Lit Lover

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Is it time

for a snack?

https://www.eatthis.com/foods-that-make-you-happy/

When a studio apartment was possible

"While teachers in Oakland’s school district have seen stagnating annual wages — an average of $46,500 for the past five years — the cost of living in the city is now double the national average. An average one-bedroom apartment in Oakland rents for $2,680 a month, according to Zillow — an 86 percent increase from what it was less than 10 years ago.

'Just 10 years ago, a teacher could find a studio apartment in Oakland and be able to make ends meet, but that’s not a reality anymore,' said Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Education Association, the educators union; Brown has been a middle school teacher in Oakland for more than 20 years. 'The irony is that Oakland and the Bay Area have a booming tech industry, so it should reflect in having great public schools here that are well-funded.'”

~ S. Ghaffary

https://www.recode.net/2019/2/19/18232183/oakland-california-teachers-strike-economic-inequality-public-school-charter-prop13

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

And I really do appreciate them

and vibe with these helpful and encouraging messages...

http://www.frugalwoods.com/2015/08/10/strategic-luxury-the-difference-between-frugality-and-miserliness/

But wonder if it is mere coincidence that most of these bloggers had the salaries of software developers or engineers, plus help from well-off parents...any other possibilities?

https://www.reddit.com/r/holdmycosmo/comments/as7pa8/hmc_ill_show_you_how_to_keep_lipstick_intact/

Anyway.

Lunch hour reading :-)

"Women in industries overlooked by our narrow, sexist definition of 'working class' are challenging this country to expand its vision of labor beyond white men with tool belts, and make good on the promises of democracy."

~ S. Smarsh

https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/the-uprising-of-women-in-red-states-is-just-beginning.html

*****

“'We’re selling leggings, sure, but we’re also teaching our customers how to be feminist,' Rachel explains to me in her store’s break room, as she leans over to toss a stray piece of litter into the garbage. Above a work chart and an explanation of benefits hangs a small sign: ‘We will fit you, you don’t have to fit us.’"

~ C. Wang

https://www.refinery29.com/amp/en-us/2019/02/223799/retail-renaissance-workers-millennial

The workers

The roads

https://mobile.twitter.com/Caltrans8/status/1097217863360761857

& of course

https://mobile.twitter.com/Caltrans8/status/1096776496184606721

the water

Monday, February 18, 2019

I just read this little bit

Like 4 or 5 paragraphs.

https://www.ted.com/talks/charlie_todd_the_shared_experience_of_absurdity/transcript?language=en

Now I am considering listening to it all to compliment a bout of tidying.

Tech diet was nice

Wow, I hope that kid turns out okay...

I wonder what will happen the next time I recommend some music to a bored and lonely saleperson...

Truly, anything is possible...

Finished / began

Finished the show that references Emily...

https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/2/16/18223862/netflix-russian-doll-emily-of-new-moon

New...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/24/the-cloying-fantasia-of-the-marvelous-mrs-maisel

♡ Earth

Volcanic arm chair next to a ♡ shape

Eye in the sky...

Stayed by a museum...it was closed for an event.

Saturday, February 16, 2019

Fun word ;-)

"Bortle"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bortle_scale

Thursday, February 14, 2019

Prayers...we might need some

This is the way we came, but not going back there anytime soon.

https://ktla.com/2019/02/14/residents-in-areas-of-san-jacinto-mountains-asked-to-shelter-in-place-because-of-deteriorating-road-conditions/

Library books from childhood

These two

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/902.The_Westing_Game
+
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36638.The_Wolves_of_Willoughby_Chase

popped into my head for some reason...

Westing Game, The
Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The

♡ u

Herbal tea.
Help the body.
Pain (Please heal)
Rain (Please)
Compassion.

y not ♡ urself

Be a trustworthy sibling
Be as healthy as possible
Be a good experience
Be the calm

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Misty fun

I was able to soak in a hot tub and look at snow during a very light drizzle of rain...called it a "fog-tub."

I guess it is

I guess the idealistic personality is still sad.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47651/after-great-pain-a-formal-feeling-comes-372

My tools

A heating pad

Sunflower seeds

2 herbal teas:
Rosehip & cherry
Rooibos & cinnamon

Ginger pieces for the teas

Let's look at

NAY
https://mobile.twitter.com/NovaNaturalist/status/1095854535527055365

TUR
https://mobile.twitter.com/MattBergPhD/status/1095059261317677056

stuf
https://mobile.twitter.com/OntarioBioblitz/status/1095031020938821633

;-)
https://mobile.twitter.com/inaturalist

That is...

really

https://mobile.twitter.com/AOC/status/1095763596062150656

something

https://mobile.twitter.com/DanRiffle/status/1095803411411406848

Pull~quotable

"I finally realized that we were trying to change very strong patterns of behavior and belief, and that changes would take more than my lifetime to accomplish."

~ B. Sandler (to B. Griggs?)

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/01/08/us/bernice-sandler-title-ix-dies/index.html?

Simple and attainable

Some lifetimes provide children with the great gift of "these adults are showing me what not to do when I grow up."

Being an enabler of abusive behavior is not going to age well, no matter how many times they get on another "re-tweet this good cause" kick.

People are worthy of more respect and fairer treatment. People are a part of the environment, too. Give the gift of being in touch with your own humanity.

Would like

soundtrack to Russian Doll

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Things to consider...

If health is ever hardier...

4
http://www.witchwandering.com/blog/2017/5/27/day-21-deep-creek-hot-springs-damnit

tha

http://the-toast.net/2015/06/09/hiking-lowest-highest-trail/

Soul

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

2 + 1 = breakfast

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/science/emily-dickinson-lost-gardens.html

DM ~ Halo

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49241/yours-mine

Note to s

Would this type of book interest you

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12675767-culinary-reactions

peeling cupboard

song-crusted poem sandwich

t,a,

pancake/ohio

https://books.google.com/books?id=vdlu9NelkeEC&pg=PA46&lpg=PA46&dq=your+card+read+poem+mechanic&source=bl&ots=Fvoia07hsS&sig=ACfU3U1q40ENrYYVzrOtDDxuZRHaZouF6g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiFkYru0bbgAhXR0J8KHZo6AHYQ6AEwA3oECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=your%20card%20read%20poem%20mechanic&f=false

d,w,

godless

mmmMful

A comforter a chapstick an unexciting life how outrageously decadent

The long bubbly bathsoak era

And then I ask myself why do some of these grown-ups not remember being one of the girls

How did I miss???

Ana Tijoux + Invincible

https://genius.com/Ana-tijoux-sube-feat-invincible-lyrics

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128847372

Monday, February 11, 2019

Kids...

Someday, not too far off, someone born the same year as you is gonna be deemed a "world leader" and that's gonna be super frickin' weird...

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/04/for-ana-tijoux-hip-hop-is-home/

A. Tijoux / Breaking Bad

How to celebrate

Make a mug cupcake?

https://www.inverse.com/article/11357-it-s-the-first-ever-women-in-science-day

Chemistry

https://cen.acs.org/careers/women-in-science/Time-celebrate-women-science/97/i6

I went to the library...

******

Gosh why do I keep cooking even though I am not really hungry I had a big salad and some chicken and rice for dinner nevertheless I boiled spaghetti for the roasted tomatoes, simmered a blueberry-honey compote, and am going to make crepes with tapioca flour. It's all going in the fridge for later.

https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/chemistry-of-cooking

I feel strange...

Crows

caw

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/what-the-crow-knows/580726/

On the other hand

The stranger who wanted me to pray for her to Jesus, the "right one," also added "not Buddha!"

And that was strange because I felt a little bit like I had been sitting in a Buddha pose.

I almost got the urge to meditate right there, except the cold and growling in my stomach gave me the impetus to leave.

Actually what really did it was a little drone...

Little drone...BIG DISTURBANCE.

Wouldn't it be cool if the world's shady uncles could cultivate the Zen mode instead of aging into the brother you hope no one's nieces ever date.

Books & strangers

Today I decided to contribute some of my old books to a little free library. It was mostly filled with old romances in paperback, and I wondered what effect my contributions might have. Later, as I sat on my blanket in a park, an older woman called out to me that I had the perfect spot and asked if I had been praying. I said I was not, but I could. She said, "Pray for me!" And she added, "to Jesus! Don't pray to the wrong one!" I thought about how I had been curious about what effect my old books might have on someone and remembered that one of them was A God Who Looks Like Me and wondered if the universe had delivered some kind of answer.

It's nice to see this getting respect because...

when I was young, (high school, college, early 20s) a lot of male peers would make fun of you for being interested in this sort of thing.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/womens-history-in-science-hidden-footnotes/582472/

And sadly, sometimes female peers ("I'm not a feminist, but...") would just go right along with them in order to be cool, like "one of the guys."

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/07/how-women-are-harassed-out-of-science/492521/

Were they threatened?

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/ursula-vils-nasa/516468/

Would it really have been so hard for them to...

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/the-women-computers-who-measured-the-stars/509231/

Maybe will check on this again...

https://twitter.com/ladyxscience?lang=en

C is for cat-5 cuteness

CatNess

https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/api0uy/cat_five/

oldoldoldoldoldoldold

"The Hollow Pie"

https://books.google.com/books?id=XJ5MoeErOvIC&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=the+hollow+pie&source=bl&ots=leQpZHVHUs&sig=ACfU3U1l-hy7vuD0G91MwyS-QQPPLg6Hsg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj6wPH6m7PgAhVfIDQIHfmjDAMQ6AEwAXoECAIQAQ#v=onepage&q=the%20hollow%20pie&f=false

Sunday, February 10, 2019

Yay

Where would we be without books

http://awfullibrarybooks.net/a-bedtime-story-with-a-nice-side-of-guilt/

Seattle Snow

Gasworks

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47189161

Entertainment 2nite ;-)

Modified

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019772-spiced-chickpea-stew-with-coconut-and-turmeric

Now it's blue! Now it's violet! Now it's bright red!

Kinda exciting, really.

https://articles.mercola.com/teas/butterfly-pea-tea.aspx

Might try it with

https://www.medicaldaily.com/miracle-tree-6-health-benefits-willow-bark-get-you-chomping-bit-330070

Plus lemon and ginger.

Ow

It's GINGER TEA time.

https://www.drhartman.ca/blog/five-faces-of-pcos/

Probably better to save the caffeinated stuff for the more forgiving part of the cycle.

Do what you gotta do

Roasting tomatoes in the oven for hours to warm up the apartment

Empirically

In this corner:
the "road warrior adjunct"
https://www.jessestommel.com/how-to-ungrade/

Elsewhere on the globe:
"I’ve had guy friends telling me to just..."
https://www.mypcoskitchen.com/pcos-story/

Really starting to get the whole cucumber sandwich thing

I had some left over cucumber slices... And some lemon butter... & Ezekial toast... Open faced with garlic salt Rainy weather is ideal for this sort of thing THERE IS SO MUCH TEA TO DRINK I'm going to try it with a paratha AND THEN THE ORANGE SLICES

Cinematic

ROMA trailer

“I want to believe that in the future, they will continue to include more and more people like me,' she says, 'so that someone else can look at it and say, ‘Hey, I look like her.’”
~ Yalitza Aparicio, Carolina Miranda

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-yalitza-aparicio-roma-oscars-20190128-story.html

"A paper from 2012 showed that almost one quarter of domestic workers in the country lived in poverty, only 12% had medical insurance provided by their employer, and 7% had a pension plan."

https://culturacolectiva.com/history/alfonso-cuaron-roma-inspired-us-domestic-workers-new-bill-of-rights

"CYMI: In the month of February, @Netflix will make a donation to NDWA for every ticket purchased to see @ROMACuaron in theaters."

https://twitter.com/domesticworkers/status/1093985327243350016

Get happy happy happy

real quick 3 good things:

Russian Doll!
https://mobile.twitter.com/ava/status/1094490766322196481

Food!
https://mobile.twitter.com/ava/status/1094591378711969795

Poetry!
https://mobile.twitter.com/ava/status/1094596545305956353

EVs are for...???

A guy behind me was driving one yesterday. It occurs to me that is not always, but is usually, the case. I am not sure if I have ever noticed one being driven by a woman yet IRL.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/12/heres-how-much-money-american-women-earn-at-every-age.html

Hah, this warms my toes

COLD COMFORT FARM
(Kate Beckinsale & Stephen Fry)

I wonder if ppl can watch YouTube in Andean hotel rooms nowadays...

Stuck and going to bed.

I can't watch the Russian Doll show.

Too cold.

Does our heat work?

Sometimes.

Nevermind. I will just crawl under the comforter. I don't want cold air blowing on me.

I love an electric heating pad.

It's warmer than a hotel room in the Andes.

Amazing film

Just watched the 2nd half.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/little-dieter-needs-to-fly-1998

If I ever go back to Arlington cemetary, I will try to find his grave.

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/ddengler.htm

Saturday, February 09, 2019

Hello, sir

You know what?

"Public service within the military-industrial complex is still widely gendered and conceived of as masculine, good, and — most important — valuable. By contrast, public service outside of the military (in schools, in public health, in legal defense, in nonprofits) is conceived of as feminine, and less valuable. A staggering 77% of public school teachers are women, and women make up 73% of nonprofit workers. When that work is figured as less essential to a functioning society, “investing” in it collectively (through direct government funding, in the form of tax dollars, or indirect funding, in the form of loan forgiveness) is deprioritized or rejected altogether. And that idea extends all the way to the Department of Education — the entity charged with facilitating the disbursement and payment of student loans — which has moved to roll back myriad protections for student borrowers and eliminate PSLF entirely."

~ A. H. Peterson

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/student-debt-college-public-service-loan-forgiveness

This is just one part of why you and a whole lot of the people you know would have unconsciously treated me better if I had been born in a male body.

And now more entertainment...

TIME TO CLEAN

https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/here-be-monsters/hbm111-waiting-for-earth

It must be extra horrid to have PCOS if you're Mormon.

TBH this one may be a little bit much.

It's got a nausea factor.

Well, time to revisit the fates of fertility-challenged women in 3rd world countries.

https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/88/12/10-011210/en/

Self-entertainment

This song was on the radio.

https://genius.com/John-prine-the-lonesome-friends-of-science-lyrics

Ah...okay.

https://www.livefromhere.org

I made myself an assortment of "tea" sandwiches with what I had on hand:

Cucumber
Watercress
Radish
Anchovy
Butter
Grated lemon

And they were fine.
The best was probably the boiled egg.

Maybe I was just in the mood for a boiled egg.

I salute thee!

IMPRESSIVELY COLD

SKIES

It's 2019 and libraries are great

Kids, the waiting lists for Becoming and Winners Take All are something to behold.

In the meantime, happy to indulge in a little ANTICIPATORY READING.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tabithagoldstaub/2019/02/08/a-wake-up-call-to-ai-companies-hot-off-the-winners-take-all-book-tour-with-anand-giridharadas/

"It just so happened that when I was there, the topic was how to disrupt writing. One of the questions that the VC proposed, was ‘can we use AI to replace all the writers?’ and I was there in the room. In the chapter, I basically described the discussion in which two VCs and a room full of brilliant AI geeks had a discussion about how we could get rid of all the writers. There were a couple of Europeans in the room, and they were the only people who were like, 'what about arts and culture? Aren’t their books that couldn’t be written by AI?' It was crazy to see. Everybody else was like 'no, no, it’s fine. We can disrupt that.' I watching this room of men decide that they would 'get rid of all the writers' and two 'money men', from very serious VC firms, who could put the money behind those ideas. I remember the last line of the chapter was ‘there was one woman in the room and she never spoke’."

~ A. Giridharadas

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tabithagoldstaub/2019/02/08/a-wake-up-call-to-ai-companies-hot-off-the-winners-take-all-book-tour-with-anand-giridharadas/

Good in the universe

Brother: I wanted to show you the Time cover of the year because I knew you would be moved by it.

http://time.com/5521722/time-christine-blasey-ford-cover-of-the-year/

Thanks, brother.

Friday, February 08, 2019

can't stop thinking about life...a lecture...

those 3 little serving plates of charcuterie from the snack table...

https://reluctantentertainer.com/epic-charcuterie-board/

might make some radishes

https://houseandhome.com/recipe/butter-tossed-radishes-fresh-zaatar-recipe/

(they were good)

stop it's getting too cold

http://georgefitzgerald.blogspot.com/2014/03/rip-clare-booth-luce-march-10-1905-oct.html

https://allthingsliberty.com/2018/09/the-glorious-career-and-unfortunate-death-of-john-laurens/

https://www.nps.gov/chpi/learn/historyculture/henry-laurens.htm

https://www.ccpl.org/charleston-time-machine/buried-alive-early-charleston

http://kristinberkey-abbott.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-sunday-walk-to-african-american.html

So punny

"Fast and Luce"

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1988/03/clare-boothe-luce-profile

Saw this woman's grave at an abbey back East.

I SEE

https://www.mlive.com//news/2019/02/freezing-rain-creates-ghost-apples-in-west-michigan.html

;+%

Mini-fridge exudes wit, optimism, charm, mental health, and...WOW!

"According to data from the U.S. Department of Education, only about 300 borrowers have received public service loan forgiveness based on more than 73,600 processed applications. That’s less than 0.5%."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2019/01/30/how-to-never-get-rejected-for-student-loan-forgiveness/

A little trail history

Notice about the rescue Mrs. Loyette L. Will from Apr. 24, 1958:

"A 15-year-old housewife and mother..."

https://twitter.com/SierraMadreSAR/status/1004825658441138176

Husband - 19.

https://newspaperarchive.com/star-news-apr-21-1958-p-28/

They had a teenage wedding?

Guess that's not super old.

Thursday, February 07, 2019

I can haz relaxing book???

Was just looking for a good yarn...

http://blogs.mycentraljersey.com/institches/2013/09/04/book-review-the-yarn-whisperer-by-clara-parkes/

Hah!

"I was raised to agree, to support, and to stand out as little as possible. You may know my mother from such hits as, 'What should I order?' and 'Am I cold? Do I need a sweater?' Meanwhile, my father was happily tucked in the Rochester Philharmonic as second-chair oboe for more than thirty years, preferring to be eaten alive by wolves than to be singled out for a standing ovation."

(The Yarn Whisperer ~ Clara Parkes ~ pg. 18)

Heaven...

Here

Noticias de Mariposas

from

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/428779-native-americans-protest-demolition-of-texas-butterfly-habitat

Texas

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/national-butterfly-center-texas-border-wall_us_5c59127ae4b09293b207949c

Bees picnic

Not 100% of the time, but far too often

Money seems to erode moral character.

https://www.recode.net/2018/10/18/17998468/peter-thiel-club-for-growth-republican-donation

Whilst enabling cowardice and white supremacy.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/trump-embraces-white-supremacy/579745/

It is sickening.

As well as being necessary

Articles such as this one about the "MeToo" movement are good....

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/opinion/kavanaugh-misogyny-epistemic-worlds.html

It only fails to mention how the women who treat men as more important than everyone else also contribute to the world being more unsafe.

In the home

Some people have a way of reminding you that, like charity, it is where abusiveness, shallowness, misogyny, and cruelty begins.

Wednesday, February 06, 2019

Vedi vini vici

Wieder Wiener Frühstück!

Celestial Soda Pop

Gluten Morgan

https://curiosity.com/topics/benjamin-franklins-daily-schedule-for-productivity-was-rigorous-curiosity/

Peter von der Kaffeestube

https://www.aaepa.com/2015/01/benjamin-franklins-words-wisdom-life-death/

Tuesday, February 05, 2019

WtfingF

Gender sound
https://www.violinist.com/discussion/archive/7624/

Must attend to organ messages (again)
https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20000620/fish-oil-b-12-period-relief

Kinesthandwich

Top

Violet

Middle

The 2nd Law: Isolated System

Bottom

Billy Elliot

PICNIC!!!!

Altogether mystifying

This sort of pattern:

One personality : so lonely, deeply lonely Another personality: heh, my powers are increasing, all the better to control and push ppl around!

Muscleme raised brow

Sounds like a really interesting evening at a place called "The Players Club."

*****

"...we have a broken country atop which a former Democratic Manhattan private club liberal now sits."

https://mobile.twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1092965537909334022

Huh!

Nine. Days.

NINE DAYS

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/26/talking-to-my-daughter-about-the-economy-by-yanis-varoufakis-review

DEDICATED TO the grit in the bathroom faucet

Ah ha ha ha

This old NARS lip balm tab I found .

That product was mentioned in this book!

I just could not stop hearing an old song over and over.

"Meritocracy"

https://www.sfchronicle.com/style/article/In-new-book-Emily-Chang-takes-a-stand-against-12553050.php

So much to read, right...

Cutest dogs

Good to see this

https://mobile.twitter.com/jsavite/status/1091720661976764416

Diluvial dilemmas

When you wish to walk in the woods but the wash is overflowing with water and the sunset is coming on.

H...........

Humorous

https://boingboing.net/2019/02/05/squirming-donors.html

Humanists

https://mobile.twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1092876353182093312

SO SILLY!

Temporary

Even the people who seem "on top" today are really not as secure as they seem.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/05/perspectives/state-of-the-union-trump-economy/index.html

Because there are too many shallow, narcissistic, xenophobic, greedy people who are pushovers and think their own temporary comfort is more important than actually having a healthy society.

It's ART day

Look into the president's face and think

A CHILD

(the thousands separated from their families

might overwhelm the brain) merely because

of a circumstance such as being born on

the 'wrong side of the border' is residing

in a concentration camp right now.

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/05/691368262/what-to-know-ahead-of-trumps-state-of-the-union-address

A person

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1092787440560078849

Everything news

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/finding-all-migrant-children-separated-their-families-may-be-impossible-n966266

Texas History

From "The Rise and Fall of the Tornillo Tent City for Migrant Children" by R. Moore

"Rubin, the Brooklyn software engineer who kept vigil in a small camper since October, left on Monday. He said he promised his wife he wouldn’t stay more than three months. Rubin said he will continue his mission to ensure that Americans don’t forget what happened at Tornillo in 2018. 'The thing that always struck me is that the government has an odd and inconsistent narrative. It says first that these are very, very dangerous people that we have to confine. And then it says we have to protect them, and we have to keep them a really long time in confinement, to protect them from what are essentially their families,' Rubin said."

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/migrant-children-tornillo-tent-city-released/