Lit Lover

"Fearing their own irrelevance, museums look for visitors to participate in their processes in order to bolster their own authority and control how the visitors view their society."

~ 44lisabel

https://itsallhowyourememberit.wordpress.com/2021/11/29/museums-are-predators/

and

This clip how C. deals with "difficult guests" as he converses with Woody Harrelson and Ted Danson

"Team Coco | Check the tape! Listen to the full episode"

https://www.instagram.com/teamcoco/

(And I did not pick a quote, and I did not listen to it yet, because I'm recovering from PAIN and I am very occupied with taking care of my own health right now...)

People deserve more compassion and healing

I believe my crazy long headache is being very specific and telling me that people deserve more compassion and more healing even if they seem to act in ways that are not what others expect.

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

I am happy.

Oh blessed is a cold rice pack at the base of my skull and some flower essences, supplements, herbs (As in, black currant oil, vitamin D, black cohosh...)

I think they deserve a nice life.

Nice little fun happy texty friendship for the boys! I got a Swan Lake Johnny Cash Sandwich in my head recently but THEN CAME BIG PMS HEADACHE for a long afternoon and now, I am going to get it get moving right along...

"Conan Reads Texts From Adam Sandler"

@ TeamCoco

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8pO1MGpjM9/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

"Swan Lake Finale ~ Orchestral Odyssey"

The tragic version.

American Ballet Theatre

Gillian Murphy

Angel Corella

Isaac Stappus

https://youtube.com/watch?v=JI7AsZGnyi4&si=GlunJE7F-ZR8LgqT

Johnny Cash – "Folsom Prison Blues Lyrics" | Genius

https://genius.com/Johnny-cash-folsom-prison-blues-lyrics

A happier "Swan Lake: Finale"

~ MERIDA1 TV

https://youtube.com/watch?v=SXJawzOLS3k&si=bDQfWeL6O3whU56y

With Svetlana? Roberto? According to some comments.

O Healing Powers How Can This Be

Well, maybe the universe will help me now? Since I just realized it's almost 8 pm and the headache that started in the afternoon is still here and that's what filled the time...oooh, let's move on to better things PLEASE.

So stressful! I may need to go in search of a comforting Viennese-style pastry treat.

"Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson"

https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who -goes-nazi/

It's the 2020's, but it's still so helpful to be a 6'4 white guy, and moreover...

"Jordan Klepper Reveals How He Avoids Getting His ‘Ass Kicked’ by MAGA Extremists"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jordan-klepper-reveals-how-he-avoids-getting-his-ass-kicked-by-maga-extremists

I have to register if I want to keep reading it. Maybe later.

So it was; so it is!

"Today in History: Anne Frank’s ‘The Diary of a Young Girl' Published"

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/25/today-in-history-anne-franks-the-diary-of-a-young-girl-published/

I feel like onion pie was more popular in a different era, back when some people had fewer legal rights.

"The first year in the Hausbesorger's apartment was a bad one. I couldn't get used to our new way of life, and I was terribly ashamed of being poor.

I had previously hated school, but now I was anxious to go each morning because it got me away from home. I spent most weekends at the Jensens' apartment. But my happiest escape from the situation at home was going to the Opera everyday.

Often, when I got there, I leaned hard against the heavy side door of the Opera House to close it as quickly as I could, to shut out the world outside, a world I no longer liked.

I didn't think that, except for Uncle Otto, anyone at the Opera knew that I had become as the Viennese call it 'a Hausbesorger's Daughter.' The term had all the unfair implications that a racial slur has in America."

From page 83 of Hausbesorger's Daughter, I mean, As The Waltz was Ending by Emma Macalik Butterworth

🎶🧅🍽️🫓🌹🎶

"Food That Time Forgot: Onion Pie"

~ Townsend's

https://youtube.com/watch?v=giFtwtU7j9M&si=6S5jsTyd3rUoLpni

🎼🪆🧽🧹⚖️🎵

"Swan Lake🦢🩷 shop coming soon! #mladymercury "

~ @MLadyMercury

https://youtube.com/shorts/qiaw9RPxu4Q?si=QEhXQXpH0T9eBOiH

"Eat your Coney Island!" ~ DAD

Ther be yonge children starvinge in oure there placis seyen the goostes.

"Paper Moon - 'I want my two hundred dollars!'"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=BzHwm2QDPfI&si=-Tq4a5xHKfU9fhCU

Perhaps not, eh?

"He was impatient with the messiness and slowness of democracy. He wanted a dictator."

I’m not sure how many Americans attracted to Trump feel this way. It’s consistent with the strength-versus-weakness framework Trump is deploying. Trump may be loathsome, they tell themselves, but at least he’s strong, and we need strength over weakness.

I was born 78 years ago today. At that time, the world had just experienced what can occur when a loathsome person who exudes “strength” takes over a major nation and threatens the world. A number of distant relatives died fighting Nazi’s or perished in Nazi concentration camps. I can’t help wonder if the young conservative I spoke with would feel differently were he 78."

~ Robert Reich

https://www.rawstory.com/thursday-debate/

Do you always have to change your personality to accommodate what other people want?

"A few days ago I was talking with a young conservative who admitted that Trump was an 'odious thug,' in his words, but argued that America and the world had become such a mess that we need an odious thug as president.

'Think of Putin, Xi, Kim, Ali Khamenei, Netanyahu — they’re all odious thugs,' he said. 'We need our own odious thug to stand up to them.'

I said that direct confrontation could lead to more bloodshed, even nuclear war.

He continued: 'We need an odious thug to shake up Washington, stir up all the ossified bureaucracies now destroying America, do all the things no one has had the balls to do.' I winced. He charged: 'We need someone to take control!'

As soon as he uttered those last words, he and I both knew the conversation was over. He had spilled the beans. He was impatient with the messiness and slowness of democracy. He wanted a dictator.

I was born 78 years ago today. At that time, the world had just experienced what can occur when a loathsome person who exudes 'strength' takes over a major nation and threatens the world. A number of distant relatives died fighting Nazi’s or perished in Nazi concentration camps. I can’t help wonder if the young conservative I spoke with would feel differently were he 78."

~ Robert Reich

https://www.rawstory.com/thursday-debate/

Interesting energy.

"A group of women farmworkers from Homestead, a major agricultural area in South Florida, traveled to Tallahassee on Tuesday to say they want their kids to have opportunities to further their education rather than toil in the fields.

But legislation moving through the state House would roll back child labor restrictions to allow minors to work longer hours. This Thursday, the Florida House will vote on, and most likely approve of, HB 49, which would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to work more than eight hours per day and more than 30 hours a week during the school year.

Employers could give 16- and 17-year-olds fewer breaks under the House proposal.

'What’s best for our kids is that they study to be able to defend themselves in life, so that they don’t have to work in the fields under the sun all the time. We don’t want them to pass out from heat illness or suffer debilitating injuries; we want them to be healthy,' said Sandra Diaz, one of the workers with The Farmworker Association of Florida, Inc.

She continued: 'We want our kids to be more successful than we are. Some of us are not professionals, but we want our kids to be.'”

~ Jackie Llanos

"FL child labor bills: Women farmworkers worry about kids working longer hours in the fields"

https://floridaphoenix.com/2024/01/31/fl-child-labor-bills-women-farmworkers-worry-about-kids-working-longer-hours-in-fields/