thinking thursday.
photo by Jeremy Madea, used in this adorable frame by Colleen Wainwright.
[mind]
I love what Colleen Wainwright is doing, raising $50,000 for a group that helps girls through writing for her 50th birthday. And I loved her interview with me in support of her goal. Can you help? Please give. Any amount will help. It all adds up. IT ALL ADDS UP. Girls need us to step up for them.
Is Wonder Woman over-sexualized in a way that male action heroes are not? What if male superheroes posed like Wonder Woman? Take a look. For a closer look at the figures, go to the original posting.
This is a hugely thoughtful piece on what is happening in London right now: "Riots are about power, and they are about catharsis. They are not about poor parenting, or youth services being cut, or any of the other snap explanations that media pundits have been trotting out. Structural inequalities, as a friend of mine remarked today, are not solved by a few pool tables. People riot because it makes them feel powerful, even if only for a night. People riot because they have spent their whole lives being told that they are good for nothing, and they realise that together they can do anything - literally, anything at all."
I've said it before, but I love the way my husband's mind works. Just love it. I have no earthly idea how he knows all that he knows, but he does and he writes about it in a way that sometimes makes me laugh and often makes my head explode: Disinventing Left – "Mr. Morrison's solution–his idea, for which he was granted a patent in the U.K. 1905/105291–was to print the left-hand pages upside down, so that once the right-side was read, the reader would turn the newspaper etc. upside down to read the second half, and thus the left-side page would be entirely eliminated. So, all things being equal, everything would now be right-sided….I am sure that Facebook and Kindle and etc.–having already gotten rid of the pages in toto–are now at work in eliminating the left side of our monitors."
[body]
Put your chores on auto-pilot. Now that I am fully committing to being more adult-like, and creating a house that is serene and beautiful rather than chaotic and cluttered, I'm paying attention to ways I can do that without that becoming my work. Some of what is suggested seems like overkill for my life, but some was helpful. Perhaps it will be for you, too.
I am a fan of the corn chowder. Here's a vegan one I want to try. Soon.
I want to start a monthly soup potluck dinner starting this fall. Let's say the 1st Sunday of the month. Someone brings bread, someone brings some of that addictive black olive tapenade, someone brings salad, someone brings dessert, everyone brings libations, and I make a huge vat of vegan soup. How to organize? (Have ideas? Would love to hear them!). And here's where I'm going for my soup recipes – love, love, love this site: Soup Chick.
[soul]
Do you ever get ticked off at truck drivers, the ones wrestling huge rigs down the highway? Take a moment to read this. Your perspective might be changed.
Toxic people are bad for your soul. I made a vow a few years ago to give up toxic people, so I was interested to read Mark Morford's take on having toxic people in our lives. In that article, Morford links to Milton Glaser's speech, "Ten Things I Have Learned," which is definitely worth a read and in which Glaser mentions his test for determining if people are toxic to us:
"…in all relationships people could be either toxic or nourishing towards one another. It is not necessarily true that the same person will be toxic or nourishing in every relationship, but the combination of any two people in a relationship produces toxic or nourishing consequences. And the important thing that I can tell you is that there is a test to determine whether someone is toxic or nourishing in your relationship with them. Here is the test: You have spent some time with this person, either you have a drink or go for dinner or you go to a ball game. It doesn’t matter very much but at the end of that time you observe whether you are more energised or less energised. Whether you are tired or whether you are exhilarated. If you are more tired then you have been poisoned. If you have more energy you have been nourished. The test is almost infallible and I suggest that you use it for the rest of your life."
My favorite quote of the week: Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. -Lucille Ball (in celebration of the 100th anniversary of her birth)
