Monday

[susandennis]

I tweeted about the 15 Items or Fewer situation at Safeway yesterday and actually got a reasonable tweet response last night. On a Sunday. And it was reasonable. I was impressed.

I am reading (or rather listening to) Mrs. Everything and a large plot point in the last couple of hours of listening is Consciousness-Raising Groups around feminism in the 70's. It's so cringeworthy. I was there. I sat in those groups, I experienced exactly what she's describing. We were every bit as sincere and as earnest and as confused as the people in the book. But, now... it all sounds so ridiculous. To me, it is a flagrant reminder that the good old days were really really really not good.

But today... today, so far, is very good. It's so nice and cool that I nearly need a sweater! I have no one needing or wanting me to do anything. I have lots of good sewing to do and crocheting and TV and enough food to stave off any shopping trips maybe all week.

I do want to spend some time today and every day doing stretches. I swim in the mornings but by mid-afternoon, often I have been sitting the rest of the day. By evening I'm not very comfortable at all. I think if I made a conscience effort to at least stretch out for 15 minutes, I'd feel better. The problem is that afternoons are the worst in terms of my remembering to do anything. Well, actually, the evenings are the worst but afternoons are close. I have always been a morning person but the older I get the worse it gets.

So today I have Monday resolve to acquire a new habit - afternoon stretches. Can do. Will do.

Comments

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

i consider myself a feminist and I don't think there was really anything wrong with consciousness raising, I sort of wish I had access to a group like that now.

[susandennis]

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[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I. I don't type well.

[susandennis]

I am now and was then and will forever be a feminist. I was then, like my friends ridiculously naive in a time when we did not have near the resources we have today. A quick Google will bring you all manner of conscience raising groups for all manner of beliefs and causes all over the world. I hope you find one for you if that's what you want.

Sorry about the incomplete response. I did not mean to aggravate you.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

you didn't aggravate me in the least, sister. :)

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit too young to have been in a consciousness raising group but I have tremendous respect for those women and for the women's movement in general. Yep, they might have been all earnest and wholemeal and not have got everything right,  but modern women are standing on their shoulders, often with no clue as to the struggle those women engaged in. So if you were one of them,  thank you for your contribution! Feminism has always been a no-brainer for me - I was raised by women and had no need to learn that women could do what men could because I saw it every day.

[susandennis]

What a lovely thought and you are welcome although probably my only real contribution was asking dumb questions and pushing my way through because I didn't know any better.

This book is reminding me about how bad those times really were. You forget the attitudes that everyone took fore granted and just how insulting those attitudes were. I'll be glad when the plot moves on past the 70's! :)

[roasted-beets.livejournal.com]

Have Alexa remind you to stretch at a certain time or put a reminder in your phone. If my watch didn't prompt me to stand every hour, I'd sit here at the computer from the time I get back from the gym & dogpark until it was time to cook supper every day.

[quirkytizzy.livejournal.com]

What is consciousness raising exactly? Is that like 'raising awareness' today? (Where you go places, usually social media but often times irl places, and bring the issue up to get it into the public view?)

[susandennis]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness_raising

it's more about discussion for learning - more self improvement than public improvement.

[ellinou.livejournal.com]

Found and followed you on Twitter :)

[susandennis]

ah ha! back atcha!