They sprayed pesticide this week, and now all the cicadas are gone.
The birds have nothing to eat but poison.
Up at 4 or 4:30 every bloody morning. I am failing at pretty much everything now.
i think what’s wrong with me is that i don’t live secluded in a hut in the woods. i don’t bang enough rocks against enough things. i just haven’t forged any swords
Spent about 5 minutes on the water but then there was lightning, and another, first far away then closer, and thunder that rolls, and rain, rain, rain.
I forgot how much I missed kayaking.
Today’s Masculinity Is Stifling
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There’s a word for what’s happening here: misogyny. When school officials and parents send a message to children that “boyish” girls are badass but “girlish” boys are embarrassing, they are telling kids that society values and rewards masculinity, but not femininity. They are not just keeping individual boys from free self-expression, but they are keeping women down too.
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It is lopsided to approach gender equality by focusing only on girls’ empowerment. If society is to find its way to a post-#MeToo future, parents, teachers, and community members need to build a culture of boyhood that fosters empathy, communication, caretaking, and cooperation. But how? Could there be a space or an organization for boys where they’re encouraged to challenge what’s expected of them socially, emotionally, and physically? What would the activities be? What would the corresponding catchwords be to the girls’ “brave” and “strong” other than “cowardly” and “weak”?
This is an interesting read, and interesting to see what soon enough we’re going to be running up against.
I’ll put this here for the future because I need to put this together anyway:
The most definitive guide to HSA’s because FSA/HSA’s always confused me (and we will probably never have government healthcare in this country): https://momanddadmoney.com/how-to-find-the-best-health-savings-account/
The bugout bag guide, not because I’m a paranoid prepper, but because I’ve lived through Sandy, and putting this together would be a responsible thing to do. Except, no guns, because I never felt the need for them in the past emergency situations:
people from long ago still text me asking for travel recommendations for their spontaneous trips with their b/friends.
When you are in Eastern Townships, stay at Orford Music school which has an inexpensive midcentury-modern hébergement that turns into a guesthouse on summers, Orford provincal park is nice to hike around in, Asbestos has a crazy giant mine that swallowed up the town that’s worth seeing, Memphremagog is touristique but has a pretty lake (that supposedly has a monster living in it), Sherbrooke is a cool and pretty/gritty university town worth checking out, in Montreal rent a bike and go down Lacine canal, there always are festivals on summer there’s bound to be something cool, Plateau and Mile End are nice to stay in and wonder around, also bike across the water to see Habitat’67 and the singular standing wave on the river where all locals surfers go to ride, definitely see what’s at CCA, oh, yes, and Italian Market – you know what they say, you haven’t been to the city if you haven’t visited its bazaar, check out Atlas Obscura for more cool/crazy things around there, I can’t remember anymore – Quebec City is crazy touristique but still really pretty – and if you have the time – not really a quick spontaneous trip, keep going along the river to Le Bic national park, and especially the gardens in Métis where all these landscape architects from all over Americas have competitions every 2 years – they are amazing. I envy you.
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