I used to keep plants everywhere and when I was stressed, tend to them. This meant both my indoor gardens and drying racks for herbs and outdoor greens and butterfly gardens or my roses or a microclimate of the Rockies. I grew a lot of my own food like chickweed indoors for the nutritional value […]
Source: Space History | 1973-05-25 | First Skylab Crew Launched
A few weeks ago there was an incident in the city where a 13 year old boy with a photo of himself with tattoos and guns made social media because of a shooting with regard to a conveincence store in Edmonton. There was and is a hue and outcry for his head, but I just […]
My ex, before he had a series of unfortunate, unfortunate, unfortunate, events happen to him, was a genius at STEM. We spent a lot of time talking about the development of an airship design called Leviathan. He wanted her to have the ability to shield herself and unfortunately also wanted the AI to be based […]
Outside of Stony Plain there is a sign that says “Welcome to Stony Plain, the town with the Painted Past”, and this is very true; we have a lot of murals all over the place dedicated to various individuals who shaped history here. Israel Umbauch was a farmer who was nominated to be the first […]
In several of the ancient hegemonic cultures, there was the practise of having some sort of arena where there was a caste of men and women who were thrust into the public theatre to entertain a dull mass with their heroic deaths and sacrifices. The word glad and the flower gladius come from the Latin […]
If you are attacked in your home, fight the instinct to protect your children by going to them — act like the Kildeere bird and lure them away. Stay away from knives. Grab a frying pan or blunt object with a handle. A cutting board for example, or a bat near the door. 2. If […]
Narcissism is often as in a very negative role, and as an Aspie, I was accused of this early, because I was reclusive, quiet, had an active imagination, and highly introspective and rarely interacted with people outside a select group of “safe” people. Narcissus in myth was a handsome shepherd who spend his time […]
In earlier times, pins and needles and hair combs all came in bronze or brass, and were hand forged. Women of status purchased them from travelling merchants to attach to things they carried called chatellaine’s — the Matron’s keys. It was customary for women to wear aprons and have their pockets full of wool […]
Bodicea was a Queen Emperor in the the age of clan warfare, and was the last to hold the wall against the Roman Incursion. She was married, but lost her husband, and went on to hold out a long and protratcted battle from atop Hadrian’s Wall on the Apian Road. Foxfire refers to a […]
Doctrine Dominatrix 