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| Saturday, June 20th, 2009 | | 9:03 pm |
| | Monday, June 15th, 2009 | | 9:01 pm |
Baby greens, in to steam, yum yum, happy we!
I thinned in the garden today daikon radish, turnips, beets both red and gold, and honest-to-goodness full-grown mustard greens. Our first pickings from the garden this year (if you ignore the 2 strawberries I ate while ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lightfoote and mlerules weren't watching) :). The CopperMoon Garden of Love from our handfasting is just bursting with stuff. It probably should be thinned but I just can't bring myself to yet. I recognize beans and lettuce and peas (though I don't know if they're sweet peas or edible...). It's fun watching it grow and trying to guess what the plants are. Piks here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woosi/ Current Mood:  ditzy | | Sunday, June 14th, 2009 | | 12:06 pm |
Adopt-an-O
Many of you have participated in the journey towards creating the O book... and you've heard I have finished interior formatting and cover design and am ready to self-publish!. I'd love your help in self-publishing through a local printer using environmentally-responsible printing practices. This is your chance to help everyone be multiorgasmic, without violating your marriage vows or other relationship agreements! Pre-order copies of The Os of the Wild Woosi! If you've never heard ofThe Os of the Wild Woosi, I'll be posting a preview soon...
 Anticipatory | | Saturday, June 13th, 2009 | | 6:27 pm |
Multi-national planting
Planted Korean Stone Pines with llama beans and northwest mushroom leavings (from G-spot's mushroom hunting). It was a multi-national affair :) Ace says the mushrooms like pines and will form a symbiotic relationship with the pine tree, benefiting both tree and fungi. I hope it makes up for the fact that the trees were long overdue for transplanting. Korean stone pines are the trees that produce pine nuts...patience is.... Also finally tie-dyed my white 'O' shirt in watery colors. It's beautiful, and the writing resisted the dye, so it turned out exactly as I wanted :0) The rest of my weekend has been full of printing out invitations for my parent's 50th Anniversary, e-mailing servas hosts to try to get free accommodations in London and Paris, and reviewing my will. Tomorrow I get to work on costumes for FaerieWorlds... Current Mood:  Anticipatory | | Monday, May 18th, 2009 | | 12:05 pm |
Beauvoir in Paris
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Together, they [Beauvoir and her boyfriend, Sartre] set out
to create a new, existential way of living.
God, they argued, does not exist, nor does
human nature. Each person must make his
or her own destiny. In order to have love, one
must choose love. For that, one must be free.
Both rejected the concept of marriage, opting
instead for a mutual pact. Living apart, they
would carry on an open relationship of “primary”
love. Both were free to take “secondary”
loves as long as each was entirely honest with the
other. Such a relationship, Beauvoir insisted, had
“all the advantages of a shared life without any
of its inconveniences.” In 1947, Beauvoir took up the question of
what it means to be a woman. She called her
new work “The Second Sex.” Sheila Malovany-
Chevallier, who with Constance Borde is doing
a new English translation of the book, due in
the fall of 2009, says that writing “The Second
Sex” made Beauvoir a feminist. Her painstaking
research into physiology, psychoanalysis, history
and Marxist theory convinced her that “one is
not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” Man is
the One, she argued; woman is the Other, forced
by society into a femininity that makes her the
object and prey of men. Lack of freedom is the
ultimate evil for women, but without education,
health care and financial independence, freedom
is useless.
Such feminist ideas, radical when “The Second
Sex” was published in 1949, brought cries
of outrage. The Vatican blacklisted the book.
Beauvoir was vilified in the press and taunted in
the streets. She was accused, she later wrote, of
being “unsatisfied, frigid, priapic, nymphomaniac,
lesbian, a hundred times aborted … even
an unwed mother.” At the same time, thousands
of women embraced the life-changing freedom
they found in her work, declaring the book to
be their “salvation.”
Current Mood: hyper | | Saturday, May 16th, 2009 | | 1:57 pm |
| | Friday, May 15th, 2009 | | 2:58 pm |
Gay Parents in Finland
My daughter said Finland, that already allows gay marriage and already allows a gay parent to adopt a child, just changed their laws so that both gay parents could legally adopt a child together (before they had no provision for a child to be adopted by two moms or two dads)... Now, we're a little behind... Current Mood: bouncy | | Monday, May 4th, 2009 | | 12:14 pm |
| | Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 | | 1:49 pm |
My Shadow
From a Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was my favorite book and favorite poems for a long time, and for some reason it came to mind today. ( Read more... ) Current Mood:  nostalgic | | Sunday, April 19th, 2009 | | 8:20 pm |
Daffodils Out Standing in the Llama Field
I noticed bright yellow flowers in the middle of our center llama field today and went to investigate. They're daffodils. Growing in the middle of our llama field. I'm fairly certain they weren't there last year. Any of our llama sitters know anything about this? Current Mood: bouncy | | Saturday, April 18th, 2009 | | 5:34 pm |
The L Herd, Episode 13, "Spring Shearing and More Fun with Llamas"
What is that quote? "An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body."
Anyways, siouxiequeue is in the real friend club, after helping us bury Heliconninae today. Sad business but it's done and she's now part of the circle of life at CopperMoon.
We also got Aurora and Wasabi sheared and dusted and vaccinated and toenails clipped, and gave their babies their first run at it too, so the moms can now go to their new home in Snohomish and the babies got their shots too so they're protected :)
And it was a glorious day spent with glorious people. I love you siouxiequeue and lightfoote!
Oh, and the swallows are back :) Current Mood: dirty but happyCurrent Music: That's what a mama llama does... | | 5:10 pm |
The L Herd, Episode 13, "Spring Shearing and Hiding the Body"
What is that quote? "An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body." Anyways, siouxiequeue is in the real friend club, after helping us bury Heliconninae today. Sad business but it's done and she's now part of the circle of life at CopperMoon. We also got Aurora and Wasabi sheared and dusted and vaccinated and toenails clipped, and gave their babies their first run at it too, so the moms can now go to their new home in Snohomish and the babies got their shots too so they're protected :) And it was a glorious day spent with glorious people. I love you siouxiequeue and lightfoote! Current Mood: dirty but happy | | Friday, April 17th, 2009 | | 9:36 pm |
Unhappy llama news
I had to put one of my llamas down today. We're not sure how, but she'd broken her femur. Fixing it meant major surgery, which would have cost in the thousands, and at her age (16) she may not have recovered. I know it was the right decision, but it's still hard. So all hail to Heliconninae. May she join the llama nessies swimming in Woods Lake. Current Mood:  okay | | Saturday, March 28th, 2009 | | 7:12 pm |
Reminding Myself
I used to think that I was the type of person who couldn't go to sleep if there was any noise ... a distant radio or people talking outside would keep me up. That's just the way I was. Then I was challenged to change that, and realized that it wasn't part of who I was. I'd decided that I couldn't go to sleep with noise, and that was what was actually keeping me up. More than the noise, my anger at the people who were making the noise kept me up. I'd lay in bed grumbling and blaming those noisy people for keeping me awake and spent many a wakeful hour wishing they'd just shut up. Once I realized that this was something I'd decided about myself, not just the way I was, and that my anger was keeping me awake, not the noise, I could change both things. Noise still wakes me up, but unless it's really loud or obnoxious, I just fall right back to sleep. There's a lot of power in that... in realizing that you are who you've decided to be. It comes with a price, of course, you can't blame other people anymore. If you don't like it who you are, well, get busy. So, I've incorporated this sleeping with noise into my daily existence, but I'd kinda forgotten about looking at myself critically from time to time and challenging myself whenever I have that "it's just who I am" feelings. Making sure who I've decided to be is who I consciously want to be and how I'm actually being in the world. So I'm challenging myself to again embrace that power in realizing you can decide who you want to be. Current Mood: thoughtfulCurrent Music: Times They are a-Changing | | Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 | | 10:05 am |
Muggle Saunas
I went to the YMCA in Monroe for the first time last night. After working out, I went into the sauna, which is in the women's locker room. I checked the instructions on the door to make sure nudity was allowed, and it mentioned sitting on a towel if you were "undressed," so that's what I did. Then a strange thing happened. A young woman joined me. In full sweats. I thought this was odd. By her quick glance at me, I suspected she thought I was odd. But oh well, back to stewing. Then another young woman walked in. In full sweats. WTF? I'm wondering if this is normal for this Y or if I just ran into the only two people who go there and think that sweats are normal attire for a sauna. | | Thursday, February 19th, 2009 | | 10:22 am |
| | Friday, January 30th, 2009 | | 3:36 pm |
| | Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 | | 7:37 pm |
Levity and Laxity
Just back from a smokin' flyin' toad rip to visit MLE's friends and family in LAX, then Disneyland! ( To peek or to peak? ) and ghost1 for an amazing dinner and invigorating round of Demon (OMG - what fun!), then off to breakfast with don't-know-his-LJ P and nightrythm too, visiting canals and then ending up at don't-know-his-LJ J and stacymckenna for yummy home-made bread and cute hugs from V. Dland was very fun, in large part due to the energy work skarlett, miracle-worker extraordinaire gifted me with- my neck hasn't hurt since, and I got to go on several rides I wouldn't have attempted with a sore neck. I brought something special back for you, my dear :) My absolute favorite was the Bugs Life show. I'm not saying anything more - you'll just have to go see for yourself :) Then topped everything off by meeting up with 1annie1 for dinner and much giggling. Now happy to be home, rehydrating, and sleeping in my own bed. Photos are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woosi/sets/72157613105187144/.</div> Current Music: In the Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Room....ha - Tune Coodies! | | Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 | | 1:56 pm |
Felting Piks
Obama's speech gave me hope. I still worry, but he's *saying* things that *sound* like good things. The poem after his speech also referenced An Ye Harm None. OMG! LOL! Piks of the finished felty bits are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woosi/3211474026/ Current Mood: hopeful | | Friday, January 9th, 2009 | | 4:35 pm |
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