Friday, August 30, 2019

This is new

It a visual...

http://floodmagazine.com/66825/premiere-penny-and-sparrows-dont-wanna-be-without-ya-vid-recreates-classic-movie-scenes/

Should be a word for that

A word for the feeling of still believe that people can return in another form but society is not ready to talk about it so gonna be quiet in the meantime and just wait and see how things go.

What...is your purpose

Been up really late (someone tell my body it's not the middle of the day already) and had to harangue a beloved just a bit about the gender dynamics of his late night entertainment..just had to..it's life in a human body on planet Earth! LIFE IS SHORT.

And then dipped into a T. talk and now I gotta go to bed.

"13:00
Now, it's easier said than done, because I'm saying it now, but I'm telling you it's not easy in male culture for guys to challenge each other, which is one of the reasons why part of the paradigm shift that has to happen is not just understanding these issues as men's issues, but they're also leadership issues for men. Because ultimately, the responsibility for taking a stand on these issues should not fall on the shoulders of little boys or teenage boys in high school or college men. It should be on adult men with power. Adult men with power are the ones we need to be holding accountable for being leaders on these issues, because when somebody speaks up in a peer culture and challenges and interrupts, he or she is being a leader, really. But on a big scale, we need more adult men with power to start prioritizing these issues, and we haven't seen that yet, have we?

13:49
Now, I was at a dinner a number of years ago, and I work extensively with the US military, all the services. And I was at this dinner and this woman said to me -- I think she thought she was a little clever -- she said, "So how long have you been doing sensitivity training with the Marines?"

14:06
And I said, 'With all due respect, I don't do sensitivity training with the Marines. I run a leadership program in the Marine Corps.'"

https://www.ted.com/talks/jackson_katz_violence_against_women_it_s_a_men_s_issue/transcript#t-779191

I hab qweeschun

Where in the world

"Waldo Bliss has opened for a lot of great bands including The Bangles, America, Ian Hunter and Petula Clarke."

https://www.waldobliss.com/about-waldo-bliss/

are the last two?

type type type type

"In September...she will play the Bird Woman, performing the iconic song, Feed the Birds."

https://www.petulaclark.net/pages/biography.html

Economies of well-educated women c. 2019

She wears scrubs at her new job and is taking night classes in compuer programming.

There was another text from one who was cleaning houses to make enough money and is now driving for Uber.


Wednesday, August 28, 2019

H-o-p-e-?

"One ray of hope on a bleak election night in November 2016 was..."

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-08-23/hhh-homeless-housing-money-allocated

Hashtag She Really Should Have Been President Instead

A very terrible man, making very terrible decisions, is "in charge" at the moment.

"Trump admin pulling millions from FEMA disaster relief to send to southern border / Combined with existing space, the funding would allow ICE to detain nearly 50,000 immigrants at one time."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-admin-pulling-millions-fema-disaster-relief-send-southern-border-n1046691

One of my friends told me someone filed a bed bug registry for 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in 2017.

The line is thin

And one must laugh.



Pissed Jeans ~ The Bar is Low

"'The goals that were set by the city are not unreasonable,' Galperin told The Times. 'Quite frankly, they are [setting a] pretty low bar to begin with. If you can’t meet the low bar, that’s a problem.'”

https://ktla.com/2019/08/28/scathing-new-audit-finds-deep-operational-failures-at-l-a-s-top-homeless-outreach-agency/

"I made a song that you might not like
I made a song about us"

https://genius.com/Boat-the-bar-is-too-low-to-fail-lyrics


BOAT - The Bar Is Too Low To Fail

Ah...Seattle group...singing about the French Revolution in 2005...

http://threeimaginarygirls.com/boat05apr-asp/

Story jogs memory

Ayyyy

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-22/homeless-sidewalk-sleeping-ban-restrictions-boise-case-shelter

I think the mind created a dream about being homeless. It was disturbing, primarily because of not having my own space to sleep *in the dream* and I woke up feeling very grateful for my bed and it's placement in a room of it's own.

Observing

Others interesting lives. https://travelbabbo.com/jackson-hole-family-travel/

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Wouldn't that be weird?

What if you were not a guy and had a dream that you met someone and you were all full of feminine youth and optimism and you told that someone all of the fine qualities you saw in him and in his soul, such as a capacity for compassion...a whole list of things. And then the man was somehow given this list. And he handed it back to you. For some reason he did not check "compassion" on his list. He did however check "marriage." As if to say, Well I am not interested in compassion. I am interested in marriage. Weird. What was that about? Dream ended before there was any chance of incorporating 15th century shenanigans...marriage minus compassion what is wrong with you???

Three days ago!


Sea lion release August 24, 2019

Life in a body...what a treasure trove of information

Too true:

"sometimes the donut is poisoned"

https://mobile.twitter.com/amandapalmer/status/1164928864860200960

I forsee further reading about nutrition.

Look at all these women.

"In case you've never experienced severe menstrual pain,
it feels like you're dying."

~ @fertilityfriday

This is a silly old song.

It was on the radio and made me wish an old friend was there (because she loved to make fun of it.)

"Maggie..."

https://genius.com/Rod-stewart-maggie-may-lyrics

I had an idle thought that someone with her sense of humor would be nice to have around if I ever needed to visit a hospital...in fact, when I was younger and bleeding profusely (almost needing a blood tranfusion, sick and anemic for weeks afterwards) she did come to the hospital with me.

So glad I wasn't alone then.

Over the weekend I learned that some attentive people have come up with names for some things.

PMDD

PME

The gift of the internet is it will eventually deliver something helpful to you.

Knowledge is everything.

Maybe I can care for myself and make some changes that help me be a happier and healthier person.

Maybe for some of us, the depression, physical pain, PMDD. etc. would get better if society made significant changes and started respecting diverse experiences of many different people.

Wouldn't it have been nice to have learned about a lot of these things decades ago?

Just imagine what people could know more about in ten, twenty, fifty, one hundred years...

What else is there to learn about?

At least it's not the 1960s LADY DRUGS

LADY DRUGS

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gqmx9j/here-lady-take-some-pills-for-your-hysteria-253

Ayer alguien envió

"Guess who's excited for the beach day!"
https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/cvozu3/guess_whos_excited_for_the_beach_day/

Sunday, August 25, 2019

Good question

"What is 'body literacy'?"

http://fertilityfriday.com/lara-briden-180/

And around 20 minutes into the show, the host said it was easier for her to manage her LABOR pains than her period pain!

FASCINATING dairy details

HUH!

"A1 casein is present in the milk from Holstein cows, which are the predominant dairy herds in USA, Canada, Australia, and the UK. A different type of casein – called A2 casein – does not form casomorphin BCM7, and does not cause inflammation. The milks of Jersey cows, goats and sheep, are predominantly A2, and are fine for most people. Cheeses like Ricotta are ok, because they are mostly whey protein. Butter is Ok because it is mostly fat.

I switch many (not all) of my PCOS patients to Jersey, goat or sheep dairy, and they do very well. The first thing to improve is their acne, usually within a few weeks.

Other PCOS symptoms also improve off A1 dairy, but they take a little longer, usually 3-4 months. In fact, any good treatment for PCOS takes 3-4 months because that is how long it takes for a follicle to develop all the way to ovulation. It’s a 100 day journey to ovulation, and the journey cannot start until inflammation ends." ~ Dr. L. Briden

https://pcosdiva.com/2014/05/the-problem-with-dairy/

I think I love this genius.

Worth a read...

Ah...Angelica wanted to be an artist...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/what-its-like-to-do-the-toughest-job-in-america/ar-AAG7EAk?ocid=spartanntp

She is ...

a sea lion!

https://www.pacificmmc.org/current-patients

Scallop
Sea Lion, Female, Yearling
8/22/2019
Calafia, San Clemente
33
Malnourished, dehydrated

http://www.marinemammalcenter.org/education/marine-mammal-information/pinnipeds/california-sea-lion/



Another Forest, MS story

"After 16 years with his wife, Maria, Lee Keyes may lose her to deportation and be left to raise his two daughters alone.
After ICE raided the poultry processing plant in Mississippi where she worked, Maria is being held at a detention center, awaiting deportation proceedings."

https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1165602725402300417

End of Summer Sunday a.m. Thoughts

It is Sunday morning, and I know women's health issues are still on my mind....

"I heard some leaders say, FGM is a minor issue, they have many things to deal with. This is my reply "if you don't have the confidence & time 2 speak about fgm, then you are doomed! FGM is a major issue & must be priority because; It affects health, education, economy... #EndFGM"

https://mobile.twitter.com/SadearH/status/1165622940639121408

~~~~~

"They very well know but they don't care. It's not their priority. We must hold them accountable. #EndFGM"

https://mobile.twitter.com/SadearH/status/1165629064234852355

~~~~~

"Do you know that my father was approached to stop me from speaking about FGM in public? But instead accompanied me! "I will never block my daughter from speaking the truth. I almost lost her due to FGM. She is now my pride. Let her save others" My Dad
I LOVE You DAD!!! #EndFGM"

https://mobile.twitter.com/SadearH/status/1164835194257305600

She is many animals

Chancha Via Circuito - Alegria

JOY AND MUSIC

There's also PME

Professional Military Education in the form of Premenstrual Exacerbation.

https://iapmd.org/pmdd-v-pme

Is it a joke? Or is it not even a joke?

Things you wouldn't know if you didn't live with someone

Werner Herzog is at the end of the new Star Wars trailer???? And his voice is in the middle of it. Once again, I wonder if I should see Fitzcarraldo...

http://www.thecinessential.com/fitzcarraldo

Pain brings new knowledge sometimes

A simple graphic introduced me to Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder.

As a society, we have far to go...

"The social stigma can be incredibly isolating, and other women with periods don’t always relate. “It’s like ‘you should be stronger, that’s not an excuse.’”

~ S. Barrett - Ibarria

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/pmdd-gives-me-severe-depression-every-time-i-get-my-period

I am sorry they haven't been more understanding.

After years of navigating her recurring physical and emotional symptoms, Coffey said she learned to prioritize self-care and developed a greater sense of compassion for herself and her pain. Though it’s still a struggle every month, she makes an effort to be kind to her body, which gets her through the toughest days. “PMDD is not a death sentence,” Coffey said. “It’s just another way you have to live life a little bit carefully.”

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/pmdd-gives-me-severe-depression-every-time-i-get-my-period

Saturday, August 24, 2019

Sometimes this is a good song

"Take it on..."

https://genius.com/Red-hot-chili-peppers-otherside-lyrics

It is, even though...

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/anthony-kiedis-confessions-of-sir-psycho-sexy-66510/

Girlfriend in high school when he was 31...

https://maroonedinmarin.blogspot.com/2012/04/obama-campaign-event-headlined-by.html?m=1

Infamous tried to force a girl working backstage to give him oral sex incident...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/former-music-exec-says-she-was-sexually-harassed-by-2-of-the-red-hot-chili-peppers_n_571e1ac5e4b0d4d3f723ca21

Etc.

https://thegrayishcarpet.com/2016/04/20/blood-sugar-sex-dickheads/

I AM REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO IT


STOP MENSTRUAL CRAMPS - "Luna's Touch" - Relaxation & Stress Relief Music Therapy

AND WHAT I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO IS MY BODY BEING MUCH MUCH NICER TO ME.

Popular tunes of this time

Old Town Road

+

Bad Guy

the answer is get more cat food

the supply is low

A fast tortoise film

Aqui...
https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/cus3fg/love_that_his_homies_were_all_waiting_for_him_too/

Hello it's an experience Hello

Baby
https://festivalpeak.com/the-beatles-and-ineffability-baby-youre-a-rich-man-on-a-mexican-jukebox-f1e7d64c8ba2

You were young once.
https://www.eightieskids.com/10-sweet-secrets-toys-80s/

What did we forget?

~~~~~[~~~~~

Amanda Laird on Instagram: “NEW PODCAST IS UP NOW! I am talking to Clare Knox, founder of @seeherthrive all about reproductive health in the workplace. It's not just…”
https://www.instagram.com/amandalaird/?hl=en



Compromise

How compromising.

Q:  Did you enjoy researching histamine-causing foods?

A: No. I am exhausted and want to cry. Cherries are okay on this website! Cherries are not okay on that website!

Q: Would it be better to just lean towards anti-flammatory and antihistamine foods, rather than eliminate all foods with histamines?

A: Yeah, probably. I am going to get the ginger tea and warm up the rice pack in the microwave.

♡ A ♡ genius ♡

For real.

https://www.larabriden.com/histamine-intolerance-pms-pmdd/#more-6204

And a "revolutionary."

https://www.buzzsprout.com/254286/963524

Love.

https://www.instagram.com/larabriden/?hl=en


Note to my body

I am sorry for years of suffering and neglect and lets make it better.

That sounds amazing

Quote: "Taken daily, magnesium may prevent dysmenorrhea (menstrual cramps) in some people (1). It works by relaxing the smooth muscle of the uterus and by reducing the prostaglandins that cause period pain (1,8)." https://www.google.com/amp/s/helloclue.com/amp/articles/cycle-a-z/magnesium-and-the-menstrual-cycle It's like poetry.

Friday, August 23, 2019

Fine with cold cereal.

Really investigatable.

https://mix941kmxj.com/am-i-the-only-one-that-remembers-shirt-tales/

Ha.

https://www.worldwideslides.com/Shirt-Tales-3D-View-Master-Made-in-USA-p/vbp-1035.htm

There but for the grace of...

Maybe I am in a mood because I overheard a woman calling someone about another person. A screaming girl. Why would she be screaming? Is she okay now? Did she get help?

You can't underestimate the pleasure of a quiet, slightly lonely evening. Savor...

♡ ur agoraphobia

If I were more motivated, I would be experiencing life differently tonight!  It's not every Friday I get to enjoy the privilege of staying in and feeling lonely on purpose. This is not a joke; it's a strange pleasure. It's just enough to feel a pang but not enough to start dialoguing with yourself about mental illness and ways to preserve your sanity...phenomenal! Like quaffing a fine wine. Just the subtlest, noblest hint of angst...not too much...magnificent! MAYBE I WILL PERUSE MY IBOTTA APP FOR DEALS.

I don't need a babysitter...but I wonder if I should've bought a Cuisinart...

"You know you don't have to be lonely to be alone."

No, but isn't just a hint of loneliness interesting?

I saw a guy on the freeway yesterday who looked so put together in his sports car and personalized plate and chatting on his phone...lonely...

Sea sea sea

New interest

https://www.pacificmmc.org/webcam

~~~~~~

https://www.pacificmmc.org/butterfly-garden

Burning forests, humans, yikes, wow...

3+ weeks

https://amazonwatch.org/news/2019/0821-amazon-rainforest-has-been-on-fire-for-three-weeks-heres-why-youre-only-hearing-about-it-now

There are more intricate details...

https://amazonwatch.org/assets/files/2019-complicity-in-destruction-2.pdf

Soy, Beef, Leather, Timber, Sugar

Don't exactly remember most recent dreams, but...

I feel like this topic was in them somewhere / somehow.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90394509/4-essential-reads-on-brazils-vanishing-amazon-rainforest

Hello sir

We know...

https://mobile.twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1164683397060366337

And it would be nice if it was simply based on the content of their characters...

https://www.inquisitr.com/5548468/bernie-sanders-andrew-yang-trump-voters/

Also would be nice if we didn't live in a patriarchal culture that has "favored" (in a most artificial way!) one sex over another for centuries...

That magic moment...

"Lots of people care about nature."

Bf to me after we watched a baby seal get

~ captured (oh no!)
~ rescued (oh good!)

If only you can see it

this pain is opportunity for more healing.

It woke me and it was so dreadful that my heating pad wouldn't work :-(

But my best and wisest companion lent me his warm, compassionate hands...

♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡

And now this helps.

https://wellnessmama.com/24601/reusable-rice-heat-packs/

At the beach o precious life

The baby seal


The woman with a net (also one in the background with a metal barrier)


And the witnesses (after the capture, they brought down a large animal carrier)


The seal should be at a facility for rehabilitating sea life. The lifeguards told me this. Tears were flowing...Hope the seal is feeling better now...the facility was not far...

Thursday, August 22, 2019

Olive grove anedcote

There were fires everywhere in the mountains and an olive grove was spared. Even though it was spared, it was unhappy in the aftermath. Smoke got into the trees, into the underground river. They were unhealthy for a while but they recovered. They are better now. That's what I want to happen with other tragedies, too.

***&***words***

"Relationships between the classes, once mediated through the household, are now managed through an app that serves a large metro area."

~ D. Thompson
  https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/americas-hot-new-job-being-rich-persons-servant/595774/

"Yeah, you think about that
What you believe in"

~ T.  Amos

https://genius.com/Tori-amos-sweet-sangria-lyrics

Still Here

On
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2019/08/22/you-probably-know-the-amazon-is-burningheres-why-it-matters-to-you/

Earth
https://mobile.twitter.com/DrShepherd2013/status/1163799860958695424

Also again.

I have to spend a lot of time with remedies for pain-inducing organs before I can fall asleep.

Going to sleep now....

Old things return...

https://genius.com/The-beatles-all-you-need-is-love-lyrics

Climate Changes!!!

Very disappointed in the unnecessary self-indulgence but still know you are much better than a lot of others...rah rah rah...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/maryanngeorgantopoulos/morgan-freeman-sexual-harassment-allegations

He's immeasurably better than many others...so hope he can have a healthy sense of humor..

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/08/20/russian-instagram-bot-imagines-elon-musks-life-as-a-woman-a66920

Interesting immigration story

From Up North

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/irish-born-black-teenagers-are-suffering-an-identity-crisis-1.3987022

Where the Amazon is not being burned by crazed imbalanced rageaholics.

Quit indulging barbaric men

“'How much damage can one person do to the planet?' I wondered back in October about Jair Bolsonaro. Less than a year later, he’s proving the answer is a terrifying amount, so long as the rest of the world stands idly by."
  https://mobile.twitter.com/dwallacewells/status/1164432825300508672

I don't know why...

https://mobile.twitter.com/NimkoAli/status/1164142707389947904

Cool...translates E.D. into Spanish...ah, sorry, Portuguese

Aqui.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/04/12/ms-difficult-translating-emily-dickinson/

Old cereal commercials

Don't have to believe them.

X was 4 and Y was 6 and they did not agree on Trix.

It's so cheesy...Cheesiness and indulgence in a time of heightened political upset...

https://genius.com/Nancy-sinatra-bang-bang-my-baby-shot-me-down-lyrics

For reasons.

I sigh at life sometimes

Ghost of T...is it you?

A Walden beach read.

After some of your brothers have finished licking their wounds by exaggeratingly acting like insenstive megalomaniac jerks, they will be on to more healthful activities.

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Accentuate the...doshas??


"...we are ALL a combination of all three doshas in varying amounts."

https://www.yogajournal.com/lifestyle/what-your-dosha-really-says-about-you

Must
https://www.yogajournal.com/lifestyle/10-things-only-pittas-will-understand

find
https://www.yogajournal.com/lifestyle/10-things-only-kaphas-will-understand

balance!!!!
https://www.yogajournal.com/lifestyle/10-things-only-vatas-will-understand



Immigrants, farmers, etc.

"It is Trump’s brand of conservative populist xenophobia and ethnonationalism in particular that voters are turning against."

~ G. Sargent

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/20/americans-are-growing-more-accepting-immigrants-take-note-democrats/?noredirect=on

And it's here.

"Named for 15-year-old Jenny Lisette Flores, who fled El Salvador in the 1980s and was detained among adults in dangerous conditions by the Immigration and Naturalization Services"

~ S.Bixby

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-administration-launches-most-brazen-attack-on-flores-agreement-in-order-to-detain-young-migrants-longer

Not named for a judge.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-slams-nonexistent-judge-flores-for-landmark-immigration-ruling-actually-named-after-migrant-teen

It doesn't feel far off

"As early as Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security is expected to issue a sweeping new set of regulations for detaining migrant children, replacing more than two decades of protections that were put into place as a result of what happened to Alma and her fellow detainees in 1985. The new standards could allow the government to detain children and families for longer periods, revise the minimum standards of care and end the 22-year-old consent decree, known as the Flores agreement, that has protected the nation’s youngest and most vulnerable new arrivals."

~ M. Jordan

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/us/flores-migrant-children-detention.html

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

I guess a lot of the kids can't read it anyway

Her book

http://sciencenordic.com/blond-sexy-and-immigrant

is not in a public library.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/white-migrations-gender-whiteness-and-privilege-in-transnational-migration/oclc/870285662

But it is in others.

https://catrinlundstrom.com/curriculum-vitae/

Women & water

Does this ring true?

"The differences between genders were more stark when it came to Tanzanians of high status: Men kept more than half of the available water for themselves, both in abundance and scarcity. But women of high social status shared 'altruistically' when water was abundant and equally when water was scarce."

https://www.citylab.com/environment/2019/03/safe-drinking-water-women-leaders-jobs-report-
data/584386/

a time of changing ideals

Some guys are not threatened by things like this.

https://mobile.twitter.com/men_write_women 

I do live with one of them.

It was like a bad dream.

Except it was real life.

Sorry about that physical pain

Esp. if it's related to emotional toxicity and narcissism.

The Trump administration wants to make it easier to fire women who act too ‘masculine’

O limb

My right hand wants vacation I guess.

http://www.eattasteheal.com/ayurveda101/eth_bodytypes.htm

Worth trying

https://www.influenster.com/reviews/pro-cure-epsom-salt-rub-gel-6-fl-oz

Howl + scream + BREATHE + hum

Ow...right arm.

O....Oregon churches?

If conditions are favorable...might consider driving to see some....

https://churchleaders.com/news/357428-evangelical-lutheran-church-now-a-sanctuary-church-body-for-migrants.html

Ugh it's so unnecessary

I do not understand.

https://twitter.com/staceydash/status/1163625884928106497

A whole slut-shaming thread...She's also not very nice about children crying when their parents being taken away.

Does she kick puppies and kittens for fun?

Monday, August 19, 2019

Like a holy pilgrimage

It could be

http://www.ktvu.com/news/lutheran-church-declares-itself-sanctuary-denomination-california-church-offers-home-for-immigrants

a destination

You asked...

"I am the best bacteria ever. Miaow."

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eyebleach/comments/crll0a/adventure_kitty_on_a_trip_to_dreamland/

Loopy loopy sleepy sleepy

What IF

The Simulation is a Big GUT.

What kind of bacteria are you.

$#@!

"Researchers from Peking University (China), National Clinical Research Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology (China), National Institutes of Health (USA) and The Pennsylvania State University (USA) have shown that humanized mice receiving a fecal transplant from women with PCOS developed ovarian dysfunction, along with immune changes and insulin resistance."

https://www.gutmicrobiotaforhealth.com/en/the-gut-microbiota-may-be-involved-in-ovarian-dysfunction-and-insulin-resistance-in-polycystic-ovary-syndrome/

Butterflies are back

Calif. girls launch creation of 15,000 butterflies to represent migrant children in U.S. detention



Your imbalanced culture

"Between 2001 and 2012, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan killed 6,488 U.S. soldiers. In that same span of time, over 10,470 American women were murdered by their partners."

~ S. Doyle

https://www.damemagazine.com/2019/08/15/when-marriage-is-war/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

A "grim pattern"

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2019/06/domestic-violence-misogyny-incels-mass-shootings/

Sons...

Save some...

https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/05/05/what-happened-after-my-13-year-old-son-joined-the-alt-right/

He is tiresome


"Trump does not want ‘your tired and your poor’ immigrants. He wants them wealthy and white."

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/todays-buzz/fl-op-buzz-bustos-trump-immigrants-tired-poor-20190819-2wsamoylkvbcxhm2japmlqp6ty-story.html

A Forest, MS story

"An undocumented Guatemalan woman, Maura, didn’t go to work—and didn’t get arrested—because her 16-year-old son was sick with a stomachache. She stayed to care for him and later took him to the hospital, where the doctors told her they had to remove his appendix. Right around then, she remembered, her little brother called and told her he had been picked up by ICE. Her son spent the next two days in the hospital recovering from his appendectomy, which, she explained apologetically, was why she had waited until Sunday to try to locate and help her brother, whom she has not heard from since that Wednesday.

Maura hesitated even to contemplate the alternate reality where she went to work on Aug. 7. 'If they’d detained me that day, I don’t know what would have happened with my son, dying at home, him not knowing about me, me not knowing about him.'"

~ H. Graber

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/ice-raids-mississippi-chicken-plants-aftermath-children.html

A verse is back

Like the one they put on my baptismal program.

https://todaysdailyblessing.com/todays-verse-evangelical-lutheran-church-defines-itself-as-a-sanctuary-church-body/

From Leviticus & Exodus.

Good Italian News

♡Grandmas♡

https://aleteia.org/2019/08/11/photo-of-three-italian-grandmothers-with-migrant-children-in-their-laps-goes-viral-in-italy/

Tree-watering

"Told my nephew to water the peach tree"

Sorry about that thread name...adults aren't much smarter...

https://www.reddit.com/r/KidsAreFuckingStupid/comments/cs4n44/told_my_nephew_to_water_the_peach_tree/

Sunday, August 18, 2019

Trees are good

You can read about trees on a plane.

I did that before.

I feel that sentiment.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/07/stop-building-a-space-ship-to-mars-and-just-plant-some-damn-trees/

I wish I had stayed in the mountains

I felt pretty good there.
Why do I feel so ill here.
I need a better environment.
I want to stop feeling so awful.
It is bad for my health.

Please universe show me what's better.

I'd like to see less selfishness

"Mena said many of the Guatemalan immigrants in his congregation come to the U.S. because of a lack of jobs in their home country. A prolonged drought has devastated the farming industry there. More recent immigrants are also fleeing violence and extortion from narcotics traffickers, he said.

To come to a land of opportunity, the man had to leave his family behind and journey across an expanse of desert.

Later, he met his wife in the U.S. They lived near each other and began talking. They had a lot in common because she faced similar hardships in her immigration from Mexico.

He said he loves that during challenging times, she's calm. She's the type of person who gets things done and helps him remain calm as well, he said.

Now, she's behind bars."

~ A. Zhu

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ms-ice-raids-breastfeeding-mom-separated-from-4-month-old-baby/ar-AAFR8y8?ocid=spartanntp

I guess I get new containers for herbs, plants, etc.

I accidentally broke the glass top of another casserole dish...so I will go to Savers or Goodwill or whatever...and recycle the lidless ones for other purposes...

Don't even know.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM.

EM + MF on...Thursday???

Really setting yourself up for a very interesting reincarnation.

GET FAMILIAR WITH THIS.

https://www.printablediagram.com/diagrams-of-female-reproductive-system/

Kinda interesting history, actually


"There was only one time Shania decided to speak up to her mother, begging her to take her and her siblings away from their step father."

www.noteabley.com/culture/shania-twain-fb/

"She said, 'My deepest passion was music and it helped. There were moments when I thought, ‘I hate this.’ I hated going into bars and being with drunks. But I loved the music and so I survived.'”

"When her parents passed away, her two younger brothers were still quite young, only 13 and 14, and couldn’t be left on their own. Shania once again stepped up to the plate and became their primary caretaker."

AND IT ONLY GETS MORE INTERESTING FROM THERE.,

Uh...imagery

Big Al
https://becomingcliche.wordpress.com/category/nearly-wordless-wednesday-2/

& little t's
https://becomingcliche.wordpress.com/category/introverted-activist/

Good one, Heather D.

"Sorry, ma'am. You could not POSSIBLY have endometriosis. You look like something the dog dragged in."
  https://mobile.twitter.com/becomingcliche/status/1162105493193678849

I only looked briefly but thought "I should go to a zoo." TORTOISES!

https://becomingcliche.wordpress.com/2019/08/06/notes-from-the-zookeeper-im-positively-giddy/

Sometimes people think zoos are bad, but they can do good.

https://www.lazoo.org/conservation/californiacondor/

CONDORS...

How did it look?

Terrible.
https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3023163/rainy-day-new-york-film-review-woody-allens-dated-shtick

Bla bla bla.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/08/13/jeffrey-epstein-boasted-that-woody-allen-and-others-privately-stayed-friends/

Dunno about this one; guess she got paid.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jul/31/samantha-morton-no-regrets-at-working-with-woody-allen

Who knew that an "overplayed" country pop song
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/shania_twain/that_dont_impress_me_much/reviews/1/

could really get in your head somehow.
https://medium.com/@tooleeoh/updated-catchphrases-for-that-dont-impress-me-much-by-shania-twain-e012370a9bc6


"...is very unpopular"

Tell what's her exceedingly privileged brain.

https://splinternews.com/voters-have-some-legitimate-ly-sexist-concerns-about-e-1837270237

Not just one person again

Had a dream one of my mother's boyfriends was explaining his choice of satirical literature with fat-shaming female characters and arguing with me.

I said, maybe my life would be better without that.

He said, "Don't you have PCOS? That's different."

I said, "It doesn't matter..."


Not just one person

If I ever have to meet another self-absorbed, untrustworthy man who has to so desperately fit in with people who are insensitive, abusive assholes that he becomes one himself, I will say sorry to see how you turned out. Because now you remind me of boys who e-mailed me rape jokes and wanted me to be a good sport about it...like sitting by two high school boys in class: If you were in a war would you rape a woman? Hell yeah! That was a joke to them. These are vibes like you and your friends still cultivate. Plenty of women were around to indulge them. Stay away from me and stay out of my life.

Saturday, August 17, 2019

Such expectations

"woman: im in terrible pain and i need help doctor: the bad news is that u have rectovaginal endometriosis woman: oh no... doctor: but the good news is im enrolling u in a study woman: u mean like a clinical trial? doctor: [staring directly at the womans chest] oh, youll see..."
  https://mobile.twitter.com/evopsychgoogle/status/1161954467400441856

It's bad for my health to get upset about it

If we didn't live in a world of misogynists (males / females) who are still enabled and excused by other misogynists (males / females) it would be a better place.

She's an interesting candidate

I will read you! I will! I WILL!

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-08-12/loraine-lundquist-councilwoman-los-angeles-city-council

Courtesy of

https://twitter.com/AliciaSilv

Well...maybe another time?

https://ktla.com/2019/08/14/republican-john-lee-claims-victory-in-san-fernando-valley-council-race/

Important stuff...

https://www.loraineforla.com/issues

Truly there is no way to win

"This kid is well dressed, with pizza & a soft drink. There are tens of millions of kids in places like Mumbai who have none of this. It was to put her chances ahead of theirs that her parents broke the law. So I feel sorry for what this kid’s parents did to her"

https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1160547206102966272

Courtesy of

https://twitter.com/staceydash

When you saw that thing on your TV screen as a kid


Were you excited about movies or about mountains?



Friday, August 16, 2019

Grandma Joy

Plus grandson.

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750709333/brad-ryan-and-his-grandma-joy-tour-national-parks-together

That's cool.

https://www.instagram.com/grandmajoysroadtrip/

!!!!!

https://www.instagram.com/p/B0L2nBnAR_e/

Continued...

https://heavy.com/entertainment/2019/08/brad-ryan-grandma-joy/

With more pictures...

https://www.instagram.com/doctorhellbender/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_mid=XVbcDAABAAHrv9pJX2QBKplyjRg4

Milkweed.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BodLiSUAyJO/

We watched movies, too!

Two.

Grandma this week.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/21/movies/review-in-grandma-lily-tomlin-energizes-an-intergenerational-road-trip.html

Wine Country last week.

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/24/726281571/amy-poehler-leads-a-girls-trip-with-some-of-the-funniest-people-in-the-world

Just mixed 'em up.

https://www.wine-blog.org/index.php/2013/02/08/how-do-you-feel-about-children-in-tasting-rooms/

"Undone"

That's a song.

https://genius.com/Devotchka-undone-lyrics

Not to be confused with something completely different by Duran Duran.

https://genius.com/Duran-duran-come-undone-lyrics

D's!!!!

Adultish self-talk

"There will be other opportunities..."

Just got into their music on a road trip and found out where their show was last night!

https://twitter.com/devotchkamusic/status/1162164042586214401

Oh it hurts.

Nice to eat leftovers in the o'dark hours as consolation.

What is it about nature

We were on the same path. He was going further into the woods and we were leaving.

"Howdy!" he said in a friendly way as he passed us. He was rather big and tall and he seemed Native American to me.

I am really interested in people who love nature for all sorts of reasons.

Monday, August 12, 2019

I may go.

Back to church.

https://relevantmagazine.com/god/church/the-lutheran-church-has-declared-itself-a-sanctuary-church-body-for-undocumented-immigrants/

Entered legally

"Mr. Aldaoud’s experience illustrates the dire consequences that noncitizens living in the United States may face if they are deported to countries they have not seen in decades, or ever. Mr. Aldaoud was officially an Iraqi, but he was born in a refugee camp in Greece and entered the United States legally in 1979 at the age of six months."

~ A.J.Rubin & N. Bogel-Burroughs

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/us/iraq-jimmy-aldaoud-deport.html

Sunday, August 11, 2019

i brow

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/babies/why-millions-of-women-are-missing-around-the-world/news-story/4daeb47d62f084095bf4b89745502823

That one is back.

The one that says I can't believe I have to defend myself for wanting to restore balance to the planet. HAVE YOU LOOKED AT THE WORLD LATELY. My god. The number of women who seem to SUBCONSCIOUSLY want me to serve dear old Dad at the head of the table even in 2019 is ASTOUNDING.

FAST ~ FAST ~ SLOW

My odd suitcase-packing musical choices

 
Donna Summer ~ I Feel Love



Flock of Seagulls ~ I Ran



Blonde Redhead ~ Melody

Plants got really well-watered tonight

I'm only going to drink Nettle in an infusion with other things that cover the flavor. I am simply not very fond of it. I like Raspberry Leaf, Red Clover, and Oat Straw much better.

But I was okay with Comfrey...I think.

I can't get this guy out of my head

Gynecologist Dr. Puneet Bedi:

"...the day she was born, she was told she's **** because she's a woman  and then she gets pregnant in a new home where seven other people are telling her everyday they're poor, you know, you will lose everything that you have in life if you produce a girl, how do you think can you change that mindset? By showing some streetplay? Or, you know, writing a poem? Or inventing a television spot? No! It doesn't work. Now the ultimate solution is of course that people start respecting girls more than boys"

(A Lack of Women in Asia  39:33). 

4...3...2...1...

That's enough.

Peter Schilling Major Tom Coming Home 'American Bandstand' TV Show 1983

That's a good song but that's enough now.

Gonna escape from the tyranny...

https://www.ladyscience.com/essays/black-women-food-scientists-who-created-meals-for-astronauts

&

https://www.ladyscience.com/features/fascist-ideology-italian-nature-conservation

That's better.

https://www.ladyscience.com/features/priscilla-white-diabetic-pregnancy

+

https://www.ladyscience.com/features/feminist-visions-science-fiction-utopia-rokeya-hossain


Haven't checked that site in a while...

Ojala que sea una clase gratis

"How to Handle Being Around A Certain Personality 101"

Why don't you trot out that other personality.

Madness

To here

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/i-didnt-know-where-to-look-for-him-ice-ships-kids-across-the-country-to-pacific-northwest-jails/

From here

https://mobile.twitter.com/aflores?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Biles stories...

All very interesting...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/10/us/simone-biles-double-double-trnd/index.html

&

http://www.espn.com/espnw/sports/article/17252340/mental-gymnastics-meet-sports-psychology-coach-keeps-simone-biles-laurie-hernandez-sharp

&

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/simone-biles-gymnast-says-usa-gymnastics-failed-to-protect-her-from-larry-nassar-sexual-abuse-2019-08-08/

&

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/mar/16/simone-biles-therapy-times-didnt-want-set-foot-gym

shimmery & most distracting fabrics

I kind of want to take a drawing class now?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/these-plus-size-asian-women-posed-in-ball-gowns-for-a-breathtaking-viral-photo-shoot-to-make-a-statement-about-representation/ar-AAFr3LA?ocid=spartanntp

buscando agua en el universo

Stacy C. of Walnut shares an image of a heart-shaped pool.

Trinity Church...y más

1
https://www.wjtv.com/news/mississippi-church-asking-for-donations-to-feed-undocumented-workers-and-their-kids/

2
https://www.clarionledger.com/media/cinematic/video/1960584001/employees-discuss-ice-raid-at-koch-foods-in-morton-miss/

3
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-koch-foods/allegations-of-labor-abuses-dogged-mississippi-plant-years-before-immigration-raids-idUSKCN1UZ1OV

i guess

"Having a 'regular-looking face' has it's perks."

https://twitter.com/BlackLadySketch/status/1158407315634049025

Lol...that part with the lasers...Entrapment!

Double dutch lasers...

This book was so many things

Crossing the Moon by P. Alden

https://paulettealden.com/books/crossing-the-moon/

The story was painful, it was scary, it was frustrating, it was...really FUNNY in some parts!

http://bettyboochronicles.blogspot.com/2010/09/bbaw-forgotten-treasures-crossing-moon.html

REALLY good.

https://melissafirman.com/reflections-on-crossing-the-moon-a-journey-through-infertility-by-paulette-bates-alden/

Can 't believe it was published in '96 (because the story seems like it could be much more recent than that.)

https://bookishbeck.wordpress.com/2015/08/17/paulette-bates-alden-an-underrated-author/

Saturday, August 10, 2019

Another good album for traveling

The Orb ~ The Dream

The Orb ~ Beautiful Day

The Truth is...

I can't wait

Mother Nature

to be on another road trip.

Too many dizzy spells today.

I'm an indoor person today.
S O C K S.
Thank god for A/C.

Honey

This is a good one.


"Bee keeping in California begins in. October/November/December..."

 http://www.klausesbees.com/photologue.html

"The honey flow is NOT year round as many think – the honey ONLY flows IF there has been rain. One may see an abundance of flowers everywhere and think HONEY but without water there is none. RAIN = NECTAR = HONEY. It is that simple. No nectar NO HONEY."

http://www.klausesbees.com/about.html

Smelling biscuits baking

backisbettersoperhapsshouldbeswimmingbutI'mnot!

I'm baking biscuits with tapioca so they can hold the jams the nuns made.

Watched 13 seconds of this clip (On the Waterfront: "I Coulda Been A Contender") then checked to see if that background music is used in The Californians (kind of? around 3:25 in Stuart has Cancer?) and then commenced watching the first clip...good grief. It's about WEIGHT???? WTF.

I'd see "On the Waterfront" maybe?

"She looks like Eva Marie Saint
In 'On the Waterfront'
She says all she needs is therapy
All you need is love is all you need"

https://genius.com/Tori-amos-rattlesnakes-lyrics

Creepy cover...will keep one awake while driving...

https://genius.com/Tori-amos-97-bonnie-and-clyde-lyrics

Eva Marie Saint

https://csosoundsandstories.org/eva-marie-saint-recalls-her-memories-of-on-the-waterfront/

~~~~~~~

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Marie_Saint

If I were a nun...

it would be Grand Silence in 2 hours.

What's blooming and comestible

Didn't really care for the taste of nettles & rose in an infusion, but the plants liked it.

Rose could go very well with raspberry leaf and red clover...hint of mint too?

Oooo that phone

0830: internet makes you want to cry / scream / throw up - don't look at it
0845: that is such an interesting angle
0900: learning about the lives of nuns is looking better n' better ev'ry day

Friday, August 09, 2019

Some interesting pieces

"Wishes for Sons" ~ Lucille Clifton

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49489/wishes-for-sons

& curious about

Introductions

Toni Morrison on Clifton, ouija, the afterlife...

https://twitter.com/BenPurkert/status/1158814009170309120

I was thinking about some people

Ah...the nuns...they do some things...the internal work. Living a certain type of life in a certain type of female body with lots of symptoms and hardly any steady path to follow from conventional medicine will drive you towards internal work. Do this or die. It feels like that sometimes.

There are people who have become masters at manifesting external stuff in this life. For some reason I sat next to one on a plane that was malfunctioning. It had to land and it did.  And there was still chaos with communication. The whole experience was far more scary for me than it was for him and there probably are reasons for that.

This life

Sometimes you have to say yes to healing your body and go in a different direction.

Thursday, August 08, 2019

Not the "jar in Tennessee"...



Sometimes you really do see it



A wrinkle...but...

(Going for a walk down the road in spite of the fact that it is where the "man who is racist against Mexicans" lives and then returning to the hostess waving and saying "Glad you came back!")

THE WILDERNESS IS BIGGER

Alleluuu




Up




Nature note 8/8

A bunch of kids are running around a gazebo in a park and one kid is the boss trying to direct all of their activities...


Tuesday, August 06, 2019

Thank you

"Inequality, like many problems we face, is as vast as it is complex. But this article left me a little more hopeful:"

https://mobile.twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1153772529271615488


"Raj Chetty got his biggest break before his life began. His mother, Anbu, grew up in Tamil Nadu, a tropical state at the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent. Anbu showed the greatest academic potential of her five siblings, but her future was constrained by custom. Although Anbu’s father encouraged her scholarly inclinations, there were no colleges in the area, and sending his daughter away for an education would have been unseemly.

But as Anbu approached the end of high school, a minor miracle redirected her life. A local tycoon, himself the father of a bright daughter, decided to open a women’s college, housed in his elegant residence. Anbu was admitted to the inaugural class of 30 young women, learning English in the spacious courtyard under a thatched roof and traveling in the early mornings by bus to a nearby college to run chemistry experiments or dissect frogs’ hearts before the men arrived. Anbu excelled, and so began a rapid upward trajectory."

~ G. Cook

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/08/raj-chettys-american-dream/592804/


She should have been President

"People suffer from mental illness in every other country on earth; people play video games in virtually every other country on earth.

The difference is the guns."

https://mobile.twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1158429087133839360

Monday, August 05, 2019

Have to pack! (with music)



The Dixie Cups - Iko Iko - 1965

Personally, I would like to ignore the weight loss ad (100% targeted at women) if it pops up again.



The Belle Stars ~ Iko Iko

Society spends entirely too much time telling women to lose weight and not enough time talking about awesome grandmothers.

Go grandma(s)!

Buried under everything else!

Texas this month.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/grandmother-stops-mass-shooting-plot-after-man-buys-ak-47/ar-AAFnAOV

Washington last year.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/day-prior-parkland-grandmother-foiled-grandson-s-alleged-school-shooting-n848426

Earth entertainment ideas

What if you had a lot of fans and descendants who were greatly impressed by your enthusiasm for hummingbirds, flowers, bees....all of that stuff. What if that will be more important in the future because....

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190730-the-animals-that-will-survive-climate-change

HAVE U CONSIDERED THAT

Also don't think that you can just escape by dying. People come back.

Hmmm...good little restaurant review...

And picture from "Bonnie K."

https://www.yelp.com/biz/steampunk-café-and-grill-tehachapi

So this is kinda exciting

Making a nettle & rose infusion
before a little road trip.