Author: brenda

dogwood photography’s photo challenge: story telling – your culture

Week 28 Story Telling: Your Culture (Photographers participating in the challenge come from nearly every country and culture. Tell us the story of your culture.)

Nikon D750 f/7.1 1/60s 85mm ISO 100

Image submitted in response to Dogwood Photography’s annual 52-week photography challenge.

A new $2 household cleaner is the plastic-free product of our eco dreams — City Women & Co.

Plastics have become part and parcel of our daily routines, our day-to-day purchases, and in the air we breathe and water we drink.

I’ve found myself wondering how recycled products will be recycled as well as how to become more aware of the plastics I generally purchase without any concern of where these containers go after I toss them in the recycle bin.

“All this plastic we are discarding is ending up in our waterways and oceans, and now showing back up in our drinking water and food.” ~Sarah Paiji

City Women & Co.

Does anyone else find a bit of disconnect in the choice to implement a plant-based diet motivated by concerns of sustainability and a cupboard of plastic containers of organic super foods and veggie foods?

Is there a means to explore how to recycle pill bottles…plant-based containers…supplements, electronics, clothing, appliances, etc. other than tossing them into the oceans and backyards of other countries?

How can a single consumer begin to encourage corporations to change their packaging to be more earth friendly?

tell me, sir, where’s the distinction?

The river and its waves are one surf: 

where is the difference between the river and its waves?

When the wave rises, it is the water; 

Nikon D750 f/22 .02s 125mm 100 ISO

and when it falls, it is the same water again.

Tell me, Sir, where is the distinction?

Because it has been named as wave, 

shall it no longer be considered as water?

~Kabir Das (One Hundred Poems by Kabir, Trans: Rabindranath Tagore)

just in case…

you missed this morning’s NPR’s Morning Edition.

 “Let’s write a song about a woman telling a guy off.”

Ulaby, Neda. “‘You Don’t Own Me,’ A Feminist Anthem with Civil Rights Roots, Is All About Empathy.” June 26, 2019
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/26/735819094/lesley-gore-you-dont-own-me-american-anthem

“Many have taken up the song [You Don’t Own Me] as a symbol of women’s empowerment — like when the female cast of Saturday Night Live sang ‘You Don’t Own Me’ with actress Jessica Chastain the night of the 2018 Women’s March — but this fiercely feminist anthem was written by two men. David White died earlier this year, but John Madara, now 82 years old, says the two songwriters were disgusted by how much music written for female singers in the early 1960s centered on mooning over guys and decided to try something: “Let’s write a song about a woman telling a guy off.

“Madara says the song’s sensibility was also shaped by his upbringing in a multiracial Philadelphia neighborhood and his participation in the civil rights movement. ‘I saw how black people got treated,’ he says. ‘It was horrible, horrible, horrible. My friends and I got locked up in Philadelphia and Mississippi, and they treated us like gangsters. And my black friends got hit more than I got hit. [The police] had billy clubs and hit you across the legs, but the black guys got hit across the body. Those are things you don’t forget.'”

And while we’re talking about empathy, please join

“Lights for Liberty:  A Vigil to End Human Detention Camps”. 

Lights for Liberty is calling for communities around the country to join them in holding an event called:  “Lights for Liberty:  A Vigil to End Human Detention Camps”.  The event will take place on Friday, July 12.  To find out more about the organization and their plans for this national vigil you can go to their website – https://www.lightsforliberty.org/