Category Archives: creativity

Helping Afghan women

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I sometimes forget about my “past life”…

I had purchased a crafted zippered “wallet”,  for want of a better word, crafted by the women of Afghanistan **, featured on the Feminist Majority’s website many moons ago when I had a job…I wondered if they still had this program going.  They do. 

So…I hope that some of you can support the women of Afghanistan to gain some independence with a purchase of their handicrafts.

**keep the kleenex handy…for those in pain and those that never made it home, on both sides of the ocean…

Sunshine on my shoulders…

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…makes me happy…

(this song was on my mind when I named this blog, fyi 🙂

We were treated to another spectacular cloud rainbow...

…this time, however, I was able to get a little bit of it captured with my cell camera.  It was almost directly in line with our front door:

Splash rainbow 1.27.14

 

It’s a little hard to distinguish, but the little patch that looks white is actually the splash of rainbow.  The sun was not cooperating.  I was trying to block the lens from glare, but alas…

Anyway, I think the sun’s rays are pretty spectacular, too.

Repost: Rape is Not Entertainment; The Grammys **edited

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After once again being subjected to Robin Thicke’s rape song, Blurred Lines, at the Grammys,  I feel the need to repost a couple of blogs on the misogyny:

Rape is not a joke.

Blurred Lines

Rape culture in living color.  Degrading women as second class starts with media images.  The media is a powerful messenger.   Fear and Anger and Sex are the major influences in Communications and the media uses them well to influence the public.

Music has been a part of my life since I could remember, and the Grammy’s were one of the shows I used to watch regularly, but last night was a reminder of why I quit watching the awards show…it’s more about promotion of artists than promotion of music as an art.  Because I don’t see that Robin Thicke and the others (including women) that sexualize women to promote their songs have a load of talent.

If one has talent, their music speaks for itself.

Good music stirs the soul….speaks to the soul…bad music is just noise to fill the airwaves.

And on a personal note~  I really wish Ringo would have sung “It Don’t Come Easy”…I requested this song for Christmas one year, and my thirty year old son liked it…it could have been a way for Ringo to reach the younger crowd, if he had introduced them to it….

The opening notes as they are played on the recorded version are beautiful and stirring.

**edited to take out video–oops, thought it was official. Apologies.