Sunday, June 3, 2018

I'd Say "Can It GET Any Hotter?" But I Know It Can. And Will

Oh, y'all. It is just so fucking hot here! Supposedly it's about 92 but it feels like whatever temperature hell is. I went out and pulled up all the kale and fed it to chickens and goats and by the time I got to the goat pen all of the colors in the world were looking really bright and fancy and a little weird and I said, "Well, that's enough of that bullshit," and put the yard cart away and came in the house.
Here's a thing I found on Facebook recently.


I would say that's fairly accurate although I don't agree with only 1% of us being afraid of hurricanes. I think it's about the same percentage of those of us who are afraid of a broken AC because as we all know, hurricanes inevitably cause days or weeks of power outage and if there's a power outage, you can't use your AC. 

So first of all, Mr. Moon and I both slept for a crazy number of hours last night. We didn't go to sleep until around midnight which is late for us but he didn't get up until almost ten and when I got up, I could NOT reconcile what the wall clock in the kitchen was trying to tell me with those little hands and numbers with reality until I looked at the digital clock on the stove and it said 10:41. 
Excuse me? 
For a minute I felt really guilty and weirdly anxious like part of the day had disappeared without any scientific reason but then I got over it and made pancakes. 

After I came in from the garden I decided to do a little more embroidery and continue watching a Netflix documentary I started watching yesterday and so I did that. What I'm watching is called The Keepers and it hits all the really light-hearted and amusing topics like child abuse by the Catholic church, cover-ups by church and police, murder, recovered memories, women who are not believed, how the church and the police get away with that shit, and so on and so forth. 
You'd think that as a survivor of sexual abuse I would not have any desire to watch things like this but you'd be wrong. It is incredibly validating to me, at least, to see other women who have experienced childhood sexual abuse and how we all share so many feelings and emotions, not to mention how these things affect our lives up to and until the day we die. And I don't find this documentary especially triggering because I know what happened to me and I know who did it and I no longer struggle with any feelings of guilt or shame about it. Of course, it took about a million years of therapy and going to a group for sexual abuse survivors to get here and of course, I'll never be what you might call "over it" and I'm sure there are still plenty of tangled roots and knots that I'm not even aware of and which I may never sort out but all-in-all, I think I have a pretty healthy awareness concerning the topic. 
And I KNOW that every bit of information which comes out about how molesters get away with what they do is going to help. Education is the only answer because I am cynical enough to believe that there are always going to be monsters who prey on children. 
And they are. Monsters. 
And I also believe that the Catholic Church will never be able to redeem itself for what its priests have gotten away with for eons. It just won't. It has spread more evil than it could ever hope or pretend to provide in solace or salvation. There are not enough words in the world for me to say what I really think about that. And it's not just the Catholic church, of course. But I doubt any other religion in the world has ever been responsible for such vast cover-ups and releasing of known pedophiles back into churches to prey on other children. 

My post on religion may still be brewing. Stay tuned. 


Here's the entire amount of embroidery I got done today. Okay, okay. Let me be honest. I did the center of the flower and one or two petal outlines yesterday. 
Thank goodness I don't have to support myself with needlework. 


I would have more luck trying to support myself with cooking. That's a pineapple upside down cake that was merely a gleam in Mr. Moon's eye an hour ago. I was telling him what we were going to have for supper and he interrupted to ask if it would involve chocolate cake. 
"No," I said. "But I can make you a pineapple upside down cake."
He said that would be fine and so I did. It's my ability to make things like this from whatever I can find in the kitchen which got me labeled as a goddess now and then back in the hippie-stoner-munchy days. Sure wasn't my ability to sing, play guitar, or dance like a wisp through the gloaming. 

We got through another Sunday. 
Phew. 

Love...Ms. Moon




26 comments:

  1. Thank you, dear Ms Moon, for being here so faithfully. I was needing some homespun cooking and needlework and Florida heat.

    Feeling discouraged lately by, well, all the fuckery in the world right now.

    Thanks for being ballast in the stormy sea.

    XXX Beth

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    1. I would love to think that that is the service I provide. I love you, Beth.

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  2. And thanks for giving the RCs (as my mother would call them) hell. They richly deserve it.

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    1. Their deeds have been beyond horrendous for hundreds and hundreds of years.

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  3. Now I am craving cake! I thought that documentary was well done. So much to piss a person off.

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    1. Doesn't really make us want to trust authority, does it? Not that some of us ever did.

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  4. that documentary sounds interesting....if very disturbing and frustrating, to say the least. Sleeping late for you...... heat (I hate heat- it was 93 here yesterday and I don't know how you survive summers in Florida)........... yard work, embroidery......AND baking an upside down cake? You are amazing! Hope Mick is continuing to improve every day
    Love and hugs from Calif
    Susan M

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    1. We would not be able to bear this heat without air conditioning. That is the simple truth. Mick is doing very well. Thank you!

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  5. I have not had pineapple upside down cake since forever. Both my Mom and Grandmother were a dab hand at making them. How is Mick doing?

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    1. Pineapple upside down cake is awesome.
      Mick is great!

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  6. I could dive face first into that cake!

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  7. I made a chocolate almond torte for our first garden party of the year(it was yesterday). So delicious! I also made a chocolate depression cake, have you heard of them, made without eggs butter or milk? We had a friend come who is allergic to dairy. I used coconut oil and even made a wicked good chocolate frosting for it... Not bad at all. But boy was that a long day and there are still some dishes need doing 24 hours later. I had a morning nap to help recover from it all.

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    1. I have never made a torte of any sort. What's wrong with me? Chocolate and almond are one of my favorite flavor combinations. And yes, I've heard of depression cake. I don't think I've ever made one, per se, but one year I made Lily a vegan cake for her birthday and it was incredibly good.

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    2. The almond torte is a reliable winner and pretty simple too.The depression cake seemed weird but works well,vegan too, come to think of it!

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  8. The Keepers is an incredible documentary. Aren't those women amazing? Carl and I watched it in bits and bursts -- so overwhelmed at first and then inspired by the women. A good librarian friend of mine joined the Facebook research team and did some work for them --

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    1. Those women are heroes! I love them all! That's so cool about your friends. Unbelievable how much work went into this investigation.

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  9. hotter than that here. I think the heat index was up in the triple digits. I spent the day cooking (well, after I went and got another sheet of the skinny blue tiles) yesterday...eggplant parmesan and peach pie. today it's going to be something with zucchini and tomato sauce. can you tell what's being harvested from the garden?

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    1. I do not know what the heat index here was (or is today, for that matter) but it's just miserable. I have two tiny eggplant. And a lot of tomatoes being eaten before they're even big enough to fry green.
      Sigh.

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  10. Pineapple upside down cake reminds me of my childhood, in the best way. I had not heard about The Keepers, and now I shall look it up. Sometimes, when I feel nostalgic for how quickly raising my kids went, my only consolation is that they are now beyond being abused as children. My heart was in my throat about that the whole entire time. The Catholic church is not a spiritual enterprise, it is a wealthy corporation. There is no excuse for the way they have covered up for abusive priests. It makes me sick thinking about it.

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    1. Isn't that the truth about your children? I often felt the same but now- here are these beautiful grandchildren! The fear never truly abates. What the church has done should make all of us sick. Unforgivable, even by their own convoluted confessional bullshit system.

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  11. Oh, man. A pineapple upside down cake! I haven't tasted one of those in years and years. I've never heard of The Keepers but we'll watch for it. And as for the Floridians and the things they fear, I think real Floridians aren't afraid of alligators, mosquitoes or sharks at all, and I'm not sure who Jim Cantore is..?

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    1. Next time you come to Lloyd I'll make you one, Steve! I may not be afraid of alligators, mosquitoes, or sharks but, well, maybe a little bit. Jim Cantore is a very dramatic weather guy who likes to be filmed in hurricanes.

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  12. I have a family member that is a devout catholic. But then, she also supports Trump.

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  13. Woman W-O-M-A-N, say it again! How do you bake in that heat? you must be part asbestos , part coolant. The cake looks so enticing, I cannot bake anymore - Mr. Man's diabetes takes the fun out of eating around here. disease from hell. Until my neck heals and I feel stronger I can only watch Sesame Street and Paddington bear, I did watch a few episodes of Killing Eve but it does not stick like things that really happen- and is very dark humor, which saves it from being too bloody. I could almost smell the ketchup used for stabbings. LOVE the photo on FB of babies by the river! Nearly kissed my screen.

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