Was I Hacked on Face Book or What?

Published September 29, 2016 by Nan Mykel

Late on 9/28/16 I responded to a friend’s video of birds eating together at a feed bowl. I was asked for a one-word response and I wrote “Awesome.” Then my words got overlaid by “Russia is awesome. We love Russia.” ??? When I went back to see if the inserted remark was still there I couldn’t find the video. Maybe Face Book deleted the whole posting???

Neurotypical Awareness

Published September 23, 2016 by Nan Mykel

I had no idea. Thanks for sharing.

Autism and Expectations

Being diagnosed late in life has meant that I’ve needed to learn a lot about a new subject that I didn’t know applied to me. I’ve read personal accounts written by autistic people, I’ve read research papers, I’ve looked into coping mechanisms – and mostly found that I’ve built my own solutions over the years without realising what I was doing. Trial and error were my constant companions.

Learning about what being autistic is, means that I can see the links between my behaviours and motivations for what they really are. Neurotypical motivations don’t apply to me, I don’t work like that.

It’s been a journey of acceptance and understanding that has increased my quality of life exponentially.

I listen to myself more. I recognise my needs. I don’t always do the things that would stop overload, but I’m aware of the consequences, I rock if I need to rock…

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poetry lurks outside my window–dVerse Open Link Night

Published September 23, 2016 by Nan Mykel

Perfect.

Victoria C. Slotto, Author

poetry lurks outside my window

i
chickadees surprise
tree branches alive with dance
then only stillness

ii
outside my window
leaves don foliage for death
so many unknowns

iii
leaves—gold crimson bright
each one a work of beauty
too many ignored

iv
cupped, catching the rain
curled leaf-maws hold pure water
life-source for our thirst

v
what seems like dying
leaves fallen to earth in heaps
promises rising

vi
bare branches reach out
offer their fruit to wax wings
satin loveliness

Photo: David Slotto Cedar Wax Wing

This is the day we get to play with poetry, any form, any topic, for dVerse Open Link Night, and I hope to see you there.

Autumn has crept in. This morning 37 degrees and windy and I had to cut short my walk, letting my North Dakota-born husband finish the route with the dogs. By the end of the week, it’s…

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When I Grow Up– for d’Verse

Published September 22, 2016 by Nan Mykel

WHEN I GROW UP…Will I still be me?

I want to know

most terribly so.

While rooming in the womb,

on the stage behind the curtains,

overhearing intimations

of change. Whose screams?

I arrived, a piece of ignited clay

presenting with my backside,

bringing pain on opening day.

White Peacock at Temple of Gold

Published September 21, 2016 by Nan Mykel

Talk about arrogance if you like, but you could also talk about pristine loveliness of one among many white peacocks at the Temple of Gold in West Virginia earlier this year. peacock

About ZoralinQ

Published September 20, 2016 by Nan Mykel

ZoralinQ. [Dawn in the forest is an unknown variable] The closer you get to ZoralinQ, the closer you get to the edge. But, you find it isn’t like all things we think it is, “The Edge,” must …

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I WONDER for d’Verse

Published September 20, 2016 by Nan Mykel

I WONDER

What’s in her head? Is she just feeling cold?

Are she and her babies

both trading warmth?

We know she’s not thinking

But what is she feeling?

What’s going on beneath

all those feathers?

She’s not feeling stuck

like some humans might do,

but following the path

laid down in her genes,

and so on and on.

Misogyny for Old Women – Excerpt

Published September 19, 2016 by Nan Mykel

Excerpted from Daily Kos 9/19/19

The older I get, the more I realize this offensive, casual, ubiquitous misogyny in our culture affects older women in spades. When women are no longer “useful” to men, in the most basic, reproductive sense, they become an annoyance, taking up space. The opposite of “eye candy.” Bothering more important members of the community when they should just gracefully disappear into a corner. Maybe babysit. Because “male” attitudes still prevail as “normal,” this disregard is carried out generally. Not only bymen personally, but in our media, ads, stories, movies. And in our politics.

In our culture, older women enter into a campaign, discussion or competition with a very real handicap: invisibility, dismissibility. Younger women, do take note. This has a great deal to do with age. Beautiful young women, treated as brilliant wunderkind while they’re still ovulating, learn to their chagrin that, as accomplished, bright, capable as they now are, even more than they were, there was apparently another reason for a lot of that admiration and regard. That seems to be passing away as they age.

The most experienced, qualified candidate of our lifetime is running for President. She is also giving us a master class in double standards, sexism and just how appreciated older women are in our culture. Not very.