they had no children. Moltke never re-married. He was devoted to his wife, and long after her death still daily visited the chapel where she and her sister were buried to meditate."
"Helmuth von Moltke the Elder"
Like...
"He is often referred to as Moltke the Elder to distinguish him from his nephew Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (Helmuth Johann Ludwig von Moltke), who commanded the German army at the outbreak of the First World War." "He is notably the earliest-born human whose recorded voice is preserved, being born in the year 1800. He made four recordings; two that were recorded in October 1889 are preserved to this day."
"Helmuth von Moltke the Elder"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmuth_von_Moltke_the_Elder
I just want to make fun of church so bad right now.
Freedom...🙏🏻💗😊🎶😸
Women's and Girls' Bodies should be less oppressed by Patriarchal Society and Thoughtless Men and Reproductive Rights are Very Important.
Sigh. Airports. ICE.
"Absolutely Disgraceful and Disgusting"
back.up.bruhhh
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dc6KveRBIrV/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I cherish creativity and the creative sentiments.
Sometimes, some people are here to make things feel more "Even Stevens" in this lifetime, as opposed to whatever was going on in another lifetime. But Cult Leader Dynamics do not make things feel more "Even Stevens."
It's a lot to process. Thank God for kitty cats!
"The army psychologist in charge of watching the Nazis during Nuremberg said their one unifying trait was a complete lack of empathy."
mmikehidalgo
I'll definitely get a chance to watch this again before I die!
"Private Benjamin (1980) Official Trailer" - Goldie Hawn
That's why we should have been trained to worship cats instead.
Cats are the best! You just have to treat them with basic respect and they are so f****** happy!
Emotions are stored in your hip flexors, so if you're a sensitive girl, you should do some yoga.
Video games is not your way.
Followed by another, more sympathetic thought.
Really, it is too bad the unwell patriarchal system doesn't treat all men with equal value and respect, huh?
Well that's an interesting belief system that's coming up based on real life experiences.
By the way, never expect a burnt out man to be interested in your dreams. It's not happening.
Oh, this is why this good book is hard to read sometimes.
"I was raised in a strict Catholic family, in a stately Victorian home..."
Page 72
"The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/233411621-the-irish-goodbye
That's what my childhood should told me I should be more like. Besides skinnier. And lighter, and fairer. And the sort of person who would grow up to "marry well" and carry babies in her womb, and give birth to them.
People should read this essay.
Especially people who are all into manifesting a better life for themselves and whatnot.
"Flughafen Tempelhof" - American Academy in Berlin
https://www.americanacademy.de/berlin-journal/flughafen-tempelhof/
In which the author volunteers to help refugees at the same time as she got invited to stay in a chateau on a lake with her husband. It did the thing where it made tears come to my eyes and it also made kind of almost half sob. As I noticed that the place with the superior tea drink has an inferior breakfast sandwich. Sigh.
The place with my preferred tea drink is opening in 5 minutes. I have to get ready.
Songs will be playing in the coffee and tea shop. Songs that are so much more pleasing to my ear than that one song I'm honestly so sick of hearing! Why not give it a rest? What about all the other ones?
Lots of thoughtful comments are being bandied about.
"THE UnSPELLING PODCAST Episode: WHO WAS KING JAMES"
mamatraywilbon
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dc-QYAOOCCh/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Imagine the other possibilities. *Shiver.*
I'm actually glad I'm too feminist for you. Or maybe, I'm not too feminist for you, and that would be extra joyful.
I don't know. I guess I'm sort of shell-shocked or something.
It's amazing how much more comfortable you are when it comes to going along with some truly abusive behavior than with having kind of like just a normal conversation.
If I go out of the house today, I think I should get a tea.
You might be acting like a twat who's scared of having a cup of coffee and that's understandable and you don't have to have coffee cuz sometimes coffee triggers anxiety and some people could just have a nice drink made out of tea instead.
I got the song in my head and then I found out there's going to be a documentary.
Do you think it will help?
"Oasis: Don't Look Back In Anger" | Official Trailer
Meh! That's not very motherly of them.
Children are getting put in concentration camps, and average adults are just getting more selfish and pathetic. People are pleasure seekers, and that's okay. But fascism is not okay.
I feel sisterly when I say this.
I do feel like I would like that one book character so much better if he wasn't such a selfish, entitled, spoiled f****** brat.
Thank God for not burning witches at the steak. Ha, ha. I mean stake.
Thank God for that in this Century.
How middle-aged?
Isn't it just so crazy how childish adults can be? I know this very well, because I can be a very childish middle-aged person, too. But people can be soooo childish, and it's like they seem like they don't even want to know what their mothers were really like. They just want their mommies to take care of them, and that's it!
I think we should work on a fun creative project about mothers.
I think we've only scratched the surface when it comes to certain topics, and they're so much more interesting then they've been given credit for, and there's so much more that could be explored and uncovered.
Anyways, let's hold space for this.
It's really obvious that the patriarchal culture does not want you to be feminist. You know, it's pretty obvious that the patriarchal culture did not ever reward you for having a feminist attitude, and that's why you're not very feminist. Who can trust you? Abusive men can trust you to do what the patriarchy trained you to do. That's what kind of sucks.
I mean, if that was the best you could do, then I guess that was the best you could do.
It's like, sure you're better than the worst and most chauvinistic abusers, but you're still so much more of an a****** than you actually needed to be.
I feel like my inner child is not reacting in a very happy way to this information right now.
Thinking about how entitled some people clearly feel to treat a lot of women and girls like crap just because of whatever traumas they've encountered throughout their lifetimes and all the societal pressure to fit in and go along with what others are doing and how others are behaving.
Wednesday, September 09, 2026
This could lead to some interesting discussion.
"GRWM
Let's talk about women who carry patriarchal water."
secondchancechick
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dc_bb7MtbMi/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
It's as if the ridiculousness just has to crumble right now.
"THE UnSPELLING PODCAST Episode: WHO WAS KING JAMES"
mamatraywilbon
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dc-QYAOOCCh/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
The system is failing right now.
"The system would fail"
newfoundland_witch_co
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdExX6vxH3M/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Just think of how we're still much more advanced in this Century.
We're not burning witches now, are we? No, we're not doing that. That's pretty cool.
Do you know that it's a very interesting feeling?
Feeling the cockles of your heart get warmer as you think, "I don't f****** care if you hate me for telling the truth. In fact, I kind of hope you do, if that's what it takes for something to sink in."
This is a writing prompt. And it's only one shot of espresso. It's just a writing prompt.
Some people are going to be fun and great in the future. Especially when they stop doing the exact things that have enabled the violent patriarchal culture to keep doing the stuff that f***** up your life.
These are four that are fun.
"You're not saving him, you're enabling him."
fromayoungmatriarch
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdDN5FrTGgM/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Giving men the love that they deserve"
elleorlando
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcCJIodCa9E/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"You may feel extra emo"
katkallinglifts
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdDoMpINp2I/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"BOBCAT scared off by Floppers the cat"
jacobmossjeweler
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdDHPkAu2jk/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
What a relief! Just admit this is what is happening.
Some people are going to have to feel more able to heal their own things according to their own sense of timing before they can feel able reach out to others.
I had to change my assessment of a situation again.
I don't think I should have a treat in the evening that has any regular espresso in it. I took some stuff for anxiety. Anxiety is such a saboteur. Unfortunately, I wish Society would just change and be nicer. I don't feel like succeeding at anything right now. I do envy people who've passed on sometimes. I'm exhausted. This life has been too much for me. I don't want to do it anymore. But I will. I just need to reassess and change some things. People who have sensitivities and medium abilities need to take special care. That's my main thing I've taken away from my recent experiences. I don't care about anything else right now. I just need to feel a little bit better and probably go to sleep soon.
Actually I am tired.
Now I have to soldier on through the book.
Because all the markers of success that Society wants you to accrue are piling up.
But I did like the part where she talks about how sending Christmas cards with family photos in them stokes her vanity.
I'm driving into the sunset. 🌄
I believe one shot of regular espresso in milk with cinnamon was fine to have this evening.
Happy to be reading a good book for me at this time.
Information about hospice and information about traveling in the future is flooding my mind right now. And I accept it.
Well, I guess I should write something.
Formative experiences were had at the House of Horrors on Mackinac Island and this author is writing about the same thing in the same place, but only it's about whatever her experience was.
"The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly"| Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/233411621-the-irish-goodbye
Feel a bit choked up.
Sort of want to cry. Who knows. Maybe a feminine writer or two who's left their previous life when I knew them before is with me.
Imagining how it must have felt when she realized that. 😳
Oh my God, I just read a part where she stopped running because she would cough up black stuff and then later she realized that where she'd lived had been where Jews had lived during the Holocaust and that they were only 37 mi from Auschwitz and then maybe the reason the place was polluted wasn't just because of the coal dust but it was also the ashes.
"The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/233411621-the-irish-goodbye
Sigh! Who even knows how long we're here for?
It's fun reading about her teaching English abroad in the Czech Republic experiences. With a tall iced cinnamon dolce latte. Oops! It's caffeinated. It only has one espresso shot, tho.
"The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/233411621-the-irish-goodbye
Sometimes we can find moments of happiness even today, and I like that!
We're going through some stuff. We'll be happier together again someday!
But nevertheless, they can still do so much better!
Anyways, if any peoples of any cultures or backgrounds still feel the need to fawn over men more than they feel the need to treat women with respect on account of being reared in a patriarchal culture, I suppose that's to be expected.
The song just got into my head right now for some reason!
Barbra Streisand - "Woman in Love (Lyrics)"
It's good to know this.
"A Philadelphia nun named Sister Rose Kuhn drives to the immigration court in Harlingen, Texas every week to sit beside unaccompanied minors… the youngest being four years old.
Just so they don’t face a deportation judge with no lawyer and no parent. She is a true representation of Christianity, not Trump."
arianajasmine__
Is it really so normal to lack empathy?
"The army psychologist in charge of watching the Nazis during Nuremberg said their one unifying trait was a complete lack of empathy."
mmikehidalgo
Patriarchal culture is very harsh on certain kinds of people sometimes.
Sometimes women and / or men with internalized misogyny issues that they haven't resolved or don't want to talk about yet can't describe the bubbles of safety that they've put some men or other types of patriarchal people in as a result of their own survival strategies.
What can we learn about survival in our modern day society?
"The Bird Brain Epidemic"
@therealmanifestelle
I wonder if more people acting like they care would help stop the bad stuff from happening sometimes.
"San Diego City College says ICE arrests student, chases another onto campus
ICE agents in unmarked vehicles stopped a vehicle near the intersection of 16th and C streets, according to district officials."
"ICE operation cost Cook County businesses $1.2 billion"
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/6079755-ice-operation-chicago-business-cost/
"New report shows the economic toll of ICE raids"
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/08/nx-s1-5955787/new-report-shows-the-economic-toll-of-ice-raids
As if to distract from how badly a lot of children are being treated right now, based on the current administration's callous misuse of Americans' tax dollars...
The audacity of some people to act like this is what they consider to be "an abusive mother."
"Virginia mom guilty of child neglect for letting son walk alone"
https://fox8.com/news/mom-guilty-of-child-neglect-for-letting-son-walk-alone-speaks-out/amp/
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