With the Barbie movie off the charts, which I just saw and loved for its campiness and sweet message for Barbie and Ken to accept their ordinariness and autonomy, I thought I’d share an essay that I wrote around 2005 at 55 years old. I was born mid-century in a time of “sex kittens”…Marilyn Monroe, Ann-Margret, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Raquel Welch, and Playboy Bunnies. I wonder if Barbie had morphed from the 50s obedient, well-dressed wife with pearls and an apron to a sexy autonomous femme fatale. Then later, with women’s liberation arriving at the forefront, Mattel attempted to make Barbie and her counterparts more respectable in the working world…yet still sexy. I first laid eyes on her in Albin’s Toy Store in Burbank, California. I was at first repelled then fascinated by her exotic appearance. I had never seen anything like her—tall, long blond hair, willowy thin, with […]
Magic in 2023 and the Wisdom of the Fool
Happy Another New Year and new canvas in which to create! Not interested in making resolutions…preferring revolutions… I’ve chosen to make a metaphor for 2023 to be “doorways” and my 2023 word to be “enchantment”. I’m very fond of images of doorways and passageways to the known or unknown and recently painted one. Enchantment for me represents a feeling of great pleasure and delight, the state of being under a spell, magic, a world of mystery… How delectable! Maybe it’s my Libra New Moon conjunct Neptune creating that dreamy, imaginal realm that I savor with its colorful images and archetypes that cross my psychic doorstep. Some of the mystical pleasures that validate my world include Jungian ideas of consciousness, the limitless cosmos, astrological and Akashic field maps, abstract art, ecstatic dance, Kundalini Yoga. Celebrating the seen and unseen, the physical and spiritual, can all lead to those spontaneous “ah ha” […]
Report from Gringolandia: We’re Here Because It’s Not There
Greetings from Ajijic (Ah-hee-heek), Jalisco…perched above glorious Lake Chapala, on Spaceship Earth, hurtling through the galaxy at roughly 1000 MPH! Wow…can you feel it? Do you even think about it? We can’t feel the velocity, thanks to gravity, but mi esposo, Alex, and I perceive the rotation of the third aquatic rock from the sun, especially at dawn and dusk. We marvel at the luminous light shows and cloud formations and enjoy observing the planets on their ecliptic rotations as we ponder the earthly astrological nuances. Here we are living at the edge of the Sierra Madres overlooking the largest lake in Mexico at the end of Calle Revolución…most streets in Mexico seem to be named after revolutions or revolutionaries. Our bright, dreamy rental home has become our hermitage, our sanctuary and Akashic observatory over the past two years. Does it ever get boring amidst such beauty? Not while the […]
To Live and Die with Crazy Wisdom
I. A Human Conundrum Here we are in 2021, in one of the most onerous and befuddling times most have ever known—masking our faces and hiding from a microscopic menace that keeps morphing, killing millions and infecting hundreds of millions more. Besides the pandemic anxieties and restrictions, the world is reeling from “post-traumatic Trump disorder” (PTTD) and America’s ensuing uncivil unrest. Many are feeling weary and disoriented from a world turned upside down. So, we await the panoply of vaccines to help turn things right side up, or at least that is the hope. Me, I’m waiting for Sputnik V (or whatever arrives here in Mexico) and a new “heretical” consciousness to flip the switch! Lest we forget, even prior to this new plague, Planet Earth has been on the brink of ecological and economic collapse. And the world’s wealthiest, ruling elites keep on getting richer as the middle class […]
Seventy Revolutions Around the Sun
Linda Joy Stone turns 70 years old today! I was born Nov 7, 1950, (Scorpio Sun, Cancer rising and Libra Moon) to Eric & Marylou Stone, both Cancers, dad a Swedish immigrant. As my Republican parents proudly proclaimed, I was born on election day and came home on Veteran’s Day. How patriotic is that!? Here are the voting outcomes of that day: Like his predecessor Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938, Truman and the Democratic party managed to maintain control of both houses, defying the six-year itch phenomenon for the second time in a row. However, the election was still a defeat for Truman, as it strengthened the conservative coalition and ensured that none of Truman’s Fair Deal policies would pass. Republicans also ran against Truman’s prosecution of the Korean War, and the 82nd Congress subsequently conducted numerous investigations into the course of the war. The election set the stage for the presidency of […]
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