Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Change is inevitable. But we can still love the music of The Beatles.

 Sigh! So nostalgic. And more than just that! 💖

It's in your soul, too.

"You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (Remastered 2009)"

~ The Beatles

https://youtube.com/watch?v=oRrz3yYC2Yg&si=2iqksCsn12bDon1s

"The Night Before (Remastered 2009)"

The Beatles 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7tD40D7jk-Q&si=LWD5aYWseVfCfEeE

Holly Humberstone - "Beauty Pageant (Official Video)"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=l3cedY9fE_g&si=mXp_RdruyJdnlTKw

"Kokomo, IN" ~ Japanese Breakfast

https://youtube.com/watch?v=BNV1rm16zhE&si=ZUVXRA9HdFcgwGQW

Pink Pantheress - "Break It Off (Official Audio)"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6tPTrgGptU0&si=V6LQfAnkviZsAuCF

Tuesday, June 09, 2026

Stop embarrassing the environmentally conscientious grandchildren (or your future self).

"Ultra-wealthy people zooming across the world on their private jets, lounging on yachts and conspicuous by their Instagrammable consumption are among the most easily identified individual culprits when it comes to the climate crisis – but new research argues that it is not just their heady lifestyles to blame, but also their bank accounts."

~ Fiona Harvey 

"Super-rich’s assets cause outsized amount of climate harm, study says" | Climate crisis | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/10/super-rich-assets-outsized-amount-climate-harm-study

One of the first things I learned from the Bible as a small child was apparently a mistranslation???

"This is the logical conclusion of Complementarianism"

@MonteMader

https://youtube.com/shorts/MTUdPhH_Q6w?si=qaF0I_udWMGP3sUf

I feel I could have been a good mother if I had inherited different genetics...

 To be continued some other time...

(In my old job, certain female students used to come up to me and say they could tell I seemed like I would be a good mother. They used to urge me to have kids. They were all mothers.)

I think their lives were a little bit simpler in that regard.

2026 has been so strange!!!

"Yet the silence prevails . . . That they should keep silent about this in Germany, that the Fascists should keep silent, is natural and, all things considered, not unwelcome to us . . . But what shall we say about the silence of the civilized world, about the silence of culture, about our own silence in front of our children . . . It is not due simply to weariness . . . It is shame. We are men, we belong to the same human family to which our torturers belonged. Confronted by the enormity of their guilt . . . We are not able to feel exempt from the accusation . . ."

Primo Levi on page 6

"Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory by Solomon J. Brager" | Goodreads

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/200229068-heavyweight

Which is the best choice for digital detox this evening?


"Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh" | Goodreads


"Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory by Solomon J. Brager" | Goodreads


Gotta decompress; did some heavy reading earlier.

 

"Hey, I grew up in the Midwest"

teracomedy_

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZVjF68s5YZ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

"#lunchladyenergy"

breakroom.chronicles

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZI8z-URbwq/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

"#fyp"

avangard_nastya

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZVmEngs1G-/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

And the frog lollipops are gone, and now they're being replaced with unicorn ones. But even the Guru really liked the frog lollipop.

"Starbucks 'Cake Pop Guru' shares his secrets behind the beloved treat"

https://about.starbucks.com/stories/2026/starbucks-cake-pop-guru-shares-his-secrets-behind-the-beloved-treat/

It's natural for people to wonder such things.

"How can my daughter attract a sensitive and emotionally mature human being who will accompany her to her medical appointment?"

Hey, how's the wimmins lib unfolding in your neck of the country considering all that's been going on these days?

Hey, have you ever shelled peas on a porch as a child so that the men could eat in the dining room, and the other human beings in the house could cook, set the table, eat in the living room, and clean up afterwards?

Hey, my Grandpa from the 1950s called, and he wants your autograph.

Hey, how's the scriptures been treating you?

Anyways, some of the comments under this video about an article were making me laugh.

 "The plain brains" lol!

"Got sniped again by my therapist"

burritos_and_adhd

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZY1NKYsFLV/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

This is not about safety. This is about the money which gives people the delusion of being in power over others.

"'The family and advocates are still seeking basic answers about his custody, transportation, and access to legal paperwork,' the family statement said. 'Instead, a child from Collinsville is being taken across multiple state lines while relatives who are present, documented, and willing to care for him are left searching for answers.'"

~ Ivy Lyons

"3 Collinsville teens detained by ICE, Nikki Budzinski says"

https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/collinsville-teens-ice-detained-illinois-budzinski-22298412.php

It's normal that this bothers people, isn't it?

"millions of wasted tax dollars enriched contractors"

MICHAEL BIESECKER and RYAN J. FOLEY

"Report finds major ICE detention camp wasted millions, put detainees in danger"| AP News

https://apnews.com/article/ice-immigration-crackdown-texas-camp-montana-report-04bc547c02e7241fc73541a4d0ba26ad

I think this is good for none of the children, but it's happening nevertheless.

"Republicans send $70 billion in ICE and border patrol funding to Trump’s desk" | CNN Politics

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/09/politics/house-passes-ice-border-patrol-funding-trump


Strange but perhaps true?

Maybe my body can talk in lieu of other voices until the other voices get through.

My body seems to be sensitive to the suffering that is happening to humanity in certain ways. 

And then of course I can also have a personality that wants to go and have fun. But how much fun can I have, really? 

What kind of fun.

Now if I still have a close connection (because of a previous existence?) to the circumstances that some people are experiencing now, than what if my healing is intertwined with their healing?

Even if I am not going through that same experience in this life, but I have some recollection of having gone through it in a previous life, what if that's just part of what I have to go through in this lifetime?

What if I'm just trying to figure out my life purpose while figuring out what it's like to deal with all these kinds of, like, memories or information or feelings, and experiencing that stuff in this certain kind of physical vehicle which maybe developed illnesses that were stress-related along the way, as I was growing up and as I was becoming an adult and as I was going through my life stages. 

And it's a certain kind of female body with a particular kind of genetics that I'm dealing with and I have to deal with that first before I deal with anything else. 

And it's bringing out some knowledge that has been underrepresented in mass consciousness.

So that's a difficulty that happens sometimes when it comes to communicating with others. Like you can express, but maybe the words aren't what they want to hear, so it just doesn't get through. 

Maybe they have to have more life experiences and go through more things themselves before they can hear certain things. 

It's like when I was younger and I wasn't ready to read a certain book. Then when I got older and I read the book, it was the right time to read it, and I really appreciated it more. 

Maybe I'm just like a book that needs to be read later, when more people are ready to read it.

Well, I feel like my life got very sobering this evening.

I need to pay more attention to my health. I'm more likely to drink milk thistle tea and water. I just got this funny feeling and I have to listen to it. It's really something how a little twinge can change my attitude. And make me feel like I need to be much more cautious and careful. And possibly some other people have to learn lessons that I am not supposed to learn alongside of them. If what I'm trying to do is learn how to be better with a certain type of physical state of being that I am still learning more about taking care of. I mean, it's a little bit sad, but it's just necessary. I just don't have the ability to go certain ways others may go when my body starts telling me I need to do something differently. I have to listen to my body. That's how it works in this Earth life.

Found music 🎶

 

"I Wonder"

King Geedorah

https://youtu.be/wVc-y2X-3IM?si=BjQ3YrpkUhwp7s2G

"Antônio Pinto & Jaques Morelenbaum
- trilha do filme - Central do Brasil - Heineken Concerts - 1999"

https://youtu.be/g05ClF_pvF8?si=NJhihaotA1ZJGpkI

"Anybody seen 'Central Station' (1998)?"

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueFilm/s/q2stYg3D0i

This is good. I should have read it last month, but better late than never.

"When I was in kindergarten, my mother was already warning me to be vigilant. Decades later, America elected a president who famously bragged about grabbing women 'by the pussy.' That vulgar phrase — excused as locker-room talk and shrugged off by millions of Americans — was an exact description of what happened to my mother that day at the mall. She was sexually assaulted while boys laughed and strangers looked away. And even now, the misconduct and sexual violence of Harvey Weinstein, Sean 'Diddy' Combs, Jeffrey Epstein and too many other men prove that these stories are very much still worth warning us about.

I feel my mother’s absence every day, and it’s especially urgent this time of year. My grief is anger that my mother died, and anger that she suffered for years before she died. It’s anger that she had to teach me about violence before she got to teach me so many other things. Anger that women are still expected to absorb shame quietly and move on. Anger that in 2026, we are still arguing over whether women are believable.

This Mother’s Day, I’m tired of trying to squeeze myself into someone else’s tidy narrative about what love and grief are supposed to look like. Instead, I’m going to honor my mother’s full legacy — not just the parts that fit neatly into an Instagram caption. I’m going to hold the beauty of the day alongside my ire, and the tenderness alongside the truth: I feel anger for the world she had to prepare me for.

Rage is my inheritance, too."

~ Rebecca Feinglos

https://www.buzzfeed.com/rebeccafeingloshp/mother-daughter-sexual-assault-confession-female-rage?origin=morelikebf

I felt the wincing side coming out.

"The Defiance of Marjane Satrapi" - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/06/marjane-satrapis-rebellious-life-appreciation-obituary/687477/

"When the news broke last week that Marjane Satrapi, the French Iranian artist best known for the groundbreaking graphic memoir Persepolis, had died at age 56, I had what turned out to be a common reaction: That’s impossible. A friend wrote to me that Satrapi seemed invincible, which feels correct—not only because of the bold vitality of her books and films and public statements but also because Persepolis is, in so many ways, about survival."

~ Hillary Chute

The Banality of Snide Observation

"You know, you'd probably be more interested in a wider variety of human beings and treat girls and women a whole lot better if your parents had raised you to do so."

I'm actually very curious about how these would turn out.

"Paleo Blackberry Pop Tart Bars" - Real Food with Jessica

https://www.realfoodwithjessica.com/paleo-blackberry-pop-tart-bars/

I really think this one is worth reading.

"Who Gets Believed? by Dina Nayeri – why asylum seekers struggle to be understood"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/12/who-gets-believed-when-the-truth-isnt-enough-by-dina-nayeri-why-asylum-seekers-struggle-to-be-understood

"Nayeri learned the value of performance early. Fleeing Isfahan after Iran’s Islamic revolution with her Christian mother, she wound up at a refugee camp outside Rome. Little Dina would sit around campfires with other refugees “practising, tailoring our stories for asylum officer[s], knowing that our lives depended on what the officer found credible”.

Later, during her training at Harvard Business School and then working for management consultant McKinsey, Nayeri became fully fluent in the “glossolalia” of business speak, deploying to clients such aggressively meaningless phrases as “directionally correct”, “outperforming at scale” and, my favourite, “achieving granularity”.

What Nayeri learned, she writes, “is how to be believed – how to be the one people want to believe, feel safe believing”. Sri Lankan torture victims and Ugandan lesbian asylum seekers rarely get such training.

“The refugee in me fumed,” writes Nayeri. “These lessons exist, have long existed and have been handed to those who need them least. The rules were created for the children of the (native and colonising) rich. I just happened to be in the room.” The author now teaches creative writing in the UK at St Andrews University, no doubt coaching students in how to give literary performances believable enough to woo cultural gatekeepers – agents, publishers, critics – as she has."

~ Stuart Jeffries

Okay, back on track!

It feels good to have a more positive attitude. It feels great to be emotionally supported by a white guy whose look is less like what the Nazis would have preferred. Sometimes, the callously uncaring ones were also really callous and uncaring towards certain kinds people because of other reasons.

So, did you hear about how some of the bad rich people are making the almost slaves do a lot of stuff...

"As U.S. prison stock prices soar, detainees work for $1/day"

CBCTheNational

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Li33ONC4FsA&si=FuFGNDb9dQsBO7Ky

"Who Gets Believed?"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/12/who-gets-believed-when-the-truth-isnt-enough-by-dina-nayeri-why-asylum-seekers-struggle-to-be-understood

It's just making it harder to aspire to the luxury lifestyle that the culture may want you to embrace, sometimes?

Oh my goodness!

If I drive 10 miles there is a 24-hour Starbucks that's open now. I assume it's a drive-thru. Wow! Didn't know that. But 24-hour places are good because some people work night shifts and they deserve options.

Lesbian undertones informing the next artistic endeavor.

I'm sure she was really sad because of what happened to her maid, and just not because a tall white guy left her. That's why I can almost taste the froghead lollipop in my mouth right now!!!! I gotta check when the nearest coffee shop opens. I know they open early.

I think the froghead lollipop should be my luxury treat tomorrow.

 


"#italiangirl #livinginamerica"

francescalimolij

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWSsJp9ASU9/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

Oh well. I split them with the person who made them possible for me.

I kind of wish I could eat my Mexican food leftovers right now.

Such High Artist Talk.

"You obviously know that people like you are a) worth less to the Patriarchal Society and b) worth less to people like me and my friends, too, LOLOL!" 

People are kind of unwell in their heads, sometimes.

"As U.S. prison stock prices soar, detainees work for $1/day"

CBCTheNational

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Li33ONC4FsA&si=FuFGNDb9dQsBO7Ky

"Fewer Americans say democracy is central to country's identity, AP poll finds"

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fewer-americans-say-democracy-is-central-to-countrys-identity-ap-poll-finds

I wonder if she knew?

If she is still alive, I wonder how her maid is doing?

"Marjane Satrapi brought Iranian women like me out of hiding" | Books | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/04/dina-nayeri-marjane-satrapi-brought-iranian-women-like-me-out-of-hiding

"Who Gets Believed? by Dina Nayeri – why asylum seekers struggle to be understood"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/12/who-gets-believed-when-the-truth-isnt-enough-by-dina-nayeri-why-asylum-seekers-struggle-to-be-understood

I had a dream about trying to talk to a rich person; very nicely, too...

I did try to have a fruitful caring conversation with them, but they were sort of self-absorbed, but I do think they were good at gardening. They definitely weren't going to be sorry about anything. And even though I said I would be back, as I drove away from their estate, I thought to myself, maybe I should just never come back here again.

Pray about the student loan situation, too, silly careless ich people.

The luxury of going out and ordering the evening special and taking the other half home to split with another person is possibly not beyond your comprehension.

"What to do before new student loan rules take effect"

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2026/06/07/new-student-loan-rules-what-to-do/90403178007/


Monday, June 08, 2026

Actually, that's probably going to happen.

Some things will get to feeling very normal soon? I mean, they will be strange forever, but maybe they will seem to be a more normal version of strange?

How interesting this looks!

"Chicken With Plums Official Trailer #1 (2012)" 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sx7q7EwdbB0&si=9aIek6EeLWawmr66

There's lots of smoking in it, too! I feel better now.

Temporary vice week.

 Neglecting my other reading for Beryl Markham.

"The Beryl Markham Mystery"| Vanity Fair | October 1984

https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1984/10/the-beryl-markham-mystery

Different cover. Same Hemingway quote. 

Smoking tobacco free cigarettes. I don't have any intention of getting addicted to tobacco.

Wow! This doesn't happen everywhere.

The sight of a green parrot on a telephone line. 


Only in certain regions will that happen.

Anyways, I know psychological well-being is important.

Sometimes I've felt disappointed by the seeming complacency of some but...

People are on their own timelines, so....

Just putting it out there.

 I just want more evidence of curiosity and kindness and compassion to help me feel a lot better about the things I've gone through.

How many of you....

"TOP 21 QUOTES BY JUDY TENUTA" | A-Z Quotes

https://www.azquotes.com/author/24611-Judy_Tenuta

Exciting upcoming creative projects!

"Emotional exhaustion was my true love all along." 

"It's not hard to see how they got addicted to those 'Mother's Little Helpers'"

"In memory of the also not thin enough body I never knew I'd miss so much."

"Today conditions were perfect for a walk! But I stayed in and watched a video about a thinner, younger blond girl crying because she's tired of trying to make herself eat more protein all the time. And I felt empathy for her."

Imagine that...

"You probably should stay away from eating these most of the time, but if you're really curious and you know it's not going to kill you, you could still try some."

"20+ Trader Joe’s Products Nutritionists Avoid"

https://www.runnersworld.com/nutrition-weight-loss/g37181024/top-trader-joes-products-nutritionists-avoid/



Sometimes people seem best when you realize how ridiculous they can be.

The end of this made me want to laugh and that was not what it was like to read the end of the Ibsen play.

"Hedda - Official Trailer"

https://www.reddit.com/r/oscarrace/s/EzTKLR85R2

Maybe it's almost, like, therapeutic. You could watch the original Ibsen version, and then you could watch the "Hedda" film and feel that impulse to laugh about how ridiculous people can be.

Yeah, that's a more relaxing 😂 point of view.

And it kind of makes you feel like more people would live a lot longer and have a better time in their existences...

Oh well.💐

Anyways, I can tell I still have to put healing first. Since I live in this particular body, in these particular circumstances, at this particular time.

I mean, who knows. Maybe more people will be checking out copies of her book in the not too distant future.

"The Singular Power of Persepolis" | The New Republic

https://newrepublic.com/article/211410/singular-power-persepolis-marjane-satrapi

"Marjane Satrapi’s Rebellious Art"

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/marjane-satrapi-obituary-persepolis/

If they work with his masculine body chemistry and help him function better in this Patriarchal Society, I guess I'm happy for him.

"Better living..."

shuapeck

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZTVkoFvpGY/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

I have lots of herbal supplements and probably some PTSD from seeing how side effects from psychotropic medications affected others after experiencing less horrible but still really not fun side effects myself. 

And also there was the whole incident where the massive doses of black currant seed oil stopped the bleeding when whatever the allopathic doctors gave me was making me have horrible menstrual cramps, and at the same time I got told about a woman who was undergoing a hysterectomy for the exact same problem I was having.

Which made me feel like an impending hysterectomy got stopped by the black currant seed oil capsules.

And also, not everybody can get their paychecks from the same imbalanced work environments and truly be psychologically okay with it. 

Maybe will watch the film soon now that I've finished the book.

"Rest in Power: Marjane Satrapi, Whose Masterpiece 'Persepolis' Transformed the World’s Understanding of Iran" - Ms. Magazine

https://msmagazine.com/2026/06/08/persepolis-marjane-satrapi/

"Words Are Also Filters: Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026)"

https://www.rogerebert.com/tributes/words-are-also-filters-marjane-satrapi-1969-2026

The feminine urge to learn. Poor about metabolic flexibility. Not poor. More.

What about getting drawn into a whole "But actually my short term failure is elevating others and assisting the collective in the long term" situation.

"If PCOS (PMOS) weight loss feels impossible..."

pcos.weightloss

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZVPbK2hpzB/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

Spiritual and quotable.

"Many of you have been afraid to assert your power because of your mistaken and negative images of power."

Sanaya Roman's "Living With Joy" 25th Anniversary Edition on page 74.

Maybe artists who left will come back as healers next time.

"I have to choose healer over artist" and now I have chills. Literally my body breaks down over this stuff. I can't do it anymore. I have too much to deal with right now. I have to delegate. Or if I can manage to fall asleep and wake up, sometimes that helps.

Time to do the next task.

Maybe I can take flower essences or supplements too. I wonder if I can make myself take a nap and if I wake up then the sensitivity won't be as much anymore? I'm doing things for it that are supposed to help with sensitivity.

Maybe things will improve!?

"It's not just hopium. People really are leaving MAGA"

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/qhjZqSg6zx

I think I need to balance various interests / duties with health related necessities.

I have so many tasks to consider and it feels overwhelming sometimes! And now a tooth is being sensitive again!

People who are called to be creative have a difficult time following a certain path because something's telling them they're supposed to do something different. And doing something different is not always very easy or acceptable.

People have to learn how to take care of their nervous systems and their health and then they have all these other people around them trying to make them do things in a certain way and that is not necessarily the way that might be the best for their health.

Well I'm disappointed about the tooth sensitivity I have had with the veneer. I don't think I really needed or wanted a veneer. I think bonding would have been better on the veneer damages. The tooth more and takes away more of the enamel but it's supposed to look better on the outside and I don't really think I needed it and now it's bothering me. 

And it lately seems interesting that the good experience I had with dental work happened with Persian dentist, and it was more of healing . And it was all complicated and it was like a part of the tooth was extracted and part was saved. 

I think communication is important because when honesty is detected, that feels like good communication, but when manipulation is detected that does not feel like such good communication.

Sounds like that was fun to do.

"Hip 1960s Latin Teacher Translated Beatles Songs..."

https://www.openculture.com/2026/06/latin-teacher-translated-beatles-songs-into-latin-for-his-students.html

Sometimes you need to take a break from getting the information out there, I guess.

I feel like there's a nervous system / tooth sensitivity thing going on again.

This is actually not in the adult's graphic novel section.

One more checkout to behold in my one little life as this particular person.

Tori Amos - "The Big Picture 1988"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tu2sEgiuGj0&si=1D93DqoKfgK4nHuv

Y Kant Tori Read - "Floating City (Music Video)"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=dk4kE7ZMMhU&si=ngdJQr2hZ1TomJen

This is a good little kids song, I think!

It was put out in the world when I was a little kid.

Bob Marley - "Get Up, Stand Up (Live at Munich, 1980)"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RhJ0q7X3DLM&si=FqcdZgK9uUtoEatl 

Calm down, baby. (Self - talk).

There's another section after that. It almost feels like a reminder...

The amount of hoops some people have had to jump through in order to get access to higher education is absolutely insane.

Back to my graphic novel.

I just met Satrapi's first husband. A battle veteran and a "ladies man." We'll see how this turns out, because obviously she didn't stay with him, and she didn't die of sadness on his account.

Another tune discovery; that is great!

"Given my recent songs, could this be considered a happy one?"

thekatamusic

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWPzAiJCg36/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

Confession.

I will admit that watching reels of the kind of feminist content that urges you to be meaner can be a little bit seductive...

"I no longer care about the poignance of Elio and Oliver's summer fling, Moray. I'm only interested in having a  mutually respectful human interaction now." ~ VOICE 

Shhh! The baby does not need to hear that! 

But I think you should watch the film "Orlando," because it's really fun, and I like it just as much now as I did when I was a teenager.

Thoreau was very in touch with his inner child sometimes, I think.

Brahms was a baby once. 🎼👶🏼🎶💖

"Relaxing and Sweet Dreams. Lullabies 🌙"

Fairy Bee Lullaby

https://youtu.be/3fKKkIZ_3jM?feature=shared

I'm just a messenger. 🕊️

I'm just a person who's had a variety of life experiences which have shaped my reality in certain ways... 🤔

Ack!

Somehow I lost the very specific link to the one about the female mice having high standards. 🥲Okay, calm down... I'll find it.


I just found it. It didn't take long.

"Those female mice..."

tetyanawrites 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZUzrhxR8Ii/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

That did not take long! The very first clip on the reel.

"Derry Girls | The Very Best Of Sister Michael"

@HatTrickComedy

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zogCo3flBsc&si=96jwJL7KRqb9-vtf

The shortened version of the longer version I'm gonna find. 😹

"#Lovely Sentiments #Derry Girls #Sister Michael"

@Shakespeareansweetie

https://youtube.com/watch?v=kBZXy-PrwZY&feature=shared

Actually, it's better to finish reading the book first.

I'm going to watch the "Persepolis" film soon.

"PERSEPOLIS" | Official Trailer | STUDIOCANAL

https://youtube.com/watch?v=pr-ffssDVgI&si=NUOGcKNgOiRGPQ3h

Know thy needs...

Such as, the need to chase the fantasy with a gritty reality kind of film ASAP. But, the fantasy was worth watching, too.

Oh, ha-ha, VOICE. Very funny.

"It's amazing how many wrong things you could do that would feel so right and so rewarding for you, if your circumstances were arranged a little differently."

This film was like a big fantasy; it was interesting to watch it.

 "I am so blown away by Hedda"

u/whenthefirescane

https://www.reddit.com/r/PeriodDramas/s/qQApvOGZ2N

Given something to cry about.

Their unholy duty to be insensitive towards people who experienced violent trauma was such a "didn't need to have to deal with that, too, on top of everything else" Patriarchal Coping Mechanism.

Sunday, June 07, 2026

A-ha, found a film to watch tonight.

Hedda!

"Hedda review – Tessa Thompson reshapes the…" | Little White Lies

https://lwlies.com/reviews/hedda

"Hedda - Official Trailer"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=m3lgD59KrTw&si=oqSXyN3xYf6tRkYj

I found and began a good appetizer to a book I've been wanting to read a long time.

I started reading this in the garden today: 

"The Beryl Markham Mystery"| Vanity Fair | October 1984

https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1984/10/the-beryl-markham-mystery

I always felt like I should read that book I saw it lying around the house a lot with it's significant Hemingway blurb on it when I was living in the Pacific Northwest. My mother really liked it but I for some reason could not get myself to read it. But of course I was a child and probably wouldn't have appreciated it very much. But I did read some other adult books.

I miss the Pacific Northwest. It's ridiculous that I haven't been there since I was in my twenties. It's absolutely ridiculous. It's so much a part of me. How could it be such a small part of my life and by now? This part is the sadness of having little money when you're an adult.

I have "West With the Night" and "Women Who Run with the Wolves" in my Libby queue. I read the latter when I was 14, but I don't think I retained much of it, or I think I could use a refresher.


Feels like I have a lot to read, too.

Good thing I was an English major. You know what I want.  I wanna hear what it was like to study literature but not have any feminist theory classes or even anyone to tempt you to study it whatsoever. I want to know what that was like. There were men in my feminist theory classes. Where did those men go? What did they do with what they learned? Maybe they're making some of the more feminist content that's been circulating. Maybe they're a Content Creator now.

Catch a breath.


Dailey & Vincent - "Ruby" (Official Music Video)


THE SULLIVAN SISTERS - "DEVIL'S GOT A HOLD ON YOU"


Della Mae, "Outrun 'Em" -- 52nd Annual RockyGrass Festival 


Candlebox - "Far Behind (Official Music Video)"


Republica - "Ready to Go (Official Video)"

At least we'll always have our love for America.

And also, the love being an avoidant seems like it is kind of an American thing, too, sometimes. 

But not everyone can be equally infatuated with a video game.

Dinner was kinda weird.

 Sometimes, this is my favorite drink. 


Make the angelic overlords make life normal again.

Dinner was a spontaneous decision to try the six inch Italian Sunday sandwich special with a lot of veggies on it. Music: "Video Game" by S.S.*

* That stands for subway SENSATION, obviously!

I think my sandwich was too heavy for me this evening. I guess I have been SO WRONG about SO MANY THINGS so I need GOD'S GRACE AND FORGIVENESS to get me through these strange days... I am going to now have water and some of a Cayenne Cleanse kombucha.

☘️ Tea Time! 🫖

 



Lovely Irish Music 🎶

Another song by so-and-so is on.

 We need feminist radio stations.

More for us to laugh about!

"If the roles were reversed" 

https://www.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/s/QNcQQw8vEz

What a blatantly racist year it has been.

"US Accepts Only White Refugees For Sixth Consecutive Month" – Mother Jones

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/south-africa-white-genocide-afrikaner-refugees-asylum/

Also, I think the lyric about the monarch is so good, too.

 

"Earlier this week the NYT published an article..."

thekatamusic

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWNB3Piip9X/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

Maybe I'll purchase a string instrument. I do feel inspired now!

 

"A song about bodies"

thekatamusic

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYDjPRQqGES/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

I feel good about being able to laugh at this with my brethren.

And I'm looking forward to consuming more feminist content coming up on my little portable device that I carry with me everywhere as do so many others in this era of unprecedented social media appeal.


"Please tell them 😭😭😭"

mind_the_kate

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZM5LRhIxoS/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

A Very Clean Courtesyship

When

"How to talk to girls who might not be so agreeable with you"

met

"How to have so many fans, you'll definitely never need to make a new friend again"

Getting to venture out to other parts of the world takes time.

I should read this soon because it was Satrapi's mother's favorite book.

"The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir"| Goodreads

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/378422

She read it when she was sent to a French boarding school in Germany, and she couldn't go on vacation like all of her classmates so she stayed behind and read a lot of books.

(Page 175 of "Persepolis.")

Staying in and reading right now.

Yesterday's walk, yesterday's walk...

 

Theme from M*A*S*H because of the ambulance in the last picture (which looks like it is the first picture).

"Mash theme song"

@lathanluu4535

https://youtube.com/watch?v=GIGYLBVjYZA&si=yGtYvGYOIxDiFBTI

"The Forgotten Military Vehicles of ‘M*A*S*H’"

https://www.military.com/off-duty/autos/forgotten-military-vehicles-of-mash.html#:~:text=If%20you're%20going%20to,military%20vehicle%20of%20all%20time.

🎥 Cinematic! 🎬

 


"Hello it's me Sarina!"

Rina's Corner

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBPkL95g/

"Be that bad bitch"

Rina's Corner

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBPkkkNy/

"My sister..."

Rina's Corner

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBPkYFN1/

"Two sisters, two horses..."

Rina's Corner

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBPhoydt/

"The older I get..."

Rina's Corner

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBPhmAE1/

"Wanna match?"

Rina's Corner

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBPhmBJc/

This kind of thing and the feminist content brightens my day.

 

"Yall think they're still together?"

4_v..n0wwww

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBPrrCUC/

Make believe or begin to believe

I'm going to make believe to myself (or begin to believe) that I don't have to be like some of the meaner people with money I've met and maybe I can feel not so poor and feel more able to be well off enough to not feel triggered and upset by cycles of poverty that have happened on this planet because humans really struggle with that stuff a lot for some reason.

People dreams

 I had a dream that a tall man was on a park bench in the middle of winter at night staring at some houses and thinking it would be nice if certain girl was there with him. But he couldn't say it. He just had big feelings about it. And the girl was there but just in spirit and she with either behind the bench or on the bench, too. 

I had another dream about being invited to go to a lesbian wedding with a woman as my date and it was suggested to me that instead of a trust dress I would wear black slacks and a button down white shirt and I said I would think about it.

Oh, another little thing around the periphery of the dream was there was a kind of mean mother figure but she would give people gifts and you could choose to enjoy them or not. And she was telling me and another girl that she was disappointed that a third girl was not enjoying her gifts properly and we had to commiserate with her even though we were kind of scared of her. Because we were able to enjoy her gifts a little bit more than this other girl was able to enjoy them. I don't quite remember the details on what the gifts were. It kind of makes me think of drinking a glass of white wine. But I think it was more involved than just a glass of wine.

A cat dream.

I had a pretty good cat dream after some other kinds of dreams. I had some other kinds of dreams where I was observing some characters who were in the Show Business industry and those were sort of just okay dreams. Not being able to fit in very well with it was part of it. Smarmy man being able to fit in well with also part of it.

The cat dream was about how I had a cat and in the dream it was a little bit different from the cat I have, and it had some ancestry with some Wilder cats. 

In my dream, the cat went back to some of her Wilder cats and they went very high up on some rocks and it was beautiful to see but I just hoped my cat would come back again. 

I called out to the cat that I had in this dream. My beautiful girl. Be careful, my beautiful girl.

Saturday, June 06, 2026

I really badly wanted an herbal remedy for anxiety earlier in the day.

Tonight is the time for it. I'm doing some processes again. I really was neglecting my processes. I was neglecting myself too much, really. Even though I was exercising more and bought some clothes I liked...that's kind of surface level stuff, you know. But it's kind of fun, but it's just not what you need sometimes as badly as something else that you need.

One of those steps towards a better way of life.

I need to get a lot more satisfaction out of my own path of healing. Even if it is quiet and not that interesting to other people, that's fine. Don't get pushed off the path so much by some other people and what they are doing and saying and choosing. Especially at a time like this.

This is a loving boundary.

Children deserve to be adopted. I cannot adopt children with childish adults. It will not happen. I really must focus on my health first. But wow, love is great, isn't it? That's real. Real love.

The next exciting thing...

The foot underneath the pillow where it feels cool.

Fools don't know what it feels like to lose everything.

The way my nervous system gave out on me in the past. 

And it wasn't like that tonight. 

It was not as bad as it was a few years ago.

But maybe I forgot that it could be. 

But I am not forgetting it now.

So really it's the body that I am grateful for again. 

It's teaching me a lot.

Boundaries can be beautiful.

No, not for me right now. No parties no performing no podcasting, no. No no no no no no no no.


I feel like I am not the same person as I was earlier this evening.

I am floored by how much I need to heal my own stuff again. I'm in a real state of other people can do whatever they want and it's fine because that's what they're supposed to be doing so they can learn from it. Perhaps I've dissolved something and I just will be in recovery for a little while now. Grasping at little fragments of energy that got scattered about, collecting them to make myself feel whole and reborn again. I don't know why I've chosen such a dramatic way of learning. I don't know why. Especially when I was known as a quiet person. My gosh my gosh my gosh. It's so humbling. It's so humbling. A whole new you...

Taking care of your health is the first thing you need to do.

This is cute but also I know people need to heal themselves deeply and rest and repair their nervous systems.

"Little Guy Refused To Quit"

u/9year_old_amanmehtA

https://www.reddit.com/r/Awww/s/VPs1l18zwi

I want to try to get better in ways that don't make my nervous system flip out so much. I got to remember that.

I'm getting more clear on some things now.

I know other lifetimes happened where people pushed themselves too much and it went too far and that's why this lifetime is supposed to be different and be better. It can be really good. It can be healing. It can be better. It can be more. It can be full of surprises that we didn't even expect. But wow, it's really, really time to get back on the healing path now.

I have pushed myself and I'm going to get back to the healing again though.

I accidentally pushed myself too hard if I accidentally push the person I care about too hard and I need to really gather my healing energies and become the kind of open to healing person that I'm always hoping I can be. I don't understand why I do this but I'm going to get better because that's my only choice. I have to get better.

I have a strong message that healing needs to come first.

I just got some really intense tooth sensitivity. So much that I wonder if I will need extra assistance with it. Oh, I am sorry we have struggled so much. We have asked a lot of ourselves! Need to get better at healing and patience and opening up in ways that serve a more healing pattern. I will ask for more healing and guidance and help from gifted healers. It's been so much to go through. The sensitive people need the healing ones. The healing energies can be more elevated. We have been through a lot and we deserve extra healing. Extra healing can help us. We can ask for and receive help and healing. I really pushed myself  somewhere and I've really got to get back to a healing place now. Help us really heal ourselves. Help us know we can heal.

Some internet content is so good!

 

"The last peaceful second..."

u/ korkutcetin

https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/s/vjvyQaCW9s

"she's staying pretty stationary..."

lucilletherescuecat

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZORI5NgkRh/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

"#italiangirl #livinginamerica"

francescalimolij

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWSsJp9ASU9/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

She's here! She's filled with attitude. She has plenty of self-confidence.

My cat probably loves me more affectionately than some people's parents love their kids, and I didn't give birth to her.

This film is so Oooo goo Oooo D! 💕🤪💖😇😻😭

 "CENTRAL STATION | 4K Restoration - In Cinemas"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qCoqppCsEa8&si=lKdRfAjEQp_Yk8FB

That brother has bothered me for a long time.

I really liked this movie when I was younger called "Central Station," and I still think it's really good but there's this part at the end of the movie where the little kid meets his brothers, and there's one brother who just seems depressed in a way and it's  like he's kind of...really off.

And if you're not, then...

Why would the universe have set it up so perfectly to act like you are????


I guess more people will get tired of it eventually.

 

"The Patriarchy is built on control"

drlb_sb

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZQSlN8PG5Y/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

I guess nothing is an original idea, is it?

"Kim Wilde: ‘Maybe aliens are using me to put out a record with them on it’"| Pop and rock | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/apr/04/kim-wilde-maybe-aliens-are-using-me-to-put-out-a-record-with-them-on-it

How can such a mentally ill person run any businesses?

 

That's what I should have asked, in a very calm, cold and curious way. I need to find the calm, cold, curious people and co-regulate with them.

Things are getting too boring, sometimes.

I should make more money soon and travel to other countries and see how they've ruined the Anne Frank House. I've seen people complaining online that they've ruined the Anne Frank House. I see no reason not to believe them; they probably have.

It's a weird life, but I guess the universe does reward creativity.

I am aware, universe.

"The Lonely Goatherd (1965 Original Soundtrack Version)"

Julie Andrews

https://youtube.com/watch?v=SYGdv3b3hv4&si=k8_qcANSTDFxrKSo

Next time, the universe could also probably give some people better parents who don't give them the kinds of initials that remind some people of Nazis during the fascist takeover of America. Next time...

Your self-esteem might take a beating.

Honestly, if you read pages 126 through 130 and all that her parents went through to get her her Iron Maiden and Kim Wilde posters... Man, she was kind of spoiled. Maybe it's better to have parents who don't love you that much.

"The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi" | Goodreads

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/991197.The_Complete_Persepolis

Huuuuh.....

Oh well. People don't talk in real life anymore. What can you do?

Just consider the absolute insanity of these times we are living in.

More people in this region probably spent money on "health food bowl" made by a Trump worshipping gofer woman (and not a white woman, either) today then checked out "Persepolis" from their library, for free. 

"Marjane Satrapi died of sadness at age 56."

celinecelines 

https://www.instagram.com/p/DZKZjSXDrpU/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

What was her mean side like?

Sometimes, when she didn't like people, she would criticize them, and sometimes she would call them a chicken!

Actually we had a worse side than that to deal with. On account of the sexism and misogyny and all that. But you know, I think we already talked about it and we don't need to bring that up right now. Because you're just going to feel more empathy. Because you know lots of drastic beliefs were pumped into her head from a very young age, and I don't think she would have acted that way if she hadn't been absolutely forced to by her misogynistic parents. Was Martin Luther a feminist, no. 

Anyways. It was all an interesting experience. And here you, are a product of your experiences! 

Go for another walk soon, and let the birds talk to you.

That is correct.

And Jesus - loving Grandma would have preferred loving the child over the tickets to the ballet.

And remember, Jesus - loving Grandma was the one who brought up the farmworkers to you, the Mexican farm workers. Even though she was a German farmworker, she wasn't a Mexican one. She still brought them up to you. That's the kind of person she was. She was the Jesus - lover.

Oh I know. You know what she would have liked better?

You know what she would have liked better than having to babysit a certain kind of child? She would have like tickets to a ballet; that's what she would have liked.

I know, but it's still because of their unresolved childhood trauma and I have empathy.

They're assholes. They've constantly shown you over and over again that they want to be assholes. Stop expecting them to be different. They want to be assholes. They don't want to f****** care. 

But I really wanted niceness and empathy and love and rainbows and fun!

These people are like the racist mommy babysitter. They don't give a s***; you don't need to be nice to them.

You would have been so much nicer to me, huh? Oh thanks!

 "If I were a woman and a lesbian..."

I need to eat a meal and digest this now.

Anyways, all this "You would have been way different towards me if I'd been born into a man's body" stuff is finally f****** sinking in.


Sigh! I would have thought someone could have checked out at least one more copy today.


Considering the author just died of sadness and all that sort of thing. I'm disappointed, but not surprised. Sigh!


"Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56"

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/s/MBcGcec7xo

If I cut down on my empathy...

Maybe I can ask some people if they would be dead  now if I hadn't put everything else aside and been trying so hard to help them stay alive. Because, you know, lots of mean, bad, terrible traumatic, violent things happened. 

And who was doing all those bad, mean, terrible, violent, traumatic things? 

Who? Who? Who? 

Who, who, who, who, who, who?

I mean, not to get all repetitive about it, but... 

I'm starting to notice a pattern again.

Kids deserve cool mums...

"The world is run by mediocre men"

coolmumdianna

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWA_V7fDykw/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

Moms deserve great sons, etc.

 


"Just kiss your homies, it's alright"

nathan_ing

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZPs2NCxyu3/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

Kids are still cool! Everybody deserves a good daddy and a mommy! This is just a moment, though.

"52% OF WOMEN"

abigailprtr

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWZ_h91EqKn/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

"And so this is Christmas...🎵" Just kidding.

 That song from childhood just came back to me all of a sudden for some reason.


"Micro-feminism for the win, baby!"

abiralsahlani

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZIWnUBFCaq/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

I wonder how long these vast differences will last.

"I refuse to shrink myself to make violent men feel comfortable and neither should you."

abiralsahlani

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYAYIekIJn-/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

So nice of her!

"What's it called when..."

rachbelle77

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZDpZ9MSyJv/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

Don't forget to shovel some nutritious food in your mouth today.

(Oops, descendant of a farmworker.  Oops, met people who were also descendants of farm workers. Oops. Have a metabolic condition that depends on access to good food. Oops.)

You have got to keep a bunch of human beings that you were trained to be nastily and mediocrely unfeeling towards employed, you know.

GOLLY.

Well, gee, I don't know why you think your unpaid job has to be to make me so glad that I'm not in your male body. Because you're getting paid for a whole lot of other s***. But still you're doing this unpaid job. I think it's because you were trained from a very tiny, little age to act this way, as the other men around you were constantly acting, when you were growing up. And probably lots of women were fawning over them while they were doing it, huh? Really? It's f****** insane. I don't want to look at this right now. I will look at it more later. When I'm in a less "bad for my particular biological state" kind of mood. Anyways, I went to Texas churches, too, I mean, sexist churches, too, so you know, I don't know what it is that makes it so much more appealing for some people than for others to continue the old, bad traditions. But it is and I don't want to deal with it right now. I have other things to do. I will make my own day better.

I had to look up this reference. I found it.

 So different!


"Tbh I gave Big Russel energy as a kid"

hunterhealthproject

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZK6KwroZdP/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

"Good afternoon, my name is Russell and I am a Wilderness Explorer"

https://www.reddit.com/r/acnh/s/7qpgujgszx