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teartracks:
Tumeric tea. There are recipes online.
Very tasty with honey and I like the flavor of black pepper in it.
Tumeric, mustard greens, and a few other products are supposed
to be the best thing to include to fight Alzheimers, cancer, etc.
https://www.inspire.com/groups/ovarian-cancer-national-alliance/discussion/tumeric-tea/
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sKePTiKal:
Tumeric is also an alternative med recommendation for eczema & psoriasis... in one theory of what causes these. I'm thinking curry now...
Meh:
I like reading about women's history. I like to put my little life into a bigger context.
I like thinking about the greater social voicelessness versus personal voicelessness.
Women were quite voiceless for a long long time (hundreds? yrs.). Women were not supposed to discuss any part of a sermon in church with others they were supposed to go home and ask their husbands if they had any questions (think this was puritans). It was against the law for them to speak in church. It was legal for husbands to beat their wifes, the right for a husband to beat his wife was protected by law. I saw an old ink cartoon from this past era (around 1630) of husbands beating their wives--they turned wife-beating into a joke.
When I was younger I didn't quite "get it" why women change their last names over to the man's last name. It's because a wife was a type of servant/slave and the husband owned her. Women had to have their husbands permission to leave the house.
Husbands could unceremoniously hand a wife a slip of paper and they were divorced. A woman could rarely initiate a divorce herself.
Husbands could legally "cheat" on their wives. For the wives there were laws against her cheating on her husband.
Women were not supposed to write poetry or publish books.
mudpuppy:
Also known as 'the good old days'. :)
mud
sea storm:
This is so pleasant to read. Reminds me of the good things in life.
I came across a bit of news about a mystery artist in Edinburgh, Scotland who was leaving beautiful little sculptures about the town. They were mostly placed in libraries and museums. They are exquisite and made from minutely cut up pieces of books. They are usually tableaus of famous scenes like from Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
If you look up mystery artist Edinburgh you will find them. Every once in a while one would appear and everyone would get very excited. Eventually, there were ten. The artist really is a mystery. Yet they are so wonderful. There are little messages on them too.
I really love that.
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