Monday, April 13, 2009

women friends, unicorns and other mythical creatures..













perhaps i learned too early in life that women can't be trusted...maybe my fathers philanderings with me by his side taught me something i should never have had to learn...or maybe it was my so called best friend baking all of my cakes for my 'easy bake oven' on christmas day while i sat by innocently dumbfounded by her audacity...my mother screaming at me later as to why i did nothing to stop her...

whatever i did, i could never win with women...old, young, related, strangers...i always thought that women were cats and men were dogs...the cunning, manipulative nature of the feline so suited the dishonest deceit of the women i observed in my life...

i truly believe that women are incapable of true friendship and are solely motivated by their own selfish needs and inadequacies....to recall the x-files mantra..'.trust no one.'..especially if they are wearing heels...and what of those heels???   we all know they aren't comfortable, nor practical...have we truly advanced to achieve equality with men and yet insist on teetering on shoes that one cannot walk in?  the whole notion of the heels shifting the stance of the body to alter the buttocks into a mating position....are we human or are we chimps?  or the theory of helplessness achieved by wearing heels and seeming vulnerable and unable to walk without the help of a knight in shining armour....is this equality...no...it is manipulation, and women are not capable of functioning without it...

power...the chant of the 'modern woman'...power suits, power heels...the loud clattering noise of high heels on the concrete....why do they want power?  and what of motherhood?  of nurturing and love...of creation and compassion...i truly believe that the downfall of our modern society is the fact that women want to be men but still fulfill their biological need to create children...ironically then to enslave another woman to raise them....they are hypocrites....their woman power can only be achieved by using another woman to perform their daily tasks...that is not equality...

and the ultimate irony as we see in today's world...they can't conceive...perhaps they are becoming men and require drugs, implanted embryos and fertilization techniques in order to do what should come naturally by loving a man...or are they capable of loving a man...they are versed in the mating rituals, the trapping  and sacrificing of their mens dignity and masculinity...but where is the love???

women claim to have men friends and men claim to have women friends...that is a misnomer...it doesn't exist...the balance of friendship is always tipped one way...what the man may see as friendship, the women perceives as the possiblility of romance...especially if the man is already involved and in love with another woman...the enemy...it is a game that intensifies when a woman perceives a threat, and the larger the threat, the more she will persist....pathetic...basic...uneducated scholars...as transparent as the window to their empty souls...

i have never had a manicure, pedicure or had my eyebrows shaped...i have never had a 'girls night out' or a posse of female friends...i have never felt the need nor the want as i know they are threatened by something they don't even understand...fire...passion...depth...the unknown aura that surrounds me...i am a real woman...my births were natural, i breast fed my children much longer than the recommended 3 months...i love with great passion and desire...i don't need to discuss the man that i love...i don't share my innermost thoughts...my love is too precious to be the fat they chew to gossip and deceive...

women are no further ahead than they were in the days before womens' so called liberation...they are wearing the disguises and playing the roles of politicians, business moguls and executives, but they are basic, and boring and predictable....they have taken away body hair and sprayed themselves with perfume chemicals disguising their natural pheromones that attract a mate...they are immersed in on-line dating sites and desperately searching for a man to enslave with promises of carnal pleasure...it is part of their plot...well executed and discussed with their female counterparts...it is never about the man...the posse of pussies are a threat to all that is good and true...it is the ultimate betrayal...and men are the casualties...

i have often thought of the drag queen as the ultimate definition of my theory...in order to convincingly portray a 'woman' they exaggerate the breasts, the hair, the makeup, the nails, the high heels, the tight clothing....leading me to wonder why supposedly 'real' women have to do the same???.....are they unsure of what it truly means to be female?  do they understand what a woman is as undefined by desperate measures to be noticed?....

have we really evolved or will we ever...Shakespeare brilliantly used his character Hamlet to scold his love Ophelia...' if thou wilt need marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them.....i have heard of your paintings too, well enough.  God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.  You jig, you amble and you lisp, and nickname God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance...go to, i'll no more on't, it hath made me mad....  

Sunday, April 12, 2009

easter bunnies, spring and family heartache






Easter...chocolate bunnies, spring flowers, eggs, the promise of new beginnings...if you aren't a religious person, easter is a chance to be with loved ones and search for easter eggs, eat too much and break chocolate ears from bunnies heads...

i remember standing in our local delicatessen as a little girl listening to my mother spelling out the names of her three children as the man behind the counter wrote them onto hollow eggs and hollow bunnies....the smell of pastrami over-riding the sweetness of the chocolate... the magic of the easter bunny forever shattered by this tradition...little girl lost in the sliced meats and olives...wondering where the innocence had gone at 4 years old...

when my children were small, easter was a celebration of fun and searching for hidden treasures in spite of the dysfunction that surrounded them...the magic should never be taken away from children...they should dream, believe, and forever hope...

this easter, i am away from the man that i love and we both feel the sadness of longing...he is my easter bunny, my santa, my tooth fairy, my birthday party....he is magical and loving and hope springs eternal when we are together....
there will be no pastrami for dinner or hollow bunnies...my love is solid .....


Wednesday, April 8, 2009

OF SCRAPBOOKS, WALLS AND PRETTY PICTURES...




Ever since i was old enough to hold a pair of scissors, i have cut out pictures from magazines and flyers and pasted them in blank scrapbooks, on walls, on garbage pails...anywhere that needed some colour and life...it has been a life-long quest of mine to beautify my little corner of the world always hopeful that the beauty i surround myself with will somehow, through osmosis, penetrate the deep corners of my sad mind and my aching heart...

forever the optimist, i have continued this joyful work..
finding that it had a legitimate name in the real world...decoupage, artistic expression, inspiration walls........who knew.....the innocence of children and their will to dig to china and climb trees to touch the heavens is what keeps us alive and determined to find that elusive joy...my child-like passion for colour and image keeps me in the hunt for that contentment...sitting in the farmhouse kitchen of my boyfriends' 93 year old grandmother this weekend was the closest to complete happiness i have ever felt in my life...i didn't want to leave...who would want to leave their happy place that all of the digging and climbing had never uncovered....love transports us to places we could not discover alone...

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Of motels and peeling walls...







In Belleville on the weekend we stayed in a motel that reminded me of the stuff that movies are made of...the line of rooms where the motorcars can line up beside the room...i felt as though i had found my home..i could imagine planting pansies in window boxes and welcoming home my love every night...to our little blue room with the two doors...one leading to the endless hall that looks like a scene from "the shining"...the other to the outside world and a brief walk to tim hortons...

walking through the streets of this town and feeling the history and the life of my love at every turn...learning so much more about this man who has captured my heart and where his world began..

the peeling painted walls and worn wooden doors...the city is so far away...

the snow has fallen overnight on this april day and i am amused by the number of people who are puzzled by this phenomenon...it has happened so many times before...snow in april...do they realize that a cold, wet spring creates a bountiful harvest of spectacular flowers that last long into the summer with vibrant colour and storybook size? there is a reason for everything in nature...but as Wordsworth once said so profoundly...

'the world is too much with us; late and soon,
getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
little we see in Nature that is ours;
we have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
this sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
the winds that will be howling at all hours,
and are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
for this, for everything, we are out of tune;
it moves us not...

Monday, April 6, 2009

the earth beneath my feet...





>my weekend in the country is over...i am numb with sadness and longing for the earth beneath my feet and my love beside
me...there is a peace there...a calming hand placed on my soul taking away the sorrow, the worry, the confusion..

the city is my home, my birthplace, but i have always managed to find natures treasures here...a need to feel that connection to the soil, the smell of the spring, the solitude of an open field..

meeting the people in your loved ones life is wonderful...a dog sits in my lap and accepts me..a grandmother tells stories of her life on the farm, parents struggle to overcome the awkwardness of introduction, to find that you are not the ogre or temptress they might have feared...you are the woman who loves their son...the woman who wants you to love him as i do...to erase the past and enter the present and the future and embrace the amazing creation they have made....love is lost in translation...their love that created him...perhaps that is where things go wrong...it is all about love for me...love should be so basic and simple...like the solitary horse on the lonely hill..unafraid and at peace...

the birds were singing...i saw my first robin...i met a mourning dove named rosie and a dog named slim shady...a lovely old dog named kitty who hid from my camera but ate both dinners not intended for her...a golden retriever named buddy and a shih-tze named missy....i can never spell that dog breed...i am so calm...i love my man with my soul, my heart and the blood rushing through my veins...i envision us in a country home with a wild garden and creatures wild and tame who visit us...love breeds love...and love will grow in our garden....

Thursday, April 2, 2009

LOVE HURTS...




there is nothing more wonderful than being in love and nothing more devastating than being in love....was it the group foreigner who sang that song 'love hurts' with the plaintive vocals and tearful pleas...the path of love never runs smoothly...it is the greatest joy and the deepest sorrow and yet we throw ourselves into its depths with dreams of forever and endless romance...

it is difficult to be away from the one you love and i try hard to hold on to the quote..'if a flame is small, the slightest breeze can extinguish it...but if the flame is strong and powerful, even the winds of a hurricane can only fan the flame and make it grow even greater...

i am lovesick and filled with sadness today, and i wonder why we fall in love with the ones we do...some unfulfilled past life experience....some inexplicable connection that cannot be denied...the heart is a muscle...it aches, and yearns and needs to be soothed....i am without solace today....