The Wings of the Butterfly by Vanessa Rivera de la Fuente

Published June 6, 2018 by Nan Mykel

Excellent in so many different ways…A re-blog

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Shhhhh… good women are quiet.
My mother was a beautiful woman, she never complained.

Denial is a silent violence that aims to make invisible a trauma maybe evident or not, to make it acceptable as normal and allow the victims of this trauma to be exploited from a system of oppression or people in power. Denial is that voice sugarcoated with correctness that asks us to shut up and sit down on our own pain so as to not disturb anyone. Is a silence that yells loudly, because sooner or later it will speak through the different ways we hurt ourselves and others.

It is not a mystery that women all over the world are subjected to a variety of violence and oppression. Women and girls are hijacked, raped, assaulted, murdered, their experiences mocked or banalized and their bodies thrown around like trash. People get outraged asking how this is…

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I’m not proud to be Christian – and no one else should be, either by Trelawney Grenfell-Muir

Published June 6, 2018 by Nan Mykel

I’m reblogging and following. Just excellent…

Feminism and Religion

I hear a lot of people talking lately about how they are no longer proud to be Christian. They point to the vocal conservative churches and leaders who support Trump, condemn and exclude LGBTQ people, oppress female bodies and sexuality, exhibit breathtaking racism, classism, sexism, nationalism, and ecocide… and they struggle to call themselves “Christian” anymore, in light of these shameful behaviors by modern American “Christianity.”

I completely understand. The most visible examples of self-identified Christian organizations and leaders in the US today make me cringe— or pale in horror. How could any ethically responsible moderate or progressive Christian want to be associated with such bigotry, violence, and dysfunction?

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All Together Now…expanded

Published June 6, 2018 by Nan Mykel

Now I lay me down to sleep

I pray the Lord my Trump to keep.

Shower him with earned acclaim

Free him from a past of shame

Fill him with a mother’s pride

Make him warm and snug inside

Help him honor and love his wife

Renewing vows he made for life

Protect him from the NRA

Maybe even help him pray

Gentle his heart to help the poor,

Bringing peace and what’s more

Give him respect for law and order;

Melt with tears the southern border

Help his word be strong and true

Loving those of every hue

Moms and babies need each other

Help him find his inner mother

Let Mr. Mueller be his friend

And let the both of them defend

All the hopes and aspirations

Of a just United Nations

MORE ON NIGHTMARES

Published June 2, 2018 by Nan Mykel

Nightmares and PTSD – PTSD: National Center for PTSD

https://www.ptsd.va.gov/public/problems/nightmares.asp

LYING IS PERNICIOUS

Published June 1, 2018 by Nan Mykel

I wanted to be using that word correctly so I looked it up. Webster’s says pernicious means “highly injurious or destructive: deadly.” The archaic meaning is wicked.

I just realized how very destructive it can be in a democracy when I found myself doubting that unemployment had hit an all-time low in half a century. I thought, “Don’t the people who count the jobs work under the president?”….

We Are Being Tested : Callico Jack

Published May 31, 2018 by Nan Mykel

Excerpted from Callico Jack’s https://thepsyoflifeblog.com/2018/05/31/the-depth-of-trumps-narcissism-as-told-by-the-ruined-lives-and-carnage-left-in-his-wake/

When we are confronted with evil this profoundly vile that would ignore the pain and death of thousands that would separate families by the hundreds and thousands, then we are called upon to take a stand and a side. The Ol’ Pussy Grabber has the excuse of his life time of malignant narcissism, but we do not. We do not have any other mental illness than apathy. But, the evil is here now, and we must take a blood oath to vote in November to stop it. And, we must call Congress folks and demand that something be done for Puerto Rico and maintaining immigrant families. This shit is now and we are being tested.

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. – A Reblog

Published May 29, 2018 by Nan Mykel

(Almost makes me believe in “possession,” which Webster’s Dictionary describes as “domination by something (as an evil spirit, a passion or an idea)” and “another “a psychological state in which an individual’s normal personality is replaced by another.”) I’m reblogging.

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R.E.S.P.E.C.T. … remember the song by Aretha Franklin? Well, guess what folks — it needs to be re-released, for far too many have forgotten the word. One of Donald Trump’s promises during his never-ending campaign was to ‘get rid of’ political correctness. Now, as I said at the time, political correctness is nothing more or less than respect for others and their feelings. Is it sometimes taken to extremes? Maybe, but I would rather err on the side of kindness than not. Today, two glaring examples of the ugliness Donald Trump has unleashed in the nation came to my attention, and I would like to share them with you, dear friends, just so you don’t forget what Trump has turned this nation into.

Remember how incensed some people, mostly republicans, were when Colin Kaepernick, on 01 September 2016, kneeled during the playing of the national anthem, rather than stand? Of…

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Flypaper Thoughts – haibun

Published May 29, 2018 by Nan Mykel

FLYPAPER THOUGHTS

Today I could talk straight through until I die and not tell you half

my thoughts and history. None great but I was there and lived it all. So

much, all the time. Little things, big feelings—I am an Indian mound full

of artifacts, a wrapped present on Christmas morning, full of surprises.

These atypical thoughts will leave me, but here they are for you to see,

caught on my flypaper.

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Moon casts her shadows

A plop sounds in the old creek

Night birds croon their songs

Update on Create Space

Published May 28, 2018 by Nan Mykel

Mick Rooney writes in The Independent Publisher: ” Amazon’s self-publishing service, CreateSpace, is laying off staff in its editing, marketing and design division in July because the company is getting out of the business of offering full service options to indie authors. The layoffs will mostly affect customer service positions. Amazon’s long-term plan looks to be to roll the operations of CreateSpace into Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), a DIY platform for self-publishing writers.”

I had a good experience with Create Space in 2014 and 2015 with my two books, but there have been recent complaints about quality, customer service, etc. Significant staff layoffs while other Amazon endeavors expand must be demoralizing.

It Happened Again, Folks …School shooting

Published May 28, 2018 by Nan Mykel

Thanks to jilldennison:

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It wasn’t as widely reported as Parkland or Santa Fe, but there was another school shooting last week, this one in Noblesville, Indiana on Friday. The shooter was a student who asked for permission to leave the classroom and returned armed with two handguns. This time, nobody died. Care to know why? Because the shooter was stopped by the unarmed teacher. A good guy without a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun. And that, my friends, explains why you may not have heard about this school shooting – it wasn’t sensationalist enough for the media, since nobody died, and it wasn’t in keeping with the NRA’s motto. jason_seaman The teacher was 29-year-old Jason Seaman, who is being hailed as a hero. The shooter entered the classroom and immediately began firing, hitting one female student. Mr. Seaman sprang into action, charging the shooter and knocking him to the ground. He…