Tag: writing

The New Eco-Conscious Way

This book is a riveting read that I read through in only one day.

There’s another way of being eco-conscious and that is to attend to our personal economy. Though this book touches on how women prop up the external economy it’s worth talking about the money measures we take to keep ourselves afloat financially.

I’m waiting on that kind of book that doesn’t insult readers by assuming all women are clueless when it comes to our finances.

The author of Swiftynomics reinforces the myth of the all-good mother. I might be reading into this however it appears the author buys into the myth of motherhood as the ideal role for women in society.

In the end, when she listed options for righting the injustice talked about, she should’ve included the alternative of choosing not to have kids.

Swiftynomics is the call to pay mothers cash for raising their kids in the home when they don’t have a job.

I think all women should be paid for caregiving. Even those of us who are members of the Open Faced Sandwich Generation: single women with a career and no kids who are caregivers for older parents.

Sadly, doing right the thing and giving a payment to caregivers will be seen as a socialist grab-bag by the ruling elite including women elected leaders.

To her credit the author talks about women who have banded together to alleviate the burden of caregiving. Like when mothers at the height of Covid formed Education Pods where they set up computers in garages and hired teachers or others to instruct their children.

Though that option really was limited to well-off women. What’s the solution?

To decide for ourselves if we want to have kids. And if we choose to start a family nail our boyfriend or husband or other partner to chipping in equally to child-rearing and household chores.

Pay for a housecleaner if we can afford to have someone come clean. Put our shoes down and insist that our partner see things our way.

Lastly where the author of Swiftynomics errs is in saying that women’s caregiving is invisible labor.

It’s not invisible. The elected leaders in power can see clearly that women are wrecking our health and finances engaged in this burden of unpaid emotional and often physical labor.

They simple think we should want to do this caregiving. That it is our natural role in life and the highest good to aspire to.

Tell that to a daughter whose mother or father has been a narcissist that harmed their children. Then having to care for this parent seems like a raw deal.

I rest my case. Read this book anyway. It really is a riveting read.

Harper’s Bazaar Art Issue 2025

The image is a photo of Harper's Bazaar Art issue theme.

Today Art is censored. Literature is Art. Living our lives is an artistic expression of ourselves in motion. We can be alive and animated or gorgeous and grieving.

The whole kit of our emotions deserves to be expressed. Everyone is an Artist in our own way. Our mind is the medium for our thoughts. Our body is the medium for illustrating our physical nature out on the street.

Even an accountant who crunches numbers is creative when they come up with ways to save a client money or maximize their profits.

Ever since December 2019 I’ve identified as an Artist. Feel free I would tell everyone to follow your heart and make whatever kind of art rocks your world as a creator.

And this is the rub: We are all creators. Even though some of us through their negative words and beliefs are destroyers.

I want to be on the side of affirming the dignity of Life of everyone living on Earth.

In this season should you celebrate a holiday I hope you find cheer and comfort in whatever the theme of your holiday is.

Make Art I tell you all of my followers. Everything and anything can be a work of Art when we expand our notion of what is an artistic endeavor.

Walking down the street in winter holding a cardboard cup of hot chocolate. As you go home from a Starbucks you dipped into after you got out of the train.

Even in the movement down the street I say you are being artistic holding the cup. Like walking down a runway.

Let’s celebrate Art this month along with Harper’s Bazaar.

It’s time to valorize making Art instead of what appears to be going on: The destruction of dignity and compassion for those of us who DV8 by censoring Artists who champion these subjects in their work.

The definition of normal is “average or ordinary or of or conforming to a standard or type.”

It’s too late in history to keep things opaque about the value of every human being no matter their color creed or orientation.

We need to bring to light everywhere Art is created the soul of our humanity. Not allow our creativity to be crushed by the forces that be.

And hey I’ll end here with this: Why can’t an Artist portray ordinary people like the woman and man in the painting titled if I remember American Gothic?

What if it was seen as ordinary that a person could love who they want to love or have a body that they love despite others hating or fearing that body or expression of love?

Love wins. That’s the message I want to spread as I celebrate Christmas in a spiritual way not religious way.

Making Art is an expression of Love. We cannot be deterred from making Art today when everything matters.

And sometimes speaking out through our Art is as simple and effective as walking down that street and taking up space holding the cup of hot chocolate in our hands.