NYC Pride 2021

“Love Lies Sleeping” by Elizabeth Bishop (written 1936, published 1938)

Earliest morning switching all the tracks

that cross the sky from cinder star to star,

coupling the ends of streets

to trains of light,

now draw us into daylight in our beds;

and clear away what presses on the brain:

put out the neon shapes

that float and swell and glare

Lincoln Center

down the gray avenue between the eyes

in pinks and yellows, letters and twitching signs.

Hang-over moons, wane, wane!

From the window I see

let's go Greta!

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was in New York City tirelessly inspiring us all to go on strike and demonstrate actively for climate change.

In events leading leading up to her appearance at the UN Summit, we all watched as she called on our world leaders to do something now.

"We are not just some young people skipping school," she told thousands of school strikers in Manhattan, on a day when millions around the world demonstrated for action. "We are a wave of change. Together, we are unstoppable."

profane horrors

As New York City prepares for the 45th Annual Village Halloween Parade, we cannot help but draw parallels between this showy shindig and impending elections.

Halloween originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts.

sun & moon & stars rejoice

September 1 is Mahala's birthday and my labor day. Twin celebrations that have brought us a world of joy that expands and deepens with each unfolding year.

I love you!

Here we are - stalker mom staking out her prey.

We got bit by the travel bug.

Happy Birthday! 

‘Resistance’ handbook for America’s snowflakes

This year Independence Day celebrations are pretty dismal in the United States of America. Too many of us are still reeling from the upsetting news of our incarcerated immigrant children.

Children are seperated from their families. Locked up in heavily guarded secret locations. Forced to represent themselves in immigration court. At the mercy of a broken and bigoted government.

The UCLA handbook specifically defines “Trumpism” as a movement that consolidates power through white supremacy, misogyny, nationalism, xenophobia, corporatism, and militarism.

Published by the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at the University of California Los Angeles, a publicly funded institution.

The organization calls on urban planners to abide by four simple rules:

1. Refuse to design, plan, or build systems that divide and oppress communities, including the proposed wall between the US and Mexico.
2. Declare spaces ‘sanctuaries’ to undocumented immigrants, while planning sanctuaries for all victims of injustice.
3. Commit to abolishing mass incarceration and the prison-industrial complex, while expanding ‘abolition’ to all systems that promote racial and social exclusion.
4. Reflect critically and historically on the political economy of planning to understand and resist our complicity in systems of racial capitalism and patriarchy.

“We can begin by calling hateful ideologies by their proper names and working to delegitimize and eliminate them.” ~ UCLA

Keep a watchful eye people of the world. We are the vanguard of the future.

Happy Earth Day 2015

Earth Day is more than a one-day event or annual environmental wake-up call. It is a catalyst for ongoing education, action, and change. It simultaneously broadens the base of support and rekindles old commitments through highly participatory strategies. ~  Earth Day Initiative NYC  

an evening in NYC with George R. R. Martin

On 26 October 2014, 8:00 p.m. ‪#‎wonderwanderwomen‬ were at the Kaufmann Concert Hall (92Y) in New York City, where this lavishly illustrated coffee table book was launched.

The World of Ice and Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones, written by George R.R. Martin, Elio Garcia and Linda Antonsson.

Read the full Wonder | Wander | Women blog here.

#wonderwanderwomen feasting on just desserts in NYC

NYC: eat our heart out! 

Welcome again to wonderwanderwomen's further adventures in New York City! 

This time, we had great fun staying over for three days - sparing us the usual commute and freeing us to be as meanderly as we pleased.