Radar hiding in the shrubberies. He knows that it’s time to come in from outside & he doesn’t want to go back into the house.
Saturday Caturday
Saturday Caturday
Bobby inside the patio, looking at Radar outside, hiding in the juniper shrubberies.
Can We Talk About the Sex Offender Spectrum?
THIS IS SO TRUE.
At one end, you’d find Mary, Mother of God if she walked the earth, amid a crowd of mostly female people. Here also there will be men who treat women and children with genuine respect. Let’s say the Mr. Rogers of the world. At the other end, Satan himself and various other monsters, including the likes of Paul Bernardo, Luis Garavito & John Wayne Gacy, amid a densely packed crowd of mostly male humans. Yes, female sex offenders exist, but those who commit heinous crimes in the absence of an influential, if not coercive, relationship with a sex offending male are vanishingly rare. One thing we know with statistical certainty is that the vast majority of sex offenders, approximately 99% of them, are male.
The spectrum of sexual boundary violations ranges from the relatively benign male gaze to horrific sexual torture inflicted by porn-sick sadists. The world is full of…
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Another post from Caitlin Johnson
Full disclosure: I’ve had an Instant Pot since 2016. It’s a great cooking tool & what’s more, it’s fun. But this isn’t about cooking or cooking tools per se. It’s about how capitalism & the profit motive is killing our planet & everything on it, including the human race.
Link here ~~~~> https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2023/07/13/profit-driven-systems-are-driving-us-to-our-doom/
vii of wands
the grey lady refuses to argue anymore.
Saturday Caturday
Naptime in the patio.
Saturday Caturday
The boys on the bed.
vi of wands
The grey lady writes advice for a graduate that was once herself.
And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us…
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“And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.”
Vincent van Gogh – The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh.
Art by Vincent Van Gogh – A Walk at Twilight, 1890.
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June 27: Lucille Clifton
Clifton, Lucille. “Her Love Poem”. A Geography of Poets: An Anthology of the New Poetry. Edited by Edward Field. NY: Bantam Books, 1979. poem is found on page 317.
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