"Birdy in the hand..." 12
Sunny after a cloudy morning. Our high was 88˚F, with a heat index of 91˚F.
I did a LOT today. I'm not even going to try and list it all, but writing stuff and paleo' stuff, and I suppose I was trying to make up for yesterday. Even though I only slept five hours last night. Stuff for Yale. Molding/casting stuff. Cover art stuff for Bradbury Weather. A LOT of proofeading. And all that was before 9 a.m.
I am so fucking tired.
I'm having a strange conversation right now with Chris about how I have been put in a situation where I have to be distrustful of most Christians, and all evangelicals, and that includes the one's who've jettisoned the term evangelical and started calling themselves something else. And no, they are not all homophobic or transphobic or racist or misogynistic...but the odds are greater that they will be than would be non-Christians. Worse, they think they have an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent superbeing on their side, giving them the thumbs up for all this hate. Moreover, they imagine they will be rewarded in an afterlife for their prejudice.
And Salman Rushdie was stabbed in the neck today, and he may not live. And that's the sort of thing I'm talking about. It does not matter if his attacker turns out to be Islamic, rather than Christian, if the motivation behind the attack was religious. And no, I am not condemning religious people. I fucking hate having to think this way, having to fight not to think this way, but right now I am me in Alabama. Anyway, here is one of my favorite Rushdie quotes ~ "An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings."*
Chris told me that DeSantis, an even scarier man than Donald Trump, has banned Scholastic book orders for teachers and Scholastic book fairs. And, I just saw a headline informing me that Florida is dropping Medicaid coverage of transpeople's "gender-affirming" meds. I expect Alabama will be next. Oh, wait. Ten states were already doing this. We are moments from becoming non-persons.
I try not to talk about these things. But...1933.
Anyway, that's enough. I'm gonna go...anything but this. I would appreciate it if you'd have a look at our Big Cartel shop. My writing plus Spooky's tie-dyeing.
Oh...I just have to add, apparently we may soon see Trump formally charged with espionage. It comes as no surprise whatsoever.
And ONE MORE THING: We were watching something about how bizarre and restricted and "safe" the lives of children are in this age, and a woman, someone about my age, said, "We used to climb trees." I could not have said it better.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
11:25 a.m.
* By the way, banning books - or any art - is evil no matter what your intent might be, whether you're on the left or the right or in the middle.
I did a LOT today. I'm not even going to try and list it all, but writing stuff and paleo' stuff, and I suppose I was trying to make up for yesterday. Even though I only slept five hours last night. Stuff for Yale. Molding/casting stuff. Cover art stuff for Bradbury Weather. A LOT of proofeading. And all that was before 9 a.m.
I am so fucking tired.
I'm having a strange conversation right now with Chris about how I have been put in a situation where I have to be distrustful of most Christians, and all evangelicals, and that includes the one's who've jettisoned the term evangelical and started calling themselves something else. And no, they are not all homophobic or transphobic or racist or misogynistic...but the odds are greater that they will be than would be non-Christians. Worse, they think they have an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent superbeing on their side, giving them the thumbs up for all this hate. Moreover, they imagine they will be rewarded in an afterlife for their prejudice.
And Salman Rushdie was stabbed in the neck today, and he may not live. And that's the sort of thing I'm talking about. It does not matter if his attacker turns out to be Islamic, rather than Christian, if the motivation behind the attack was religious. And no, I am not condemning religious people. I fucking hate having to think this way, having to fight not to think this way, but right now I am me in Alabama. Anyway, here is one of my favorite Rushdie quotes ~ "An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings."*
Chris told me that DeSantis, an even scarier man than Donald Trump, has banned Scholastic book orders for teachers and Scholastic book fairs. And, I just saw a headline informing me that Florida is dropping Medicaid coverage of transpeople's "gender-affirming" meds. I expect Alabama will be next. Oh, wait. Ten states were already doing this. We are moments from becoming non-persons.
I try not to talk about these things. But...1933.
Anyway, that's enough. I'm gonna go...anything but this. I would appreciate it if you'd have a look at our Big Cartel shop. My writing plus Spooky's tie-dyeing.
Oh...I just have to add, apparently we may soon see Trump formally charged with espionage. It comes as no surprise whatsoever.
And ONE MORE THING: We were watching something about how bizarre and restricted and "safe" the lives of children are in this age, and a woman, someone about my age, said, "We used to climb trees." I could not have said it better.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
11:25 a.m.
* By the way, banning books - or any art - is evil no matter what your intent might be, whether you're on the left or the right or in the middle.