Welcome to the website that is perhaps my Letter to the World, which has indeed written back, once in a while, despite my late start on the correspondence. My real work began when I was more than half-way through what's turning out to be a long life. Now, actuarially, time is getting short. So I'm gathering up as many bread crumbs as I can find of that late-begun work and leaving them here, in the vast forest that is the internet, in hopes they may be of value on your path to a long and creative life. There's a lot here. Do wander. Welcome to it all.
Among the things we've been told are true for all of us: Friday the 13th is an unlucky day. I suggest that it is in fact a fortunate day for more than half of us. Friday is the day of Venus, and 13 is the number of months in a lunar year, the timing that women experience with menses, with calculating the due dates of our pregnancies. Bad luck? Nah. Maybe for guys, but not for all of us. So enjoy the day, women of the world.
I can attest to some intersectional verification of judges doing such stuff as Stevenson describes in this powerful video. This is from #OutingTheMermaid: Schoonmaker was tapping a pencil impatiently. She beckoned to the hugely overweight bailiff. “We’re past time here. Can you tell me what the delay is about?” “The judge is in his chambers, ma’am, waiting for this lady’s attorney to appear.” “Her attorney is here and waiting,” Schoonmaker glowered. “Will you please inform Judge Arrabbiato? Now, bailiff.” The man’s ample face rearranged itself as he registered the presence of Willa Schoonmaker, Esq. As he waddled rapidly toward the chamber door, Schoonmaker turned to Lee and Marina. “I should have invited him into the 1970s but that would be fighting the wrong war—for today."
