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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Copied over from my Facebook page

If you don't get the shot, what's that gain you? The chance of getting really sick, even dying from a virus, is really the only possibility. It's a coin-toss, how it might affect you. Or that you might or might never get it. You also get to put energy into defending your anti-vax position, you get to be part of the herd of those who refuse the science, refuse the shot, and cling to defiance as a response to all the authorities who actually are trying to help. If you do get the shot, you might... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

What vs Who

I read an article about how animals are perceived in different ways, how we categorize the ones we love as friends and companions, and those we eat. https://www.vox.com/22409717/animal-rights-welfare-vegetarian-vegan-animal-law?fbclid=IwAR0UJvisEHAZTsjeWpvp8G4iDPBQ1dnATxFML30pQG4-QCs3EhdZGvuXTnk It questions whether we can really shift our old paradigms about animals, about the 'what' vs 'who' of them. I think we can, as much as we have in recent years reconsidered the roles of men and women in... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Running on the wrong priorities

I am all for strengthening the voices of rational thinking, of science-supportive, global-warming consciousness, of humanity and compassion. I am for democratic socialism that builds up our communities, and I am totally anti-fascism, against power that crushes its opponents. In a general way, that means I am for flipping red to blue. But I am hearing so many candidates whose first declaration is that they are running to flip the colors. It's a case of mistaking effects for goals. What I want to... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Found in the archives...

Lament I'm sorry, I can't love you like a love should be... Out here I stand beyond the glass, the wall of distance between my heart and the world... Love's such a quiet subtle thing so easily drowned out by need and want and hungers wailing from a time the time when children learn to love by being loved... I'm sorry my missing pieces make this puzzle that is love forever incomplete... Yet I want to love, you are so very dear although my heart is mute and broken... I know love is something like... Sign in to see full entry.

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.

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