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Saturday Caturday
It was wicked cold & windy the other day & I wore my parka to combat the wind. I came home for a minute & threw my parka on the chair. When I came back to put it on, Radar had made himself all comfy-cozy on my jacket! Oh well, I have other warm coats I can wear! Can’t disturb Radar!
Anais Nin: Writer, Wildcat, Bigamist and Bon Vivant
Anais Nin is probably the greatest influence on my life, both as a writer & as a woman. Which say a lot, since the most exciting places I have ever lived are cities like Buffalo, NY, Cleveland, OH and Lowell, MA. But I have found lovers, stories, poetry in all these places. And my diary continues to this day.
She was an author, a philosopher, a makeshift psychoanalyst, a flamenco dancer, an actress and an international woman of mystery. Her love affairs were legendary, and her tell-all erotica is hailed by critics as the finest ever written.
Born To Be Wild
Anais Nin, birth name “Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell” (you can see why she shortened it!) was born on this day, February 21, 1903 in Nueilly, France. Her father, Joaquín Nin, was Cuban pianist of Spanish descent, and her mother Rosa Culmell, was a Cuban singer of French and Danish descent. Even at birth she seemed destined for an artistic life which would lead her across continents.
Sadly, her parents separated when Anais was only two years old. Rosa then took Anais and her brothers to Barcelona and later New York City. Anais began high school but dropped out at age sixteen. She then…
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Matriarchies Are Not Just a Reversal of Patriarchies: A Structural Analysis by Heide Goettner-Abendroth
Matriarchies are not just a reversal of patriarchies, with women ruling over men – as the usual misinterpretation would have it. Matriarchies are mother-centered societies. They are based on maternal values: care-taking, nurturing, mothering. This holds for everybody: for mothers and those who are not mothers, for women and men alike.
Matriarchal societies are consciously built upon maternal values and motherly work, and this is why they are much more realistic than patriarchies. They are, on principle, need-oriented. They aim to meet everyone’s needs with the greatest benefit. So, in matriarchies, mothering – which originates as a biological fact – is transformed into a cultural model. This model is much more appropriate to the human condition than the patriarchal conception of motherhood which is used to make women, and especially mothers, into slaves.
Within matriarchal cultures, equality means more than just a levelling of differences. Natural differences between the genders…
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Saturday Caturday
It’s wicked cold & windy outside but it’s also sunny & Radar & Bobby are sleeping in the warm sun. Bobby especially likes to be in the sunshine!
Going beyond the American political binary
The fundamental fallacy … committed by almost everyone is this: “A and B hate each other, therefore one is good and the other is bad.” [Bertrand Russell]
When people hear a story, they ask: Is it really true? When people hear two stories, they ask: Which one is true? [Author unknown]
The smart way to keep people obedient and passive is to strictly limit the spectrum of debate, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. [Noam Chomsky]
In the USA, political partisanship can be bitter nowadays. Pew Research reported that nearly one in two Americans have stopped talking politics with someone because of something they said. Among liberal Democrats, the figure is six in 10.
The most obvious explanation for this is polarization on certain issues—abortion rights, gun control, gay marriage or affirmative action, for example. The alignment of the two parties is clear, and…
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new stories can root
When we let ourselves respond to poetry, to music, to pictures, we are clearing out a space where new stories can root, in effect we are clearing a space for new stories about ourselves.
Jeanette Winterson
Testimony Against Gertrude Stein
