Today is 22nd Undenia, 11AS...a Oshunday

"Oshunday is The Second Day. Oshun is a Yaruban Goddess of Love and Sweet Waters, worshiped as a River Goddess in Nigeria and as a Orisha in Brazilian Candomblé. She is chosen chosen because She gets the week to 'flow with Her Love and Beauty'."

Addendum D [Calendar for A New Matriarchy]

Random

~I've been feeling awful today. Not physically, but emotionally. I thought it was about money, but that's only a small part of it.

Some of you likely read in Le-Le's LJ that we scooped a pair of little kitties off the street. Last night she also took a fella we're calling “Boots”, a pretty tuxedo with white paws, hence the name.

We're pretty sure he's been abandoned. He'd been hitting the front porch bowl hard and last night as the rain came in he actually scratched at our front door. So Le-Le just picked him up and brought him in.

He's in a cage in the back of the kitchen. Not happy about that, but he can see out the windows and it's warm. We've each been looking in on him. He's in the cage because he's still got his yarbles and we have an unfixed female.

So, this is going to cost us even more money that we barely have. But I was just petting him – he flopped in his lil cage, the silly thing – and it's worth it...even if we have to cyber-beg again.

But what is breaking my heart is that the two kittens have two more siblings out there and we're way past max. And it's been raining and they're going to have to stay out there. Once I admitted to myself that's what was eating at me, I started crying. [still am on and off]

We'll keep feeding them, but they're spending the winter in the cold and wet and there's fuck all we can do about that. The no-kill shelters are full and we wouldn't give them to someone we don't know well. Too many fuckers out here making a buck selling rescued animals to labs.

...I need a fucking nap...

Quote of The Day

"Turning women into men? Gee, is that all you're after? Heh. And to think, all this time I thought you were trying to tap into something that women have not yet had the chance to embrace and wield. All of your chicks are going to fuck and fight?

It's not about some scene or some game. I don't want to dress in leather and have someone lick my toes. I could do that now. It's not control I want. That's easy. There's a huge fucking difference between getting off on control and accepting and knowing how to be powerful.

Seems like there's a reason the most powerful men dig the submission thing. There's relief, yes, but I think there's also this balance thing to it. You can't know power until you've had none, and women have never had steady, real power. Just knowing what it's like to be fucking property gives women a better understanding of what it is to use power instead of just holding it. It's not turning women into men and it's not just taking control away from them. That's fucking bullshit. It's not capture the flag. This isn't a trade or a take-over. It's a goddamned transformation." ~Amanda Lowe