🐾🐾🪄

I had started on Camp NaNoWriMo this month but then it's fizzled. Life just gets in the way sometimes. Also, I'm experimenting with writing my story by hand. I think I picked too big of a notebook because I can't carry it with me. It's discbound but also letter page size. If I was still using a book bag to travel with, maybe not so bad but I don't anymore.

I've been in the mood for something new and it's been a mental debate for me. I don't need these things but I love gadgets. My options that I'm debating:

- freewrite traveler (maybe Alpha because it's cheaper)

- pomera dm250

- just buy a new laptop (current is from 2014)

- use Bluetooth keyboard with my phone

- pick a better sized notebook for story writing

Watch "Star Trek: The Next Generation by Balenciaga" on YouTube

This is one of my favorite trends right now lol

How beautifully done to represent some of history. Almost begs the question of “are you ready to sit at the table?” Are you ready to face the past?

It’s Thanksgiving today in the US and so many will be sitting at dinner tables, maybe with people they love, maybe with people they don’t love so much. And we all don’t realize how these moments create our own historical tapestry, and when we come together those individual tapestries for a brief moment interweave.

If your table setting stays ready, you don’t have to get ready. 🍽️🍷

The Dinner Party was created by Judy Chicago between 1974 and 1979. Each wing of the triangular table is 48 feet long. Arranged chronologically along the wings are thirteen place settings; including a unique runner and plate, as well as a chalice, napkin, and utensils. 

Wing One of the table begins in prehistory with the Primordial Goddess setting and continues chronologically with the development of Judaism, to early Greek societies, to the Roman Empire, marking the decline in women’s power, signified by the Hypatia plate. Wing Two represents early Christianity through the Reformation, depicting women who signify early articulations of the fight for equal rights, from Marcella to Anna van Schurman. Wing Three begins with Anne Hutchinson and addresses the American Revolution, Suffragism, and the movement toward women’s increased individual creative expression, symbolized at last by the Georgia O’Keeffe place setting.

You can see The Dinner Party and all of its discoverable details on display on the 4th floor of the Museum.

📷 Judy Chicago (American, born 1939). The Dinner Party, 1974-1979. Ceramic, porcelain, textile; triangular table. Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Gift of The Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation, 2002.10. Installation view, Brooklyn Museum.

The live version is so good.

It feels like it's harder to be a kid these days, at least in suburbia. The kids float around in bubbles in which sometimes they interact with those outside their household. But the days in which it was fun to interact with people on a walk down the avenue or visiting a friend's home casually has become a weird concept.

At a community park, there were several daycares with their assigned group of kids in little buses but the kids didn't interact with each other but in their assigned group.

MAGFest 2023. I've been going since 2013. It continuously ranks as one of my top conventions I've ever attended. As a parent, can't make the full weekend for now but even just one day is worth the experience. They take masking seriously. (I had no problem playing DDR with my kn95 on).

My favorite section is always the Indie games. Love seeing the ingenuity and hard work people put in to making an experience. Hair Nah made my list for making a real lesson fun. Learn boundaries! Until next year...

I have this intense urge to procrastinate.

I must have something due soon.

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

Parenting and family relationships are not that simple as saying "don't do this". People are complex and more often than not, one theme does not equate to one result.

If your kid makes a mess, you tell them to clean it up, they will perceive it as a punishment. But it's also a lesson in responsibility and should be explained.

Any relationship requires efforts of communicating beyond what we merely assume. Being family doesn't change that. It would be the responsibility of the parent to explain and communicate reactions to actions if they are trying to establish "eff around and find out" lessons.

Honestly, the best parental strategy is not use the same approach all the time. Not to be surprising but some things aren't effective used over and over. So, don't be lazy and get to know your kids to figure out the lessons you need to impart on them.

for the love of god, do not use chores to punish your kids!!!! it's just going to make them struggle deeply to keep their houses tidy as adults since you made them associate necessary chores with punishment and suffering, and it's going to take years of therapy to undo. don't use chores as punishments!!!