Decent base pay, a fair amount of pto, and a stellar 401k match are my absolute requirements. My wants are unnecessary as I’ll put up with a lot if my needs are met.
Although in my field this was all achieved through the power of a union.
"Few documents that survive from #medieval Europe were written by women or even dictated by women. Those that do are often formulaic, full of legal and religious language. Yet the wills and censuses that survive, and which I study, open a window into their lives and minds, even if not produced by women’s hands. These documents suggest that medieval women had at least some form of empowerment to define their lives – and deaths."
@yvonne Thanks for that interesting article by Prof Joëlle Rollo-Koster, which draws attention to the documentary treasures in store for a new generation of historians while perhaps understating the wealth of evidence accumulated by her own!
The will of one famously independent woman in medieval England is available in the original French with translation & analysis on the resource page at https://barnes1.net/FHGE/
@TheConversationUS "Like the outlaws Robin Hood and Al Capone, will #Trump become larger in legend than he was in life? "
I've sensed that the outlaw hero archetype of the American collective unconscious, in Jungian terms, has been activated, since vigilantes in cowboy hats were able to defy and other the Obama administration at Malheur (which means misfortune in French) in early 2016. From here in Japan I sensed a disturbance in the force, as it were, and my foreboding has been more than realized as Trump 'rode the whirlwind' and permitted repressed Christians to be their worst true selves, and held Open House for Russia in the White House.
The evil that the outlaw 'hero' does gets lost or laundered in the mythologizing that makes them seem larger than life, legendary. Americans with their collective legacy of the Wild West, Roaring 20s, and notorious con men, are particularly susceptible, as Trump has shown, to following the Pied Piper, or being led into temptation.
Please help, as I have not gotten anything and I'm really trying to get things taken care of and need some help.
I am a disabled non-binary individual who unable to work, and I need to raise funds to buy medications not covered by insurance and cat food/litter. I've got doctor's appointments this coming week I need to be able to get to. I'm trying to at least get $50 in the short term so I can get my bus pass before the cutoff tomorrow.
Today in 1915, 109 years ago: the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was created in the United States. It is the predecessor organization of the US space agency, NASA.
Thank you, Teri @Teri_Kanefield! (And thank you Chuck @ATurnOfTheNut!) I hadn't read Stephanie Jones' writing until now. She's great. Her writing really gets you, right in your heart.
@outer@Teri_Kanefield@ATurnOfTheNut Thanks for sharing. I read her entire blogpost and found it be so affecting. It was great. Being of the same generation and ethnic background as Stephanie, I could so relate to her feelings about her dad. Mine, unfortunately, died young. But her dad’s philosophy was just like my mom’s and my grand-parents’: we’ve been through the worst of oppression, but never gave up. Don’t you give up either, as the next generation. @blackmastodon#blackmastodon
I think as well as sharing my Autistic experiences I'm going to also try and share information about my combination of chronic diseases and what it does to an individual's body over time... It seems many people I am close to have never even heard much about Celiac's or especially Graves' disease...