I can think of no better way to celebrate International Women’s Day, the 8th of March, than in focusing on God’s genius in creating men and women and sex in God’s image – creative, beautiful and with the power to build communion through life.
That is what normal family life starts with – it brings men and women together and, in healthy societies, that leads to families, which are the building blocks for human success.
Some feminist people see what women and men should do differently, with more of a focus on their lives as single people, but I was a Registered Midwife for a quarter of a century and the inanities of most third wave feminists are not going to convince me that women are victims who cannot ever look after themselves.
Women as mothers are usually glorious, captivating, loving and good.
Actress Karen Morley. She was Poppy in the original Scarface in 1932. Deceased 8th March, 2003.
What women do in life and love is various and that manifestation of E Pluribus Unum strengthens us all.
Cyd Charisse, d.o.b. 8th March, 1922In comparing Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, she said “….. it’s like comparing apples and oranges. They’re both delicious.”
Cyd received a National Medal of Arts from George W Bush in 2006.
Legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor was born on this day 101 years ago.
She loved men, quite a few of them: she got married 8 times to seven different guys (Richard Burton twice) and said that she only slept with men she married. (I view this as a fantastic line by a very beautiful actress. It might even be true.)
Taylor said both, “Marriage is a great institution.” and “I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too – for being married so many times.”
Freed0m doesn’t always give us exactly what we want or believe that we need.
But Freedom is more likely to work for us than tyranny
Novak Djokovic was falsely imprisoned in a cheap hotel in Melbourne last year and excluded from the Australian Open because he refused to compromise on his right to bodily autonomy.
This year he returned in triumph and won. To me this is clearly because he is culturally clean.
Owing to the generosity of a Serbian community leader, I was able to watch this glorious achievement among beautiful Serbian people who idolise their hero.
They live clean in loving families who have fun together.
In the following instrumental, “Coming Down”, Australian Country Music singer-songwriter Dusty Starr plays guitar in a way that reminds me a little or a lot of Elmore James and Willie Nelson and Robbie Robertson rolled into one.
A laidback, easy going auditory heaven.
To try to capture the feel of this music in words, I have transcreated into objectified, slightly more modern English parts of runaway slave Jim’s hair-ball fortune-telling speech to Huck at the end of the fourth chapter in The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn.
Huck was scared but Jim said,
“Your dad dont know what he will do, so rest easy in letting him go his own way.
He’s got two angels ….. one white ….. one black.
The white one’s the right one, but the black one can sail in and bust it all up.”
That story was set in antebellum America of the 1840’s. Huck had a very troubled relationship with his drunk, violent father.
In the current year of the 2020’s, a beautiful white angel who has appeared in Melbourne, is Thalia looking safe and secure standing up for freedom with her dad on the recent Mission To Melbourne, when decent country people like Thalia and Dan brought new life and hope to Melbourne’s freedom movement.
Thalia and Dan.
You can’t stop human progress when traditions like honesty, good will, family and friendship remain solid and sound: this was as true in Mark Twain’s classic, as it is in Melbourne now.
Shae is an Australian woman who knows that long standing traditions are not all bad, but that the modern demonisation of men which infects the West makes it harder for men and women to have the relationships of mutual respect which they need.
FREEDOM, DEMOKRASI AND CIVILISED HUMANITY 