I had so much fun reading these letters he wrote to his mother, and the universe wanted me to feel that way.
Saturday, October 31, 2026
Well, the universe wanted me to think about these people. And I mean, reeeally think about them
I felt like Hawthorne and his wife were a pair, while Emerson and Thoreau had a more complicated relationship, and there was more unexpressed longing there. Emerson was the more successful, worldly man. Thoreau was always in and out of Emerson's house and Emerson's world. Sometimes, I only thought about Thoreau being in nature. That was really great, actually. I didn't think about the other people. I was just thinking about nature. Just sublime, getting submerged in nature like that. But maybe rather lonely, too. But it felt good.
Well I'm stuck, so it's better to go read something different now!
Yesterday I got an unexpected very late birthday present, which included a pretty naturey book to write in. And then today I realized it kind of matches an outfit that I wear on Halloween sometimes.
Also got a package with some crystals in it. I considered a tea but did not purchase it. There's sooo much tea here already. And split a monster themed sub sandwich. It was called The Banshee.
I was thinking about some useful complainers. Thoreau. Christine de Pizan.
Apparently Anne Frank's diary is not the second most read book in the world. It's the second most read non-fiction book in the world. This is treating the Bible as non-fiction. Anyways, that's what an old article said so, by now, who knows if it's true or not?
I suppose they felt he was quite a Liberating Force for them.
"The one-and-only @margaret_cho"
@margaret_cho
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfIByyDKyhg/?dlrf=MTJnajhucXgwN2k5dQ==
This is the man from Michigan explaining about the problem with ICE.
"abdulelsayed said it perfectly"
etchaskej
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfJPxDCCCDi/?vrfl=ZWZzcmZwcDEzcDhv
It's also nice to think that Show Business might be evolving in a better direction soon...
"They only know how to play by the rules"
fromayoungmatriarch
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfJmu7uRBLI/?cplk=MWczZGE2c2NwbWdpOQ==
I decided I felt like watching this and then my cat got in my face.
"AUDRE LORDE EXPOSED TRADWIVES 40 YEARS AGO"
nimonationN
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ybrgkLlTvZg&si=QsTmFjzydsbgaMPG
Cat's just here to make me think about her guard our yard status again.
It'd be kind of funny if people started having Hawthorneween parties
"Try Hawthorne for Halloween, . . . but Leave the Light on" | National Endowment for the Humanities
https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2016/fall/feature/try-hawthorne-halloween-leave-the-light
And this goes for the other dicey people, too!
ICE agents better not be d**s to black cats on Halloween. BAD KARMA.
They will be haunted.
I want to read their memoirs.
If you're not hunting down a former disgruntled student who so totally jumped at the chance to get a desk job working for ICE...
I think it's gonna suck if some kid's parent gets taken on Halloween.
ICE probably doesn't care about my opinion, but...
A humorous piece about some admittedly NOT SO BAD folks.
Other people's kids might like it. "Degrees of separation between me and an AVERAGE, NOT SO BAD Nazi."
But of course they probably were like that.
I really hope that the people who benefited from their proximity to access to the nicer of the Nazis weren't all like, "Gee, why do they have to complain about the Nazis all the time? Why can't they just lighten up? What killjoys!"
I got to say, stuff like this reminds me that our show business president reminds me that show business is still racist.
"'Mountain of evidence’: ICE agents discriminated against Latinos, judge says"
Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-10-29/federal-judge-blocks-racial-profiling-stops
I guess this is a former cheerleader joke. Better than another kind of roll call, I guess.
I should ask my mother if she gets it.
"We are all bonded"
atsukocomedy
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbGwjfTMgHT/?psln=MXZzN3VpejN6d2g4aQ==
This is very refined.
"Poem 'Wild Roses' by Linda Kendrick"| Society of Classical Poets
https://www.classicalpoets.org/wild-roses-by-linda-kendrick/
I'll dedicate it to the wild rambling roses of humanity.
You should see what I don't post. It's messy. Some of it's very fun. Maybe I'll put it out there one day.
I think they could be! I think that would be very natural.
Can some people be a little bit more like a bunch of wild rambling roses sometimes?
The sky is a certain shade of pink for a very short amount of time.
Other people's babies are crying out there. They must have their screen doors or windows open.
Maturing women is also topic that's been on my mind.
Just remembering about how an old boyfriend's younger sister tried to talk to me via one of our modern online tools that we didn't used to have, and I suppose I seemed to avoid having a conversation because I couldn't really bring myself to reply to her, but recently I was thinking that if she wants to in the future, maybe we will have a conversation someday.
This is true.
A woman who writes listens to a song written by a man and says, but now I am more like the man who wrote the song than the woman the song was written about.
Friday, October 30, 2026
🌿 nay-cher is great 🌿
Today I had an excursion and got to see a bunch of old-fashioned planes flying in the sky. No good pictures of the planes, only the clouds.
I got some good advice and thought about buying a glucose monitor to make adjustments to my eating habits, and I read part of chapter called "The Cult" in The Manicurist's Daughter as I waited for a dinner that turned out to be very delicious. The author was talking about how awkward she felt when she went to college and told people at Harvard what her father did for a living.
One of the songs playing in the restaurant reminded me of a friend from college who liked to make fun of it when we were younger.
I missed her sense of humor. I thought maybe I could send her a card, even though we quarreled earlier this year about her not wanting to think about ICE raids, and she shut me down, I felt.
Another song reminded me of a ShopRite in Seattle I used to go to during my senior year of college.
I remember when I bought a bottle of ranch dressing and took it back to my shared studio apartment. I would run my finger around the inside of the bottle and lick off the dressing. I have never done that before or since. I ate a lot of beans and tortillas with mozzarella string cheese. When my mom visited me and I ate prawns in a spicy tomato sauce at a Mexican restaurant in Seattle, the meal felt very special and almost decadent to me. I was walking everywhere and I didn't have a lot of money to spend. But I probably wasn't getting enough fat in my diet. So that explains the strange compulsion to consume ranch dressing straight from the bottle. As I was living in a body that was thinner and more easily chilled back then.
It's nice to feel like some things are changing for the better and there are moments of clarity sometimes!
What's going on when people find out they can create very good situations or accidentally help with any problems by allowing the universe to manifest more beautiful possibilities out of self-respect and curiosity?
"Apocalypse" - Cigarettes After Sex
Violence against women is a serious problem in this Patriarchal Society.
And if you choose to be better friends with men and women who have internalized misogyny issues, and their survival strategy is to disrespect girls and women and put insecure men on pedestals in order to validate their own egos at the expense of soooo many women and girls, and that's what you feel you need to make yourself feel better, I think that's actually a serious problem, too.
Admit there's some serious problems, and then the serious problems will start to get better.
"A simple question for men"
remakingmanhood
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeAliigB3sW/?obrf=NHQxODhrcWN1d3Rp
Cults have done a lot of damage to human beings.
Cults appeal to people on any number of levels. They are often Patriarchal. It's important to realize that one cannot truly colonize daughters and wives and mothers and other interesting kinds of women simply because your Society's Patriarchal Cult gave you many messages that in order to get out on top and not be a part of the other subjugated classes, that was what was necessary. How much has the Empire seeped into your worldview?
Trump rallies are just one example of a recent cult phenomenon, but there certainly are others. And I feel kind of bad for some of the cult leaders because I think they mean to do good things, and it might be hard for them to get real help sometimes They have so many "yes men" around them. They either need to actively seek out help, or find more people who will give them blunt feedback, or pray to God. Or perhaps all three?
Okay, my body is telling me I need to just rest and be quiet right now.
I have a stomachache. I really need to just rest and be quiet.
Same as the students.
Maybe all the people who got kidnapped on the streets I drove by this week only got put in the very best facilities.
That did it. 👑🧶👀
I just picked up the wrapper of the yarn for my crochet project, and for the first time, I noticed that it says King Cole on it.
I feel like I got to look up some Derry Girls Sister Michael clips.
I wonder if I was a rich man in another life. I wonder if I was a king. What if I was a king???
I am. I am really grateful to the entertainment industry. It has enriched my life immeasurably.
"Freaks (1932) - One of Us! Scene (6/9)" | Movieclip
I mean, yes it's true that nobody is kidnapping me at the moment, so maybe I should just change 🌧️.
Sure, some of your former students have probably been kidnapped and put into detention centers. But you don't even hang out with them anymore. So what's the big deal, right?
There's lots of rain falling outside. Just think about water. Don't think about the kidnappers. Think about the cool, nice, refreshing water droplets.
Be charitable! 😱
I just wish some of the middle-class successful people would occasionally take pity on me in my predicament. 🙀
Still seems like I'm supposed to not forget...
Otto Frank was a really great girl dad, and he was rich.
Jesus, take the wheel.
Of course a lot of the rich people don't have to worry about the people who are getting affected by ICE raids, but what about all the middle class people?
Cooler than that?
I can't believe I am worrying about the ICE raids and concentration camps when all the successful people are clearly...
He shocked himself.
"Glad I checked this out!"
dianasullivan6059
https://www.threads.com/share/BAXkT56ZXW/
Plenary authority.
Hope this is as hard to read as the Patriarchy makes life feel for some people.
This how to not be skinny workout is gonna be so popular in the future: Lat pull 40lb x 20, 50lbs x20, Bicycle kicks x20, Curls 10lb x15, Glute bridges 12lbs x15, X3; TRX Squats 15, Cable Row 50lbs x15, Goddess x15, Hammer Curls 5lb x15, X3; Supine Leg Curls Big Ball x15, Pull Overs w/crunch 8lbs x15, X3.
I swear I feel so creeped out right now.
I'm going to watch the 1980s Momo. I just remembered I was supposed to finish watching it.
To turn on the light because it's still dark here...
I feel suddenly really, really not alone and it's kind of freaking me out. But I'm not like bothered by anything beloved or anything. I'm just freaked out because I don't know; it's hard. I feel weird. I have to calm down a little bit to deal with whatever's trying to work with me.
I think about Anne Frank lately, and I'm not the only one.
And sometimes I like to listen to music from the 1940s. But this is not from that time...
"Moondog — Bird's Lament [Extended]"
Geytkeypur
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2DtPl-0uXnk&si=AOlsMZnMkjvo3MBR
"Moondog – Bird’s Lament: A musical feast in 100 seconds | Ramble With(out) A Cause"
I feel like listening to it right now.
I'll bet there's something musical that could help.
I'll bet there's something you could listen to that could help you get in touch with your inner divine feminine aspect, which you neglected in the past. But from now on, things are going to be different and much better!
Don't know what to do? What about praying?
"Praying for every child and adult in detention camps in this country"
tiscac31
People need to stop being so manipulated by the unwell Patriarchy.
"How the US repatriated citizens of Mexican descent during the Great Depression. And they're still doing it now."
peachybrets
See, this is what a good Bible quote is for.
Proverbs 31:8
"ICE are SS ~ This is about Eugenics"
jenna_leia.skywalker
I also met a lot of cat lovers at the reading yesterday. 🐈⬛
We talked about how wrong it is that black cats are the least adopted and most persecuted on Halloween.
Thursday, October 29, 2026
What are we doing? What's going on?
"I was so focused on defending the people in power that I wasn't listening to the people living with the consequences."
mkitty
I used to live in Ypsilanti. I liked their library a lot, too. I could walk to it, before I had a car.
"We are a nation where a mother and son must walk around with papers to prove their citizenship"
kristenclarke
Surely, more will be shared before one of us dies.
"So this is why the father-in-law character showed up at the reading to say he had a problem compromising in his relationships in his life and he passed that problem on to his son and he wanted to be helpful now and that I should realize that that's where his son got it from and to be patient."
Feeling a feminine human social justice oriented planet vibe now.
"Worker rights pioneer Dolores Huerta wanted others to feel seen"
Succumbed to the call of another book this evening, for $4.
"On Trails: An Exploration by Robert Moor" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/lv/book/show/27276431-on-trails
What a useful thread about the lifelong condition: a female body in a certain kind of culture in a certain era...
"Why do millennials and gen Xers have such problematic relationships with their bodies?"
margaretgracemyers
Has an arrangement of circumstances in your life ever made you think that it would cost some people so little to act as if they cared a little more.
"'Mountain of evidence’: ICE agents discriminated against Latinos, judge says"
Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-10-29/federal-judge-blocks-racial-profiling-stops
Silly things happen in silly times.
Maybe it's just best to think that we are living through a very silly time.
I am about to go to a reading. It's like in a museum for fruit packers. A girl in a Joy Division t-shirt let me into the restroom.
Who's to say...
If things aren't going as well as they could be, I don't think it's really my fault. Maybe other people have some friends...
Go out in nature. Good idea. I will.
Just because you have surrounded yourself with people who think that you're Superior to Jesus doesn't mean...
My team just thought of a good thing to remind you of.
Someone in a concentration camp right now might be a part of your family someday.
I'm just much more used to Society babysitting me.
I know, and the people who voted for the Terrible Toddler in charge are on board with that.
No? You don't want to help them at all?
"We're really not planning on babysitting any of the traumatized children after they get out of the concentration camps."
Well it's not because it was better for the girl children, so I think it was more of a validation from men in a Patriarchal Society thing.
Why did Grandpa act like he wanted you to turn out to be like some kind of shallow business Barbie?
At least some men are asking those tough questions.
Why have I met zero men who've been raped because they went to a fraternity party and so many women who were not as fortunate?
I like their voices.
"They're reading 1984"
Geoffrey Asmus
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTf7hkGc6/
"I told y'all..."
Michael_Foote
I get to drive by a library I like a lot very soon.
It would be nicer if more of the children in the community didn't have to hide inside instead of participating in fun activities like going to the library with their parents.
There's lots of old books in the library, books that would have already gotten weeded out in other libraries. It's fun to look at a really old library book. It makes you feel like you're touching such an artifact of history.
"#parati #viral"
Gali
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPLD6bwAS/
"ICE agents in New Jersey"
nbcnews
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTf7MqcGq/
"ran em out ✌🏻"
mexicanaries333
I saw some good things!
Feeling extra impressed by the "Dads who don't want to be machista" coalitions that are forming.
How do you do?
"I miss my mom"
pobreciiita
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dec0iyWSmXk/?rpxt=bzNlMHZoaTY5MnNo
"Ok but also"
savannah_raisor
https://www.instagram.com/reel/De7VMEbC7Am/?dlrf=emp1bTZkYXo5anFk
"As Halloween approaches..."
birdershewrote
https://www.instagram.com/reel/De11SrfitwT/?obrf=MXFyem5kN3lqcThrYg==
"Not everyone's cup of tea"
crae_z
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfCrB24yP2U/?vrfl=MXE1bXNpeGR5aWZtMA==
"We don't know"
valandnews
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DezutuLSyJS/?rpxt=MXAyM2prN3FuamQzcQ==
Ha-ha, I was just remembering this one time...
A girl brought in a paper and it was describing in detail things about orgasms. I think it was for some sort of psychology or human sexuality class, and she read it out loud because that's what we would have the students do. They would read the papers out loud, and we both were kind of giggling a little, but she was pretty proud of her paper. She didn't need all that much help. She just wanted to get the APA style checked. I think it was probably for a psychology class.
Siouxsie and The Banshees -- "Kiss Them For Me"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ij6mFkZU8T4&si=_t83qn7PbmM0T9Qi
Time to go clean the kitchen. I fatigued some muscles and I'm going to do a meditation.
On the bright side, somebody could be meeting a great love of theirs right now.
Johnny & Jones - "Westerbork Serenade (1944)"
Of course, I'm sure everyone's very glad that I haven't been kidnapped and locked away for no good reason.
But I think other people that I worked with over the years deserve that same courtesy. They often shared interesting stories and they usually were the ones who made me feel the most appreciated and seemed the most grateful to get some help with learning to write in English and I guess I can't forget right now.
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