5/31/2023 0 Comments Baldwin giovanni's room![]() ![]() Įveryone deserves to see their lived experiences reflected and validated, and that's especially essential for young people or those who can't safely express their identity in their everyday lives. These books by gay, lesbian, trans and LGBTQ+ authors, as well as fantastic reads with characters who are part of the rainbow of identities the acronym encompasses, show us that our literary worlds can (and should!) be as beautifully diverse as the one we live in. But this largely corporate visibility during Pride month shouldn't be a 30-day limited engagement - instead, consider it an opportunity to expand the range of our media consumption all year long. ![]() For one colorful month, products as diverse as t-shirts to bagels are reimagined in a rainbow motif in a nod toward supporting (and earning money from) the LGBTQ+ community. ![]() During Pride month, a lot of attention turns to LGBTQ+ culture, including its artists, creators and authors. ![]()
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![]() ![]() After situating the ideas and practices of Pure Land Buddhism in the context of the actual living conditions of thirteenth-century Japan, Dobbins examines the portrayal of women in Pure Land Buddhism, the great range of lifestyles found among medieval women and nuns, and how they constructed a meaningful religious life amid negative stereotypes. Readers will come away with a new perspective on Pure Land scholarship and a vivid image of Eshinni and the world in which she lived. He provides a complete translation of the letters and an explication of them that reveals the character and flavor of early Shin Buddhism. Dobbins, a leading scholar of Pure Land Buddhism, has made creative use of these letters to shed new light on life and religion in medieval Japan. Description: Eshinni (1182–1268?), a Buddhist nun and the wife of Shinran (1173–1262), the celebrated founder of the True Pure Land, or Shin, school of Buddhism, was largely unknown until the discovery of a collection of her letters in 1921. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Why mummy drinks![]() ![]() She is staring down the barrel of a future of people asking if she wants to come to their advanced yoga classes, and polite book clubs where everyone claims to be tiddly after a glass of Pinot Grigio and says things like ‘Oooh gosh, are you having another glass?’īut Mummy does not want to go quietly into that good night of women with sensible haircuts who ‘live for their children’ and stand in the playground trying to trump each other with their offspring’s extracurricular activities and achievements, and boasting about their latest holidays. Unfortunately I have not yet actually managed to buy the bento boxes for their lunches or book jiu jitsu lessons, and I will have to learn to like green tea, as it is foul, and I have not yet mastered French plaits, but I am quietly confident that these are mere details in my grand master plan… And I most certainly will not slump on the sofa at the end of the day, glugging wine and muttering ‘FML’ repeatedly. ![]() Yes, this year is definitely going to be much better – I am absolutely not going to shout at the children, let them stuff their faces with crisps or goggle away on the iPad. I am going to 100% nail being a school mummy this year. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bill Taylor, from a broken home, has post-Nam problems with sex, marriage, and work, turning to est for help. ![]() John Wakefield, insecure and regarded by his demanding family as a loser or ""madman,"" finds identity in Marine discipline coming home to find himself unimportant again, he drifts, drinks, ""intent on debasing himself,"" moving from obsession to obsession. Dale (""Rent-a-Party"") Szuminski comes home from the war seriously injured recovered, he spends years ""sidestepping the paltry challenges of civilian life""-drinking, womanizing, half-working-before settling down, more or less, in the 1980s. And, complicating any potential insights about the scars of Vietnam, most of these men seem to have been seriously troubled before they enlisted. ![]() All were white volunteers, all blue-collar Midwesterners (with one exception). All were ""grunts, pure and simple,"" no officers. Here, then, after reconstructing the platoon's traumatic, grisly involvement in a 1967 Que Son Valley ambush, Klein uses extensive interview-material to fill in each man's life in the 15 years since Vietnam. When a Vietnam vet named Gary Cooper was killed by police in 1981 after going berserk with a gun, Klein (Woody Guthrie) decided to write about Cooper-and about four of the other vets who were in Cooper's Vietnam platoon. ![]() |