Arm-stretched hair-hidden Coptic-cross Goddess dances! Security Cools. Gloria reigns here! Devotee of garden blooms Only for herself. Dark encircles her Priceless possession glitters ‘Lectric transmits fire!
MoreThe kawaii craze can be traced back to Lady Murasaki. In her 11th century novel, The Tale of Genji, she used the word to refer to qualities which were pitiable, wretched, servile, wretched and forlorn. During the Shogunate period Japan became greatly influenced by Neo-Confucianism. This philosophy’s view of women was strongly patriarchial – women […]
MoreI had to delete the words I typed first of all, because when you are an angry woman, men don’t like it and don’t listen. Those words were my honest reaction to the Prime Minister of Pakistan’s comments on the rape crisis the women and children of his country are facing. Here is my more […]
MoreI just finished watching Concrete Cowboy on Netflix and it was fantastic! Idris Elba and a fine performance by Caleb McLaughlin (of Stranger Things), as urban cowboys in the city in North Philly. It is part a coming of age story, and equal parts redemption and tragedy. Two young men try to deal their way […]
MoreTownes Van Zandt sings from the tinny boombox: living on the road my friends, is gonna keep you free and clean. I laugh. Since when has anyone stayed clean on the road. Still, Townes was part right, I was free. Free of Mr. Charming, free of everything that entailed. I thought I was free of […]
MoreWe had only been on the road for a short period of time – a week perhaps, just the time it took us to meander up to the very northern part of California. It is so beautiful up there – shades of highlands, or alpine pretensions with trees so large and tall they make you […]
MoreSo…I can fish, I used to be able to shoot pretty straight, just at clay pigeons, I can wrangle a horse and start a good safe campfire when weather allows. I can get a tick out safely as possible, and have been known to put a screaming injured rabbit out of it’s misery. In short. […]
MoreWooden sword upraised Spinning splitter wild hits ribs: Diamond war erupts. Chaos on the field No throws hit their marks, a mess! Ohtani is down! Two outs, double play! Balance is restored today – Pitcher licks his lips.
MoreThe Kick inside always makes it into my top twenty albums of all times list, yet I don’t listen to it very often. I put it on today and was hit by a wave of nostalgia. This is the album of my twenties, and as I heard her sing “Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Kathy, I’ve […]
MorePlaying the guitar has been one of the biggest pleasures of my life. I learnt how to play on an Ibanez acoustic, it was big and bulky, too large for me, with a tough high action. It was a beast of a guitar. Those high set strings never got low and responsive, no matter how […]
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