Sunday, March 29, 2026

Blame it on a lake...💧

It's really big; people went swimming or wading in it, or in them?

"Great Lakes" - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes

Blame it on some lakes...

"Blame It on the Rain" - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blame_It_on_the_Rain

For some reason they paired this song with a movie about some young people.

Belle & Sebastian - 'I Want the World to Stop"

TrentFanMusicheek

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zCyiebswtSM&si=OHfspaNPpPXaZsjW

Young 'uns. Was this song in that film? (Checks.) No, it wasn't in that film. It's just a good song, and somebody decided to pair the film footage that had other songs along with it.

At least some of us look young for our ages!

Maybe some of us act young for our ages...

"I Want The World To Stop" (also with a lovely album cover)

bellesglasgow

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5k9v-az5R6w&si=x59YnpJoWhDSH2lv

Saturday, March 28, 2026

Kinda a therapy film tonight?

"The Swedish Connection" | Rotten Tomatoes

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_swedish_connection

Better with subtitles than with dubbing.

Oops, time to sleep (falling asleep too much). Better watch it another time soon.

What's going on...🎼

I feel like, this is hard, but I think my circumstances seem to be communicating to me that some people are getting challenged to get better at caring about a bigger picture and a wider range of people. Which doesn't mean being right all the time. But it does mean being more interested in what's really going on with a wider variety of people.

I suppose he was kind of like a troubadour.

The long-haired 19-year-old janitor at the all-women's college who brought his guitar to our Amnesty International gathering and played it said that music was better...

Still on a personal healing journey, like a lot of people are.

There's been too much sweeping under the rug when it comes to many forms of suppression and violence. It will no longer be considered acceptable. Even though it's the past now, I still remember when I had to be the one to say "Enough" to the older people. Both as a child, and in recent years.

"After Amber Czech, a woman welder, is killed, tradeswomen demand action"

https://19thnews.org/2025/11/amber-czech-welder-murder-tradeswomen-demand-action/

This story reminds me of meat department in a grocery store drama.

When a man made threats towards his coworker (a family member of mine) and it was captured on security camera and HR got involved but the company still didn't care and the male managers made excuses and even people in the family could not seem to step it up, that that was brutal. I wonder if this is because these people were hit by their parents when they were children and there's some part of them that just doesn't know how to stand up to violence. And it is hard. It's not easy. It's not easy to do it perfectly, either.

I just couldn't believe these people were trying to convince somebody who had been threatened and who wanted to die because of how disrespectful and disgusting the work environment became, partly because all of the male managers acted like it was no big deal that this violent threat had happened, that she needed to stay, and her life was now in danger from her own psychological state. 

These are also the same people who couldn't talk about abuse in the family. So of course when it happened in a workplace situation, they weren't so on top of it either.

Patriarchal culture wants you to make excuses for violent men or act like the violence is not happening, and so many still seem have it driven into their consciousnesses that if you have to have a job that gives you health insurance, you have to put up with violence to have that. Well guess what? Sometimes even the job with health insurance doesn't give you the health care you need. 

So sometimes you need to not believe what these Patriarchal people tell you, and you need to believe yourself. And ask the universe and God for help that the people do not seem to know how to give. And if you need to leave an environment and get away from violent people, that's what you need to do. I am never going to be able to feel like acting like money in a bank account and property ownership are more important than safety and honesty. 

Moreover, when people are still not mature enough to have honest discussions about abuses that happened, whether it's in society or in the family,  that's a real disappointment. That shows a lack of concern for safety and honesty And it's a false sense of control that if you don't talk about it, it won't be a problem.

That's why I'm glad more women are speaking up now. Sometimes they're strangers on social media, but it's more and more and more and better and better and better.

"The doctor in Hawaii who..."

https://www.threads.com/@emilyrosechadwick/post/DWcKnjaj-pK?xmt=AQF0hUNYxAgs5W14m2c-c30nSAMDyMaxrNFXDg3CXvfSiIb1xTa2cgMI4--0eKTblbJ2VPU&slof=1

"When men say 'modern women' need to talk to older women..."

https://www.threads.com/@arm_me_wit_harmoneeee/post/DWbe4gUDetb?xmt=AQF0qCPyCYHfRjN2bP7kCw5fy5YHjH24d6RhJ5yN37RJEEagrozw321RgFOpq6Ct1Pwzx_U&slof=1

Kitty cat hearts transition music.

She came in and sat very close and said, it's time for me to be a ridiculously cute cat here and now. To accompany the transition music.

"Bush: Glycerine" | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Kimmel

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tZiGfju5tdc&si=EHnr3KB042sVrM41

beabadoobee - "All I Did Was Dream Of You (Official Video)"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qV91x2YT9zI&si=1GnrrIsyb8nHhIqB

Cut Chemist - "The Garden Live with the Seattle Symphony"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3S-aVCbiA-s&si=1LMIMaHny0Wg58D_

Transition music can be repetitive, like didn't you just listen to that the other day, but that's okay, because it can sound different when you listen to it this time compared to the last time you just listened to it, because it's transition music.

Kitty really likes being a loyal little companion to humane "disassociation" (?) or maybe there will be a better word for it one day. 

I got such a nice cashier at the grocery store not too long ago ✋🏻.

There was something just really nice about him. Like he was a higher being who had come to Earth in a quiet and kind personality.

I asked if it was possible to get fives. 

Oh yes I can do anything, he said. 

He gave me a twenty and two fives.

I can give you more fives than that if you'd like, he said.

I gave him back the twenty and he gave me more fives.

5 5 10 5 5

And I said thank you very much to him both times, of course.

I'm glad people are ridiculous sometimes anyway though because...

 It's like when I went down to the swimming pool when I was a kid and they played that song "I wear my sunglasses at night..." and the lifeguard listened to it and he got all angry and he switched it off and I was like geez why is he so freaking angry? He just could not enjoy it. Thanks buff tense guy. You were a life lesson because I remembered all these years later!

Got to find the "best for you" side of the internet.

Anyways, I'm still pretty (it turned demure into damn near) and introverted, but cool!

Someone has to do the growing.

 

"someone has to do it"

opinatedhag

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUL81aNkS_W/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

bringingbackthisbanger

mainelyemma

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


"I think this message is too important not to share again"

ilonamaher


She's an Olympic medalist!

https://www.instagram.com/ilonamaher?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Alexa?

"this is what some kids are learning relationships from"

BiancaDoesResearch

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sf_C_OTwQn8&si=UblPUOBiKoY1HZcZ

Keeping in mind that the future should be better...

It's important to know how articulate people can be about certain sensitive topics, too. Much of the population needs healing, not ignoring.

Make lists!

So what are the things you like about a white guy with more money? And what are the things you like about a brown woman who picks your food in the field and doesn't have as much money?

You can cook, and other people can cook.

You can grow in the church of knowledge. You can get to know someone better, and more intimately. You can stop expecting one brother to be lower than the other brother on account of the way the system's designed.

Camping without a single worry about a heating pad for cramps.

Another positive thing about the imagined masculine side: this side supports self-improvement and it's like: just do this and get this done. Oh good you, got it done. Well, of course you did. What are you going to do next? On to the next thing. And then if this side hangs outwith me if I'm around a guy who's expecting me to be super feminine in a way that I don't find very enjoyable, this side says okay. Time to leave. No need to try to convince this person otherwise. Just let them live their life, and you can just go. Time to situate yourself elsewhere. Don't try to convince him of things. Don't do arguments. Don't do feminism. Just move on to the next thing. Don't waste your time arguing about stuff with this person. Your time will be better spent elsewhere.

I don't want to give in to the Patriarchal society by changing too much.

I don't think being a girl is inherently oppressive. I think Patriarchal society is oppressive to girls. But that's how it is for me. I also have a bunch of impressions running through my mind like I've already spent plenty of time in more masculine bodies in other lives and I don't need to do anything to make that happen in this life and I don't want it to happen (for me), so that's me in this life.

Another bit of self-knowledge I have.

I think I will be a girl / woman forever in this life. When I found out that maybe if I'd been a boy, I might have been named."Jonathan," I was like, well. I'm really glad that that didn't happen. And I could really feel an impression of what Jonathan would be like and I felt like this: I don't want to be Jonathan. No, I'm not Jonathan. Jonathan is not me. Jonathan was in a heavier mood as a boy, kind of sulky and smart and intense, with dark hair, and I didn't want to be that person in this life. But I don't know. Maybe Jonathan had some good qualities. Sometimes I see pictures and I'm like, huh. That kind of looks like Jonathan doesn't it? Yeah, the moody, intense writer kinds of pictures...Oh well. What can we do but wish Jonathan well. I don't know why they would have chosen that name, but I do also a little bit think of Jonathan Swift and Jonathan Livingston Seagull. If Jonathan can pull himself together and be nice to cats, then maybe Jonathan is okay. Jonathan is also not very old. He's probably an adolescent. Maybe a very young man. 

I feel like levity should be balanced with grounding influences.

"VIOLETTE" | Official UK Trailer 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=D5a907FiwRY&si=Wh5FzDuKMs1YJ4ZE

Just because watching a film (or the trailer) builds your courage a little doesn't mean you're also going to dramatically walk into a book shop and fling a book at the proprietor's head.

Maybe this is funny?

"For most of the past century, your odds of being killed by a cougar were about the same as your odds of being killed by a filing cabinet."

Page 7, "Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law" by Mary Roach

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56769577-fuzz

Yes I have, but not from them.

 

"Heard this song before?"

mocheetah

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