This is spot on. We're resonating at the same frequency (as are many women). My post today addresses similar themes. As one of my readers wrote:
"Women must come together to change the system that we have allowed through our collective lack of organization, voice, POWER. Women are so scared of that word but as MLK said (paraphrasing) “power without love (action-oriented caring) is abusive, love without power is anemic.”
Just lost another comment. Inadvertently. Basically in one sentence, cultural distortion and infantilization works well on young boys, especially during adolescence. Whole culture of teaching violence as justified "bravery". "State of the union" was a perfect example, bloody war and injury tribute. Cheering every sentence uttered, a sick spectacle. Quietly the opposite does not get the praise, and there are millions of examples around us everyday. Everyday heroes, men and women. When it bleeds it leads. Sick culture.
Love this! As someone who has made hundreds of flowers essences (which I've now dispersed the entire collection back onto the earth in a ritual process), I totally agree that Nature does not lie, but we have plugged our ears and refused to listen to her wisdom! Thanks again... I'll definitely be sharing this!
Oof. Before this, I read a piece on OpenAI and Anthropic and was gutted by the callous and dystopian language used to articulate the purpose of tech designed to kill people. This world is getting weirder all the time. Blurry lines between fact and fiction. Finding it tough right now being a Mom to young children.
Love this. “Nature is not benign and can be devastating.” She is not “good”, she just is.. creative, regenerative and destructive. She does not lie or pretend.
We grow mullein because we like it, even though most people view it as a weed. I’ve never heard of moth mullein before, and I would very much like to find this weed! I’ve been working on my winter tree ID as a centering activity. The trees are tricky, but only because I need to pay more attention to, not because they’re trying to deceive.
The pussy willows are beautiful. My dove-gray tree is still dormant, though now that the sun is out and the rains are replacing the snows, it should not be long before it too pushes flowers through the tightly closed sepals of their own "birth canals."
And, I also wonder at the language chosen to describe the birth of this universe and to describe the act of procreation itself. Why (and I did ask my spouse this, though I knew it was mostly rhetorical) have men made the words for the one action they want to engage in more than any other, into "dirty," violent, words? Why have they become curses?
This is spot on. We're resonating at the same frequency (as are many women). My post today addresses similar themes. As one of my readers wrote:
"Women must come together to change the system that we have allowed through our collective lack of organization, voice, POWER. Women are so scared of that word but as MLK said (paraphrasing) “power without love (action-oriented caring) is abusive, love without power is anemic.”
Actions not words. Organization. Love + Power."
Just lost another comment. Inadvertently. Basically in one sentence, cultural distortion and infantilization works well on young boys, especially during adolescence. Whole culture of teaching violence as justified "bravery". "State of the union" was a perfect example, bloody war and injury tribute. Cheering every sentence uttered, a sick spectacle. Quietly the opposite does not get the praise, and there are millions of examples around us everyday. Everyday heroes, men and women. When it bleeds it leads. Sick culture.
Love this! As someone who has made hundreds of flowers essences (which I've now dispersed the entire collection back onto the earth in a ritual process), I totally agree that Nature does not lie, but we have plugged our ears and refused to listen to her wisdom! Thanks again... I'll definitely be sharing this!
Oof. Before this, I read a piece on OpenAI and Anthropic and was gutted by the callous and dystopian language used to articulate the purpose of tech designed to kill people. This world is getting weirder all the time. Blurry lines between fact and fiction. Finding it tough right now being a Mom to young children.
I'm glad you are not in Dubai anymore!
Nice, thank you, needed this post this morning.
Love this. “Nature is not benign and can be devastating.” She is not “good”, she just is.. creative, regenerative and destructive. She does not lie or pretend.
We grow mullein because we like it, even though most people view it as a weed. I’ve never heard of moth mullein before, and I would very much like to find this weed! I’ve been working on my winter tree ID as a centering activity. The trees are tricky, but only because I need to pay more attention to, not because they’re trying to deceive.
Something tells me the only way to find moth mullein is to hope for it and let your weeds grow!
YUP!
extra love on this one
The pussy willows are beautiful. My dove-gray tree is still dormant, though now that the sun is out and the rains are replacing the snows, it should not be long before it too pushes flowers through the tightly closed sepals of their own "birth canals."
And, I also wonder at the language chosen to describe the birth of this universe and to describe the act of procreation itself. Why (and I did ask my spouse this, though I knew it was mostly rhetorical) have men made the words for the one action they want to engage in more than any other, into "dirty," violent, words? Why have they become curses?