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Monday, March 8, 2021

Today is International Women's Day

In honor of the mythic Woman who stands behind every real Woman... ---------------------------------------------------- MEDUSA O maid, you once were lovely, full of grace, and named for Wisdom in eternal female form-- Metis, Maat, Medha the names you bore... But the passing generations, reshaping and restructuring your form, made you over as a thing to fear, no longer Maid, but monstrous with a deadly, stony gaze; Men made you cruel and cold and perilous to life in latter days, forgetting that... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, March 7, 2021

Answering the C-19 vaccine fears

If someone suffered guillan barre syndrome, it was from the jab itself, not the vaccine. It comes from a germ on the skin pushed into the body at the injection. I had an uncle who got it from an injection of novocaine at the dentist. And he got over it. I know someone else who never recovered from it, too. But it was not the flu shot vaccine that gave it to him, it was the shot itself. It happens, it is tragic, but it is not the vaccine. If anyone had an anaphylactic shock, it was a pre-existing... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, March 5, 2021

carried over from facebook

White Supremacy... Where did the idea come from that white skin means better, or more intelligent, or more capable? It started with the Romans who were Rome Supremacists, and spread their We Are The Best attitude throughout their known world. It hung on with the spread of Christianity, went like the plague through Europe. It spread to the world in ships of exploration and conquest. It's very nature permitted them to quash any other culture they found. It is nothing to do with skin tones, it is... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, February 27, 2021

Not being bored

I have a flip phone. Still. Again. I don't need a phone smarter than me. In waiting rooms, while others are waiting plugged into entertainment and social media, and 'getting things done' I am the one sitting there looking like I am doing nothing. But I am not doing nothing. I am observing. There is always something to take notice of, to watch progress through its own moments. I am thinking. I think about what's going on around me, what I am waiting for, what I will do when it's done. I think... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Joy!

What a way to start the day! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxLbmnvMWM0&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR2cMOkVGetPyqF3FmxZzuoLVS0tixhCfAY47e8JV685ux3jqbuImD2t2Ho Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, February 14, 2021

Faith, Politics, and Reality

Yesterday's politics were no surprise, and I refuse to be depressed by the on-going, predictable malfeasance of the GOP. Every step they take based on the world before now is predicated on an unchanged world, so every day they are more and more out of touch, out of step. The thing about Reality... You remember that cartoon where someone runs through a doorway, and their suspenders get hooked on the door knob: They run towards their goal, but then suddenly, they get snatched back into whatever... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, February 13, 2021

The Trial nearing a conclusion

Thing is, if the Congress fails to convict Trump it will give no glory to the defense team, because acquittal was planned and expected. The only real purpose of the defense team has been to use distraction and faulty logic to provide an excuse for the GOP to pretend to believe in Trump's innocence. But the management team will go down in history for their eloquence and clarity, for their focus on relevant fact and law despite the seemingly pre-ordained outcome intended and manipulated by the... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

The trial begins...

I have heard from a number of my friends that they can't bear to watch the trial of Trump unfold, that they don't want to sit through hours of words, hours of inflammatory rhetoric vs detailed evidence. But I watched yesterday, and will watch at least some of the trial. It does my deep heart good to see him called out, finally, for his lies and tricks and bullshit... I know they may not vote to convict, but I am getting good out of watching him get his nose rubbed in... him. It's opening... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, January 31, 2021

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

One week in...

President Biden has made a stack of executive orders and memoranda to undo some of the doo the previous maladministration dropped on the nation. He has halted the Wall and the XL pipeline projects, and he has protected immigration, immigrants, and DACA 'Dreamers.' One of my personal favorities, he has required the Dept of Justice to end contracts with private prisons. He was not my first choice candidate, but I never bought into the slurs being slung about him and his son, and I knew he would... Sign in to see full entry.

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