It doesn't mean anything to me. I think it's a really random concept, like you can will yourself out of feeling, out of trauma. It's irrelevant to me. I just don't find it a helpful way to think at all. I felt much better ( and no meaner) when I ditched it.

It's definitely nothing to do with tickets or gifts or surprises. My good friends know I'm not a fan of surprises.

Laughter is a good clue. Can we laugh together? Being able to be yourself, even in the quirky ways, and that's not a big drama. Reciprocity. Turn taking. Mutual interest. Available! (within reason). Trustworthy. That's my list.

Ignore me, I'm venting. Principal sent a letter out to parents 'masks are strongly encouraged for staff and students'. Nobody in the executive staff, principal included, is wearing a mask. Aren't they paid the big bucks to lead? Wouldn't modelling responsible pandemic behaviour be part of leadership? Argh.

That's not controversial! It never was that great.

Ugh, not a mask in sight at school.

No, but not really sure if there's a real reason for the no.

She's cray.

It does in colloquial use here. Prob regional.

A fuss and bother!

God, what a palaver. Keep ignoring. You don't have to listen to the voice mails either.

She can mail the stuff to your dds or she can use it or she can give it away. Crazy to drive and use up petrol to pick up useless stuff.

Hope she feels better soon. Lots of ppl I know have the flu ATM, so it might be a toss up. Plenty of bugs out there, that's for sure.

What's going on here? Feels like all levels of govt have just quit. V disillusioned.

Staff development day at school today. Mentions of managing this term's Covid wave? Zero.

I'd imagine you'd harden your heart a little, yes. Idk. Mine is pretty hardened b/C we've had the threat of DD committng suicide hanging over us for the last six years. Self-preservation means you imagine not only the worst, but a world beyond the worst. You even begin building that post-worst world so it's there to catch you when the axe falls. Historically speaking, infancy and childhood is conceptualised very differently today, partly as a result of our small families in which we expect all children to survive infancy. . Harshly, our individual griefs and sorrows end nothing, not even when we might want them to.

Definitely swings. Loved going up so high I nearly flipped. I also had a set of rings and a bar as a kid, and spent a lot of time hanging upside down.

War is definitely world-changing.

Doesn't surprise me - yet another item not designed properly for women! Ironic...

I hate seeing men out in public topless. Their nipples are the least of it. (Sorry for nipple shaming the blokes). Put a bloody top on! I really don't care what other women do. I'm like you, though, I got to an age and post long term breastfeeding status where I definitely look better in my PJs with a sleep bra! That's a bonus, though, it's all comfort for me.

Yes, maybe. Breast privilege? My cup to band size ratio is hard to fit though. I can go into a lingerie store and have only one single bra in the whole store fit. (I'd love to be one of the happily bra-free - I hate the cost.)

Eh, if a rich lady can get other rich people to reduce their consumption, it probably comes out ok in the wash. I do think the food thing is funny. Costs are so $$ here that we think about how many ingredients in a recipe we can lose just to stay on top of the food costs. I wouldn't be doing it for fun!

Children died more frequently in the past; death was a more frequent companion. Infanticide was also more common. Familiarity with death changes how we perceive death. I can't see any reason to assume that an Ancient Greek would feel the same way as a 21st C American woman. Chronological projection. Re Proud Boys, if you want to claim they are the equivalent of climate change, go ahead. The sky is global; some cracks are more literally world ending than others. I didn't realise the writer was being so nation-focused. When I think of the world ending, I think of the world, not the US.

I did read it. I found it a little over-written. I couldn't help but think maybe Ancient Greek mamas were more hard-nosed. I think climate change is more of a existential danger than the US specific concerns mentioned. (Proud Boys won't end the world). I think that because we're already living in climate change. First our East Coast burned, and now it's flooding over and over. Places that were habitable not long ago are now uninsurable, and devalued. And off we drift towards further ecological disaster... I assume there will be a lot of death and disruption over the next 100 years. I think I might feel more saddened if I had a new baby and new baby love-hormones.

Yes. I assume that when a world explodes, one is forced by the imperative to survive ( for others, or because humans are stubborn) to build or repair or simply exist around the hole, and that sometimes, when the support or tools are there, a person can weave across the hole. Not to obscure it, but to story it somehow? My assumptions could be very wrong..