You do need these things, but then you find out that you actually need these other things more.
You need fun.
You need creative outlets.
You need to explore important issues.
But then your body says that you need to balance your life and take care of your health more.
So many needs!
"Two Sisters, One Thinner, One Better Dressed"
Beth Ann Fennelly
I missed being on my little vacation again. It was cool to realize that a local place stocks some bottles from the winery I liked visiting in Paso Robles, too. So I knew I liked their wines, and it's not just because I'm into stories and fables and such!
Might seem a lot more normal in the future.
I did meet a guy who once told me he had a lot basically reincarnation of his own alcoholic grandfather memories. He didn't really dwell on it that much, and he didn't want to be like his grandfather, but he had memories like that.
You know, the way that Lucy died is really different from the way that somebody in hospice dies and I'm getting a lot of information about all of the details about what that's like and what I feel is that Lucy chose to die in a particular way and it suited the way that she wanted to die and she's happy about it. I understand that other people aren't happy about it. I understand that if I was able, because I'm a little bit more, you know, distant or whatever, but I still cared, if I was able to accept her method of death more quickly than others, that maybe others don't necessarily feel super grateful or appreciative about it, but nevertheless...
I will share some more thoughts on this later.
Not buying this today.
"Airport ugly pants exchange"
https://www.reddit.com/r/LoveTrash/s/Y684P5wAxD
It's fine. Overworked people need to have some humor in their lives. But to me, it looks like they're just allowing themselves to be ridiculous. Maybe even because some of the outfits make them look more feminine. I guess it's a step on their journey of not taking masculinity so seriously.
Also expecting all women to survive The Patriarchy in the same way is ridiculous, like expecting them to all wear the same bra size. It's impossible. It's not happening.
I feel like some people are amping up their self-absorption as a reaction to fascism and it makes whatever their version of success is look very not accessible or obtainable or even appealing. And it kind of puts a damper on things.
"A little girl singing shows how women are socialized"
whathereallymeanss
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dc6iq6XBIv6/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Somebody has had to give birth to the Donald Trumps and Jeffrey Epsteins of the world.
"And if you think I'm gonna be quiet about it, I'm not."
A woman in the corner of the coffee shop is talking about her bad SA experiences and how it was a living hell to go through when she was younger. She was barely thirteen and the guy was "well over" eighteen. Blood was on her skirt. She's on the phone. Declaring her intentions to tell the truth.
"Rosie O'Donnell brings Epstein survivors together"
https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/s/IVv905nNPh
It's a rainy Sunday!
"7 Vermont clergy arrested while protesting ICE targeting center"
https://www.ncronline.org/news/7-vermont-clergy-arrested-while-protesting-ice-targeting-center
"'Then why does he hurt me?' is haunting my every second of every day."
Sierrandipity
To make him the way he was? And not just him! Oh no, it wasn't just him, was it?
"September 5, 2026 - inspired by the dark side"
emilythinksaloud
https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc6DvawkWJO/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"September 5, 2026 - inspired by the dark side"
emilythinksaloud
https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc6DvawkWJO/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"September 5, 2026 - inspired by the dark side"
emilythinksaloud
https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc6DvawkWJO/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Should men vote?"
"September 5, 2026 - inspired by the dark side"
emilythinksaloud
https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc6DvawkWJO/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Green Grow the Lilacs and Oklahoma!: The Appropriation of Native Perspective" - Carolyn Gage
And I think Fox News is terrible in regards to its stance on women's issues. So, everybody has to start somewhere, right?
No, I'm not sure why this society still feels the need to treat so many different kinds of people as outcasts and outsiders.
Since you feel the need to act like this non-stop, I have decided to agree that your ability to procreate really is the best thing about you.
She demanded to go outside and now she's wedged herself underneath the patio table. She probably doesn't want to be around a human who's dumb enough to wake up before it's light out with high levels of cortisol. "F*** this s***" her tail twitches.
"Study Finds Poverty Changes Children's Brains" | Psychology Today
The next time, some parents who got treated better by patriarchal white supremacy feel like being rude I think they should realize that there's such a thing as disenfranchised grief and when disenfranchised grief happens, that means it's something that feels just as harsh on the body as a death.
I can sell stuff and possibly travel out of town for a funeral in the future and I can't do anything else right now. Flying and all that. Hoping I don't see ICE in airports. I'm not looking forward to it. I'm trying to repair my PCOS perimenopausal nervous system since the universe felt I was also equipped to handle an abundance of extra information on top of those very important to acknowledge things.
Dear God, I hate waking up feeling exhausted. I feel like I'm not going to be able to do any better than this right now. Please help us because I don't need the uncaring assholes of the world to kill us off. Thank you.
"Downtown Frederick Partnership Gears Up for Fire In Ice"
https://downtownfrederick.org/downtown-frederick-partnership-gears-up-for-fire-in-ice/
Children who are surviving traumatic situations right now might appreciate a board game like this someday.
"Pound Puppies: Pooch on the Loose Game - 1986 - Golden - Good Conditio" | Mandi's Attic Toys
The autumnal celebrations of black cats and pumpkin crop harvests are imminent!
"#catscatscats"
lu.andlufam
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DboLKN4si-N/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"You asked, I listened!"
pcos.weightloss
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dc11HHYhxNp/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
A list of PMOS - friendly foods with some upbeat Greek music! Cool. 😸
Who was I yesterday? What were my opinions? Who am I today? Am I the same, or am I different? And what about tomorrow?
"Balance Baked Canned Beans That Are Too Sweet"
https://www.tastingtable.com/2246768/canned-baked-beans-spice-upgrade-turmeric/
Add turmeric to baked beans!
And this sounds good, and I think I might have the ingredients on hand.
"Potato salad with harissa yogurt and preserved lemon"
https://www.tastingtable.com/686953/tillamook-yogurt-harissa-potato-salad/
I only saw a tiny bit of stuff about ICE raids happening in Frederick, Maryland and I was just like, this looks like the apocalypse and I can't watch it right now.
Sometimes people just need to empty their minds a little bit more I guess. I want to chill. I feel a bit too hot. I want to feel more cool.
All kinds of things are coming up.
So, day by day and poco a poco, the next steps will be presenting themselves.
"Green Grow the Lilacs and Oklahoma!: The Appropriation of Native Perspective" - Carolyn Gage
Plans to see a local production of "Oklahoma!" have been thwarted.
Or perhaps only halfway thwarted?
Better pray for us. "A freight train is coming." Because people have to take time off and then there's not going to be enough people and then there's going to be no days off. Day off tomorrow is now not a day off anymore.
Took a tiny solo journey for the day to visit a place with lots of brochures to look through and brought some back! Living in the material world. I love a tiny wooden acacia wood board I acquired today.
Starting at the bottom: Something I bought for myself and shared by bringing home the leftovers, something I thought about buying but didn't, something else I thought about buying but didn't, you can't buy the sunset, a blurry picture of some stuff I bought and acquired, a less blurry picture of the stuff I got and evidence of consumption.
Not pictured: the date ice cream cone that I could only chew on one side when it came to the crunchy ice cream cone part. Because the right front tooth wiggles when anything is too crunchy, but just living with that for now.
Oh and I was listening to a playlist for part of the journey and these were three new-to-me songs I remember and I'm going to listen to more of them.
Primal Scream - "Kill All Hippies (Official Video)"
Tōth - "Easy [Official Music Video]"
"When life bites you in the butt"
otisandivy_cats
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DctQrxYRPif/?stkn=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Bette Greene, American Classic Novelist"
@BetteGreeneAuthor
https://youtube.com/watch?v=XTcPMjI57dU&si=skHhmC6Jb8lYjVUY
"Bette Greene’s 'Summer of My German Soldier': Bad Family and an Unlikely Savior" | Jewish Book Council
"Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18580.Summer_of_My_German_Soldier
"Gary Paulsen"
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/s/iTcYCMiQsV
"On Gary Paulsen, Minneapolis Writer Who Was King of the Lonely Boys"
https://racketmn.com/on-gary-paulsen-minneapolis-writer-who-was-king-of-the-lonely-boys
"Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1) by Gary Paulsen" | Goodreads
Somehow this really helped me to feel better.
Walk outside underneath the stars. Remembering times when I felt aligned. Like the night on vacation when I ate a delicious meal and I found the Star Lane wine bottle planted in a pot next to the olive tree.
Maybe I am more aligned again.
Maybe sometimes it's not so bad to have the laundry room out there.
Sorrowful sorrowful sorrowful. Now is the feeling of humility and heartbreak, which is how humans sometimes operate in order to survive certain circumstances. Maybe if some seemed like they wanted to communicate more, they can still go hang out with their council of friends and helpers.
I need some smart fun people to help me with creative projects.
"What are some underrated things to do in LA"
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskLosAngeles/s/001z7N5L2N
"Christine Lahti plays friend, feminist icon Gloria Steinem on PBS"
"Gloria Steinem in her own words : NPR"
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/03/nx-s1-5955470/gloria-steinem-in-her-own-words
"That time Gloria Steinem went undercover as a Playboy Bunny Womenswear" | Dazed
"We need each other": Our final interview with Gloria Steinem - The Australian Women's Weekly
https://www.womensweekly.com.au/news/gloria-steinem-interview/
My big task today was getting over my off and on dizzy headache enough to go to the Post Office. Once I was in line, a big yawning pit of despair seemed to engulf me. People were at the counter chatting in Spanish. I vaguely wanted to brush up on my Spanish-speaking skills, but mostly, I no longer cared about doing anything. I envied people who are already on the other side. But I completed my task. On the way back, something told me to go into a grocery store to look for a particular cold drink and it was a good choice.
Walking into the store was an act of self-preservation. I started to make a list of things that make sense:
The "What's going on" song (it was playing in the store)
The guy who was dressed head to toe in army fatigues (because it feels like a war is going on.)
El classic cool air conditioning
I mean
The blessedly cool air conditioning.
They didn't actually have the drink I wanted, but I had the ability to buy another one and to restore my sanity.
4 Non Blondes - "What's Up (Official Music Video)"
I'm fine with that. Also my headache's coming back again.
I will say that I don't want to fall into a pothole at night and skin my knees and have scabs for weeks and I also don't want to find another dead possum in a cat carrier.
Sometimes, you have to do what the universe wants you to do, whether some people seem to like it or not.
"I'm going to be a horrible father one day because of you f****s" he said.
"Punishing the cat"
u/Lord_Darksong
https://www.reddit.com/r/LoveTrash/s/YsYetQz0ye
"Breed, damn you, breed."
u/LordJim11
Again? Didn't I watch this a few years ago.
"The Lost Daughter" | Official Trailer | Netflix
"Maggie Gyllenhaal Takes on Venice Film Festival's Lack of Women Directors: 'There's a Systemic Problem'"
Irresponsible in your views and treatment of girls and women, and irresponsible about taking accountability and talking about it.
Pink Floyd – "Comfortably Numb Lyrics"| Genius Lyrics
https://genius.com/Pink-floyd-comfortably-numb-lyrics
Feels like I can't do a lot of external activities today.
Fox News says not enough teenage pregnancies are happening!
"Breed, damn you, breed."
u/LordJim11
I ate two mini turkey sausage sticks and crackers and it helped. My head pain and dizziness seems to be receding.
"Mom is trying to introduce us to a word"
olaf.the.fluff
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dbc_omYC1d1/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"The brain cell has clocked out."
louie.and.the.snowshoes
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcKe3eWoPKw/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"good thing the internet is forever 🤪"
ruiqichn
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dczpt70urEG/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Advice for your period from 1946!"
minamoriarty
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dc3e_-9MACE/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Some people have decided that today is the day to declare that Gloria Steinem was the devil incarnate and I don't believe them, but I do believe that we still live in a deeply misogynistic society and it's affected many of us in all kinds of ways.
Salty pickles.
The pickles I bought are too salty, but they work well in a Mediterranean style food bowl!
If they keep doing what they're doing and don't change and then they're horrified when they look back even if it's from the vantage point of a different life, I don't think they can blame me because I wasn't one of their enablers.
"ICE Skipped Basic Checks in Rush for Recruits, Whistle-Blower Says" - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/us/ice-recruits-national-security-risk-whistleblower.html
"'What'd I Miss?': ICE's shocking news"
https://coloradosun.com/2026/09/04/whatd-i-miss-ice-shocking-news-gloves/
"ICE bans hugging inside California’s largest detention center"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/04/ice-california-detention-contact-visits
Not nearly as disturbing as the electric shock gloves, IMO.
"ICE Wants to Know Everyone Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Years" | WIRED
Using women mannequins in CPR classes!
"How to give CPR to women"
https://www.reddit.com/r/whoathatsinteresting/s/J834wV3WLI
"UPDATE: there's now a link for donations so i can get this family their own vehicle"
Marisa Nicole
Should also figure out who's getting treated the most like the honorary immigrant in your Society.
"I didn't study eldest daughters because..."
thelaurenhyland
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dc12GI-Jbsu/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Laura Branigan - "Gloria (Official Music Video)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nNEb2k_EmMg&si=H8O0sAh9tT-jbqBi
Terms of Endearment - "The supermarket"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MLZrV8M7blU&si=-NZSuQjkNC9xWRTL
But for now, I'm going to have a lot of fun doing some housework to MEWSEEK 🎶
I gotta say, sometimes I think people of all backgrounds are pretty good at dehumanizing "the category of people they got taught to dehumanize by patriarchal white supremacy."
X: Hey! It's going to rain on Sunday. Let's do something fun on Saturday morning before the work shift. Like we can go to a park and have a morning picnic. Hey why do you look stressed? Hey are you okay. Going to a park on Saturday morning shouldn't stress you out.
Y: It does when the work shift starts at 10:00 a.m.
X: Okay fine. I was just trying to make it cheap but maybe we can do something on Sunday morning but it'll be raining. Maybe we can go out to breakfast or something on Sunday morning. What do you think of that?
Y: I don't know. We'll see.
From Coastal View News, Carpinteria, California
Thursday, August 27th 2026
💗🙏🏽💗🙏🏻💗
"It's a guaranteed good time"
judyandthecats
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dcwq0QPsC1O/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Welcome to our cat loving home"
otisandivy_cats
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaNo_OExkns/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"It's too fun not to 😹"
otisandivy_cats
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db3ReCTRAYY/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Sometimes I think you got trained at a very early age that to be rude and sexist towards certain types of people is a real survival strategy."
"The world has had a way of reminding me that you're not the only one who's been through hard things."
"Come and kneel with me. We're married, body and soul."
"Vamos a la playa."
"DETROW: Her mother, Ruth, was 35 when she gave birth to Gloria. What Steinem didn't know until much later was that Ruth had given up a successful career as a reporter and editor to help her husband run the family business. After her parents' divorce when she was 10, Gloria was both daughter and caretaker to her mother who had nervous breakdowns and depression. In order to fit in with other kids, she would give herself her own curfew, something her mother couldn't do.
CHANG: Steinem remembered her mother in the essay "Ruth's Song (Because She Could Not Sing It)," and she spoke about that with NPR's Susan Stamberg in 1984.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR CONTENT)
STEINEM: Because we live in a society in which women are less powerful, many of us have been motherless, and I suppose because our mothers had no power to be examples to us or to protect us. And so part of the women's movement is becoming each other's mothers and nurturing each other. Part of it is understanding that it was not our mother's fault. It's amazing how long we can as young women, especially, go through life saying, I'm not going to be anything like my mother. So we blame her. We blame the victim instead of seeing what the forces on her were. Now, I'm just beginning to meet young women who say something wonderful because their mothers are interesting and sort of powerful people who have been able to be individuals. And they say, oh, I hope I can have as interesting a life as my mother. And it's so wonderful to hear that change."
"Gloria Steinem in her own words : NPR"
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/03/nx-s1-5955470/gloria-steinem-in-her-own-words
"This is my tribute to Gloria Steinem"
acceptingunclemurphy
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dc1_vHERXHC/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Containing multitudes and all of that!
I think this is just how some men learn to feel good about themselves in a patriarchy that exploits the labor of so many unseen people.
'"As far as I’m concerned, there’s no job more important on the planet than being a mom.'
Quote of the day by Mark Wahlberg"
Maybe some people have to figure out how interested they are in women as human beings. And not just as people who mother them.
The human being who became one of those "I got to go shopping for cute clothes" women this year feels humbled. There's a lot that the genetically privileged people (according to the paychecky) seemingly don't know about life. People who don't have a problem finding clothes that fit them in a thrift store, who didn't have pmos since they were teenagers plus perimenopause now, who didn't suffer for years because of a biological female disorder that the patriarchal society seemingly didn't care about treating. And also, sociologically privileged people who didn't have any kind of severe illness or traumas in their family. It's about more than just clothes. It's not just some superficial thing. But having clothes that fit your body well is important.
I just seem to need feminism A LOT more than some other people seem to need feminism. But fortunately, there are other people who also seem to be much more interested in feminism now, compared to in the past. And their voices are getting a lot more prevalent when you look online.
"Gloria Steinem dies at 92"| AP News
https://apnews.com/article/gloria-steinem-dies-724836935f6547fda60f361c15238d14
"This headline makes me irate."
maydaypartyof5
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dc1ofMPtWXG/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Most likely choices of fun outfits to wear if I attend any concerts in the Autumn.
Others, probably not so likely to wear, but for fun...
"Teen Not Charged With Murder After Father Impregnated Her, Forced Her To Kill Baby In Northern CA: DA Says" | Santa Cruz, CA Patch
By the way, a grown-up woman sheriff persecuting a 14-year-old girl who got raped by her father is so on point for this warped, imbalanced, misogynistic, violent, paternalistic Patriarchal Society.
"So the 14-year-old that can't drive is 'on the run?'"
montemader
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcynbhLBNy5/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"asking for a friend"
isabelthurston_real
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dcy7fuUh_gL/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"the not-so-covert misogyny"
hannahlacavamusic
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcN3-UTEeW8/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Jimi Hendrix - "Hey Joe (lyrics on screen)"
@PeaceLoveRockabilly
