Bully bully, no pissin' on me.

Ok I think I can write a little something about why the movie North Country/and the book has chewed at me so hard. I have been studying the bully's ways with a professional PHD sort of friend, and she has very gently lead me through all the bullying that has happened in my existance. Now that I have awoken to it , I am damned sick of it. Back off, I say!! No throwing water on me to wake up, no greasy turkey legs stuck in my face, no whipping me with a belt for wearing too many colors, ETC!!! I've had it up to here (way up tp there)with all of it. I will not stand by silently and wonder what the hell is going on. I will call whomever on it. It is not good for me heart. That is all I can say about it on this fine Martin Luther King's day. He knew a few things about Bullying, I know he did. 

Sexual harassment on the planet

(This post is actually older than it says, because I was all blotto[means outraged, incensed when I first wrote it and didn't want to blurt out something I would regret later. Now that I have thought about it I can say what I want to say without a doubt...and throw some shark teeth in to boot!)
I have watched North Country (great movie that daughter recommended) in the last week. It struck some raging cord in me that had me bawling by the end of it. The man, B., was fairly stunned by the emotional outpouring, I think, because of his pragmatic(?) approach to life. That is to say emotional responses to most stuff is not common with him, and when I am  hit like with that movie, he is truely mystified. [Not wanting to explain myself, I wish I could disappear into thin air and not then have to try to talk and cry at the same time.]
I was harassed on the job by my "boss" once and I told him he had better leave me alone in the bathroom I was cleaning or I would scream so loud it would break his eardrums. It backed him off, but the atmosphere where I worked became icy and wierd because of it.
I realize that is just a smidge of what women have experienced around the planet, and truely women are amazing that they don't go on eye gouging episodes of total insanity as a result of harassment, and often just suck it up...but I am weary of the fact that this is common behavior.

We have started to listen to the book that the movie was depicted from Class Action:the landmark case that changed sexual harassment law by Clara Bingham (and some other author.) I will have to do this over several sessions or face total depression I fear, which is big enough in January without the topic at hand!!

Greenhouse update, some ranting, and a techno date

Here are some little lettuce plants(as of a couple of weeks ago...), and we are getting some siding on the North side of the greenhouse! How lovely is the handyman, for he can measure, cut and screw colorful and weathered boards into place!!

For awhile it was warm out today and we had designated today to work on the greenhouse, so we did. It was a spirit lifter, as I have been twisting in the wind over the book I have been listening to which is "Class Action: the landmark case that changed sexual harassment law" by Clara Bingham and another gal that I can't quite remember her name. Anyway, it is astounding to me, goddamned astounding, that women have to fight so hard and long that they literally have to donate their bodies and sanity to get something like that addressed properly and it took 15 years of this hard grueling bulllll-ony to get it done. It really reminds me of what women went through to get "the vote" and similar rights to pass. It seems stupid stuff is easily passed, like how telemarketers are all in the groove to call any flippin' time they want, how people can abuse and neglect kids and not be bothered too much by the law, and oh so many things.

Aside from all that, I just figured out how to get some of the photos that I was interested in publishing, so onward and upward...into the techno adventure of the evening. Oh yeah, I wanted to also show you how fuzzy (and plump)the Prince has gotten in mid winter having his outside palace.... he does love those moments in the sun...playing otter somtimes, playing sphinx others.