Housemate to his mother: “I’ve been picking up foxes off the internet.”
One utterly boggled look, and one humungous blush later, he hastily explained: he grabs nice graphics from a website which posts photos of the wild red foxes which visit their garden, and uses them as desktops and screensavers on his computer.
We’re not going to let him forget this one any time soon. :-D
It was my unwittingly noticing this damaging issue — the fear and/or greed which underlies bigotry and violent interpersonal aggression — which caused my first faint, initial attempts at bringing down my internal walls: I slowly became aware of “what has happened in many parts of the world where knowledge is kept secret from the…
I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to write down some of the issues I’m butting my head up against, as I write my dissertation. I’m not going to use names because hurting people isn’t my goal. I just want to vent a bit — and, should any present or future students in my…
Yay! I’ve finished the ecofeminism comprehensives essay — it’s coming in at 53 pages with cover page and bibliography included. Since the essay’s parameters were 30 to 50 pages exclusive of the cover page and biblio, all is good. Hallelujah! Now all I have to do is the tidying stuff, which is easy: make sure…
Today I’ll share a small batch of recipes, I think — but first a quick note: I really like the Zatarain’s Creole food! It’s surprisingly tasty to me, and the boxes make it easy to make. So far I’ve tried the Red Beans & Rice and the Dirty Rice Mix (to both of which I…
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, New Edition In this book Benedict Anderson discusses the imagining and rise of nationalism. He lists several ideological changes that allowed the creation of this concept. First is the loss of the ‘sacred silent languages,’ which held together religious communities that spanned continents. These languages…
I will be marching in the San Jose Women’s March on the 21st of January, mostly because traveling to Washington to march is financially currently beyond me. Consequently when I heard there was free nonviolence training being offered in association with the march, I eagerly signed up. Not only do I want to be prepared…
Of course it’s pictures of vulpes vulpes… everyone needs more pictures of those.
Here’s the site: http://www.permuted.org.uk/picofday.html