MONDAY MUSING: HANDICAPPED

 MONDAY MUSING left me shaking my head as I couldn't let another example of being inconsiderate go. But before I snapped the pic, I thought don't think the worst case scenario.

You see, there were two open parking spots next to where I parked three spots down from an allotted HANDICAP parking space.

What drew my attention was that the car that pulled in the handicap spot was a Domino's delivery person's car. It hit me as a good Friday Foto pic. 

A couple of thoughts: First, they'll be quick if it's a delivery. But why take up the spot unnecessarily? Just pull up in front of the store and run it in. Then, I thought perhaps the delivery person was indeed handicapped and I shouldn't pass judgment so quickly.

As I zoomed in to take the pic before I walked into the store. The delivery gal got out, no pizza in hand. Oh, she wasn't happy to see me taking her pic. She started yelling for me to mind my own business with more than a couple of expletives and continued cussing me out into the store.  

I don't understand why folks nowadays are so inconsiderate... What if it was one of their family members/friends that needed that spot on another 100-degree day? Seriously, I think folks can be handicapped in many ways, don't you?

FOTO FRIDAY: A SPECIAL FRIDAY

FOTO FRIDAY: Every holiday I attempt a new recipe and this one makes me well up because it's made with large onions and today is a day filled with both happy and sad tears...

As the recipe suggested, I rolled them with a yummy rice stuffing ahead of time and froze them...

Hopefully they will turn into this...

We shall see! Either way, I hope it's good!

Last week's ESCAPED ECLIPSE

TBT: NEW YEAR BLESSING 2016

 TBT This lunar calendar year is 5787 but this New Year blessing from a decade ago couldn't be more poignant;

yet we must hope for love and compassion, hope and healing.

NEW YEAR BLESSING

May this be a year of Peace.

MIDWEEK MUSINGS: POSTAL

I'm going postal for MIDWEEK MUSINGS this week but maybe not the way you are assuming. You see, the Historic Society offered another of their interesting public tours last Friday, and this one was downtown at 600 W Capitol, home to the Depression-era limestone Greek Revival  edifice of the 1932 post office and courthouse.

The Post Office stayed in the building's lobby until the mid 90's and one can still see the wall of individual embossed mailboxes and original counter.  In 2003 it was renamed for Judge Richard Arnold who sat on the 8th circuit. Although it's purely a courthouse now the name still says Post Office and Courthouse.

The courthouse is one of the State's 3 eastern Courthouses.Anybody entering the premises must leave their phones with security as no cameras are allowed in the building. 

We were divided into 3 groups to visit 3 different courtrooms in on the 1st and 4th floors in both the old and new structures. In the original large courtroom, the architectural features are the same as in every state. Now the jurors have computer screens to view from their seats! The bar footrests were obviously for much taller folks than me. (LOL)

The courtroom were the Little Rock 9 was tried has been moved down to the first floor to make it more accessible to visitors. 

Landmark cases included :

1957: Federal supremacy over school desegregation with the Little Rock 9 being admitted to Central after Governor Faubus sent in the National Guard ( Cooper vs Aaron). 

1969: Judge Henley rules the entire Arkansas prison system unconstitutional  (Holt v. Sarver)  First time whole state prison struck down under the 8th amendment.

1982 Judge Overton struck down state's creation- science law,   McLean v Arkansas Board of Education, declaring creation science wasn't science at all.

mid 90'sJudge Howard Jr presided over Whitewater Trials of the M/M McDougal with President Clinton giving video testimony.

Some other inter tidbits were family members amidst the Judges. 

Judge Thomas Clark Trimble III and daughter federal Judges: ElsiJane Trimble Roy, first woman onn the federal bench in Arkansas. She even sat in his old courtroom.

Father -Son pair Jams Maxwell Moody and son James Maxwell Moody Jr.  who took the seat in 2014 and is still there

tUESDAY tUNES :FEMINISM

For this Tuesday not only am I doubling the tune but tripling it in memory of the pioneers of Feminism.

I have chosen three but how about you add your suggestions and we can make a mighty fine list.

As I indicated in yesterday's title:

I  AM WOMAN Helen Reddy 1972

RESPECT  Aretha Franklin 

AIN'T YOUR MOMMAJennifer Lopez 2016

MONDAY MUSINGS : A TRIBUTE TO A WOMAN WHO ROARED...

MONDAY MUSINGS are a result of my emotions running high this past weekend after seeing Gloria Steinem's posthumous interview Famous Last Words on Netflix. Filmed in February 2025, Steinem knew it would only be viewed after her passing and Netflix kept true to its word, releasing this documentary last week, September 3rd, the day after her death at the age of 92.

It's especially times like this I miss not being able to talk to my Natureman, who I always claimed was a much better feminist than I. It wasn't only our age difference; I will also blame some of it on being raised in the South.

Steinem was the journalist who took the disjointed women's movement to a national conversation.  During 1972, my senior year of high school, she became the co-founder of Ms Magazine, the first magazine owned and run by women, replacing recipes and fashion tips with writings re: equal pay, abortion, and domestic violence. 

Steinem also helped create the National Political Women's Caucus, advocating for more women being elected, leading reproductive rights discussions, and the Equal Rights Amendment. 

What I didn't know was that, ironically at age 22  (1957), after graduating from Smith College, she found herself pregnant en route to India. Her then fiancé, a man 22 years her senior, didn't know about the pregnancy. It didn't dawn on her that France where she headed to seek an abortion, was an impossibility as it was a Catholic nation. Her solution awaited her in England, where a doctor told her not to reveal his name and to do what she wanted with her life.

My two most favorite messages from the documentary were:

-The great thing about a movement is you have each other.

-She who fights for authenticity and compassion is happier.

Ms Steinem was a force, and she got the last word as the interviewer even left the room. He would have to wait, like the rest of us, to hear her final message.

Rest in peace, Gloria. You had a life well lived, and we women have a better life thanks to you and other women who spoke up...

FOTO FRIDAY: AND IT WASN'T A TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART

FOTO FRIDAY: Although many folks caught a glimpse of  the eclipse, I wasn't one of them, 

But I did catch a very interesting sky that evening, wouldn't you agree? 

Last week was SEER SUCKER WINNER