Matcha matcha matcha matcha
Matcha MAN
If you feel so inclined
"Simple Self-Care Tummy Massage for Anxiety" – Supercharged Food
https://www.superchargedfood.com/blog/simple-self-care-tummy-massage-for-anxiety/
WHY NOT
"Women Carry Two-Thirds of Student Loan Debt. How Does the Pay Gap, Plus This Debt, Affect Women Workers?" - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2021/09/03/women-college-student-loan-debt-gender-pay-gap/
UPGRADE TO THE BARKING AT OBAMA SCHOLARS PROGRAM
I was the very soul of niceness to strangers in the supermarket as well in the parking lot BABIES.
You were trained to be an asshole to women, and you are an asshole to women.
"'At 9, I Had Already Started Working': Labor Activist and Former Farmworker Demands Workplace Protections for Agricultural Workers"
"Texas...Erodes The Support I Needed..."
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexw921/texas-abortion-support-system-family
"Inside Louis C.K.’s Gross, Unapologetic ‘Comeback’ Show at Madison Square Garden"
Omg even though the patriarchy did its best to train you not to give a crap about their actual health or well-being by way of various incentives and lets not forget plenty of religious dogma did you actually care.
is God telling you it's That One Guy you were trained to treat with special favoritism your entire life?
Might this be part of the reason why he's felt entitled to act like an insensitive asshole to others a surprising amount of the time?
Did systemic practices mingle with personal choices and the results were patriarchal and gross, again?
Who are some of the men in society you know who don't behave that way?
Why are they the Nicer Guys for some reason?
Keeping out certain people, allowing in certain others.
Leonard Cohen – "The Partisan Lyrics"| Genius Lyrics
https://genius.com/Leonard-cohen-the-partisan-lyrics
"Will Texas Women Be Able to Get an Abortion More Easily in Mexico?"
https://www.newsweek.com/will-texas-women-able-get-abortion-more-easily-mexico-1626900
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Still thinking about how @GovAbbott’s message to survivors terrified of the bounties now on their heads is “I will end rape.” No, he won’t. He & the GOP just gave abusers & coercive partners a powerful new tool to intimidate victims. These GOP laws HELP abusers, not stop them."
"Greg Abbott Must Put $10K Bounties on Rapists, AOC Says, Mocking Texas Abortion Law"
Sometimes I could.
What is wrong with people.
https://qz.com/1812802/un-study-finds-almost-90-of-men-and-women-are-biased-against-women/
Exhale...ah...
"Homecoming: Heading West with Emily Yacina" - slumber mag - slumber mag
Romeo Void - "Never Say Never (Official Video)" - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4x0fPZrPV3M&feature=youtu.be
"AOC Slams Sarah Palin for Calling Her a 'Fake Feminist': 'Call 1-800-CRY-NOW'
"Elizabeth Warren Looks Back At Her Presidential Bid, And Says She's Still In The Fight"
"What it's like to be a woman in the world's most feminist country: Iceland"
https://matadornetwork.com/read/like-woman-iceland-feminist-country-world/
"Salt Fat Acid Heat"| Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2oKbs4jAf7M&feature=youtu.be
"ENTER THE VOID: Catching up with Debora Iyall" - slumber mag - slumber mag
https://www.slumbermag.com/enter-the-void-catchinig-up-with-debora-lyall/
And for the callous that appeared on my index finger after I chewed it yesterday.
"First Cupid, now a wine glass? More revelations emerge from restored Vermeer painting in Dresden"
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/vermeer-wine-glass-dresden
"Vermeer's 'hidden' Cupid is the enigmatic artist's latest mystery"
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/vermeer-gemaldegalerie-2021-hidden-cupid/index.html
Wow, some people can be almost as nasty about COVID as they are about sports stars and sexual assault.
"The day Iceland's women went on strike" - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34602822
"The husband of one of the main speakers was reportedly asked by a co-worker, 'Why do you let your woman howl like that in public places? I would never let my woman do such things.' The husband shot back: 'She is not the sort of woman who would ever marry a man like you.'""Janet Yellen and Kamala Harris keep shattering glass ceilings – but global elite boys club remains"
"Trump Wants to Box Biden, Says President Would 'Go Down Within the First Few Seconds'"
"Don McLean – American Pie Lyrics"| Genius Lyrics
https://genius.com/Don-mclean-american-pie-lyrics
"DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER" LYRICS by TORI AMOS: Slip inside the eye...
https://www.flashlyrics.com/lyrics/tori-amos/dont-look-back-in-anger-35
"Peter Schilling – Major Tom (Coming Home)" Lyrics | Genius Lyrics
https://genius.com/Peter-schilling-major-tom-coming-home-lyrics
"Norah Jones – Don't Know Why" Lyrics | Genius Lyrics
https://genius.com/Norah-jones-dont-know-why-lyrics
"STOP MENSTRUAL CRAMPS - 'Luna's Touch' - Relaxation & Stress Relief Music Therapy" - YouTube
"AOC on Texas governor’s ‘disgusting’ abortion remarks: ‘He is not familiar with a female body’" | Abortion | The Guardian
"The Women’s Health Protection Act seeks to codify Roe v. Wade’s abortion rights" - Vox
"A Guide to Becoming a Conscious Investor" | Goop
https://goop.com/wellness/career-money/are-you-subtly-sexist-most-likely-yes/
"Matthew 25: Prayer for women and girls" | World Vision
https://www.worldvision.org/gender-equality-news-stories/matthew-25-pray-for-women-and-girls
"Religious groups in UK failing children over sexual abuse, report says"- BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58420270
"The report said that many religious groups were putting children at risk by:
The inquiry found that in some communities "the relationship between ideas of sexual 'purity' and social and familial standing are likely to make abuse markedly harder to report."
~ T. Symonds
Maybe they'll get better at some of this stuff soon!
But my body keeps being like "F~~~ this patriarchal BS, both men and women are enabling a lot of 21st century nonsense."
Seemed to be about being in the home of famous older woman who was a singer and there was a younger woman in there talking about how there are times for standing up for rights and I said that time is now. And it was. But instead of going out to protest, quietly doing so seemed to be a theme. Alterations were made to the bed so that the oppressive obstruction outside was not going to interfere with much needed rest, and the viewpoint of what was going on outside was being adjusted on the inside.
Prayers. Blessed relief.
It was the "You could never wish this on another" stuff.
"omnipotence"
"cultural numbness"
"justified neglect"
https://hbr.org/2019/04/the-psychology-behind-unethical-behavior
Who could embody the one-of-a-kind flavor and nuance
((( FUN frosting layer )))
of irresponsible-to-others-itis better than an Irresponsible-to-Others
((( FUN frosting layer )))
kind of guy. Did that filmmaker mention
((( FUN frosting layer )))
your career and paycheck and healthcare and everything else.
Like something out of another century
https://www.europeancuisines.com/Hungary-Dobos-Dobosh-Torte-Torta-Chocolate-Buttercream-Layer-Cake
"Anti-poverty group ranks Texas one of the worst states for working women, regardless of abortion law"| The Daily
Jonathan Trevithick on Twitter: "Monty Python fish notes. September, 1982. The Pythons gathered together at Elstree to film the fish links for 'The Meaning of Life'. https://t.co/XHhiu3pYuk" / Twitter
"'Rich girls, and I've said this, and it upsets many that I say it, have always had abortions and never gone to prison. This is a crime which to a great extent punishes poverty,' Zaldivar told reporters at a news conference in Mexico City."
"Mexican abortion ban punished poor women, top justice says" | Reuters
"Texas abortion law alarms reproductive justice advocates: 'We are forcing people into generational poverty'" - ABC News
"The day was sunny but not hot, and we spoke in the backyard, surrounded by sour grass and wildflowers. Laid out on the table between us, purring, was Luna, the family cat. 'She likes it when people hang outside with her,' Jeffrey said. Luna is thirteen and a big part of the family’s life. When our families get together, we’re sure to hear about Luna’s latest hijinks, like the times—plural—she called Martha from their landline. One time, Luna rang as Jeffrey, Martha, and Geri were heading two and a half hours east to visit my family, in Angels Camp, California. Another time—and this is Jeffrey’s favorite story about Luna’s phone antics—she called Martha and left a voice-mail message. She meowed into the phone for seven minutes."
~ T. Orange
"My sister used to be a waitress here, and I’d come all the time because she’d give me free meals."
~ T. Orange
(Non-censored brain activity: She might have actually been paying for them. I'd be surprised if she wasn't, but restaurants are restaurants...)
Moving is so, so much work, and yet we're bound to forget how it felt and need to do it again before long...
U2 – Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
https://genius.com/U2-whos-gonna-ride-your-wild-horses-lyrics
U2 – Until the End of the World
https://genius.com/U2-until-the-end-of-the-world-lyrics
Roy Orbison – Running Scared
https://genius.com/Roy-orbison-running-scared-lyrics
A DIY hair rinse that darkens your hair
https://amandacook.me/a-diy-hair-rinse-that-darkens-your-hair-naturally/
Thanks to the wifi of the outdoors l o tired fricking l go back to sleep...
I had a dream about observing a woman who was not like me in a number of ways. For one thing, she was in physically better health and more suited to military type stuff and could even enjoy rigorous activities. I felt sad I am not more like her. At the same time, I am awake now and paying attention to my body and twinges, & a part of me accepts myself for having different needs. I can develop other aspects of myself even if I can't fit into certain cultures, and hope I can make some really good decisions in the next few days.
One of the big guys left... The new guy is no bigger than I am.
Update: Vegetation appreciation
And unwrapping glasses...
was making the closet nest!!!!
Y: I have to leave to get cash. Can I tell them they can bother you if they need something.
X: sighs
Sits up.
Turns on the light.
Opens the door.
Puts pillows next to the wall.
It is now a sitting up inside of the closet nest.
The movers keep pushing the time up so I have to make a nest of comforter and pillow in the closet with a cord running outside of it and my darling heating pad will be available to me at least.
Why be afraid of running away screaming when already you do that multiple times a day. There s/he goes again. What if you could turn it into a dance and make it more relaxing.
Yesterday when I was all "B12 and fish oil are great, yay!" I took a packing break to eat the worst lunch of the year. And it was an incredibly cold "protein style" burger wrapped in a lettuce leaf and slightly less cold fries. I was like, the universe did that to me on purpose.
So much for American nostalgia food.
Peter Schilling - "Major Tom (Coming Home)" (Official Video) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO0A0XcWy88
I also got distracted by the "military guys coming back the next time around as feminist girls" idea again as I was waiting in line at the drive thru and listening to 80s music.
Peter Schilling – "Major Tom (Coming Home)" Lyrics | Genius Lyrics
https://genius.com/Peter-schilling-major-tom-coming-home-lyrics
I feel the world is brutal and I want to feel better. Men are coming too early today to take stuff away and put it in the new place. I have to deal with the cramps and I am avoiding ibuprofen because of stomach off and on stuff and I just hope I might get some good period of time like I did yesterday when I took the B12 and fish oil combination. I could go on about how there are old school guys who are more compassionate than A. C. Barrett but I have to just be happy about something! I love you heating pad.
"STOP MENSTRUAL CRAMPS - 'Luna's Touch' - Relaxation & Stress Relief Music Therapy" - YouTube
A dream with a man's voice talking to me about "pink tax."
Try to never have to move and negotiate death and the body's worst time of month all at the same time.
Because
That is gonna do a lot.
But survival is survivable.
X: Please don't burn out. I don't want to take for granted that you can do what I can't.
Y: I am not gonna burn out.
X: Well I would you know
Y: (Jokingly) I can labor, I'm a Mexican.
X: Ha ha ha (feeling pain in lower back) oh my god...
Y: I have the stamina to do it.
X: We are very different people...
Love and feeling confident in your choices and feeling like the universe can and will help you and gift you with truly precious healing and feeling guided and supported and feeling both love inside you for others and outside as available as helping and healing energy...what a beautiful state...
So let's ask the universe for help again when my teeth and other parts of my body begin giving me messages...who and how and what and where and when and tell me what is best to do right now? Angels can minister to children and to those who were children and now are faced with the crisis...maybe something good will be able to unfold...internally...and externally...what an amazing thing it can be...
"Call in the resources you need and keep going."
https://twitter.com/LamaRod1/status/1433808509313953792?s=20
It helps and it's not an NSAID on your stomach.
Why not dedicate a life to a root that helps.
"Ginger Poems - Modern Award-winning Ginger Poetry : All Poetry"
https://allpoetry.com/poems/about/ginger
The heating pad is out.
Bring the violins...
So I hope the people who don't lie under heating pads constantly at certain times of the month...
The overwhelm wave is going to be ridden again.
B-12 and Fish Oil energy
https://hymnary.org/text/i_have_the_joy_joy_joy_joy_down_in_my_h
That's why I'm gonna get off the internet and pack some more stuff.
https://lifespa.com/how-to-supercharge-your-fish-oil-and-b12/
After noting "It’s worth noting that the effects of narcissism on someone’s career trajectory may depend on someone’s gender."
"Fish Oil, Vitamin B-12 May Offer Relief During That Time of the Month"
https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20000620/fish-oil-b-12-period-relief
But coming from a sisterly / brotherly perspective, I have received the impression that the xxxxxx industry must employ some of the world's most narcissistic, needy-for-attention, ensconced-in-patriarchal programming, and irresponsible-to-others people, I swear to God. It's just a thought my brain came up with in these dark early morning hours for some reason. What if there were Al-Anon type groups for people who'd gotten sucked into that culture? I feel like climate change has been getting competitive about wanting the attention lately sometimes but I better go back to sleep while I can... ♡♡♡ sigh ♡♡♡
"Weird Foods People Ate to Get Through the Great Depression" - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uv7Xa40DzkM&feature=youtu.be
So this isn't exactly just slacking from packing...
When "here I am steeped in patriarchal programming and not even acknowledging it" met "but I've never even watched When Harry Met Sally."
Gosh I wish I didn't have to move I would like to keep staying on this deck next to trees in a quieter corner 12 gates into the city alleluia...
Parking lot was still noisy sometimes of course.
I invite lots of healing kinds of everything...
Oh......alleluia....
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
X: Hope you're looking forward to doing all the work I don't want to do.
Y: I am.
X: SInce I am gonna enjoy THE DECK before we have to move to the inferior place with the small patio with a grate. I am ungrateful for the grate.
Y: :-)
Behold the beauty!
How much interrupted entertainment
"abby and john putting up with each other for 5 minutes [happiest season]" - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn1c_PtGr5Y&feature=youtu.be
will it cost to rent a carpet steamer this weekend.
It's almost leaf-turning time.
"This Map Will Tell You When Your State Will Hit Peak Fall Foliage" | Travel + Leisure
It's always phone scrolling time
"The News" by D. Gessner
https://harvardreview.org/content/the-news/
When puzzles were great - November 2020
Remembering highschool and the day the one kid came to school after his mom died and the kid who was always the bully hadn't heard yet and of course picked on him as usual and the kid who'd lost his mom just naturally got that "I pity you for your stupidity" look on his face.
"It honestly terrifies me that my kids might be less of a !&%$ than I am."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Shout out to the 2 'moderate' GOP women who chose to ignore survivors across the country in their delusion that confirming a man credibly accused of sexual assault & a woman hostile to repro rights would have no effect on Roe v Wade. Today couldn’t have happened without you 👍🏽" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1433130216700928002?s=20
Leah Greenberg on Twitter: "40% of the 5 people who just gutted Roe v Wade have been credibly accused of sexual assault or harassment." / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/leahgreenb/status/1433413524718596102
"A family-owned aristocrat in Netflix’s blockbuster Bridgerton was charged with attempting to rape a woman."
~ isabellakhademhosseini9 hours ago
"Aristocrat accused of attempted rape of a woman" - Texas News Today
https://texasnewstoday.com/aristocrat-accused-of-attempted-rape-of-a-woman/441495/
Mingling memory and an ability to read things.
"What Are the Penalties for Abortion, Rape in Texas Amid Claims They Are Similar"
https://www.newsweek.com/what-penalties-abortion-rape-texas-similar-punishment-1625388
"Bronx Beat: Zach Braff"- SNL - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rbTrAEesNiA&feature=youtu.be
"Dead Like Me - The Best of Daisy Adair (Season 1)" - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=50YVN0H_KlE&feature=youtu.be
"Good Morning Goomah" - SNL - YouTube
for a Klondike Bar your pet otter...
1986 Klondike Bar "What Would You Do?" TV Commercial - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gAsuUMyia7o&feature=youtu.be
"Otters Try Salmon Shaved Ice For The First Time" - YouTube
The last one involved a maze of empty hallways with scion of the patriarchy's name everywhere, and then running away to the upper floors, which was a hospital where they were tending to quite a few patients.
For one thing, I can be in the comfort of my box-filled study, or livingroom, or anywhere in my apartment right before my appointment, instead of enduring those uncomfortable waiting room conditions in an urgent care facility along with the television noises they usually have blaring...despite a lifetime of reminders of society's Dads Before Daughters dynamics, maybe some kind of progress is unfolding in the early 21st century.
"Most White Americans who regularly attend worship services voted for Trump in 2020"| Pew Research Center
"Deglycyrrhizinated Licorice"| Natural Medicine Journal
"Dork etymology in English"| Etymologeek.com
https://etymologeek.com/eng/dork
Mr. PenisHead: Blah blah blah. O I am such a silly Dork.
SalesLadybird: I'm sorry, is Mrs. PenisHead home?
"Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh Did It—They Gutted 'Roe v. Wade'"- Rewire News Group
Seriously.
ACK I found the wrong book at first.
"A Journey of Souls by Michael McKinney"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36845675-a-journey-of-souls
THIS ONE.
"Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives by Michael Newton"
What a Goya.
"Goya and the Art of Survival" | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/21/goya-and-the-art-of-survival
"La Maja Vestida, the warm painting from Animal Crossing: New Horizons"
https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/la-maja-vestida-the-warm-painting-animal-crossing-new-horizons
"Dream/Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters | An Introduction to 19th Century Art"
https://www.19thcenturyart-facos.com/artwork/dreamsleep-reason-produces-monsters
Don't feel bad if you're not in the mood to be all fun and jokey in the face of gross negligence & cruelty.
https://twitter.com/helenlewis/status/1433167331119845380?s=20
Matthew LeHew on Twitter: "I start every class with an ultrasound picture of my son due in October, pleading with my students to wear masks as a personal favor to my family. In small, at-capacity classrooms, only 5 of 45 of my students wore a mask. I’ll never be able to look at this job the same way." / Twitter
https://twitter.com/matthewlehew/status/1432392705104093187?s=20
It's a pity he's not around the mask-wearing community college students of Los Angeles County. A lot of the students even keep them on while walking outside in between classes.
with a DO & read: "Opinion: Texas' repugnant abortion law is pure Republican hypocrisy" - CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/01/opinions/texas-abortion-law-contradictions-ghits/index.html
It's kind of nice to have had an authoritarian paternal figure who said he preferred to leave Mass early when they got too heavy with the dogmatic anti-abortion stuff, by the way.
This is when I might do that.
And maybe mingle them with happy ones and spiritual chants.
Allelu....
if I could greatly improve my health without any stressful doctor or hospital visits by eating better and meditating and resting when my body says to rest and doing the castor oil packs and finding the best foods and drinks for the stomach and the everything. Maybe it's possible?
And in the arts...
"Funny Travel Posters for U.S. National Parks Are Based on 1-Star Reviews"
https://mymodernmet.com/national-park-review-posters-amber-share/
pray and believe in light and higher guidance because a passing over may happen soon and I know human grief will be a natural result and I have been dealing with a stomach health issue that comes and goes and this move and relocation of belongings is going on and it's a lot. Jesus and Angels and Healing Beings. And my dreams have been a bit strange, about trying to understand a loved one and having a hard time hearing. May there be peace. Wonderful peace.
🕊🌿🙏🏞💗
And healing and blessings and love.
I believe the universe can be very pleased when people can turn both light and shadow kinds of situations into gifts and opportunities for healing and learning.
I feel more appreciation for the opportunities than I have known how to say sometimes. Even trying to say it a little bit helps though.
Some people are really good and even great at bringing out things in each other. Light things and shadow things. If it's viewed with great wisdom, it's a fine gift for a life.
We are still evolving but I believe if I get better at healing my own issues I can make it feel more like a gift instead of a burden and that would be so cool.
I have a different level of sensitivity and I have really particular genetic make up but if I can feel like it's okay for that to be my project, it will feel so much better for me even when I am different from others or have different needs than they have to tend to. I might need to find other people with different areas of expertise or even pray if I get really challenged and if conventional society is offering enough help or answers but that is why love and belief in a higher power can be a gift, to help people when they hit those rough patches.
Things can be healed and things can get better. Physical challenges can be scary sometimes. It's part of what some of us go though on Earth. I have to keep searching for new ways of addressing when my challenges really touch and intersect with what others are seeing and perceiving. Well, I feel more hopeful it can get better. People can help. Even of they don't know what to do. "Please let so and so find what they need if I am not in a position to give it to them" is very generous too. Part of me loves healing and wants to find challenges to heal. It's a great experience. It can be even more rewarding than dreamed, and maybe in a subtle way sometimes. Maybe even in a quiet way too.