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Month: January 2016

Protected: Keep It Casual

January 30, 2016 ebrightwing

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: choice, gloria steinem, independence, memoir, no, self, sex, yes

Friday Photo – Athena

January 29, 2016 ebrightwing Leave a comment

My main goddess affinity is Athena .. hence her temple in Rhodes, Greece.

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Posted in: Culture & Media, Spirit & Religion, Travel Filed under: athena, goddess, greece, photo, rhodes, ruin, temple

Toxic Niceness

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I got another INNER BITCH page-a-day desk calendar this year.  It wasn’t my first choice, but I do run across…

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Posted in: Lifestyle, Self-Development Filed under: calendar, choice, conflict, daughter, drama, mother, participation, partner, quote, respect, retirement, roommate

Friday Photo – Be Happy

January 22, 2016 ebrightwing Leave a comment

Don’t worry, be happy … Who has time to be crabby when even the crabs look happy!

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Posted in: Lifestyle Filed under: beach, crab, happiness, worry

Child of Water (from the Gaian Tarot) Goes Vegan?

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The Child of Water is tender-hearted and dreamy, and has a rich imaginary life.  She may be attracted to a…

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Posted in: Health, Nutrition, Self-Development, Tarot Filed under: beans, cheese, cooking, dairy, farmers market, food, gaian, grains, ice cream, milk, nuts, pizza ethics, processed, seeds, simplicity, tarot, vegan, vegetables, whole grains

Last of the Artemis Quotes

January 21, 2016 ebrightwing Leave a comment

All quotes taken from Chapter 9 and Parting Thoughts of ARTEMIS THE INDOMITABLE SPIRIT IN EVERYWOMAN by Jean Shinoda Bolen,…

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Posted in: Culture & Media, Self-Development, Spirit & Religion Filed under: artemis, atalanta, child, childhood, compassion, gender, goddess, hecate, independence, inner child, justice, men, moon, myth, shame, soul, women

Friday Photo – Corn Chip Anyone?

January 15, 2016 ebrightwing Leave a comment

On one of our vacations using my time share, we wound up in a park near Bend, Oregon.  We noticed…

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Posted in: Travel Filed under: bend, corn chip, mom, nature, oregon, park, squirrel, time share, vacation, wildlife

Friday Photo – Fort Gordon Flashback

January 8, 2016 ebrightwing Leave a comment

The last duty station for my Army ex-husband and myself before returning to our home state and retirement was Fort…

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Posted in: Travel Filed under: carpet, demolition, fort gordon, georgia, housing, memory, pine, tree

Seaside Beach Trip

January 4, 2016 ebrightwing Leave a comment

Mom and I had a great time in Seaside, Oregon.  The weather was sunny and cool with only occasional high…

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Posted in: Lifestyle, Travel Filed under: astoria, beach, long beach, mother, ocean, photographs, plans, retirement, seaside, sister, travel

First Friday Photo of 2016

January 1, 2016 ebrightwing Leave a comment

Even winter along the coast is beautiful … taken from an overlook between Canon Beach and Rockaway Beach.

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Posted in: Travel Filed under: beach, coast, ocean, oregon, rocks, winter
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“There’s no proof of anything,”  – President Donald Trump (2018)

“Hope requires action.” – President Barack Obama (2018)      <You choose!>

“If it’s really true that no one’s listening, why are they all so intent on making us shut up?” – Clementine Ford, Feminist

“You have to act as it were possible to radically transform the world.  And you have to do it all the time.” – Angela Davis, Political Activist and Author

Florida student Emma Gonzalez to lawmakers and gun advocates: ‘We call BS!’
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“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.” – Maggie Kuhn, Gray Panther

“We have a faith that says life is not to be worshipped.  It’s the quality of life that counts.” – Francie Emerick, Oregon Death with Dignity Exerciser

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“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” ― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.” – Simone de Beauvoir

“Naive as it may sound, inoculating society against the antisocial requires, at bottom, persuading people of what is palpably true:  that society has value and everyone should contribute.” – Bruce Cannon Gibney, Author

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