my new girl circle, modeling gig, new pepper duds, natural cleaning, tradwife nostalgia, climate crisis and the straits of hormuz
yesterday i was grateful for beautiful tulips from the farmer's market...
today i am looking forward to yoga with anne...
day 3 of journaling through my blog... my new friends aj and shante just left for their walk... aj and i have been doing coffee together in the morning for three or four weeks... shante shows up sometime after we sit down depending on what her evening was like... the two of them are a bit thelma and louise... i enjoy their company... although they consume some of my prime thought time in the morning... i am trying not to mind because face to face friends are so important in the present moment... we chat about girl shit for the most part... they are starting to include me in their girl circle which i appreciate...
i am preparing for a busy week... i have a modeling gig tomorrow of all things... a local designer clothing store does photo shoots with their customers a couple of times a year... i missed the last one but excited for tomorrow... see if i have modeling chops;-)... wendnesday is work at the cemetery... did i tell you i am president of a cemetery?... thursday a trip into the city to ps1 to see the greater new york show with a friend/fellow cemetery board member...
i just ordered a new teddie and bathing suit from pepper (the bathing suit i said i was contemplating yesterday)...
i am not sure i will wear the bathing suit as a bathing suit... i am getting it as something to wear with my new jumpsuit from free people or with pants or denim skirt... that i can swim in it too is maybe a bonus?... just not sure i can make it work with my genitals... will probably need underpants with it to contain my junk so to speak... but we will see... it would be next level courage for me to wear it to the beach and actually swim in it...
i spent yesterday afternoon gathering various make your own cleaner ingredients... i gathered according to this website...
ingredients included...
- vinegar
- lemon juice
- eucalyptus oil
- castille soap
- baking soda
i have a major bathroom deep cleaning job to tackle and want to use natural ingredients to do it with... better for the environment and much cheaper...
speaking of housework... this post at lithub on the nostalgia of present day tradwives for tradwives of the 1800's who, it turns out, were also nostalgic for tradwives of an earlier era, is provocative and well written...
Todayâs social media tradwives have resurrected Beecher and Childâs blueprint almost beat for beat. Iâm talking about the Little House on the Prairie cosplay kind of tradwife. The ones who say youâre doing homecare and motherhood and marriage all wrong if you arenât doing it in a floral dress. Who preach getting married and having babies when youâre very young, romanticize homesteading, and extoll scratch cookingâheavy on the sourdough. Itâs an aesthetic that runs on pure nostalgia. Things were better in the past, tradwives insist. So letâs go back.
Beecher and Childâs books and todayâs tradwives are reacting to the same cultural tension: housekeeping is essential, exhausting, and yet still treated as somehow beneath serious consideration.
But hereâs the funny thing: those 1800s domestic advice writers were nostalgic for the housekeeping of the past, too. The problem with âmodern girlsâ Child wrote (in 1829!) is that theyâre so busy socializing and learning how to play the piano and indulging in âextravaganceâ that they have no time âfor the formation of quiet, domestic habits.â And Beecher was wistful for a Colonial New England past when wives ran households with a clocklike efficiency. She wishes âthat the grandmothers of New-England had written down their experiences for our children; they would have been a mine of maxims and traditions.â Even for Beecher and Child, the good old days were already long gone.
hmmm...
and this post by rebecca solnit identifies a climate story that came and went much too quickly given the potential gravity of the climate situation...
Anyway, here's how the Guardian framed it, "The critical Atlantic current system appears significantly more likely to collapse than previously thought after new research found that climate models predicting the biggest slowdown are the most realistic. Scientists called the new finding 'very concerning' as a collapse would have catastrophic consequences for Europe, Africa and the Americas. The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is a major part of the global climate system and was already known to be at its weakest for 1,600 years as a result of the climate crisis."
the good news is that the war with iran and the consequent closure of the straits of hormuz may be propelling accelerated renewable energy demand and development... a good read...
some photos from today and yesterday...
well... i had more photos in mind but something went haywire so i will end it here... have a good day!...