Oh, Pat Robertson.... It's nice to see you have such a brilliant revelation at this point in the game... (Hint: It's not just the Glamoury-type of ladies that like sex, but the House-Wifey ones too.)
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The National Cancer Institute says one out of eight women will be diagnosed in their lifetime. 1 out of 8! Learn something about the disease and then teach your buddies about it. And while you're at it, go get a PAP.
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Is your passion holy? Or filthy? Is there a difference? Could Patriarch Kirill tell the difference? Would we care if the Pussy Riot girls weren't hot?
What's more of a lightening bolt to your crotch? Tebow, or the fact that a second string quarterback gets endorsement deals bigger than... everyone?
Would your desire or your passion be more useful if you worked at NASA? Could your passion for space-rock trump your desire for that hot mess in a spacesuit? Would you put on a diaper and drive cross-country?
Was the mohawk on the dude that landed the mars rover sexier because you thought he was probably smart? What if he worked at Spencer's?
Are passion and desire the same? Does one promise more?
Is passion easier to ignore? What happens when you desire something that turns your passion off? Is passion life and desire this moment?
“Hello lost passion....What doing?”
We start answering below...
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I wore my mother's rehearsal dinner dress to a rehearsal dinner.
I got married.
I played funk with my father and new husband and we brought down the rain.
I permanently scarred my feet with something blue.
I went to the mountains and explored a stunning cave. A young German boy obviously didn't understand English, because he didn't understand that you NO TOUCHINGS STALAGMITES!
I navigated through some legitimate scramble. After a 15-20 minute mortality-meditation concerning a death-defying-crevice-leap in the midst of a 5 hour hike, I negotiaKated with my fear of heights, leapt, and made it to the top.
I learned how to do more with a charcoal grill than merely watch some schmuck use it. Here's an iPhone 4 image of my sweet, tenderly, grilled-pork, perched next to the most brilliant discovery a gal can make on a brief stay in a small Shenandoah town----> Dippin' Dots!
I also ate space ice-cream the next day. Space ice-cream taps into my water-chestnut / jicama Texture-Love. (Excitement trumped photo-op)
Life is beautiful.
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After this short, yet deeply enlightening pause, what's next for us here at TWSS Project? This next week we're exploring fear. Of a wedding?... Fear of heights?.... Fear of taking time off? Impermanence? Fear of permanence? Getting in front of a camera? Snakes?
What do you wish you weren't scared of?
What do you fear that you have absolutely zero desire to face?
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Pink Socks?
Check out what happens in your brain during orgasm. Thanks for sharing @steph_revelry!
Video produced by AsapScience!
If you haven't seen any of Clayton Cubitt's videos of "Hysterical Literature," here's one for your viewing pleasure. Women reading to the camera while something slowly develops under the table! It's pretty clear once you start watching. What's fascinating is the connection to the breath, the resonation of the words, the break-down of self-editing. Last week we posted this video a reader shared with us, describing what happens to the brain during an orgasm.
The lateral orbitofrontal cortex is turned off which controls self-evaluation, reason and control...this shuts down fear and anxiety
I chose this one since I'm a big fan of Uncle Walt. Video after the fold. {NSFW}
The longer you watch, the better it gets. How did I miss this? I'm three years wayyyy late.
I want to have children, and I wave that flag proudly. My late-night go-to drinking topic of colonics has turned to babies over the past few years. Purging of a more lovely product I say. I can't explain my desire to be a mother in any other way besides being horny to have children. Not in THAT way. It's just different from any desire I've felt, except lust. It feels outside of my body, or inside of my body, or of my body. Well, now I'll never hold another child until I have my own...
A few of my high-school girlfriends swore they'd never have children. Back in those days a lot of high-school girls, or maybe just my crew, were scared of the physical pain of sex, so of course having a baby freaked them out. For others, saying they didn't want children seemed rebellious, bold, more unique. They separated themselves from what was assumed to be our shared dream as ladies, and probably upset their own mamas.
As an adult, especially in NYC, I've met many women with zero baby-making interest, which I find powerful. Not because they don't want to have babies specifically, but because knowing what you want is powerful. And communicating what you want is powerful, especially when a lot of people question, "Why not?" I'm never really asked "Why?" when I say I do want kids. Communicating what you want to your partner is vital, as is clearly knowing what they want. I'll pass this off to the post that got me thinking about this: Read it and check out the rest of the Urban Honking too.
I really understand your desire to get things firmed up. You want to know where you stand, you want to be able to talk about your future with your dude without Potential Future Ghost Baby lurking above every conversation. I am someone who likes things to be very firmed up (that’s what she said) so I empathize. However, I know that lots of people do not like to firm things up, preferring instead to just “let things happen.” This lifestyle gives me hives, but is apparently quite popular, judging by almost everyone on the earth I am even vaguely friends with. So, you guys are struggling with a kind of mild difference in vibe that I think is not that big a deal.
If I were you I guess I’d be a little worried that your dude’s loosey-goosey stoner ambivalence actually indicated that deep down he kind of wanted kids. Which would make me even more frantic to firm that decision up.
We've all experienced chilling changes. A loved one unexpectedly dies and in an instant life flips upside-down. You have a shimmery feeling in your gut that you have just met THE ONE, but then he tells you how long he's been president of Blink 182's fan club. There's no way he could ever turn-you-on again and you escape out the bathroom window.
That's life. Unpredictable... Irrational. We have to adjust somehow. These stories are all over the map.
Diversity saves and variation rocks! The Botany of Desire is a PBS documentary based on Michael Pollan's book with the same name.
Pollan explores the relationship between humans and four plants: apples, tulips, marijuana, and potatoes . All of these plants have something we desire: sweetness, beauty, the power to intoxicate and the ability to feed our bellies. Humans work hard for these plants, therefore the plants flourish and give us more of what we want.
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Super-duper sexual frustration is what makes the most psychoactive weed! Female marijuana plants produce a sticky substance called THC so they can catch the pollen the male plants produce and make babies (seeds). THC also produces the pot high in humans. Savvy pot growers figured out how to trick the female plants into producing a lot more THC by separating the male plants from the females. Not totally, but just keeping them far enough away so the females have to work extra hard to get it. They kick into overdrive and produce extra-potent, sticky, sexy THC to make themselves more desirable and capable of catching the males' pollen. The more THC, the more of the box of Bugles you eat.
And you will learn an overly sweet apple is boring and lacks dimension, which I see as a metaphor for some humans. Watch it!
This is the trailer. You can watch the whole show here.
Women shopping in an Afghani record shop circa 1950.
Informative video posted over at The Hairpin, showing us ladies what we must do to make ourselves glamorous. It's fascinating and brain-vacating, an enlightening combo.
The awesome folks at Minna Life posted a twitter interview we had last month. They asked me the questions this time! They've jazzed our discussion up with pictures and links, so take a breather from the water polo finals and go check it out. While you're at it, check out the rest of their site and don't miss the Ola! More to come!
When life throws you a curve-ball, how do you adapt? Rebecca shares her chilling change story and inspires us with her outlook.