Ohh yes the lack of women scientists remind me of yet another story. I once read about how archaeologists discovered ancient artefacts there was a huge debate about what it was. The cup like artefacts looked more like bottles with small kettle shaped curved pouring mechanism. After a lot of debate they came to a conclusion that those were used to feed the sick and old, but there was one thing that was quite not fitting in- all the cups were shaped like animals. A woman archaeologists then walked in, glanced over the artefacts and said “those are baby bottles” and they were all dumbfounded with her perception because it completely makes sense. Women can’t be excluded from important discussions simply because we bring in perspectives and knowledge that men often lack.
wow, that's such a perfect example of how so much of what we are told is missing huge amounts of interpretation by those who are marginalized. I love that story though--the matter-of-fact nature of understanding something so basic but so intuitive to some is telling.
Absolutely, I feel like half of human history is missing and so much does the other fields of studies since women have been routinely excluded from everything. Again reminds me of Virginia Woolf’s hypothetical analysis of what would the world of fiction like if Shakespeare had a sister who was equally if not more talented than his brother. Makes you wonder of how much we might actually be missing out on.
I'm a fan of scrapping time zones and using UTC. It would be the same time - and the same day! - everywhere; we'd adjust local work and school schedules against that framework.
Meanwhile, let's at least get rid of daylight savings time.
YES! I abhor daylight savings time--the switch up here, particularly is excruciating, because it comes right as the light has finally come back to the mornings, slowly in the spring and things feel more balanced once again (which always feels such a relief)--only to have to jump forward and then deal with darkness in the mornings again for a month, while it's light until 8-9pm suddenly, but the world is still frozen. It's cognitive dissonance on such a huge ridiculous scale--and so obvious that it has nothing to do with the latitude. It feels like another way we're made to disassociate with the land....
You're at GMT-9 and with daylight savings time you move to -8. If you look on a time zone map, SE Alaska should be on -9, you should be at -10, and the western third of the state on -11!
I love that about Judy Chicago too! And yeah--Plath's drawings are so intriguing.... and if only my writing could support me more, let alone the incredible library I could build.... 😂
Snow!! Ours melted. It's barely coming down today and not enough to stick, but the snowline is slowly moving down the mountains. Thanks for sharing yours!
And those letters to sailors -- they remind me of the book "Nella Last's War," the diary of "housewife, 49" kept for the Mass Observation Project with Nella Last's daily writing about her life in wartime Britain--so much about rationing and sleeping arrangements and conversations with other housewives, most of whom had sons fighting somewhere. We need so much more of people's voices (also why I think Svetlana Alexeivitch's "The Unwomanly Face of War" is one of the most important I've ever read).
Thanks for the shout-out! Hope you find a labyrinth. 🧡
I loved your essay so much! (as always). And yes to snow--I will always be happy to share it, I love it so much--we had seventeen inches in two days breaking records, and then it continued(!). And thanks for the book recommendation--I haven't read it and want to immediately, as with Alexeivitch's work.
Here's to walking labyrinths and finding the way to both enter and leave. ;)
Envious! I’ve been out hunting and it just doesn’t feel right without snow on the ground.
Yes! If you haven’t read Last or Alexeivitch, do. The latter in particular I think dovetails with your research. It’s her oral history of Soviet women who left home to fight in World War II. A lot of snipers! She won a Nobel Prize for that book.
I'll definitely be trying out the labyrinth locator! Thanks!
Ohh yes the lack of women scientists remind me of yet another story. I once read about how archaeologists discovered ancient artefacts there was a huge debate about what it was. The cup like artefacts looked more like bottles with small kettle shaped curved pouring mechanism. After a lot of debate they came to a conclusion that those were used to feed the sick and old, but there was one thing that was quite not fitting in- all the cups were shaped like animals. A woman archaeologists then walked in, glanced over the artefacts and said “those are baby bottles” and they were all dumbfounded with her perception because it completely makes sense. Women can’t be excluded from important discussions simply because we bring in perspectives and knowledge that men often lack.
wow, that's such a perfect example of how so much of what we are told is missing huge amounts of interpretation by those who are marginalized. I love that story though--the matter-of-fact nature of understanding something so basic but so intuitive to some is telling.
Absolutely, I feel like half of human history is missing and so much does the other fields of studies since women have been routinely excluded from everything. Again reminds me of Virginia Woolf’s hypothetical analysis of what would the world of fiction like if Shakespeare had a sister who was equally if not more talented than his brother. Makes you wonder of how much we might actually be missing out on.
YES!! 🙌
The poem is beautiful as are the photos of the snow. Just magical to experience that cleansing white.
I agree--the quiet of it all too is just so soft and beautiful. 💜
I loved the poem!
I do too--came across it a while back and loved how it captured something so profound with such concise language.
The article on time zones is fascinating. This https://today.uconn.edu/2019/05/hazards-living-right-side-time-zone-border/# and this https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/04/19/how-living-wrong-side-time-zone-can-be-hazardous-your-health/ point out that those of us living on the western edge of a time zone have a later sunset, a later bedtime, but the same wake time as the eastern edge folks, resulting in less sleep and the consequent health impacts.
I'm a fan of scrapping time zones and using UTC. It would be the same time - and the same day! - everywhere; we'd adjust local work and school schedules against that framework.
Meanwhile, let's at least get rid of daylight savings time.
YES! I abhor daylight savings time--the switch up here, particularly is excruciating, because it comes right as the light has finally come back to the mornings, slowly in the spring and things feel more balanced once again (which always feels such a relief)--only to have to jump forward and then deal with darkness in the mornings again for a month, while it's light until 8-9pm suddenly, but the world is still frozen. It's cognitive dissonance on such a huge ridiculous scale--and so obvious that it has nothing to do with the latitude. It feels like another way we're made to disassociate with the land....
You're at GMT-9 and with daylight savings time you move to -8. If you look on a time zone map, SE Alaska should be on -9, you should be at -10, and the western third of the state on -11!
I'm really good at erasing cookie caches.
I would love to own that collection of Plath's art. I also love Judy Chicago and love that she is still dressing as a rock star.
I love that about Judy Chicago too! And yeah--Plath's drawings are so intriguing.... and if only my writing could support me more, let alone the incredible library I could build.... 😂
I've only seen a few of her drawings in an edition of THE BELL JAR and in one of several biographies I've read about her.
Snow!! Ours melted. It's barely coming down today and not enough to stick, but the snowline is slowly moving down the mountains. Thanks for sharing yours!
And those letters to sailors -- they remind me of the book "Nella Last's War," the diary of "housewife, 49" kept for the Mass Observation Project with Nella Last's daily writing about her life in wartime Britain--so much about rationing and sleeping arrangements and conversations with other housewives, most of whom had sons fighting somewhere. We need so much more of people's voices (also why I think Svetlana Alexeivitch's "The Unwomanly Face of War" is one of the most important I've ever read).
Thanks for the shout-out! Hope you find a labyrinth. 🧡
I loved your essay so much! (as always). And yes to snow--I will always be happy to share it, I love it so much--we had seventeen inches in two days breaking records, and then it continued(!). And thanks for the book recommendation--I haven't read it and want to immediately, as with Alexeivitch's work.
Here's to walking labyrinths and finding the way to both enter and leave. ;)
Envious! I’ve been out hunting and it just doesn’t feel right without snow on the ground.
Yes! If you haven’t read Last or Alexeivitch, do. The latter in particular I think dovetails with your research. It’s her oral history of Soviet women who left home to fight in World War II. A lot of snipers! She won a Nobel Prize for that book.
actually, I'm a total dork--I have it on my shelf and haven't read it yet! I didn't put it together--so now I know what I'm doing today.... 😂
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