O God, please help me put my health first because I know my body needs it. People nearly twice my age have more energy. You know I need help. Amen. PRAISE BE TO THE WISER HEALING UNIVERSAL LOVE ENERGY which knows best, and better than I knew today.
Saturday, February 11, 2023
Find the ones who can.
The healing will still be needed even if others out there are determined to not see what you cannot unsee.
Change is happening this year because...
"Flor Alvarado, 29, worked for decades as a farmworker and said she received little to no training on the adverse health effects on pesticides for herself and her family. Photo by Zaydee Sanchez for EHN/palabra."
"Alexa's (left) and Alison's (right) rooms are both painted pink, their favorite color. Their mother, Flor Alvarado, believes acute pesticide exposure during her pregnancy, along with years of working in treated fields, affected the girls’ development. Photo by Zaydee Sanchez for EHN/palabra."
"California’s new pesticide notifications might not shield farmworkers" - oregonlive.com
"All About Disturbed Men"
"5 Songs Inspired By Grisly Murders (By Artists Who May Surprise You)" | by Einstein Shrugged | Medium
There's another one who felt strange sometimes for certain reasons...
"'I Feel Like a Feather Floating in the Atmosphere.' How Thoreau Reckoned with the Loss of His Brother" ‹ Literary Hub
Surprised-not-Surprised?
"'But you can't write, 'You're a rich boy' in a song, so I changed it to a girl,' Daryl told Rolling Stone. A year or two later Daryl was flipping through a book about the notorious Son of Sam when he found out the killer 'was motivated by 'Rich Girl.' 'It wasn't exactly a pleasant thing to know,' he said with some understatement."
"The Super Seventies 'Classic 500'"
"Hall & Oates Appreciation Day: 'Rich Girl'" - Philadelphia Magazine
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2013/12/17/hall-oates-appreciation-day-rich-girl/
To share with others is to be human...
"...it’s also a systemic side effect of living in a corporate capitalist society and, therefore, not really my fault."
~ Jennie Young
"The Narrator of 'Jessie’s Girl' Offers an Apology after Completing His Master’s in Women’s and Gender Studies" - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
"Even the good actors" means...
"The simple truth is our entire system of agricultural production is based on giving workers as little as possible, under circumstances that make it hard if not dangerous to complain — whether that means being undocumented or just so poor the loss of even a day’s work is devastating. Even the good actors, the growers who pay better wages and have modernized housing, often offer conditions most non-immigrant workers would refuse.
Vulnerable workers keep quiet because they know life can always get worse. Jimenez remembers being 4 years old, hiding in the Brussels sprouts while federal immigration authorities hovered in helicopters overhead."
~ Anita Chabria
"'Plantation mentality’ in a rich, liberal California enclave" - Los Angeles Times
Apparently, what the woman sang in the grocery store was about a boy, originally.
Daryl Hall & John Oates - "Rich Girl" - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MJsloJmMbis&feature=youtu.be
Hall & Oates – "Rich Girl Lyrics" | Genius Lyrics
It's a Period Piece.
"She’s an artist with long pigtails and rosy cheeks who sleeps on the floor at the foot of the bed, a little nest between the frame and the closet, underneath a picture she drew of pink cherry blossoms.
'We have the privilege to have something other people don’t,' Avila told me when I visited her home this week. She is one of the lucky ones, she said. She has a home with running water and power, bathrooms inside and a stove that works.
Still, Avila is desperate for a bigger house, one where the kids can be free instead of trying to stay out of the way.
Crystal dreams of a big bedroom, with space for a desk — 'living a good life,' as she puts it.
That means knowing 'where you’re going to study. Where are you siblings going be, where your parents going to be? And, like, to be calm and know that you’re in a safe place,' she tells me."
~ Anita Chabria
"'Plantation mentality’ in a rich, liberal California enclave" - Los Angeles Times
Love Food & Love Housing?
"While shockingly little has changed in decades one demographic shift has made farmworker housing even more complicated: more families instead of single men, making decent housing even more difficult—and critical" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/miriampawel/status/1623747088038395905
"Half Moon Bay needs more homes for farmworkers. Experts blame an ‘anti-housing constituency’"
"Important column from @anitachabria about the entrenched racial and economic inequality at the heart of 'liberal' California." / Twitter
https://twitter.com/AntonioDeLoeraB/status/1623802204845928449
"'Plantation mentality’ in a rich, liberal California enclave" - Los Angeles Times
How come humans do this to humans? In the 21st Century.
"Ohio abortion law meant weeks of 'anguish,' 'agony' for couple whose unborn child had organs outside her body" | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/08/health/ohio-abortion-long/index.html
John Scalzi on Twitter: "Curtailing health care for stupid political posturing comes with consequences. https://t.co/28oS7Vyk6O" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/scalzi/status/1623811920452063232
"In some states, doctors weigh 'ruinous' litigation against proper care for women who have miscarriages" | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/20/health/doctors-weigh-litigation-miscarriage-care/index.html
Good to be reminded...
But of course, everyone deserves joy.
People who are good at enjoying life are often quite kind and helpful, just because, well, why not?
Best to go find a healing link from the Nice Ones again.
Accepting healing energy for the pain in my lower left area from the Universe and appreciating another opportunity to heal a place that needs it.
Morning.
"Would the system really fall apart if we demand better for workers, or if we supported them when they demand better for themselves? If we scrutinized labor conditions of America‘s farmworkers with the same urgency we use to ensure our mushrooms are organic, our coffee fair-trade and our chickens roaming free?"
~ Anita Chabria
"'Plantation mentality’ in a rich, liberal California enclave" - Los Angeles Times
Actually.
"Every fourth Friday, Crystal and her mom march in a vigil downtown for affordable housing. Avila isn’t sure the town really cares.
'We are part of the community too,' she said."
~ Anita Chabria
"'Plantation mentality’ in a rich, liberal California enclave" - Los Angeles Times
Anyway. That was an experience.
They acted like they were so cold-hearted, they'd let you die, but anyway, you still survived!
Friday, February 10, 2023
TRIVIA AIVIRT
Oh symmetrical Universe...
"Famously, the classic song was actually written about a boy, the son of a fast-food chain executive."
https://genius.com/Hall-and-oates-rich-girl-lyrics
🍇🍷😏
And the life expectancy of your friends' moms dads siblings cousins etcetra who work hard to pick your food, what is it these days?
Lol, Musical Universe.
Gosh, I got rested up (and perhaps flower essence'd up enough) to feel like I wouldn't accidently die in my sleep, which was also enough to go out to the store for some food items, and a woman with a nice voice kept walking by me, singing "Rich Girl."
"HEY, do you think that if CERTAIN Jaded Dads want prove how they can be much nicer than the Patriarchy wants them to be, they can do that, too?"
~ A Voice with more energy and zest for life than it had earlier in the day.
An admiring glimpse before bed.
I want to get better so I can take a drive to see more of the hot pink clouds in the sky when the sun goes down.
You will endure a lot, but there will also be cupcakes!
manwhohasitall on Twitter: "'Claire told me I only got the job because I'm handsome. I feel awful,' Liam, age 34. And so you should mate. You don't deserve to be there." / Twitter
https://twitter.com/manwhohasitall/status/1622868132510539778
manwhohasitall on Twitter: "ALL MEN! Trying to slim down for summer? Only ever eat the first 'cous' from 'cous cous'. The other 'cous' will cause bloating." / Twitter
https://twitter.com/manwhohasitall/status/1622915173618008064
manwhohasitall on Twitter: "'My biggest confidence boost is when my boss says I look like a little prince. She knows how to make me feel good,' Paul, age 47. Inspirational." / Twitter
https://twitter.com/manwhohasitall/status/1623061695584169993
manwhohasitall on Twitter: "RISE and SHINE BUSY DADS! Now is a good time to make banana and magnolia cupcakes, do a few simple stretches and find the right day cream for your star sign. 'Me-time'" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/manwhohasitall/status/1623230565880045571
Thanks to the ones who chose to care 💖.
"Even though the Patriarchy wanted Xs to continue to degrade the planet and dehumanize so many sisters, brothers, descendants, etcetra, I am so glad to know that they chose a better way instead."
Demonstrably
"So glad to know the GrandX's truly cared about our human rights, even before most in their society acted like it was important to consider caring about our kind."
Hollywood's repetitive
"'Plantation mentality’ in a rich, liberal California enclave" - Los Angeles Times
Sometimes patriarchal women act like difficult men, too.
"Upton Sinclair once wrote that 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.' In almost exactly the same manner, it is difficult to get a straight white man to acknowledge his privileges when his self-image depends on him not doing so. Which is to say there is a very large number of straight white men who absolutely do not wish to acknowledge just how thoroughly and deeply their privileges are systemically embedded into day-to-day life. A fair number of this sort of dude read the piece (or more perhaps more accurately, read the headline, since a lot of their specific complaints about the piece were in fact addressed in the piece itself) and refused to entertain the notion there might be something to it. Which is their privilege (heh), but doesn’t make them right."
~ John Scalzi
“Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting,” Ten Years On | Whatever
Thursday, February 09, 2023
Thanks be to their kindness
A friend told me over and over again I need to be good to myself right now. Others have sent along healing aids, such as links to music, and other things.
To better times in the future 🌻
I am really ready to be way better and much less anxious about life for the rest of my time here, and my higher self and all healing forces can notice this and help us get better now.
They don't feel Empowered.
Women who were trained to to act like Honorary Entitled Lords have made it clear they are not going to help you either.
There's a great sickness that needs to be cured.
I am sorry because fanatical, patriarchal, uncaring people are trying to kill off girls and women and none of it is good for boys or girls or men or women or anyone.
Truly Humorous Here
How very funny. The Universe seems to think that, no matter how boring the accomplishment is to others, even learning how to be a tiny bit better to my body is a bigger deal than...well, you can think of all the other external things society would prefer us to be good at instead. Ha ha.
What a thing to be rediscovering.
AGAIN!
Like a lesson needing to be learned over and over again.
These genetics are gonna make me learn how to take better care of a certain kind of human body.
Potatoes, cherries? Why NOT BOTH, you deserve to eat well!
"This Principal Uses Her Experience as the Child of Farmworkers to Support Students"
"I jest need to make A LORD feel Special Again."
"I know, I'll get him to pay me to do something good for The Unfortunate Ones who can Never Become LORDS like HIM."
For Some, Still SO Hard To $top Dehumanizing OTHERS!
Perhaps Certain Rich Patriarchal People Who Still Can't Articulate Why Ruthlessly Degrading Others Still Feels SO Good To Them Can At Least Fund The Medical Studies To Figure Out Those Reasons?
Even small improvements can lead to better outcomes
"Henceforth, X will dehumanize daughters far less than what The Patriarchy wanted."
BUT To Be LESS Dehumanizing is MORE Charitable!
Certain Patriarchal Rich Men are going to start paying The Most Pedestaled Patriarchal Women REAL MONEY just to defecate less on the Other Kinds of Girls and Women. "Because of course you deserve the best."
"This poster about 'Consent" only applies to the 'Unseen & therefore Unvalued' Ones"
Certain People Explain Why Making Even More Excuses For Abusive Behavior Still Just Feels Far More Rewarding To Them Than Any Of The Healthier Alternatives.
And tomorrow, too.
Hey, maybe some humans still do deserve much better than some of the parents have communicated to them.
The very self-absorbed have lenience for cruelty which punishes needlessly.
X is entitled by others to be rich, rude, disrespectful, and dehumanizing and yet all the people who make excuses for X's bad behavior would never, ever do so without making a collection of choices to permit special allowances just to certain people that they'd never grant to other people. SAD LORD OF THE MANOR MENTALITY.
They weren't acting like unsafe jerks when they first came here.
Imagine certain grown people being SO much better to real humans than how they're still acting now.
Wednesday, February 08, 2023
And I Suppose My Body Believes I Am Real Human Being Anyway?
That's even though X was clearly trained to act like it's in X's best interest to not to care if "my kind" lives or dies, but nevertheless...
Yay, learning more about Women Not Often Mentioned in The Media!
"5 inspiring female champions for women's health and rights who died in 2022" : Goats and Soda : NPR
Do it for yourself and the health of your descendants!
Even if it was deemed normal for you to treat the bodies of women and girls so poorly in the past, why not find A New Normal?
Quirky body has made woman hope she's not dying lately.
As a way of staying alive, NOT repeating SO many unnecessarily demeaning, unhealthy, and dehumanizing misogynistic behavior patterns feels quite important to human health.
Health is Wealth! Daughters deserve to live, too!
What a great opportunity to teach the young ones to expressly care a lot more about human rights than the patriarchy wanted parents in previous generations to care about such things.
"Making things even worse, one of first lady Jill Biden’s guests was a woman who nearly died after being denied an abortion under Texas law. Biden did not highlight her story, as he did with some of the other guests at the State of the Union.
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, abortion rights and access have been under all-out attack from Republicans. States have cracked down on the procedure, even trying to circumvent the will of the people, and are trying to get medication abortion banned as well. Meanwhile, lawmakers at the federal level have tried to pass laws
banning abortion.
The least Biden could have done is explicitly acknowledge any of that."
~ Tori Otten
"Biden Says “Abortion” Exactly Once in First State of the Union Since Downfall of Roe v. Wade" | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/post/170463/biden-says-abortion-once-first-state-union-since-downfall-roe-v-wade
Tuesday, February 07, 2023
🥦 Feeding a younger me 🎶
Belly - "Feed The Tree (Live 1992)" - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kME8jVHN8dA
Belly - "Feed the Tree" | SongMeanings
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/57413
🎼🍃🍑🌳🥂🎶🎬"Howards End movie review & film summary (1992)" | Roger Ebert
Being a tree?
"Kimmerer sees this 'grammar of animacy' come alive in her lessons in Ojibwe, which treats nouns as verbs—as acts of being. Instead of saying “It is a lake,” one says: “It is being a lake.” Instead of a bird, something—or someone—is being a bird. Kimmerer’s grammar of animacy underscores our connectedness, our status as a universe of intertwined beings."
~ Larissa Pham
"The Names of Things: Larissa Pham on Nature Walks and the Grammar of Animacy" ‹ Literary Hub
https://lithub.com/the-names-of-things-larissa-pham-on-nature-walks-and-the-grammar-of-animacy/
"So when I feel disconnected from the real; when I’ve spent too much time online, or gossiping, or been caught up in some tricky, formal fiction problem, there’s a way out. It’s slow. It means going outside, and letting my eyes adjust to the minute movements in the trees. But it’s there, if I wait for it, allowing my ego to recede into the background and make room for other selves—other animate, living creatures, taking up space in the universe alongside me."
~ Larissa Pham
How hard they had to work to make "Howard's End"
And save it from "Chapter 11" (38:20)
"Building Howards End (1992)" - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bR_5a8eQP-0&feature=youtu.be
"'It’s not romantic at all’ – Merchant Ivory’s Howards End 25 years on" | EM Forster | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/04/film-howards-end-em-forster-novel-austerity-britain
"From The House of Edward: Every Now and Then, the Bluebells Wait for You"
http://fromthehouseofedward.blogspot.com/2013/05/every-now-and-then-bluebells-wait-for.html?m=1
"Returning to Howards End" - YouTube
So, in a way, he wrote about the internet?
"‘Only connect’? Forsterian ideology in an age of hyperconnectivity"
"Whilst Vashti, the main protagonist, is in complete isolation, she is never alone. The Machine connects her to the world and although she can select ‘the isolation knob, so that no one else could speak to her,’ the hum of the Machine is eternal. In fact, when the Machine inevitably stops, the silence kills ‘many thousands of people outright,’ for they have never known ‘the silence which is the voice of the earth and of the generations who have gone.’ Connection is infinite, and Vashti knows ‘several thousand people.’
However, just as Margaret Schlegel remarks in Howards End, ‘The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them.’ Too many connections devalues each one in a kind of emotional hyperinflation. For the Schlegels, this is the constant danger of London; for Vashti it is the inevitable by-product of remote communication technology, and something that she has been indoctrinated to approve of."
~ Emily Buchanan
Would a floral film like another viewing soon...
"Nature is the protagonist with real estate in a supporting role."
~ Lucia Adams
"Howard’s End" | Classic Chicago Magazine
https://classicchicagomagazine.com/howards-end/
"Was I again a noise?” – “You were indeed” — desimonewayland: Howards End Ankle deep, he waded...
https://www.tumblr.com/desimonewayland/117719028178/howards-end-ankle-deep-he-waded-through-the
"Film Review: Howards End"
https://cine-vue.com/2017/07/film-review-howards-end.html
"Blue bells" - YouTube
Grateful for every little bit of progress 🌷
I finally made an appointment to be assessed medically. Later, I mustered some energy to begin some self-healing processes. I was nearly narcoleptic, but feeling a lot better now.
Human need for healing is real.
A simple change could be learning how to be better at listening to body's signals that more healing is needed.
Bake on, brave one.
"About Me"
https://www.foodiefiasco.com/about-me/
"Coconut Flour Flatbread (Vegan/Paleo/Gluten Free/Low Carb/Low Calorie)"
https://www.foodiefiasco.com/healthy-coconut-flour-flatbread/
Good question, interested in knowing more.
What can help with being able to enjoy being on a good healing journey....
Hey, Weird Dream Again.
Just because a gay guy in that dream told you they'd happily hire a subservient-acting woman instead of you or him doesn't mean there aren't other options...
The Beatles - "Hey Jude" - YouTube
Monday, February 06, 2023
Birds...
"‘Snow fairies’ in a winter wonderland" - BirdLife International
https://www.birdlife.org/news/2023/02/01/snow-fairies-in-a-winter-wonderland/
"With a finch and a fish, this scientist has changed our understanding of the tree of life" - CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/30/world/dolph-schluter-profile-crafoord-prize-scn/index.html
"Woodpecker stored over 700lbs of acorns in walls of a California home, pest control company says"| abc7news.com
Is it real? Is it true?
"5 Ways That Stress Causes Hypothyroid Symptoms" - Chris Kresser
https://chriskresser.com/5-ways-that-stress-causes-hypothyroid-symptoms/
"Hypothyroidism and Anxiety: What’s the Connection?" | Everyday Health
https://www.everydayhealth.com/hypothyroidism/hypothyroidism-anxiety-connection/
Here a difference, there a difference...
"Why women leave engineering careers" - The Poly Post
https://thepolypost.com/opinion/2022/03/01/why-women-leave-engineering-careers/
"I Quit Twitter and I Can't Believe How Much It Improved My Life" | Inc.com
https://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/quitting-twitter-changed-my-life.html
Again, their conversation comes to mind.
"You Don’t Have to Be Complicit in Our Culture of Destruction" - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/30/magazine/robin-wall-kimmerer-interview.html
"Unfortunately I think it’s fair to say that, at least when it comes to political and economic power, the world tends to get taken by those who see the world as theirs for the taking. Which is a master-of-the-universe perspective that’s antithetical to the ideas of environmental and social mutual flourishing that are behind your work. But I’m curious to know whether it’s a perspective that you think you can understand."
~ David Marchese
"David, I don’t understand it. But I think about it a lot. In my kinder moments I try to think about it empathetically and say people with that perspective were not raised with the word 'humility' in their vocabulary as a good thing. 'Humility' in Western culture is to be meek and mild and dispossessed. In Potawatomi ways of thinking, we uphold humility. Edbesendowen is the word that we give for it: somebody who doesn’t think of himself or herself as more important than others. What that means is that everybody is as important as you are, and what that creates is this sense of vitality and community and family. Like, dang, aren’t we lucky to be surrounded by these genius bats and incredible fireflies? Humility that brings that sort of joy and belonging as opposed to submission, that’s what I wish for those folks you’re talking about."
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Wow, helpful.
Couldn't sleep again & had a fog around my head. The fog has lessened.
"Obliterating Problems Is My Job." - Military Man - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hATtG8boS_4
Sunday, February 05, 2023
Some might even call it kindness?
"You Don’t Have to Be Complicit in Our Culture of Destruction" - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/30/magazine/robin-wall-kimmerer-interview.html
"In my kinder moments I try to think about it empathetically and say people with that perspective were not raised with the word 'humility' in their vocabulary as a good thing. 'Humility' in Western culture is to be meek and mild and dispossessed. In Potawatomi ways of thinking, we uphold humility. Edbesendowen is the word that we give for it: somebody who doesn’t think of himself or herself as more important than others. What that means is that everybody is as important as you are, and what that creates is this sense of vitality and community and family. Like, dang, aren’t we lucky to be surrounded by these genius bats and incredible fireflies? Humility that brings that sort of joy and belonging as opposed to submission, that’s what I wish for those folks you’re talking about. "~ Robin Wall Kimmerer to David Marchese
And bathing, and nature...
"Mr. Beebe*
'How d'ye do? how d'ye do? Come and have a bathe,'"... "That's the best conversational opening I've ever heard. But I'm afraid it will only act between men. Can you picture a lady who has been introduced to another lady by a third lady opening civilities with 'How do you do? Come and have a bathe'? And yet you will tell me that the sexes are equal.'
Mr. Emerson
'I tell you that they shall be,' ... 'Good afternoon, Mr. Beebe. I tell you they shall be comrades, and George thinks the same.'
Mr. Beebe
'We are to raise ladies to our level?'
Mr. Emerson
'The Garden of Eden,' ... 'which you place in the past, is really yet to come. We shall enter it when we no longer despise our bodies.'
Mr. Emerson
'In this—not in other things—we men are ahead. We despise the body less than women do. But not until we are comrades shall we enter the garden.'
Mr. Emerson
'I believed in a return to Nature once. But how can we return to Nature when we have never been with her? To-day, I believe that we must discover Nature. After many conquests we shall attain simplicity. It is our heritage.'"
"A Room With a View Quotes - Ch. 10-20 Flashcards" | Quizlet
https://quizlet.com/77904108/a-room-with-a-view-quotes-ch-10-20-flash-cards/
Analyzing the patriarchal mindset?
"Lucy Honeychurch*
'You say Mr. Vyse wants me to listen to him, Mr. Emerson. Pardon me for suggesting that you have caught the habit.'
George Emerson*
'I'm the same kind of brute at bottom. This desire to govern a woman—it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together before they shall enter the garden. But I do love you surely in a better way than he does.' ... 'Yes—really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms," ... "Lucy, be quick—there's no time for us to talk now—come to me as you came in the spring, and afterwards I will be gentle and explain. I have cared for you since that man died. I cannot live without you, 'No good,' I thought; 'she is marrying some one else'; but I meet you again when all the world is glorious water and sun. As you came through the wood I saw that nothing else mattered. I called. I wanted to live and have my chance of joy.'"
"A Room With a View Quotes - Ch. 10-20 Flashcards" | Quizlet
https://quizlet.com/77904108/a-room-with-a-view-quotes-ch-10-20-flash-cards/
O Universe of Good Healing Possibilities
Dear Healing LOVE IN THIS UNIVERSE, thanks to being able to know you exist, I am feeling a good possibility the maybe the next generation, as well as the older generations who are willing to change, will feel more able break free of many constraints, and begin to truly feel able to love this life and themselves more fully. I still need a lot of help with feeling better in this body. And maybe nature energy is what heals the best of all.
It's time for real help and healing.
When your body tells you it's wearing down and it needs help and healing.
Saturday, February 04, 2023
More & more & more & MORE
"Sundance 2023: Judy Blume And Nikki Giovanni Films Prove Good Art Is Timeless"
"Native Femicide Is A Prevalent Truth, And 2 Sundance Premieres Offer A Human Look At It"
Find the ones who are finding new ways
"Luella Brien, a veteran Native journalist who approaches the subject with clarity and compassion. 'We can be the villain in our stories as well,' Brien says in the series, pointing out the likelihood that at least some of the culprits come from within. The frustration among families and friends comes not from the belief that all Natives are innocent, but from the difficulty of getting law enforcement to take action."
~ Chris Vognar
"Native American Women Keep Turning Up Dead. Why Is Nothing Being Done?" – Rolling Stone
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/murder-in-big-horn-native-american-women-missing-murder-showtime-docuseries-1234672554/
Of course, repetitive misogyny is terrible for many people
"Importantly, the backlash is rarely the product of a grand conspiracy or concerted effort among sinister misogynists to bring women down. It’s simply a mass reaction to a mass movement. Those who enact the backlash, Faludi writes, are often unaware 'of their role; some even consider themselves feminists. For the most part, its workings are encoded and internalized, diffuse and chameleonic.' But she finds the pattern of this diffuse, unplanned backlash emerging throughout American history, every time the women’s movement appears to be making gains."
~ Constance Grady
"Roe is gone. Feminism is trending down. The Me Too backlash is here" - Vox
https://www.vox.com/culture/23581859/me-too-backlash-susan-faludi-weinstein-roe-dobbs-depp-heard
Friday, February 03, 2023
Healing Change, I can feel how well you can work.
Sometimes in the morning, because of various factors, I feel unwell, and it might also partially be that I am sad for some people choosing to settle for so little when so much more was possible. Simply opening to accepting more healing change would be so beautiful, something says. And it actually helps to remember that. Even speaking of it to myself can be a quite a helpful reminder. It eases some of the feeling of unwellness. I may still have pains to tend to, but I can feel grateful for every shift that helps with getting back into a good, healing mindset. Thank you, body, for letting me know that I am so ready for a better way of being in this life on this planet.
And so, an idea bubbled up...
Let's thank God for sensitive men and sensitive women. And maybe some of the ones who feel more confident about being sensitive, too, will feel it's safer to come out and show that side of themselves again.
Thursday, February 02, 2023
Honestly, body, is it like that, yes it is.
It's no surprise, is it, that when certain people act in ways that are a danger to your health, your body has reactions and you feel you must find those who know better ways of being in this world. Really, it makes perfect sense that your body would need that!
I feel a need to be enlightened.
I am grateful I can lie on a bed. Absorbing rhe lessons of experiencing the effects of the special genes in this life.
Humbling earth life, it is.
I am asking the universe for help with a body that's been recently experiencing extra dizziness and other physical symptoms, especially during the luteal phase.
"Moment of genteel poverty" memory
When the helper or "employee" at the foodbank who spoke Spanish & English directed another "customer" who had come for food to also give a small cash donation into a tip jar, (speaking in Spanish), but she did not ask you for one.
I feel more medically informed now
"Your Body, My Choice" | Matthew Broussard | Stand Up Comedy - YouTube
For some reason
"For these Indigenous women, fear is an ingrained reality and truth from birth. By bringing that frustrating truth to the conversation and allowing Indigenous people to advocate for themselves in these interviews, the filmmakers have opened the door for the larger, national conversation about the need for actual and lasting change."
~ Amber Dowling
"'Murder in Big Horn’ Review: Showtime Docuseries About MMIW" – Variety
https://variety.com/2023/tv/reviews/murder-in-big-horn-review-showtime-docuseries-mmiw-1235507900/
Is it more comical for your body than it is for another person's?
"Feminist writer Jill Filipovic summarized the findings by arguing that Republicans are 'almost comically insecure when it comes to gender and gender roles,' and tend to view women as 'overly-sensitive, irresponsible and immoral, ruining the natural order of things, and in need of male authority.'"
~ Amanda Marcotte
"The overturn of Roe cost the GOP. So why are Republicans now doubling down on abortion bans?" | Salon.com
"These findings help explain why Republican candidate for Georgia's Senate seat, Herschel Walker, lost very little Republican support during the 2022 election, despite widespread reports that he had demanded that two ex-girlfriends get abortions. The issue isn't abortion, but women's autonomy. If the perception is that a man made the abortion choice for a woman, most Republican voters will not hold it against him at the polls."
~ Amanda Marcotte
But there's interesting things to read about
"Rescuers find lost hiker on California mountain where Julian Sands is missing" | California | The Guardian
Si Se Puede.
You most definitely can be much better at seeing "certain kinds of people" than some wanted to train you to be.
How "There are people who believe we can care more about people" this seems, too...
"Listen: Half Moon Bay farmworkers live in 'a shadow community' of squalor"
Communications...
Merchant & Ivory get comical while discussing Chapter 11, "the most dreadful thing America has," @ 38:30 and beyond in "Building Howards End (1992)" - YouTube
It's as if bodies suffer because people choose to be so much less than what they could have enjoyed...
STOP MENSTRUAL CRAMPS - "Luna's Touch" - Relaxation & Stress Relief Music Therapy - YouTube
Blessed be the remedies that will be working well really soon
I have a body in menstrual cramp pain and genes and dizziness and a heating pad plus information from the universe that I still need more healing on every level.
Read or watch at any age...
"A Room With a View is a Young Person's Novel" | Zadie Smith | TIFF 2017 - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aJu0lOSNqiA
Intimacy issues and hipsters are in it.
Wednesday, February 01, 2023
Is that from another life or colonizer mentality?
Some people act like they want to betray, just to be treated like An Entitled Lord of The Manor. However some people aren't as interested in that sort of thing.
I ate mushrooms, greens, tomatoes, and an egg.
“'When one person is in charge of your employment, your housing, your transportation and your immigration status, that is so much power in the hands of your employer,' said Hazel Davalos, community organising director with the group Central Coast United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE). 'And it creates conditions that are ripe for abuse.'”
~ Brian Osgood
🍅 Inspired to Care Evidently 🌮
"Over the past weeks, volunteers have put up hundreds of stickers that resemble real QR menu codes in restaurants in Niagara, Windsor, Toronto and Ottawa, ranging from food courts to bars, fast-food eateries to high-end dining. Instead of accessing the restaurant’s menu, patrons are directed to the alliance’s Secret Menu webpage that displays the hidden human cost behind each entrée, main course, dessert and drink."
~ Nicholas Keung
Who & who?
"'We are all facing a cost of living crisis and see increased prices at the grocery store. It is crucial at this moment for all of us to talk about who really grows our food and who is profiting from their exploitation,' said Syed Hussan, executive director of the alliance."
~ Nicholas Keung
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