Continuous gratitude

 

3 long tables with boxes of food available from Bounty and Soul. The manager of the apartments is standing facing us right under the wreath. Several people also volunteer to help distribute the food. Lots of produce, eggs, and bread. I was number 16 in the line last week. We are certainly blessed!

So grateful for Bounty and Soul, our local food bank distributors…who come right to my senior apartment complex weekly. I don’t go there often, but I have so much food from this week, it will take lots of home cooking for me to use it all up. They also distribute in a few other locations, all of which are open to anyone to pick up their choices of food. Of course there are limitations, usually just 2 tomatoes, but this week we got 3.

Sharing with Thankful Thursday.

These people have always decorated to the hilt, though their trees were taken out by a tornado several years before the hurricane, and they were already repairing their house when that happened. So glad to see they're again putting out cheerful lights to share.

Not my photo, but it says beauty to me.

Think of all the good reading material these women promoted!

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Today's goddess:

Nayarit Figure 100CB-250AD, Mexico

Thanks Jenny Mendes Ceramics on FaceBook

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10 days until Winter Solstice, the longest night of the  year.

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Inspiration for the day:

A wonderful article by Maria Popova in Marginalian Newsletter/E-zine...

The Indissoluble Filament Connecting Us All: Patti Smith on What It Means to Be an Artist

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Entertainment:

"The Lost King," 2022. Available streaming on PBS Masterpiece, and Acorn TV. About Phillipa Langley, the woman behind finding the remains of King Richard III in a car park.

Wikipedia says: "Sally Hawkins as Philippa Langley; who suffers from a disabling chronic fatigue syndrome and whose marriage is broken, becomes obsessed with Richard III, joins the local Richard III Society, and embarks on a quest to find and exhume his body."

This movie also brings attention to disabilities, and especially to how misinformation is passed on through generations. Richard's scoliosis was defined as a hunchback, and associated with evil doers. The Two Young Princes in the Tower were never historically murdered by King Richard III, but his detractors changed history by many innuendoes to discredit Richard. Thomas Moore was one who wrote of his life in the promotion of Tudor Myths, also inferring that Richard was a usurper to the throne. All of this is repeated in Shakespeare's plays several hundred years later, and is still being taught today in many history classes.

So pay attention to finding out facts! It was the message underlying the main story in this film of the archaeological efforts that were promoted by a woman without any archaeological background. It has a strong message against misogynists also, to the extent that in real life, the one portrayed in the film took the producers to court...and is given an introductory message  in the film saying he's fictionized! 

In my opinion!