Appliances have a shelf life. Nothing lasts forever. However, do they all have to fail in the same short period of time? They weren’t bought at the same time. I admit most of my appliances are decades old. So far, the quality of the replacements is iffy. I bought a new oven and, out of the box, the control panel fell off. The dab of glue had dried to a hardened smear that had no more holding power. The installer must have been accustomed to such mishaps as he had glue at hand.
Microsoft is forcing us to abandon Windows 10 and, if one’s computer cannot be upgraded, one must buy a new computer. I haven’t heard good things about the upgrade. Seems like corporations and the government are becoming more and more intrusive.
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I’m organizing pictures. I almost tucked this picture in a manila envelope labeled “no idea”. No idea where or when taken. I think it was taken by my father, probably in West Tennessee where he was student teaching. From a quick scan of pictures of 1947-1950 cars, the rear of this car looks like, to my non-expert comparisons, a 1949 Chevrolet model. My father always bought Chevrolets and he would have been in West Tennessee circa 1950. This is all guess work. I had to get out my battery powered magnifying glass to read the sign above the door. The sign says Rosenwald School. I could not make out the license plate on the car. Interesting, as, a couple of years ago, I went through the Rosenwald School exhibit at the Tennessee State Museum.
This might have been the school at which he was student teaching. And, yes, he could have afforded a car as he went to college on the GI Bill. I couldn’t find a school on the Rosenwald list in the town in which he was residing (He was a border in the 1950 census.). This school looked run down, so it may have been razed. And, I’m not sure where the school at which he was student teaching was located. It might not have been in the town in which he lived, but in the county or a surrounding county. There were also pictures of a chicken coop? My father was an agriculture and science major and building a chicken run and coop would have been right up his alley. Like I say…guesswork!
Side note: I did find the location of the high school where my mother was a student teacher. Back in the 1990s, the building which I understand was the Black High School before integration was being used for storage.
I don’t think it was the same building that was there in the late 1940s and early 1950s. This is the street where the school was located.
At some time in the 1990s, while buying some material at Wal-Mart. I met someone who was in school with my mother and had the same major. We chatted while she measured and cut the material. My mother was ahead of her, so she didn’t know her that well. She remembered that my mother had gotten a student teaching position. Maybe, getting the position at that school was a feather in my mother’s cap. Now, I wonder, how did we get on the topic of TSU?
A couple of days ago, I broke a glass. I looked in the cabinet for another glass and there was exactly one of my everyday drinking glasses on the shelves. I frowned at the shelf, empty of the water and juice glasses. Where had they gone? I started thinking–I used a couple to stand my dolls dressed in fancy crochet dresses. I put in some marbles or foil to stabilize the dolls and I arranged the dresses so the skirts were full. I think that’s why I switched from using the doll stands. With the doll stands, the back of the dress was flattened. I probably broke the remainder, but like most of my stuff, the glasses were decades old. So, time for the new.
Another mass shooting. The politicos don’t even bother with thoughts and prayers. They’re that hardened and calloused when it comes to the quality of life of we who live in these United States.
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Two pears! Two pears that the squirrels haven’t found a way to! Both are on branches too thin for the squirrels to cling to. Maybe, just maybe, the squirrels have left the tree for more fruitful trees elsewhere.
Black women and men, competent Black women and men, are losing their jobs, careers so white, incompetent sycophant men and women, mostly men, take their place. It’s an old story that’s replaying itself. Whites only expect intelligence, competence, character from those they consider “Other”. Whites are entitled to jobs, welfare, etc. solely because they are white. Hypocrites! Since whites are so blatant in their non-competence and stupidity, it is up to us “Other” to never be taken in again by their lies and false privilege.
Are people so naive as to fail to understand that criminals who wallow in a swamp will besmirch any and everyone with criminal acts they themselves are guilty of in order to normalize their swamp?
Mind doodle–If one looks at documented Egyptian history, the pyramids and other Egyptian architecture were not built by slaves, but by artisans who were paid for their labor or those that exchanged their labor for their assessed taxes. (I read about Egyptians and taxes, somewhere, a long time ago.) There is no record of the people who named themselves Israelites in extant Egyptian writings. However, there is a record of a Pharaoh named Akenaten who worshiped the one God, Aten. I think Pharaoh Akenaten was a megalomaniac who decided that as he was the embodiment of a god (supposedly the Pharaoh was the earthly embodiment of Osiris), that all the offerings to the gods should be his. He could only be the sole recipient of all the offerings if he convinced the people that he was the only legitimate god. Akenaten convinced enough of his people of his sole divinity that a city was built in his honor and he appropriated all the offerings for himself. However, the priests and priestesses who served the other gods/goddesses never accepted their diminished role.
When Akenaten died, the question I ask is what happened to his followers. We know the city he built was razed. But what about the priests and priestesses who served Aten? It makes more sense that most of these people were persona non grata and would not be welcomed into the service of the gods and goddesses who were not favored during the reign of Akenaten. We do not know their fate. I do not believe that they would be killed, however, they would be pariahs and persecuted and their lot would be much diminished as the offerings to Aten would be no more and their prestige would have died with Akenaten. Would they not choose exile so they could continue to serve the one god, Aten, and maintain their prestige with the followers of Aten?
That these worshipers of the one god, Aten, were the people who named themselves Israelites is more logical than the origin story they created that made them a victim of an unjust Pharaoh and also the heroes of their supernatural deliverance. The time of their wandering would have been time enough for the generation that knew the truth of their origins to die and the heroic false story to be implanted as truth.
One doesn’t need much of a deep dive into Egyptian history and religion to know that most of the religious practices of the Israelites were copied from the Egyptians. What people would want to be known as the ill-favored rejects who cast their lot with Akhenaten, whose God, Aten, when Akenaten died, was not powerful enough to protect them from the wrath of the gods and goddesses whose offerings he had appropriated?
Of course, we will never know the stories that were actually told to cohere those exiles into a people who called themselves Israelites. Why? Because by the time the stories were written, patriarchy was in full force and it co-opted and twisted those stories to validate and support patriarchy. Patriarchy created a male god that did not have a female counterpart. Patriarchy created a jealous god and a hierarchy to support that god. Patriarchy created the concept of “chosen” versus everyone else who would be deemed “other”. Patriarchy devalued women where in their created god’s heaven there was not only no female equal, but, also, there were no female angels. Patriarchy created the lie that women were to blame for the sins of man. What we have left are only glimpses of the stories that were told about the female exiles. Those glimpses tell us that women held equal status to men. After all, these exiles were Egyptians.
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This frieze on the Parthenon is a graphic description of what is missing in the religions created by the patriarchy–women and men–equals–Greek gods and goddesses–engaging in the same activities. End mind doodle.
The eye that looks ahead must also look behind. Alkebulan Proverb
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