This is reprinted in its entirety from a post on X/Twitter. I think my readers need to read this, and take it to heart. Rowling has been an intrepid advocate for Women and their special, private places in all of life, and I can tell you she has suffered for her viewpoint. As is usual …
Continue reading Perhaps JK Rowling’s best essay on “Transgender” Ideology
Where else can you get such a great education in topics you never knew you were interested in? Just today, two accounts posted on entirely different subjects, and I now have better knowledge of my world. The first thread involves the study of Old English. I thought I knew a bit about it, but it …
For all my Harry Potter Fan followers, here are a bunch of tributes to Dame Maggie Smith, a superb actress, all of whose roles were widely praised just about everywhere. She was truly one of a kind, and will be sorely missed. https://twitter.com/TheDailyHPotter/status/1839711608878113051 https://twitter.com/HPotterUniverse/status/1839672471970099421 https://twitter.com/TheDailyHPotter/status/1839673513881358634 https://twitter.com/FilmUpdates/status/1839656558105592143 https://twitter.com/TheDailyHPotter/status/1839669110134767824 All three above have died in the last …
Continue reading Professor McGonagall Died Today. R.I.P. Dame Maggie Smith
For, what is Speech, but the expression of Thought in Words? The words can be written or spoken aloud, but they still convey Thought. If you are prevented from Speaking for long enough, then you are prevented from Thinking. Thinking and Speaking are what makes us humans different from all other animals on the Earth …
Asymmetry is pretty simple for me to find. I just step out the back sliding door, and I find my two small Japanese Maple trees. Both are studies in Asymmetry. The one that I planted first, just after I bought my house in the summer of 2000, is named "Fluffy" (by my husband). It was …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #274: Asymmetry
And this is what I found outside the door. Those are some pretty big books! Classics that everyone should read.
So Terri gave us alternatives this week. Photos of our town, or our favorite town. I live in Western Washington, in a small city considered a suburb of Seattle. This is the waterfront on Puget Sound, just north of the US Navy Base in Everett. This is Silver Lake, just south of my house. And …
Continue reading Sunday Stills: My Town, and my Favorite Town (not the same)
I read Ayn Rand's huge novel, Atlas Shrugged, in high school, and I liked it then. And it seems pretty pertinent now. Here is a quote from that book. To me, it sounds like what is going on in our country today. In my opinion, Americans need to wake up and resist the not-so-gradual enslavement …
I just finished reading my first-edition, first-impression copy of John Philip Sousa’s autobiography. It was published in 1928 by Hale, Cushman, and Flint of Boston. Its subtitle is Recollections of Men, Women, and Music. The book itself is in very good shape, for nearly 100 years old. Its paper is a bit fragile and yellowed, …
Continue reading Book Report: “Marching Along”, by John Philip Sousa
In the past week, your humble RushBabe49 has had multiple posts over at Ricochet.com promoted from the behind-the-paywall Member Feed, to the public-facing Main Feed. I have been a member of Ricochet since December of 2012, and it is my go-to web site now for real news and commentary. Ricochet members are from all walks …
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