acceptance
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requested a referral toan orthopedic specialist,left knee reigns with pain, ruler of my everyday routine…I am changing, and it hurts.
women
The Order of Things
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A micropoem If pieces of youbroke pieces of me, and you failed toacknowledge my pain,I will be a different MEto YOU; one you’ve never seenAnd will NEVER seeagain.
the cons of getting older
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chronic pain…not a thing one thinkswould become a partof living. the grinding of teeth, gnashing the heartand increasing palpitations–blotting vision.unbearable painthat comesout of nowhere,we suffer, then wemove on.stretches, the bodyneeds them the olderwe get, the morewe need flexibility. joints...
barter for better
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busted knee reinjured sprained ankle left-sided sciatica nothing’s cooperating todaywhy can’t we order newbody parts as quickly aswe can purchase everythingelse? at this point, I’m willingto barter for better.
Triangle Shirt Factory NY fire tragedy 1911.
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Shirtwaist designs, The Modern Priscilla Needlework Magazine, 19065 Minute HistoryRussians Max Blanck and Isaac Harris immigrated to the U.S in the early 1890s and, like hundreds of thousands of other impoverished Jewish immigrants, they began working in the garment industry in sweatshops....
favourite U.K suffragette: Leonora Cohen
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Police court summons and photo, Nov 1911 Photo credit: Leeds Museums & Galleries Leonora Throp Cohen (1873–1978) was born in Leeds to Canova & Jane Throp. Her father was a stone carver but died in 1879 when Leonora was only 5, after he developed TB of the spine. This left her widowed...
Edgar Degas, impressionist or modernist?
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Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was born in Paris, son of banker Augustin De Gas. At 11 Degas enrolled in Lycée Louis-le-Grand, graduating in 1853. He was painting seriously and by 18, his bedroom became an artist's studio. He began making copies in the Louvre, but his father wanted him to study. So Degas...
The best Art History texts to read
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ARTNEWS assembled a list of 11 must-haves books that cover art history, from classical antiquity to now. Art history is a flexible discipline, subject to revisions as things change. Below I have included the books I know and found excellent.GombrichThe Story of Art1. Penelope & Davies et...
all this loss is making me wilder
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for international women’s day if no means nothing if your word means nothing if laws mean nothing if prayers mean nothing if children mean nothing if life means nothing if tomorrow means nothing then how can we bargain you never look back we carry you you never look down we lift your head above...
Anna Kingsford- Victorian Feminist and Animal Rights Campaigner
jamesdhobsonuk
An extract from my book which features more Victorian Radicals like Anna In a freezing February in 1888, a vicar’s wife lay dying at the tragically early age of forty-one. Her husband was the vicar at Atcham, Shrewsbury, but her deathbed scene unfolded at their rented flat at 15, Wynnstay...
Jane Austen goes dancing
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What could Jane Austen and similar unmarried gentlewomen of the Regency Age, look forward to? There were certainly a host of activities that could fill and kill time, but what could be anticipated with some pleasure? One of the few prospects was the Ball or the Assembly. Roughly, the former would...