from Gods Own Country!

And what a few days its been

for the next week!

This just posted by English Folk Dance and Song Society. (https://www.efdss.org/)

STATEMENT FROM ENGLISH FOLK DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY

Everyone is welcome at Cecil Sharp House and to participate in the activities of the English Folk Dance and Song Society.

Which is why you are getting this so early!

and other late April doings

Several weeks ago, I added a quote to my signature line here; a quote which I remembered from my youth. A few people have inquired as to the origin of the quote, so I felt the need to explain it.

I was raised as a Lutheran - the church of my mother’s family, something for which I give thanks regularly. My father’s family were Baptists, and I give thanks that I was NOT raised in that church! It has been my experience that all churches have their share of hypocrites, but the percentage amongst the Baptists seems to be considerably higher, as does the number of assholes.

If you feel unsafe or threatened by the current political climate, or if you wish to avoid controversial or disturbing subjects for your own personal mental health, then please do NOT read this post.

All those CAUTION tags are there for a reason.

ha, you thought i was gonna lead with the weather, gotcha!

and other historical weather events!

I certainly hope not but there is a marked change in the weather today.

Elsbeth disappeared five years ago today.

She posted so many wonderful stories on BCTS. My favorites are Harry Potter - Season of Change, Freyja's Daughter and The Lost Queen. I still re-read them regularly. In 2020 she was posting a chapter a week, regular as clockwork, in addition to logging in to leave comments several times a week. Many of us were in a private chat group guessing what was going on in The Lost Queen. We were so SO happy whenever a new chapter came out and we could see how close we are.

Is a scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. In the scene, Indiana and his father travel to Berlin just before the start of WWII in order to retrieve his father’s diary. While there, they witness a book burning in the town square, with hundreds of people cheering as the Nazis pile books upon the flames. Indiana’s father, played by Sean Connery, turns to him and says, “My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land.”

How the mighty have fallen as the fascist purge marches on. The US Naval Academy posted a list of nearly 400 books being removed from the Nimitz Library as part of Trump’s purge of anything smacking of truth in history or social reality. Amongst the items purged were works by Maya Angelou, as well as books memorializing Holocaust survivors, or books on the history of the Ku Klux Klan or racism.

Here is an excerpt from an article posted online:

and other similar observations

towards the end of the month

And a story about the Broadway play Good Night, and Good Luck was airing. The show stars George Clooney, and is about Edward R. Murrow and his fight against McCarthyism. During the segment on 60 Minutes, Clooney is recorded telling the cast, "When the other three estates fail, when the judiciary and the executive and the legislative branches fail us, the fourth estate has to succeed.”

By a few people that I thought I could trust; people who I have always thought of as family, people that I was under the impression thought of me the same way. These are people that I care for and thought that I could trust them because they cared about me. But I was reminded of the fact that trust is a fickle and fleeting thing for some people in this world.

Over the past several months, I have been re-reading a lot of stories and books that I have previously read. This line was in one of those stories and it really hit home after the week I have had……

Which I will keep brief!

and it's even got into double figures!

some good news, some, well disappointing

A new Department of Defense memorandum "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.276..." states that gender dysphoria is incompatible with the US Military.

Another brick added to the wall separating us from our rights and our existence as citizens of the United States of America. Be strong, they don't know the type of people they are discriminating against, we will not be denied, we exist, we have a voice and we shall be heard. Love to all, Emily

Need to be real careful how I state this so I don't end up in a million dollar liable lawsuit. Most is what I have read from other sources and some is my own personal opinion and not in any way to be assumed as fact. Reality, I don't have dozens of foot notes listed here pointing to other sources and research. Forty years, six dead worn out printers, half dozen hard drives stacked in a box, thousand of pages over a foot high doesn't translate into viable medical and transgender research..., yet.

My psychiatrist informed me a month ago she was telling everyone to stay away from passports, driver's licenses, virtually all government documents and not renew them at this time.

Trans star of hit HBO series says renewed passport now says male after Trump order

Trump signed executive order narrowing federal government definition of the sexes
Hunter Schafer, a transgender actor and star of the HBO series "Euphoria," revealed that her new passport was issued with a male gender marker because of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump.

Last week, I went to the "big city" (I live in a small town; 2500 pop.) to do some shopping. Most of the time, I dress out of the butch side of my wardrobe; women's clothes but the effect is androgynous. That allows people to see me the way they want to. I'm always surprised when they look at me and address me as a woman, but it does happen and when it does my voice doesn't shake their perception.