i am finding it relatively easy to buy things from places other than amazon… i am finding it hard to wait the additional days for delivery… the way of enlightened behavior requires patience and determination…
what stands out to me in the fact statement is the idea that blurring the distinction between male and female deflates the power of the patriarchy, which is the political act i am most proud of in pursuing femmaninity… especially in a moment when the patriarchy, hopefully in its death throws, is doubling down on strict gender lines… my femmaninity is my most fundamental act of resistance…
what is significant in the above quote for me is that i am proud of my journey to femmaninity… i am proud of my courage and honesty with myself and others… and i do believe i have unique qualities to bring to the worlds of men, women and every gender in-between…
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i prefer to think of the continuum that is masculine-feminine in the way of yinyang… which is an ever changing gendered configuration which sometimes emphasizes masculine or feminine and other times blurs the distinction between the two… in fact, it is generally held in the philosophy of yinyang that society is out of balance if the masculine or the feminine dominates too completely for too long…
and this is a really interesting point to me… that fossil fuel, oil especially, is at the root of so many of our conflicts around the globe… that we will be less likely to make war on each other if we transition to renewables… and it will slow down the war we are making against the planet…
an important listen from heather cox richardson…
i finished a sci-fi book by mary doria russell titled the sparrow… an amazing book that addresses the existence of evil in the face of a benevolent god… this is a question i think about a lot… i don’t believe in god, at least not any kind of omnipotent god, compassionate or not… i come at it from a different angle… what is the purpose of compassion in a cosmos that appears to care little about good or evil except through intelligent beings?…
finished reading The Sparrow… easily the best book i read this year… so smart… so well written… sci-fi… religion… philosophy… great story telling that sticks the landing… important questions raised for thoughtful consideration…
yesterday i was grateful for lunch and the nail salon with holly…
today i am looking forward to a visit from my sister and brother in law and the end of 2025…
yesterday i was grateful for a visit from holly’s cousin sue, and snow…
today i am looking forward to wading through the snow…
no, i don’t look like a woman to most people… i look like a cross dressing man… but the feeling i want for myself… the illusion i want to exist in… is that of being womanly, if not a woman entire…
yesterday i was grateful for christmas movies, seven fishes and holly…
today i am looking forward to exchanging gifts, a dutch baby, braised beast and more christmas movies…
this post by maria popova hit home for me because i have undergone a significant change in the past couple of years… i am referring, of course, to my becoming trans feminine, openly, in public… i like to think of it as an evolution and i am really proud of myself for being able to evolve… it was scary at first… i couldn’t hold it back but i was afraid of how people would react
yesterday i was grateful for a charcuterie board from my brother and the news that i may get to see my sister in the next few days…
today i am looking forward to wrapping presents and starting to prepare the seven fishes feast…
yesterday i was grateful for a delicious cabbage and sausage soup and christmas movies with holly…
today i am looking forward to meeting with my cemetery colleagues and beginning to prep food for christmas eve and christmas day…
yesterday i was grateful for a winter solstice celebration, the women in my family, both here and gone, and winter’s tale movie…
today i am looking forward to the farmer’s market and more christmas movies…
yesterday i was grateful for devon and erza who i had nice exchanges with in kitchen and coffee and lores…
today i am looking forward to a wind and rain storm and getting my nails done…
yesterday i was grateful for annette bening in the american president, the feminine mystique of rosemary cluny in white christmas and the incredible dancing of vera-ellen in white christmas…
today i am looking forward to restorative yoga with maryann, lunch with holly and more christmas movies…
yesterday i was grateful for the movie last christmas and my headphones through which i immersed myself in bach’s st matthew’s passion…
today i am looking forward to yoga with maryanne and the lit book club…
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what we are watching tonight…
The great and terrible thing about humankind is simply this: we will always do what we are capable of.
– Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea
to live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility."
join the “we’re not buying it” boycott of amazon, target and home depot this weekend…
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…