Cynthia Ann Parker
She also known as Naduah (Comanche: Narua) was a white woman who was notable for having been captured at about age nine, by a Comanche war band and adopted into the tribe. Twenty-four years later she was discovered and taken captive by Texas Rangers, at approximately age 33, and unwillingly taken back to European-American society. Her Comanche name means "someone found" in English.
Thoroughly assimilated as Comanche, Parker had married Peta Nocona, a chief. They had three children together, including son Quanah Parker, who became the last free Comanche chief. Parker became assimilated into the tribe. She was adopted by a Tenowish Comanche couple, who raised her as their own daughter.
She became Comanche in every sense. She married Peta Nocona, a chief. They enjoyed a happy marriage. As a tribute to his great affection to her, he never took another wife, although it was traditional for chieftains to have several wives. They had three children: Quanah, who became the last free Comanche chief
"Never judge a peron by the chapter you find them in".
Anonymous
It's okay to not be okay 💔💖
This too shall pass ✨
1947, New York:
Housewife Marjorie McWeeney with broom amidst a symbolic display of her week's housework, done at Bloomingdale's store, incl. 35 beds to be made, 750 items of glass & china, 400 pieces of silverware to wash, 174 lbs. of food to prepare, some of 250 pieces of laundry. (Photo by Nina Leen)
(CNN) — Billie Eilish is taking on critics who apparently have an issue with how her style has evolved over the years.
The 21-year-old Grammy-award winner posted a series of photos to her Instagram stories over the weekend and wrote, “I spent the first 5 years of my career getting absolutely OBLITERATED by you fools for being boy ish and dressing how i did & constantly being told i’d be hotter if i acted like a woman.
“Now when i feel comfortable enough to wear anything remotely feminine or fitting, i CHANGED and am a sellout,” the caption over a photo of herself continued. “And ‘what happened to her’ ‘OMG it’s not the same Billie she’s just like the rest’ blah blah blah.”
Eilish went on to call out the “true idiots” and “bozos.”
“Let women exist!” she added.
Eilish followed up with more postings.
“FUN FACT! did you know that woman are multifaceted!!!!!??? shocking right?? believe it or not women could be interested in multiple things,” she wrote.
“Also that femininity does not equal weakness???!!!! omg?! insane right? who knew,” she added. “And also totally unheard of and insane to want to express yourself differently at different times.”
Eilish told Elle magazine in 2021 that she lost 100,000 social media followers after she shared a different look.
“People hold on to these memories and have an attachment,” she told the publication. “But it’s very dehumanizing.”
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@Claracuddles - now I'm singing that song!!! Thank you, it's one of my favs!!!
(Japan) A group of young Japanese girls gather around a very important doll placed inside a protective lacquered enclosure. This photo was taken in 1927 at the doll's farewell ceremony shortly before it departed for the United States. This was one of fifty-eight different 'Japanese Friendship Dolls' (友情人形, yūjō ningyō) and they were highly honoured in Washington, D.C due to a remarkable event in history which demonstrated a touching message of friendship.
In 1927, an American missionary named Sidney Gulick proposed the idea of sending dolls to Japan as a gesture of friendship from the United States. Gulick had resided in Japan for a quarter of a century from 1888 to 1913 and after returning to the United States he became deeply concerned about the intensifying rhetoric between the two countries at the time (I believe people from East/South-East countries were barred from migrating to America during this period).
Eventually, Gulick's proposal gained support from various individuals and organizations in the United States. In response to Gulick's initiative, the 'Committee on World Friendship Among Children' was formed and the project gained momentum. The group decided to send approximately 12,000 American-made dolls to Japan as a symbol of goodwill. These dolls, known as "Blue-eyed Dolls" or "Miss Friendship Dolls," were dressed in various regional costumes from different states across the United States. Each doll came with a passport and a letter expressing friendship and was accompanied with a poem written by Robert Underwood Johnson titled 'Friends Across the Sea'. These prized gifts had arrived in Japan in time for 'Hinamatsuri', the annual Japanese doll festival (In future, I'll make a separate post about this religious festival).
Although Gulick and his Committee stressed that the Japanese should not reciprocate the American gift, the country felt a sense of honour to do so. Inspired by this act of goodwill, Viscount Eiichi Shibusawa led a collection in Japan to reciprocate for this gift. The best doll makers in Japan were commissioned to produce 58 friendship dolls. Each doll was 32-33 inches tall and were dressed in beautiful kimono made of silk. Each doll was named after a different city, region, prefecture of Japan and came with unique accessories - every doll possessed a unique silk kimono adorned with an individual "family crest," expertly dressed by the official dresser for the ladies of the Japanese Imperial Court. Additionally, each doll was accompanied by a "bridal" trousseau, comprising chests, makeup stands, mirrors, folding screens, lanterns, tea sets, sewing kits, parasols, sandals, and small purses. They were rushed into production so that they could arrive in the U.S. in time for Christmas. According to Historians Hayashi, Pate and Weling, presently, the Japanese Friendship Dolls are regarded as some of the most remarkable dolls ever crafted in Japan.
It is important to note that culturally, the usage of dolls differed significantly between American and Japanese children. American dolls primarily served as decorative mannequins or toys, whereas Japanese dolls encompassed a broader range of purposes. But I read that in Japan, apparently dolls were associated with purification rituals and believed to house spirits. As of today, only 334 of the friendship dolls have 'survived' and are now preserved with the best care in Japan.
Have you heard of "Hinamatsuri" before? What do you understand about the historical significance of dolls in Japanese culture? Feel free to post some images below. There are many types of Japanese dolls and I believe one of this page's followers is a Japanese ichimatsu doll collector.
There are plenty of fascinating photos about these dolls, so I'll post more of them in the comments below later when I get the chance..
Photo retrieved from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
This is the noble rhubarb (Rheum nobile). It is a giant herbaceous plant native to the Himalaya, from northeastern Afghanistan to Myanmar, occurring in the alpine zone at 4000–4800 m altitude. It has a unique adaptation of producing a translucent canopy of bracts that covers the flower stalk and acts as a greenhouse.
The bracts protect the plant from the cold and UV radiation, and create a warmer and more humid microclimate inside. The plant also attracts fungus gnats as pollinators by producing a chemical compound that lures the females to lay their eggs in the developing seeds. The plant is rare, beautiful and has medicinal value.
This is how it looks like in the picture if you don't harvest it over and over again, year after year.
Text credit: Earth Unreal Image credit: Mark Horrell
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
You can avoid alcohol, drugs, sugar, salt, wheat, dairy and carbohydrates your whole entire life, You can exercise, meditate and focus half your day on your health...
But if you are swallowing your dreams, your ambitions, your regrets, your fears, your desires and your bitterness on a daily basis, you will suffer my friend.
For nothing, nothing, rots the flesh more, than the negative emotions, we ram down our own throats, on a daily basis.
Food for thought.
Say your truths, live your own way, be yourself, accept who you are, accept who others are too, share your dreams, honour your desires, chase your ambitions, or don’t.
Perhaps your ambition is quite simply to be peaceful. Whatever it is you choose to do, give yourself peace.
It’s the most healing and rejuvenating path of them all.
Donna Ashworth From ‘life’ https://amzn.eu/d/9Y6E6kz
Art by Duy Huynh
Just something that I wrote:
I am both the rock that bleeds and cries And the stone that smiles and shines My soul flows freely Never hidden Never hindered
"No society wants you to become wise: it is against the investment of all societies. If people are wise they cannot be exploited. If they are intelligent they cannot be subjugated, they cannot be forced into a mechanical life, to live like robots. They will assert themselves —they will assert their individuality. They will have the fragrance of rebellion around them; they will want to live in freedom.
Freedom comes with wisdom, intrinsically —they are inseparable— and no society wants people to be free. The communist society, the fascist society, the capitalist society, the Hindu, the Mohammedan, the Christian —no society likes people to use their own intelligence because the moment they start using their intelligence they become dangerous, dangerous to the establishment, dangerous to the people who are in power, dangerous to the “haves”; dangerous to all kinds of oppression, exploitation, suppression; dangerous to the churches, dangerous to the states, dangerous to the nations."
~ Rajneesh
Art: Diane Dillon
"You Don’t Just Lose Someone Once"
You lose them over and over, sometimes many times a day. When the loss, momentarily forgotten, creeps up, and attacks you from behind. Fresh waves of grief as the realization hits home, they are gone. Again.
You don’t just lose someone once, you lose them every time you open your eyes to a new dawn, and as you awaken, so does your memory, so does the jolting bolt of lightning that rips into your heart, they are gone. Again.
Losing someone is a journey, not a one-off. There is no end to the loss, there is only a learned skill on how to stay afloat, when it washes over.
Be kind to those who are sailing this stormy sea, they have a journey ahead of them, and a daily shock to the system each time they realize, they are gone, Again.
You don’t just lose someone once, you lose them every day, for a lifetime.
I'm sure most of you know that Shirley Temple was born in April 23, 1928, and that she started her career in the 1930s to become one of the most famous celebrities by the age 6. But here are some interesting facts about Shirley Temple you probably don’t know :
Being Temple was no easy task, she once claimed. People magazine reported each night her mother would coil her hair into 56 perfect pin curls. And once Temple was tucked in, her bedtime story was actually the next day’s script. The magazine shared that her mother Gertrude would read the lines and Temple parroted them until she fell asleep. By the morning, Temple had memorized everyone’s lines, including her own.
The New York Times shared that if any of the two dozen children misbehaved on set, they were locked in a windowless sound box with only a block of ice to sit on. “So far as I can tell, the black box did no lasting damage to my psyche,” claimed Temple in her memoir. “Its lesson of life, however, was profound and unforgettable. Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.”
At age six Temple became the first recipient of the juvenile Academy Award.
In 1936, Temple secured a contract paying her over $50,000 per film.
Temple presented Walt Disney with his special Academy Award for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). It was a standard-sized Oscar with seven little Oscars.
In 1939, a woman tried to assassinate Temple while she was singing “Silent Night” on a live radio show under the logic that the 10-year-old had swiped her daughter’s soul and shooting her would unleash it. She recalled the event during a 1998 news conference at the American Booksellers Association in Anaheim, Calif., according to Deseret News. She said a woman “pulled out a rather big gun and started to point it” at her while she was singing during the radio appearance at CBS in Hollywood. Temple said at the time police grabbed the woman and removed her from the studio.
The Hollywood Reporter shared that during Temple’s reign in Hollywood, there was a lingering rumor in Europe that she was not a child, but instead “an adult dwarf in disguise.” That rumor was put to rest after the Vatican dispatched Father Silvio Massante to verify that Temple was indeed a child who just happened to have loads of talent.
Actresses Shirley Jones and Shirley MacLaine were both named after Shirley Temple.
Temple appears on cover of The Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album.
Temple stopped believing in Santa Claus at age 6 — and her fame had something to do with it. “Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph,” she once said.
On Temple’s eighth birthday — she was actually turning 9, but the studio wanted her to be younger — she received more than 135,000 presents from around the world. The gifts included a baby kangaroo from Australia and a prize Jersey calf from schoolchildren in Oregon.
While Judy Garland was the ideal choice for the role of Dorothy Gale in 1939’s “The Wizard of Oz,” it was Temple who won the popular vote by fans of the original 1900 book. “Judy Garland was not the popular choice among book fans,” historian and collector Jay Scarfone, who co-authored “The Road to Oz,” told Fox News. “[Judy] was 15 years old, which was considered too old for the role. She was vivacious and over the top. The Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ has a very different personality from what is seen in the film. But there was never a serious contender except for Judy Garland.”
In her memoir “Child Star,” Temple claimed that an MGM producer, who was known to have an “adventuresome casting couch," unzipped his trousers and exposed himself to her during their first meeting in 1940. She was 12. Being innocent of male anatomy, she responded with nervous laughter and he threw her out of his office. Fortunately, she had already signed her contract with MGM.
In 1988, Temple revealed in an interview televised on “Entertainment Tonight” that Ronald Reagan was really a good kisser. “He was one of the best kissers,” she declared. The two performed together in the 1947 film “That Hagen Girl” where her character feared that the teacher played by the future president was her illegitimate father. Despite the on-screen chemistry, the film was “probably one of the worst movies either one of us ever made,” said Temple.
Despite becoming a Hollywood icon before turning double digits, Temple later admitted she nearly lost it all after her father mismanaged her finances over the years. “It was fine until I was 22 and I asked my dad and his business partner,” Temple recalled to Larry King. “I said, ‘You know, I was 21 and I didn’t get the money. I’m 22, where’s the money?’… It was a two and a half hour meeting in our house and finally, I said, ‘Give me the bottom line. What do I have?’ Well, they said out of $3,400,000 or so that I earned, I had $44,000 in my trust fund. That was it. And that was a shock.”
When King asked Temple if she was still mad at her father, she surprisingly said no.
“I think I would have paid the studio for the privilege of working and I think I did,” she explained. “[And] I didn’t blame him. Dad left school when he was in seventh grade. He was a banker during the Depression. And when he managed my money, it was just overwhelming, I think. And he was like an innocent led to slaughter. I think the people who counseled him did the bad job. I don’t blame him a bit.” (Via Fox News Channel)