gratitudes, thanksgiving, what to wear, my feminine, we're not buying it, amy winehouse
yesterday i was grateful for yoga, sunny nails and virtual photography salon...
today i am looking forward to thanksgiving prep...
yesterday i bought this necklace at a thrift store for $2.70...
the day before thanksgiving... we are going to my sister-in-law's... all the nieces will be there... one niece is mourning a breakup... the others should be in a good place... my cooking responsibility is the brussels sprouts... i am doing a casserole... recipe calls for cheese... i will make a vegan cheese sauce... we did a practice run and the adjustment i wanted to make is less salt... also less sauce... too much overpowers...
as is my way now... i have been thinking about what i would wear for days... assuming my wife is ok with it, i want to wear a dark gray maxi dress over a turtleneck with my semler boots, a necklace, bracelets, and maybe one of my recent jacket purchases... i have two that would be good for the job... i want to wear lipstick too... there are family members who are aware of my feminine expression explorations but haven't witnessed it in full fem mode... my wife gets final word on this...
i have been listening to amy winehouse this morning... wonderful performer... sad story... unrepentant alcoholic... died young... so many of the good ones do...
this from a post by maria popova...
Love Against Probability – The Marginalian
Something inside the protective walls of… our established sense of our self may be preparing us, willingly or unwillingly, for an emancipation, a life beyond it which if intuited too early might be frightening to us, beyond our ability to reach.
this one strikes me because it describes the emergence of my feminine a couple of year ago... this describes it so accurately... it welled up within my masculine sense of self until it burst into the open... i had a dialogue with myself in writing as it did... then it arrived...
i liked this from the same post... though i don't agree with the idea that we don't listen to our intuition very much... even when we think we are overriding it, we are not...
Love Against Probability – The Marginalian
Beneath [our intellectual assessments], untiring but seldom listened to, we have…. a swirling internal formation called the intuition, the imagination, the heart, the almost prophetic part of a person that at its best somehow seems to know what is good and what is bad for us, but also what pattern is just about to precipitate, what out of a hundred possibilities is just about to happen, in a sense, an unspoken faculty for knowing what season we are in. What is about to die and what is about to come into being.
scenes from the shit show...
November 25, 2025 - by Heather Cox Richardson
In that era too, consumers organized, using their buying power to affect politics. As the first general secretary of the National Consumers League, Florence Kelley, put it: “To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.”
this is an important revelation to me... one of the many antidotes to the techbro oligarchs...
there is a "we're not buying it" boycott of target, home depot and amazon over the thanksgiving weekend... we don't shop at target or home depot... i have cancelled the only subscribe and save amazon item i have... needed to cancel it anyway... my wife has more and i am going to encourage her to cancel all of them... we will find alternatives where we can... return to amazon where we don't have alternatives...
i encourage all of you to join the boycott...
November 25, 2025 - by Heather Cox Richardson
In the mid-1880s, those women began to experiment with using their talents and newfound friendships to repair the nation’s social fabric that had been torn by urbanization and industrialization. To recreate a web of social responsibility in the growing industrial cities, young middle-class women moved into ethnic working-class neighborhoods to minister to the people living there. Jane Addams, who opened Chicago’s Hull-House with Ellen Gates Starr in 1889, rejected the idea of a nation divided by haves and have-nots. She believed that all individuals were fundamentally interconnected. “Hull-House was soberly opened on the theory that the dependence of classes on each other is reciprocal,” Addams later wrote.
it's notable to me that this comes from the feminine... the women... not buying into the patriarchy... i want this in my here and now...
pictures from yesterday and today...
