Calling Wild Women

 

Some photos of art from WeMoon Calendar of 2020
 

A friendly little pup visited the Dripolator Coffee Shop when I was there. She liked my croissant flavored fingers.

Sharing with Saturday’s Critters

We need to encourage ourselves to look deeply into all things in our lives to see the inherent goodness of everythin 

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Both the US Men's and Women's Hockey Teams won gold at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, and while the men celebrated in Miami with a water cannon salute and a night on South Beach, the women's team had not yet had their moment.

That changed when rapper and longtime Team USA supporter Flavor Flav posted on social media offering to host the gold medal winners in Las Vegas. "If the USA Women's Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite, I'll host them in Las Vegas," he wrote. "Do some nice dinners and shows and good times. I'm sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real."

Alaska Airlines saw the post and wasted no time, replying on social media with two words. "Let's talk." Shortly after, Flavor Flav confirmed the deal was done. "Alaska reached out and we are good to go," he said.

The support kept rolling in. Resorts World Las Vegas offered to provide hotel rooms, meals, and spa treatments for the entire team. StubHub jumped in with free tickets to Vegas shows. Brands like Liquid I.V., TOMS, and BÉIS Travel also showed up offering to help. What started as one social media post turned into a full celebration backed by major companies.

The women's team accepted the invitation. Flavor Flav, who previously sponsored the US Women's Water Polo Team, sent a formal invite and said the offer was real and the timing was flexible.

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If you like hearing stories about women who not only survived, but created beautiful things, check out today’s Aunt Liddy story on Open Yesterday’s Pages.

Art of bedding

 

The quilt show recently in Raleigh NC encouraged FB to post lots of photos the next day. So I clipped a few of the more interesting quilts... lots of political statements!  Just a few of those FB friends who shared included the artist's information, which I try to remember as being very important to viewers.

By Karen Rabe of Minneapolis MN

QuiltCon in Raleigh NC

Shadows of The Dream

Sharing with Sepia Saturday...where this week's photo does include some bedding of a more mundane form.

I am thankful for my struggle because without it, I wouldn’t have stumbled upon my strength.

ALEX ELLE

How we lived back then...

 Our ancestors, that is.

Model of home in settlement of Çatal Hüyük; (from Turkish çatal "fork" + höyük "tumulus") It is a tell (a mounded accretion resulting from long-term human settlement) of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5600 BC and flourished around 7000 BC, Turkey (Thanks Wikipedia)

See a post earlier about Archaeology, one of my interests! 

Clay goddess figurine from the Early Chalcolithic period ca 5000-4500 BC, found at the archaeological site of Durankulak, Bulgaria.

It's interesting to see what has been made of clay, stone and bone. Fiber arts, even clothes of skins, unfortunately just don't survive through  the ages.

The Columbus Hypocrisy (and all Western European explorers/invaders).

Justice is often difficult to find.

But just look at all your ancestors!

You do the math...we're all related!

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. 

-Steven Brust, novelist (b. 23 Nov 1955)

Arundhati Roy once said, “There’s no voiceless, there’s only the deliberately silenced, you know, or the purposely unheard.”

Just saying...

 

Alysa Liu, US Gold Medal Figure Skater

The "Quad God" finished 8th. 

I love the idea of giving messages on fruit. Here my son's name, Tai, is part of this, by an unknown person.

The last of the snow in a parking lot at a doctor's office. Right now (Sunday morning) there are light flurries, and it's getting really cold. Here we go again! Many people are hunkering down for huge snowfall (2 feet for New York forecast!)

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? 

-George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)

Celebrating what we hope for together is better than fighting over what we believe separately.

STEVEN CHARLESTON

February picnic

 

This was the day we planned to sit outside and eat by the lake. Cool 60s and wet showers. No thanks.

Next day, early morning windy showers! 

Then an unplanned sunny and 65 F, we just happened to run into each other, then sat in the gazebo to eat! It was very windy, but we enjoyed being able to be outside. So did the Canada Geese. I sadly had to avoid being in the sun thanks to antibiotic, and was pretty darn short of breath getting to and from car. Would I say yes again, of course!

This is the shot before I cropped it for the header pic, showing yes indeed, there were daffodils blooming in Feb. in my neighbors garden.

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A nearby construction (destruction of old trees fist) site. Here is planned to be the "main entrance" to Montreat College Black Mountain campus.

Last week...

You can just make out the "one lane bridge" sign on the right...which goes over the famously flooded Swannanoa River. The building down the road in the distance is the derelict one that will not be torn down before the new interstate entrance is built...I-40 is just beyond that!

This entrance is about 25 feet from the railroad crossing...which is where a traffic light exists on US 70. Blue Ridge Rd. is about to become a major thoroughfare.

This last week, showing some of the trees which have been cut, waiting to be hauled.

As you can see, the new main entrance on this plan is on the far left of the campus. Currently it is in a small neighborhood on the far right of the campus. 

All those dark grey areas are parking lots. And see the little blue stream bed of the Swannanoa River...just waiting to flood that new road. Fortunately there's a big hill that the actual campus sits on, so all the buildings are unlikely to be in a flood plane.  On the number 26 area are 4 baseball fields, part of Veterans Park...which was flooded badly in Sept. 2024.

I wasn't asked a thing regarding the increased traffic on our 2 lane road, where we already have to take turns to cross the one lane bridge. Just really looking forward to all the college kids zooming around in a year or so. The plans for an exit/entrance onto I-40 have been approved, so maybe they'll build a new bridge too.

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Sharing with Wordless Wednesday on Tuesday. 

OK, ready with snow equipment and winter clothing again this week!

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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

 -Nadine Gordimer, novelist, Nobel laureate (1923-2014)