It’s weird that I can’t go out and enjoy the burgeoning spring on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, but I get that the weirdness is also poignant and poetic. I’m not the best steward and I should learn more skills in that area, and figure out how best to protest misuse given my physicalContinue reading “Day 41, with 50 yrs of Earth Day”
Category Archives: Humanity
Day 34, with Exhaustion
Yesterday morning my voice was ragged and low, what Jon calls my Kathleen Turner Overdrive voice. I sounded like a massive cold was in my throat and lungs, snot not there yet but oh-yeah incoming. And I was TIRED. Really darkdeep tired. I was seriously debating calling in a sick day. But people need, andContinue reading “Day 34, with Exhaustion”
Day 24, with Inspirations
CW: Coping or lack thereof, discussion of a death unrelated to COVID-19 It’s funny how many tiny inspirations a person can pull from their immediate surroundings when trying to cope with a mass trauma event. I’ve been through more than one, and normally I get my coping juice from being outside or with blooming thigs.Continue reading “Day 24, with Inspirations”
“A Real Catastrophe”
Lin-Manuel Miranda was right. 44.5 IS going straight to hell. He’s the real catastrophe. Between that awful, evil statement about Puerto Rico today and this article on Vox, I might explode from rage. And I don’t even have any relatives there – just an ex-coworker from there. I can’t imagine what folks who have family/friendsContinue reading ““A Real Catastrophe””
Transgender Day of Visibility
Today is Transgender Day of Visibility, and there’s something I’d like to do that cis folk don’t often do. I’d like to let people know about my pronouns. I prefer they/their as pronouns but I don’t mind she/her at ALL *. I’ve seen a couple of comments going around saying “if you’re not sure aboutContinue reading “Transgender Day of Visibility”
We Take Care of Our People
Excuse me while I indulge in some comic book geekery. I have to admit, I was never a Captain America fan. I came to comics when comics came to TV, where Wonder Woman, Hulk, and Spider-Man were visible and adored. The late-70s movies for Captain America weren’t interesting and didn’t tap into the 1940s FDR-lovingContinue reading “We Take Care of Our People”
In the Name of Love
One of the more pernicious things I see in American – well, in Western culture is this idea that if a being loves you, any action they perform is immediately not abusive or not hurtful. Or is excused from any possible perception of harm. Or even, if a being has no hate whatsoever in theirContinue reading “In the Name of Love”
Training Beauty
Warning: this is a pretty tl;dr post with a bunch of details obscured for privacy. Feel free to skip. ~ On Facebook this week, I’ve been seeing a lovely sentiment from Lacey Sturm get shared among my friends: i want to apologize… by rupi kaur It’s the kind of thing you look at, think “ohContinue reading “Training Beauty”
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