as i think about the mercury 13, i also think about the two crime-espionage tv series we are watching… the last frontier on apple tv and absentia on apple tv also… they both feature strong rogue women as the central characters… latter day dirty harrys in feminine form… centering women as capable, accomplished individuals is good… still, they are women playing patriarchal games… is that a good thing?…
just finished watching mercury 13 documentary… what a great story!…
our doggies are so funny… when dinner time is approaching they have a standard list of antics they go through to plead their case… it culminates with dinner now or puss dies phase… pus is more than capable of fending them off, so it never works…
cardoon has arrived in the local high end supermarket… making it for dinner tonight to go with a baked potato and a boneless ribeye steak…
i am subscribed to a feed out of denmark called feminine moments… i read about an art project about the mercury 13… 13 women trained in 1959-60 for the american space program… they met all the same qualifications of mental and physical toughness the men did, except, the one that matters… being men… they never were accepted into the program… one of them, wally funk, got to fly in 2021… 60 years later…
for the past couple of days i have been thinking about social media as it exists on line, and… as it existed before facebook and instagram and whatever else is an option… i have soured… on all of that… none of them have been very satisfying… what has been satisfying is the analog social media technology… my local coffee shops, restaurants, performance venues, pot luck suppers, movie theater… etc…
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this can be viewed as a response to the extrajudicial killings of venezuelans in boats and the growing worry that the administration is preparing on the ground action in venezuela… but these are people in a position to know things, and i wonder if they know of other, closer to home, plans the administration has for deploying the military…
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instead, i have shifted my thinking to believing that what the world needs more of is to value the feminine… at minimum, the feminine needs to claim equal space in the power structure… we need to evolve an economic system that values feminine power…
i believe we all need to be part of a masculine-feminine continuum… traditional hetero-normative social structure centers on the model of male at birth (mab) in union with female at birth (fab) uniting in yinyang configuration to produce children… this makes sense for the survival of humanity… i pursued this configuration for most of my adult life… i liked it well enough… physical intimacy with a woman was necessary for the wholeness of me…
i think of this as one of the most significant statements made by anyone since the start of the present century… it is a fundamental truth… something more than a fact, which it disparages… a truth… the profound idea that facts don’t equal truth… they can be a scaffolding for truth, but they are not truth itself…
sometimes my body says “thou shalt rest,” and there is nothing for it but to put my feet up and watch star trek all day long…
yesterday i was grateful for the feminine camaraderie of karen, gina and johanna at beauty ritual…
today i am looking forward to progress at the cemetery…
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mirror selfie… i’m wearing a new jacket i got from a vintage consignment store this past weekend… it was on the designer rack and is probably the most expensive piece of clothing i currently own… i decided to look up the designer… turns out she is a textile and wearable art artist… the jacket was probably fabricated by her studio out of fabric made by the studio or to the designs of the studio?… she appears to have looms… so maybe the fabric was made in studio?… could it be one of a kind?…
during “yoga with anne” last night something interesting happened… i am not sure why, but i started to imagine that when i inhaled, i was drawing energy in through whatever parts of my body had contact with my yoga matt… and when i exhaled, i was returning the energy to the matt through those same points of contact… this was a deeply satisfying experience… i felt a kind of oneness with the cosmos doing that…
If artificial intelligence or automation suddenly has capabilities that help us to manage ourselves better, let’s explore that, but it’s tragic when those opportunities pass through the filter of what fills the pockets of a few. I welcome advances in the economy and technology, if their purpose is to create and multiply human happiness. Otherwise, there is the possibility of a disastrous world, and we may see a kind of dictatorship that the Earth has never seen before.
José Mujica
yesterday i was grateful for window shopping with holly…
today i am looking forward to a day without obligations and yoga with anne…
i wonder if 47 will direct the federal government to purchase the solid gold functional toilet for his bathroom remodel at the white house?…
meanwhile the shutdown continues and the administration refuses to provide snap benefits to those dependent on them, which includes my niece, though she is fortunate to have parents and aunt-uncles able and willing to help…
“let them eat cake”…
i am expecting to be shown the edges of trans culture as well as hopefully to find a better understanding of what i am in relation to trans culture… am i simply a cross dresser?… which, honestly, should be enough but in my mind i am more than that… my feminine nature trumps my masculine nature such that i want to wear feminine clothing and makeup and be the feminine i want to see… most of the time…
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and so, fortified by morning rituals and this post about the power of words i moved on to confronting the daily shock and awe of heather cox richardson, not that she intends it to be shock and awe… and what do i find but another uplifting testament to the power of words, this time in the form of quotes from the victory speech of zorhan mamdani, mayor elect of nyc…
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democrats won every race and ballot issue that mattered last night… and by wide margins… in virginia… in every county in virginia… there was a move towards democrats… a blue wave that hopefully leads to a blue tidal wave in the midterms… i am wondering what the trump administration reaction will be…
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as you get older, the things that go bump in the dark are mostly health related… something will get you sooner or later… the goal is to make that later and to have a good quality of life until you get there…
the author had a difficult relationship with his family… especially his father… but his mother was an authoritarian figure in his life… more so than his father… even so… he was closer to his mother… his parents fought a lot… he was embarrassed to bring friends home… when he told acquaintances about them he made up better parents than he actually had…
i am profoundly worried about what is coming down the tracks at us… the news that cabinet members have moved onto military bases, that the president has ordered the creation of rapid response national guard units in every state, that the president refuses to provide congressionally allocated emergency funding for snap programs, that the president believes he has the right to carry out extrajudicial killings of suspected drug boats, and so much more, all while renovating the white house into a presidential palace and throwing lavish great gatsby parties at mar-a-lago…