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Compliance

Anonymously Hal

You say I'm not 
the same person 
I used to be, 
   
And for once
I actually agree.

Because that 
compliant girl 
you knew back then... 

Was never truely me. 

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Wondering Wednesdays, Baby Acres, and The Four Freedoms

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

This post finishes the rough draft of the Introductory Chapter of my current non-fiction WiP, Baby Acres: Making Society Suck Less in 60 Years.     The overall goal has been to introduce one possible roadmap for a fully inclusive society for all of us, in the hope that All HumanKind  will eventually have each person’s basic needs  met.  This book lays out an idea, and a potential path for getting us there.

Introduction part III: The Four Fundamental Freedoms and “perpetual peaceful
revolution”

The “four essential human freedoms” that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt listed in his
famous inaugural (?) speech of 1941 are, as the president himself pointed out, a tangible distillation of those Human Rights as a list of freedoms that each both facilitate and require the equitable implementation of the three types of justice mentioned earlier. President Roosevelt put it thusly:

“The first is freedom of speech…

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Maya mon amour

The Mayan region begins where Mexico’s body suddenly narrows, between the Gulf of Mexico and the South Pacific,

ore de drum

Mexic, 2019

În toate călătoriile, iau cu mine cărți

ale căror povești se petrec în spațiul străbătut, ca să alunec cu totul în decorul sonor și olfactiv despre care citesc.

Așa ar fi trebuit să se întâmple, în Mexic, cu 2666, dacă n-aș fi pornit în direcția opusă.

În ciuda acestei erori de strategie, întrucât cartea nu avea ce să caute la sud de Ciudad de Mexico, m-am lăsat în voia misterioasei lecturi care s-a dovedit cea mai potrivită cu traseul inițiatic care mă aștepta,

astfel că, la aterizarea în Tuzla Gutierrez,

am plonjat pe nepregătite în străfundurile realismului magic.

Regiunea maya începe acolo unde trupul Mexicului se îngustează brusc, între Golful Mexic și Pacificul de Sud,

și se întinde spre est până la marea Caraibelor, Guatemala și Belize. Subțirimea acelei bretele nu lasă nimic rău să se strecoare spre zona maya.

Am trecut, timp de treisprezece zile…

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The Mayweather – ◬ɼ† | By SIX PM

This is a New York City Punch, be careful because these delicious cocktails will have you swinging till you K.O. We call this one the Mayweather. The name was coined by my friend Melissa and I as we were enjoying a private Paint-and-Sip. The drink itself my husband invented for me on the fly at Houston’s at my 30th birthday party.

Ingredients:

  • Chambord Liqueur 1 oz.
  • Disaronno Originale 2 oz.
  • 100% Cranberry Juice 2 oz.
  • Lime wedge
  • Ice

Source: The Mayweather – ◬ɼ† | By SIX PM

Kamala Harris and her Chennai connect

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The celebrated Tamil poet Bharati described the modern women thus “With graceful strides and head held high and looking straight into the eyes with ideals that are not afraid of anyone in the world… the woman does not falter as she has the possession of wisdom.” These aspirational hallmarks of the new-age women seeped so deeply into the Tamil psyche that it produced an unprecedented stream of emancipated and enlightened women in the capital city of Chennai since the hundred years the poet scripted the mesmerising lines. From music, art and theatre to medicine and politics, the female folks of the metropolis has made an indelible mark in diverse walks of life and their imprints are now seen across the county and abroad. And Kamala Harris is an offshoot of such a phenomenon.

The trigger to this enthusiastic transformation is the varied socio-cultural and political factors that played out during…

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Alphabet soup for the soul – “A”

Words from Walden

A is for Abundance

Abundance is not something we acquire, it is something we tune in to.”

Wayne Dyer

God, Source, The Universe, The Feild. Whatever you call the higher power that created us and allows blood to travel substantial distances freely through our veins is providing abundance everywhere, all the time.

This same infinite intelligence keeps us breathing while we are fast asleep, resting and repairing, regenerating and rejuvenating so every day we function at an optimal level.

The same higher intelligence also provides fruits and vegetables to nurture the body. By harnessing the sun’s power plus water as it falls from the sky, all the food needed for survival grows on trees, bushes or directly out of the ground.

The amount of food produced each year is enough to feed the whole world multiple times and it all stems from the tiniest volume of…

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(1) Montrealers line up bright and early for AstraZeneca vaccine after province expands access | Globalnews.ca

Montrealers were queuing up outside inoculation sites Wednesday morning to get their first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

The long lines come after the provincial government expanded access to that brand of vaccine Tuesday by dropping the minimum age requirement to 45 and older. Under the plan, 600,000 more Quebecers are now eligible for their first shot.

Prior to that, only people older than 55 were able to get that vaccine at walk-in clinics.

The change has prompted eligible adults to line up outside several vaccination centres in Montreal, including the Olympic Stadium in the east end and the downtown core’s Palais des congrès.

Source: (1) Montrealers line up bright and early for AstraZeneca vaccine after province expands access | Globalnews.ca

Manhattan to Stop Prosecuting Prostitution, Part of Nationwide Shift – The New York Times

The office will continue to prosecute other crimes related to prostitution, including patronizing sex workers and sex trafficking.

Manhattan will join BaltimorePhiladelphia and other jurisdictions that have declined to prosecute sex workers. Brooklyn also does not prosecute people arrested for prostitution, but instead refers them to social services before they are compelled to appear in court — unless the district attorney’s office there is unable to reach them.

The Brooklyn district attorney, Eric Gonzalez, in January moved to dismiss hundreds of open cases related to prostitution and loitering, and said that he would eventually ask that more than a thousand be dismissed. The Queens district attorney, Melinda Katz, followed in March, moving to dismiss hundreds of prostitution related cases.